Question: I have a friend whose ex-boyfriend is humiliating her online and she wants to retaliate to make him stop but I am telling her God will step in but it doesn’t seem like He is because the ex is still doing it. Where is God’s Vengeance in all of this? – Dee Answer: Dee, […]
Question: Is God Mad at Me? While studying about wrath, I came across a question: What does it mean when God has “wrath” towards them (John 3:36)? Basically, is God mad at me? I believe (as in Romans 1) that God’s wrath is against the actions (ungodliness). However, there are many verses like John 3:36 […]
Wrath and anger, according to the concordance, are each translated from several different Hebrew and Greek words. (List near bottom of page.) And many of the original words are translated as both wrath and anger and often several other words. As “anger” and “wrath” are used almost interchangeably in scripture, they are treated together in […]
Traditional Legal Model and Biblical Healing Model – the meaning of the term “name” is not so different between the two models. However, it is included in the glossary to emphasize that names in the Bible are more connected to character than most people realize. There are many verses where understanding this strong connection will […]
Paul, writing to the Corinthians, documents the experiences of Israel in the wilderness: “Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And did […]
“And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him [Moses], and sought to kill him.” (Exodus 4:24) This verse occurs in the midst of the account of Moses traveling from Midian back to Egypt from which he had fled 40 years earlier. God was sending Moses on a […]
To understand how hearts are hardened it might be helpful to understand what the opposite of hardening the heart is: “Because thine (King Josiah’s) heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation […]
Traditional Legal Model – To be hardened is understood to be an individual’s action of resisting or refusing truth. Biblical Healing Model – The meaning is the same but the word is included in the glossary to clearly distinguish who is responsible for the hardening. From a Modern Dictionary: Hardened (adjective) made or become hard […]
Smote in the New Testament The Greek word translated as smote is “patasso” (Strong’s G3960): probably prolongation from 3817; TDNT-5:939,804; {See TDNT 607 } v AV-smite 9, strike 1; 10 1) to strike gently: as a part or a member of the body 2) to stroke, smite: with the sword, to afflict, to visit with evils, […]
Traditional Legal Model – Smote or to smite is used both as a physical blow or 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 […]