Numbers 2:27 27 And those to camp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher, the chief of the people of Asher being Pagiel the son of Ochran, Nothing with God is an accident. That’s not to say that every second of time is micromanaged. Most people misquote  the Scripture, “All things work together for good to them that love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” All things aren’t good, or even divinely intended, but God melds the events of our days to bring us to that great day that is to come. Solomon said life and chance happen to us all. David said Thy…

The following is the last chapter in our Bible study on Israel, Through The Eyes Of Jacob And Moses. This is also the title of the upcoming book on this study. We hope you enjoy this chapter on the Levi’s of The Word Of God. There were two of them. One sat in a custom house, collecting taxes. The other, with his brothers, avenged his sister’s honor. These are not what you would think when I say Apostle, and tribal founder, but both of them were Levi. Levi, the son of Jacob in Genesis, and Matthew called Levi in the beginning of The New Testament. At the beginning of both…

He was the only one of Jacob’s sons not to know his Mother. He was the only one to grow up not knowing Jacob before widowhood. Those two things may seem elementary, but they defined, at least the early life of Benjamin. His brother Joseph, for a short time, got to know his Mother. As a Momma’s boy, I can’t imagine how Benjamin felt. How his Mother’s life affected him, though he never remembered hearing her voice. I believe he never heard her name spoken by his Dad, without hearing the sorrow associated with her loss. That had to affect every second of his life, every moment of his future.…

His name was Ammiel, he was from the Tribe Of Dan, but he died. More specifically, he died in the plague that God sent when Israel rebelled against God, refusing to take the Promised Land. He died primarily, because he helped cause the plague. Ammiel was one of the spies chosen to spy out the land. He’s mentioned by name once in the Scripture, and like others, we get his Father’s name too. Sadly, that’s not all we get, or all Ammiel got from someone. I don’t know if his Dad passed down his fear and unbelief to his son, or it arrived to him elsewhere, but either way, it…

Some say that Elijah and Jepthah was among them, though others count Jephthah among the Manassites. As I had written about Jephthah under Joseph, I wanted to at least address this here, but I mention it for another reason.  There are possibilities concerning this one or that one descending from Gad, yet I wanted to focus on those in this chapter, who were unquestionably Gadites. Gad himself was born in a strange position.  He was the son of Zilpah, who had been Leah’s servant.  Now she was somewhat elevated to the position of fourth wife of Jacob, yet still in the Leah camp.  Gad knew what it was like to…

Two sons were born to Rachel, one in joy, and the other in sorrow. Joseph had both Mother and Dad. His brother Benjamin did not. When giving birth to her second son, Rachel died in childbirth. I wonder if that went through Joseph’s mind when his wife announced the pregnancy of their second son? When we knew that Nicholas was coming, as the son of someone who experienced three miscarriages, had Nicholas’ Birth Mother passed, we didn’t know how the adoption would have been affected. I battled my fear with faith, until he was born. His Mother’s death had to be in Joseph’s mind until he heard his second boy…

Genesis 49:3-4 ESV 3 “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the firstfruits of my strength, preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power. 4 Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence, because you went up to your father’s bed; then you defiled it—he went up to my couch! The word might is used to describe Reuben. It means force, either for good or for bad. Reuben knew the consequences of both, he had experienced the results of his actions, again, both good and bad. Yet, he would end his days in the company of his brothers, having repented of his past, and looking ahead to the future of…