WORD STUDY – IT IS FINISHED – (Aramaic) Mem Shin Lamed Mem Luke 23:28: “But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.” John 19:30: “When Jesus, therefore, had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and
John 11:35 – Jesus wept It is a cold, dark rainy day here at the Abbey. I don’t believe that God brought this dark gloomy day just for me but I do believe He is an opportunist. Since He did plan on this being a rainy, dark, gloomy day he led me to
1 Corinthians 2:2: “For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.” I recently read where the Dalai Lama spends up to six hours a day in study and meditation. Ha, what an amateur. I spend that and more in study, mediation on the Word of God
Psalms 149:3: “Let them praise His name in the dance, let them sing praises unto Him with the timbre and the harp. Do you ever go through a period of time when you feel like old Job. Just one messenger after another keeps coming to your door with some more bad news.
Psalms 118:10: “All nations compassed me about, but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.” The letter Beth can be used as a preposition for in, on or with. No English translation I know will render the Beth in this passage as with. However, the Jewish sages do that very thing.
Matthew 1:20-21, “But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a
Genesis 7:1 “And the Lord said unto Noah, ‘Come thou and all they house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.’” I sometimes receive correspondence from those who read my studies asking where I came up with a particular rendering for certain words. They say that they have
John 11:33, “When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,” John 11:35, “Jesus wept.” Yesterday I caught a few minutes of the Glenn Beck radio program where he was discussing an organization that he was trying to raise
Hosea: 14:10: “He who is wise will consider these words; He who is prudent will take note of them. For the paths of the Lord are smooth; the righteous can walk on them But the sinners will stumble on them. There are four words in this verse that really stand out to me. They
Psalms 16:8: “I have set the Lord always before me because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.” David gives us a startling revelation about his relationship with God. He is telling us that he sets the Lord always before him. The word set is shavah which is used in
