•   Hosea 14:8: “Ephraim shall say, What have I to do anymore with idols, I have heard him and observed him, I am like a green fir tree, from me is thy fruit found.   Little is known about Hosea. What we do know is that he was prophet during the time when the Northern

  •   Isaiah 56:3:  “Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I [am] a dry tree.”   Deuteronomy 23:1: “He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut

  •   Isaiah 56:6: “Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the Sabbath from profaning it, and taketh hold of my covenant;   We now approach the second to the last condition

  •     Isaiah 56:6: “Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and taketh hold of my covenant;”   So my last study looked at the first

  •   Isa 56:6-7  “Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and

  •   Deuteronomy 32:15: “But Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked. Thou are waxen fat and thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness, then he forsook God which made him and lightly esteemed the rock of his salvation.”   Who the blazes is Jeshurun. It appears four times in the Bible and most commenters agree

  •   Psalms 1:1 “Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.”   What does it mean to be blessed?  Is that to say that the man who does not walk in the counsel of the

  •   Exodus 30:37-38: “And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the Lord.  Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall be cut off from his people.”   When I was a student at

  •   1Kings 19:2-4: “Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, so let the gods do [to me], and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time. And when he saw [that], he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba,

  •   Psalms 27:10: “When my mother and father forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.”   The first word in this verse in Hebrew is ki. Translators take a lot of liberty with this word.   Generally it is rendered as a conjunction because (my mother and father forsake me) or a pronoun that.