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
Isaiah 30:21: “And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.” Yesterday I was pondering who or what this moreka (Master Teacher) is. This morning after further mediation on the following
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
Mark 12:30-31, “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than
Psalms 104:4 “Who makes his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:” Let me just say at the outset that I do believe in angels as we traditional understand angels. I mean I am a big fan of the old TV show Touched by An Angel. Every Christmas I cheer Clarence on as he tries to earn his
I Kings 18:28, “And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.” This classic story pits God Jehovah against the god Baal worshipped by King Ahab of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. The land of Israel has been without rain for
II Chronicles 34:33: “And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the Lord their God, and all his days they departed not from following the Lord the God of their fathers.”
II Chronicles 19:3: “Nevertheless there are good things found in thee in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.” This passage is referring to the king of Judah, Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat was a Godly king who teamed up with the Godless king of
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
I Kings 11:9: “And the Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel which had appeared unto him twice.” Every modern translation I read uses the word angry in this passage. Well, I mean you can’t blame God for being angry with Solomon after pulling the
