The Lord Is in This Place
Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it. Genesis 28:16. Jacob awoke with a solemn sense of the presence of God…. Through the Spirit of God, the plan of redemption was revealed to him, not fully, but such parts as it was essential for him to know. The time of […]
Heaven’s Ladder
This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven! Genesis 28:17. Jacob was not perfect in character. He sinned against his father, his brother, his own soul, and against God. Inspiration faithfully records the faults of good men, those who were distinguished by the favor of God; indeed, […]
The Faith of Abraham, Part 2
My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering. Genesis 22:8. As they drew near the mountain, “Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a […]
The Faith of Abraham, Part 1
Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you. Genesis 22:2. [Abraham] was one hundred and twenty years old when this terrible and startling command came to […]
The Promise to Israel
In the Lord all the descendants of Israel shall be justified, and shall glory. Isaiah 45:25. Abraham was called out from an idolatrous family and was appointed of God to preserve His truth amid the prevailing and increasing corruptions of that idolatrous age. The Lord appeared to Abraham and said, “I am the Almighty God; […]
Modern-day Enochs
And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. Genesis 5:24. After Adam’s fall from a state of perfect happiness to a condition of sin and misery, there was danger that men and women would become discouraged…. But the instructions which God gave to Adam, and which were repeated by Seth […]
