How Colorful Was Joseph’s Coat?
The Lord commanded Jacob to return to Beth-el (house of God). In preparation to approach the house of God (or...
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Jacob Received a New Name
As Jacob travels to meet his brother Esau, he encounters a host of angels. He has already seen messengers from...
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The Model Covenant
The model covenant pattern is revealed in Genesis 31. I will break this down into five major components, although some...
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The House of God
Genesis 28 is one of the most poignant temple texts in scripture. Jacob travels from Beersheba (meaning “well of the...
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The Horn of Salvation
I often wonder what was going through the mind of Abraham and Sarah with the commandment to sacrifice Isaac. We...
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The Law of Sacrifice
Abraham received the promises of the New and Everlasting Covenant. The Lord said, “Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a...
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Three Messengers
In Genesis 18:1-2, it states that “the Lord appeared unto (Abraham) in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in...
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Made Whole Through God’s Covenant
Abraham knows his covenant with the Lord will be fulfilled through his offspring, but he has no children. The Lord...
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“I Have Lifted Up Mine Hand”
Abraham learns that his nephew, Lot, has been captured in battle and the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah were taken....
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How Do You Measure Glory?
It seems that after Abraham enters into a covenant with the Lord he is blessed both temporally and spiritually. Abraham...
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The Abrahamic Covenant
The word father (or fathers) appears 17 times in Abraham 1. This would certainly qualify as a Leitwort or theme...
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The Right Way To Get To Heaven
Like many of the crossroads of life, there’s a right way and a wrong way. The Tower of Babel story...
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Was Noah Drunk and Naked?
We have this odd story in Genesis 9:20-24 about Noah planting a vineyard, getting drunk, and being “naked” inside his...
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Noah, the Dove, and the Veil
The Ark gets finished and the eight souls get aboard—Noah, his three sons, and their wives. This number eight is...
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Noah’s Ark As a Floating Temple
We have a lot to unpack with the temple and Come Follow Me this week, so let’s get started with...
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A Loving Embrace
In Moses chapter 7, Enoch has had his eyes washed and anointed (Moses 6:35), and now he is “clothed upon...
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Blood, Water, and Spirit
I’m so excited to do this post about one of my top ten favorite scriptures! The verses are Moses 6:59-60:...
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Washing and Anointing
A great blessing of Restoration scripture is the restoration of lost accounts from the Bible. Such is the case of...
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Guardians of the Throne of God
While working on my last post, I noticed the Hebrew words for skin and light are both transliterated into the...
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The Coats of Skins As the First “Kaphar”
After Adam and Eve had partaken of the forbidden fruit, they become aware of their nakedness, a condition which becomes...
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The Serpent in the Garden of Eden
We get more information from the Moses account compared with the Genesis account regarding Adam, Eve, and Lucifer in the...
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“Our Glorious Mother Eve” and the Tree of Life
We left off on the last post with Adam naming the animals, which in some texts (like the Quran) is...
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Eden As the First Temple
The Garden of Eden was the first temple. After man is placed in the garden, the first items mentioned are...
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The Creation of Adam
Adam and Eve were created differently besides the obvious that one may think. First, let’s consider the general creation of...
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The Foundation Stone
I’ve got to say how super excited I am to share the concepts of this post! Yesterday, I mentioned how...
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Jehovah Sits As King Upon the Flood
Yesterday I mentioned that some of the Creation events in Genesis are echoed in the New Testament, particularly in the...
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The Power of His Word
The first words of the Bible are, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). The...
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Were You a Star in Heaven?
In Abraham 3, Abraham received a Urim and Thummim, meaning lights and perfections in Hebrew, and since a Urim and...
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The Cosmic Mountain
The opening verse in Moses 1 begins with, “The words of God, which he spake unto Moses at a time...
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Welcome To Temple Study
Welcome to temple study. My objective is to learn and share more of the symbolism and temple imagery within the...
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