WORD STUDY – FOOLS (KASAL)

Ecclesiastes 4:5: “The fool folded his hands together and eats his own flesh.” It seems most commentaries tend to agree that the writer is basically saying that there are people who feel the world owes them a living. They sit back in their laziness and eat their own...

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...