Mr. O'Brien
Search results
Those called by God to repent can choose to begin living and thinking as he does. As a person begins to adopt more and more of his holy beliefs, it enables them to bless others by becoming an example of goodness. The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise (Proverbs 11:30, see also 3:18, 13:12 and 15:4).
The image represents world empires from the time of Babylon to the End Time just before Jesus' return (chapter 2). Daniel also interpretred the king's dream of a large tree cut down (chapter 4). This tree represented the king's life of vanity and self-promotion and his punishment of receiving the mind of an animal for seven years.
Moses, whose name means "taken out" or "drawn forth," is born into an Israelite family from the tribe of Levi. The family consists of sister Miriam (roughly twelve years old) and brother Aaron (three years old). Pharaoh, shortly before Moses' birth, decreed the death of all Hebrew male children. And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew ...
Fighting Giants - Key of David - Goliath's Spear. David's Battles - Census Sin - Waiting to Rule. Mighty Men - Star of David - More! This timeline covers the period from King David's birth in 1040 B.C. to his rise as ruler over all of Israel's tribes in 1003. King David is arguably one of the three greatest individuals in the Old Testament ...
The Bible divides Moses' life into three major sections that each last roughly forty years. The first is from his birth in Egypt to his fleeing the country for the safety of Midian (Acts 7:20 - 29). The second encompasses his living in Midianite territory until God commissions him, through a burning bush, to free Israel (Acts 7:30 - 34).
David's first child through her died seven days after being born as punishment for his adultery (2Samuel 12:14 - 23). King Solomon, like his father, was anointed ruler over Israel more than once. The first was when David was an old man (1Chronicles 23:1). The second anointing was carried out by Zadok the high priest and Nathan the prophet.
Abraham, without a doubt, lived a most fascinating life! Abram (his birth name before God renamed him) was born in the city of Ur of the Chaldees to a family that included older brothers Haran and Nahor. Terah, his father, was 130 years old at his birth. Abram, although not the firstborn in the family, is listed before his two older brothers ...
David represented the 13th generation from Abraham in the family tree (the 33rd Biblical generation on earth). He was the youngest of Jesse's eight sons. The prophet Samuel anointed David Israel's new king c. 1025 B.C. when he was roughly fifteen years old. He would not end up ruling, however, until he turned thirty years old in 1010.
The Roman power did not press upon Paul's infancy. Greek ideas did not haunt Paul's childhood. He grew up an Israelitish boy, nurtured in those histories of the chosen people which he was destined so often to repeat in the synagogues (Acts 13:16 - 41, 17:2, 3, 10, 11, 28:23) with the new and wonderful commentary supplied by the life and resurrection of a crucified Messiah.
The book of Exodus offers us, for the first time since shortly after his birth, the age of Moses when an important event happens in his life. And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh (Exodus 7:7, HBFV). The event, in this case, is the patriarch's return to confront Pharaoh for the first ...
