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The lesson in mind concerning Isaiah 59 actually starts with Isaiah 1:2–4. Here, the Lord passes Judgement when he says, “’Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do...

In Matthew 18:1–6, Jesus’ disciples asked him who the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven is. (We can presume an invisible paraphrase here saying, ‘after God,’ of course.). Jesus answers in Verse 4, “Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” So, Jesus...

Isaiah 55:6 says, “Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;” “ While He may be found?” “While He is near?” Where would God be going? The Bible says He is everywhere. Submitted for your approval, Proverbs 15:3 and Jeremiah 23:24 to name just a few Verses...

Exodus 20:8 is the Third or Fourth Commandment that God gave to Moses on Mt. Sinai, depending on certain Cristian sects or Jews, respectively. The generally recognized text of Exodus 20:8 is as follows: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” Some who love God and who’ve comes across this...

The future belongs to God. What does that mean? It means God controls the future, not man. Man may plan out a future for himself or others, but that doesn’t mean it will happen. Not when the same man has planned the future only to walk out of his building and get fatally hit by a bus, instance...

Jesus in Matthew 13:1-43 discusses the Sower in terms of spreading the Word. Luke 8:11says as much when it says, “Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.” According to a dictionary, a Sower is someone who plants seeds. Well, planting seeds is generally thought to be the start of a...

Hebrews 12:6 says, “For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” The Speaker in the Book of Hebrews is not known, but he is believed to be a Christian Jew because of his knowledge of the Old Testament. In the opening sentences of Book 1, he directly...

In John 3:3, Jesus says to Nicodemus the Pharisee who ‘rules the Jews,’ “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Whereupon in Verse 4 Nicodemus asks, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be...

At first glance, it seems that there is ambiguity in the New Testament. Maybe there are those that are familiar with the Bible enough to show us that as one reads and understands every Passage in the New Testament both separately and together, there is no ambiguity. Perhaps the rest of us are to...

Psalm 19:1 – says, “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.” Can we assert that DEI is one of God’s Handiworks? In the book of Leviticus, God speaks to Moses, who in turn speaks to the Hebrews. Does anyone have doubts that Leviticus is a Handiwork of God...

The term “blasphemy” is an inquisitively subjective word. It’s not like the word “tree”; either something you see is a tree or it’s not. There is nothing else to consider that something is a tree other than a dictionary perhaps. But to consider something a blasphemy requires a wide range of...

Seems the title of this post, derived from Revelation 7:10, would summarize the Bible very well. What else is the Bible for, if not to learn of God’s Salvation and how it came into being? Yes, 2 Timothy 3:16-17 says that all Scripture is the breath of God for our teaching, reproof, correction...

Applying Pope Leo XIII's RERUM NOVARUM to Matthew 20:1-16-Any ‘Just’ Rationalization? In Matthew 20:1-16, Jesus tells the story of a house master who hired two sets of laborers for his vineyard. The first set started work in the morning and the second set started much later in the day. When it...

The State of Missouri is known as the “Show me” state. It implies that if you make a statement of intent that relies on the future to bare out what you have stated, Missouri implies that it will believe it when it sees it. Sort of like a doubting Thomas who in John 20:24–25, after being told by...

How beholden is man to God for the earth we live on? What are God’s Commandments concerning the earth? Where is a line drawn between man’s making constructive use of the earth, and defiling it? And to what extent should man be concerned? We know that some are concerned as to whether the earth...

In the movie “Ghost,” the character responsible for orchestrating the death of Patrick Swayze’s character is physically removed from a scene by black hooded beings, leading us to believe that the soul of the responsible character is being carried to the underground of Satan. This happens without...

Two Passages in the Bible are notable for their standing. One, Ephesians 2:8-9, says “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.” That Passage ties God’s Grace to our faith in Him...

Is there any Verse in the New Testament that forbids Gentiles from saying the Lord’s Prayer? I tell you that in the Bible, all roads lead to anyone allowing to say the Lords Prayer and to benefit from doing so. Some have rationalized the Lord’s Prayer being limited to the Jews, since it was to...

In many books of the New Testament, the Apocrypha is included. A number of passages in the Apocrypha refer to Old Testament happenings The Apocrypha is believed to be a collection of works that didn’t make the cut for the Bible, thus it’s neither found in the body of the New Testament nor the...

Galatians 5:1–6 seems enigmatic at first glance. Towards the beginning, Verses 2-4 says “Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are...