Dec 6, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts. The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. (Deuteronomy 1:28) It is both compelling and sad to think that...
Dec 5, 2023 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in 1949 that the Israeli Knesset (Parliament), voted to transfer Israel’s seat of government from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. This was logical seeing that Jerusalem had always been the eternal capital of the Israeli people. However, there have been very...
Dec 5, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God; and you complained in your tents, and said, “Because the Lord hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy...
Dec 4, 2023 | All Posts, On This Day |
There’s an old Jewish adage that says something like this: “The truly penitent come nearer unto God than even those who have never stumbled or fallen into sin.” That’s a profound statement when you consider what it’s saying. And while it’s true that we don’t...
Dec 4, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
The plan pleased me well; so I took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe. And they departed and went up into the mountains, and came to the Valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. (Deuteronomy 1:23-23) Many have always assumed that God is the One who initiated the...
Dec 3, 2023 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in 456 B. C. that Ezra gathered all of the assembled inhabitants of Jerusalem and urged them to purge the community of all foreign elements, including putting away their pagan wives. It’s recorded for us in Ezra 10:9-11: “It was the ninth...
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