BETTY’S CAFE On my journey through the Catskill mountains I stopped off in a little one horse town where I had lunch in Betty’s Café. As I sat down I was greeted by my waitress, a young woman of about college age. I noticed on my right was about three tables grouped together and
Exodus 20:18: “And all the people were seeing the thunder voices and the torches and the voice of the shofar and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance.” This verse presents a very obvious question, how could people see the thundering voices? Many translations will
Exodus 19:3; “And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying: ‘Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the sons of Israel.’” What is the different between the house of Jacob and the sons of Israel? Moses is to relate the commandments of God to both
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomin: John 8:32: “And you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” I used to love to have arguments –uh, discussions with my Jehovah Witness friends. Invariably we would approach an impasse such as John 1:1 which they render as “The Word was
WORD STUDY: FOR YOURSELF Exodus 34:1: “And the Lord God said unto Moses, Hew thee two tablets of stone like unto the first and I will write upon these tablets the words that I wrote on the first tablets which thou breakest.” For Yourself – Hebrew: Leka – combination of the preposition “for or to”
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
WORD STUDY – Come Exodus 3:5: “Draw (come) not nigh hither” God said: “Put off thy shoes from thy feet, for the place whereupon thou standest is holy ground.” Come (draw) – Hebrew: Karav – to draw near, to come, approach, heart Practically every Christian commentary I’ve read seems to agree (which is unusual for
WORD STUDY – AGREEMENT Matthew 18:19-20: “Again I say unto you that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomin: Matthew 6:6: “But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut the door, pray to thy father which is in secret, and thy father which sees in secret shall reward thee openly.” “That a man should not allow his voice to
Psalm 51:10: “Create in me a clean heart, O’God and renew a right spirit within me.” Rabbi Cohen, an orthodox Jewish rabbi, showed me a special room in his house. It was filled with books, all books about God. Commentaries on the Torah, the Talmud, the Mishnah. I remember how he picked up one book
