Malachi 1:2, 3, “I have loved Jacob, but Esau I have hated.” This is a Hebrew idiom. The concept of ‘hated’ means loved less. Jesus used the same idiom in Luke 14:26, “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, [...]
1 John 5:6,7 (King James Version): 6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. 7 For there [...]
The scholarly community is divided as to where the location of Eden was. The following answer presents one viewpoint:Eden – Here is the description of Eden that appears in Genesis 2:10-14, “And a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden; and [...]
Your question refers to 1 Peter 2:24 - “Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness - by whose stripes you were healed.” This healing is not a physical healing [...]
The text is found in the 24th chapter of Matthew, verses 45-47 (KJV)…"Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when [...]
A detailed rendition of the 400 silent years is found in the first two books of the Maccabees, as well as in the History of the Jews by Josephus. This period is part of what our Lord described as “the times of the Gentiles” [...]
“For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel [...]
Jesus starts a series of lessons that are in parable form (Luke 15:3). (Parable = one thing said, another thing meant). The parable found in Luke 16:19-31 is called “The Rich Man and Lazarus”. At first reading, the text seems to say that this [...]
The events of Daniel 4 have puzzled many. This story is both a concrete event as well as a prophecy. When Daniel interpreted the dream in verse 24, he told Nebuchadnezzar that the Lord had decreed that he would be driven away and live [...]
Ur of the Chaldees, where Abraham and Sarah were from, was a city at the southern end of the Tigris River in what is now Iraq. Haran was a city where Abraham’s father was buried. It is in the southern part of what is [...]
The most basic answer to this is that the Lord was favoring David and not Absalom. So in order to answer this question more deeply, we must ask, “Why did God favor David and not Absalom?” 1 Samuel 13:14 and Acts 13:22 tell us [...]
The most basic answer to this is that the Lord was favoring David and not Absalom. So in order to answer this question more deeply, we must ask, “Why did God favor David and not Absalom?” 1 Samuel 13:14 and Acts 13:22 tell us [...]
God did not create a wife before Eve. If another woman were created for Adam, how was she created? Did God take two ribs from Adam when the scriptures say that God took only one rib bone? Did this other woman have children?Since none of us [...]
Where the Old Testament is concerned, the King James Version (KJV), the New International Version (NIV), as well as most Protestant translations of the Bible are based on a single manuscript, the Leningrad Codex, produced around 1008. This Codex is our earliest complete copy [...]
In Jonah 1:17, we read, “But the LORD provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights.” Then in Matthew 12:40 we read, “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly [...]
The books of the Bible were originally written as solid texts with no divisions such as chapters and verses. In the early 13th century, French professor Stephen Langton (who later became archbishop of Canterbury) decided to break down the Scriptures into chapters to make [...]
The Tabernacle was as the Apostle Paul assures us, “a shadow of good things to come.” (Heb 10:1) In fact the whole nation of Israel with their laws and their religious services were an illustration or type (a “shadow”) of the “heavenly things”.(Heb 8:5; [...]
While there is no specific record of Jonah asking God for forgiveness, but his actions seem to imply a repentant heart.The message of the book of Jonah is that God has compassion on all of mankind as well as the whole creation. It’s not [...]
Sarah was 90 years old when she conceived Isaac…Genesis 17:17, Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, [...]
We believe that in order to go to heaven a person must recognize he is a sinner, accept Jesus’ sacrifice for his sins, and consecrate his life to doing God’s will. This involves cross-bearing and self-denial. Matt. 16:24, “Then said Jesus unto his disciples, [...]
