Again, it is my intent to share what Scripture says. My words convince no one of anything. God communicates to you by way of your own life. Messengers in your life may be witnesses and words may be witnesses. The “eye-opening” is the willingness to see, the removal of the Log. Here is the discovery …
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Blog 147 Commentary on Techniques and Communication
You have likely noticed that I have an interest in linguistics. The time in which we live is very interesting in terms of linguistics. It seems we manufacture more and more new terminology now than ever before. I suppose it goes along with “the age,” and many other things that are in flux. I noticed …
Blog 146. דמים Revisited
I’ve ended up looking at many more passages with דמים, which we had explored before as “extreme in measure,” or as “excesses.” We did point out before that it is really the direction or the focus of the extreme that seems to be most critical in the teaching of Scripture. If the direction is toward the LORD, he appears …
Blog 145. Dance Series ❹ and final
Let us begin by returning to some more insight into other writings of Solomon/Shlomo. Ecclesiastes shares thoughts from him as a wise older man. Remember את/עד cognate permutations include עת “time.” And קהלת ↔︎ כלעת. Please recall we have spoken that both the focus of our striving, and its measure, are very important. And its restraint/its expression, both physical and emotional, and …
Blog 144 Dance Series ❸ Enough
We’ll begin here with a bit more of Solomon and a topic we referred to last time,“Enough.” We mentioned there are a number of Hebrew words translated in English as “enough,” one of which, מצא, is cognate with the root for messiah, משח. Numbers 11:22, where it appears twice, is very telling re: that word’s understanding (please read, with context …
Blog 143 The Dance Series ❷ – כל and עת
Looking through this, you may see why I began with the more allegorical piece. This may be a bit “dry” to many, but is the necessary background work to come to the understandings that are being shared. כל/גל Cognate Permutations ❷🅐 “a measure of striving (to attain)/cycle.” This was the second two-letter (doublet) cognate permutation investigation I …
Blog 142. A Series – The Dance ❶
((More than likely the messiah discussion will pick up later. The current series is an important background piece before continuing.)) I anticipate this to be a three- or four-part series of entries, but my plans are often redirected. I will begin here with perhaps the most allegorical piece that may capture your interest. But in …
Blog 141. The “Burning Bush”
Here is a well-known passage looking at נסה, to test/to try/to prove, and please recall, this includes משח the root for messiah, as well. (נ ↔︎ מ) Exodus 3:1-12 NKJV 1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the …
Blog 140. Continuing our look at The Way of Messiah
One of many reasons we are trying to understand messiah somewhat more is because there is much difference of opinion about the concept, even within Judaism. Look at this Wikipedia article, and especially at the section “Contemporary Jewish Views.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_in_Judaism Where we left off last time, we were looking at an AlHaTorah Search on the …
Blog 139. The Way of Messiah
The hope is to take a somewhat different direction at this point, but my plans are often redirected. We have introduced this topic before, but I want to spend more time here. Messiah is a “concept” held in both Judaism and Christianity, and I know individual readers have specific pictures in their mind about Messiah. …