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Obadiah on Wide Screen
The vision of Obadiah. Obadiah 1 NASB Vision – Have you read Obadiah? I wouldn’t be surprised if you said, “No.” It’s such a short book that it is often skipped. After all, what can a prophet say in just 21 verses? Before we discover how universal Obadiah really is, it’s worth examining the opening…
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Your Unfinished Song
Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to the Lord, and said, “I will sing to the Lord, for He is highly exalted; the horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea.” Exodus 15:1 NASB Sang – In 2014 we looked at the odd grammar of this verse. The rabbis noticed that…
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Instinctual Hope
And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. Matthew 6:28-29 NASB Observe – We’re very familiar with these verses. Yeshua’s reiteration of God’s…
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RAIN-Man
How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me? Psalm 13:1-2 NASB How long? – ʿad ʾānāʾ (ad anah). How long? The preposition ʿad is…
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DEA
And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.” Matthew 26:39 NASB Not as I will – DEA. No, not the Drug Enforcement Agency. For this community, DEA is Delayed Emotional Awareness. …
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Shade Boys – Rewind
For I satisfy the weary ones and refresh everyone who languishes. Jeremiah 31:25 NASB Languishes – Today let’s start at the end. Why? Because that’s where we might be—at the end. At the end of ourselves. At the end of trying to please Him. At the end of the daily discipline. At the end of…
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Translation Evolution
And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him. Matthew 3:15 King James Version Suffer – No one doubts that living languages evolve. Words that used to mean one thing come to mean something else. “Gay” is a good…
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Missing Words
There was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite killed [b]Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam. 2 Samuel 21:19 NASB Killed Goliath – Read it carefully. Okay, now answer the question, “Who killed Goliath?” Translators of the NASB provide a footnote to this verse…
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