For 40 Days – Day 21: Man’s End: Context

Key Episode Scripture: 1 Kings chapters 18 and 19 and 2 Kings chapter 2 After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.” (1 Kings 18:1 ESVUK) People have a problem with God. That problem is evil. […]

For 40 Days – Day 16: Intimidation: Context

Key Episode Scripture: 1 Samuel chapters 16-18 Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul. (1 Samuel 18:12 ESVUK) Fear not. This instruction is common in God’s interactions with those He called. Indeed, the apostle Paul would encourage his protégé Timothy that God didn’t give him the spirit of fear. This […]

For 40 Days – Day 15: The Scouts’ Reports: Consequences

Key Episode Scripture: Numbers chapters 13-14 “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land. If the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey. Only do not rebel against the Lord. And do not fear the people of the land, for they […]

For 40 Days – Day 14: The Scouts’ Reports: Conclusions

Key Episode Scripture: Numbers chapters 13-14 How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them? (Numbers 13:11 ESVUK) They were on the brink of the Promised Land. It was within reach. They could even pop over for 40 […]

For 40 Days – Day 13: The Scouts’ Reports: Concepts

Key Episode Scripture: Numbers chapters 13-14 I, the Lord, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die. (Numbers 13:17-20 ESVUK) Twelve men were sent to spy on the land God promised to […]

For 40 Days – Day 12: The Scouts’ Reports: Content

Key Episode Scripture: Numbers chapters 13-14 “Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country, and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many, and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that […]

For 40 Days – Day 11: The Scouts’ Reports: Context

Key Episode Scripture: Numbers chapters 13-14 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.” (Numbers 13:1-2 ESVUK) “Are we there yet?” This is a typical […]

For 40 Days – Day 9: Covenant Renewed: Conclusions

Key Episode Scripture: Exodus chapters 32-34 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. (Exodus 34:29 ESVUK) Why did Moses spend a second […]

For 40 Days – Day 8: Covenant Renewed: Concepts

Key Episode Scripture: Exodus chapters 32-34 Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent. (Exodus 33:11 ESVUK) Moses spends 40 days without bread or water in […]

For 40 Days – Day 5: The Clean Slate Initiative: Consequences

Key Episode Scripture: Genesis chapters 6-9 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. (Genesis 9:14-15 ESVUK) The […]