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Prosperity Tests

and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is written, ‘He will command His angels concerning You’; and ‘On their hands they will bear You up,
so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’” Matthew 4:6  NASB Throw Yourself – Commentaries on the temptations of…
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Translating without Reading

And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.  Exodus 1:21  ESV Families – Here’s the problem.  The pronoun expression “them” is lahem.  It is the preposition le plus the pronoun hem.  But the pronoun here is masculine in spite of the fact that we assume it refers to the midwives.  Something doesn’t look…
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Four-Part Harmony

“Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven.”  Matthew 18:19  NASB Agree – What does it mean to agree?  Does it mean to think precisely the same way, to mimic each…
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The God Paradigm

When God began to create heaven and earth—  Genesis 1:1  JPS God – Now don’t get too upset about the JPS translation.  It only tries to capture the fact that the opening word, bere’shiyt, does not have a definite article attached (“the” beginning) and therefore must be understood in some other way than an announcement…
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The Government of God

All who accept the yoke of the Torah are relieved of the yoke of the government and the yoke of worldly affairs.  All who cast off the yoke of Torah, the yoke of the government and the yoke of worldly affairs is put upon them.  Pirke Avot 3:6 Yoke – No, you won’t find this…
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Relationship Management

And the Twelve summoned the congregation of the disciples and said, “It is not desirable for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables . . .”  Acts 6:2  NASB Not desirable – What does God want you to do?  Ah, while you are answering that question you must also ask,…
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