When Tamar posed as a prostitute in order to get Judah to sleep with her, he promised to pay her a goat. Tamar wanted some assurance. She didn’t care about the payment; if she got pregnant she would need to show that her pregnancy fell under the duty Judah’s family had to carry on the…
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Turning Tricks (Part 1)
Genesis 38 shows that God doesn’t function by the knowledge of good and evil. The Lord put Judah’s son, Er, to death because he was evil. This left his wife, Tamar, alone without a child or heir. Er’s brother, Onan, should’ve fathered a child with Tamar but didn’t. The Lord also put Onan to death….
Babylon Is Fallen!
We are going through Revelation in church. Last week we started chapter 17 about Babylon, “the notorious prostitute” John sees riding on the back of a scarlet beast (Rev. 17:3). John is told this whore “has an empire over the kings of the earth” (Rev. 17:18). The fact she rides the beast emphasizes this–the beast…
The Voice of One 