Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who stands next to me,” declares the Lord of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.”
Zechariah 13:7 ESV
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Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 9:6 is debated with regards to the subject being described i.e. Hizqiyah or Mashiach and that is not something I’m looking to get an answer/opinion on. I have heard that the term; "Prince of peace" is an idiom…
Hebrews 4:11 NASB
“Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience.”
How does entering God’s rest, specifically, keep us from falling away from Him in disob…
The Gospel According to Mark, in contrast to the other three gospels, provides two separate feeding miracles wherein Jesus multiplies loaves and fishes to feed five thousand and four thousand respectively. Both accounts are very similar, t…
Mark 12:26 American Standard Version
But as touching the dead, that they are raised; have ye not read in the book of Moses, in the place concerning the Bush, how God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, an…
How else did Job have additional kids? Job’s wife is not explicitly mentioned, or is she?
We read:
And the Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then all his b…
Zechariah 3:2
New International Version
The LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?"
Jude 1:9
But even the archan…
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When advising the church at Ephesus the apostle Paul tells them to put on the breastplate of righteousness
Name KJV Ephesians 6 : 14
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousnes…
John 5:18 (ESV):
18 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
The concept of equality with God is…
In Matthew 11:10 we read that Christ said of John the Baptist in reference to his role of heralding and preparing the way for Christ:
Matthew 11:7-10 (DRB) 7 And when they went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concernin…
MOUNCE renders it:
who, although he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with
God a thing to be grasped,
Westcott and Hort / [NA27 variants] ὃς ἐν μορφῇ θεοῦ ὑπάρχων οὐχ
ἁρπαγμὸν ἡγήσατο τὸ εἶναι ἴσα θεῷ,
Whereas …
None of the rulers of this age understood it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. NET 1 Corinthians 2:8
And he said unto me: ‘Enoch, why dost thou ask me regarding the fragrance of the tree, and why d…