Psalms 100:4: “Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise.” This is a very familiar verse to those who attend church regularly. We automatically associate entering his gates with passing through the doors of the church and his courts with praise as coming into the sanctuary of the church. That is the
Exodus 7:9: “When Pharaoh says to you: ‘Prove yourself by working a miracle.’ It is interesting to note that the word for prove here is not nacah which is your standard Hebrew word for prove. Instead the writer uses an interesting word which is nathan. This was one of the easiest vocabulary words to remember
Genesis 15:6: “And he (Abraham) believed the Lord and He counted it as righteousness.” The Talmud teaches that trusting belief in God is more important than anything else. One may keep all the laws of Torah, follow every ritual, but it is only trust that will ultimately save the individual. Remember how Saul lost
Ezra 4:4: “Then the people of the land weakened the hands of Judah and troubled them in building.” As I read the news coming out of Israel today and I see the tensions growing between the government of the United States and Israel, I cannot help but wonder if history is just not repeating
Amos 8:11: “Behold the days are coming, saith the Lord that I will bring a famine in the land, not a famine of bread or a thirst for water but of hearing the words of the Lord.” “Water water everywhere and all the boards did shrink Water water everywhere and not a drop to
Deuteronomy 1:13, “Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.” Matthew 5:18. “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”
Ezekiel 18:31 “Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit; for why will ye die, O House of Israel?” The word in Hebrew for cast is shalak which is found in a Hiphal (causative) imperative (command) form. Thus there is
Psalms 25:11: “For thy name sake, O Lord, pardon my iniquity for it is great.” We tend to use the word iniquity interchangeable with the word sin. I mean are not sin and iniquity both the same. Actually, there is a real difference between iniquity and sin. Most of us know that the
Jonah 1:3 “But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.” KJV Jonah 1:3: “But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish.” NIV I remember as a six year old sitting in Sunday School in Beginner’s Church listening to my Sunday School teacher tell the
Psalms 91:1 “He who dwells in the secret place of the most High, shall abide in the shadow of the Almighty.” Yesterday was December 7, the day we memorialize the Pearl Harbor attack and our entrance into World War II. I heard an interesting story of something that happened right after December 7th .
