Joanne B. Holstein is a Becker Bible Studies teacher and author of Guided Bible Studies for Hungry Christians. She has received her Master of Science degree in Psychology/Christian Counseling with honors from Liberty University. She is well-known as a counselor to Christian faithful who are struggling with tremendous burden in these difficult times. She is a leading authority on the history of development of the Christian churches and the practices and beliefs of world religions and cults.
Zipporah was the daughter of a priest from Midian. She was an obedient daughter who went out daily to tend her father’s flock in spite of being bullied by other shepherd’s in the area. She was one of seven daughters.
The wife of Potiphar is a woman we should not try to emulate. The wife of Potiphar showed bitterness, envying and strife in her heart and then lied against the truth. She was married to Potiphar who was an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, and an Egyptian. She was probably also Egyptian with social position. Her selfishness caused her to be full of lust, and to lie again an innocent man.
Sarah shows us many different sides of the lives of being a woman. She was beautiful, faithful, loving, courageous, jealous, and strong willed, yet a loyal wife and a giving mother. There are many things we can learn from Sarah. First, we shall look at the name change from Sarai to Sarah.
The conscience is the soul as distinguishing between what is morally good and bad, encouraged to do the morally good and shun the morally bad, commending one, condemning the other.
Pharaoh asked the Egyptian Midwives to kill the male newborns by drowning them in the river once they were born. This would have been murder had the Egyptian midwives gone through with it. They feared the LORD God more than they feared the Pharaoh. What is the excuse for all the abortions that goes on in our time?
When we find out whom Gideon is we will find out a lot about faith and the trustworthiness of the LORD God. The LORD is faithful and true to His children. We see that the children of Israel once again have gone on doing what they wanted to do and worshiped false gods. We need to take a look at our life and make sure we are not worshiping false gods in our lives. The LORD is faithful and trustworthy…
This lesson finds Moses and the children of Israel escaping Egypt. The lesson we learn here is to be grateful for all the blessings we receive from the LORD God. Many people receive great blessings from the LORD and then demand more. We need to count our blessings and be thankful.