“The Ark in the House of Dagon” – God’s Foretold Work (Session 20)

In this session, we picked up in 1st Samuel Chapter 5, and we found that the Ark of the LORD has been brought to the house of the Philistine god Dagon. Less than a year later, the Philistines sent it back to Israel. We looked at the unfolding drama surrounding the ark and searched for the relevance in our days.

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“I Will Make This House Like Shiloh” – God’s Foretold Work – (Session 19)

In this session we probed the Scriptural appearances of “Shiloh”, both the place and the Person, looking for the connection between the Genesis prophecy regarding Messiah, and the disaster that occurred at the place where the Tabernacle was first set up in the land. References in Genesis, Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel, Psalm 78 and Jeremiah.

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“A Mother in Israel” – God’s Foretold Work – (Session 18)

Continuing in the book of Judges, we took a step back and visited the account of Deborah and Barak. Since the story of Deborah is the most often used portion of scripture to defend leadership roles of women in ministry, we used this portion of Scripture to discuss the role of women in the church, as compared with the sections…

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“He Slew More at His Death” – God’s Foretold Work – (Session 17)

In this session we picked up our survey of the OT with the book of Judges, and settled into the story of Samson and his parallels with an end-time church that is humbled and blinded, but rises in the last days to bring down the principalities and powers of darkness. (Classic commentary by Reggie Kelly starting at about 50 minutes…

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“This is My Body Which is Broken for You” – God’s Foretold Work – (Session 15)

We began with a focus on the body of Christ, looking at the attributes and characteristics of the parts and how they relate to one another. We asked the question of how His body relates to the currently “unsaved” natural branches of Israel. What message does that body have for those “unsaved” branches today?

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“You Have Given Me the Necks of Mine Enemies” – God’s Foretold Work – (Session 13)

In this session we looked at the Gibeonite Deception in Chapters 9-10 of Joshua. The study also took us to the reign of David when Israel suffered a famine for three years that related back to the covenant that Joshua and the nation of Israel made with the Gibeonites. (Expect some audio syncronization issues)

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“The Valley of Achor as a Door of Hope” – God’s Foretold Work (Session 12)

In this session, we looked at Achan and the defeat of Israel at Ai (Chapter 7 in the Book of Joshua). We considered and magnified God’s ability to bring life out of death, also reading from Ephesians Ch 1 and 2, and Hosea Ch 2. The broadcast was fraught with technical difficulties (un-syncronized audio/video) and distractions (ringing phone and doorbell)…

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