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What is the significance of Numbers 11:1–2?
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Verse: Numbers 11
The Lord was in the process of judging Israel by fire when Moses interceded in prayer “and the fire abated.” A common sense reading of the verse suggests that the fire would have continued had…
What is the significance of Numbers 14:11?
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Verse: Numbers 14
In the light of the Israelites’ relentless complaining the Lord says to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the…
What is the significance of Numbers 14:12–20?
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Verse: Numbers 14
In response to Israel’s bickering the Lord says “I will strike them with pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you [Moses] a nation greater and mightier than they” (vs. 12). Moses asks…
What is the significance of Numbers 16:20–35?
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Verse: Numbers 16
After Israel’s sin under the leadership of Korah, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Separate yourselves from this congregation, so that I may consume them in a moment” (vs. 21). Moses and Aaron pleaded…
What is the significance of Numbers 16:41–48?
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Verse: Numbers 16
The day following the Korah incident (see vs. 20–35), the Israelites rebelled against Moses again, this time because they blamed him for the death of those who were judged the day before (vs. 41). The…
What is the significance of Deuteronomy 8:2?
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Verse: Deuteronomy 8
Moses tells the Israelites that the Lord kept them in the desert forty years “in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his…
What is the significance of Deuteronomy 9:13–14, 18–20, 25?
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Verse: Deuteronomy 9
The Lord tells Moses “Let me alone that I may destroy them [the Israelites] and blot out their name from under heaven…” (vs. 14). Moses later says to the Israelites, “the Lord intended to destroy…
What is the significance of Deuteronomy 13:1–3?
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Verse: Deuteronomy 13
Moses tells the Israelites that God allowed false prophets to sometimes be correct because “the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you indeed love the Lord your God with all your heart…
What is the significance of Deuteronomy 30:19?
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Verse: Deuteronomy 30
After establishing the terms of the covenant he was entering into with Israel, the Lord says, “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death,…
What is the significance of Judges 2:20–3:5?
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Verse: Judges 2
The Lord did not provide any assistance in Israel’s battles, “In order to test Israel, whether or not they would take care to walk in the way of the Lord as their ancestors did” (vs….
What’s the signficance of Judges 10:6-17
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Verse: Judges 10
The Israelites rebelled against Yahweh and worshipped other gods. As a result, Yahweh withdrew his protection of them and “sold them into the hands of te Philistines and the Ammonites” (Judg. 10:6-7). The Israelites eventually…
What is the significance of Judges 10:13–16?
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Verse: Judges 10
The Israelites cry out to God because of their oppression from foreign rulers. The Lord refuses to deliver them because they have abandoned him (vs. 13–14). The Israelites repented, put away their foreign gods and…
What is the significance of 1 Samuel 2:27–31?
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Verse: 1 Samuel 2
Because Eli “scorned” God’s sacrifices and did not punish his sons for their vile behavior, the Lord says, “‘I promised that your house and your father’s house would minister before me forever.’ But now the…
What is the significance of 1 Samuel 13:13–14?
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Verse: 1 Samuel 13
Because of Saul’s rebellion, Samuel tells him, “The Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever but now your kingdom will not continue.” The biblical narrative depicting God’s dealings with Saul up to this…
What is the significance of 1 Samuel 15:10?
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Verse: 1 Samuel 15
In light of Saul’s sin the Lord says, “I regret that I made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me.” Common sense would suggest that one can only regret a decision one…
Huckabee on Amending the Constitution
Category: General
Well, you may have already heard about it. Huckabee publicly proclaimed that we need to amend the constitution to bring it into conformity with “God’s standards.” You can check out the minute and a half…
What is the Warfare Worldview?
Category: Essays
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Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
The warfare worldview is based on the conviction that our world is engaged in a cosmic war between a myriad of agents, both human and angelic, that have aligned themselves with either God or Satan….
Old Testament Support for the Warfare Worldview
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Rebuking Hostile Waters Satan plays a minor role in the Old Testament relative to the New Testament. Instead, the warfare worldview in the Old Testament is expressed in terms of God’s conflict with hostile waters,…
What is the warfare worldview?
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Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
The warfare worldview is based on the conviction that our world is engaged in a cosmic war between a myriad of agents, both human and angelic, that have aligned themselves with either God or Satan….
What is the significance of 1 Samuel 15:35?
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Verse: 1 Samuel 15
“…the Lord was sorry that he made Saul king over Israel.” (see 1 Sam. 15:12). Once again, the Lord expresses his regret over having made Saul king of Israel, an emotion which is inconsistent with…