Psalm 15:5– “Who lends money to the poor without interest; who does not accept a bribe against the innocent. Whoever does these things will never be shaken.” AndEzekiel 18:8, 13, 17all echo this instruction to not lend money at interest to the poor. What about charging interest to ...
In this passage, we see that Balaam didn't see the angel. Angels can be invisible to us. When we do see them, they tend to strike fear into us. We should also note that they fight spiritual battles, and this isn’t the first instance of us seeing anarmed angelin Scripture. Let's...
One common way people use the word faith is to refer to belief in something despite lacking any evidence. But is that what the Bible means by faith? The answer is a resounding no! So, when the Bible uses the wordfaith, what does it mean?
Well, water is scary. You go under water, you can't breathe. It's a picture of death and of the grave, and always has been, Biblically. The flood, God floods the world, that is a baptism, Peter tells us in 1st Peter, chapter 3. God sends Jonah into the deep, into the water,...
A biblically illiterate person might well have missed the import of Jesus' words. Caiaphas and the Council, however, did not. They knew that in saying he was "the Son of Man" who would come "on the clouds of heaven" he was making an overt reference to the Son of Man in ...