Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
Early Christians linked the sacrifice of the Eucharist with the sacrifice described in Malachi 1. In the King James Version, this passage relevant reads
10 … I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, neither will I accept an o…
Ezekiel portrays the siege & destruction of Jerusalem for forty years
Ezekiel 4:1-6 NIV
4 “Now, son of man, take a block of clay, put it in front of you and draw the city of Jerusalem on it. 2 Then lay siege to it: Erect siege wor…
Jesus walked on the Water, Mark 6:
51 And he got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased. And they were utterly astounded, 52 for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
What exactly were the discip…
Granville Sharp identified texts in the New Testament which he believed described a single person with two attributes. The validity of Sharp’s Rule is debated, and, in my opinion, is unnecessarily complicated, largely due to Sharp’s own ex…
How can a God who knows all things change his mind. Does not this conversation show that God listened to Moses and decided to…
Exodus 33:20 (DRB):
And again he said: Thou canst not see my face: for man shall not see me and live.
Did Moses say that he wants to “see the Face of the LORD” or he wants to “see the LORD”?
The LORD says in verse 20:
Thou canst…
In Jeremiah 34:14, we read that a Hebrew slave which has served six years must be let go at the end of the seventh year:
Jer 34:14:
מִקֵּץ שֶׁבַע שָׁנִים תְּֽשַׁלְּחוּ אִישׁ אֶת־אָחִיו הָעִבְרִי אֲשֶֽׁר־יִמָּכֵר לְךָ וַעֲבָֽדְךָ שֵׁשׁ שָׁ…
124 Book Reviews Ellen Lewin,Filled with the Spirit: Sexuality, Gender, and Radical Inclusivity in a Black Pentecostal Church Coalition(Chicago,IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018)….
On many occasions when one died he was said to be buried in his father’s sepulchre:
KJV Judges 8:32
And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
KJV…
We are initial told that when God created humankind he made him in his image and likeness.
Genesis 1:26 ESV
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over th…
I’m meditating on Psalm 36. In v. 10 the psalmist asks for God’s unfailing love and righteousness for the godly. But I can’t figure out in what sense the psalmist is asking for the righteousness of God. Is he doing it in the same sense as …
John 6:27
Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which
endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you,
because God the Father has set His seal on Him.
What did He mean by the phrase as applied to Hims…