Habakkuk: 5:1, “I will stand upon my watch, and set myself upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.” The other day I was in Texas preparing to share with a group of Christians some ideas on using the
Jeremiah 18:12: “And they said, There is no hope, but we will walk after our own devices and we will everyone do the imaginations of his own evil heart.” “If I dud it, I get a vippin,—– I dud it.” Red Skelton -Mean Little Kid That is quite a thing for the people
Proverbs 13:24: “He that spares his rod hates his son: but he that loves him chastens him early.” Proverbs 23:13: “Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with a rod, he shall not die.” Recently I was attending a class run by a private organization on caring for foster children. This organization works with the
Exodus 25:1-2: “And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ‘Speak to the children of Israel, that they take for Me an offering; of every man whose heart prompts him, you shall take My offering.’” Why did God want the people to donate their gold, silver and other possessions of their prosperity to build His sanctuary? God is
Exodus 14:15, 16: “And Jehovah said to Moses: ‘Why do you cry to me? Speak to the sons of Israel and let them move forward. And (then) you (will) lift up your rod and hold out your arm over the sea and split it, so that the sons of Israel will march into the sea on dry ground.’” The children
Psalms 10:4 “ The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.” In studying an ancient language we must bear in mind that there exist ellipses just as in modern English. The only difference is that in modern English we set our ellipses off with a series
Exodus 20:3 “Thou shalt have no other (another) gods before me.” A man came to a rabbi and asked if the rabbi could teach him the deep mysteries of God. The rabbi asked the man a question. Two burglars entered a house through a chimney. Upon emerging from the chimney one burglar had a dirty face and the other a
Exodus 14:20 “And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel and it was a cloud and darkness to them but it gave light by night to those. So that the one came not near the other all the night.” Many of us as children have watched these phony
Genesis 50:20 “But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.” In Ta’anit 21a of the Talmud there is the story of a sage named Nachum. I could not tell from translating if his hands
Exodus 33:14: And He said: “My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28-30: “Come to Me, all you who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you
