Today’s Word
Do You Think Too Much?
But, see, this I did find: God made men plain, but they have engaged in too much reasoning. Ecclesiastes 7:29 NJPS Too much reasoning – In our culture, this statement must seem nearly absurd. We laud reasoning. We extol intellect. In fact, our culture believes that the solution of every problem begins in the mind. …
WYSIWYG
What the eyes see is better than what the soul desires. This too is futility and a striving after wind. Ecclesiastes 6:9 NASB What the eyes see – This verse is difficult to translate because the Hebrew text leaves a lot of ambiguity. Fox suggests, “Better the sight of the eyes than the wandering of…
East of Eden
Only this, I have found, as a real good: that one should eat and drink and get pleasure with all the gains he makes under the sun, during the numbered days of life that God has given him; for that is his portion. Ecclesiastes 5:17 NJPS Real good – There are two views of what…
The Last Imam
“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a witness to all the nations, and then the end shall come.” Matthew 24:14 NASB (1963 edition) Whole world – I would be surprised if you haven’t heard this verse as support for world-wide evangelism. Evangelical Christian groups sometimes seem to…
Travel Travails
“But pray that your flight may not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath;” Matthew 24:20 NASB Sabbath – In spite of the fact that R. T. France compellingly argues that this verse and its surrounding verses do not apply to the coming of Yeshua at the end of human history, he makes one…
Outsiders
“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will take his seat on his glorious throne, and all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them from one another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats” Matthew 25:31-32 NASB…
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