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dave57pope
Dec 20, 20231 min read
Burning Borders
Now the people began complaining openly before the LORD about hardship. When the LORD heard, His anger burned, and fire from the LORD...
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dave57pope
Dec 19, 20231 min read
Honest Pursuit of Biblical Truth
Then even Simon himself believed. - Acts 8:13 Simon was a man who amazed the Samaritans with his feats of magic. Highly revered and...
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dave57pope
Dec 18, 20231 min read
The Need for Clear Direction
When you sound short blasts a second time, the camps pitched on the south are to set out. Short blasts are to be sounded for them to set...
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dave57pope
Dec 17, 20232 min read
When Treated Unjustly
When the members of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him. But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit,...
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dave57pope
Dec 16, 20231 min read
His Retirement Plan
In regard to the Levites: From 25 years old or more, a man enters the service in the work at the tent of meeting. But at 50 years old he...
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dave57pope
Dec 15, 20231 min read
Time With The Teacher
But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking. - Acts 6:10 Stephen, as one of the seven men raised up...
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dave57pope
Dec 14, 20231 min read
With Him?
When Moses entered the tent of meeting to speak with YHWH, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the...
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dave57pope
Dec 13, 20232 min read
Overcoming Conflict
In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because...
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dave57pope
Dec 12, 20232 min read
On Guidance
Now when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with Him [YHWH], he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that...
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dave57pope
Dec 11, 20231 min read
No Middle Ground
"And now, I tell you, stay away from these men and leave them alone. For if this plan or this work is of men, it will be overthrown; but...
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dave57pope
Dec 10, 20231 min read
Blessed To Bring Glory
In this way they will put My name on the Israelites, and I will bless them. - Numbers 6:27 God gave Israel many instructions before they...
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dave57pope
Dec 9, 20231 min read
What Truly Matters
Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than human beings!” – Acts 5:29 I think we can all appreciate the holy...
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dave57pope
Dec 8, 20231 min read
On Tolerance
The LORD instructed Moses: "Speak to the Israelites and tell them: 'When a man or woman makes a special vow, a Nazirite vow, to...
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dave57pope
Dec 7, 20232 min read
An Early Church Model?
All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they...
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dave57pope
Dec 6, 20231 min read
Sacred and Holy?
The Kohathites are not to go in and look at the holy objects, even for a moment, or they will die. - Numbers 4:20 God gave the Kohathites...
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dave57pope
Dec 5, 20231 min read
Make Us Courageous
And now, Lord, consider their threats, and grant that Your slaves may speak Your message with complete boldness, while You stretch out...
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dave57pope
Dec 4, 20231 min read
What's Your Part?
The Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the Israelite community....
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dave57pope
Dec 3, 20231 min read
Whodunit?
When Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Or why do you stare at us, as though by our own...
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dave57pope
Dec 2, 20231 min read
God Made a Way
No one who may have been set apart among men shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death. - Leviticus 27:29 Within the context of...
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dave57pope
Dec 1, 20231 min read
There Is No Key
And every day they devoted themselves [to meeting] together in the temple complex, and broke bread from house to house. They ate their...
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