Genesis 1:9-11 Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let […]
Genesis 1:6-8 “Then God said, ‘Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters.’ Thus God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so. And God called the […]
Genesis 1:4b-5 “And God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.” From the beginning, we see, believe it or not, that it is sometimes necessary for division to occur so that life can be possible. […]
Genesis 1:3-4a “Then God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good.” The Creator’s first utterance, “Let there be light,” is much more than a one-time command. With these words, He declared a fundamental principle that is ultimately personified in the Messiah, the Light of […]
Genesis 1:2 “The earth was without form and void; darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” In the beginning, before the light was mentioned, the earth was engulfed in darkness. Yet in that darkness, the Spirit of God was present and […]
JANUARY 2, 2021 Genesis 49:1-2 And Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days: gather together and hear, you sons of Jacob, and listen to Israel your father.” At the end of his life, the patriarch Jacob called for all of his sons — […]
January 1, 2020 Genesis 48:20 So he blessed them that day, saying, “By you Israel will bless, saying, ‘May God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh!’ ” And thus he set Ephraim before Manasseh. On Erev Shabbat (Friday night), it is customary for Jewish families to gather around the dinner table and celebrate the Almighty’s […]
Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” When God created the heavens and the earth, we understand that He spoke everything into existence that would fulfill His purpose, even if it was not clearly manifested in the beginning. But in addition to the physical world, Isaiah tells us that He […]
For all of those who live in the northern hemisphere, winter is upon us – a time of dead leaves and gloomy weather. Not surprisingly, during this time of year, many people struggle with depression. Perhaps it’s because of the stark landscape and sunless skies or just the overall environment that winter creates. Whatever it […]
Today is the second day of Tevet and the eighth and final day of Hanukkah. On this concluding day of the Festival of Lights, all eight branches of the Hanukkah menorah are burning bright. The imagery of a menorah with all of its branches producing light has a prophetic element to it. It demonstrates the […]
Today is the first day of the month called Tevet. It also the seventh day of Hanukkah. It was on this day that a young Benjamite girl named Hadassah – better known as Esther – was presented to the king of Persia as recorded in Scripture. “So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his […]
Today is the last day of Kislev and the sixth day of Hanukkah. We’ve been addressing the essence of the story of Hanukkah because it is a microcosm of a greater message we see consistently throughout the Scriptures. Specifically, it is a story describing the struggle between two competing mindsets, eternally at war with one […]
