Rebel to Redeemed…Sharing HIS Kind of Love
Moses had two sons during his years of exile. He married Zipporah, the daughter of Reuel or Jethro. While there they had two sons: Gershom—meaning a sojourner there Eliezer—meaning help of my God “After Moses had sent away his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro received her 3 and her two sons. One son was named Gershom,[a] for Moses said, “I have become a foreigner in […]
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Last week, we ended the book of Genesis with a look at Joseph. The next person listed in the Hall of Faith is Moses, who picks up the story of the Israelite’s several hundred years later, in the book of Exodus. In the Hall of Faith, Moses story is summed up as “ By faith […]
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We’ve been discussing people in the Bible who received a second chance. We’ve already taken a look at the second chances Jonah, Job and Rahab received. Today we’re going to take a look at Moses. Moses was actually given three chances. We first meet Moses as an infant, who should have been killed at birth. However, his mother saved him […]
Read moreToday, I’m starting a 12 Days of Christmas special series. For the next 12 days, I will share with you Christian authors and their Christmas books. But, Christmas is over you say. Did you know that the 12 Days of Christmas actually runs from Christmas day until January 5th or December 26th until Epiphany on January 6th (depending on who […]
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Jehovah Nissi means the Lord my Banner Moses built an altar and called it The Lord is my Banner Exodus 17:15
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Jochebed was the daughter of Levi. {Numbers 26:59} She is the wife of Amram and also believed to be his aunt. {Exodus 6:20} Amram and Jochebed had three children Aaron, Miriam and Moses. The little we know about this couple comes from Moses birth story. Pharaoh decreed all baby boys thrown into the Nile. He feared the Jewish people would […]
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Do you ever feel like things can’t possibly get any worse, and then they do? 2020 has felt that way to me. It’s been full of sickness, isolation, injustice, division, and deep pain for so many people. On top of all the global and national crises, a tornado ripped through my home city of Nashville— just weeks before the pandemic […]
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Elijah is one of the great prophets and only one of two men were are told was taken to heaven with the Lord. At the transfiguration of Jesus, Moses and Elijah are the two who appeared with him. Elijah and King Ahab have a confrontation in which the prophet calls the king out for worshipping on false gods. {1 Kings […]
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Have you ever had an experience where you felt you were standing on Holy Ground? Moses was told “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” {Exodus 3:5; see also Acts 7:32-33} The song We Are Standing On Holy Ground was written by Geron Davis. The song […]
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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is a well-known and popular African American spiritual. The song was written by Wallis Willis, a Choctaw freedman in the old Indian Territory in what is now Choctaw County, near the County seat of Hugo, Oklahoma sometime after 1865. Historians believe he may have been inspired by the sight of the Red River, near where he […]
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HaShem is used for the name of the Lord, as a replacement to speaking his given name. The Jews did not want to blaspheme the name of the Lord or show irreverence. “The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse; so they brought him to Moses.” {Leviticus 24:11} “If you do not carefully follow all the […]
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Yahweh- Qanna means the Lord is jealous. The word derives from the Hebrew kanna. The Lord tells us he is a jealous and envious God. “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth […]
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Yahweh was the god of the Israelites. This was the name revealed to Moses. This is regarded as the personal name of God. Scholars believe the personal name of God was known long before Moses and used at least by the Levites. After the Babylonian exile, this name was replaced with the more common name Elohim, meaning God, the universal […]
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David uses the term Yahweh Tzevaot which means “the God of the armies of Israel”. In Hebew Tzevaot, Tsebaoth or Sabaoth refers to the armies or armed hosts of the Isrealites in Exodus and of Isaiah and he prophets. The King James Version usually translated this into the “Lord of Hosts” or “Lord God of Hosts”. The term is also […]
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Bartholomew is almost always mentioned in connection to being with the disciple Philip. In the book of John, he is referred to as Nathanael. The name Bartholomew in Greek meaning son of Talmai or son of the furrows in Aramaic, while the Hebrew name Nathanael means gift of God or God has given. In the first three gospels, Bartholomew is […]
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Philip is a Greek name meaning friend and friend of horses. Many believe the disciple Philip may have spoken Greek. We first meet Philip right after Jesus has called Andrew and Simon Peter to follow him. It is possible that Philip was one of two {the unnamed} disciple who was following John the Baptist. When John the Baptist saw Jesus […]
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Aaron was the brother of Moses and the high priest of the Israelites. He had four sons: Eleazer—means God has helped; he succeeded his father upon his death; appointed in charge of the sanctuary; Moses grew angry with him and Ithamar for not eating a sin offering as required; responsible for carrying oil for lampstand, incense and anointing oil; assisted […]
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A king is a ruler of an independent state. The symbolism of a king appears in the Pentateuch {first 5 books of Old Testament}. First in the treaty of God with the covenant he made with Moses on Mt. Sinai, where he provided the Ten Commandments. Secondly, as the ark and tabernacle are set up ion the wilderness as a […]
Read more Amram was the grandson of Levi and husband to Jochebed. The couple had three children, two of which were sons. What we know of the men are more as brothers and leaders, than as sons. Aaron was their oldest son and helped his brother, Moses, confront the Egyptian king. He originally acted as Moses assistant. He, along with Hur, held […]
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