Isaiah 52:7: “How lovely upon the mountain are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that announces peace and brings good news, announces salvation saying to Zion your God reigns.” Why feet? Why not just the person who brings the news? If you are going to mention a specific physical part of
Isaiah 50:7: “For the Lord God shall help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed,” Practically every translation I read this verse in will translate “‘azar” as help or helper. There are not too many
Genesis 2:7: “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Remember the song from Fiddler on The Roof? LaChaim. (la – to, chaim – life). What were they celebrating? They were, of course, celebrating
Isaiah 50:11: “Behold, as all of you who kindle fire, who are surrounded in sparks, walk (a righteous walk) in the light (of) your fire in your burning. From My hand this shall be for you in pain (so) you will lie down.” Those who have even been in any of my classes
Isaiah 14:12: “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!” Most of us grow up being taught either through Sunday School or secular literature and entertainment that Lucifer is the name of the enemy. It was
Isaiah 49:3: “and said unto me, ‘You are my servant, O’ Israel, in whom I will be glorified.’ ” God is saying that we are his servants. The Hebrew word for servant is ‘aved. ‘Aved has a very broad use in the Hebrew, it has the basic idea of laboring for the advantage
Isaiah 45:3: “And I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hidden riches of secret places that you will know that I, the Lord, who called you by your name am the God of Israel.” Isaiah 45: 2 tells us that God is going to blaze the trail for us as
Isaiah 30:18: “And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted that he might be merciful upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment, blessed are all that wait for him.” “He was there all the time, Waiting patiently in line,
Ruth 1:16: And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave you, or to return from following after you: for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge: your people shall be my people, and your God my God.” Someone once wrote a song with the words: “You are
John 12:40: “He hath blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, that they should not see with their eyes nor understand with their heart and be converted, and I shall heal them.” This passage has always been a great mystery to me. I have examined this word tetyphloken (He has blinded) in the
