Nov 4, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
On this day in the year 539 B.C.E., King Cyrus of Persia formally occupied the city of Babylon. This marked the end of the empire that, 47 years before, had destroyed Jerusalem and conquered the land of Judea. The book of Daniel records the final night of this empire...
Nov 4, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Lord, who may abide in Your tabernacle? Who may dwell in Your holy hill? He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart. (Psalm 15:1-2) Scripture teaches that when David brought the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, he set it in a...
Nov 3, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in 1967 that the ancient Jewish settlement in the Middle Eastern country of Aden came to its end when its last Jew arrived in Israel. It is important to note that this immigration process began just after the close of the Six Day War in 1967 and the...
Nov 3, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When the Lord brings back the captivity of His people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad. (Psalm 14:7) As David closes this psalm, he conveys a yearning for a time when Israel’s suffering and affliction...
Nov 2, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
Today is the first day of the month called Cheshvan, also called marcheshvan, buy identified in the Bible as the month called Bul. It was on this day that, according to tradition, the plague of pestilence was poured out on Egypt. You can read about that in Exodus...
Nov 2, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on the Lord? There they are in great fear, for God is with the generation of the righteous. (Psalm 14:4-5) After noting that God observes the children of men from...
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