Blog 151. Establishing Limits

My apologies up front for the meandering path taken on this entry. I actually find there is much to be learned on a meandering path. (See the Doctrine of the Roadfrom our headmaster in Blog 105, also referred to in Blog 131.) A straight line is fastest, but more the way of mankind, not God. I recalled this …

Blog 149. A Niblet 

As always, it seems, I have many different threads, research projects, ongoing at once. I have explained to you before that what I discern in life comes from a combination of God’s written Word and witnesses all around me in life. I am in the midst of a very large project, not yet ready for …

Blog 148. Hailstones

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 …

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 …