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Pandemic

The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”  Genesis 2:16-17 NASB Knowledge of good and evil – Just what was this tree of the…
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Fool’s Day

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding.  In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.  Proverbs 3:5-6 NASB Acknowledge – Let’s have some fun today.  We want to think about the Hebrew idea of knowing.  It’s not the same as our Western idea.  To get the…
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Technical Terms

When he saw that he had not prevailed against him, he touched the socket of his thigh; so the socket of Jacob’s thigh was dislocated while he wrestled with him. Genesis 32:25  NASB Socket of his thigh – The enigmatic Hebrew phrase bekaph yereko raises some interesting technical questions.  If we try to figure out…
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The Samson Connection

But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord . . .  Jonah 1:3a  NASB To flee – Everyone know the Jonah story.  Probably everyone knows, or thinks that they know, the Sampson story as well.  We have those Sunday school memories of the whale (big fish) and the long hair of the…
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The Matrix

That which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done.  So there is nothing new under the sun.  Ecclesiastes 1:9  NASB Nothing new – On the surface, this claim seems preposterous if not outright false.  Of course, there are new things.  Every birth is…
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