For most of us, the image we have in our minds of what God looks like is based on Renaissance paintings, like Michelangelo’s fresco of the “Creation of Adam” on the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling. In that portrait, both God and Adam are portrayed as white men. Michelangelo painted God wi...
Let’s observe what Ethan the Ezrahite had to say about Sheol: PSALM 89:48(NRSV) Who can live and never seedeath?Who can escape the power ofSheol? Here it is as plain as language can make it thatdeath and Sheol are synonymous terms; in other words, the only thing souls going to S...
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This passage shows that those who die “go down intosilence.”Sheol is a place of silence because those who go there areunconscious,that is,dead.There’s no praising and worshipping of God there nor are there horrible screams of torment. It is a condition of silence. It is the living w...
Not so for the 7th day. Why? Sabbatarians say it’s because humanity is supposed to observe the 7th day Sabbath. But, wait! What does the number 7 represent in the Bible? Completion or perfection, right? So, how do the two symbolisms of that 7th day compliment one another? Or do ...
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You will lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and his entire horde. This is what the Lord God says. Footnotes Ezekiel 31:14 Or the land of the lowest places Ezekiel 31:15 Heb Sheol Ezekiel 31:17 Or his arms Ezekiel 31 New King James ...
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The root דמן (dmn) isn't used as a verb in the Bible and it's not known what it might have meant, but the following telling derivations are extant: The masculine noun דמן (domen), denoting a corpse lying unattended and desecrated on the ground (2 Kings 9:37, Jeremia...
father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I andyour mother and your brothers indeed cometo bow ourselves to the ground before you?”11Andhis brothers were jealous of him,but his father kept the saying in mind...