Genesis 4:23-24 23 Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say:I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.24 If Cain’s revenge is sevenfold, then Lamech’s is seventy-sevenfold.” So Lamech….what can we learn from him? The account above gives the names of…
His Help? The Bible is translated into English from its original languages. Something good to know about translating languages is that some words are not as easy to translate as it may seem. Sometimes there’s a word for a certain thing in one language and there is no such word in the other language….
I do confess that I never really understood the following verse from Psalm (23:3). He leads me into the path of righteousness for his name’s sake. Why for his name’s sake? Even in the prayer Jesus used to teach, he says Father hallowed be thy name (Matthew 6:9). There are many references to God…
Matthew 24:36-51 36 “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son,[b] but the Father only. 37 For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day…
It was 1905. She said her husband didn’t come home and so she took her two children, a boy 6 years old and a girl 3 years old, and went looking for him. She was led to believe that he had gone on the ship, and so she followed him. She didn’t find him…
These passages speak of God allowing the people who choose it, to continue in their unrighteousness. It says that God sends them a deception; he surrendered them to it, blinded them, and hardened their hearts so that they would not see, understand, and turn. Romans 1:28-32 And since they did not see fit to…
Stephen was a man full of faith and the Spirit, and he knew the word of God. And when you read the account about Stephen, which was short, you can see how God used him to do great things and he made an impact that you can feel even today. “..they chose Stephen, a man…
Jeremiah 7:23-26 23 But this command I gave them: ‘ Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’ 24 But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels…
Our God is the God of new beginnings, and we should be so grateful for that as we know we need it. The Bible shows us that when he first gave the perfect world to the first humans, they messed it up. It shows us many other people similarly messing it up repeatedly, hence the…
All the Bible verses below say that ‘God remembered’ someone or something, and then he poured out his favour unto that situation. But why does it say that God remembered? Does he forget? Gen 8:1 – 1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in…
