Author name: Rob Thiele

Who Shall Give Us Flesh to Eat?

Numbers 11:31-34: A reader enquires: How could God bring judgment on the people for eating the quail that He provided? As always, the context and detail of the record, including the events leading up to it, help us to understand. Let’s review the circumstances.

Towards the Promised Land – Israel leaves Sinai

It was on the first day of the first month of the second year after Israel left Egypt that to the great excitement of men and women of faith, “the tabernacle was reared up” (Exod 40:2,17). It was a singular day, there at Sinai, when divine worship could be formally carried out in the place where Yahweh would dwell among His people as He had declared: “Let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them” (Exod 25:8).

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“The Reproaches of Them That Reproached Thee Are Fallen Upon Me” Psalm 69:9

Things Hard to be Understood | by | Volume 29, Issue 1 | January – February 2023

A reader, understanding that Psalm 69 is a messianic psalm, has asked for an explanation of this latter part of verse 9. In what way were the people reproaching God and how did these reproaches fall on His Son? 

“And David saith…”

The superscription of this psalm declares it to be …

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