Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
My questions are why is the dwelling that is in the walled city able only to be redeemed during a one year period and that if its not it becomes established for ever and is not returned at the jubilee?
Also, in verse 31 the dwellings in vi…
Gen. 11:28 says that Haran died in the face (פְּנֵ֖י) of his father. I’m wondering if this is a euphemism for human sacrifice, that Haran was a sacrifice to gods sort of the way Isaac was later almost a human sacrifice. I know nothing of…
Psalm 114 is recited by Jews at Passover, commemorating the departure of God’s people from Egypt. This year (2021) it falls on the evening of Sunday 28 March. Verse 1 recalls God’s great redemptive work in bringing his people out of Egypt…
In Deuteronomy 3:25 (ESV) Moses requests to see the promised land:
Please let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.
In Deuteronomy 3:27 (ESV) God offers Moses what appears to be a con…
Revelation 3:14 (KJV)
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
Most translations say "the beginning of God’s creat…
![Was the angelology in [Tobit 12:15] based only on [1 Enoch 20:1-8]?](https://www.pentecostaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Was-the-angelology-in-Tobit-1215-based-only-on-1-Enoch-2018.png)
We read in [Tobit 12:15] a reference to [1 Enoch 20:3].
“I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One.”
Which verse in the Tanakh was [Tobit…
And a ruler asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 19 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone (Luke 18:18–19)
Why did Christ make this distinction between Himself and God…
I recently stumbled upon a statement of 1 Chronicles 4:18
indicating that Caleb’s son Mered married a daughter of Pharaoh named Bethiah, who bore him three sons.
Mered’s Egyptian wife bore Jered, the father of Gedor, Heber, the
father of …
Matthew 13:19
"When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path." ESV. My emphasis.
What has not be…
Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation (ethnos) bringing forth the fruits thereof. Mattews 21:43 KJV
.
Exodus 20:13 (KJV)
Thou shalt not kill.
Many political statements have been made about this verse. This translation has been used by many to support their pacifist desires. However, it seems that most translations have dropped "ki…
Ezra 4:1-3 (NRSV)
“When the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned
exiles were building a temple to the Lord, the God of Israel, 2 they
approached Zerubbabel and the heads of families and said to them, “Let
us …