Word Study: In The Beginning

QUICK WORD STUDY – IN THE BEGINNING Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning God created the earth.” John 1:1: “In the beginning was the Word.” The three English words, in the beginning, are just one word for Hebrew and Aramaic, bere’shith in Hebrew and brasheeth in Aramaic. In...

Word Study: Vipers ( Aramaic)

WORD STUDY – VIPERS (ARAMAIC) Matthew 3:4,7-9: “ And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. (7)But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he...

Word Study: Led By Spirit

WORD STUDY – LED BY THE SPIRIT Matthew 4:1-2 “Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. (2) And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.” This passage has always baffled me. What spirit led...

Word Study: Given In Marriage

WORD STUDY – GIVEN IN MARRIAGE Deuteronomy 32:30: “How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?” Deuteronomy 32:30 is poetry. Poetry is an art form. Art is meant to convey a...

Word Study: Good Things

  WORD STUDY – GOOD THINGS “II Chronicles 19:3: “Nevertheless there are good things found in thee in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.” This passage is referring to the king of Judah, Jehoshaphat....