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Gideon the Judge: Words of Heresy

Gideon #3 (Judges 6:13) Today, after a long break I opened Judges 6 and read again the story of Gideon. It made me think about Heresy and how wrong we get it. But it also made me think how important it is to appreciate the time we are given. I cannot believe that it has already been over two months since my last post. Where did the time go? It seems to take its own pace, much faster than I can…

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Judge Gideon: the Vav that Denotes Tense Inversion

Continuing with the story of the Judge Gideon. This time the verse is simple, so lets look at some Biblical Hebrew point

Gideon #2 (Judges 6:11) Continuing from verse 10, we see how the angel of God is revealing himself to Gideon, addressing him as a ‘brave man’. As this verse is straight forward and easy to understand, I do not see the need for any deeper analysis beyond the translation. Therefore, this time, instead of focusing on the content, I will focus on a common Biblical Hebrew point that many students of…

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Gideon the Judge: Facing God's angel

Gideon the Judge: Facing God’s angel

Gideon #2 (Judges 6:11) In chapter 6 the land is occupied by the Midianites, the people of Midian. They destroy the land and rob its produce. In verse 11 we meet the Angel of God, and we meet Gideon. We have seen in the previous post, that the land of Israel is repeatedly occupied by foreign powers. Then, God chooses a Judge, who is really a military leader rather than what we call Judge today,…

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PUNISHMENT? - DAY 19 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

PUNISHMENT? – DAY 19 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

PUNISHMENT? – DAY 18🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞VIDEO EPISODES WELCOME TO DAY 19 OF THE 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞JOURNEY! Today we will discuss Genesis 19:17 PUNISHMENT? Why did Lot’s wife look back to Sodom? Was her death a punishment given by God? This episode was recorded in Sodom, in the middle of the desert day, in similar weather and temperatures experienced by Lot and his family. This helps…

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GOD'S FAIR TRIAL - DAY 18 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

GOD’S FAIR TRIAL – DAY 18 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

GOD’S FAIR TRIAL – DAY 18🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞VIDEO EPISODES WELCOME TO DAY 18 OF THE 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞JOURNEY! Today we will discuss Genesis 18:20+21 FAIR TRIAL Why does God, himself, need to go down to Sodom, before He destroys the city? What does the Bible teach us about the way judgement should be done? By Humbert de Superville, David (1770-1849) –…

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The Book of Judges: Gideon, the 5th judge - the rise of a powerful leader

The Book of Judges: Gideon, the 5th judge – the rise of a powerful leader

Gideon #1 – introduction to Judges (Judges 6:1-10) I love the Book of Judges. So, let’s start with an introduction to the book. It will give us the background we need for the story of Gideon. In the twenty-one chapters of the book, we discover a pattern that will characterise the people of Israel for generations – even until today. It is a pattern of a cycle that repeats endlessly. First, the…

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DAY 13 - TOWARDS LEADERSHIP 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

DAY 13 – TOWARDS LEADERSHIP 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

DAY 13 – TOWARDS LEADERSHIP🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞VIDEO EPISODES WELCOME TO DAY 13 OF THE 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞JOURNEY! Today we will discuss Genesis 13:8, 9, 15, 17 TOWARDS LEADERSHIP Who can be a leader? Was Abraham a born leader? What did he have to do to become a leader, a father of a nation and of three religions? By Ephraim Moses Lilien – The Books of the Bible, German edition, Public…

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The Story of Sodom: Why Shouldn't They Look Back?

The Story of Sodom: Why Shouldn’t They Look Back?

Sodom and Gomorrah #22 (Genesis 19:17) In verse 16 we saw Lot’s pain and his hesitation before he left his home forever. The angels could see it, too, and with compassion took Lot, his wife, and the two daughters by the hand and led them outside the city. In verse 17 the angels tell them the last instruction how to stay alive – don’t look back. Looking back – two schools of thought It is…

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The Garden of Eden, a Transient Safe Place

The Garden of Eden, a Transient Safe Place

The story of the Garden of Eden in Genesis 3 has always bothered me. It is not because Adam and Eve sinned; it is not because a snake could talk; it is not even because of the severe, out of proportion, punishment humanity has, allegedly, suffered as a result. It mostly disturbed me because the story I heard over and again, often from proud believers, diminished God and made him either…

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The Story of Sodom: Compassion in time of Tragedy

The Story of Sodom: Compassion in time of Tragedy

Sodom and Gomorrah #21 (Genesis 19:16) The fire of hell is about to hit the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. An entire land is to be wiped out. Whenever I read this part of the Bible, I cannot stop sadness from gnawing inside me. Sadness not only for the hundreds, if not thousands, of people who are to be incinerated.  For me deep sadness also raises its head when I realise how rare compassion is…

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PARADOXES IN THE BIBLE - MULTIPLY AND FILL THE EARTH

PARADOXES IN THE BIBLE – MULTIPLY AND FILL THE EARTH

Welcome to a new short video of☯️📜 The Zen of the Hebrew Bible 📜☯️ Paradoxes in the Bible – Multiply and Fill the Earth By Cobbin, Ingram, 1777-1851;March, Daniel, 1816-1909;Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893;Stretton, Hesba, 1832-1911 Multiply and Fill the Earth This video is about Bible paradoxes and making babies. We will look at the very first commandment in Genesis “Make…

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DAY 12 - COVID, VACCINE AND THE BIBLE 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

DAY 12 – COVID, VACCINE AND THE BIBLE 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

DAY 12 – COVID, VACCINE AND THE BIBLE🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞VIDEO EPISODES WELCOME TO DAY 12 OF THE 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞JOURNEY! Today we will discuss Genesis 12:1+2 COVID, VACCINE AND THE BIBLE Can we expect God to help and protect us in every situation just because we have full faith in Him? Do we believe that He will protects you from COVID? That you do not need a vaccine? This is not…

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DAY 11 - WHY IS GOD STOPPING US - THE TOWER OF BABYLON 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

DAY 11 – WHY IS GOD STOPPING US – THE TOWER OF BABYLON 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

DAY 11 – WHY IS GOD STOPPING US?THE TOWER OF BABYLON🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞VIDEO EPISODES WELCOME TO DAY 11 OF THE 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞JOURNEY! Today we will discuss Genesis 11:4,6,8 WHY IS GOD STOPPING US? THE TOWER OF BABYLON Why did God stop the people of Babylon from building their tower? Why didn’t he want people to be able to do everything they wanted? Can we understand God’s…

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DAY 10 - LANGUAGES 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

DAY 10 – LANGUAGES 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

DAY 10 – LANGUAGES🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞VIDEO EPISODES WELCOME TO DAY 10 OF THE 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞JOURNEY! Today we will discuss Genesis 10:5+31 LANGUAGES We know that God confused the languages while the people of Babylon were building their tower. But today we will discover the paradox that different languages were already mentioned in previous chapters of the Genesis. Image by Gerd…

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Hypocrisy of the Believers - Student's Frustration

Hypocrisy of the Believers – Student’s Frustration

Some time ago, following a lesson about Lot’s wife, I got a letter from a student who was outraged about the hypocrisy of the believers in the Bible. We had a long discussion about how believers in the Bible, that claim to believe in Love and Compassion, judge others so easily without any compassion at all, as though they were the Inquisition aiming to condemn people and find the most horrendous…

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Science Battling Genesis: How Old is the Universe?

Science Battling Genesis: How Old is the Universe?

I have been teaching recently the first chapters of Genesis. As expected, these chapters raise huge controversy, more than any other chapter in the Bible. It is easy to understand. After all, while most of the Bible deals with society, morals, or spirituality, the first few chapters of Genesis deal with the creation of the physical world, presenting a very different view than modern science. This…

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DAY 9 - RAINBOW 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

DAY 9 – RAINBOW 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

DAY 9 – RAINBOW🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞VIDEO EPISODES WELCOME TO DAY 9 OF THE 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞JOURNEY! Today we will discuss Genesis 9:12+13 RAINBOW Did the rainbow exist before the flood? In other words, did light, and the rules of physics behave differently before the flood? Watch this video to see how science and the Bible do not have to contradict. By…