Let us go back to Genesis chapter 19 and we will continue the story here with Abraham and Lot. I am going to read the first eleven verses so that we have some sort of a background. Genesis 19:1-11 Now the two angels came to Sodom in the …
This series on the offerings has attempted to emphasize that Jesus Christ is the object of the sacrificial laws—He is the One described in them. He is the ideal of the whole burnt offering, the meal offering, and the peace …
The old Ambassador College Bible Correspondence Course on Passover (Lesson 33) exhorts the reader to study Psalm 22, which prophesies of Jesus Christ's suffering. In particular, Psalm 22:6 reads, "But I am a worm, and no man; a …

(29) Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father's will. (30) But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. (31) Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
The two instances of Jesus' comments about sparrows say much the same thing, although a few minor details are different. As Jesus often does, He uses an example that His contemporary audience would have easily understood. Vendors …
This time of the year provides the setting for the time of Jesus of Nazareth's death in Jerusalem as the Lamb of God "slain from the foundation of the world" (Revelation 13:8; see John 1:29). Through the intervening centuries, zealous yet misguided believers have attempted to pin the blame for His death on various parties, particularly upon the Jews and Pontius Pilate, the governor of Judea at the time (Matthew 27:2; Luke 3:1). Though both of these were instrumental in Jesus' condemnation and execution, their guilt is substantially no greater than anyone else's before or since because …
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