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Lessons From the Old Testament: Leadership

It is difficult to overestimate the weight God gives to leadership in the Old Testament. It begins with Adam, who is the representative leader for all of mankind. His decision to act in accord with

Lessons From the Old Testament: Conquering Our Canaan

That night all the members of the community raised their voices and wept aloud. All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “If only we had died in Egypt!

Lessons From the Old Testament: Our Greatest Temptation

While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women, who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down

Lessons From the Old Testament: The Feasts of Israel (Tabernacles)

Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field. (Exodus 23:16b) So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered

Lessons From the Old Testament: The Feasts of Israel (The Day of Atonement)

Leviticus 16 Nine days after the feast of Trumpets, on the 10th day of the 7th month, Israel was to observe the Day of Atonement, or literally, the day of covering. This was because on this day the top

Lessons From the Old Testament: The Feasts of Israel (Trumpets)

The LORD said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. Do no regular work,

Lessons From the Old Testament: The Feasts of Israel (Pentecost)

While Passover has some overlap with the barley harvest in Israel, Pentecost has some relationship to the wheat harvest. Both Passover (Exodus 23:15) and Pentecost (Exodus 23:16a), which came 50 days

Lessons From the Old Testament: The Feasts of Israel (Passover)

One of the ways God ordered Israel’s life so that it would point to Him as their true God and away from foreign gods (who are not gods at all), was to arrange their weeks and months around spiritually

Lessons From the Old Testament: The Reason For the Tabernacle

The LORD said to Moses,”Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from each man whose heart prompts him to give. Then have them make a sanctuary for me,

Lessons From the Old Testament: What is the purpose of the Law?

Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain and said, “This is what you are to say to the house of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel: ‘You yourselves

Lessons From the Old Testament: God Tells Us His Name

Is God above having a personal name? Isn’t He too great to have a moniker other than the generic title God or Lord? He certainly didn’t have a parent to give Him a name. But God is all about

Lessons From the Old Testament: God’s Judgment

Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, “I am

Lessons From the Old Testament: Total Depravity

The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. (Genesis 6:5) Where does the Old Testament stand

Lessons From the Old Testament: The Case for Monogamy

Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah. Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, a young

Lessons From the Old Testament: The Conflict of the Ages

Genesis 4 recounts the murder of Abel by his brother Cain. What God promised in Genesis 3:15 (“I will put enmity between you, serpent, and the woman, and between your seed and her seed”)

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