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GENESIS 38: Judah and Tamar
GENESIS 38: Judah and Tamar Genesis 37 closes with an account of Jacob’s sons selling their brother Joseph to the Midianites, and they in turn selling him into Egypt. This speaks a type of Christ being rejected by Israel and delivered unto the Gentiles. Genesis 38 pulls back from the story of Joseph and directs…
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GENESIS 35-37
Genesis 35: Jacob’s Return to Bethel Chapter 35 opens with God’s command to Jacob to fulfill the vow made about thirty years earlier (Genesis 28:20–22). Genesis 28:20-22 New King James Version 20 Then…
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GENESIS 33: Jacob and Esau Meet, Genesis 34: The Dinah Incident
Jacob and Esau Meet
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GENESIS 32
GENESIS 32 Genesis 31:54-55 New King James Version 54 Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread. And they ate bread and stayed all night on…
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ROAD TO EMMAUS
ROAD TO EMMAUS Marko Marina, Ph.D. Author-Historian wrote this: Just the other day, I was watching “The Chase” on our national TV station, (“The Chase” is a high-stakes quiz show where contestants face off against a professional “Chaser” (trivia genius) to win cash prizes. I was feeling confident in my usual trivia skillfulness. I tend…
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The Triumphal Entry. Palm Sunday, it’s all about Jesus
The Triumphal Entry. Palm Sunday, it’s all about Jesus As Jesus began to speak openly about the suffering that lay ahead of Him. He also spoke about what it means to follow Him. Discipleship is not simply about admiration from a distance. Jesus invites those who follow Him to walk the same path of surrender…
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“Jesus is Our Messiah”
“Jesus is Our Messiah”
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Genesis 31: Jacob’s family departs from Laban
GENESIS 31: Jacob’s family departs from Laban It wasn’t that Jacob had taken anything that belonged to Laban. Rather, it was that his wealth was increasing in proportion to Laban’s wealth. The problem wasn’t that Jacob stole anything; it was that Laban’s sons were filled with envy. Is this a problem? The New Testament explicitly…
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Genesis 30: The twelve sons of Jacob
Genesis 30:1-2 New King James Version 1 Now, when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I die!” 2 And Jacob’s anger was aroused against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld…
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Genesis 29 Do you believe in love at first sight?
GENESIS 29 Jacob was seventy-seven when he left Beersheba for Haran. He would spend twenty years serving his uncle Laban, thirty-three years back in Canaan, and the last seventeen years of his life in Egypt. Now, he’s arriving in Paddan Aram, he was guided to the very field where some shepherds from Haran were tending…