Today’s Word
Disgusting Ezekiel
You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your [a]lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to make Me angry. Ezekiel 16:26 NASB Lustful – The prophets do not mince words. Their messages arrive with explicit, often offensive language. The reason is simple: if you want to rivet the audience’s attention, you need provocative language. And the prophets…
The Force
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Matthew 5:8 NIV In heart – Eve Levavi Feinstein’s remark about purity in the Bible raises some important questions: “. . . the Hebrew word for purity is used almost exclusively to refer to that which is associated with God and his service: ….
A Divided House
Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division; for from now on five members in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law…
Politics
Solomon had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen. 1 Kings 4:26 NASB 40,000 – Like a few others comparative passages between the books of Kings and the books of Chronicles, this verse has a parallel. 2 Chronicles 9:25 says almost the same thing. But rather than 40,000, it reads 4,000. It’s…
Who’s In?
And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant— these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Isaiah 56:6-7a NIV All – Each one…
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