Israelites

creation . Pointed in the direction of Israel however, is the indictment. God claims that he is going to deal with Israel because the covenant between God and Israel has been broken, but it was intended to be lawful and held up by both God and the Israelites…

Conversations about the Bible include: “The Bible is God’s Love letter.” “Read the Bible like a respectable novel.” “The Bible is a narrative telling about God’s love.” “The Bible is a source of knowledge.” I’ve often wondered about the best way to describe the Bible. The Bible is all those things and more. Talking with my mom, she asked me what type of literature is the Bible? Granted, it is impossible to include them all, here are selected ones along with what they can teach. Narrative or…

The novel A Father who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture by Scott Hahn highlights the significant events in Scripture. Hahn starts with a story of a father in Armenia digging through the rubble of a collapsed school to save his son. When his son is found alive, he states that his father would never forget him. God is similar to the father, as he always saved humans from destruction and kept his promises. Hahn reveals that in Genesis 1 God created the world in six days, and the…

against the terms that Solomon and David had agreed to in their covenants with Yahweh, and this blatant disrespect of Yahweh caused him to react negatively. Yahweh executed the punishment part of his promise to David and Solomon, and showed the Israelites what would happen when he relinquished his protection over the city and handed it over to its…

allegory articulated within this section of the Old Testament, the underlying message between these poetic verses can ultimately be seen as a symbolic representation of the Lord’s affection for His creation. Although God’s endearment towards the Israelites is at times evident in the rest of the Old Testament, His endearment towards mankind in Song of Songs is consistently laced in elegant verses of…

Within various writings, a Godly erotic theme may be obscurely witnessed, as in the story concerning “Jacob’s ladder;” tells of a ladder to heaven, where Jacob encounter’s God. Described in the book of Genesis, the Biblical Patriarch Jacob experiences this after he decides to rest for the night; while asleep he experiences an astonishing epiphany. Jacob astonishingly proclaims this event takes place where he never realized before, occurring as “the house of God-this gate of heaven.” Plausibly…

Up until now, we have learned about various religions that are either polytheistic or do not serve a higher being at all. But Judaism has brought up the new and mysterious idea that there is but one God, and He is the only God. The following statement stands true due to the numerous amounts of instances in the Hebrew Bible; the concept that seems to be emphasized most strongly throughout the Hebrew Bible is that God wants his followers to devote themselves to Him and Him alone. Before the…

foreign parts after he conquered Samaria in 722 BC . . .” (The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible p191) However, the Samaritans disagree with this and claim to be descendants of the native Israelites. Historically, after Samaria collapsed in 722, the population was made up of remaining native Israelites and foreign colonists. Following this, at the “rise of the Samaritan community”, the temple for Yahweh on Mount Gerizim began to be built (Dictionary of New Testament p451). According to…

Old Testament; over 50 percent of these are Leviticus. All of that says to us that if we are going to begin to get some kind of grasp of Leviticus, we must have some kind of grasp over what clean and unclean means and how these words apply to the Israelite. In the Book Of Leviticus, it speaks about clean and unclean foods. Clean foods are to be cleansed and signifies the holiness and cleanliness of the priest in the order of worship in the temple. Holiness means cleanliness of hands and heart…

Promote: To endorse, encourage, help, sponsor, stimulate, uphold or support. The act of being promoted or promoting workers in the workplace is well known to us. Sometimes it is quite clear to everyone why a certain person received a promotion, and often it is not clear. The act of promoting a capable person is to change a worker’s job by giving him more responsibilities, or to give him a job that requires more skills. Often promotion also means to be put in charge of other people. With…