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Wise men come to see Jesus

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Matthew 2 “As the source of Daniel’s wisdom was not the stars but the God who made the stars no doubt his influence would have turned some of them away from paganism to faith in the God of Israel. Daniel’s prophecies were written in Aramaic and would have therefore been accessible to the Babylonians. In Daniel 9 he gives information of the time of the coming of the Messiah, the coming King...

Seeing God – Seeing God while still alive

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Today we’re going to continue looking at passage in Exodus 24 which I read two or three weeks ago. When I finished the talk on Exodus 24, I referred to a verse which speaks about how the elders of Israel who went up on the mountain with Moses and how they saw God. Some people said to me: ‘Well, isn’t there a contradiction? It says they saw the God of Israel but there are also...