Tag: Christ

PROMISES TO RETURNING WANDERERS

Promises to returning wanderers. The Hebrew people have often turned to this chapter in the belief that the day must come when God will pity their forlorn condition and restore them from “the outmost parts of heaven.” They do not consider that the promise was fulfilled in the return of a handful of their race under Nehemiah and Ezra.

THE BITTER FRUITS OF DISOBEYING GOD

. “The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, [as swift] as the eagle swoops down [to attack], a nation whose language you will not understand,
a defiant nation who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young,
and it will eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who will leave you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the offspring of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish.

OFFERINGS OF FIRSTFRUITS AND TITHES

“Then it shall be, when you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and live in it,
that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground which you harvest from the land that the LORD your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish His Name (Presence).

LAWS CONCERNING LEVIRATE MARRIAGE

Laws Concerning Levirate Marriage. “If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, the widow of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall be intimate with her after taking her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.