by Shannon Popp | Nov 30, 2022 | NotABlog
Acts 7:45 “Our fathers in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers. So it was until the days of David,” Remember Stephen is telling them and us that the worship of God is not confined to a place or a...
by Shannon Popp | Nov 29, 2022 | NotABlog
Acts 7:44 ““Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen.” Stephen speaking of this “tent” of witness, is reminding them of this tabernacle that was built and...
by Shannon Popp | Nov 28, 2022 | NotABlog
Acts 7:43 “You took up the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images that you made to worship; and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’” Stephen calls out their idolatry again. They made gods with their hands, so they could worship the god of...
by Shannon Popp | Nov 27, 2022 | NotABlog
Acts 7:42 “But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: “‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices, during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?” The Jewish people continued...
by Shannon Popp | Nov 26, 2022 | NotABlog
Acts 7:41 “And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and were rejoicing in the works of their hands.” God used Moses to get Israel out of Egypt, but Moses could not get Egypt out of Israel. As Moses is on the mountain receiving the 10...
