"The City of David" To understand the story I just read to you, you first have to understand that until the time of Saul and David, the people of Israel viewed themselves as more a collection of loosely connected independent tribes; they didn't see themselves as a nation. Very similar to the rather fluid boundaries that existed between many North American Native Tribes. The people of Israel saw themselves as independent tribes, who, yeah were related to the other tribes, but they really didn't want to have a lot to deal with each other. If we go back in our Bibles all the way back to Genesis, Jacob, who goes on to be renamed 'Israel'; Jacob had two wives who were sisters to one another. Those two wives were Leah and Rachel. They were sisters. Upon their marriages to Jacob Leah and Rachel each received from their father as a gift a handmaid, a servant girl. Leah's maid was Zilpha and Rachel's maid was Bilhah. It's most likely that Zilpha and Bilhah were also sisters to Leah and Rachel. It was very common back then. For younger sisters to be given as handmaids to their older sisters. Makes you really want to be a younger sister, doesn't it? Think of the stories we know of the Mormon people in the past - where they have sister wives. Where do you think they got that idea? They didn't just make it up this is where it came from. Long and complicated story short: Jacob had children with each of those four women. Father's Day at Jacob's house was pretty straightforward, but Mother's Day got confusing. With Leah, Jacob had Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Jacob's only daughter, Dinah. Who, for our purposes today doesn't matter because she didn't have a region of Israel. She wasn't the head of one of the tribes of Israel. Only the boys founded tribes. With Zilpha, Jacob had Gad and Asher. With Bilhah, he had Dan and Naphtali. And, with Rachel Jacob had Joseph and Benjamin. On the map in the bulletin you can see the name of the region which each tribe occupied. Just like if you had a map of the United States with Native American tribes here, you might Shoshone written across our area because... Worship Video HERE.

 : : LIVE STREAM : : 
We livestream our services via our YouTube channel! For livestream feed click HERE.