Last week, we explored God’s patience with us as sinners. We can think, ‘hey, we are not as bad as that guy or those people,’ but the truth is ALL sin ends in death. One of the hardest things for people to come to grips with in our world today is who they are. Men […]

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What a journey we have traveled to get here! Loss, love, intrigue, loyalty and suspense have brought us to this point of the story. This story, like many in the Old Testament, such as Hosea, tells us the story of Israel. She often runs from God, looking for other gods, looking for answers and the […]

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Last week, we began to see this account of the book of Ruth. As mentioned, this is a lovely love story that most of us have read. It is a sweet story that tugs at our heartstrings, and rightly so. The Gentile outcast comes back to Bethlehem and gets married to the wealthy, kind, and […]

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We took a break from Jesus in the Old Testament, but we are back, and this journey will take us through the book of Ruth. We will take each chapter and explore the lesson or lessons to be learned. In chapters 3 & 4, we will begin to explore the character of the ‘Kinsman Redeemer’ […]

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Judges 2:1-6, 6:11-27 “Then the Angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said: ‘I led you up from Egypt and brought you to the land of which I swore to your fathers; and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you. 2 And you shall make no covenant with […]

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Exodus 13:21 I hope that you are enjoying this journey about Jesus in the Old Testament. Recently, I have been seeing a few short videos where this fellow reads Old Testament passages like Isaiah 2, 9, 53, or Zechariah 12 to Jewish people, and they assume, because it mentions a Son, that it is the […]

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Genesis 14:19:20 “Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High. And he blessed him and said: ‘Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth; And blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.’ And he gave […]

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