WORD STUDY – A CLOSED PORTAL

Genesis 4:5-7: But unto Cain and his offering he had no respect, and Cain was very wroth and his countenance fell. And the Lord said unto Cain, “Why are thou wroth and why has thy countenance fallen?  If thou doest well shall thou not be accepted? And if thou doest...

WORD STUDY – YHWH OR ELOHIM?

Genesis 2:4:  “This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven.” There is the story in the Talmud of a king who received two very fine pieces of glassware.  They were so fragile that the king...

WORD STUDY – THEY ENCAMPED, HE ENCAMPED

Exodus 19:2,  “For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come [to] the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.”   There is a very subtle grammatical issue in this verse that I find no Christian...

BEYOND THE DALETH – PREPARE YOUR HEART

Ezra 7:10: “For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord and to do it and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.”   You read about Ezra and the word that comes to mind is “fanatic.”   This old boy devoted himself to the Word of God. Jewish...

WORD STUDY – THE ARK OF SAFETY

Genesis 7:1 “And the Lord said unto Noah, ‘Come thou and all they house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.’”   I sometimes receive correspondence from those who read my studies asking where I came up with a particular...