by David Keesling | Feb 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Exodus 30:12: “When you take a census of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay the Lord a ransom for his life at the time he is counted” (NIV). Observation: God was in the midst of establishing patterns for the Hebrews’ spiritual lives. After much detail,...
by David Keesling | Feb 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
Exodus 33:15 “Then Moses said to him, ‘If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here’” (NIV). Observation: Moses had come off Mt.Sinai to the devastating scene of Hebrews worshiping a golden calf. In fury, God told Moses to lead the people away...
by David Keesling | Feb 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Acts 14:27 “They gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.” (NIV) Observation: Paul and Barnabas have been on a preaching circuit, the fruit of which was anything but neutral....
by David Keesling | Feb 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
Leviticus 10:2 “So fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord” (NIV). Observation: Aaron and all his sons had been ceremonially consecrated as priests before both the Lord and His people. They were in a new temple in a...
by David Keesling | Feb 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
Leviticus 14:14 “The priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.” Observation: Leviticus 13 and 14 are unusually long...
by David Keesling | Feb 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Leviticus 18:3 “You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in Canaan, where I am bringing you” (NIV). Observation: Thus begins one in a long list of chapters in which God detailed rules to live by, this chapter focused...
