Christ came as the servant of all, not the ruler. When the disciples argued about who was the greatest, He rebuked them, saying: “Yet I am among you as the One who serves” (Luke 22:27 NKJV). He who was above us took a position below us so He could be with us as one of us...
Nothing about taking any of the spoils of war. Simply that God would deliver them. These men would become mighty men of valor, and as the last verse of our passage tells us, David and his men struck the Philistines with a great blow. A victory for David with men who were fearful, ...
Okay… Maybe that’s a bit confusing. But, often, it is confusing to consider the human body in the light of the Christian faith. The confusion comes, most strongly, when we think that the body is sinful. The body is not sinful. Nothing created by God is sinful. Trees, birds, water...
After gleaning all this information, I had to laugh as I envisioned that actually mankind is closer related to trees than monkeys. Us and trees have more in common. We are both fashioned from the ground! To get a better understanding of the use of metaphors please study Judges Chapter 9 ...
See Daniel 12:1-13 (focus on verse 7 which adds up to 3 ½ ). 3 ½ is half of 7. It is an imperfect number. Note: both St. Jerome and Pope St Gregory the Great wrote extensively about and gematria its significance in Scripture. Sir Isaac Newton wrote more about gematria and ...
Such an interpretation limits God’s ability to create trees using natural processes, which is not how God was creating during the miraculous creation week. The more plausible (and correct) interpretation is that God created the trees ex nihilo, just as he created the heavens and the earth. ...
Jesus died for our sins and not for himself. Would you not agree that this verse is a direct reference to Jesus? But before He is cutoff he would do the following: “And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice...
The terms “predestination” and “the elect” always refer to God’s knowledge (not human knowledge) because God is outside of time (and humans cannot predict the future). There are two types of “predestination,” to grace and to glory. In this verse, Paul is teaching about ...
Many translations render the word for “testimony” here as “covenant” which renders the verse alternatively to say, “put into the ark the covenant.” By this we understand that it is referred to the “ark of the covenant” not because of what itwasphysically but rather because...