In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 NASB In the Beginning – This was written on January 1st, 2009. Recently a reader questioned something about it, and when I looked at what I wrote 14 years ago, I had to agree. It needed some changes. So, for those of you…
Now at that time Michael, the great prince who stands guard over the sons of your people, will arise. And there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the book, will be rescued. And many of those who sleep…
Now at that time Michael, the great prince who stands guard over the sons of your people, will arise. And there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the book, will be rescued. And many of those who sleep…
Now at that time Michael, the great prince who stands guard over the sons of your people, will arise. And there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the book, will be rescued. And many of those who sleep…
Now at that time Michael, the great prince who stands guard over the sons of your people, will arise. And there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the book, will be rescued. And many of those who sleep…
And these three men left off answering Job because he was right in his own eyes. Job 32:1 Robert Alter Right in his own eyes – The book of Job is a disturbing story. It’s hard to imagine that God would allow such terrible suffering for a man who served Him with all his heart. …
She weeps on through the night, and her tears are on her cheek. Lamentations 1:2 Robert Alter Weeps on – “If faith is to become real, catastrophe must be acknowledged and fully spoken.”[1] Perhaps you need to read that Zornberg statement again. Slowly. If you want a real faith, faith that matters, that has grit,…
Train up a child [a]in the way he should go, even when he grows older he will not abandon it. Proverbs 22:6 NASB In the way he should go – Did you see that little footnote before this phrase? In the margin, the NASB says, “according to his way.” It’s not quite the same idea, is…
Israel has been saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation; You will not be put to shame or humiliated to all eternity. Isaiah 45:17 NASB Eternity – Isaiah just got it wrong. He wrote long before the continuous anti-Semitism of Europe and certainly before WWII. Israel was humiliated over and over and over again. I guess this…
For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under [a]the Law but under grace. Romans 6:14 NASB But – Yesterday we discovered that there is an alternative way of reading this text that preserves Paul’s Jewish orthodoxy. This fact is critically important because it shows us that the Christian assumption that Paul left Judaism and invented…
