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WORD STUDY – GOD’S RESTING PLACE
Exodus 40:35: "And Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting, for the cloud rested (shakhan) upon it , and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle." Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting because of the Shekhinah glory. The Talmud and other Jewish...
WORD STUDY – EARLY ARRIVAL
Proverbs 8:17: “I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.” This is a little odd in the Hebrew. “I love them” is in an imperfect form, hence it should correctly be rendered as I will love them. Of course no one will translate it that...
WORD STUDY – FEEDING ON THE WIND
Ecclesiastes 6:9: “Better is the sight of eyes than the wandering of the desire, this is also vanity and the vexation of the spirit.” One of the stories from Geoffrey Chaucer’ s “Canterbury Tales” is entitled “The Pardoner’s Tail” In this story he makes...
WORD STUDY: THE GIFT OF CREATION
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 an article in front of it. Because “The God.” The word for God is haelohim which is...
WORD STUDY- FAITH AND WORKS
Genesis 15:6: “And he (Abraham) believed the Lord and He counted it as righteousness.” John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. James 2:20 But wilt...
WORD STUDY – VIOLENCE AGAINST YOUR BROTHER
Obadiah 1:10 For [thy] violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever. In my first year in Bible College the upper classmen put on a program for the new freshman. They had a sketch where a student played a reporter...
WORD STUDY – LOVING GOD WITH YOUR HEART
Deuteronomy 30:2-3: “And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; that then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have...
BEYOND THE DALETH – ETERNITY IN OUR HEARTS
Ecclesiastes 3:11: “He hath made everything beautiful in its time (season), also he has set the world (eternity) in their hearts, so that no man can find out the work that God made from beginning to end.” “Grow old with me, the best is yet to be.” Robert...
WORD STUDY – YOU ARE GOD’S JESHURUN
Deuteronomy 32:15: “But Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked. Thou are waxen fat and thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness, then he forsook God which made him and lightly esteemed the rock of his salvation.” I did not have any particular verse in mind...
WORD STUDY – THE PROMISED LAND
Deuteronomy 9:5: “Not for the righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart do you go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations and that he may perform the word which the Lord confirmed unto thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” ...


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