Hebrews 9:1, 6-7 Now even the first covenant had regulations of divine worship and the earthly sanctuary…     6 Now when these things have been so prepared, the priests are continually entering the outer tabernacle performing the divine worship, 7 but into the second, only the high priest enters once a year, not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people commi...  Read More

Hebrews 9:1-5 Now even the first covenant had regulations of divine worship and the earthly sanctuary. 2 For there was a tabernacle prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the sacred bread; this is called the holy place. 3 Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, 4 having a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant c...  Read More

Genesis 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.Now if Nephilim is translated “giants,” the fact that they lived “afterwards,” that is after the Flood, can indeed be accounted for in the OT itself. First, there later existed th...  Read More

Genesis 6:22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.            What exactly did Noah do that God commanded? Plenty. In a world full of wickedness, Noah preached righteousness (2 Pet. 2:5). That in itself is something, especially in light of the fact that after 120 years of preaching repentance, apparently no one believed. For when Noah entered the ark, it was the sa...  Read More

Genesis 6:9 Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.            Throughout the Bible, when Noah is mentioned, he is remembered as righteous—one who believed God and lived to serve Him. Around 2000 years after Noah lived, God appointed Ezekiel as one of His spokesmen, ministering to Israel while they were in Babylonian captivity outside of Israel. On one particular occ...  Read More

Genesis 6:8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh (Legacy Standard Bible).The man Noah was a righteous man, born 1056 years after his ancestor Adam who was born on the sixth day of God’s creation (1:26-31). People clearly lived much longer on the pre-Flood earth than they do today, perhaps because the environment allowed for such. Noah himself lived for 950 years (9:29), a typical lifespan in...  Read More

Genesis 6:5-6 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.            Though God once “saw” His perfect creation and called it “very good” (1:31), now He is grieved by what He “saw,” for though man was once si...  Read More

Hebrews 8:10-13 “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 And they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen, and everyone his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know Me, from the least to the great...  Read More

Hebrews 8:8-9 For finding fault with them, He says, “Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will effect a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; 9 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in My covenant, and I did not care for them,” says the Lor...  Read More

Jeremiah 31:31 “The time is coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.” (Part 2)The first provision of God’s promise to Abraham was the land of Canaan. The second part of God’s promise to Abraham was the special “seed” that would come from him and form a great nation. Abraham had children, but only one, Isaac, was the child of...  Read More

Jeremiah 31:31 “The time is coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.” (Part 1).In the Old Testament (OT) there are a number of covenants God made with people. The essential one that He made with Israel was the Abrahamic covenant (Gen. 12, 13, 15, 17, 22)—a divine promise that is being fulfilled in the Mosaic (Exod. 19; Deut....  Read More

Hebrews 8:4-7 Now if [Jesus] were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the Law; 5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for, “See,” He says, “that you make all things according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.” 6 But now [Jesus] ha...  Read More