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The eternal message of the Holy Bible is the importance of keeping the faith and love to the living Sovereign LORD God. The Holy Bible promises the living Sovereign LORD God’s blessings with His divine grace, salvation, and peace (shalom) to those who continually love and obey Him with good fruit and righteous deeds of kindness, forgiveness, and mercy towards others. Everyone who wholeheartedly follows and obeys the living Sovereig...

The Holy Bible describes the living and eternal God of Heaven as “holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty” in the Old and New Testaments. The living God of Heaven is perfectly holy with absolute moral virtue and holiness in all His ways, nature, and character. Holiness with order and peace also describes the living God of Heaven’s character because He is without chaos, confusion, and discord. In fact, holiness is a fundamental and ce...

The living God of Heaven wants His people to reflect His holiness, purity, and glory on earth because He is holy, pure, and glorious. The very nature and being of the living God of Heaven is holy and without sin. Here is the Good News: The living God of Heaven, as Redeemer, wants everyone to receive His gift of salvation and a new spiritual life from heaven by coming to His Son, Christ Jesus, through repentance (turning from sin) w...

The author of the book of Revelation sees the Resurrected Christ Jesus as the holy Lamb of God and the Bright Morning Star, who brings light and salvation to the world. The book of Revelation sees Christ Jesus as One in holy fellowship with His Majestic Father of Glory, who deserves all our honor, worship, and faithfulness just like His Eternal Father. The heavenly hosts sang a song of praise and worship to the Lamb of God, who was...

The sacrificial death of Christ Jesus is one of the most important events in the Holy Bible. The Cross of Christ Jesus brings together the Old Testament sacrifices and the New Testament’s truth and grace. Without the Cross of Christ Jesus, there would be no hope and salvation for the world!

The New Testament writers gave the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread a new meaning, forever linked with a Jewish Rabbi, Christ Jesus...

The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) is considered the most holy day on the Jewish calendar for all Jews, both individually and collectively. On the Day of Atonement, the Jewish people rested from their work with a holy fast and recognized all their sins committed throughout the year against the living Sovereign LORD God (Adonai). Then, the high priest of Israel on this most holy day made a confession for their sins and the sins of th...

Introduction

In the very beginnings of the heavens and earth, the living Sovereign LORD God created and designed the Sabbath day. The Sabbath (Shabbat) means the living God’s blessing of rest and renewal with Him. The living God of heaven and earth created an eternal day of blessed rest for all His creation so His creation can spend a holy time and day with Him in worship, and also so they recharge and renew physically, emotionally...

The Old Testament story at Numbers chapters 13 and 14 stands as one of the most important stories of the entire Holy Bible alongside the story of the golden calf at Exodus chapters 32 through 34. These valuable stories teach the key principle of wholehearted faith in the living God with love and trust in Him. 

By way of background, the living Sovereign LORD God (Adonai) instructed the ancient Israelites at Mount Sinai (Horeb) for...

The living Sovereign LORD God of the heavens and earth commands everyone to listen to His Son, Christ Jesus, and obey Christ Jesus’s holy teaching and commands. Christ Jesus is the living and incarnate Word of God (Logos), and the fullness of the living God lived in Christ Jesus our Lord. From the beginning and foundation of creation, Christ Jesus as the living Word of God was the glorious light and life with the Sovereign LORD God...

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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...