He Walks With Us

Category: Genesis

  • Chiasms

    A Chiasm is a literary technique used frequently in the Bible. It’s a symmetrical pattern that incorporates two or more ideas; A and B. These ideas are grouped with related variants (A1, B1) and structured as such; A,B,B1,A1. They might also look like A,B,C…C,B,A.

  • Ancient Prostitution

    Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place. Genesis 38:21 (KJV) Harlot – Hirah is the one who asked the question. He was Judah’s friend, and an Adullamite. The story, as you might…

  • The Prophet & The Manic

    Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine. Genesis 20:7 (KJV) Prophet – Our understanding of this word has been completely Hellenized,…

  • More Than Just His Backside

    And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen. Exodus 33:23 (KJV) Back parts – The Hebrew word is achor and it means much more than just God’s backside. Think about it. God doesn’t have a face, He doesn’t have a backside – He’s…

  • No food laws?

    Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. Genesis 9:3 (KJV) Every moving thing that liveth – Wait a second. Did YHWH actually tell Noah that they can eat EVERY CREATURE? It sure seems that way. There were no food laws, so…

  • How to Pray

    And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. Genesis 25:21 (KJV) Intreated – Did it ever occur to you that out of all the procedures and laws for bringing a sacrifice to the LORD, there is none that instruct us…

  • The Naked Serpent

    Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” Genesis 3:1 (NASB) Crafty – The introduction of the serpent immediately puts us on guard. Crafty is a term to…

  • In the Middle of the Garden

    but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’ Genesis 3:3 (NASB) Middle of the garden –  Did you catch what Eve said here? She just told the serpent that the tree of…

  • Help Wanted

    And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. Genesis 2:20 (KJV) There was not found – Have you ever wondered why God mentions in verse 18 that it’s not good for…

  • Perfection in Plainness

    And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. Genesis 25:27 (KJV) Plain – In all my readings of Jacob as a young man, I am baffled at how he could possibly obtain the mercy of God and be found just…