Samson is often depicted as a hedonistic yet blessed mealy-minded muscleman, but the Bible puts him forward as a ruler of Israel. Actually, he was a prophet too, as seen in his riddle to the Philistines in this chapter.
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Richard explores the last four Hebrew words in the first verse in the Bible, translated as “the heavens and the earth.” What did apostle Paul mean when he said he was taken to the “third heaven”? The Hebrew word for “heavens” explains this.
The account of Samson, the strongman of ancient Israel is well-known. Yet what was so important about the Nazirite vow, which partly involved no haircuts, he and his mother were made to take? Who is God’s mystery angel named Wonderful and God-like.
Richard explores the Bible’s third Hebrew word, “Elohim,” to understand more about who God is and what Yeshua (Jesus) meant by “you are gods.” The fourth Hebrew word, the untranslated “et,” shows us how God explains His plan from the beginning.
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Genesis 1:1 — ‘created’
The second Hebrew word in Genesis 1 — bara, “create” — tells us a lot about something that God is creating in us, His body of believers that is unseen, powerful and will get greater over time.
Yeeftakh (Jephthah), whose name means “he opens,” is one of the most tragic of the judges of ancient Israel. His rash vow to God that ended being fulfilled by his daughter as a sacrifice disturbs many people. However, a close look at the account suggests quite a different outcome.
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Genesis 1:1 — ‘beginning’ part 2
Knowing where all that is comes from is important, but God plans to make the end, the outcome, of us and the earth greater than the beginning. We explore more deeply what it was about the end that God declared in the beginning, in the first book of the Bible, Genesis.