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Whose Is This?

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.  Romans 9:4  ESV Belong – Are you under the false impression that the biblical experience of God belongs to the Church?  Do you think God’s promises are promises for the Church?  Did…
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Not Exactly

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.  Genesis 1:27  NASB Created – Have you ever wondered about the construction of this verse?  Why does it seem to repeat itself?  Did you think it was just for emphasis?  But then why would…
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Thank Geneva

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned   Romans 5:12  NIV Because – As Dwight Pryor points out, in 1599 the Geneva Bible translated the Latin text rather than the Greek text for this crucial word.  The…
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Peek Behind the Curtain

In the beginning God created [et]  . . . .  Genesis 1:1  NASB Et – If you read this text in Hebrew you would read the following:  beresheet bara Elohim et hashamayim ve-et ha-aretz.  Let me try to display this in Hebrew letters: Why is it important to see the Hebrew text?  Because there is…
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What Day Is It?

And the LORD will be king over all the earth.  On that day the LORD will be one and his name one.  Zechariah 14:9  ESV That day – Can here be any doubt about which day is “that day”?  It is the day when waters will flow from Jerusalem toward the East and toward the…
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The Gate of God

“For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech, that all of them may call upon the name of the LORD and serve him with one accord.”  Zephaniah 3:9  ESV Pure Speech – In order to understand what the prophet is saying, we need some Babylonian background.  The…
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