Blameless The Old Testament. The concept of blamelessness carries with it two different, yet not dissimilar ideas. The first refers to sacrificial ani...
Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God and the power of His Christ have come An equivalent statement to that which accompanied the so...
Knowledge of God The key biblical terms for knowledge assume a personal familiarity, even an intimateinvolvement, with the known object. Similarly, kn...
He laid hold of the dragon Laid hold is ???????? [ekrat?se] : ?take into one?s possession or custody . . . arrest . . . apprehend someone.?1 The dra...
Circumcision [T] [B] [E] [S]Institution of Genesis 17:10-14 ; Leviticus 12:3 ; John 7:22 ; Acts 7:8 ; Romans 4:11 A seal of righteousness Roma...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 68\\ \\\\. The Targum makes the argument of this psalm to be the coming of the children of Israel out of Egypt, and the givi...
and from Jesus Christ Within this simple greeting can be found a neglected doctrine of paramount importance: the Trinity. The greeting is from each me...
in His right hand seven stars These stars are the seven angels of the churches as explained in Revelation 1:20 . The picture of the stars being withi...
Assurance [N] [T] [E]In the midst of a world filled with uneasiness and insecurity, assurance of a person's security in God is one of the hallmarks of...
worthy to receive glory and honor and power ?????? [labein] , present tense: to be continually receiving. Both the Father and the Son are worthy to r...
they had a king over them These locusts are to be contrasted with natural locusts which have no king: ?The locusts have no king, yet they all advance...
All book names within Bible addresses appear in one of two forms: (1) the full formal name (e.g., Revelation), or (2) a standardized abbreviation. Th...
New Life God has brought his people salvation in Jesus Christ, a gift that is described throughout the Scriptures as new life. Two words are used in t...
he cast him into the bottomless pit Having unlocked the abyss, the angel casts Satan into it. The picture is of all authority being with the angel an...
Judges 13:24 And the woman bare a son, and called name Samson After these appearances were over, Manoah and his wife returned to their habitation, and...
robe dipped in blood Dipped is ?????????? [bebammenon] , perfect passive participle: having been dipped. This verb is from ????? [bapt?] : to baptize...
a male child who was to rule with a rod of iron To rule is ?????????? [Poimainein] : ?Herd, tend, (lead to) pasture.?1 Elsewhere, it is translated a...
who had been prepared ?? ???????????? [hoi h?toimasmenoi] , perfect tense passive participle, the ones having been prepared. The preparation was not ...
In keeping with his title of ?Antichrist,? he will be an imitator of Christ (e.g., the object of worship, worldwide dominion, a throne). This tendenc...
Chapter?4I. He continues his account of the duty of masters, from the close of the former chapter (v.?1). II. He exhorts to the duty of prayer (v.?2-4...