President Trump: God Is Very Proud of me
Trump on Tuesday proclaimed “God is very proud” of him and the job he has done since returning to office during a sprawling 105-minute…
theology
Luke 19.22, what precisely is wicked as it pertains to the servant of?
Luke 19:22 And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:
Evil (πονηρός, sc#4190) is used 76x’…
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Why did Textus Receptus add the word "Χριστοῦ" to [Revelation 12:17]?
Rome’s persecution of specific Israelites who have "τὴν μαρτυρίαν τοῦ Ἰησοῦ" was poetically documented in [Revelation 12:17] – "And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offsprin…
Could Matthew 28:18-19 be translated in the Koine Greek to be an exhortation and not a commandment as some may think?
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,”
Could this mean, ”while you are going out and about or while you are on your way do these things”, or ”while y…
Were tongues for believers or unbelievers?
1 Corinthians 14:
22 Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.
Tongues were for unbelievers and not for believers. Only 4 verses later:
26b When you co…
How should the Hebrew ‘ehyeh asher ehyeh’ in Exodus 3:14 be translated in English and what does it mean?
God instructed Moses to say “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you’” (Exodus 3:14 New International Version).
The phrase translated “I am who I am” in Hebrew is ehyeh asher ehyeh. The word e…
How can the Gospel of Jesus, penetrate the wall presented by the old covenant
In Deutoronomy 13 there are two following passages:
“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after …
Is there a difference in the manner by which Jesus, Elijah, and Enoch went to heaven?
I am building on a previous question located here.
I am not satisfied with the answers to the question and want to ask specifically if the text describing the manner in which Enoch and Elijah went to heaven are actually different than how…
Isaac’s Blessing of His Sons
Let’s first mention several verses of the Book of Genesis:
Isaac loved Esau, because he was fond of game; but Rebekah loved Jacob. (Gen. 25:28)
When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath d…
Wasn’t it Balaam who was led by the Spirit to prophecy blessings over Israel?
So what does the author of this particular commentary mean when they say "Balak was led by the Spirit to utter words concerning Israel."
Numbers 22 Preacher’s Commentary
Invitation and Refusal
This chapter marks the beginning of…
Is there anything in Genesis to suggest why the ancient Israelites were made to be slaves in Egypt?
Is there a reason provided in Genesis for the enslavement of the ancient Israelites for 400 years?:
Genesis 15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed
shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall ser…
Did Paul consider himself a Prophet? (1 Cor. 11:23) What was his general attitude toward Christian prophecy?
We know there were Christian prophets in the decades after the Resurrection, but did Paul consider himself to be one of them? What do we know about his understanding of Christian prophecy? In 1 Cor. 11:23 Paul says: "I received from t…