What Context?

“The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”  Deuteronomy 31:8  NIV Woman’s Day Leave you nor forsake you – Feeling discouraged today?  Some persistent problems?  Some new stress? The usual ups and downs of life?  I…

The Other Side of the Prophecy

And the people will be oppressed, each one by another, and each one by his neighbor; the youth will storm against the elder and the inferior against the honorable.  Isaiah 3:5  NASB Oppressed – Contemporary believers often turn to Isaiah 2:4 as a description of peace in Millennial Kingdom.   “And He will judge between the nations, and…

Celestial Mechanics

Covering Yourself with light as with a cloak, stretching out heaven like a tent curtain. Psalm 104:2 NASB Tent Curtain – Read this verse without your current Einstein cosmic concepts. Read it without the Hubble telescope, the textbooks on astrophysics or even without those glow-in-the-dark stars you attached to your youngest child’s bedroom ceiling. Read…

Overture

For the choir director; according to Shushan Eduth. A Mikhtam of David, to teach; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. Psalm 60:1-2 [Hebrew text] NASB translation Shushan Eduth – A mikhtam is, ah, no one quite knows for sure. The…

In the Midst

If two sit together and words of the Law are spoken between them, the Divine Presence rests between them. Pirke Avot 3:2 Divine Presence – Does this passage from the works of the Jewish sages sound familiar? It should. Yeshua uses the same idea when he speaks about two or three gathered together. Did you…

Proof Text Context

“I will not carry out my fierce anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not mortal; in your midst (is) the Holy One.  And I will not come in wrath.” Hosea 11:9  (translation J. Dearman) For I am God – It’s possible that you’ve heard this verse expounded in its…

Context, Context, Context

Let a woman learn in silence, in all subjection.  But I do not allow a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in silence.  1 Timothy 2:11-12 A Woman – The universal law of real estate is simple:  location, location, location.  There is a comparable universal law in biblical…