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- 394) Heb 10:23 . . Let us cling to the acknowledgment of our faith without wavering; (for He is faithful that promised) One can scarcely blame the author's Hebrew audience for wondering if perchance they're making a really big mistake dumping the covenant that Yhvh's people made with God as...

- Genesis 24:36-53 ● Gen 24:36a . . And Sarah, my master's wife, bore my master a son in her old age Curiously, he doesn't mention Sarah's passing. But then, the Scriptures don't record every word that people ever spoke-- just excerpts really. Back in verse 30, Becky's entire experience at the...

- 393) Heb 10:21-22 . . Since we have a high priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience Sprinkling was a common ritual in the Old Testament-- sometimes with water...

- Sometimes people that talk bravely about death are fearing it and don't know it. Take for example Peter: ● Matt 26:31-33 . .Then Jesus told them: This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written: "I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be...

- Genesis 24:32-35 ● Gen 24:32 . . So the man entered the house, and the camels were unloaded. The camels were given straw and feed, and water was brought to bathe his feet and the feet of the men with him. In those days, when somebody "entered the house" they actually entered a gateway into a...

- ● Gen 2:15-17 . .The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you...

- 392) Heb 6:1-3 . . Let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God, instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment...

- Genesis 24:23-31 ● Gen 24:23-25 . . Pray tell me; he said: whose daughter are you? Is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night? She replied: I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor. And she went on: There is plenty of straw and feed at home...

- 390) Heb 4:14 . . Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us cling to what we acknowledge Prior to Christ, the closest proximity that Yhvh's people had to God was their Aaonic priest. But even he was earth-bound and his own closest...

- Genesis 24:16d-22 ● Gen 24:16d . . She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up. The "spring" in this case was a small pool of water fed by an aquifer, which is different than an artesian well. Artesians gush, while aquifers seep. Some of the shafts of ancient man-made wells in...

- 388) Heb 4:1-2 . .Therefore, let us fear lest, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it. For indeed we have had the gospel preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it wasn't mixed with...

- Probably the first thing that most of us think of when we hear the word "hell" is everlasting torture; and that may be. But the reservoir of burning sulfur in the book of Revelation is actually not so much a rack as it is a gallows. The reservoir is primarily depicted as an instrument for...

- Genesis 24:11-16c ● Gen 24:11 . . He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city, at evening time, the time when women come out to draw water. "evening time" is from an ambiguous word that indicates any time between high noon and sunset as opposed to morning which can indicate...

- 386) Heb 3:7-11 . . So, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, where your fathers tested and tried Me and for forty years saw what I did. That is why I was angry with that...

- ● Heb 1:1-2 . . In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days He has spoken to us by His son, The epistle to Hebrews is a bit tricky to interpret because a large portion of it falls into the category of evangelism...

- Genesis 24:3c-10 ● Gen 24:3c-4 . . that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell, but will go to the land of my birth and get a wife for my son Isaac. The words "land of my birth" can also mean "to my country and to my relatives." That is...

- Christianity is sometimes criticized as a religion of fear. Well; that criticism is not entirely without merit. ● Luke 12:4-6 . . I tell you, my friends: do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: fear Him who, after...

- The fruit of the Spirit as per Gal 5:19-25 wasn't a new revelation in the days of the apostles. It was predicted many years before them in the Old Testament. ● Ezek 36:26-28 . . I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a...

- 382) Titus 3:15 . . Greet them that love us in the faith. Heretics are of course excluded from the group that Paul labeled "them that love us in the faith". It would be a sin to require believers to say hello to them for Paul; since his orders are to shun heretics. He he didn't want to know...

- Genesis 24:1-3b ● Gen 24:1a . . Abraham was now old, advanced in years, Abraham was 100 when Isaac was born (Gen 21:25). The lad was 40 when he married Rebecca (Gen 25:20). So that makes Abraham 140 at this point in the record. But although Abraham was worn; he wasn't worn out. Abraham still...