God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he pleads with God against Israel? American Standard VersionGod did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah?
Q. Did God's power ever act its utmost? A. No; he can do more than ever he did, or ever will do; Mat. 3:9. God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham, Mat. 26:53. Q. 4. Are there not some things which God cannot do? A. Yes, there are; but ...
Did God create disorder and chaos? What does it actually mean to be evil? And how do you tell your kids that in the Bible dragons are actually the “bad guys”? In this episode, Tim and Jon respond to your questions from the first half of the Chaos Dragon series. Thank you to o...
the Law of Moses, God did not introduce or approve of this marital model. The Hebrew word for concubine,Piylegesh, isn’t even of Hebrew origin. It’s “a non-Semitic loanword borrowed to refer to a phenomenon not indigenous to Israel,” according toBaker’s Dictionary of Bibl...
Peter is transforming our reading of Joel in the light of Jesus in three ways. First, the day of the Lord which would see the restoration of Israel is now the longed-for Day of the Lord when the whole world changes. Secondly, the ‘latter days’ of God’s compassion have become the ...
God's love for Jacob A. The word of the Lord came to Israel through Malachi. What did He say? The Almighty Lord sounds heart-broken and wistful as He pleads with His people to understand how much He loves them. He covers their whole history when He says, I have loved you." What ...
When the angel Gabriel announced the birth of Jesus to Mary, he confirmed Christ’s birth fulfilled God’s promise to David. The purpose of John the Baptist was to prepare the way for the ministry of Jesus. One of the ways he did this was by calling the people of Israel back to God...
But Moses asked God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”1 Samuel 18:18And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the son-in-law of the king?”1 Samuel 24:14...
SO the promise was the inheritance of the LAND OF ISRAEL. Great Is Your Reward in Heaven WHAT DID Jesus mean when He told His disciples, "Be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven"? (Matt. 5:12.) And why- -only a few verses before — did Christ say, "Blessed are ...
12And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God. 13And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by ...