January 20, 2025
“Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt” (Genesis 41:46 ESV). Joseph is a christological type. His story foreshadows the life of Christ, so that when the time came, the people of God would recognize Jesus as the Messiah. The Scripture records that Joseph was thirty years old
January 17, 2025
“Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.” (Genesis 35:21 ESV). Jacob, whom God had renamed Israel, finally found a place to pitch his tent near Ephrath, which is called Bethlehem. The place was called the “tower of Eder,” or in the Hebrew, “Migdal-Eder,” which means “Tower of the Flock.” It
January 13, 2025
“And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!” (Genesis 28:12 ESV). On Jacob’s trip to Haran to find a wife, he had a vision from the Lord. As he
January 11, 2025
“Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre (Genesis 25:9 ESV). The last time Isaac and Ishmael were at peace may have been when they buried their father, Abraham. They buried him in the same tomb Abraham
January 9, 2025
‘So Abraham called the name of that place, “The LORD will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided.”’ (Genesis 22:14 ESV). Abraham named the place where he took Isaac to be sacrificed in obedience to the LORD’s command, “Jehovah-Jireh,” which is Hebrew for the
January 8, 2025
“For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him” (Genesis 18:19 ESV). The Lord chose Abraham and gave him a calling to “command”
January 7, 2025
‘When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless”‘ (Genesis 17:1 ESV). The Bible is a book for us, but not really about us. It is primarily a book about God. The Lord chooses to reveal Himself to Abram.
January 2, 2025
“So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate”
January 1, 2025
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1 ESV). It’s a new year and it can be a new “beginning” for us too. For the God that “created the heavens and the earth” is the same God today as He was yesterday. Just as He created all things in the beginning,
January 23, 2024
‘And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”’ (Genesis 47:9 ESV).