Sacrifices for the Dead
2025-01-15
The people of the ancient Near East never really said goodbye to their ancestors. The dead hung around, and they required the care and attention of their descendants.Continue Reading
Lord of the Gates of Hell
2023-09-20
Canaanites believed the entrance to the underworld was at Bashan. But both Milcom (Molech) and Chemosh, the national gods of Ammon and Moab, demanded child sacrifice. Venerating the dead and appeasing the gods of the dead through human sacrifice appear to have been the norm in this region east of the Dead Sea.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #367: 1 Chronicles 11–12; Psalms 133, 106
2023-02-05
DAVID ASCENDS to the throne in Jerusalem, and we recount the history of Israel, including some startling examples of warfare in the unseen realm, in the psalms accompanying our study this week.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #342: Judges 19–20
2022-05-29
SODOM AND GOMORRAH come to mind when reading the last chapters of the Book of Judges.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #311: Numbers 30-31
2021-07-11
GOD ORDERED the Israelites to take revenge on the people of Midian. This is hard to understand, since Moses was married to a Midianite woman—until you consider the context of the spiritual war being waged around the Israelites.
Gilbert House Fellowship #309: Numbers 25–27
2021-06-13
BALAAM WAS unable to curse Israel, but the people were lured into worshiping a god called Baal-Peor—with disastrous consequences.