Later in the Old Testament, there is evidence that God keeps his promise to Abraham: “But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them and turned to them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them or cast them from his presence until now.” (2 Kings 13:23 The Harper Collins Study Bible) God’s commitment to his promise conveys to readers the strength of his word; likewise, one can trust God because he is true to his promises. God relates to his people through covenants. Nonetheless, God rewarded Abraham with an unusual number of blessings, but because Abraham’s favor was intended to benefit many people, it was justified. Once God favored Abraham, he became an exemplar of righteous living. God …show more content…
Equally, God displayed his incredible powers to the Egyptians through the ten plagues. First, God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he could prove himself to both the Israelites and the Egyptians. With each plague imposed upon Egypt, God challenges Pharaoh’s and other Egyptians’ opposition to him. God strikes Egypt with ten different plagues that dismantle Egypt’s ungodly ways of thinking. After the ten plagues are over, Pharaoh and the other Egyptians are forced to believe in God’s magnificent works. The Passover in Egypt, and God’s deliverance of the Israelites was beneficial to mankind because it exhibited his greatness, which would show all of man that God is trustworthy; ultimately, God’s covenant with all of mankind would be protected because of the grace he allocated to the Israelites in …show more content…
Out of a plethora of candidates to serve as king, God randomly selects a man, fit or not, to rule a state. King David, a descendant of Abraham committed a few vile acts, he was an adulterer and a murderer. David plotted and succeeded in killing Uriah: “The men of the city came out and fought with Joab; and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite was killed as well.” (2 Samuel 11:17 The Harper Collins Study Bible) Despite David’s conniving ploy to kill another man, he was still viewed as a great king. David’s mere appointing as king, through divine kinship armed him with divine favor, making him impervious to criticism. Even Saul, who was ruler at one point, feared David’s favor. “Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.” (1 Samuel 18:12 The Harper Collins Study Bible) Saul, at the time was king, yet he sensed that God was with David, possibly foreseeing David’s future as king. In a sense, King David was righteous nonetheless, because he trusted God and exalted God in his actions. David acknowledged that God aided him in his life during times of
Loving God and hating his own mother kept David strong. David loved God, he prayed every night to God. He hated his mother so much he wanted to outthink her tricks, he did. He used different tactics like over exaggerating his pain when he got beat, putting a wet cloth over his mouth when his mother put cleaning products in a room with him. David kept counting time in his head in order to make the time pass faster.
...e wife all to himself. This isn’t what we call fairness in the leadership. And still God does not punish David for this wrongdoing like he (God) punishes others who offend him.
In this essay, I will be talking about the plagues God sent against the Egyptian for the Hebrew to be release from their hands. There was not a struggle between God and the Egyptian power, but of God and the Egyptian Gods to show who the true God was. In Exodus 9:13-14, Yahweh told Moses to tell the Pharaoh of Egypt, “Yahweh, God of the Hebrews, says this: Let my people go and worship me. For this time, I am going to inflict all my plagues on you, on your officials and your subjects, so that you will know there is no one like me in the whole world. ‘The ten plagues made Yahweh evident among the Israelites and also to the stubborn Pharaoh and his Egyptian subjects. The plagues also demonstrated Yahweh powered and how much trouble he went through to free them.
One day God spoke to Abraham with an intention of making a covenant with man whom he chose as his partner. Abraham was told by God to leave his home to a different land since the people of Ur worshipped idols of wood and stone. The covenant made between them had a lot of promises. Abraham left with his wife Sarai, Lot his nephew,
Then one day when he was twenty, he suddenly felt that he had the wrath of God on him. He realized that his sin was not forgiven, he was just doing good works and religious things to make up the difference. Even though he realized this, he still thought that his good works would still account for his good. He prayed and prayed but could not get anywhere. He even set a time to fast, but still God did not seem to work. All the while God was softening David's heart, David was having a problem with self-confidence. He was confident that the works and the religious things which he did were going to help him.5
When confronted by the prophet Nathan, David was asked, “Why have you despised the word of the Lord by doing evil in His sight” (2 Samuel 12:9)? Oh, how those words must have cut deep into the man after God’s own heart. (1 Samuel 13:14) The revelation of his sin caused him to seek repentance; the deep-cleansing-healing-restoration kind. Aren’t you thankful for a merciful God? One Who is willing to bring the very same deep-cleansing-healing-restoration to anyone who has found themselves snagged by one
Miracles are fore-facts of the future done on a small scale. There had been no appearance of God to anyone for more than four hundred years, so people probably thought the age of miracles was long gone. The people would not have accepted Moses as God’s spokesperson without some kind of proof. The miracle-plagues were just that. They are significant because of the number of them that were brought forth. There were ten. The number ten is significant to completeness. God said that he would execute judgment against all of the false gods of Egypt, and each plague was said to be directed toward a particular heavenly deity. So the ten plagues reveal the full wrath of God’s judgment on Egypt. The first nine Plagues were just God proving that he was more powerful than the Egyptian gods. They were simply tricks in comparison to the final one. The tenth plague, the death of the firstborn, was the most powerful of all. This final plague brought death to all Egyptian homes, even the home of the beloved pharaoh, and ensured Israel’s release from slavery. After this calamity, pharaoh had no choice but grant Israel their demands and he even pleaded for blessings from them. This plague destroyed idolatry and showed that life and death are in the hands of God.
the things beyond his surrounding. He also gave David the confidence he needed to accept his
Before becoming a king, David is solely dependent on God. However, after realizing that kingship comes with many powers, David starts to rely on his will to overpower his judgment and knowledge of God and His will. Although it may seem like David’s sin begins at the moment he lays his eyes on the beautiful Bathsheba bathing on the rooftop, his sins actually begin many nights before when he makes decisions that turn his focus from the will of God to the will of self. Thus, David’s first sin of focusing on his own will, rather than God’s, leads to one sin after another which eventually causes a curse to fall upon David’s household.
the things beyond his surrounding. He also gave David the confidence he needed to accept his
Because of his insane jealousy he was overtaken by an evil spirit. Having received deliverance once, Saul allowed stubborn envy against David to open the door for the spirit’s re-entry. At one point he prophesied under the influence of the evil spirit (I Sam 18). The lesson here is that the true prophet is not free from demon activity unless he is walking in the principles of holiness.
Reign of David and Solomon Reign of David and Solomon have important role in Israel. After Saul’s death, Israel was threatened to end the experiment of monarchy. Since, Israel was surrounded other nations that are eager to destroy Israel and plague by Philistines, Israel could easily destroyed by those nations. David and Solomon were the kings that lead Israel remarkably and changed the situation of Israel. David David was a second king of Israel, after the death of first king Saul.
During the time of the Judges, there was no central government, no one to fight for them, except God of course. To make matters worse, the judge heir apparent, Samuel’s sons, were corrupt. David did not do everything right, just as Saul did not do everything wrong. David is a researcher in the human condition. As Peterson points out, King David is a “character consisting of humility and adoration, sacrifice and courage, repentance and obedience, loyalty in the community, and love of God.”
It is important to know the history of one’s past. Just where did we come from and why. By comparing and contrasting the Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants, we can see a part of our history. These two covenants mark a grand time in the history of Christians. Both covenants can teach us a lesson in becoming a better Christian and to knowing God better if we pay attention to what God wants us to learn. The Abrahamic Covenant lays the foundation for how the Christian nation was formed. The Mosaic Covenant follows in later years as a reminder of what was promised in the Abrahamic Covenant to the Christian nation. Both covenants are important in understanding the Old and New Testaments as they give us the historical background of the Bible as well as set the stage for the coming of Christ.
When examining Deuteronomy, the “law of the king” provides more information on what a king cannot do as a monarch. Most of what is outlined in these laws restricts royal authority and the monarch is subject to them. Some of these laws were things that later kings (even under the Davidic kingship) were guilty of committing. The first king of the Davidic Kingship (David) held multiple wives and even sent a soldier (Uriah) to his own death (New Oxford Annotated Bible, 2 Samuel 11:24). David was not perfect and screwed up many times, but his heart was for the Lord. And the Lord formally appointed the Israelite King as an instrument of his rule. No matter how much these kings screwed up they were still held in good standing because God viewed them as the closest thing to himself. This is what God intended the kingship of Israel to represent. A king that is not above the covenant.