Spiritual

11.) December 9, 2020  Joshua   Joshua 6:2-5 And to Joshua the LORD said: I have delivered Jericho, its king, and its warriors into your power. Have all the soldiers circle the city, marching once around it. Do this for six days, with seven priests carrying ram’s horns ahead of the ark. On the seventh day […]

10.) December 8, 2020  Moses  Ex 31:18 When the LORD had finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant, the stone tablets inscribed by God’s own finger. (Moses prefigures Jesus because he was saved from Pharaoh’s slaughter of Hebrew baby boys, just as Jesus was saved from

9.) December 7, 2020  Passover and Exodus  Ex 12:21-23 Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and procure lambs for your families, and slaughter the Passover victims. Then take a bunch of hyssop, and dipping it in the blood that is in the basin, apply some of this blood to

8.) December 6, 2020  Joseph  Gen 37:3-4, 20, 24, 28 41:25, 29-30a, 57 Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons, for he was the child of his old age; and he had made him a long ornamented tunic. When his brothers saw that their father loved him best of all his brothers, they hated

7.) December 5, 2020  Judah  Gen 49:8-10 “You, Judah, shall your brothers praise your- hand on the neck of your enemies; the sons of your father shall bow down to you. Judah is a lion’s cub; you have grown up on prey, my son. He crouches, lies down like a lion, like a lioness—who would

6.) December 4, 2020  Jacob  Gen 28:12-15 Then he had a dream: a stairway rested on the ground, with its top reaching to the heavens; and God’s angels were going up and down on it. And there was the LORD standing beside him and saying: I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father

5.) December 3, 2020  Isaac  Gen 22: 2-8 Then God said: Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. There offer him up as a burnt offering on one of the heights that I will point out to you. Early the next morning Abraham saddled his

4.) December 2, 2020  Abraham and Sarah  Gen 15: 4-5, 17: 6-7, 18:1, 9-10a Then the word of the LORD came to him: No, that one will not be your heir; your own offspring will be your heir. He took him outside and said: Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you

3.) December 1, 2020  Noah  Gen 9:8-15 God said to Noah and to his sons with him: See, I am now establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you: the birds, the tame animals, and all the wild animals that were with you—all that