Main Question What does Jacob's life teach about God's promise, human scheming, discipline, grace, wrestling with God, and the birth of Israel? Primary Passages Genesis 25:23-34, Genesis 27-33, Genesis 35, Genesis 49, Hosea 12:3-5, John 1:51, Hebrews 12:16-17, and...
Main Question What does Isaac's life teach about God's promise, substitution, ordinary faithfulness, family weakness, and covenant preservation? Primary Passages Genesis 17:19, Genesis 21:1-12, Genesis 22:1-14, Genesis 24, Genesis 25:21-23, Genesis 26-28, Genesis...
Main Question What does Ishmael's life teach about faith, impatience, covenant promise, the God who hears, and mercy in the fallout of sin? Primary Passages Genesis 15:5-6, Genesis 16, Genesis 17:18-21, Genesis 21:1-21, Genesis 25:9-18, Romans 4:3, and Galatians...
Main Question What does Lot's life teach about compromise, righteous distress, judgment, intercession, mercy, and the danger of looking back? Primary Passages Genesis 11:28-30, Genesis 12:4-5, Genesis 13:5-13, Genesis 14:12-16, Genesis 18:23-33, Genesis 19, Luke...
Main Question What did the ark of the covenant teach Israel about God's presence, holiness, covenant, mercy, and the need for atonement? Primary Passages Exodus 25:8-22, Leviticus 16:15-16, Numbers 4:15, Joshua 3, 1 Samuel 4-6, 2 Samuel 6, Hebrews 9-10, and...
Main Question What does Scripture mean when Jezebel's name becomes a warning, and how should Christians handle the phrase "spirit of Jezebel" carefully? Primary Passages 1 Kings 16:30-33, 1 Kings 18, 1 Kings 19:1-3, 1 Kings 21, 2 Kings 9:30-37, Revelation 2:18-29,...
Main Question How does the bronze serpent in Numbers 21 point to Jesus Christ being lifted up so sinners may believe and live? Primary Passages Numbers 21:4-9, John 3:14-18, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Galatians 3:13, 1 Peter 2:24, 2 Kings 18:4, and Acts 4:12. Unforsaken...
Main Question What did sackcloth and ashes mean in Scripture, and what should believers today learn about grief, repentance, humility, and seeking God? Primary Passages Genesis 37:34, Esther 4:1, Job 1:20, Daniel 9:3, Jonah 3:5-10, Isaiah 58:5, Joel 2:12-13,...
Main Question What did God make when He made the firmament, and how should Scripture shape our understanding of the waters above, the heavens, and God's throne? Primary Passages Genesis 1:6-8, Genesis 1:14-20, Psalm 19:1, Psalm 148:4, Job 38:8-11, Ezekiel 1:22-26,...
Main Question Why does Scripture repeatedly show God giving key blessing, inheritance, or leadership to the younger or overlooked person? Primary Passages Genesis 4, 21, 25, 37-50, 48, 1 Samuel 16, Luke 15, John 1, Romans 8, 1 Corinthians 1, and Colossians 1....
