God on the Spot – Part 7: Providing a King

By Dianne E. Butts –

God gave the Israelites a portrait of Himself and His plan through the Tabernacle Moses built. Then the Israelites were supposed to preserve this revelation of God so the whole world could know Him. Read more

God on the Spot – Part 6: Protecting His People in the Desert (and Painting a Picture of Himself)

By Dianne E. Butts –

After the Israelites escaped the Egyptian army by walking through the Red Sea, God was on the spot to protect the bloodline of Abraham to Messiah in the desert. But God wanted to do more than just have them survive. God wanted to reveal Himself to them. He wanted to make Himself, that is, His personality, known. Read more

God on the Spot – Part 5: Delivering His People

By Dianne E. Butts –

In Part 4, we saw that God used Joseph in Egypt to save the bloodline of Abraham to Messiah. After the famine, Joseph’s family (Abraham’s descendants) stayed in Egypt.

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God on the Spot – Part 4: The Provision

By Dianne E. Butts –

In Part 2, God put Himself on the spot by promising to provide a Messiah to redeem people from their sin. In Part 3, He put Himself in a narrower spot by promising that Messiah would come through a particular family’s bloodline, that of Abraham and Sarah.

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God on the Spot – Part 3: The Promise

By Dianne E. Butts

After God put Himself on the spot by promising to send a Messiah in Genesis 3:15, He then promised to bring that Messiah through the bloodline of one elderly, childless family: Abram and Sarai.

In Genesis 15:4-5, God promised childless Abram “a son coming from your own body” and offspring as numerous as the stars.
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