The lens of the future is the best measure for the past, in other unavoidably cliché words, hind sight is twenty-twenty. Looking back at the age of modernism from the age of post-modernism it is easy to see the trail that led to the current Hansel and Gretel captivity. The Read more…
This is the First and Greatest Commandment: “Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength” (Deuteronomy 6:5) Introduction Coming of age for Israel happens at Sinai. Prior to this time, Israel had no written covenant. The lack of a Read more…
Specifics about the Canaanite Religion (Baalism) have been hard for archaeologists to find and, until recently, most of what was known about them came from the Bible and other writings that were not written until the Roman age (Unger, 1950, p. 168). Unger goes on to explain that with recent Read more…
I have been meditating on being strong in the Lord: “… be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might” (Ephesians 6:10). What does that mean right now, today? If you get my Monday emails you have heard me talk a lot about the warrior analogy, “the Read more…
According to Horton Solomon’s reign started near 930 B.C. (Horton, 1961, p. 3). Solomon reigned for 40 years (1 Kings 11:42). That means he reigned until about 890 B.C. The physical thing that marked, or marred, Solomon’s reign and ended in dividing the country was taxes. In 1 Kings 10:14 Read more…
Orthodoxy comes first because the Law came first. Follow my thinking here, the Law was the schoolmaster that led us to Christ, Christ is the ultimate love, and therefore we cannot even understand love without right beliefs. Let’s use salvation the first and most important step in spiritual growth as Read more…
I was just talking with my brother about this idea of how hard it is to keep Jesus focus. It definitely is. I think that it is impossible unless we separate ourselves from the world. Being in the world but not of it. For example, if we are watching the Read more…
… That is a tough questions to answer because of who I am compared to. I could easily be a Pharisee and say that I have read my bible over 40 times in my life and I have cast out demons, healed the sick, and I prayed every day in a Read more…
The influence of the other nations in Canaan was probably the biggest factor that drew Israel from God to Baal. One of the reasons Baal was so popular with the other nations was, according to the research of Immanuel Velikovsky, there were great astronomical events that happened in the heavens Read more…