Luke 2:7 She wrapped Him in cloths and placed Him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them. Jesus was born in a manger behind an unknown motel which belonged to an unnamed manager. The name or the address of the inn is not recorded, neither is the name of the...
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04 Dec 2020 – Betrothal – Part 5
1 Kings 16:31 Ahab also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him. Ahab married the Phoenician woman, Jezebel, the daughter of the King of Sidonians. The Phoenicians whose ancestors were the Canaanites, worshiped a swarm of gods and goddesses and the chief among them was...
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03 Dec 2020 – Betrothal – Part 4
1 Samuel 18:24 Then Saul replied, “Say this to David: ‘The king desires no other bride-price except a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies.'” Actually, Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines. When David the shepherd boy killed the giant Goliath with a rag and a rock,...
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02 Dec 2020 – Betrothal – Part 3
2 Corinthians 11:2 For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. If a wife converses and communicates secrets to a man other than the one she is married to, her husband will burn with jealousy. A third person between...
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01 Dec 2020 – Betrothal – Part 2
Genesis 24:53 Then the servant brought out gold and silver jewellery and articles of clothing and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave costly gifts to her brother and to her mother. Abraham sent his trusted servant Eleazar to find a bride for his son Isaac from his native land and his father’s household. He...
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30 Nov 2020 – Betrothal – Part 1
Genesis 29:20 Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her. The constitution of a family between a man and a woman was instituted by the Lord God in the garden of Eden. Genesis 2:18 The LORD God said, “It is not...
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29 Nov 2020 – Transits – Part 8
Nehemiah 2:6 Then the king… asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you get back?” It pleased the king to send me; so I set a time. Nehemiah was an exile from Judah, the cupbearer to the Persian King Artaxerxes. Nehemiah held a very esteemed secular position in the palace where...
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28 Nov 2020 – Transits – Part 7
John 4:6 Jesus, tired as He was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. Jesus was travelling north from Judea to Galilee and took a transit to have a rest break at Sychar, the Samaritan town. It was very unusual for Jews to have dealings with the Samaritans. During the...
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27 Nov 2020 – Transits – Part 6
Luke 24:13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. On the victorious day on which Jesus was resurrected from the dead, two disciples Cleopas and his friend were on a journey to Emmaus. It is possible that these disciples were from the village...
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26 Nov 2020 – Transits – Part 5
Luke 10: 30 A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. In the journey of life there will be people who will hop on and hop off at different stages. There will be...