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  • Why Did You Stop?

    And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? Matthew 14:31 (KJV) Doubt – In ancient Hebrew, the word “doubt” did not exist. Jesus, speaking Hebrew as He did with His apostles, would not have asked Peter why he doubted. In…

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  • Where Eldership Often Fails

    The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of…

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  • Comma or Semicolon?

    And Abraham said, “It is God who will see to the sheep for this burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them walked on together. Genesis 22:8 (JPS) , my son – When the text we read includes punctuation (periods, commas, quotes, etc.), it is important to note that the punctuation was added at…

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  • The Four Species

    And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs [fruit] of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days. Leviticus 23:40 (KJV) On Sukkot (Feast of Booths), God instructs us to take up four elements…

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  • Judge Ourselves

    For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 1 Corinthians 11:31 (KJV) Judge ourselves – During the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, these words of Paul ring loudly. If we examine ourselves and discern our own actions, then we’d be free of the final judgment. God’s punishment today is accepted as merciful…

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  • Paul, the Theological Rebel

    Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Deuteronomy 25:4 (KJV) Muzzle the ox – The Rabbis have long suggested that the word “ox” can apply to all animals that are used for the purpose of work, but clarify that this verse does not apply to humans.

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  • New Israel

    The church was now God’s true synagogue, and its people the new Israel. The purpose of the office was to create a new society, the Kingdom of God, to institute the new creation by means of the discipline of its law-world. The seal of God’s approval on the church as the new Israel, and the…

  • Absolute, but Flexible

    Make two cherubim of gold—make them of hammered work—at the two ends of the cover. Exodus 25:18 (JPS) Make – There is no question in what is going on here. God has just instructed the fashioning of two cherubim, an entity found in heaven. The people are to make a graven/sculptured image of something in…

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  • When Translations Become a Lie

    “‘How can you say, “We are wise,    for we have the law of the Lord,”when actually the lying pen of the scribes    has handled it falsely? Jeremiah 8:8 (NIV) Lying – Is Jeremiah indicating that the scribes have lied – that they have corrupted the law by writing into it lies? It would appear so if we read the NIV version…

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  • The Mikvah of Israel

    O Hope of Israel! O LORD!All who forsake You shall be put to shame,Those in the land who turn from YoueShall be doomedf men,For they have forsaken the LORD,The Fount of living waters. Jeremiah 17:13 Hope – There is something fantastic happening here with the language. Jeremiah writes, Oh YHVH, You are the hope of…

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