WORD STUDY – REGA’- JUST A MOMENT

Isaiah 51:4: “I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.”   Yehudah ha-Levi, a medieval Jewish poet, displayed his emotion in a little rhyme: “ein rega beli nega.” “There is no rest without a wound in it.” The word rest (rega’)  is a very curious...

WORD STUDY – LITTLE TWIGS

Mark 12:30-31, “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.  And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is...

WORD STUDY – NOT ASHAMED

Isaiah 50:7: “For the Lord God shall help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed,”   Practically every translation I read this verse in will translate ‘azar as help or helper.  ...

STUDY – WORD GOD WILL CARRY

Isaiah 46:4: “Till you grow old, I will be the same, when you grow gray, it is I who will carry; I was the maker and I will be the bearer.  And I will carry and rescue you.”   When the Babylonians conquered Judah, they took the best and strongest into captivity. ...

WORD STUDY – ANGELS (MAL’AKS)

Psalms 104:4  “Who makes his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:” Let me just say at the outset that I do believe in angels as we traditional understand angels.  I mean I am a big fan of the old TV show Touched by An Angel. Every Christmas I cheer Clarence...