O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. Psalm 63:1 NASB God – ʾĕlōhîm ʾēli attah. Even the opening words have some interesting implications. First, of course, is the relationship between…
“You shall have no other gods before Me.” Exodus 20:3 NASB gods – Today I want to make some comments on Michael Heiser’s book, The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible. Heiser’s basic position is that the biblical text, including the apostolic writings, rests on cultural and religious ideas that arise from Mesopotamian…
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. Romans 10:17 NASB Christ – Is it the Son’s words or the Father’s words? If you look at this verse in the King James Version, it reads, “by the word of God.” That’s because the KJV is based on the Greek Textus Receptus,…
In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple. Isaiah 6:1 NASB Saw the Lord – The Bible should come with a warning label: “Reading this may be hazardous to your current state of self-image.” Of course,…
O God, You have rejected us. You have broken us; You have been angry; O, restore us. Psalm 60:1 [English] NASB God – Primary position means primary emphasis. When a Hebrew author wants to put an exclamation point behind a thought, he moves the word to the first position in sentence. David puts the word…
Let them praise the name of the Lord, for His name alone is exalted; His glory is above earth and heaven. Psalm 148:13 NASB His name – Names are quite important in Hebrew thought. They are rarely random choices. Names reveal essential aspects of the object named. That’s why we must pay close attention to…
But of the Son He says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom.” Hebrews 1:8 NASB O God – Could there be a more powerful proof text for the Trinity than this? Here the author of Hebrews seems to clearly state that the Son…
No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him. John 1:18 NASB Begotten God – Read it slowly. John says that no man has ever seen God. We take that for granted. No man, not one single person in human…
But he said to me, “Do not do that. I am a fellow servant of yours and of your brethren the prophets and of those who heed the words of this book. Worship God.” Revelation 22:9 NASB Do not do that – A strange change in capitalization occurs in the NASB of Revelation 22. The…
To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. Romans 9:5 ESV REVISED 13 March 2021 (my original views have changed dramatically) From their race – We have learned that Paul’s expression “to them belong” is a translation gloss. The…
