Israel’s land grant is clearly recorded in the Bible. We’re going to study Israel’s land grant today. This will help us understand what belongs to Israel and when they can anticipate inhabiting their land. Israel’s original land grant is the land of Canaan. Gen 13:15, for all the land which...
Today we are studying God’s covenant with Abraham. Under this covenant, Abraham was promised a blessing (Gen 12:1-3), a seed (Gen 12:7), a nation (Gen 12:2), and a land grant (Gen 12:7; 15:18-21). Furthermore, this covenant protected Abraham and his seed from those that would curse them (Gen 12:3). God’s...
There is a pattern in the Bible that sheds light on the future of nations in the world. God gives people and nations time to repent until their wickedness is full, and then he destroys them, when there is no more hope for their repentance. Notice: The world in Noah’s...
Our body is a tabernacle. And our tabernacle is comparable to the tabernacle the Jews had in the wilderness. 2 Cor 5:1 “Our earthly house of this tabernacle”. As the tabernacle in the wilderness was earthly and temporary, and the one in heaven eternal, so our body is earthly and...
There are several ways that the truth of the words of God has been declared. The declaration of truth has been verbal, visible, written, and testified. Verbal declaration – someone heard the Lord speak. See Jn 1:18, 1 Jn 1:1-5, and 2 Pet 1:16-21. At Mt Sinai, the Jew’s heard...
Youth, Aging and Death Youth, Ecc 12:1 Remembering your Creator in the days of your youth is essential. Yet, every attempt has been made in our society to talk youth out of believing that God is the creator. The condition of our society is evidence that youth do not retain...
Ecc 11:1-10 is about lessons from nature, sunlight, and youth. Scattering, Sowing, and Reaping 11:1 Cast is to send forth by throwing. Bread can be literal or figurative. Waters can be literal or figurative. Herein we find interesting lessons from nature. A good example is in Prov 31:20 “She stretcheth...
In Ecc 10:16-20 Solomon gives us some practical wisdom about drunkenness and gluttony, slothfulness and idleness, feasts, wine, and money, and private curses. Drunkenness and gluttony. v.16-17 When thy king is a child AND thy princes eat in the morning. Josiah was a child, 2 Chr 34, and had the...
In Ecc 10:1-15, Solomon elaborates on his wise understanding of folly. Folly in Reputation, v.1 Practically speaking, this is true. The ointment of the apothecary can have a sweet smell, as in Ex 30:34-35. But if a few flies die in the confection, the savor is going to stink with...
How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #11: A Living Dog or a Dead Lion (Ecclesiastes 9:1-6) The passage before us is an interesting passage. At first Solomon is comparing the righteous and the wicked saying that the same thing happens to them all. The event he is referring...
