Lisa Loraine Baker
The Old Testament sacrifices show us it’s the blood which makes atonement. The life (blood) of the animal is poured out in its death, which brings peace between God and the people (Leviticus 17:11). J...
Meg Bucher
God’s ancient people followed religious laws for every way of their lives, from personal to societal, even in the way they worshiped God! When the curtain, which represented so much of that, tore in t...
Michael Jakes
Christ in essence is saying here, that not only are we to be people who mean what we say, we are also to be people who keep what we say. If we have to resort to an oath to uphold or reinforce our word...
Bethany Verrett
The ark of the covenant is more than Biblical history; it is mythical. Elevated to soaring heights of fantasy and legend after disappearing centuries ago, people have long sought to discover the tru...
Clarence L. Haynes Jr.
Have you ever stopped to think why was it necessary for Jesus to come in the flesh? I am going to present to you seven reasons which I believe will help to answer this question....
Lisa Loraine Baker
A scapegoat in the Bible is “the goat that goes away” (escape + goat). In essence, a scapegoat in the Bible is one who makes atonement for another (or redeems them). ...
Micah Maddox
God is all powerful and all knowing. He is everywhere and His hand controls all things in heaven and on earth. But there are still a couple of things that, blessedly, God cannot or will not do. Let's ...
Michael Jakes
“But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you’” (Mark 16:7).Here we see one of the most comforting passages in the entire B...
Bethany Verrett
The Bible is inexhaustible, and studying it under the guidance of the Holy Spirit can reveal truths and make connections someone had never noticed before. Throughout God’s Word He reveals bits and pie...
D.L. Moody
I often rejoice that Christ did not say this to the woman at the well, nor to that woman who was a sinner. If He had said it to them, people would have said, "Oh, that poor woman needed to be converte...
Stephen Baker
Along with their father and other brothers, Nadab and Abihu underwent a meticulous seven-day cleansing/consecration ceremony. This assured they might be presented as holy before the Lord and fit for s...
Rev. Kyle Norman
Mike Leake
For the Aaronic priesthood, the ephod was given elaborate detail. This attention to detail and its costly production is an indication that this was one of the most important items among the priestly g...
Dawn Wilson
There have been numerous messiah figures throughout history, but only Jesus was the Son of God who came to seek and save the lost and provide the way to eternal life with His Father in Heaven.It’s imp...
Britt Mooney
When the feast of Pentecost arrived, “tongues of fire” descended upon each disciple (Acts 2:3). What exactly were these tongues of fire?...
Bethany Verrett
David was a shepherd and a king, but he was also a prophet. There were prophecies the Messiah would fulfill throughout the Book of Psalms. They were highly specific, and the Lord Jesus would explain h...
Blair Parke
The temple curtain or veil was meant to be a wall to protect God from those who were deemed not worthy of His presence. It continued in this way until Jesus’s sacrifice. ...
Dr. Ray Pritchard
Annette Griffin
The Ophanim described in Ezekiel’s vision are impossible to define apart from the full scope of the revelation. In Ezekiel 1 we find a young priest on the precipice of his new calling....
Jennifer Slattery
The Temple, which first existed as a portable Tabernacle and later anchored first century Jewish life, provided a holy space for humanity to encounter the living God and experience a taste of heaven h...