God’s Rollercoaster

Because of Your indignation and Your wrath; for You have lifted me up and thrown me away.  Psalm 102:10  NASB Lifted me up – As we know, the Hebrew word nāśāʾ is “used almost six hundred times with basically three separate meanings: “to lift up”; “to bear, carry, support”; and “to take, take away.”[1]  “To bear”…

Saving Grace

The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! John 1:29  NASB Takes Away– “Take up and carry”?  Or, maybe, “carry off.”  The Greek verb, aíro, can mean either.  “Whether the sense in Jn. 1:29 is ‘to take up and carry,’ i.e., in a…

Open to Suggestions

“The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.” Ezekiel 18:20 NASB Person who sins – It’s…