Imagine being Daniel, having seen your nation invaded and defeated, and knowing that the temple, the center of your...
One of the most famous prayers in all the Old Testament is in Daniel 9. Having learned from reading the prophet...
So much of the writings of the prophets consisted of appeals to faithfulness. And not just faithfulness in general,...
The book of Deuteronomy had been rediscovered during the reign of King Josiah, and it was under Josiah’s rule that...
Especially clear in Nehemiah 9 is the theme of God as the Creator and the One who alone should be worshiped. He made...
In the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign, something happened that, at least for a while, changed the history of God’s...
Join Sabbath School host Eric Flickinger and Sabbath School Bible Study Guide editor Clifford Goldstein, as they...
Many times the later writers of the Old Testament, such as the prophets, referred back to the book of Deuteronomy,...
Since when have wealth and material abundance fostered the Christian virtues of self-denial and self-sacrifice? In...
All through the Old Testament the Lord constantly brought the minds of the people back to the Exodus, their...
Amid this prosperity, Moses tells them to remember that it was the Lord alone who had done this for them and not to...
The Lord tells the people, each one individually, to guard themselves, lest they forget. This is not “forget” so much...
Moses points the people back through all history, even to the Creation itself, and asks them, rhetorically, if...
The first time the word “remember” appears in the Bible is in Genesis 9, when—after the worldwide flood—the Lord told...
How easy it is to forget what God has done for us. This week, as expressed in Deuteronomy, we’ll look at this...
How should the reality of human sinfulness, even our own sinfulness, keep us humble before others (in that we don’t...
We are sinners, and though Christ came to save sinners, we must repent of our sins. And that repentance—whether as a...
Ultimately, they had to make the choice to return to Him, and to obey Him, with all their hearts. In one sense, the...
They fell into the sins that God had warned them about. And yet, even then, God was willing to take them back if,...
God’s grace is amazing. Even after they fall into the horrific evil of idolatry, even after they have received the...
Biblical Hebrew, like most languages, is sprinkled with idioms, when specific words are used to mean something...
Because we are sinful, repentance should be a central part of our Christian existence. And this week, we will see the...
Scripture teaches that our own free choice of life or death, blessing or cursing, good or evil, determines which...
Central to the covenant relationship between the Lord and Israel was worship. What made the Israelites different from...
Deuteronomy 30 opens with the Lord telling His people what would happen if they repented and turned away from their...
Deuteronomy 30 begins with a promise that even if they fall into disobedience and are punished with exile, God will...
In the end, there is no middle ground for us human beings. Before the great controversy is completely over, sin,...
The “tree of life,” which Scripture says gives immortality, and that first appears in the first book of the Bible,...
