Traditional Legal Model – Smote or to smite is used both as a physical blow and as the conscience being smitten. Biblical Healing Model – The word is used similarly except that this model recognizes that often when God is said to smite it is by withdrawing His protection. It is also understood in the […]
Question: First, this site is useful! Second, I have a few (philosophical/Biblical) questions: 1) Why did God create us with a sense of justice (not happy when others steal [our] own items)? Doesn’t that mean God’s laws are arbitrary? 2) Since only God existed for eternity, does that mean that God’s laws are arbitrary (as […]
God is Our Refuge and Strength That God is our refuge and strength comes from this verse: It is telling us that we can turn to Him for protection in times of trouble. However, few people really do this; it is more in line with human nature to take care of matters ourselves. This is […]
1 Samuel 15:3 Smite Amalek God said in 1 Samuel 15:3 smite Amalek. Or did He? When you dig deeply into scripture a different picture emerges. “Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel […]
Exodus 17:9 – Israel Takes the Sword “And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.” (Exodus 17:9) This is the first record of Israel taking up the sword to […]
Hebrews 12:17 Meaning – Esau’s Lost Blessing The background of Hebrews 12:17 In the story of Jacob and Esau (Genesis 25) Esau sold his birthright for one meal: “And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same […]
Hebrews 10:26 Meaning “For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,” (Hebrews 10:26) Have you ever sinned willfully? Ever done something wrong knowing full well it was wrong? I have. I’m sure everyone has – many times. Does committing a willful […]
Matthew 10:28 Meaning – Fear Him Which is Able to Destroy “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Matt 10:28) Interlinear versions show that the “him” in verse 28 is not […]
Numbers 14:29 Meaning – Your Carcases Shall Fall “Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,” (Numbers 14:29) Was this just a cruel punishment that God inflicted on people who had murmured and […]
Exodus 4:11 Meaning Does God Make People Blind? Many think that whatever happens to people – good or bad – God does it, after all, He is God and has all power. We need to correctly understand the sovereignty of God. It helps to look at stories in the Bible that might suggest that He […]