The season of Teshuvah begins on Elul 1 on the Hebrew calendar. The month of Elul corresponds with August/September on the Gregorian calendar. Teshuvah lasts 40 days from the first day of the month of Elul until Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement or Feast of Atonement). The word Teshuvah in Hebrew means “return” which refers […]
From the very first letter of the Bible and the Hebrew Torah, God is telling us what all the rest of the Bible is about. The very first letter of the very first word in the Hebrew Torah is the letter bet in the word Breshieyt. The letter bet in Hebrew means house. You can […]
We are going to start this study with a most important scripture. Then Solomon determined to build a temple for the name of the Lord, and a royal house for himself. 2 Chronicles 2:1 A footnote in my Amplified Bible explains it like this, “The ‘Name’ of God is equivalent to His gracious presence in passages such […]
37 Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 38 “Speak to the children of Israel: Tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners. 39 And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and […]
I like to start my word studies by looking in the Hebrew. In Hebrew, the letter dalet refers to a door. Dalet is spelled dalet, lamed, tav. As I just mentioned, the dalet symbolizes a door. The lamed symbolizes a shepherd’s hook. Tav can mean truth. I just love the picture that is right there […]
There are 9 times that the Bible says that David inquired of the Lord. Since 9 is often associated with the Holy Spirit (9 gifts of the Spirit & 9 fruit of the Spirit), I took a closer look at David’s inquiries of God and found 9 questions that we should be asking the Holy […]
What does the Proverbs 31 woman need from her husband who is the Proverbs 31 man in order for her to be all that God intends for her to be? I believe we can find that answer in Proverbs 31, too. 1 The words of King Lemuel, the utterance which his mother taught him:2 What, […]
The Bible has a lot to say about light. The first mention of light in Genesis 1 says that God saw the light was good and separated it from the darkness. I wrote a deep dive into the separation of light from darkness HERE, but this post will focus on just what the Bible says […]
After doing a deep word study on LIGHT in the Bible, I discovered that the pattern of separating light from darkness is an important lesson for us today. I invite you to walk through this study with me as I explore this pattern. It is important to acknowledge the Principle of First Mention. The first […]