As God prepared for His destructive judgment against the earth He created, Noah received God’s instructions for his and his family’s salvation. God’s instructions are specific and purposeful on every level. It is the same today. We will see a review of why God’s destruction must come, and then His…
Jesus tells John the Baptist how He is fulfilling Old Testament messianic prophecies by healing the sick. What are these Old Testament messianic prophecies? We will look at them and how Jesus fulfilled them in His ministry. In my last post, I talked about the healing ministry of Old Testament…
We turn to one of the most enigmatic and mysterious chapters of the Bible in Genesis 6. It’s hard to understand what the great sin of the angels that caused God to want to flood the earth and start over was. I hope to help you understand better what probably…
We see God healed Old Testament kings through prophets. What were the circumstances of such healings? What can we learn from them and how does God minister through prophets today? In my last post, I discussed God’s punishment of sickness for Israel’s disobedience. In this post, we will address God’s…
We are talking about Adam’s genealogy in this issue. If you read the last issue, my main goal was to get you interested in biblical genealogies because most people skip them when doing devotional reading. I can understand why. Unless you have time to dig into them and study them…
We find God punished the Israelites with sickness sometimes in the Old Testament. This is troubling to people who are trying to understand how or if this happens today. I want to take a closer look at why God did this in more detail. In my last post, I addressed…
And the crowd goes wild for Cain’s genealogy! I know, I know. This is the part of Scripture you read really fast during the devotions or skip altogether. Most people don’t get much spiritual vigor from the genealogies. But they are important and often times there are gems you don’t…
God had a system for dealing with sicknesses in the Old Testament, specifically leprosy. It is not that He healed the sicknesses by these means but that He provided a way to monitor them. In my last post, I talked about God’s most extraordinary healing of barren women. In this…
Welcome to Volume 2 as we talk about the first murder and open a new chapter in our researching and learning about the world of Genesis 1-11. We are looking at Sin, Genealogies, and the Great Sin. In this first issue, we will discuss The First Murder. We left off…
Many people don’t realize the most extraordinary healing God did for women in the Old Testament. Without God opening the barren wombs of women in the Old Testament, He would never have brought about His plan for Israel and Jesus. In my last post, I described the ways God healed…