Introduction Throughout this study, we have focused on historical narratives which tell complete stories about past individuals and groups. This includes the Creation account, the Fall, the adventures of Abraham, and the Exodus to Conquest of the promised land. The… Continue Reading →
Introduction The Israelites were so close to entering the land. Close enough to dispatch spies, but also close enough to cause fear: this was really happening — to what extent could they trust God? How much more simple was living… Continue Reading →
Introduction Once again, we draw our lesson from Leviticus, but this time chapter 26. Leviticus often reads as an unordered collection of practices and can be difficult to make sense of the ordering. Our current passage, however, clearly builds on… Continue Reading →
Introduction We have begun to see the beginning of God’s fulfillment of the promises he made to Abraham. The Israelites remain at the foot of Mt. Sinai receiving the Law (and, as we’ll discuss next week, taking part in the… Continue Reading →
Introduction When are God’s promises realized? We have read the hints of a reversal of the Fall in Genesis 3, but these remain unfulfilled at the time of Abram’s being called from his father’s house. How many generations passed with… Continue Reading →
Introduction In our last lesson, we left Noah and his family on dry land, populating and filling the earth, yet the fallenness of humans remained. Still, God had accepted this. His rainbow was the enduring sign of his commitment to… Continue Reading →
Introduction Humans have been expelled from the Garden, but God does not abandon them. While we will pass over the record of the effects of a Fallen World and its consequent aggrandizement under the decisions of Cain (envy leading to… Continue Reading →