WORD STUDY – IT IS NOTHING – ולא

  Luke 15:11-12  “And he said, A certain man had two sons And the younger of them said to [his] father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth [to me]. And he divided unto them [his] living.”   We have all heard this story of the prodigal son. A...

WORD STUDY – ELI ELI LAMA SABACHTHANI (PART 2)

  Matthew 27:46: “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying ‘Eli, Eli Lama Sabachthani?’ that is My God My God, why has thou forsaken me?”   Yesterday I gave one possible rendering to this baffling phrase that Jesus was not calling...

WORD STUDY – HE WILL NOT SLUMBER אלינומ

    Psalms 121:3: “Behold, he that keeps Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.”   Many years ago when I taught school in Arlington, Virginia , which bordered Washington D.C.,  I took a room in a house with three other borders.  One was an engineer working on the...