The Law is a special possession
Blessings over each of the tribes, Moses dies: Deuteronomy 33–34 All too often, people see a Law, or sometimes any …
Tag Archives: Moses
Authority transferred to Joshua
Inheritance, Joshua and Sabbaths: Numbers 27–29 Joshua had been Moses’ assistant for more than 40 years. With Caleb, he’d seen the …
Who finds the campsites?
The silver trumpets and leaving Sinai: Numbers 10 Moses seems to have wanted to have it both ways. On one …
Who chose the High Priest?
More rules for priests and offerings: Leviticus 21–22 The short answer? God. The position of High Priest in ancient Israel started …
Does God need animal sacrifices?
Rules for offerings: Leviticus 1–7 Does God need the blood and fat of animals? God created the heavens and the …
God’s voice from the Tabernacle
Offerings of dedication: Numbers 7 Imagine this: in the middle of the wilderness, there’s a camp of hundreds of thousands if …
I want to see God’s presence
A golden calf and the aftermath: Exodus 32–34 Moses understood the importance of having God there, in his life, all …
God’s plan A for taking back Canaan?
More promises and Moses goes up the mountain: Exodus 23–24 The first time God told the Israelites to invade Canaan, …
They will know that I am the Lord
The first two months in the wilderness: Exodus 16–19 When Moses’ father-in-law, Jethro, heard everything that God had done for …
Frogs and more frogs
All those plagues: Exodus 7–12 The second plague was frogs across the entire land. No worries, said Pharaoh’s magicians, that’s not so hard: …
Moses the outsider
Eighty years of slavery and the birth of Moses: Exodus 1–2 Moses was one of the very few surviving Hebrew boys …
Saved by undeserved grace
The circumcision question is resolved in a meeting in Jerusalem; Barnabas goes to Cyprus, and Paul goes to Syria and …
It’s grace, not ritual
Paul’s letter to the Galatians (Part 2): Galatians 4–6 Paul invested some effort into explaining to the Gentile believers that …
Miracles on (or through) water
Elijah is taken up to heaven and Elisha gets his master’s gifts, then helps a widow, stays with a Shunemite woman, …
Moses’ last words
Blessings over each of the tribes, Moses dies: Deuteronomy 33–34 Before he died, Moses blessed each of the tribes, then …
Moses lets go
Inheritance, Joshua and Sabbaths: Numbers 27–29 Numbers 27:15-17 Moses said to the Lord, ‘May the Lord, the God who gives breath to …
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