Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
According to the Bible Deborah’s title and hence office/vocation was prophetess
“Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.”
Judges 4:4 ESV
It is true that she was making judgment calls for …
We are told that Paul stayed with Philip the evangelist who had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.
Acts 21:8-9 NLT
Then we went on to Caesarea and stayed at the home of Philip the Evangelist, one of the seven men who had been chosen…
Messiah/Christ means "Annointed One/Chosen One". In Dan 9:23, NASB, The angel Gabriel tells Daniel that he needs to … give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision. And then, goes on to relate to him the "…
As I was thinking about the cultural view of women’s hair in the modern Middle East, and in the Ancient Near East too, it raised significant questions for me about the story in Luke 7:36-50 (I’m interested in added cultural or historical c…
In Revelation 20:2, John links the satan and the serpent:
He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
A couple preliminary questions: Is the reference to "that ancient …
Acts 2:36 (ESV):
36 Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
God has made Jesus both Lord and Christ. When did this happen?
GENESIS: Chapter 3 1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he…
To teach that Cornelius was not saved before Peter preached in his house is to turn aside from the regular course in which the…
In chapter 2 Job refuses to curse God but states:
“Shall we accept good from God and not trouble”
and then in chapter 3v3-4 it says that Job cursed the day he was born:
‘May the day of my birth perish, and the night that said, …
The late-Exodus theory places the Exodus sometime during Ramesses II’s reign(c. 1290-1224). This theory identifies the archaeological 1230 BC destruction of Hazor with Joshua’s attack on the site. It appears, however, that Hazor wasn’t reb…
Was this phrase one that Jesus coined to emphasize His authority, or did He adopt it from the rabbinical schools? Was it a common phrase by the Greek orators, or the Roman poets?
This is how the fourth plague is described in Exodus chapter 8:20-21
(טז) וַיֹּאמֶר יְדֹוָד אֶל משֶׁה הַשְׁכֵּם בַּבֹּקֶר וְהִתְיַצֵּב
לִפְנֵי פַרְעֹה הִנֵּה יוֹצֵא הַמָּיְמָה וְאָמַרְתָּ אֵלָיו כֹּה אָמַר
יְדֹוָד שַׁלַּח עַמִּי וְיַעַבְד…