Today’s Word

Flank Attack

For we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, more than once—and yet Satan hindered us. 1 Thessalonians 2:18 NASB Hindered – Paul’s statement is rather startling. Isn’t God in charge of the universe? Isn’t God the only true Sovereign? Doesn’t the Accuser have to answer to Him? As a rabbi, Paul certainly believed in the…
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Extended Effects

we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. 2 Corinthians 5:8 NASB Absent – Investigating the Greek verb, we come upon a rather interesting remark: “ekdēméō, endēméō. These two terms denote being abroad and staying at home. Not used…
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Are You Listening?

and he said, “I called out of my distress to the Lord,
 And He answered me.
 I cried for help from the depth of Sheol;
 You heard my voice.”  Jonah 2:2 NASB Depth of Sheol – I’ve been there. Jonah and I apparently took the same escape plan. We ended up in Sheol – the…
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What Days Are These?

“They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” Jeremiah 31:34 NASB I…
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Beneath Egypt

“You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.” Exodus 20:4 NASB Earth – The Hebrew word mitahat combines the preposition min with the adverb tahat.   This combination produces the pictograph “Water/Massive/Chaos + Seal/Sign/Covenant + Fence/Separate/Surround…
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