We left off the story at the end of Genesis with Joseph’s coffin in Egypt and his words about God visiting his people in the future to bring them up from Egypt. In Exodus, we pick up the story some generations later when the Hebrews found themselves enslaved and calling out to God for rescue. He heard them and did indeed rescue them through the agency of a man named Moses. However, things did not go smoothly in the aftermath, which points to the fact that this visitation was not the ultimate one. Exodus points us forward to a greater visitation and a greater rescue.
As God continued talking to the priests in Malachi 2:1-9, he rebuked them for failing in their two duties: offering sacrifices and teaching. If...
In Acts 8:26-40, God took Philip from a growing church to a deserted place to talk about Jesus with one African man who came...
As we approach the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, we learn from John 7:1-31 how Jesus approached time and timing. He...