Aug 13, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Let the blessing come on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers. (Deuteronomy 33:16) With this statement, Moses actually quotes what Jacob had said of Joseph just before he died. If he repeats Jacob, it merits our...
Aug 12, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in the year 66 that civil war broke out in Jerusalem between activists and the so-called “Peace Party” – those who wanted to sue for peace with the Romans – demonstrating that, when judgment comes, it isn’t necessarily administered by an...
Aug 12, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
And of Joseph he said: “Blessed of the Lord is his land, with the precious things of heaven, with the dew, and the deep lying beneath, with the precious fruits of the sun, with the precious produce of the moon.” (Deuteronomy 33:13-14) Following the blessing pronounced...
Aug 11, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day, in 586 B.C., that Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, occupied Solomon’s Temple. As we’ve stated in previous installments, Nebuchadnezzar and Babylon epitomize everything that God’s people are to avoid and resist. Babylon manifests everything we are...
Aug 11, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Of Benjamin he said: “The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by Him, who shelters him all the day long; and he shall dwell between His shoulders.” (Deuteronomy 33:12) Most everyone knows that the Temple of God was established on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem which...
Aug 10, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
Horace Greeley, writing for the New York Tribune, once told his readers: “Go West, young man. Go West and grow up with the country.” At that time the country was, indeed, growing and expanding westward with the belief that it was mandated by heaven. The history books...
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