Word Study: Before

WORD STUDY – BEFORE Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart for my holy purpose. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.” I recently heard someone use this verse to defend the theory of...

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....

Word Study: Joyful In Glory

WORD STUDY – JOYFUL IN GLORY Psalms 149:5: “Let the saints be joyful in glory, let them sing aloud upon their beds.” “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.” Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, Scene II “Politics makes strange bedfellows.” Charles Dudley Warner...

Word Study: Love The Lord

WORD STUDY – LOVE THE LORD Deuteronomy 6:5: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” John 21:15: “So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?...

Word Study: Closed Up עצר

WORD STUDY – CLOSED UP ת Isaiah 66:9: “Shall I bring forth birth and not cause to bring forth, says the Lord. Shall I cause to bring forth and shut the womb?, says your God.” At first glance this repetition of two phrases seem to say the same thing and indeed it does,...

Word Study: The Gift Of The Magi ( Aramaic)

WORD STUDY – THE GIFT OF THE MAGI (Aramaic) Matthew 2:11: “And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and...