Psalms 71:4 “Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.” Most commentators believe that this wicked person is David’s son Absalom who plotted against his father and forced him from the throne causing David to run for his life
Leviticus 26:3-4: “If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; (4) Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.” I was reading in the Talmud this morning in Avodah Zarah
Daniel 6:3: “Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes because an excellent spirit was in him and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.” The more I read this passage over the more I became fascinated with this idea of an excellent spirit. At this point in
Psalms 98:6: “With trumpets and the sound of cornet, make a joyful noise before the Lord, the king.” Ok, let me get this straight. The KJV was translated in the 17th Century, but the cornet did not appear until the 19th Century? Someone explain to me how the word cornet managed to make its way
Number 25:11: “Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.” Like him or not Donald Trump is our new President and
Psalms 120:2: “Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.” At first reading it appears that the writer is saying: “Lord make those gossiping about me shut up, punch ‘em in the mouth.” But upon closer examination, the writer is not saying that at all, he just wants his
Isaiah 35:8: “And a highway shall be there, and a way and it shall be called The Way of holiness: the unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for those; the wayfaring men, though fools shall not err therein.” What did Isaiah really see in his prophecy or vision? Obviously, he
Isaiah 7:11-12: “Ask thee a sign of the Lord, thy God, ask it either in the depth or in the height above. But Ahaz said, I will not ask neither will I tempt the Lord.” Luke 12:24: “To whom much is given, much is expected.” Generally, we will not escape this coming holiday
Genesis 11:1 “And the whole earth was of one language and one speech. (6) And the LORD said, Behold, the people [are] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. I am often surprised when
Isaiah 40:15: “Behold, the nations [are] as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.” So we are four days away from the presidential election and Wiki Leaks comes out with their lastest revelation, proof
