The Ark of the Testimony: A living soul
In Exodus chapter 25, very specific instructions are given to build a unique piece of furniture. Here we read a description of a box — and yet this box is the center of not...
Ambient change
When the children of Israel came out of Egypt they had little more than a concept of who God was. Though they had experienced miraculous signs and wonders both in captivity and in the...
Upholding Glory
Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, / … you shall take from them: gold… / … and acacia wood, / … / And let them make a sanctuary for Me that I may dwell...
Offering for the building
When we think about ourselves as human beings, we would hardly consider ourselves as a structure, object or place. Yet the Bible describes God’s people in such a way: as a dwelling place, His...
Tangible salvation in God’s apportioned time
When we think about Daniel in the Old Testament, we may be very quick to think of him as a great figure — bold and powerful in the world; appearing wise to see and...
Fasting for the spiritual warfare
So I set my face toward the Lord God to seek Him in prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. / … / In those days I, Daniel, had been mourning for...
The essential diet
And the king appointed to them a daily portion from the king’s choice provision and from the wine that he drank, and appointed that they should be brought up for three years so that...
What does it mean to be noble?
Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up. / And they saw the God of Israel, and under His feet there was something like a paved...
A divine life with a divine purpose
Human life is very busy; day in and day out, we spend our time working, thinking, pursuing — all towards creating our own definition of living. But in the midst of this bustle, do...