Today’s Word
The Wrong Stuff
I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God Romans 12:1 Living – In order for a sacrifice to be “living,” something had to go wrong. You see, in the sacrificial system of Israel, an animal was destroyed when offered to God. …
Eyes Wide Shut
For YHWH has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has shut your eyes, the prophets, and He has covered your heads, the seers. Isaiah 29:10 Seers – The word for “seers” is chozim. It comes from a root word chazah. It is not Hebrew. This is an Aramaic loanword. Consequently, trying…
Left Blind
For YHWH has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has shut your eyes, the prophets, and He has covered your heads, the seers. Isaiah 29:10 Prophets – You and I can be very glad we did not live in the time of Isaiah. The apostasy of Israel in those days caused…
The Choice
Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. Genesis 2:24 Therefore – “Therefore” means that as a result of something previously explained, the following happens. Therefore, “therefore” is a very important word J. Without it we will not know why a man…
Double Dose
for this shall be called woman because out of man this has been taken Genesis 2:23 Woman – There is something crucial happening here, deeper than we can see in the simple translation. It is connected to the formulation of the Hebrew words for man and woman. It tells us something important about roles and…
Hebrew Parallelism
He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. John 3:36 Obey – Even in translation this verse demands that we see the connection between “believe” and “obey.” But when we realize that John’s thought…
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