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King David makes a fatal mistake when he commits adultery with the wife of one of his loyal soldiers and then sets up to have the loyal soldier killed in battle. One of the results of this sin is that the civil war that ensues in the country and against him is led by his own son Absalom. David survives the revolt against his kingship but his own son is killed in the process. Later, when David compels his army leaders to do a census of the fighting...

Through His prophets, God sent many warnings of what would happen to His chosen people if they neglected His law and His many warnings. Though there were periodic revivals under God-fearing kings such as Asa, Jehoshaphat and Hezekiah, many of the kings of both Israel and Judah abandoned the worship of Yahweh and chose to follow the false gods of the nation around them and of the lands they conquered. As a result, God allowed the Assyrians and the...

The Bible foretells of the rise of the man of sin, the Antichrist. A world leader arises who seems to offer peace but in reality, he unleashes hellish forces of darkness on the earth.

As dark forces attack God's people and seek to destroy planet Earth, the story of mankind seems to be futile and hopeless. But God is only setting up the climax for the visible return of Jesus Christ to destroy all those opposed to God and establishing the visible, physical kingdom of Jesus Christ on the Earth.

Isaac was the second of the patriarchs of Israel, the only son of Abraham and Sarah, as well as the father of Esau and Jacob. In the Old and New Testaments, God is called the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because with them God's relationship of promise and purpose was fixed for all those who descended from them. Jacob, also called Israel, was a Hebrew patriarch as the grandson of Abraham, the son of Isaac and Rebekah, and also viewed as the traditional...

Paul's pastoral and instructional letters to the churches in Rome, Corinth, Galatia and Ephesus.

The Prophets 3 is a comic book about minor prophets who spoke fearlessly in the name of God. Through an invasion of locusts, the prophet Joel speaks to the people of Judah. Amos is a simple shepherd and fruit picker who brings a message of impending doom and captivity for the nation of Israel because of her sins. Obadiah is a prophet of God who condemn Edom for the sin of pride against both God and Israel. Micah announces judgment upon Israel for...

King David is the most beloved of the Jewish kings. Volume 1 provides the history and the setting for David's rise to power as it tells of the prophet Samuel's selection of Saul to the kingship and then his subsequent disobedience to God. In a little shepherd boy, God finds one ready to serve Him with all his heart. David steps into world history with his historic and titanic clash with the solder giant Goliath.

The letter to the Hebrews as well as the pastoral epistles and letters written by the apostles James, Peter, John and Jude.

Joseph was the next youngest son of the patriarch Jacob and his name is synonymous with all the tribes that made up the northern kingdom of Israel. Being betrayed and sold by his brothers is an example of God's ultimate plan to bring purpose out of great suffering. Through divine circumstances, Joseph becomes Pharaoh's chief of staff over all Egypt and is used to preserve and bring the nation of Israel to Egypt.