Scripture Snippets

  400 years.  400 years was how long it was that there was utter silence in Israel until the birth of Christ.  God had given the promises in the Old Testament and then waited.  Why did He do this?  God’s timing is always perfect.  God’s timing is perfect and He is the same today as He was then.  Many wonder why Jesus has not come back yet.  He will.  In the Father’s timing.  He is slow because of grace and I thank my God for that.  We have to understand though that it is His timing and just because it’s been a long time, it doesn’t negate the promises He gives.  God keeps His promises.  Just like He kept the promise of His first coming, He will keep the promise of His second coming. It’s customary to think of Jesus’ birth as a sublime moment of peace and tranquillity under a crisp, clear night sky in Bethlehem. Some of the best-known Christmas carols are steeped in this quiet atmosphere: Silent Night; O Holy Night; It Came upon a Midnight Clear; O Little Town of Bethlehem . But the Gos

  Exodus 12:1-28 12 Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: ‘On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. 4 And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man’s need you shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6 Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. 7 And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. 8 Then they shall eat the fles

  Genesis 49:8-12 8 “Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise; Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; Your father’s children shall bow down before you. 9 Judah is a lion’s whelp; From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He bows down, he lies down as a lion; And as a lion, who shall rouse him? 10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes; And to Him shall be the obedience of the people. 11 Binding his donkey to the vine, And his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, He washed his garments in wine, And his clothes in the blood of grapes. 12 His eyes are darker than wine, And his teeth whiter than milk. Have you ever looked into your family tree?  With today’s current technology it’s amazing how much easier it has become to dive in deep to your family history and see who was a part.  It’s interesting to find the history of our families and find out where we came from.  Genesis 49 begins to shed light on the family

  Genesis 3:15 15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.” As we are looking at the advent season and reflecting on the first coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, let us look back at the very first Messianic prophecy of the Scriptures, Genesis 3:15.  As some of you may know if you have read this chapter before, this recalls the account of the fall of man.  Adam and Eve had sinned against God by partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  When approached by God, they continued in their sin by passing the blame onto the next person with Adam even boldly blaming it on God Himself.  When Adam and Eve realized they had sinned, they realized their nakedness and attempted to “cover up” their own sin with fig leaves.  Of course, this was not appropriate enough, another covering had to be made.   Adam and Eve both knew what the ultimate punishment was, death.  God however upholds tha

  As we begin the season of Advent , we wait for the celebration of the birth of the Messiah.  During these set of devotionals, I’m not in per se going to keep up with what is normally taught in some form of catechism or tradition.  In fact, I’m rather distraught on how the Church has recently been teaching Advent and has made it more a “rigid traditional” system that really loses all meaning when it is taught like that.  It has become something that has limited itself to only defined reading and some archaic worship centered around a wreath of evergreen and colored candles or even just some chocolates that your kids get to eat every day. It just becomes another ordinance and becomes stale to the Christian sadly enough.  Now, if your church recognized that, please don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that your church is wrong.  Those things would be fine if the subject was expounded and taught properly by more and more churches, hopefully it is taught well in your church, for the majorit