Discipline [N]The Old Testament Concept of Discipline. The notion of the discipline of God, and eventually the concept of the community and its leader...
Redeem, Redemption Finding its context in the social, legal, and religious customs of the ancient world, the metaphor of redemption includes the ideas...
THESSALONIANS. CHAPTER III. Closing Admonitions. SUMMARY.--A Request for Prayer. A Command to Withdraw from the Disorderly. An Admonition to the I...
Death of Christ The Place in the Gospels. In the records of Jesus that the Gospels give us, it is clear that a place of supreme significance is given ...
Predestination [N] [E]The Concept. Divine predestination means that God has a purpose that is determined long before it is brought to pass. It implies...
Apostle [N] [E] [S](Gk. apostolos [ajpovstolo]). Envoy, ambassador, or messenger commissioned to carry out the instructions of the commissioning aget....
Promise Undertaking or assurance given to indulge in or refrain from some specific form of activity. Such commitments are made commonly between indivi...
I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches The Revelation of Jesus Christ (the contents of which are recorded by thi...
overcomes See Who is the Overcomer? sit with Me They will sit with Him and share His rule in the same way He sits at the right hand of the Father and ...
The shape of the locusts was like Up to this point, the creatures which come up out of the bottomless pit have been identified as ?locusts? (Rev. Rev...
Fruit [E]Terms and Meaning. Among the number of Hebrew words for fruit, fruit-producing, is peri, to bear fruit, be fruitful. The basic Greek word for...
Amen [N] [E] [S]In current usage, the term amen has become little more than a ritualized conclusion to prayers. Yet the Hebrew and Greek words for ame...
Grief, Grieving Scripture often speaks of God as being grieved or experiencing grief. This holds true for each member of the Trinity. In Genesis 6:6-8...
Water [N] [T]The word water is used in a variety of metaphorical ways in Scripture. It is used to symbolize the troublesome times in life that can and...
in their mouth Scripture implicates the mouth as the organ which speaks forth the heart: ?Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things...
Baptize, Baptism The Greek root-word baptizein [baptivzw] means to plunge, immerse, sink; hence to wash; to be immersed, overwhelmed (in trouble). Fro...
Providence of God The word providence comes from the Latin providentia (Gk. pronoia [provnoia]) and means essentially foresight or making provision be...
Hospitality [N] [T] [S]Hospitality plays no small role in the realm of biblical ethics. Biblical admonitions exhorted the Israelites and the early Chr...
Word [N](Heb. dabar [r'b'D]; Gk. logos [lovgo] and rhema [rJh'ma]). The theological meaning of word within Scripture spans a wide theological spectrum...
Nahum, Theology of Nahum is a biblical book that Christians find easy to avoid. In the first place, it is among the shortest of the Minor Prophets and...