WORD STUDY – GOD REPENTS OF EVIL

  Jeremiah 18:8: “If that nation against whom I have pronounced turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.”   “Prayer does not change God, prayer changes us.”  C.S. Lewis   This verse raises some questions in my...
WORD STUDY – CAPTIVE TO GOD’S HEART

WORD STUDY – CAPTIVE TO GOD’S HEART

  Jeremiah 3:10: “And yet for all this  her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the Lord.”   We have to realize that at the time of this prophecy, Judah was a very religious nation.  They had the temple...
WORD STUDY – SHIBBOLETH

WORD STUDY – SHIBBOLETH

Judges 12:6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce [it] right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.   In...

WORD STUDY – EYE FOR AN EYE

  Exodus 21:24:  “Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,”   Matthew 5:38: “Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on...
WORD STUDY – MON HU FROM HEAVEN

WORD STUDY – MON HU FROM HEAVEN

  Exodus 16:15:  “And when the children of Israel saw [it], they said one to another, It [is] manna: for they wist not what it [was]. And Moses said unto them, This [is] the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.”   It is curious how a word makes its...