http://slow.writerscafe.org/Elengarmon The original writings of author Ellen en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1779306213 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 This chapter is based on Joshua 1 to 5:12.The Israelites deeply mourned for their departed leader, and thirty days were devoted to special services in honor of his memory. Never till he was taken from them had they so fully realized the value of his wise counsels, his parental tenderness, and his .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3134822/ This chapter is based on Deuteronomy 31 to 34.In all the dealings of God with His people there is, mingled with His love and mercy, the most striking evidence of His strict and impartial justice. This is exemplified in the history of the Hebrew people. God had bestowed great blessings upon Israel... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3134464/ This chapter is based on Deuteronomy 4 to 6; 28.The Lord announced to Moses that the appointed time for the possession of Canaan was at hand; and as the aged prophet stood upon the heights overlooking the river Jordan and the Promised Land, he gazed with deep interest upon the inheritance of his p.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3134258/ This chapter is based on Numbers 25.With joyful hearts and renewed faith in God, the victorious armies of Israel had returned from Bashan. They had already gained possession of a valuable territory, and they were confident of the immediate conquest of Canaan. Only the river Jordan lay between them.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3134053/ This chapter is based on Numbers 22 to 24.Returning to the Jordan from the conquest of Bashan, the Israelites, in preparation for the immediate invasion of Canaan, encamped beside the river, above its entrance into the Dead Sea, and just opposite the plain of Jericho. They were upon the very borde.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3133993/ This chapter is based on Deuteronomy 2; 3:1-11. After passing to the south of Edom, the Israelites turned northward, and again set their faces toward the Promised Land. Their route now lay over a vast, elevated plain, swept by cool, fresh breezes from the hills. It was a welcome change from the pa.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3133740/ This chapter is based on Numbers 20:14-29; 21:1-9.The encampment of Israel at Kadesh was but a short distance from the borders of Edom, and both Moses and the people greatly desired to follow the route through this country to the Promised Land; accordingly they sent a message, as God had directed .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3133425/ This chapter is based on Numbers 20:1-13.From the smitten rock in Horeb first flowed the living stream that refreshed Israel in the desert. During all their wanderings, wherever the need existed, they were supplied with water by a miracle of God’s mercy. The water did not, however, continue .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3133356/ For nearly forty years the children of Israel are lost to view in the obscurity of the desert. “The space,” says Moses, “in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3133090/ This chapter is based on Numbers 16 and 17.The judgments visited upon the Israelites served for a time to restrain their murmuring and insubordination, but the spirit of rebellion was still in the heart and eventually brought forth the bitterest fruits. The former rebellions had been mere popular .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3132803/ This chapter is based on Numbers 13 and 14.Eleven days after leaving Mount Horeb the Hebrew host encamped at Kadesh, in the wilderness of Paran, which was not far from the borders of the Promised Land. Here it was proposed by the people that spies be sent up to survey the country. The matter was p.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3132287/ This chapter is based on Numbers 11 and 12.The building of the tabernacle was not begun for some time after Israel arrived at Sinai; and the sacred structure was first set up at the opening of the second year from the Exodus. This was followed by the consecration of the priests, the celebration of.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3132208/ Adam and Eve, at their creation, had a knowledge of the law of God; they were acquainted with its claims upon them; its precepts were written upon their hearts. When man fell by transgression the law was not changed, but a remedial system was established to bring him back to obedience. The promise o.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3131961/ This chapter is based on Leviticus 10:1-11.After the dedication of the tabernacle, the priests were consecrated to their sacred office. These services occupied seven days, each marked by special ceremonies. On the eighth day they entered upon their ministration. Assisted by his sons, Aaron offered.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3131747/ This chapter is based on Exodus 25 to 40; Leviticus 4 and 16.The command was communicated to Moses while in the mount with God, “Let them make Me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them;” and full directions were given for the construction of the tabernacle. By their apostasy the Isra.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3131667/ The very first effort of Satan to overthrow God’s law�"undertaken among the sinless inhabitants of heaven�"seemed for a time to be crowned with success. A vast number of the angels were seduced; but Satan’s apparent triumph resulted in defeat and loss, separation .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3131388/ This chapter is based on Exodus 32 to 34.While Moses was absent it was a time of waiting and suspense to Israel. The people knew that he had ascended the mount with Joshua, and had entered the cloud of thick darkness which could be seen from the plain below, resting on the mountain peak, illuminat.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3131099/ This chapter is based on Exodus 19 to 24.Soon after the encampment at Sinai, Moses was called up into the mountain to meet with God. Alone he climbed the steep and rugged path, and drew near to the cloud that marked the place of Jehovah’s presence. Israel was now to be taken into a close and.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3130866/ This chapter is based on Exodus 15:22-27; 16 to 18.From the Red Sea the hosts of Israel again set forth on their journey, under the guidance of the pillar of cloud. The scene around them was most dreary�"bare, desolate-looking mountains, barren plains, and the sea stretching far away, .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3130603/ This chapter is based on Exodus 12:34-51; 13-15.With their loins girt, with sandaled feet, and staff in hand, the people of Israel had stood, hushed, awed, yet expectant, awaiting the royal mandate that should bid them go forth. Before the morning broke, they were on their way. During the plagues,.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3130355/ This chapter is based on Exodus 11; 12:1-32.When the demand for Israel’s release had been first presented to the king of Egypt, the warning of the most terrible of the plagues had been given. Moses was directed to say to Pharaoh, “Thus saith the Lord, Israel is My son, even My first-bo.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3130020/ This chapter is based on Exodus 5-10.Aaron, being instructed by angels, went forth to meet his brother, from whom he had been so long separated; and they met amid the desert solitudes, near Horeb. Here they communed together, and Moses told Aaron “all the words of the Lord who had sent him, .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3129972/ This chapter is based on Exodus 1 to Exodus 4.The people of Egypt, in order to supply themselves with food during the famine, had sold to the crown their cattle and lands, and had finally bound themselves to perpetual serfdom. Joseph wisely provided for their release; he permitted them to become r.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3129341/ This chapter is based on Genesis 41:54-56; 42 to 50.At the very opening of the fruitful years began the preparation for the approaching famine. Under the direction of Joseph, immense storehouses were erected in all the principal places throughout the land of Egypt, and ample arrangements were made.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3129031/ This chapter is based on Genesis 39 to 41.Meanwhile, Joseph with his captors was on the way to Egypt. As the caravan journeyed southward toward the borders of Canaan, the boy could discern in the distance the hills among which lay his father’s tents. Bitterly he wept at thought of that lovin.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3128772/ This chapter is based on Genesis 34; 35; 37.Crossing the Jordan, “Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan.” Genesis 33:18, R.V. Thus the patriarch’s prayer at Bethel, that God would bring him again in peace to his own land, had been granted. For.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3128692/ This chapter is based on Genesis 32 and 33.Though Jacob had left Padan-aram in obedience to the divine direction, it was not without many misgivings that he retraced the road which he had trodden as a fugitive twenty years before. His sin in the deception of his father was ever before him. He knew.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3128420/ This chapter is based on Genesis 28 to 31.Threatened with death by the wrath of Esau, Jacob went out from his father’s home a fugitive; but he carried with him the father’s blessing; Isaac had renewed to him the covenant promise, and had bidden him, as its inheritor, to seek a wife of .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3128177/ This chapter is based on Genesis 25:19-24; 27.Jacob and Esau, the twin sons of Isaac, present a striking contrast, both in character and in life. This unlikeness was foretold by the angel of God before their birth. When in answer to Rebekah’s troubled prayer he declared that two sons would b.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3128106/ Abraham had become an old man, and expected soon to die; yet one act remained for him to do in securing the fulfillment of the promise to his posterity. Isaac was the one divinely appointed to succeed him as the keeper of the law of God and the father of the chosen people, but he was yet unmarried. .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3127798/ This chapter is based on Genesis 19.Fairest among the cities of the Jordan Valley was Sodom, set in a plain which was “as the garden of the Lord” in its fertility and beauty. Here the luxuriant vegetation of the tropics flourished. Here was the home of the palm tree, the olive, and the.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3127553/ This chapter is based on Genesis 16; 17:18-20; 21:1-14; 22:1-19.Abraham had accepted without question the promise of a son, but he did not wait for God to fulfill His word in His own time and way. A delay was permitted, to test his faith in the power of God; but he failed to endure the trial. Thin.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3127467/ This chapter is based on Genesis 13; to 15;; 17: 1-16; 18.Abraham returned to Canaan “very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.” Lot was still with him, and again they came to Bethel, and pitched their tents by the altar which they had before erected. They soon found that increased .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3127202/ After the dispersion from Babel idolatry again became well-nigh universal, and the Lord finally left the hardened transgressors to follow their evil ways, while He chose Abraham, of the line of Shem, and made him the keeper of His law for future generations. Abraham had grown up in the midst of supe.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3126908/ To repeople the desolate earth, which the Flood had so lately swept from its moral corruption, God had preserved but one family, the household of Noah, to whom He had declared, “Thee have I seen righteous before Me in this generation.” Genesis 7:1. Yet in the three sons of Noah was speed.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3126784/ Like the Sabbath, the week originated at creation, and it has been preserved and brought down to us through Bible history. God Himself measured off the first week as a sample for successive weeks to the close of time. Like every other, it consisted of seven literal days. Six days were employed in th.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3126505/ The waters rose fifteen cubits above the highest mountains. It often seemed to the family within the ark that they must perish, as for five long months their boat was tossed about, apparently at the mercy of wind and wave. It was a trying ordeal; but Noah’s faith did not waver, for he had the .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3126186/ This chapter is based on Genesis 6 and 7.In the days of Noah a double curse was resting upon the earth in consequence of Adam’s transgression and of the murder committed by Cain. Yet this had not greatly changed the face of nature. There were evident tokens of decay, but the earth was still .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3126103/ This chapter is based on Genesis 4:25 to 6:2.To Adam was given another son, to be the inheritor of the divine promise, the heir of the spiritual birthright. The name Seth, given to this son, signified “appointed,” or “compensation;” “for,” said the mother, &ldqu.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3125820/ This chapter is based on Genesis 4:1-15.Cain and Abel, the sons of Adam, differed widely in character. Abel had a spirit of loyalty to God; he saw justice and mercy in the Creator’s dealings with the fallen race, and gratefully accepted the hope of redemption. But Cain cherished feelings of .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3125484/ The fall of man filled all heaven with sorrow. The world that God had made was blighted with the curse of sin and inhabited by beings doomed to misery and death. There appeared no escape for those who had transgressed the law. Angels ceased their songs of praise. Throughout the heavenly courts there.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3125398/ This chapter is based on Genesis 3.No longer free to stir up rebellion in heaven, Satan’s enmity against God found a new field in plotting the ruin of the human race. In the happiness and peace of the holy pair in Eden he beheld a vision of the bliss that to him was forever lost. Moved by en.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3124861/ This chapter is based on Genesis 1 and 2.“By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.” “For He spake, and it was;” “He commanded, and it stood fast.” Psalm 33:6, 9. He “laid the foundations of the ear.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3124778/ God is love.” 1 John 4:16. His nature, His law, is love. It ever has been; it ever will be. “The high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,” whose “ways are everlasting,” changeth not. With Him “is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” Isaiah 57:15;.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3124518/ http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3124517/ The children of God are called to be representatives of Christ, showing forth the goodness and mercy of the Lord. As Jesus has revealed to us the true character of the Father, so we are to reveal Christ to a world that does not know His tender, pitying love. “As Thou hast sent Me into the worl.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3124285/ Many, especially those who are young in the Christian life, are at times troubled with the suggestions of skepticism. There are in the Bible many things which they cannot explain, or even understand, and Satan employs these to shake their faith in the Scriptures as a revelation from God. They ask, &.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3123974/ Through nature and revelation, through His providence, and by the influence of His Spirit, God speaks to us. But these are not enough; we need also to pour out our hearts to Him. In order to have spiritual life and energy, we must have actual relationship with our heavenly Father. Our minds may be d.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3123619/ Many are the ways in which God is seeking to make Himself known to us and bring us into communion with Him. Nature speaks to our senses without ceasing. The open heart will be impressed with the love and glory of God as revealed through the works of His hands. The listening ear can hear and understa.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3123528/ God is the source of life and light and joy to the universe. Like rays of light from the sun, like the streams of water bursting from a living spring, blessings flow out from Him to all His creatures. And wherever the life of God is in the hearts of men, it will flow out to others in love and blessi.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Elengarmon/3123337/