Washing the Dishes

He will swallow up death for all time, and the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces, and He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth; for the Lord has spoken. Isaiah 25:8 NASB Wipe tears away – The verb maha(h) occurs thirty-tree times in the Tanakh. It is…

Hebrew “Conversion”

“Repent therefore and return, that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.” Acts 3:19 NASB (1963) Repent/return/wiped away – What do you think about Peter’s declaration? Is he asking his audience to become Christians by acknowledging Jesus as the Christ or is…

Clearing Up The Confusion

Thus the priest shall make expiation for them, and they shall be forgiven. Leviticus 4:20 Expiation – For centuries we have heard Christian theologians proclaim that forgiveness comes by grace alone.  Pastors and professors have driven a wedge between the teaching of Leviticus and the words of Paul.  The Jews were under the “law.”  Christians…