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,
WORD STUDY – CLOSED UP ת Isaiah 66:9: “Shall I bring forth birth and not cause to bring forth, says the Lord. Shall I cause to bring forth and shut the womb?, says your God.” At first glance this repetition of two phrases seem to say the same thing and indeed it does, once the
WORD STUDY – THE GIFT OF THE MAGI (Aramaic) Matthew 2:11: “And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.” There were once three
NOTE: 2018 WILL MARK THE TENTH YEAR I HAVE BEEN DOING DAILY WORD STUDIES. SOMETIMES I WILL REVISIT AN- OLD STUDY TO REVISE IT WITH NEW INFORMATION THAT I GLEAN FROM MY ON GOING PERSONAL STUDIES. HOWEVER, FOR THE NEXT THREE DAYS LEADING UP TO CHRISTMAS I WOULD LIKE TO OFFER MY PREVIOUS CHRISTMAS STUDIES
