Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 1 Corinthians 13:8 NASB Gifts of prophecy – Read this verse in a few other translations. You will immediately notice that the NASB adds…
So now that it’s over, what do you think they will say? Ah, I mean, is The Blood Moons likely to stay on the best-sellers list? Did something significant happen in Israel (and we just didn’t hear about it)? Or are we now going to run around looking for some significant (according to us) event to claim…
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 Timothy 3:1 NASB Last days – So how will we know we are in the last days? First, let’s examine the question. Do we need to know? Is the question even appropriate? In an important sense, this question reveals human pride, not…
The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day. Acts 2:20 ESV More than nine hundred years ago, Maimonides, regarded as perhaps the greatest of Jewish expositor of sacred literature, wrote, “when the power of Edom [the Christians] and of…
Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature. 1 Corinthians 14:20 NASB Thinking be mature – So what about speaking in tongues? Ah, such a divisive question. Some believe this manifestation of spiritual ecstasy is an essential step in full fellowship. Some believe it…
For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; and the government will rest on His shoulders; and His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 NASB (9:5 in the Hebrew text) Today’s word edition comes from a comment by Rodney…
“Who knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish.” Jonah 3:9 Who Knows – “Hebrew prophecy was not meant to come true.”[1] Before your head explodes, think more deeply about what Kauffman suggests. The startling fact of Hebrew prophecy is that most of it is contingent…
For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay. Psalm 16:10 Undergo Decay – In the Old Testament, what happens after death is not clearly articulated. There are a few verses about the underworld, called Sheol, but it is a place where everyone goes when…
Long before the term “prophet” took on its contemporary meaning of predicting the future, the Greek term prophetes has a very different meaning. In fact, until the Christian era after apostles refocused the meaning, it did not embody the concept of peering into the future at all. Prophetes has its roots in the Greek culture…
