• HEBREW WORD STUDY –TELEPORTATION – KEFITZAT HADERECH – קפיצת הדרכ   Genesis 24:42: “Behold I stand here by the well of water…” Matthew 24:22: “And unless those days be shortened, no flesh shall be saved. But for the elect sake, those days will be shortened.”   Kefitzat Haderech (A shortening of the way) is not found in

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY –  YIREDU  ירדו   Genesis 1:28:  “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” As

  • WORD STUDY – FROGS –  בצפרדעימ Exodus 8:2,7 “And if thou refuse to let [them] go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs: (7) And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.” I have always wondered about this matter of the plague of frogs brought

  • WORD STUDY – TABERNACLE/CLOUD SUKAH  סכה   Isaiah 4:6: “And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.” The word tabernacle here is sukah. It is the root word for sukkoth as in the Feast

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – A CONSUMING FIRE – KAESH כאשׁ Jeremiah 20:9: “Then I said, I will not make mention of him nor speak anymore in his name. But his word was in my heart as a burning fire and shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forebearing and I could not

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – LIKE HIS HEART כלבבו Kalavavu I Samuel 13:14: “But now thy kingdom shall not continue; the Lord has sought him a man after his own heart.” Most translators walk in lock step with the KJV and say a man after God’s heart. Some will say according to God’s heart others a heart

  •   WORD STUDY – AN ABUSIVE HUSBAND – BAALI בעלי “Hosea 2:16: And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord that You shall me Ishi (my husband) and shall call me no more Baali (my master).” At this point in the relationship between Hosea and his wife, she is calling him baali, my

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – ENGULF AND DESTROY – BALA בלא Exodus 7:12: “For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.” Archeologists have discovered that the cobra played a vital role in Ancient Egypt. Cobra heads were carved from gemstones and worn around the neck as

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – BELOVED – ABBA אבא Matthew 6:9: “After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.” It has been very much ingrained in our Western culture that God is a Father, ie., a male father figure. This is not so in the Semitic mind. God

  • VA’AVDTEM ועבדתס Exodus 23:25: “And you shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless your bread, and your water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.” I was reading this morning in Exodus and I discovered a grammatical abnormality in Exodus 23:25 in the words “your bread and your