“We are on our own”—this was a key message from veteran Israeli commentator Ehud Yaari regarding the consequences for Israel following an apparent US retreat from the Middle East.
Yaari was recently in Australia as a guest of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC), …
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Background
The KJV has Pergamos (feminine form of the name). Many other translations have the neuter form, Pergamum.
In 282BC it was made the capital of the Seleucid kingdom. In 232BC the Attalid kingdom was established and under the reign of Eumenes II (197–159BC) the city was tra…
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The Hebrew word for ostrich is renan which means “a piercing cry; a wail”. In Job 30:29, Job said of himself, “I am a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches” (NKJV) because he felt desolate and isolated, unable to utter anything apart from the shrill doleful noise of the …
Without ligaments and tendons our skeletal frame would be just a pile of unconnected bones. Ligaments are elastic structures which connect bone to bone in our joints, whilst tendons are cord-like inelastic structures that connect muscles to bones. Tendons are under extreme stress when mu…
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Introduction
Some people hate to do it. Some love to do it. Some go to great lengths to avoid doing it. Some do it too much. While there are many different attitudes toward work, one thing remains constant: work must be done. Since the Garden of Eden everyone has worked or depended upon someo…
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Background
Smyrna is known today as modern Izmir; located at the south east edge of the gulf of Smyrna and situated on a long peninsula that thrusts out to the beautiful Aegean Sea. In spite of the earthquakes and other events that Smyrna suffered through the centuries, the city had pro…
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The main function of the muscular system is movement. Muscle is the only tissue in the body that has the ability to contract and, therefore, move other parts of the body. Without muscles, nothing would work in the body.
Muscles control posture and body position as well. They often contrac…
There are 304,805 Hebrew consonant letters in the first 5 books of the Bible and altogether there are 1,196,824 Hebrew letters in the complete Old Testament.
It is not surprising therefore to know that every now and then the scribes who were copying the text made a spelling mistake …
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Introduction/Background
The letter to the Ephesians gives us a good picture of what life in Ephesus was like:
Materialistic – Eph 1:7,18; 2:7; 3:8,16
Immoral – Eph 4:20-24; 5:3-5
Idolatrous – Eph 2:21; Acts 19:27
Acts 18:19 records Paul’s first visi…
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The Sparrow
The Hebrew word is tsippor, which is rendered “fowl” seven times, “bird” 64 times and “sparrow” twice (Psa 84:3; 102:7). It is used of any small “clean” bird, but in the LXX the Greek word strouthion refers specifically to the sparrow.
The sparrow be…
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