WORD STUDY – TO GO AND RETURN אלכ אשׁובה

   Hosea 5:15;  “I will go and return to my place until they acknowledge their offence and seek my face, in their affliction they will seek me early.”   I counted up the number of times that God said in the Old Testament, in one form or another, that He would not...

MY TEARS BECAME HIS TEARS

THIS STORY IS FICTION My old roommate from Bible College, Davy Ballard told me this amazing story recently. Had anyone but Davy told it, I would have said they were a bit off key, but not Davy, he has always been the down to earth type.   You see Davy is the lead...

WORD STUDY – INHABIT ETERNITY שׁככ עד

   (NOTE, PLEASE READ THE STORY, MY TEARS, FOUND ON JOTS AND TITLES TO HELP FURTHER EXPLAIN THIS STUDY). Isaiah 57:15: “For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabited eternity…” I was reading an article published by Vanderbilt University regarding the Large...

WORD STUDY – THE COLOR BLUE – MAYIM מימ

Isaiah 30:20: “And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, your teachers be hidden no more, but thine eyes shall see they teachers:”   Today my study partner and I were debating the color blue.  She insisted that the color...

WORD STUDY – O SPARE ME שׁעה

  Psalms 39:13: “O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.”   This is a very curious verse.  What is the Psalmist saying when he asks God to spare him so he can recover strength before he is no more.  All commentators agree...