WORD STUDY-LUXURY ספכ

Haggai 1:4-6: “ [Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste? Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you have not enough; you drink, but you are not...

WORD STUDY – HE IS OUR REST – הנחתי לכ

  Exodus 33:14: “And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.”   Last night was a warm, beautiful November evening.  I went to the nearby park and took a walk alone with God.  Together we sat under the stars and I just reflected on...

WORD STUDY – A BUMMER – ערות

  Deuteronomy 24:1 “ When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of...

WORD STUDY – THERE WAS יהי

  Genesis 12:10 “There was famine in the land.”   “Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.”  Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Rime of the Ancient Mariner.   I read in Jewish literature an interesting twist to this verse in Genesis 12:10. The word...

WORD STUDY – A REAL JERK – חומצ

  Psalms 71:4 “Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.”   Most commentators believe that this wicked person is David’s son Absalom who plotted against his father and forced him from the throne...