WORD STUDY – AFTER THEIR MANNER

  I Kings 18:28, “And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.”   This classic story pits God Jehovah against the god Baal worshipped by King Ahab of the Northern Kingdom 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 – WHEN GOD IS ANGRY

I Kings 11:9: “And the Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel which had appeared unto him twice.”   Every modern translation I read uses the word angry in this passage.  Well, I mean you can’t blame God for being...