The Believer’s Access to God When I think of access to God, I picture a servant approaching a king in his throne room and bowing before him. Paul spoke of “access to stand (a face-to-face position) in God’s presence. The Greek word for access is prosagoge, meaning “the act of moving toward or bringing to.” […]
According to tradition, it was on this day that the angel of the Lord commanded Gideon to attack the Midianites as recorded in the book of Judges. Now the Angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth tree which was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon threshed […]
Today is the 15th day of Aviv and the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Matzah). According to the Bible and tradition, there are many very important events that took place on this day. For instance, tradition believes that it was on this day that God made the “covenant of the pieces” with […]
Today is the fourteenth day of Aviv, the preparation day for the Passover and it was on this day that two prominent events with similar themes are believed to have happened. First, it’s believed to be the day that Cain and Abel brought their sacrificial gifts as recorded in Genesis 4. “And in the process […]
It was on this day that the German Worker’s Party was officially renamed the National Socialist German Worker’s Party – we know them as the Nazis. Ironically, or maybe not ironically, this event happened on the very same day that Haman the Agagite published his decree for the extermination of the Jews who were living […]
It was on this day that Ezra and his followers left the river Ahava, making their way to Jerusalem, as recorded in the book of Ezra. “Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. And the hand of our God was upon us, […]
It was on this day that the generation of Israelites born in the wilderness were circumcised upon entering the land of Israel. This is recorded in Joshua 5: “So it was, when they had finished circumcising all the people, that they stayed in their places in the camp till they were healed. Then the Lord […]
Reactionary fear will keep you caged, just running in circles. You see, the extreme opposite of your fear does not lead to the absence of your fear. It is just the place your fear has driven you to once again to hold you captive. This is not God’s way. His way is to eradicate your […]
It was on this day that Israel, under the leadership of Joshua, the son of Nun, crossed over the Jordan River and erected the twelve-stone monument at Gilgal. This is recorded in the 4th chapter of Joshua: Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they […]
It was on this day in 1722 that Judah Monis, the first publisher of a Hebrew book in New England, became a believer in Jesus as the Messiah. Three months following his conversion, Monis, considered to be an apostate by Judaism, became the instructor in Hebrew at Harvard University. And so we have two interesting […]