Overview - Haggai 2 1?He encourages the people to the work, by promise of greater glory to the second temple than was in the first. 10?In the type of ...
MARESHAH ma-re'-sha (mareshah; Septuagint: Codex Vaticanus Bathesar; Codex Alexandrinus Maresa): A town in the Shephelah of Judah named with Keilah a...
It is not our purpose here to describe the Millennial Kingdom at great length. It is a large topic and the subject of scores of prophecies, especiall...
Sin unto Death The expression sin unto death ( 1 John 5:16-17 ) appears in a context concerning confident, effective prayer (cf. 1 John 3:21-22 ; 4:...
he shall rule them This promise is closely related to that given to the Laodicean overcomer: ?I will grant to sit with Me on My throne as I also over...
Another stumbling block to an accurate interpretation of the book of Revelation is attributing the wrong motives to its authorship. To listen to some...
Flock Two Hebrew words, eder [r,d,[] and son, are regularly translated flock in the Old Testament and both are rendered by Greek poimne [poivmnh] (or ...
every island fled away and the mountains were not found Unlike the earthquake attending the opening of the sixth seal in which ?every mountain and is...
MICAH (2) (mikhah; Meichaias; an abbreviation for Micaiah (Jeremiah 26:18), and this again of the longer form of the word in 2?Chronicles 17:7; compar...
Good, Goodness The main Old Testament words for good/goodness come from the Hebrew word tob [b'f] while the most common New Testament words are kalos ...
Psalms 118:22 The stone [which] the builders refused This is not Zerubabel, according to the sense of some Jews, as Theodoret suggests; nor the people...
Humility [N] [T] [E]Biblical humility is grounded in the character of God. The Father stoops down to help the poor and needy ( Psalm 113:4-9 ; 138:6-...
Romans 9:5 Whose are the fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for, according to the F1 Jewish writers, ``they call none in Israel (twba) , fathers, bu...
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...
Godly, Godliness Reverence for God and a life of holiness in the world.The Old Testament. The Lord has set apart the godly for himself ( Psalm 4:3 ); ...
being with child ?? ?????? ?????? [en gastri echousa] , in the womb having. Something we should immediately notice about this entire vision is the lac...
Hate, Hatred Hate derives from a strong dislike or ill will toward persons or things. As an emotional attitude, a person may oppose, detest, or despis...
I know See commentary on Revelation 2:2. tribulation and poverty The connection between tribulation and poverty is found in the likelihood that their...
Chapter?18David?s piety and his prayer we had an account of in the foregoing chapter; here follows immediately that which one might reasonably expect,...
In studying the book of Revelation, one is immediately struck by the prevailing bias of many commentators against understanding numbers in their norm...