There is a great deal of difference between the pasturelands which did not have enough water to grow crops, but still had enough grass to feed the animals, and the “great and terrible wilderness” of Sinai. Yet the same Hebrew word is used to describe both types of terrain. What links these two…
2:21 – And I gave her space
– Gk chronos – time; season
to repent of her fornication;
– the Lord continually seeks repentance (v5, 16, 22; 3:3, 19) – he used the work of the Apostle John in his letters to warn these false teachers
and she repented not.
– Jezebel k…
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The Venus flytrap is indigenous to the swampy regions of Carolina in the USA. It lives in nutrient-poor soil and depends on capturing insects to make up for the deficiency of certain elements in its habitat.
The plant has an elaborate system to trap and digest insects, which other plants …
Christ has informed us as to who the real enemy of the Truth is. It is a message which only Christ’s true servants can hear and receive (Rev 1:1-3). In Revelation 13 we have depicted the rise of a system of blasphemy which makes war against the saints. So powerful was this system that �…
Background
Thyatira was founded as a garrison city in the time of Seleucus I, mainly because it stood in the important Lycus valley and was designed to impede the flow of enemy forces up and down the valley.
When the Roman Empire took over, it ceased to be merely a military city, thoug…
Revelation 2:18-20 – Thyatira (1) Read More »
How insects fly has been a mystery to scientists for many years. How can, say, a big heavy bumblebee beat its tiny wings and fly? According to the conventional laws of aerodynamics, insects cannot fly. Studies of animal flight have attained a new level of detail over the last decade, due to …
The Coney
The Hebrew word for coney is shaphan, which means “to conceal”. In Scripture, conies are described as “a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks” (Prov 30:26; Psa 104:18). They are gregarious, and “exceeding wise” (Prov 30:24). They are described in Levi…
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“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 …
