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The Mountain of the LORD
Mount Moriah — the Mountain of the LORD. More than 4,000 years of recorded history have been played out on that particular spot, a location specifically chosen by God to accomplish His sovereign purposes. I have often tried to contemplate all that has happened there. The works of God are so overwhelmingly incomprehensible! This video short…
Read MoreThe Lost Sheep
The metaphor of a lost sheep can help us to understand the original sin. Eve was the first sheep to go astray. She was in a perfect relationship with God when she willfully chose to leave that perfect life and believe a lie–that she could become like her Shepherd. Because Eve believed she could take…
Read MoreThe Walls of Jericho
The Bible tells us a story of an ancient city, Jericho, whose walls came tumbling down by God’s supernatural power. When archaeologists excavated the tel of Jericho thousands of years later, they unearthed a collapsed city wall. Of all the cities that have been excavated in the lands of the Bible, the only one with a collapsed city wall…
Read MoreShechem: Two Mountains and a Deep Well
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” (Matthew 5:17) Today, the ruins of biblical Shechem lie between two mountains and next to a church that is built over an ancient well. These two mountains, Mount Gerizim and…
Read MoreThe Topography of Jerusalem
Jerusalem and the culminating biblical events that happened there have dramatically shaped world history. Jerusalem’s geography and topography have dramatically affected its own history, determining where people lived, from what direction invading armies attacked, and where the city expanded over time. Today’s video short covers the topography of this biblical area as it was in…
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