THROUGH THE DALETH – SANCTIFY YOURSELF Judges 3:5; And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.” Every modern translation renders this: “For tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.” A few translations will say: “I will do wonders in our midst.” This could also
WORD STUDY – BE NOT FAR Psalms 71:12, “O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.” “Oh God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.” Brenton Fisherman Prayer Many passages of Scripture are so clear and straight forward that you really do not need
WORD STUDY: MY DEAREST – (Aramaic) John 20:28: “And Thomas answered and said unto him: My Lord and my God.” The passage in John 20:27-29 does not say that Thomas did touch the nail prints and the side of Jesus, What the Greek tells us is: Ho, kuios mou, Ho Theos mou. My Lord and
WORD STUDY – IT IS FINISHED (Aramaic) משׁלמ Luke 23:28: “But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.” John 19:30: “When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.”
WORD STUDY – AGONY (ARAMAIC) דחל Luke 22:44: “And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” Much has been written and preached about Jesus in the garden praying the night before his death on the cross and the fact
WORD STUDY – MAKE IT SHINE הלל Jeremiah 20:13: “Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.” I was listening to an old song by the Imperials this morning entitled Praise the Lord. One line of that song says: “Praise the
WORD STUDY – REMEMBER YOUR OBLIGATION Mark 14:68: “But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest. And he went out on the porch; and the cock crew.” General Joshua Chamberlain, the hero of the Battle of Little Roundtop during the Civil War, told the story of an event near the
WORD STUDY – BOAST AND MAGNIFY Isaiah 10:15: “Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? [or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake [itself] against them that lift it up, [or] as if the staff should lift up [itself, as if it were]
WORD STUDY – OUTERMOST PARTS OF HEAVEN Deuteronomy 30:4: If any of thine be driven out unto the outermost parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and thence will he fetch thee. Even the Skeptic’s Annotated Bible missed this one. God gathering from the outermost parts of heaven? Sounds like
