Volume 67 - Issue 01 Archives - The Gospel Message

Lessons from the Gibeonites: Honoring Commitments

ByJoshua Riggins February 14, 2025December 21, 2024

In Joshua 9, we’re introduced to an interesting group of individuals, the Gibeonites. Having heard of the great successes of Israel (verse 3), they put together a scheme designed to save their lives. Verses 4-5 detail the great lengths they took to make it look as though they came from a far country: …they worked…

Lessons from the Withered Fig Tree

BySteve Wright February 1, 2025December 21, 2024

Please read about the withered fig tree in Mark 11:12-14, 20-25 and consider: Fig trees in Palestine may live as long as four hundred years. A well-cultivated tree should produce fruit for ten months of the year in those locales. However, because of the difficulties of translation, some have extrapolated a point from this text…

Volume 67 - Issue 01

Lessons from the Gibeonites: Honoring Commitments

Lessons from the Withered Fig Tree

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