Thursday, December 19, 2024

 Genesis chapter 15,

God speaking to Abraham ( Abram )  

select versesegments in sequence 


… the word of the Lord came to Abram … do not be afraid … I am your shield … your very great reward … Abram believed the Lord … and … God credited it to him as righteousness … the Lord God Almighty … said to Abram … I AM … the Lord … I AM … He who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it … as the sun was setting … Abram fell into a deep sleep … then the Lord said to him … know that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own … and … there … they will be enslaved and mistreated … there … they will serve as slaves … and … afterward … they will come out with great possessions … you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age … in the fourth generation … your descendants will come back here … on that day … the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said … to your descendants … I give this land … from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river … the Euphrates … the land of the … Kenites … Kenizzites … Kadmonites … Hittites … Perizzites … Rephaites … Amorites … Canaanites … Girgashites … and … Jebusites … 

 


Genesis chapter 21, vs 11 - 13

God speaking to Abraham ( Abram )

… do not be so distressed about the boy … Ishmael … and … your slave woman … Hagar … listen to what Sarah tells you … because … it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned … and … I will also make Ishmael … the son of the slave … into a nation …  because … he is your offspring …



Genesis chapter 15, vs 18


… on that day … the LORD ( YHVH ) made a covenant with Abram … saying … to your descendants I give this land from the river of Egypt to the river Euphrates …


15:18 

ביום ההוא כרת יהוה את-אברם ברית לאמר לזרעך נתתי את-הארץ הזאת מנהר מצרים עד-הנהר הגדל נהר-פרת


Saturday, December 7, 2024

Isaiah 53

53:4 אכן חלינו הוא נשא ומכאבינו סבלם ואנחנו חשבנהו נגוע מכה אלהים ומענה

53:5 והוא מחלל מפשענו מדכא מעונתינו מוסר שלומנו עליו ובחברתו נרפא-לנו

53:6 כלנו כצאן תעינו איש לדרכו פנינו ויהוה הפגיע בו את עון כלנו

… in verse 5 … the English translation … healed … is Hebrew verb … RAPHA … רפא … Strong# Hebrew 7495 … the best literal meaning is … to heal … in verse 5 note the MAQAF to … לנו … this adds an indication of multiples … in our analysis … the prefix NUN for RAPHA in verse 5 adds the emphasis … multiple healings by His multiple wounds … essentially … for everyone … 

Isaiah chapter 53, vs 4 - 6

… vs 4 … He surely strengthens the weakness of our infirmities and intercedes for the consequences of our affliction … yet … we accounted Him stricken … struck down by God and afflicted … 

… vs 5 … however … He was wounded for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities … upon Him was the punishment that has made us whole … and … by His bruises we are healed … 

… vs 6 … for … we all like sheep have gone astray and have all turned to our own way … so … the LORD ( YHVH ) laid upon Him the iniquity of us all … 


 Isaiah chapter 53

… vs 1 … who can believed what we have heard … to whom has the Arm of the LORD ( YHVH ) been revealed … vs 2 … He grew up before Him like a young plant … like a root out of dry ground … He had no form or majesty that we would look at Him …     nothing in His appearance that we would desire Him … vs 3 … He was despised and rejected by others … a man of sorrow Who was acquainted with infirmity … as one from whom others hide their faces … He was despised and we held Him of no account … vs 4 … He surely strengthens the weakness of our infirmities and intercedes for the consequences of our affliction … yet … we accounted Him stricken … struck down by God and afflicted … vs 5 … however … He was wounded for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities … upon Him was the punishment that has made us whole … and … by His bruises we are healed … vs 6 … for … we all like sheep have gone astray ... and ... have all turned to our own way … so … the LORD ( YHVH ) laid upon Him the iniquity of us all … vs 7 … He was oppressed afflicted yet He did not open his mouth … like a lamb that is led to the slaughter … like a sheep that before its shearers … He was silent and did not open his mouth … vs 8 … due to a perversion of justice He was taken away … stricken for the transgression of my people … He was cut off from the land of the living  … who could have imagined His this development … for … they made His grave with the wicked and his tomb with the rich … He had done no violence and there was no deceit in what He said … vs 10 … yet … it was the will of the LORD ( YHVH ) to crush Him with pai … so that the will of the LORD ( YHVH ) will prosper … His life as an offering for sin so he will see His offspring prolong their days … vs 11 … out of His anguish they will see light … and … they will be blessed through the knowledge of Him … the Righteous One … My Servant … Who will make many righteousness … because … He will bear their iniquities … for … He poured Himself out to death … He bore the sin of many and way numbered with the transgressors … and so … He made intersession for our transgressions … therefore … His portion is with the great and His spoils are with the strong … 


Thursday, December 5, 2024

 Matthew chapter 13, vs 45 Jesus Christ speaking

… the Kingdom of Heaven ( Kingdom of God ) is like a merchant … looking for fine pearls … when … one of great value was found … he/she went away … sold everything … and … bought it …



Ephesians chapter 2, vs 13 - 22

… in … Jesus Christ … you … who were once far away … are now … brought near … to … God … through … the blood … of … Jesus Christ … He … is our peace … creating in Himself … that is … the body of Christ … the Christian Church … one new man … out of the two … Jew … and … Gentile … both … now … reconciled … to God … by the cross … both … chosen … for … through … Jesus Christ … both … Jew … and … Gentile … have access … to … the … Father … by … one … Spirit … being knit … or if you prefer built … together … to … become … a dwelling … in … which … God … lives … by … His … Spirit …



Hebrews chapters 11, 12 + 13

… our faith is the foundation of what we hope for … and … the legal guarantee of what is not seen … it is impossible to please God without faith … so … let us throw off everything that hinders our faith in Jesus Christ … and … any sin that so easily entangles … persevere … with your eyes fixed on Jesus Christ … the author and perfector of our faith in God … who endured the cross … and … then sat down at the right hand of the throne of God … so … do not grow weary … or … loose heart … make every effort to live in peace with everyone … be holy … for … without holiness no one will see the Lord … we have received a kingdom that cannot be shaken … be thankful … worship God … with … reverence … and … awe … for God has told us … I will never leave you … I will never forsake you … Jesus Christ is the same … yesterday … today … and … forever … through … Jesus Christ … let us continually offer praise to God … this is the fruit of our lips when we confess His Name … do good … share with others … for … this pleases God … God is our peace … Who … through the blood of Jesus Christ … our Shepherd … equips us with every good thing … to … do the will of God … working in us … what is pleasing to God … through … Jesus Christ … to Whom … is glory forever and ever …


Tuesday, December 3, 2024

 Matthew chapter 13, vs 26 - 29 Jesus Christ speaking

Parable of the Weeds

… the … Kingdom of Heaven ( Kingdom of God ) … is like a man who sowed good wheat seed in his field … when everyone was sleeping … his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away … when the wheat sprouted … the weeds also appeared … the man said … let both grow together until the harvest … then … collect the weeds first … tie them in bundles to be burned … then … gather the wheat and bring it into my barn …


Matthew chapter 13, vs 36 - 42 Jesus Christ speaking

Explanation for Parable of the Weeds

… the field is the world … the good seeds are the children of God … the weeds are the children of evil … and … the enemy who sows the weeds is the devil … the harvest is the end of the age … and … the Harvesters are His angels … just as … the weeds are pulled out and burned in the fire … so also will it be … at the end of the age … the … Son of Man … will send His angels … and … they will … weed … out … of … His Kingdom … everything that causes sin … and … all who do evil … the angels will throw them into the fiery furnace … then the righteous … will shine like the sun … in … the Kingdom of their Father …


Sunday, November 24, 2024

 Ephesians chapter 4, vs 1 

... walk ... as becoming ... of the calling ... with which ... you were called ...


1 Thessalonians chapter 2, vs 12 

... walk ... as becoming ... of God ... who calls you ... into ... His ... kingdom ... and ... glory ...


John chapter 3, vs 5 - 8 Jesus speaking

... unless one is born ... of water ... and ... the Spirit ... he cannot ... enter the Kingdom of God ( Kingdom of Heaven ) ... that which is born of flesh is flesh ... that which is born of Spirit is spirit ... the wind blows where it wishes ... you hear the sound ... but ... cannot tell ... where it comes from ... where it goes ... so is everyone ... born of the spirit ...


Mark chapter 4, vs 26 - 29 Jesus speaking

… the … Kingdom of Heaven ( Kingdom of God ) … is … like … a … man ( a farmer ) … who … scatters … seed … on the ground … night … and … day … the seed … sprouts … and … grows … all by itself … so … the soil … produces … grain … first the stalk … then … the … head … and … then … the … full kernel of the head … as soon as the grain is ripe … the harvest has come …


 Matthew chapter 3, vs 1, 2, 6, 11 John the Baptist speaking 

... repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand ... and ... (they) were baptized by him ... confessing their sins ... I baptize you with water ... he who is coming ... will baptize you ... with ... the Holy Spirit ...


Romans chapter 14, vs 17

… the Kingdom of Heaven ( Kingdom of God ) … is … not …  eating and drinking … but …  righteousness … peace … and … joy … in the Holy Spirit …


Luke chapter 17, vs 20 - 21 Jesus speaking

… the Kingdom of God (Kingdom of Heaven) is not found with careful observation … nor … can people say “here it is” … because … the Kingdom of God (Kingdom of Heaven) is within you … 


James chapter 4, vs 8 

... draw near to God and he will draw near to you ...


Galatians chapter 4, vs 9 

... now that you have come to know God … or … rather be known by God ...