QUICK WORD STUDY – IN THE BEGINNING Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning God created the earth.” John 1:1: “In the beginning was the Word.” The three English words, in the beginning, are just one word for Hebrew and Aramaic, bere’shith in Hebrew and brasheeth in Aramaic. In the Hebrew and Aramaic text of Genesis God
QUICK WORD STUDY – PERFECTION גמרא Matthew 5:48: “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” Jesus is speaking in Aramaic and not Greek. In Aramaic the word for perfect is gmeera. Among the Semitic people there is a fairly common phrase used for a learned person, gmeera biolpana
WORD STUDY – OPEN MY EYES Numbers 22:28 “And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?” Numbers 22:31 “Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing
WORD STUDY – VIPERS (ARAMAIC) Matthew 3:4,7-9: “ And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. (7)But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers,
WORD STUDY – LED BY THE SPIRIT Matthew 4:1-2 “Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. (2) And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.” This passage has always baffled me. What spirit led Jesus into the wilderness?
WORD STUDY – GIVEN IN MARRIAGE Deuteronomy 32:30: “How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?” Deuteronomy 32:30 is poetry. Poetry is an art form. Art is meant to convey a feeling, arouse an emotion. There is
WORD STUDY – BEFORE Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart for my holy purpose. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.” I recently heard someone use this verse to defend the theory of reincarnation. Our spirits were always
WORD STUDY – GOOD THINGS “II Chronicles 19:3: “Nevertheless there are good things found in thee in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.” This passage is referring to the king of Judah, Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat was a Godly king who teamed up
WORD STUDY – JOYFUL IN GLORY Psalms 149:5: “Let the saints be joyful in glory, let them sing aloud upon their beds.” “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.” Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, Scene II “Politics makes strange bedfellows.” Charles Dudley Warner This Psalm tells us to sing aloud upon our beds. This does
WORD STUDY – LOVE THE LORD Deuteronomy 6:5: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” John 21:15: “So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him,
