“And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground – everything that has the breath of life in it- I give every green plant for food.” If lions are stalking prey in the poetry of Psalm 104, then it must be, at t...
So the imperative verb in the Great Commission is to “make disciples”—that’s not something we would pick up on if we’ve constantly heard a different perspective on the verse. And it’s not something I would have thought to look up on my own. But when I set up that filter in ...
The NET Bible translates verse 10: “I am sickened by the thought that the Most High might become inactive.” His greatest fear was not his ongoing pain and suffering but the thought that God might not intervene. He couldn’t imagine life without God’s gracious intervention. He could recal...
戏弄耶稣 - 当下彼拉多将耶稣鞭打了。 兵丁用荆棘编做冠冕,戴在他头上,给他穿上紫袍, 又挨近他,说:“恭喜,犹太人的王啊!”他们就用手掌打他。 彼拉多又出来对众人说:“我带他出来见你们,叫你们知道我查不出他有什么罪来。”
颂赞耶和华之救恩 - 大卫在亚比米勒面前装疯,被他赶出去,就作这诗。 我要时时称颂耶和华,赞美他的话必常在我口中。 我的心必因耶和华夸耀,谦卑人听见,就要喜乐。 你们和我当称耶和华为大,一同高举他的名。 我曾寻求耶和华,他就应允我,救我脱离了一切的恐惧。
Key Verse Daniel 9:2 2in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the Lord given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years. Based on the concept of approximation, a popular interpretation of ...
It is this first verse that we get the name of the author of this great book. A vision, was one of the ways God revealed Himself to His prophets, sometimes by open revelations and other times by dreams. Abraham, Jacob, Isaiah and many others were called with visions. ...
The writer accepts that there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, yet human misery stems from not knowing what will happen next. No one can predict when hard times might come. Like fish caught in a net or birds trapped in a snare, people are ensnared at an unfortunate time...
17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, “Come and gather together for the supper of the great God,18 that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty ...
so that Babylonia was studded with temples and edifices for the gods. At all these, sacrifices were constantly offered-animal and vegetable. A long list of the offerings of King Gudea includes oxen, sheep, goats, lambs, fish, birds (i.e. eagles and doves), dates, milk, greens (Jastrow...