Manna For Breakfast with Bill Martin

Genesis - Israel's Prophecy concerning His Sons, The Death of Israel, Death of Joseph Matthew - Woes to the Scribes and Pharisees continue, Lament over Jerusalem

Genesis:  Jacob (aka Israel) moves to Egypt taking his entire family and all is possessions and is reunited with a tearful Joseph who settles him in Goshen.  Pharaoh becomes exceedingly rich as everyone sold all they had because of the severity of the famine.  Jacob blesses Joseph's sons as he prepares to die. Matthew:  Jesus exposes the hypocrisy and pride of the scribes...

Genesis:  Jacob's family returns to Egypt with Benjamin where Joseph again tests the brothers until he finally reveals himself to them.  Afterward Joseph sends his brothers back to their father carrying gifts for them all.   Matthew:  A dispute between the Sadducees and the Pharisees arrises and they ask Jesus to explain what will happen in heaven with wives of deceased husband...

Genesis:  Upon being taken from prison to interpret Pharaoh's dreams Joseph is made a ruler in Egypt below Pharaoh due to his unmatched wisdom.  Jacob sends Joseph's brothers to Egypt to buy grain due to the famine, they encounter Joseph who they no longer recognize and are tested by him.  Matthew 22:1-22  Jesus teaches the parable of the wedding feast and the Pharisees test Je...

Genesis:  Joseph known Egypt has great success followed by his false imprisonment where God uses him to interpret two dreams. Matthew:  Jesus teaches about how those in authority are to use their power correctly.  Two parables are given, one of the two sons and the other of the landowner who sends finally his son.  

Genesis - Esau Moves, Descendants of Esau, Joseph's Dream, Juda & Tamar Matthew 21:1-22 - The Triumphal Entry, The Barren Fig Tree

Genesis - Jacob Meets Esau, The Treachery of Jacob's Sons, Jacob Moves to Bethel, The Sons of Israel Matthew - Death, Resurrection Foretold, Preferment Asked, Sight for the Blind

Genesis - Jacob Leaves Secretly for Canaan, The Covenant of Mizpah, Jacob's Fear of Esau Matthew - Laborers in the Vineyard, Death, Resurrection Foretold

Genesis:  Jacob meets Rachel and seeking to marry her is deceived by her father just as he had once deceived his brother.  God blesses and Jacob and his family  as his wives and their maids begin to bear him 12 sons who will become the 12 tribes of Israel. Matthew:  Jesus teaches divorce, allowing little children to come to Him and provides an answer to the rich young ruler on...

Genesis - Jacob's Deception, The Stolen Blessing, Jacob is Sent Away, Jacob's Dream Matthew - Forgiveness (how many times should we forgive)

Genesis:  Abraham dies and is buried with Sarah.  Ishmael dies, Isaac and Rebekah have twin sons, Esau and Jacob.  Esau sells his birthright for bread and stew to Jacob.  Isaac lies about Rebekah being his sister to Abimelech and wells are quarreled over until a covenant is made with Abimelech.   Matthew:  Jesus gives more instruction, calling for all to come to Him a...

Genesis:  Abraham negotiates and purchases land to bury Sarah.  Abraham sends his servant to the land of his relatives to take a wife for Isaac.  Rebekah willingly returns and becomes Isaac's wife.   Matthew:  The transfiguration of Jesus upon the mountain along with Elijah and Moses is witnessed by Peter, James and John who heard the voice of God pronounce "This is My bel...

Job: God gives a description of the leviathan to convince Job of his weakness before it and of God's power being mightier than all.   Job humbly repents, his friends are corrected for their wrong view of God and is commanded to make sacrifices for them for pardon.  Job is restored to twice his previous state.   Matthew:  Jesus warns of the disciples of the destructive teac...

Job - God Speaks Now to Job - God's Mighty Power - God Speaks of Nature and Its Beings - Job: What Can I Say? - God Questions Job - God's Power Shown in Creatures Matthew - The Syrophoenician Woman - Healing Crowds - Four Thousand Fed

Job - Elihu Speaks of Gods Dealings with Men - Elihu Says God is Back of the Storm Matthew - Traditions and Commandments - The Heart of Man

Elisha correctly vindicates all God does in justice as Job had questioned in his depression what good is being righteous if God treats the just and unjust the same.  He has come out of that depression and recognized the truth, and his friends don't have a full picture of the severe persecution Job is under by Satan.

Job:  Elihua, a young man who's been listening and thinking of himself as wiser and more righteous than Job and his friends is angered by what he's heard and is unable to hold back from speaking any longer, accuses Job of being wrong before God. Matthew:  John the Baptist is beheaded as a result of Herod speaking carelessly after John angered Herod's wife Herodias.  Jesus hears the...

Job: Job explains how humiliating his present state is with the pain and mocking.  Then Job speaks of his integrity in all his way and fear before God. Matthew:  Jesus continues on speaking in parables about the mustard seed, leaven, hidden treasure and a costly pearl, all the things that have been hidden of the kingdom of heaven and of the ultimate value of our salvation rather than the...

Job: Job tells of the difficulties acquiring earthly treasures and yet the search for wisdom is much harder and of more value than anything else.  In his wisdom Job teaches his friends about the holiness of God and their arrogant speech toward himself, as he has honored God all his life.    Matthew: Jesus begins His teaching in parables and His disciples question why in parables rat...

Job - Bildad Says Man is Inferior - Job Rebukes Bildad - The Greatness of God - Job Affirms His Righteousness - The State of the Godless Matthew - The Pharisees Rebuked - The Unpardonable Sin - Words Reveal Character - The Desire for Signs - Changed Relationships

*THIS RECORDING HAS A FEW TECHNICAL GLITCHES* Job - Eliphaz Accuses & Exhorts Job - Job Says He Longs for God - Job Says God Seems to Ignore Wrongs Matthew - The Genealogy of Jesus the Messiah

Job - Zophar Speaks: The Wicked Will Suffer - Job Replies: The Wicked Do Prosper Matthew - John's Questions, Unrepenting Cities, Come to Me

Job: sees he's become loathsome and a byword to everyone who knows him and that God has kept them from understanding in their hearts what is happening.  Bildan falsely accuses and insults him.  Job recognizes that God is his only hope and clings to God knowing that his Redeemer lives and continues to praise HIm.      Matthew: Jesus claims His deity, setting the standa...

Job: speaks of how God holds our days in His hands while Elephaz presumes Job's guilt by condemning him as a bad man and that he is being punished by God as He does to bad men.  Job counts his friends as worthless and waits upon God to release him from the hands of the wicked. Matthew: Jesus, having chosen the twelve disciples, sent them out to heal and preach the kingdom of heaven to the men...

Job:  Zophar, Job's friend condemns him thinking he's done something wicked but Job speaks of their misconception of God and the he trusts God will vindicate him.   Matthew:  Jesus feeling compassion for the distressed and dispirited performs many miracles of healing those who have great faith in Him.  The Pharisees account Jesus as healing those from demons by the ruler of the...