Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
Acts 13:21 is usually taken to mean that Saul reigned 40 years. However, some hold that the forty years are to include Samuel’s time on the scene before Saul’s reign began. Here are the revelant verses in the NIV:
20 All this took about 4…
Ezekiel 29:10-11 (NLT – emphasis added):
I am now the enemy of both you and your river. I will make the land of Egypt a totally desolate wasteland, from Migdol to Aswan, as far south as the border of Ethiopia. For forty years not a soul w…
KJV Colossians 2:16-18
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. 18 Let no man begu…
I noticed some of you have questions concerning tithing. If you will excuse me I have a few things to say about the subject.
Tithing seems to be given as an insight or inspiration to Abraham years before the law was even thought of. Abrah…
The NKJV says:
“Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and
all evil speaking, as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the
word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed you have tasted that the
Lord is gracious.” …
When God gave Moses and Aaron new first day of the month and first month of the year that was month of Nisan/Abib , the question is which day was that in relation to Julius and Gregorian calendars, needles to say the Jewish calendar has it…
In Genesis 26:34-35 (NASB)
When Esau was forty years old he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite; 35 and they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
in Genesis 28:9 (NASB)
and Esau…
Deuteronomy 14:28-29 NASB
“At the end of every third year you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in that year, and shall deposit it in your town. The Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance among you, and the alien, th…
I’m not a biblical scholar so please don’t be too hard on me.
I understand that twice Abraham presented his wife Sara as his sister. First in Egypt and later after Sodom and Gomorrah.
I am not sure that God recognized ancient Egypt as evil…
“God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He
should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and
will He not make it good?” Numbers 23:19
“The Lord is a man of war; The Lord is His name.” Exodus …
Was the ministry of Jesus 3 1/2 years or 70 weeks?
"The Gospels record that exactly seventy weeks – four hundred and ninety days – transpired from the day that Yeshua was baptized in water until the day he fulfilled his initial missio…
First, God Himself provided the rules by which a Nazarite vow should be fulfilled.
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak
unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or
woman shall separate themselves to vow …