Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
2 Corinthians 13:5-6 NASB
“Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test? But I trust that you will realize t…
In Exodus (e.g. 26:14), we learn one of the coverings for the tabernacle is to be made of “תחש” (tachash) skins. The translation of this term appears to be especially difficult or contentious as there is little consensus between translatio…
The Bible sometimes uses words with multiple meanings to the effect of an intentional pun or wordplay. Punning seems especially common in Hebrew. I think that being aware of these literary devices offers an important insight into the ton…
My questions are why is the dwelling that is in the walled city able only to be redeemed during a one year period and that if its not it becomes established for ever and is not returned at the jubilee?
Also, in verse 31 the dwellings in vi…
Gen. 11:28 says that Haran died in the face (פְּנֵ֖י) of his father. I’m wondering if this is a euphemism for human sacrifice, that Haran was a sacrifice to gods sort of the way Isaac was later almost a human sacrifice. I know nothing of…
Psalm 114 is recited by Jews at Passover, commemorating the departure of God’s people from Egypt. This year (2021) it falls on the evening of Sunday 28 March. Verse 1 recalls God’s great redemptive work in bringing his people out of Egypt…
In Deuteronomy 3:25 (ESV) Moses requests to see the promised land:
Please let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.
In Deuteronomy 3:27 (ESV) God offers Moses what appears to be a con…
Revelation 3:14 (KJV)
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
Most translations say "the beginning of God’s creat…
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We read in [Tobit 12:15] a reference to [1 Enoch 20:3].
“I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One.”
Which verse in the Tanakh was [Tobit…
And a ruler asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 19 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone (Luke 18:18–19)
Why did Christ make this distinction between Himself and God…
I recently stumbled upon a statement of 1 Chronicles 4:18
indicating that Caleb’s son Mered married a daughter of Pharaoh named Bethiah, who bore him three sons.
Mered’s Egyptian wife bore Jered, the father of Gedor, Heber, the
father of …
Matthew 13:19
"When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path." ESV. My emphasis.
What has not be…