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  • Biblical Principle #151: Israel Commanded to Leave Sinai (without God)

    Biblical Principles List Principle God instructed Israel to leave Mount Sinai, but He would not accompany them. Explanation Through the intercession of Moses, GOD turned away from destroying the Israelites for their idolatry with the golden calf. GOD told Moses it was time for Israel to leave Mount Sinai, but there was a big consequence…

  • Biblical Principle #138: God Sent His Angel to Accompany Israel

    Biblical Principles List Principle God sent His angel to accompany Israel to Canaan. Explanation As GOD concluded His initial message to Moses at Mount Sinai, after having spoken the Ten Commandments to all of Israel, GOD told Moses: 20 “Behold, I send My Angel before your face, to keep you in the way and to…

  • Biblical Principle #59: Giants Return After the Flood

    Biblical Principles List Principle Giant humans (Nephilim) arise after the flood. Explanation We have previously established how, before the flood, human DNA was corrupted when angels married and bore children through human women. These original giants, known as Nephilim, were evil, violent warriors. Their wickedness, Scripture indicates, was a major influence in the spread of…

  • December 31 – Revelation (part 5)

    Reading Rev. 19:6-22:21 Devotional Today we conclude our study of both the book of Revelation and the Bible. What a beautiful and fitting end to GOD’s story! (This history is, after all, HIS-story.) Today’s text begins with the continuation of the celebration by those in heaven because of GOD’s defeat of Babylon the Great, which…

  • December 30 – Revelation (part 4)

    Reading Rev. 14:1-19:5 Devotional Today’s reading is full of symbolism and figurative language that can be quite difficult to understand. The text begins with the 144,000 redeemed souls—first mentioned in Rev. 7—praising Jesus with a new song that only they could learn. There was the sound of harpists playing harps which accompanied the song. GOD’s…

  • December 29 – Revelation (part 3)

    Reading Rev. 8:7-13:18 Devotional The seven angels sounded their trumpets, one after another, and various events occurred following each trumpet sound. Each of these events was some form of suffering or death for people on the earth, and the descriptions of these events closely resemble the ten plagues GOD sent on Pharaoh in Moses’ days.…

  • December 28 – Revelation (part 2)

    Reading Rev. 4:1-8:6 Devotional Chapters 4-5 of Revelation are my favorite passages in all the Bible—and the text from which the name of my Web site (chasingalion.com) originated. In these two chapters, we get a glimpse into the beauty and majesty that is present in heaven, in GOD’s throne room. The vision begins with John…

  • December 23 – The Roles of Christ

    Reading Heb. 1:1-6:12 Devotional Today we begin a three-day look at the book of Hebrews. This letter gets its name from the fact that it is clearly written to Christians with a Jewish background. We do not know the writer, the exact time it was written, nor the exact people to whom it was written.…

  • November 28 – 1 Thessalonians: Details of Jesus’ Return, Judgment

    Reading 1 Thess. 1:1-5:28 Devotional In around 51 A.D., Paul, Silas and Timothy wrote a letter to the Christians in Thessalonica, which was one of the cities they had visited and preached Jesus on the Second Missionary Journey. The letter deals with a number of topics, and its purpose is to encourage the brethren there…

  • November 24 – Salvation Spreads to All Nations

    Reading  Acts 9:32-12:25 Devotional To this point, the message of salvation offered by Jesus’ shed blood had been preached only to the Jews. In today’s reading, we find out how GOD begins extending the good news to people from other nations. It begins with a Roman centurion named Cornelius. Cornelius lived in the city of…