WORD STUDY – SHARING THE SUFFERING OF JESUS

Numbers 21:4: “And the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.”   Maybe I am the odd one out, but I keep hearing all these testimonies about people who walk a tough road and how God sends miracle after miracles to deliver them.  How God...

WORD STUDY – THE FIERY SERPENT

Numbers 21:6: “And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people; and they bit the people, and much people of Israel died.”   Exodus 12:37 mentions that a mixed multitude, an unspecified number of non-Israelites were tagging along during the Exodus.  They caused...

WORD STUDY – THE INVERTED NUN

Numbers 10:35-36: “Whenever the ark set out, Moses said: ‘Arise O’Lord let the enemy be scattered, may your foes flee before you.’   Whenever it came to rest, he said: ‘Return Lord to the countless thousands of Israel.’”   This passage is set off in the original...

WORD STUDY – NOT ALONE

Psalms  25:16: “Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am alone and afflicted.”   “Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone.  And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.”  Paul Tillich...

WORD STUDY – THEY GLARED AT MOSES

Numbers 16:3-6: “They combined against Moses and Aaron and said to them, ‘You have gone too far! For all the community is holy, all of them, and the Lord is in their midst.  Why then do you raise yourselves above the Lord’s congregation?’  When Moses heard this, he...