Exodus 1:10 Come on Which is a word of exhortation, stirring up to a quick dispatch of business, without delay, the case requiring haste, and some spe...
Theophany Manifestation of God that is tangible to the human senses. In its most restrictive sense, it is a visible appearance of God in the Old Testa...
Obadiah, Theology of Obadiah, the shortest Old Testament book with only twenty-one verses, was probably written shortly after the fall of Judah and Je...
Forgiveness [N]Terminology. There are several Hebrew terms equivalent to the English to forgive, as defined below. The three most common are verbs (u...
Isaiah 41:15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument, having teeth The Vulgate Latin version renders it, as a new threshing cart, ha...
CHAPTER VI. PROPHECY AND CHOKMA IN THE FIRST EPOCHS OF THE DIVISION OF THE KINGDOM. ?23. The Prophets after the Division of the Kingdom until the Re...
Acts 7:21 And when he was cast out Into the river, or by the river, as some copies read; the Syriac version adds, by his own people; by his father and...
Hardening, Hardness of Heart In the Scriptures various aspects of human anatomy are used to define the whole person, but the most frequently used is h...
Demon [E] [S]Spirit being who is unclean and immoral in nature and activities. When demons were created, how they came to be demonic, and their organi...
Acts 8:27 And he arose and went As soon as he had his orders, he immediately obeyed them; he made no dispute about the matter, though he was directed ...
Sanctification [N] [T] [E]The generic meaning of sanctification is the state of proper functioning. To sanctify someone or something is to set that pe...
Isaiah 1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz This is either the particular title of the prophecy contained in this single chapter, as Jarchi and Ab...
Fast, Fasting Abstinence from food and/or drink as an element of private or public religious devotion. Fasting is nowhere commanded in the Torah and, ...
PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 6 VI. Gospel. I had purposed to save adequate space for the discussion of Paul's theology, but that is not now possible. A bare sk...
Time [N] [T]It is debatable whether the Bible contains enough information to formulate a full-scale doctrine of time; nonetheless, the significance of...
Mediator, Mediation On the human plane, mediation takes place in the Bible, as it has in many cultures throughout history, both in innocent circumstan...
Mind/Reason That part of the human being in which thought takes place and perception and decisions to do good, evil, and the like come to expression. ...
Isaiah 11:11 And it shall come to pass in that day Before spoken of, and which includes the whole Gospel dispensation: [that] the Lord shall set his h...
Power [N]Power is an English logical construct referring to a variety of ideas relating to ability, capacity, authority, and might/strength. In human ...
Amos, Theology of Like all biblical prophets, Amos spoke the oracles of Yahweh, Israel's God, to people in a particular context. In order to comprehen...