Posts from February 2023

Most people have some sort of streaming service in this period in time and everything out there has advertisements. Whether it’s coming from our phone or TV while we’re watching movies, shows, listening to music or playing games, very dark content is delivered straight to our minds through ads. This content glorifies Satan, demons, blaspheming of God, torturing people, doing hardcore drugs, having inappropriate conversations with children, having inappropriate relationships as adults, etc. Honestly, it’s started to overwhelm me lately.…

Around the year 1050 B.C. the children of Israel made the most tragic and unwise decision in their history, by placing themselves on the “broad…way that leads to destruction” (Matthew 5:13b). The prophet Samuel (and Israel’s last righteous judge) had grown old and he had passed on his duties to his sons, Joel and Abijah (cf. 1 st Samuel 8:1-2). Holy Writ declares that these two men were corrupt because they “did not walk in his [Samuel’s] ways; they turned…

Eight times, Moses notes the “grumbling” of the people (2,7–twice,8–thrice,9. 12). As they begin their migration from Egypt to Canaan, they come to a place called the Wilderness of Sin. “Sin has no relation to the English word ‘sin.’ It is simply the name of a place and possibly has some connection with the word ‘Sinai’” (Osborn & Hatton, USB, 384). However, Israel sins in this part of their desert sojourn. Grumbling (murmuring and complaining) is warned against in both…