Overview - Luke 9 1?Christ sends his apostles to work miracles, and to preach. 7?Herod desires to see Christ. 10?The apostles return. 12?Christ feeds...
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...
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-...
In studying the book of Revelation, one is immediately struck by the prevailing bias of many commentators against understanding numbers in their norm...
Overview - 1?Samuel 8 1?By occasion of the ill government of Samuel's sons, the Israelites ask a king. 6?Samuel praying in grief, is comforted by God...
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:...
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...
MARESHAH ma-re'-sha (mareshah; Septuagint: Codex Vaticanus Bathesar; Codex Alexandrinus Maresa): A town in the Shephelah of Judah named with Keilah a...
Matthew 24:26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you Any of the false prophets, or the deluded followers of false Christs: behold, he is in the desert,...
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...
Mark 10:19 Thou knowest the commandments Which God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai; these the Jews taught their children; so that this young man might re...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
In the previous chapter, the future looked very bleak for the saints. The Beast arose from the sea, empowered by the dragon, and was given authority o...
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,...
I know See commentary on Revelation 2:2. tribulation and poverty The connection between tribulation and poverty is found in the likelihood that their...
do not weep ?? ????? [m? klaie] , a present tense imperative indicating that John continued to weep.1 the Lion of the tribe of Judah God had revealed...