Matthew 5:10

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Many are my persecutors and my enemies, yet I do not turn aside from Your testimonies.  Psalm 119:157  NASB Persecutors – The Beatitudes are not Greek blessings.  They are Hebrew character descriptions.  If you don’t connect this verse in the Psalms with Yeshua’s remarks on the hillside, you’ve missed something important for both verses.  Let’s start with Matthew…

A Matter of Tense

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, on account of Me  Matthew 5:11 Revile and Persecute – It’s a matter of tense.  Not tense like under stress.  Here the important thing is the verb tense, the temporal implication found in the form of…