Introduction Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran (Genesis 12:4). He was 86 years old when the son Ishmael was born of Hagar, the servant girl (Genesis 16:15-16). He had waited some 25 years for the fulfilment of… Read More ›
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Abram’s Faith Tested and Growing (Genesis 12-13)
1. Introduction There are many people including some Christians who think that Genesis 1-11 is a myth. They swallow the world’s evolutionary view. These events are important to understand how life, sin and death came into the world. We find… Read More ›
The Greate Flood (Genesis 6-8)
1, Introduction The Genesis Flood can be seen as a reset in many ways back to Genesis 1:2 –“Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering… Read More ›
The Unbelief of Cain and Seth’s Descendants (Genesis 4-5)
1. Introduction Sin has caused our relationships to be cold and distant. This applies to God and to the relationship with fellow human beings. Adam and Eve have children. The names of children usually had some bearing on the character… Read More ›
Moses leaves for Egypt (Exodus 4:22-26)
The journey to Egypt will not be without incident. Giving the Firstborn (4:22-23) God gives a snapshot of what will happen in Egypt before it happens. The giving of the firstborn is an example of how reality works. Egypt has… Read More ›
The Calling of Moses and Aaron (Exodus 4:10-16)
Moses asks to be excused (4:10-12) It seems that Moses’ excuse was not justified. Some 40 years before this, Moses was not slow of speech and slow of tongue. In Acts 7:22, it says Moses was learned in all the wisdom of… Read More ›
Moses and the Women at the Well (2:16-25)
Moses is on the run from Pharoah and heads into desert for what will be 40 years but first he will go to a well. The Midianites are not Israelites, but they are strangers. However, they are the right distance… Read More ›
Moses kills an Egyptian – Exodus 2:11-15
1. Moses is a Prince of Egypt Moses grew up amid the splendour of Pharoah’s court. We are told in Acts 7:22-23 that Moses was 40 years old when this happened and was a prince of Egypt. Moses would have… Read More ›
The Early Years of Moses – Exodus 2:1-10
The Birth of Moses (2:1-2) Moses is born at a time when newborn Hebrew babies were to be thrown into the Nile to drown. He was a handsome boy, and his mother hid him for three months until she could… Read More ›
Multiplication through Oppression – Exodus 1:12
1. Pharaoh oppresses the Hebrews Pharaoh wants to control the Hebrew population by enslaving and working them with hard labour on his building projects, but it has the opposite effect. The population is multiplying and the harder the oppression of… Read More ›
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