1. Some carry the sense thus: "To know the love of Christ, which passeth, or surpasseth, the knowledge of all other things." There is an excellency, an usefulness in the knowledge of Christ's love, which is not to be found in the knowledge of any thing else. A man may know...
The Hebrew word Edom means"red", and the Hebrew Bible relates it to the name of its founder, Esau, the elder son of the Hebrew patriarch Isaac, because he was born "red all over". As a young adult, he sold his birthright to his brother Jacob for "red pottage". What God did the ...
The Marquis de Sade wrote his controversial work in 1785 on a scroll made from bits of parchment joined end to end. At the time — the last days of the ancien regime — he was imprisoned in a cell in the Liberty Tower of the Bastille. The resulting manuscript is39 feet (11.9 metres)...
Priest of the Most High God is the Hebrew word El Elyon. The names reflect the sacredness of the covenant as Abraham and Melchizedek made a peace treaty. That began a tradition of celebrating covenants made with a meal that included bread and wine. The Passover meal is still celebr...
A sure sign of the Holy Ghost is the hunger given for the Word of God. Titus 2:15 says, "These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee." Now, here we have God telling us that we have "all authority" to speak and exhort and rebuke. ...
20 In that day the earthling man will throw his worthless gods of silver and his valueless gods of gold that they had made for him to bow before to the shrewmice/moles/burrowers and to the bats, (Isaiah 2 NWT adapted from the Hebrew).Verse...
Here is what I have done, and if by chance I have used some immaterial embellishment it has only been to fill a void due to defect of memory. I may have taken for fact what was no more than probability, but I have never put down as true what I knew to b
Kosher food is food that meets Jewish dietary laws, or kashrut. The word kashrut comes from a Hebrew word for "fit" or "proper." Though many unfamiliar with the concept assume "kosher food" is "healthy food," it actually refers to any food that has been prepared in adherence to Jewish...
She then told me you really do not realize how important your memory is for everyday living until you actually lose part of it. And the great thing about this story was that when her memory was fully restored back to her by God, she said her memory is even better now than what it ...
Salvation for Others - This is what the LORD says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness