MAY 9, 2020 Genesis 12:5-7 So, they came to the land of Canaan. Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land. Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” With his nephew Lot joining him, Abram embarked upon a […]
MAY 8, 2020 Genesis 12:3 “I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Because God placed His favor upon Abraham and his seed, the Adversary has sought to destroy God’s people, most notably those called Israel. Throughout history, […]
MAY 7, 2020 Genesis 12:1-2 Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing.” This is the […]
MAY 6, 2020 Genesis 12:1 Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you.” At some point in his early life, God had instructed Abram to leave everything behind and go to a place that was undisclosed in the […]
MAY 5, 2020 Genesis 11:27-28 This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, Ur of the Chaldeans. Among the descendants of Shem was a man called Terah who fathered Abraham, a man destined to be the “father of many nations.” Before […]
MAY 4, 2020 Genesis 11:8-9 So, the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore, its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth. The word Babel is said to mean, “confusion” […]
May 3, 2020 Genesis 11:5-7 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let us go down and there confuse […]
May 2, 2020 Genesis 11:4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” The first person on record to build a city is Cain, a rebel. In fact, he built […]
May 1, 2020 Genesis 11:3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. Babylon was made entirely of brick. Why is that important? Because Jerusalem was made of stone. These two cities epitomize the two opposing forces in the world […]