What to Do with Gentiles?

So the young men who were spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives and placed them outside the camp of Israel. Joshua 6:23 NASB Outside – mihuts. That’s what you do with Gentiles. You save…

Who Are the Outsiders?

These twelve Jesus sent out after instructing them: “Do not go in the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter any city of the Samaritans; but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” Matthew 10:5-6 NASB Israel – Donna Dozier notes the following about first century community concerns: “This was…

Red Between the Lines

Behold, when we come to the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window from which you let us down, . . . Joshua 2:18 Line – Usually translated “cord” in this verse, the Hebrew word tiqvah has a different meaning in every one of its additional thirty-one occurrences.  The fact…

What God Can’t Do

“How shall I give you up, Ephraim? Shall I deliver you, Israel? How shall I make you like Admah? Hosea 11:8 How –  In systematic theology, we often speak of God’s omnipotence.  It is simply the doctrine that God can do anything that can be done.  But did you know there are some things even…