The word “winter” חָרַף when spelled in reverse is פָּרַח and is a word for “blossoming“. It is a reminder that there is purpose to every season and that in the end of its cycle, there will be flowers that blossom and fruit that yields! Song 2:10-12 My beloved responded and said to me, ‘Arise, my
Psalms 106:23: “Therefore he said that he would destroy them had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach to turn away his wrath lest he should destroy them.” Well here we go again. One of those verses that have people convinced that God is a ruthless, short tempered God who
Exodus 23:25, “And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.” Yesterday I explained how the Hebrew pronoun you have both a singular and a plural form. In Exodus 20:2 the pronoun your in your
Deuteronomy 28:63, “And it shall come to pass, [that] as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to naught; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.”
Ezekiel 16:30: “How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious, whorish woman.” Am I missing something or did Ezekiel just call Judah a whore. There are three words in Hebrew for a whore or prostitute. None get rave reviews, but there
Exodus 27:20: “And thou shalt command the children of Israel that they bring thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.” I once asked a rabbi why the children of Israel had to bring olive oil that was beaten to be used to light the tabernacle. as
Exodus 15:23: “And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter, therefore the name of it was Marah.” There is the story of a woman who did everything to try and please her husband, but he managed to find fault with everything she
Ecclesiastes 9:4: “For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.” “…how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from which one hopes for…there can be no peace without
Genesis 47:29, “And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:”
Exodus 24:16: “And the glory of the Lord abode upon Mt. Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and the seventh day God called out to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.” So what was Moses was doing in the cloud for six days before God called him. I
