claim that he was the Way (John 14:6), or, more likely, an already existing Jewish one to which Jesus said: I am the Way that you have been talking about, possibly even following from the ministry of John the Baptist and ultimately fromIsaiah(seeJohn 1:23and Isaiah 35:8 and 40:1...
Since God's thoughts are higher than our thoughts and His ways higher than our ways (Isaiah 55:9), sometimes we simply do not understand the specific reasons that we have to go through various trials and problems in this life. Notice also: 1"Is there not a time of hard service for ma...
The seraphim were also thought of as winged, and in Isaiah's vision they were stationed above the Lord's throne (6:1-2). They seemed to possess a human figure, and had voices, faces, and feet. According to the vision their task was to participate in singing God's praises antiphonally...
English name of obscure derivation and meaning, perhaps based on aPersian personal name, though it has also been suggested that it is a contracted form of Isaiah or Zechariah. It has been used as an independent given name in the United States since the 1970s. 6. Esrah English variant spel...
Holiness again is the exaltedhess of God, His supremacy, which is seen here in the judgment (justice, righteousness) meted out to the disobedient people (compare the recurrent refrain of Isaiah 5:25; 9:12,17,21; 10:4; see JUSTICE). Isaiah 8:13; 29:23 suggest the same idea by the...
For Abraham Yahweh not only was alone God; He was also his personal God in a closeness of fellowship (Genesis 24:40; 48:15) that has made him for three religions the type of the pious man (2 Chronicles 20:7; Isaiah 41:8; James 2:23, note the Arabic name of Hebron El-Khalil, ...