Written in Stone

Remember, please, the word which You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples;  Nehemiah 1:8  NASB The word which You commanded – Nehemiah is a personal account of the effort to reconstruct fallen Jerusalem.  It’s a vivid, compelling, intensive story of one man’s fervent desire to restore…

Re – rereading

Just as it is written, “For Thy sake we are being put to death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”  Romans 8:36 citing Psalm 44:22  NASB As it is written – What can separate us from the love of God?  If you read Paul’s argument in Romans 8, the answer…

Who Said That?

and when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says, “And let all the angels of God worship Him.”  Hebrews 1:6  NASB He says – If you had any doubt about the authority of the Tanakh for the writers of the New Testament, the author of Hebrews should set aside your concern.  Notice…

Second Story

In the beginning Genesis 1:1 In The Beginning – The Tanakh opens with a single word, bere’shiyt, a compound of the preposition be and re’shiyt, a noun that means “the first, the chief, the best.” The rabbis noted a curious thing about bere’shiyt.  It begins with a bet, the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet. …