Going through Genesis in detail this year for the Bible videos caused me to visit a question of curiosity. Abraham is promised a son by God, and before he is divinely given Isaac, he fathers Ishmael with a slave wife. The way it is sometimes preached is...
The covenant that the Lord makes with Abraham in Genesis 15 is unusual because it is a one-sided covenant between two groups. Like a contract, a covenant has two parties, both who give and receive in participation with the arrangement. Usually a greater party makes a...
In Genesis 14 there are two stories told, but joined together by the characters of Lot and Abraham. Initially there is a battle between four invading kings, against five local kings including the King of Sodom, the city in which Lot was living. The four foreign...
If you were presented with a piece of cake like in the photo, which piece would you choose? A child would automatically choose the biggest piece for themselves. Most adults would be more thoughtful, and would choose a smaller piece, but would WANT the bigger piece. In...
We know that some people are called into the ministry. If you just agreed with that statement, then sadly you are wrong, because biblically everyone who is a believer is in fact already in the ministry and is a priest. It is the some who are called...
We all know the story of Babel in Genesis 11. The people were unified in purpose and the Lord needed to mess up their languages so that they would not achieve what they set out to achieve. The Lord confused their languages and they were...
Did you know, that the Hebrew word for 'Gentiles' is the same word used for 'nations?' It is the word goy. At first when that word appeared in the Bible, in Genesis 10, it was purely about nations. In fact Genesis 10 is a huge list of the...
Very little is told to us in the Bible about life before the flood, but from Genesis 4 and snippets in Genesis 5 we can glean some information. Additionally the flood story shows us what skills, ability and knowledge Noah and his family had, which...
Rainbows give a good feeling. Everyone loves rainbows. My favourite was when flying to Africa, looking out the window below the plane, I saw a fully circular rainbow from above. Never seen anything like it before or since. The rainbow first appears in scripture in the...
The phrase 'the great tribulation' is quite intriguing. It sounds so terrible, so nasty that you would do anything within your power to avoid being caught up in that. Reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition, or torture at Guantanamo bay, except way worse, more systematised and deliberate. It...
