Teth – Keep Your Eyes Open

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

You have treated Your servant well, Lord, according to Your word.  Psalm 119:65  NASB טוֹב עָשִׂ֣יתָ עִם־עַבְדְּךָ֑ יְ֜הֹוָ֗ה כִּדְבָרֶֽךָ ט֚וּב טַ֣עַם וָדַ֣עַת לַמְּדֵ֑נִי כִּ֖י בְמִצְו‍ֹתֶ֣יךָ הֶֽאֱמָֽנְתִּי טֶ֣רֶם אֶֽ֖עֱנֶה אֲנִ֣י שֹׁגֵ֑ג וְ֜עַתָּ֗ה אִמְרָֽתְךָ֥ שָׁמָֽרְתִּי טוֹב אַתָּ֥ה וּמֵטִ֗יב לַמְּדֵ֥נִי חֻקֶּֽיךָ טָֽפְל֚וּ עָלַ֣י שֶׁ֣קֶר זֵדִ֑ים אֲ֜נִ֗י בְּכָל־לֵ֚ב | אֶצֹּ֬ר פִּקּוּדֶֽיךָ טָפַ֣שׁ כַּחֵ֣לֶב לִבָּ֑ם אֲ֜נִ֗י תּוֹרָֽתְךָ֥ שִֽׁעֲשָֽׁעְתִּי טֽוֹב־לִ֥י כִֽי־עֻנֵּ֑יתִי…

The Pharaoh Syndrome

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

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. …

Enoch’s Mortality

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

And I put sleep into him and he fell asleep.  And I took from him A rib, and created him a wife, that death should come to him by his wife, and I took his last word and called her name mother, that is to say, Eva (Eve).  1 Enoch 30:16 Death should come to…

Apopis

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”  Genesis 3:1 NIV Serpent – Some years ago I shared a lecture session with Michael Heiser, author of The Unseen Realm: Recovering…

Who Are You?

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” Genesis 3:1 NASB Serpent – “No language is used in 3:1 to suggest that the snake is…

Cosmetic Surgery (Revisited)

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”  Genesis 3:5 NASB Like God – The serpent doesn’t tell Havvah that she will be God.  He doesn’t even tell her that she will be like God.  He only says…

Seduced!

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.  2 Corinthians 11:3  NASB Led astray – “Everyone’s human.  I just made a mistake!”  That might be the conclusion we draw from the translation “led astray.”  After…

Agendas

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

For it is written, “He is the one who catches the wise in their craftiness.” 1 Corinthians 3:19 (citing Job 5:13) Craftiness – When rabbi Sha’ul cites Eliphaz’s comment in Job 5:13, he certainly recalled another use of a similar consonant stem (Ayin-Resh-Mem).  Craftiness is the supreme characteristic of the serpent (Genesis 3:1). We wouldn’t…

Vowel Problems

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

To the woman He said, “I will greatly increase your sorrow and your conception – bring forth children in pain. And your desire is for your husband, and he does rule over you.” Genesis 3:16 (SRI) Greatly Increase – Perhaps we have become so numb to this story that we just don’t ask any questions…

One Leads To Another

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

And the man called the name of his wife, Eve, because she became the mother of all living.  Genesis 3:20 Eve – Of course, we know that the name Eve is a corruption of the real text.  The man did not call her Eve.  He called her by the Hebrew name Havvah.  Why is it…