by admin | Apr 13, 2026 | Balaam, Balak and the 24,000, Section Seven
This is a continuation of my review of the Lord’s patience with the 24,000 killed by Mosesc, Phineas and the judges or tribes of Israel after joining themselves to Baal of Peor. The old human (τὸν παλαιὸν ἄνθρωπον)—your old self, which belongs to your former...
by admin | May 31, 2022 | Section Six, The Book of Life, The New Covenant
The beast was permitted to go to war against the saints and conquer them. He was given ruling authority over every tribe, people,1 language, and nation, and all those who live on the earth will worship the beast,2 everyone whose3 name4 has not been written since the...
by admin | Apr 18, 2021 | A Monotonous Cycle, Cities of Refuge, Section Five
I intend to consider another description of cities of refuge to fortify the conviction that Genesis 9:5, 6 was God’s description of his own attitude and behavior toward murderers post-flood. He knew his own heart, his own judgments. There was no need for the detail...
by admin | Nov 28, 2016 | Deuteronomy, Section Three, The Fear of the Lord
Then we left Horeb, Moses said, and passed through all that immense, forbidding (yârêʼ, והנורא) wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the Lord our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.[1] The word forbidding gives...
by admin | Jul 4, 2016 | Condemnation or Judgment?, Section Three
Paul wrote believers in Colossae (Colossians 3:1-6 NET): Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth, for you have died and...