and there was evening and there was morning day one Genesis 1:5 (my translation) Evening/ Morning – Our concept of time was invented to serve the purposes of the British Rail System in 1847. Obviously, this “railway time” (as it was called) was needed to coordinate the management of the trains, but it did not…
And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary. Galatians 6:9 Do not grow weary – Sometimes it’s just so hard to keep going. Sometimes it feels as if we have exhausted our will power. We are worn out from swimming against…
And He could do no miracle there except He laid His hands upon a few sick people and healed them. Mark 6:5 NASB Could do no – Do miracles depend on our faith? If we don’t believe, does our unbelief hinder God’s ability to perform? Was Yeshua hampered because people in His hometown didn’t acknowledge…
And He said to them, “Therefore every sofer who is educated in the kingdom of Heaven can be compared to the owner of a house who brings out of his storehouse new things as well as old.” Matthew 13:52 (The Delitzsch Hebrew Gospels) New things as well as old – If you went to your…
And He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household, who brings forth out of his treasure things new and old.” Matthew 13:52 NASB Scribe – Does Yeshua take a line from Godfather 2? Is He really suggesting that those…
For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Galatians 5:14 NASB One word – Paul says the whole Law (ho pas nomos) is fulfilled (pleroo – to make completely full) in one word (en heni logo). But then Paul adds a whole bunch of…
and the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, . . . Genesis 3:6 ISR Saw – Are you able to see what’s good? Can you look below the skin of something and see its true nature? Maybe…
“Therefore it is my judgment that we do not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles, but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.” Acts 15:19-20 NASB Contaminated – What’s in your refrigerator? That…
On the next day Moses said to the people, “You yourselves have committed a great sin; and now I am going up to the LORD, perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.” Exodus 32:30 NASB Make atonement – God is never appeased! Appeasement is demanded by pagan deities, not by YHWH. Why? Because appeasement…
With this ram the priest shall make atonement before Yahweh for the sin which he has committed. Leviticus 19:22 NASB Atonement – Many Hebrew words have cognates (similar words) in other middle-Eastern languages. One of those languages is Arabic. So it isn’t surprising to find that the Hebrew word kaphar has some relationship to the…
