September 30, 2018
David’s flight from his son Absalom was the experience and the period described in his “Good Shepherd Psalm.” It was not the Lord who put David in that valley of death, or the green pastures, or the still waters. David…
September 24, 2018
Israel was called to be a nation of priests. Priests had direct access to God. And they had no need of intermediaries, whether human or animal. This direct access to God eliminated all the idols and all humans from interfering…
September 24, 2018
Mammon is not a person. Mammon is the Aramaic word for “riches” and for “wealth.” To Jesus, mammon was God’s strongest rival, and man’s most treacherous trap. We know mammon best by the currency, which controls all of us. We…
September 23, 2018
David’s major trouble came from his apostate sons, and the pagan women and their idols. It is almost incomprehensible that the same man wrote such words:
September 21, 2018
The Lamb is the bridge between God and man. The Lamb is “God’s Olive Branch” that is offered to man. Only, “God’s Olive Branch” has conditions, which the Lamb mediates to the offenders and to the transgressors for God’s acceptance.…
September 21, 2018
The Lamb is the bridge between God and man. The Lamb is “God’s Olive Branch” that is offered to man. Only, “God’s Olive Branch” has conditions, which the Lamb mediates to the offenders and to the transgressors for God’s acceptance.…
September 17, 2018
Jesus, too, had ideas of the kind of a person or persons who could fill His shoes. Jesus’ followers had to have a strong disposition against being senselessly aligned with evil, even with Beelzebul and Satan, the devil. Jesus told…
September 16, 2018
The impression of the writes of the Kings that Israel was a law-abiding “Monotheistic society” is simply not tenable. At best, men like Saul, David, and Solomon, were semi-monotheists. A pure and genuine “Monotheist” does not only believe in one…
September 15, 2018
Before the entrance of every judge, we read, “Once again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord.” Most judges were filled with the Spirit of God. The judges freed the people from their enemies. And during the…
September 13, 2018
Joshua! Of all the leaders in Israel, no one was as flawless and without a single mistake than this unique and loyal servant of Moses and of Yahweh. He was the most faultless leader and man in the Old Testament.…