WORD STUDY – ABANDONED BOOTHS

Isaiah 1:8:  “And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.”   This is a passage that seems to go unnoticed by most Christians as its meaning tends to be obscure.   Yet, it presents a very...

WORD STUDY – ACTS

Ecclesiastes 12:14: ‘Because God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.” It is interesting that the word for God has a definite article in front of it, “Because The God.”  The word for God is haelohim which is...

WORD STUDY – GOD’S THOUGHTS

Isaiah 55:8: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.”   The word for thought here is not sh’ar as it is in Proverbs 23:7:  Here the word is chashav.  Sh’ar has the idea of thinking to make a decision; this thinking...

WORD STUDY – ANTIMONY

Isaiah 54:11: “O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.”   We need to keep in mind that Hebrew is constantly drawing a picture for us. Here the nation of...

WORD STUDY – A VIRGIN GOD

Isaiah 62:5a “For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry Thee:   The word for marry here is baal, yeah the same word that is used for a false god.  What could the sages be thinking when they used the same word for marriage that is used for a...

WORD STUDY – CUP OF TREMBLING

Isaiah 51:13, 17. “And forgettest the Lord they maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy and where is the fury of the...