Jan 8, 2022 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Good Morning. The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes; and to Him shall be the obedience of the people. (Genesis 49:10) Jacob’s blessing upon Judah established that the tribe of Judah would be the one to rule...
Jan 7, 2022 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Good Morning. “Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s children shall bow down before you.” (Genesis 49:8) There is a sharp contrast between the word spoken to the previous three sons and the...
Jan 6, 2022 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Good Morning. “Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of cruelty are in their dwelling place. Let not my soul enter their council; let not my honor be united to their assembly; for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they hamstrung an ox. Cursed...
Jan 5, 2022 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Good Morning. “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power. Unstable as water, you shall not excel.” (Genesis 49:3-4) In the words spoken to his older sons, Jacob unabashedly rebukes...
Jan 4, 2022 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Good Morning. And Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days: gather together and hear, you sons of Jacob, and listen to Israel your father. (Genesis 49:1-2) At the end of his life, the patriarch Jacob...
Jan 3, 2022 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Good Morning. Now when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; so he took hold of his father’s hand to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. And Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this one...
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