Dec 13, 2023 | All Posts, On This Day |
Today is the first day of the month called Tevet. It also the sixth day of Hanukkah. It was on this day that a young Benjamite girl named Hadassah – better known as Esther – was presented to the king of Persia as recorded in Scripture. “So Esther was taken...
Dec 13, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
So we crossed over the Valley of the Zered. And the time we took to come from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as the Lord had...
Dec 12, 2023 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in 1496 that King Manuel I of Portugal ordered the expulsion of all Jews from his country. If you remember your history, this was just a few short years after Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain had done the same thing. Manuel’s queen was also named...
Dec 12, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing. (Deuteronomy 2:7) In the very first part of Moses’ discourse...
Dec 11, 2023 | All Posts, On This Day |
Today is the fourth day of Hanukkah. When Antiochus IV ordered the erection of an idol in the court of the Temple of God followed by pagan sacrifices upon the altar, many in that era and beyond believed it to be a fulfillment of a prophecy from the book of Daniel. ...
Dec 11, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Then you answered and said to me, “We have sinned against the Lord; we will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.” And when everyone of you had girded on his weapons of war, you were ready to go up into the mountain. (Deuteronomy 1:41) As Moses...
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