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. The Talmud says the 53rd of Isaiah refers to Messiah. (Sanhedrin 98) The Targum of Jonathan begins it with the words Ha yatslakh avdee Mashikha which mean: Behold my servant the Messiah shall prosper. Others believed the 53rd of of Isaiah speaks of the sufferings of Messiah, e.g. Rabbi Moshe...

The word "righteous" suggests that Noah had achieved sinless perfection. But is that really the meaning of righteous in the old testament? _

. It's commonly supposed that the five unwise girls were at fault for not bringing along enough oil for their light sources. That may be true, but I rather suspect that their mistake was scarcely related to the oil and mostly related to abandoning their posts. Had they stuck to their guns (so...

. 256) 1Thess 5:13b . . Live in peace with each other. In this instance, "each other" likely refers to the fraternity of believers to whom Paul penned the letter, i.e. Christ's body rather than the world at large. The category of peace Paul is talking about is social; viz: harmony in personal...

. 255) 1Thess 5:12-13a . . Now we ask you, brothers, to respect those who work hard among you, who are over you in The Lord and who admonish you. Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. I would say that if the officers in your church are just too impossible for you to...

. 254) 1Thess 5:11 . . Therefore encourage one another, and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. Building up is just the opposite of tearing down. Christians in Galatia were busy doing the latter. ● Gal 5:15 . . But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not...

. 253) 1Thess 5:8 . . Since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. There's likely any number of explanations for "the day" and probably all are useful. However, we can narrow them all down to just...

. 252) 1Thess 5:5-6 . . We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self controlled. Christians walk a strange path. On the one hand they have to be ready to leave this Earth and join Christ on a moment's notice...

. 251) 1Thess 4:18 . . Encourage each other with these words. Below are the words to which Paul referred ● 1Thess 4:13-17 . . Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again...

. ● Isa 42:1-2 . . Behold My servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom My soul delighteth; I have put My spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. That prophecy came to pass at Matt 12:16-21...

. 250) 1Thess 4:11c-12 . . Work with your own hands, just as we instructed you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders; and so that you will not be dependent on anybody. In times of economic stress-- e.g. the 2008 Wall Street collapse, downsizing, wage reductions, corporations...

The Greek word translated "saved" is a mite ambiguous. It doesn't always pertain to retribution and perdition. In context the passage is saying-- in so many words --that women are just as blessed as mothers as men are blessed as teachers, preachers, and church managers. * I'd imagine there are...

. ● Gal 5:13a . . You, my brethren, were called to be free. But do not use your liberty to indulge the base nature; Christ's followers are sometimes accused of practicing a religion that gives people a license to steal, so to speak. Well; that's true to a certain extent because his followers...

. 249) 1Thess 4:11a . . Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, I highly recommend avoiding political activism like the plague. Demonstrations, protests, marches, and the like are not what I call a quiet life; and they sometimes result in violence and civil disobedience; which are really...

. ● Eph 5:22 . .Wives, submit to your husbands as to The Lord. In other words: it's not the husband himself who merits his wife's best behavior, rather, it's his position in the sphere of human life. For example: "To the woman he said: Your husband . . he will rule over you." (Gen 3:16) Adam...

. ● 1Cor 11:3 . . But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. It never seems to fail that somebody will actually attempt to refute Paul's statement by quoting another of his own statements. "You are all...

. 248) 1Thess 4:6b-8 . . God has called us to be holy, not to live impure lives. Anyone who refuses to live by these rules is not disobeying human rules but is rejecting God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you. Why "gives" the Spirit instead of gave? Well; although Christ's believing followers...

. The Greek word translated "saved" doesn't always refer to retribution and/or perdition. For example: ● Matt 14:30 . . But when Peter saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying: Lord, save me! ● John 12:27 . . Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say...

. 247) 1Thess 4:3-5 . . It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; The Greek word translated...

. The 2nd chapter of the book of Daniel tells of a rather curious statue constructed with a variety of materials representing a number of significant Gentile empires. It's my understanding that the several empires represented by the statue have come and gone except for the one down at the...