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Offences

Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! Luke 17:1

The word offend is the verb form of a Greek noun that means “stumbling block” or snare. The term refers to the trigger which springs a trap. In the New Testament it means anything that hinders someone from doing what is right or cause one to sin or fall away from the faith. Jesus emphatically warns that stumbling blocks are sure to come our way. Nonetheless, He condemned those who put stumbling blocks in the way of believers. He said that death by drowning would be preferable to offending “one of these little ones” in the faith. Read More

God Will Deliver His People

And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt – Exodus 12:13.

The Passover commemorated God’s deliverance of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, but it also pointed to the coming of the Deliverer and Savior of all people. The Passover lamb had to be without blemish, a male and young. It had to be examined four days from the selection to the sacrifice, and it had to be slain in public. None of its bones was to be broken, finally, its blood on the Israelites’ doorposts was a sign that God should pass over and not destroy that family’ s firstborn. Read More

Unity

It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when thy lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, For He is good, for His mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord. So that the priest could not stand (continue) to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God – 2nd Chronicles 5:13-14.

Solomon, and the elders of Israel, had done what they could to grace the solemnity of the introduction of the ark; but God, by testifying His acceptance of what they did, put the greatest honor upon it. The cloud of glory that filled the house beautified it more than all the gold with which it was overlaid or the precious stones it was garnished. Read More