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A Preview of Things to Come…
Illustrated Manners and Customs of the Bible says, “Hospitality, kindness to strangers, and ‘especially unto them who are of the household of faith’ (Gal. 6:10), had roots in the Old Testament and...
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Rain
Let us now fear the LORD our God, Who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. The Weather Channel provides a valuable service by forecasting storms and their likely severity....
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Bread
The first Biblical reference to a woman doing specific work (other than childbirth) refers to a task done four thousand years ago. Abraham entertained unexpected guests, and Sarah made cakes for them....
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Barley: the Grain of the Poor
Barley was the grain most commonly used to make into flour for bread in Iron Age Israel. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Barley was a primary food grain in ancient Israel. The Israelites planted barley in...
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Land of Milk and Honey
Manna was the perfect food for wilderness travel. It didn’t need cultivation, refrigeration or preservation. It was free. It could be eaten as porridge or bread. Manna was healthful. Every morning it...
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Pomegranates
Jewish high priest wearing a hoshen, and Levites in ancient Judah. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue…and upon its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue,...
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Wheat
‘To everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food,’ and thus it was so. Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good...
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Locusts
After 400 silent years, God was speaking through a new prophet who called people to repentance and promised someone greater to come.[1] Before John the Baptist was born, an angel told his father...
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The Story of Ruth: New Beginnings
But Ruth said: “Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn back from following after you; for wherever you go, I will go; and wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your...
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The Story of Ruth: The Kinsman Redeemer
Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek security for you, that it may be well with you? Now Boaz, whose young women you were with, is he not our relative? In fact, he...
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