Perhaps no verse is as enigmatic and puzzling as the command, “Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.” It appears 3 times in scripture, with its first appearance in Exodus 23:19, with the entirety of the verse being, “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the… Continue reading

In the last installment, we examined the sun/goat character as being the main character of the seals, entering his earthly life in the first seal, the subsequent consequential events of his lifetime and his (first) death in the sixth seal fulfilling his promise to the saints under the altar in the fifth seal, finally reaching… Continue reading

In the last installment, we examined the dream of Joseph in Genesis 37. In it, we see the sun, moon and stars bowing to Joseph. One thing that this does, is place Joseph as a type for Jesus who is part of the Godhead. The second thing this does is to show that the character… Continue reading

In the last installment we were examining the interaction between Jacob and an unnamed stranger. During the encounter, the stranger asks Jacob his name and after responding, Genesis 32:28 states, “Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome.”… Continue reading

In todays installment, we look at a strange encounter in Genesis 32:22-32 between Jacob and an unknown man that leads to a physical altercation. “That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. After he had sent them across… Continue reading

In the last installment we looked at a handful of symbols that are introduced in Genesis 15 which I believe are a symbolic (and prophetic) telling of God’s plan of redemption and judgment. The symbols that were present in that account that we looked at were the heifer, the goat, the ram, the dove and… Continue reading