You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s. Exodus 20:17 ESV Not covet – There is a reason why no other legal code of the ancient Near East contains…
Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them. Psalm 139:16 NASB Ordained for me – This verse is often used as a proof text for the idea that God has foreordained the days…
And there came near a man of Elohim and spoke to the sovereign of Yisra’el, and said, “Thus said YHWH, ‘Because the Arameans have said, “YHWH is Elohim of the hills, but He is not Elohim of the valleys,” therefore I shall give all this great company into your hand, and you shall know that…
I said, “You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High, nevertheless you will die like men, and fall like any one of the princes.” Psalm 82:6-7 NASB Fall – Why do we fall? Unless we know the conditions of our demise, we may never recognize the traps that corrupt God’s…
We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the times of old; Psalm 44:2 (Hebrew World Translation) You performed – Where is God when we need Him? That seems to be the theme of this psalm. If you read a bit further,…
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 In The Beginning – Rethink from the beginning. Start with the beginning and think again about what it says. In our culture, we are so saturated with scientific naturalism (the idea that all explanation must be found within a closed-universe model of inferential…
And He said, “ I Myself will cause all My goodness to pass before you, and will proclaim the name of YHWH before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion on whom I will show compassion.” Exodus 33:19 To Whom – Who does YHWH love? That…
Babylon was a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, making the whole earth drunk; the nations drank of her wine, therefore the nations went mad. Jeremiah 51:7 In The Hand – Babylon was an instrument in the hand of YHWH for His purposes. The text tells us quite clearly that the power of…
That I not be full and deny You and say, “Who is YHWH?” or that I not be in want and steal, and profane the name of my God. Proverbs 30:9 Who Is YHWH? – The LXX (Septuagint) is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures. Finished some 200 years before the birth of Yeshua,…
But YHWH was pleased to crush him, putting him to grief; if he would render himself as a guilt offering, Isaiah 53:10 Was Pleased – How are we supposed to understand this callous and brutal declaration? Do we really believe that YHWH found delight in the abuse of HaMashiach? How is it possible that God…
