When, as occurs frequently, the house does not open directly on the street, there is a first court-yard extending between the outer wall and the building. From this outer court an entrance doorway leads into the inner court, around which the various apartments are located. The inner court ...
2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: 3In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out ...
The Pharisees immediately wanted to shut that down – not because of the good things Jesus was doing, but because he didn’t fit the image of what they had in mind. They believed the Messiah would come into Jerusalem on a white horse and an army of soldiers. They wanted him to defeat...
Sixth, our experience helps us to understand the mission of God.Godsenthis Sonto become a human being, to identify with the suffering of humanity, and to die on the cross so as to set them free from the power of sin and death. God raised him from the dead so that all who are in ...
These numbers occur with more or less frequency in both the Old and New Testament and indicate that the Scriptures have a "Numerical Structure" that is based on the "Symbolic" significance of these numbers.God has been called "The Great Geometrician, " and is said to do everything after ...
Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. 2 Then the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller's Field. (Isaiah 36:...
Recently, when I called her on it, she responded, “I’m not trying to be disrespectful. I’m just trying to defend myself.” I told her that was the root of the problem. She couldn’t be hearing and addressing the issues I raise if she’s too busy building her case against what...
So God was giving the Jewish people 490 weeks to do all those things. Impossible to do on their own, but achievable under the power of a mighty God. With God’s bidding comes His ability to do it through His strength. So let’s set this stake in the ground: The 70 weeks are given...
This little horn now becomes the center of attention of Daniel. He understood the rise and fall of the nations, but his main focus is on the little horn power and the destructive events at its hand. The battles and events have been on a horizontal plane up to this point, but now it ...
It grieves me deeply that much of the focus of popular “Christian” teaching and preaching today deemphasizes or even ignores sin – the very reason Jesus came to earth – and instead focuses on temporal things such as prosperity, non-essential theological matters, team building, “prophecy,”...