Luke 1:32: “He shall be great and He shall be called the son of the highest, and the Lord shall give him the throne of his father David.” Ok, it is Christmas and I am compelled to study the Christmas story. This year I decided to read the story from the Peshitta or the
Isaiah 1:25: “I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all they tin.” I’m a little hunk of tin, Nobody knows what I’ve might have been Got four wheels and a running board, I’m a Ford a Ford a Ford, Honk, Honk, Rattle, Rattle, Crash, Crash
Psalms 51:7, “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” I wasted a lot of time searching out the internet, reading scientific journals on articles about hyssop, reading commentaries take on hyssop, articles on essentials oils and the use of hyssop throughout different ancient
Isaiah 1:8: “And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.” This is a passage that seems to go unnoticed by most Christians as its meaning tends to be obscure. Yet, it presents a very sobering thought, to
Ecclesiastes 12:14: ‘Because God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.” It is interesting that the word for God has a definite article in front of it, “Because The God.” The word for God is haelohim which is referring to one who has authority over us. The root word is alah, the same
Isaiah 55:8: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.” The word for thought here is not sh’ar as it is in Proverbs 23:7: Here the word is chashav. Sh’ar has the idea of thinking to make a decision; this thinking is to invent or create
Isaiah 54:11: “O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.” We need to keep in mind that Hebrew is constantly drawing a picture for us. Here the nation of Israel is pictured as a people being tossed around
Isaiah 62:5a “For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry Thee: The word for marry here is baal, yeah the same word that is used for a false god. What could the sages be thinking when they used the same word for marriage that is used for a pagan
Isaiah 51:13, 17. “And forgettest the Lord they maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy and where is the fury of the oppressor?” 17. Awake, awake, stand up,
Ecclesiastes 4:5: “The fool folded his hands together and eats his own flesh.” It seems most commentaries tend to agree that the writer is basically saying that there are people who feel the world owes them a living. They sit back in their laziness and eat their own flesh or are self-tormentors, never really satisfied. I can see
