Jul 17, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
Have you ever been around somebody who was having a conversation in a language you didn’t understand? As they talked, laughed and enjoyed one another’s company, did it make you feel uncomfortable? Did you wish you could understand what they were saying,...
Jul 17, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Take this Book of the Law, and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there as a witness to you. (Deuteronomy 31:26) When Moses had finished writing all the words of the Torah, he took the book to the Levites with the instruction to...
Jul 16, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in 586 B.C. that the king of Judah was overtaken and captured by the Babylonians on the plain in Jericho (Jeremiah 36:4-5). Looking at this from the perspective of the Jewish people, the impossible had happened. Their once great nation and...
Jul 16, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Write down this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the children of Israel. (Deuteronomy 31:19) As I mentioned in the previous devotion, the song referred to recounts the...
Jul 15, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in 586 B.C. that Nebuchadnezzar and his army breached the walls of Jerusalem and then entered into the city (Jeremiah 39:2). The fascinating part of this story is that God allowed it. “In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah,...
Jul 15, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Write down this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the children of Israel. (Deuteronomy 31:19) It has long been proven that people can remember things better when they are...
Jul 14, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in 1834 that Queen Maria Christina of Spain, once and for all, abolished the Spanish Inquisition. The Inquisition is a dark stain on European history. Thousands of Jews and others, as well, were forced to convert to Catholicism or be burned at the...
Jul 14, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
And many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, “Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?” (Deuteronomy 31:17) No one likes trouble to come into their life but, in this particular case, the trouble was, by...
Jul 13, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in 1938 that President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for an international conference at Evian, France, for the purpose of considering what to do with “displaced persons,” meaning Jews. The negligible results at this particular conference accentuated...
Jul 13, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
And the Lord said to Moses: “Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with...
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