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1st Samuel 7 — Israel returns to God

In another fulfillment of the prophetess Hannah’s prayer (1st Samuel 2), Israel repents from bringing false gods into the nation, and Philistia is routed in battle.

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Lessons from the Menorah

What are the lessons behind the design and function of the seven-branched lampstand, called the menorah, that was in His tabernacle/temple and shown in the book of Revelation?

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1st Samuel 5-6 — Philistia figures out God wants the ark returned to Israel

https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/081115%201st%20Samuel%205-6%20-%20Philistia%20figures%20out%20God%20wants%20the%20ark%20returned%20to%20Israel.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:16 — )Subscribe: RSSIsrael sadly lost the Ark of God’s Testimony in battle with Philistia by treating it as a talisman of victory rather then depending on God Himself. In this passage, Philistia learned unpleasantly that the God of Israel superseded their god Dagon.

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1st Samuel 4 — Loving God’s symbols rather than Him

https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/081101%201st%20Samuel%204%20-%20Loving%20symbols%20rather%20than%20the%20Source.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:18 — )Subscribe: RSSIsrael’s high priest at the time, Eli, witnesses two horrible outcomes of his indulgence of the immorality of his sons and that effect on the nation: their deaths and the capture of the LORD’s symbolic throne on earth, the Ark of the Testimony.

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1st Samuel 3 — God calls Samuel as prophet and rejects Eli as high priest

https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/081004%201st%20Samuel%203%20-%20call%20of%20Samuel%20and%20fall%20of%20Eli.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 45:33 — )Subscribe: RSSIn 1st Samuel 3, the boy Samuel hears God’s voice. It’s a foretelling of God’s judgment on high priest Eli’s family line as priests because of Eli’s leniency with his sons’ behavior that had turned people against God.

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1st Samuel 2 — Hannah’s prophecy and the sins of Eli’s sons

https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/080920%201st%20Samuel%202.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:33 — )Subscribe: RSSMuch of 1st Samuel 2 contains Hannah’s prayer of praise to God. Then we hear about high priest Eli’s wicked sons and how their actions made people despise following God’s instructions. A prophet comes to Eli and gives God’s message that his priestly line […]

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1st Samuel 1

https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/080906%201st%20Samuel%201.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:35 — )Subscribe: RSSView a map of places discussed in the presentation.