Deuteronomy 3:24: “Oh, Lord God, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness.” This is truly an amazing statement to be made by Moses. The Book of Deuteronomy is really three sermons that Moses delivered to the people of Israel just before they entered the promised land. The first sermon rehashes the
Genesis 5:24, “And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for God took him.” Hebrews 11:5, “By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.” Jude 1:14, “And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam,
Psalms 17:3 “Thou has proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night.” The above passage was taken from the KJV. It translates the phrase “thou hast visited me in the night” in a perfect tense (completed action). I checked through every translation I could find and practically all of them translate this
Hosea 2:19, “And I will betroth thee unto me forever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.” There is much talk among Christians today of being the bride of Christ and being married to Christ. This is, of course, a very Biblical picture
Exodus 31:18: “And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.” “Man is not complete until he is married, then he is finished.” Rough translation from Jewish literature I was
Isaiah 9:6: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given and the government will be upon His shoulders.” With the advent of worship teams, church choirs are starting to become an endangered species, if they are not already extinct. That is good and bad in certain ways. For me
Isaiah 62:5: “For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee. And as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.” This is an interesting poetic expression. In the first part of this verse in Isaiah it appears that Israel is playing the role
Psalm 119:58 I sought Your favor with all my heart; Be gracious to me according to Your word. While choosing a verse for the letter chet, the word sought “chalah” (חלה) caught my attention because one of its meanings has the idea of being lovesick. I also believe it is a play on words with Kallah (כלה) “Bride”
I just returned home from a retreat at a Monastery in Iowa (pictured above) where I lived alone in the “Guest House”, located on 650 acres of managed woodlands. What a gift I was given to get away with God in the wilderness…so quiet and peaceful. Which brings me to this weeks study from the
WORD STUDY: LORD GOD Exodus 34:6: “And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.” Lord God: Hebrew – Jehovah El In reading the Bible we are constantly running across the phrase “Lord God.” This verse should give us some
