In the early part of the Bible, the Lord appeared and made a promise to Abraham saying, 'To your offspring I will give this land.' Genesis 12:7 (NIV) The word translated 'offspring' here in NIV is actually the word seed. That can be seen in alternate...
Many believers are familiar with the seven letters of Christ to the seven churches in Asia. You can find them in chapters 2 and 3 of the book of Revelation. With the exception of the church at Sardis, the Lord had commendations for every church. ...
Matthew's gospel records that while concluding the last supper, Jesus and the disciples sang a hymn. 'Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured...
Like so many concepts in the Bible, they begin as something physical. Then, as the scripture proceeds, the Lord uses that physical thing as a symbol for a greater reality. For example the physical temple of the Old Testament becomes a spiritual temple. No longer do...
If you do a search for 'end times' in your Bible (using biblegateway.com) you won't find that phrase in the text anywhere. You might see it a few times in the chapter titles that translators add, such as for Daniel 12 and Matthew 24. But...
Hopefully nobody assumes what this post is about without actually reading the whole way through. I most definitely do believe that the walls of Jericho fell down. The reality is undisputed, a fact proven by archeology that the walls did in fact collapse. It was Kathleen Kenyon...
There is a clear and simple way to understand the number 666 in the Bible. It does however take some background to explain. In English we have separate symbols for our numbers. So 1 = one, and 2 = two and so on. But in Greek...
This coming Sunday (August 3rd 2025) is Tish B'av on the Jewish Calendar, the saddest day of the year for Jewish people. It was on this day in 586 BC that the Babylonians burnt the city of Jerusalem to the ground and it was utterly...
The book of Revelation almost didn't make it into the Bible. Back then not everyone agreed about what it meant or how useful it was. Today, it's place in the Bible is less of an issue, but we are still coming to the place of...
Abraham is both remarkable and ordinary. The Ordinary Abraham Abraham was just one man, with a barren wife, who lived in ancient times surrounded by idol worshippers in Mesopotamia. He lived in tents, had sheep and goats, had some servants, and otherwise lived an unremarkable existence. He...
