laws to be followed or punishments inflicted. The most common Biblical number is 7. According to Genesis, the Earth and everything in it was completed by God in six days, and the seventh day is reserved as the Day of Rest (or Completion). Seven is considered the number of perfect time;...
Every tear will be wiped away by the merciful hand of God and they will rest in the shade of His presence. I imagine the saints will have just as much joy, after ten thousand years of serving God, as they had on the first day. Just like the old hymn says… “When we’ve been ...
The message of the Bible cannot have meaning for a modern age for it is a very old book. It must be probed, analyzed and recast by modern scholars in order to be relevant in the modern age. If a doctrine or ethical stipulation appears out of touch with modernity the modernist scholar ...
As He is "the Son of God," so also is He the "angel" or "messenger" of the Lord. Accordingly, it is to his incarnation that all angelic ministration is distinctly referred, as to a central truth, by which alone its nature and meaning can be understood (comp. Joh 1:51, with Ge...
Amram – Name meaning “exalted nation” Eli – Hebrew name that comes from “aly” (high). The biblical Eli was a high priest and the last judge of Israel. He trained the prophet, Samuel. Genesis –Gender-neutral namewithGreekand Hebrew origins; name means “origin” or “birth” ...
God also walked (hawlak) in the midst of the temple. The meaning is clear. The garden was a temple for God. Like the temple, the garden was the joining together of God’s space and man’s space—the intersection of the heavenly realm and the earthly realm. For this reason, Isaiah ...
I drew this picture maybe two or three years ago. It deals with how the church sometimes translated the Bible in such a way that the (egalitarian) meaning of the text does not come through, and then church members pointed to those translations to “prove” their point. ...
A simple notion about the ethical treatment of others that was profound in its origin and resonates through the ages. Meaning of the Golden Rule in the Bible "Golden Rule" is not explicitly found in Scripture, this became the popular way of referring to the words of Jesus inMatthew 7:12...
In Greek for the Rest of Us, I give the definition of ἐν as “in, by, with.” The preposition is flexible in meaning, and often translation requires significant interpretation. I have often thought it strange that prepositions were introduced into the Greek language to bring clarity to ...
In Biblical times, camels went through the eye of a needle because they were the unit of international trade. The very word גמל (gamal), meaning camel, comes from a verb that means to invest. ... continue reading → • The olive tree in the Bible is the tree of the anointi...