O Elohim, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have related to us, the work You did in their days, in the days of old. Psalm 44:1 ISR The work You did – I must confess. I can’t hold it in any longer. The current praise and worship music drives me crazy. It sounds…
You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD. Leviticus 19:18 NASB Neighbor – Proxy Christianity is a wonderful way to avoid the real world. It allows me to simply pay for someone else to share in…
Tradition is a fence for the Torah; tithes are a fence for riches, vows are a fence for abstinence; a fence for wisdom – silence. Rabbi Akiva, Pirke Avot 3:17B Fence for riches – Rabbi Akiva was one of the most famous and most adored of all the ancient rabbis. His martyrdom at the hands…
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. Romans 1:16 NASB To the Jew first – Paul was not ashamed, but don’t cut his sentence short. He was not ashamed of the good…
However, Rahab the harlot and her father’s household and all she had, Joshua spared; and she has lived in the midst of Israel to this day; for she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. Joshua 6:25 NASB In the midst – Rahab’s life changed when those two spies came to visit. …
Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you will deal kindly with my father’s household, and give me a pledge of truth, Joshua 2:12 NASB Please – So far everything about Rahab is just a little strange. It’s almost as if the narrator left out…
Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you will deal kindly with my father’s household, and give me a pledge of truth, Joshua 2:12 NASB Kindly – Why should these spies help Rahab? What do they have to gain from a promise to save her? …
and said to the men, “I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the terror of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land have melted away before you.” Joshua 2:9 NASB I know – How did Rahab know? How did she know that these men…
So they went and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lodged there. Joshua 2:1 NASB Lodged – Rahab presents a problem. It’s bad enough that she might be a prostitute, but worse that even if she isn’t, she is a Gentile who becomes part of Israel, is in the…
“But the LORD was angry with me on your account, and would not listen to me; and the LORD said to me, ‘Enough! Speak to Me no more of the matter.’” Deuteronomy 3:26 NASB Enough! – Was God fair to Moses? Before you put on your theological-correctness hat, does this declaration from God seem consistent…
