Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • Political Suicide

    The people also to whom they are prophesying will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and there will be no one to bury them—neither them, nor their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters—for I will pour out their own wickedness on them. Jeremiah 14:16 NASB…

  • The Prophet’s Disease

    But if I say, “I will not remember Him or speak anymore in His name,” then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire shut up in my bones; and I am weary of holding it in, and I cannot endure it. Jeremiah 20:9 NASB Holding it in – Once I met a man…

  • Variants

    [1Now after He had risen early on the first day of the week, He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons.] Mark 16:9 NASB Now – Forget the word. Pay attention to the little number 1 in front of the word. Notice that this little number indicates “Later mss…

  • Assumptive Theology

    They seized upon that statement, discussing with one another what rising from the dead meant. Mark 9:10 NASB Meant – Do you find this verse a bit odd? It suggests that the disciples didn’t quite know what Yeshua was talking about when he told them to keep quiet until the Son of Man should rise…

  • Generational Gymnastics (2)

    And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?” John 9:2 NASB Who sinned – Hellenism! Yes, Greek Hellenism affected the first century world of Yeshua and his disciples. Hellenistic ideas crept into Jewish thought as early as the fourth century BCE and by the…

  • Generational Gymnastics (1)

    who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”  Exodus 34:7 NASB Visiting – Does God pass iniquity to the children of sinful fathers? Or…

  • Sleep Worshiping

    You shall have no other gods before Me. Exodus 20:3 NASB No other – “The vast majority of people are satisfied with compromises, or they remain unaware that they are worshipping a multitude of gods, that their actions constitute a maze of contradictions.”[1] Are you part of the “vast majority”? Living with compromises, contradictions and…

  • A BIG THANK YOU

    Hi Everyone, Thank you for you prayers, they were answered.  I went to the orthopedic doctor today and I do not need surgery.  Yahoo!!!  I have comminuted, multiple  fractures on my humeral  head and a fracture on my scapula.  He explained it like how an egg cracks.  Because the shoulder did not move out of the socket ,…

  • Born with a Broken Heart

    He heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds. Psalm 147:3 NASB Brokenhearted – How are you doing today? Things going “fine,” like we always say no matter what’s really happening? Today I am in South Africa (God willing), confronting my own life traumas. A history of a broken heart. And not just mine. There…

  • Don’t Read It Like This

    He shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the impurities of the sons of Israel and because of their transgressions in regard to all their sins; and thus he shall do for the tent of meeting which abides with them in the midst of their impurities. Leviticus 16:16 NASB Which – How would…