Tag: Through the Bible
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Day 055: “My Father Was a Rabbi, and His Father Before Him…” (Numbers 3-4)
In a Jerusalem hotel elevator, a rabbi told me he never “answered a call” to ministry — it was simply who he was, son of a rabbi, grandson of a rabbi. Numbers 3–4 reminds us that for the Levites, serving the Lord wasn’t just a job; it was their family identity. What if we made…
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Day 030: “God Saw, and God Knew” (Exodus 2:25)
Exodus 2:25 offers a quiet turning point in Israel’s story. After generations of suffering and silence, Scripture says simply: “God saw, and God knew.” This is not distant awareness, but intimate, covenantal knowledge—the assurance that God is present even when deliverance has not yet come.
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Day 028: There I Will Make You a Great Nation (Genesis 46:1-3)
Genesis 46 marks a turning point in God’s promise to Abraham’s family. For the first time, God reveals not just what He will do, but where—forming His people into a great nation not in the promised land, but in exile. Long before Israel ever arrives home, God teaches them how to live faithfully in the…
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Day 016: Abram the Crosser-Over
The first time Abram is called “the Hebrew,” the Bible isn’t naming his ethnicity so much as his story. He is the crosser-over—the man who passed out of death and into promise. And in Genesis 15, we discover that the God who calls us to cross is also the God who crosses for us.
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Day 014: Why Does Job Mention Greek Constellations? (Job 38:31-32)
When God speaks to Job out of the whirlwind, He suddenly points to the stars—naming the Pleiades, Orion, and the Mazzaroth. Those familiar names open a window into how God’s unchanging Word is faithfully translated so each generation can understand it.
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Day 007: What Job Knew (and Didn’t Know) About the Afterlife (Job 14:13-14)
Job lived long before resurrection had a name, yet he could not accept that death was the end of the story. In Job 14, he asks a question that Scripture will spend centuries answering: If a man dies, shall he live again?
