This post is also available as a podcast: https://anchor.fm/teague-mckamey/episodes/Mountains-and-Covenants-e1noksl *** In Deuteronomy chapter 27, Moses instructs Israel on what to do after entering the land. They are to write the law on stones covered in plaster and build an altar. Both of these are placed on Mount Ebal. Representatives from half the tribes stand on…
Category: The Law
The Command within Us
This post is also available as a podcast: https://anchor.fm/teague-mckamey/episodes/The-Command-within-Us-e1m3fn1 *** “You must carefully follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase, and may enter and take possession of the land the Lord swore to your fathers” (Deut. 8:1). In a previous post, I said the history of Israel…
No Mercy, No Treaty
This post is also available as a podcast: https://anchor.fm/teague-mckamey/episodes/No-Mercy–No-Treaty-e1khe24 *** In Deuteronomy, the Lord talks with Israel about driving out the inhabitants of the land He has promised them. He describes the inhabitants as “seven nations stronger and more numerous” but tells Israel to remember what He did to Egypt (Deut. 7:1, 17-18). Based on…
Disgrace (Part One)
The law commands that unclean things be separated from clean. After blood from the sacrifice was taken into the most holy place on the Day of Atonement, the animal’s body was taken outside the camp and burned (Lev. 16:27; Heb. 13:11). The animal (who was innocent) took on the spiritual filth of the people. Yet…
Perfect Priest
“So the previous command is annulled because it was weak and unprofitable (for the law perfected nothing), but a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God” (Heb. 7:18-19). “For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, a…
The Greater Message
The writer of Hebrews warns us to pay even more attention to what we’ve heard so we don’t drift away. What have we heard? “God has spoken to us in His Son” (Heb. 1:2). We must not drift from the Son, God’s message. People were punished for rejecting the message of prophets and angels. Yet…
Divine Nature Ancestry (DNA)
Genesis 24 finds Abraham getting on in years. He asks his head servant “who managed all he owned” to find a wife for his son, Isaac. Abraham insists his servant not find a wife for Isaac among the Canaanites; he asks him to return to the land of his family to find a wife for…
Terror and Darkness
After promising Abram descendants, the Lord restated His promise to give Abram the land of Canaan. Abram asked, “Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?” (Gen. 15:8). The Lord answered by telling Abram to sacrifice a three year old cow, a three year old female goat, a three year old ram, a turtledove, and a…
One Seed
Just before telling us about the tower of Babel, Genesis provides Shem’s genealogy. Just after the tower of Babel, Shem’s lineage is repeated. Why? There is an important difference in the way Shem’s lineage is stated the second time. Here’s a sample: “These are the family records of Shem. Shem lived 100 years and fathered…
Trajectories
Genesis 11 tells of the tower of Babel. Mankind had one language and was united in building a city. The city’s main attraction would be a tower reaching to heaven. They planned to use fired bricks held together by mortar. It was to be an impressive, impregnable structure. By building such a tower, the people…
The Voice of One 