By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, till you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.Genesis 3:19 NASB Return to the ground– suveka el ha’adamah says the text. We recognize the verb and the noun, šûb andʾădāmâ (“to turn/return” and “ground/earth”). But do…
From that time Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matthew 4:17 NASB Kingdom of heaven – Of course Matthew uses “kingdom of heaven.” As an orthodox Jew he would never say “kingdom of God.” If he were a contemporary, he might write “kingdom of G_d,”…
This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. John 17:3 NASB Eternal life – Let’s not get wrapped up in the Trinitarian implications here. Just remember that Yeshua says (or at least John says that he says) that eternal life is about knowing…
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him. Psalm 103:11 NASB Lovingkindness – hesed, of course. What else could David enlist that would cause YHVH to remain faithfully connected to such a sinner? Hesed has been thoroughly investigated by scholars. In fact, hundreds…
He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s maid, where have you come from and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.” Genesis 16:8 NASB Where – So, where are you going? Perhaps this is the most important question anyone will ever ask of you, if you understand the…
This world is like an anteroom before the world to come. Prepare yourself in the anteroom so that you may enter the banquet hall. Rabbi Ya’akov, Pirke Avot 4:21 Prepare – “The nature of the afterlife has never been clear in Judaism.”[1] In contrast to the highly developed ideas of the afterlife in Christian literature…
“For from days of old they have not heard or perceived by ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides You, who acts in behalf of the one who waits for Him.” Isaiah 64:4 Nor has eye seen – “Every prophet only prophesied for the days of the Messiah; but as for the World…
John Adam, mathematician and reader of Today’s Word, has contributed some interesting and powerful material in the past. Here is his latest. I think you will enjoy John’s insights. Heavenly Acoustics The array below represents, in a sense, two dimensions of time. The speaker utters sounds in time moving downwards. The hearer hears the sounds…
“No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man.” John 3:13 NASB No one – Apparently Yeshua was mistaken. Everyone knows that good people go to heaven when they die. Everyone knows that Moses and David and Peter and all the saints of the Church are in heaven…
Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priest of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years. Revelation 20:6 ESV Reign – In Mesillat Yesharim, Moses Luzzatto suggests that we enter the…
