Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
After reading Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy a question arises. For instance, in Genesis 32:33 (NASB)
Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the tendon of the hip which is on the socket of the hip, becau…
I was reading Genesis 33 and noticed extra dots (i.e. not part of the niqqud that I understand) above the letters of “and he kissed him” in verse 4 (picture from archive.org’s Biblia Hebraica):
and he fell on his neck and kissed him, and…
I’ve seen the seven binyanim organized as three actives corresponding to three passives and then the hitpa’el as being separate.
However, I recently saw a table that listed the hitpa’el as the "reflexive of the intensive". I’m tr…
Acts 8:1 says following Stephen’s death. The followers of the Way were forced to scatter throughout Judea and Samaria to avoid persecution. However in Acts 9:2 I read. Paul went to Damascus to persecute believers. How did the believers eve…
Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. Mattews. 21:5 KJV
That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; Luke. 11:50 KJV
Acts 9 tells us Paul went to Damascus to persecute the followers of the Way.
But in previous Chapter (Acts 8)
We read that they had fled to Samaria and Judea following Stephen’s death. Now those two places are nowhere near Damascus. So how…
King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. (Daniel 3:1)
Did these sizes represent something in the Babylon time?
Mark 3:21 NLT “When his family heard what was happening, they tried to take him away. “He’s out of his mind,” they said.”
IN other versions it says “own people” or “friends”
The greek was not very clear to me; it looks like an interpret…
The setting is Jesus in the wilderness, being tempted by the devil (vs. 1) and the second temptation is for Jesus to hurl himself down from a pinnacle in the temple “in the holy city” (vss. 5 & 6).
The devil is, again, trying to get Je…
We see the introductory paragraph of the Gospel according to Luke, as follows:
Since many have undertaken to set down an orderly account of the events that have been fulfilled among us,
Luke 1 – NRSV
Given that the Catholic Church recogn…
In the Torah, the first five books of the bible, there are various narratives that bear strong resemblance to various Babylonians myths. Notably the story of creation, Adam and Eve, and the flood all have Babylonian precursors. These are d…