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  • Isaiah 6

    Isaiah continues to expound on the visions he has seen concerning the coming judgment of Jerusalem explaining a large population taken into captivity (6:13 cf 2 Kings 21:14), a remnant will stay, but they…

  • Acts 28

    1-6 This is a peculiar text that I had to think on for a while.  I read some commentaries that confirmed what I was thinking to why the Author would include such a story.…

  • Song of Solomon

    It’s important to identify the genre of any text in the Scripture before one makes an attempt to interpret the meaning.  According to my understanding, historical church has made the Song of Solomon to…

  • 1 John 2

    And HereBy We do Know Him 3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar,…

  • Deuteronomy 31

    Be Strong and Courageous Strength and courage are two necessary outcomes of tempered faith.  There is of course no fault in the Lord  that it was necessary for the Israelites to wander 40 years…

  • Deuteronomy 19

    My lovely wife and I enjoy listening to the Bible being read aloud.   With some artistic license actors can deliver the scriptures with the appropriate emotions the author originally intended.  This particularly helps…

  • Ecclesiastes 3

    A Time for Everything? Over the years I’ve seen some strange applications and interpretations to the first 8 verses of this chapter.  A common application is that these verses justify the ethical reasons for…

  • 1 Samuel 5

    At first Dagon is found lying face down in front of the ar in symbolic submission and omen of immediate judgement on the Philistines.  Finally Dagon is found again lying face down with its…

  • 1 Chronicles 29

    David’s Final Hours David obviously wasn’t a perfect man.  If David were a missionary, I do not think many pastors would support a rapist and a murderer.  But the one whom is the apple…