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  • The Purpose of Pain

    therefore the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.   So He drove the man out; . .  Genesis 3:23-24a  NASB Drove – Did you notice that God’s action of expelling the man from the Garden is repeated.  Verse 23 says, “God sent him out,” and then…

  • The Pharaoh Syndrome

    Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.  Numbers 21:6  NASB Sent – The Hebrew verb šālaḥ has three different linguistic domains.  The first is the way we typically read a verb like “send,” i.e., compelling or transmitting someone or something from one place to another. …

  • Unfamiliar

    Listen, my people, to my instruction; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.  Psalm 78:1  NASB Instruction – If you had to guess what Hebrew word is translated “instruction” you might be inclined to choose תּוֹרָה(tôrâ).  Not knowledge, not understanding, but teaching.  That’s correct.  It’s tôrâ.  But what you might not know is that…