Introduction This is a rather random article, but I just got done reading the Gospels through again, and this time I decided to have a notepad and pencil in hand. In previous trips through the Gospels, it caught my attention when a gospel writer would stop to make clarifications to his audience about Jewish customs …
Lesson 3 was the Old Testament prequel to this study in the New Testament about the Exodus. Last week’s lesson introduced the fact that Egypt became a national symbol of exile and bondage for Israel, and Exodus imagery was used by the prophets to relate how the Messiah would redeem Israel. That study ended with …