He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming quickly.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. Revelation 22:20 NASB Quickly – I don’t know about you, but it doesn’t seem too quickly to me. Two thousand years and counting. Maybe God’s idea of quick is completely irrelevant to ours. There are plenty of days when…
By Bob Gorelik The Torah was not “invented” at Mt. Sinai. Since it reflects the character of God, it was woven into the fabric of the universe at Creation. And, it is not just for the Jewish people. Not only are there seven principles, sometimes referred to as the “Noahide Commandments,” that all nations are…
For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea; and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 1 Corinthians 10:1-2 NASB Into – If you read these verses in the electronic version of the NASB,…
And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.” Revelation 4:8 NASB Was/is/is to come –…
Christians who follow the theological bent of Augustine and Luther claim that these men derived the doctrine of sinful nature from Scripture, particularly the Genesis account of the Fall. Luther’s articulation depends on Augustine, one of the early church fathers, in spite of the differences between the two on soteriology. However, since the rabbis worked with…
One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” Titus 1:12 NASB Prophet – Once a student at the seminary refused to take my class on prayer because one of my required texts was by Henri Nouwen. Since Nouwen confessed that he struggled with homosexual thoughts, this…
Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving. Colossians 4:2 NASB Devote – Yes, it’s fine for Paul to say this. After all, he is a saint. But for you and me? No, devotion to prayer is just too much, especially when it includes “keeping alert.” I don’t know about…
THE TOUR DATES FOR ISRAEL IN 2015 are May 21 or 22 to June 2 or 3. As much as I would like to be there for six weeks (as the previous dates suggested), I don’t think any of us can afford that. Sorry Skip
“You shall have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:3 ESV You shall have no – When I visited the British Museum years ago, I bought a game about Egyptian hieroglyphics. It included many rubber stamps of hieroglyphs and an inkpad and provided instructions about constructing sentences by using these markings. Many years later when…
