In the times of Elisha there lived a remarkable man from the area of Baal-Shalisha. The district wasn’t always called by that name. It was originally known just as Shalisha and was noted as the very place where Saul went searching for his father’s lost asses (1 Sam 9:3-4). With Baal worship beco…
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There was something else which happened at Gilgal, which would have fortified Ehud for the task ahead. Gilgal was the site at which the nation was circumcised. “Make thee sharp knives,” Joshua was told, “and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.”
The men of war who came out of …
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Examples of Paul’s use of military metaphors in the epistle:
“The praetorian guard” (1:13 AV “palace”) and Caesar’s household (4:22) are mentioned only in Philippians.
“Furtherance of the gospel” (1:12,25). Greek word is prokope and is used of pioneers cutting a way a…
We are told very emphatically in the Scriptures what God loves and what He hates.
He hates idolatry (Deut 16:22). He hates those who love violence (Psa 11:5). He hates hypocrisy and untruthful worship (Isa 1:11-15; Amos 5:21). He hates it when we imagine evil in our hearts against our nei…
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Generous, warm, hospitable. Happy, selfless and overflowing with service. If we would like to embrace these characteristics then Paul’s letter to Philippi has an important message for us. The epistle is written with great passion as Paul poured out his thanks to the ecclesia for a gift they had gi…
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In our final article we bring to a conclusion our thoughts on this wonderful brother. His supportive work was mostly in the background rather than the foreground but, nevertheless, he made a considerable contribution to the building up of the ecclesia of God and the extension of the Gospel to the …
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