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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

• Lola Richey with Church Minute
• God blessings and peace to you
• Christmas celebrates the birth of Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior of the World
• New Year with new beginnings

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The great sin of the golden idol is taught throughout the Holy Bible because this great sin violated the heart of the eternal covenant. The living Sovereign LORD God of heaven and earth (the “LORD”, also known as Yahweh, Jehovah, and God Almighty) gave Moses and the Israelites the eternal covenant atop of Mount Sinai (Horeb) to live by and obey. Then Moses alone met with the living Sovereign LORD God atop Mount Sinai, where Moses e...

The Christmas season is filled with joy, laughter, and, even more importantly, God’s glory! Christmas celebrates Christ Jesus, who is the glorious God and King of the Universe, coming to earth as a Baby in a manger and living a fully human life filled with God’s abundant grace and truth. To celebrate Christ Jesus’s arrival, the living Sovereign LORD God of heaven and earth placed a bright morning star in the skies, as predicted by ...

The first and most important rule of the Law of God explained the eternal commandment to exclusive worship and honor with wholehearted love and faithful obedience to the living Sovereign LORD God (Yahweh, also known as Jehovah). Also, the living LORD is our everlasting Covenant God and Savior, and He reigns forever as our only faithful King and Good Shepherd. The LORD’s Name must be eternally honored and respected as holy forever a...

The Holy Bible includes many names for the living Sovereign LORD God of heaven and earth. God is known as Elohim, which means He is the transcendent (supreme) Creator and true King, with His Son, Christ Jesus, and the Holy Spirit of all that exists, both visible and invisible. Also, the living Sovereign LORD God is the Most High God (El-Elyon), and He is above all other gods, rulers, kings, and nations from everlasting to everlasti...

Moses and the Israelites arrived at Mount Sinai (the mountain of God, Mount Horeb) in the desert wilderness in the third month after leaving Egyptian slavery. Moses and the Israelites encamped in the desert at Mount Sinai for almost one year with the LORD (Yahweh, also known as Jehovah) instructing and teaching them (giving of the Torah or the Law of God) through His servant Moses for the rest of the book of Exodus, all of the book...

The living Sovereign LORD God’s deliverance and salvation of Israel over evil Pharaoh and the powerful Egyptians was world news amongst the nations. Even Moses’ father-in-law, Jethro, who was a priest from Midian and also known as Reuel, heard that the LORD (Yahweh) had saved and redeemed Israel from the evil Egyptian slavery by His mighty hand and strong power, with great signs and wonders. After Israel’s great victory from the LO...

The living Sovereign LORD God of heaven and earth defeated all the gods of Egypt by His great power with signs and wonders, and He brought His people Israel as a mighty army with boldness from Egyptian slavery, with Moses leading the way. As Israel was leaving Egypt, the living Sovereign LORD God by His grace covered, guided, and protected Israel underneath His wings in a pillar of cloud by day, and during the night, He went ahead ...

In the book of Exodus, the LORD (Yahweh) displayed His awesome power and almighty hand through signs and wonders, so that the evil Pharaoh would know that the God of the Hebrews is the only true King and God of heaven and earth. Moses and Aaron repeatedly went to the wicked Pharaoh, who was the king of Egypt, to demand that Pharaoh release and free the Israelites (Hebrews) from slavery, or Pharaoh would experience God’s wrath and p...

Moses and his brother Aaron returned to Egypt as commanded by the living Sovereign LORD God of heaven and earth to rescue and deliver His people Israel from slavery and bondage, and lead the Israelites to the Promised Land of God - Israel-Palestine.  The people of Israel bowed down with hopeful expectation and worship to the living God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with thanksgiving after hearing Moses and Aaron’s message of deliver...

Moses was a Hebrew (also called Israelite) from the tribe of Levi. Moses was 40 years old when he left Egypt and married his wife, Zipporah, while living in Midian with his father-in-law Reuel, also known as Jethro. During his time in Midian, Moses became a shepherd, and he fathered two sons, Gershom and Eliezer. Moses lived in Midian for forty (40) years, and he was now eighty (80) years old, beginning at Exodus chapter 3. The peo...

The opening chapters of Exodus continue the story of Genesis with the children of Israel (Jacob) now as a mighty nation with many descendants living in Egypt. The sons of Jacob are called Israelites, and the Israelite families living in Egypt included Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, and Joseph. Many years have passed, and a new Pharaoh ruled over Egypt. Joseph was a great and wis...

Jacob (also known as Israel) had faithfully walked with the living Sovereign LORD God as He commanded Abraham, and God’s ministering Angel had protected Jacob from Satan’s harms and evil. Jacob had twelve sons and one daughter named Dinah, and the twelves sons were named as follows: Reuben (Jacob’s oldest), Simeon, Levi (priestly tribe), Judah (Jesus’s descendent), Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Joseph (father of Eph...

The family of Israel is large, wide, and diverse. By way of background, the living Sovereign LORD God of heaven and earth restarted the whole world with a new heaven and new earth after the Great Flood, and He restarted all human life through Noah and Noah’s three sons - Shem (Mesopotamia and Arabia), Ham (Africa and Eastern Mediterranean), and Japheth (Europe and Asia). 

Beginning with Genesis chapter 12, the story of the Holy B...

Joseph of the Old Testament is a good example of God’s Presence with His faithful people who obey Him. Sadly, Joseph experienced some hard times and mistreatment by others. First, Joseph was thrown into a deep well (cistern, pit) by his brothers at the age of seventeen (17) and eventually sold to Ishmaelite and Midianite merchants, who sold Joseph into Egyptian slavery. Later, Joseph was falsely accused of sexual assault by an adul...

Genesis first introduces Joseph as a seventeen-year-old young man who gives a bad report to his father, Jacob, about his other brothers. Jacob (Israel) had twelve sons, and these twelve sons would later become known as the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Joseph was Jacob’s eleventh son, and Joseph became Israel’s favorite son, whom Israel loved more than all of his other sons. At an early age, Joseph flaunted his father’s favoritism. Favo...

One night, Jacob had another encounter with the Sovereign LORD God that would forever change his life. Jacob met a mysterious man while alone as he returned to the Promised Land of God (Canaan), and Jacob wrestled and struggled with this mysterious man in the dark until the breaking of dawn - a new day. Later, Jacob would acknowledge meeting the living God (Theophany), but Hosea 12:2-4 states that this mysterious man who met Jacob ...

In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul (Sha’ul) and his ministry focused on proclaiming the Good News (Gospel) message of God’s forgiveness, salvation, grace, righteousness, and peace with a new spiritual life and new beginnings that come to all wholehearted believers in Jesus the Messiah (Christ) as Lord and Savior. This newness of divine spiritual life comes to everyone by God’s grace and mercy through repentance with faithful an...

Jacob is the father of Israel. At an early age, Jacob was known as a deceiver, trickster, and supplanter after scamming and scheming to take away his brother Esau’s inheritance and covenant blessings of Abraham and Isaac. The Sovereign LORD God had already promised and ordained these divine blessings to Jacob before Jacob’s birth. Eventually, Jacob left his home in Canaan (the Promised Land of God, also known as Israel-Palestine) a...