“Meanwhile, the P’lishti approached with his challenge every morning and evening for forty days.” -1 Samuel 17:16 I wanna show you something interesting about the number 40. Take a look at these momentous Biblical events. During the flood, it rained for 40 days and 40 nights… Moses was on the mountain receiving God’s law for […]

“When Sha’ul and all Isra’el heard those words of the P’lishti, they were shaken and terrified.  Now David was the son of that Efrati from Beit-Lechem in Y’hudah named Yishai. He had eight sons; and in the time of Sha’ul he was old — the years had taken their toll.  Yishai’s three oldest sons had […]

“He stood and yelled at the armies of Israel, ‘Why come out and draw up a battle line? I’m a P’lishti, and you are servants of Sha’ul, so choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.  If he can fight me and kill me, we’ll be your slaves; but if I […]

Following on the heels of yesterday’s conversation concerning just how big Goliath was… Do you remember way back in the book of Joshua we were introduced to a race of giants called the Anakim? Here’s the Scripture reference: “No ‘Anakim were left in the land of the people of Israel- only in ‘Azah, Gat and […]

The Philistines were on one side of the Valley of Elah, and Saul’s militia was on the other. Each side was staring the other down just waiting for something to happen. And then a freak of nature emerged from the Philistine camp. A giant named Golyat came out and started yelling out obscenities at the […]