July 2016
By Seth Halpern, Editor In the beginning of time, God created the world and everything in it. He created humans last and made Adam first, then Eve. He gave them everything including the free will to do as they please but He wanted for them to choose to do what He asked. The Devil, the first Angel that rebelled against God, tempted Adam and Eve to go against God. That is called Sin. Sin brought terrible trouble into the world. Finally, God destroyed everyone with a great flood, except for Noah and his family. He told them to start the human race over. Most people continued to rebel against God but many centuries later, a man
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lead them out in a miraculous way. After named Abraham had strong faith in God. leading them out of Egypt, God talked God called him righteous because of His to Moses and gave him rules or laws for faith and made a promise to Abraham that the people so that they would be separate he would be the head of a great family. from the sinful (He was old and cultures around had no children For this is how God loved them. The laws at that time). His the world: He gave His one seemed restricting son, Isaac and grandson, Jacob, and only Son, so that but were for their kept Abraham’s everyone who believes in own good. There were laws about faith and God Him will not perish but food, cleanliness, chose to bless have eternal life. worship, and the children of John 3:16 NLT dealing with one Jacob, known another. Some as Israel. The of the laws of worship included animal people grew into a great nation but they sacrifices that would temporarily cleanse had been enslaved by a ruthless ruler of their sin and allow them to worship God. Egypt. God chose a man named Moses to
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After that, God led Joshua, Moses disciple, to victories in battle over a sinful people and they took over the land of Canaan. That became the nation of Israel. Israel had many leaders that God raised up until their greatest leader, David who became king of Israel. Israel thrived under the leadership of David and his son Solomon, but after Solomon, the people were divided and they had mostly bad and sinful leadership. Throughout that time, God raised up people, called prophets, to warn the people that they were going to pay the price of hardship if they didn’t repent, or turn back, to God from their sinful and rebellious ways. The
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