Why Did God Choose AbrahamBerkeley Electronic Press Selected WorksD. DesilvaBible Review
The Abraham Allegory shows that when God changed Abram's name to Abraham, it was really a deeper picture of God changing His own Old Covenant name, Jehovah, to the New Covenant name of Jesus. God tells us that Sarah is a picture of the church, the Bride of Christ and together with ...
(1) Contrary to Zarathustra, Abraham (then still Abram) realized that God is One, which implies that creation is One as well: not in the sense that God equals the whole of creation (that's pantheism), nor in the sense that everything is One and distinctions are illusory (that would be...
“Moses realized that the kid did not run away from the flock out of malice or wickedness—it was merely thirsty. … Only a shepherd who hastens not to judge the runaway kid, who is sensitive to the causes of its desertion, can mercifully lift it into his arms and bring it back home...
R. Joseph Bekhor Shor Gen 28:12“and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it”—According to my opinion, he did not see actual angels going up and down, but it appeared to him thus in his dream because the ladder was made so that angels could go up and down it ther...
Okay, fine, we get it. The god of Abraham is a jealous god. In fact, the formal name of that god is not "Jehovah" or "Elohim" or "YHVH" but "Jealous," according to Exodus 34 ("Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goes...
But later then, God came to create the physical universe. First He created it for angels as I have said, but they did not qualify. They were put on this earth as their proving ground and they could have gone throughout the whole universe on the creative mission, but they flunked, to ...
It starts with Adam then his children Seth and Enos and Cainan and so on then Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. Then we come to the book of Exodus. After Joseph’s death in Egypt we come to the call of Moses and then Joshua and so on. ...
31Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. 32For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him ...
To lead them out of the land of Egypt; For they did not continue in My covenant, And I did not care for them, says the Lord. 10“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, says the Lord: ...