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WORD STUDY – WASH SEVEN TIMES

II Kings 5:10: “And Elisha sent a messenger unto him saying: Go and wash in the Jordan seven times and thy flesh shall come again to thee and thou shalt be clean.”   Why did God make Naaman do such silly stuff?  Why not just heal the old boy and get it over with....

WORD STUDY – ABSENT AND PRESENT

II Corinthians 5:8: “We are confident I say and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.”   I had a friend who was a retired Greek professor and Greek Orthodox.  I was a retired Hebrew teacher and Baptist.  We would get together...

WORD STUDY – HARA (THE EVIL)

II Chronicles 36:5: “Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God.”   Jehoiakim was the son of Josiah, king of Judah.  Josiah was the last...

WORD STUDY – ‘AVAR (DESPERATE SEARCH)

Song of Solomon  3:3, “The watchmen that go about the city found me: Saw ye him who my soul loveth?”   “Ich bin ein Berliner” John F. Kennedy, June 26. 1963.  Translation, “I am a jelly filled donut.”   There is an urban legend that popped up a number of...

WORD STUDY – ABAD (SERVICE) BEYOND THE DALETH

II Chronicles 34:33:  “And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the Lord their God, and all his days they departed not from following...

WORD STUDY – KESEPH (WRATH)

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. Jehoshaphat was a Godly king...

WORD STUDY – DAMA’ (WEEP)

John 11:33, “When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,”   John 11:35, “Jesus wept.”   Yesterday I caught a few minutes of the Glenn Beck radio program where he was...

WORD STUDY – SHATAN (BANQUET)

Esther 5:4, “And Esther answered, If it seems good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.”   I have my PhD in Biblical Archaeology and I have spent many years studying the history and culture of the...

WORD STUDY – HUMBLE YOURSELF

II Chronicles 12:7: “”And when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah saying: they have humbled themselves, then I will not destroy them.”   Solomon’s administrative policies developed some dangerous principles.  His...

WORD STUDY – NEVU (PROPHESY)

I Samuel 19:20: “And Saul sent messengers to take David; and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.”   Saul sends out his goons...

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