Tag: Old Testament
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Day 039: How Exodus 29 Foreshadows Communion
The priests were not just preparing a sacrifice; they were preparing a meal. They were commanded to eat the very flesh through which atonement had been made for them—a stunning foreshadowing of the Lord’s Supper.
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Day 022: The Speckled Flock Before the Throne (Genesis 31:10-12)
Jacob’s flock was never uniform—striped and spotted, mottled and mismatched. And neither is the flock God is gathering for Himself. From scheming patriarchs to saints and sinners, from every tribe and tongue and nation, God is forming one people by one voice. What we glimpse imperfectly now, we will one day see clearly before the…
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Day 006: Compassion Fatigue (Job 12:5)
As Job’s suffering drags on, his friends grow weary of compassion and quick with contempt. I see myself in their frustration more than I want to admit. Yet where my patience runs out, Jesus “always lives to make intercession” for us.
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Day 273: The Sun and the Son (Malachi 1:11; 4:2)
Malachi closes the Old Testament with a promise: the Lord’s name will be great among the nations, and the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in His wings. The last light of the prophets points us to the coming of Christ.
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Day 272: Tobiah in the Temple (Nehemiah 13:6-8)
When Nehemiah returned to Jerusalem, he found that his old enemy Tobiah had been given a room in the temple. What does that story teach us about the dangers of compromise in our own hearts?