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Please understand this isn't a personal attack just my own opinion. I applaud you for studying and wanting to understand God's word. However, David Jeremiah is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He says some true things but also a lot of false things. He's on TBN; for me that's enough to have nothing to do with him. I wouldn't accept anything he says without double-checking with other sources.
I don't use commentaries or study books. I just read or listen to the scriptures and let the Holy Spirit speak to me. If I have any questions I look it up online and compare several viewpoints.
I don't use commentaries or study books. I just read or listen to the scriptures and let the Holy Spirit speak to me. If I have any questions I look it up online and compare several viewpoints.
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Oh? Doctor David "Didja know that?" Jeremiah?
He's got a large following and tends to be conservative. He tries to be more of a teaching preacher than moralistic preacher....which is good. We need people who teach more than preach.
Hailey's Bible Handbook is a good resource for anthropology....but it's only a start. Ray Vanderlaan is another.
"That the World May Know" is his mantra and you can buy his DVDs or watch part of the videos on YouTube. Again...another portion of the answers.
But then you need to study the literature portion of scriptures as well....
For that you need Westcott and Hort, and Eadie and Lightfoot. These two tend to know more about the literary aspects of scriptures.
Then an expositional commentary on the scriptures will help you understand the grammar and construction of the original languages....why it was said in the way it was said.
He's got a large following and tends to be conservative. He tries to be more of a teaching preacher than moralistic preacher....which is good. We need people who teach more than preach.
Hailey's Bible Handbook is a good resource for anthropology....but it's only a start. Ray Vanderlaan is another.
"That the World May Know" is his mantra and you can buy his DVDs or watch part of the videos on YouTube. Again...another portion of the answers.
But then you need to study the literature portion of scriptures as well....
For that you need Westcott and Hort, and Eadie and Lightfoot. These two tend to know more about the literary aspects of scriptures.
Then an expositional commentary on the scriptures will help you understand the grammar and construction of the original languages....why it was said in the way it was said.
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- Bein HaMetzarim or “Between the straits” is what this three-week period is called. The name comes from Lamentations 1:3, “Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwells among the heathen, she finds no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.”
JULY 15, 2014 BY J.G.S EDITOR 2 COMMENTS
By Elisabeth Hinze
This morning, as Hamas’s rockets continued to rain down on Israel despite a cease-fire being in place, observant Jews started a day-long fast to remember a tragic three-week period in Jewish history. The period starts and finishes with two particularly ominous days: the 17th of Tammuz (fourth month in the Biblical calendar) and then, three weeks later, the 9th of Av (fifth month in the Biblical calendar).
Believe me, there is no exaggeration on this one. Bad, bad, bad things happened for the Jews on these days. Let’s take a look…
On the 17th of Tammuz 586 BC, the Babylonians breached the walls of Jerusalem. Three weeks later, on the 9th of Av 586 BC, the Babylonians destroyed the First Temple in Jerusalem. Oh, but there’s more.
Destruction-of-Temple
Almost 700 years later, on those exact same dates, it happened again. On the 17th of Tammuz 70 AD, the Romans breached the walls of Jerusalem. Three weeks later on the 9th of Av 70 AD, the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in Jerusalem. Coincidence? Well…
Because there’s more. Much more. Time and time again, terrible tragedies have befallen the Jewish people on these two exact dates. Expulsion from countries, genocide, extermination, the list goes on.
Bein HaMetzarim or “Between the straits” is what this three-week period is called. The name comes from Lamentations 1:3, “Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwells among the heathen, she finds no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.”
See, while under pressure, in a dreadful time, while in dire straits, the Jewish people were overtaken and went into captivity. Which brings us back to today, where Israel finds herself once again (or rather, still) under pressure, once again under attack. The words from Psalm 83:4, “They have said, Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be in remembrance no more” reads more like a newspaper headline quoting Hamas than something written thousands of years ago.
It is in times like these, when Israel’s “enemies are in tumult” and those who hate her “have raised their heads” (Psalm 83:2), that, like the Psalmist, our prayer is to God alone for His protection and deliverance. It is often those times of pressure, those periods of dire straits that draws us closer to Him, fills our hearts with a deeper faith and invites us to live with an expectation.
Because we have a beauty-for-ashes, mourning-into-dancing God, who always has the last word. It was He Who, against all odds, lovingly gathered the dry bones after an exile of nearly 2 000 years. It was He Who promised that the dry bones could live again. And it is He Who continues to breathe His life into and over the dry bones to call forth the promised life (Ezekiel 37:1-14).
It is this very same God that also makes a promise about Israel’s “Between the Strait” time, “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘The fasts of the fourth [Tammuz], fifth [Av], seventh and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah’” (Zechariah 8:19).
Where today the period between the 17th of Tammuz and the 9th of Av is synonymous with fasting, mourning and lamenting, remembering the legacy of tragedy that comes with this period, God promises… The day is coming where those days will be remembered with joy, with gladness and with feasting.
How is that even possible? How can God turn such tragedy, such sorrow and despair, into something glorious? Well, could it be that God wants to do something so amazing, something so awesome, that it would by far eclipse the years of tragedy? Could it be that God wants to intervene on behalf of His people in such a supernatural way that it would simply overshadow the sorrow with the knowledge of God’s unfailing love and protection? And could it be that God plans to do it in such a spectacular way that no man will be able to take credit for it? That the hearts of all Israel will know, “This was our God”?
In fact, could it be that God wants to intervene in such a miraculous way that it would not only steady the hearts of Israel and those who love her? Could it be that this is God’s way of drawing those from the nations amassed against Israel to Him? Perhaps this is His way of overwhelming, of convincing. Because that is what the Psalmist asks for in Psalm 83:16;18: Give us the victory, shame our enemies “… that they may seek, inquire for, and insistently require Your name, O Lord. That they may know that You, Whose name alone is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.”
It’s speculative, yes. I don’t pretend to have the answers or speak on God’s behalf. But this I know. God is not bound by our dilemmas. Neither is He limited to our suggestions or solutions to a particularly tricky matter. In fact, His promise of “immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine” (Ephesians 3:20) has certainly stood the test of time. And what the world calls an unsolvable problem, an issue without any viable solution… Well, those are the things that God uses to show Himself. His plan for the Middle East hasn’t been derailed and isn’t veering even one degree off course. Every detail is where it’s always been – right under His control
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- Bein HaMetzarim or “Between the straits” is what this three-week period is called. The name comes from Lamentations 1:3, “Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwells among the heathen, she finds no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.”
JULY 15, 2014 BY J.G.S EDITOR 2 COMMENTS
By Elisabeth Hinze
This morning, as Hamas’s rockets continued to rain down on Israel despite a cease-fire being in place, observant Jews started a day-long fast to remember a tragic three-week period in Jewish history. The period starts and finishes with two particularly ominous days: the 17th of Tammuz (fourth month in the Biblical calendar) and then, three weeks later, the 9th of Av (fifth month in the Biblical calendar).
Believe me, there is no exaggeration on this one. Bad, bad, bad things happened for the Jews on these days. Let’s take a look…
On the 17th of Tammuz 586 BC, the Babylonians breached the walls of Jerusalem. Three weeks later, on the 9th of Av 586 BC, the Babylonians destroyed the First Temple in Jerusalem. Oh, but there’s more.
Destruction-of-Temple
Almost 700 years later, on those exact same dates, it happened again. On the 17th of Tammuz 70 AD, the Romans breached the walls of Jerusalem. Three weeks later on the 9th of Av 70 AD, the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in Jerusalem. Coincidence? Well…
Because there’s more. Much more. Time and time again, terrible tragedies have befallen the Jewish people on these two exact dates. Expulsion from countries, genocide, extermination, the list goes on.
Bein HaMetzarim or “Between the straits” is what this three-week period is called. The name comes from Lamentations 1:3, “Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwells among the heathen, she finds no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.”
See, while under pressure, in a dreadful time, while in dire straits, the Jewish people were overtaken and went into captivity. Which brings us back to today, where Israel finds herself once again (or rather, still) under pressure, once again under attack. The words from Psalm 83:4, “They have said, Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be in remembrance no more” reads more like a newspaper headline quoting Hamas than something written thousands of years ago.
It is in times like these, when Israel’s “enemies are in tumult” and those who hate her “have raised their heads” (Psalm 83:2), that, like the Psalmist, our prayer is to God alone for His protection and deliverance. It is often those times of pressure, those periods of dire straits that draws us closer to Him, fills our hearts with a deeper faith and invites us to live with an expectation.
Because we have a beauty-for-ashes, mourning-into-dancing God, who always has the last word. It was He Who, against all odds, lovingly gathered the dry bones after an exile of nearly 2 000 years. It was He Who promised that the dry bones could live again. And it is He Who continues to breathe His life into and over the dry bones to call forth the promised life (Ezekiel 37:1-14).
It is this very same God that also makes a promise about Israel’s “Between the Strait” time, “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘The fasts of the fourth [Tammuz], fifth [Av], seventh and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah’” (Zechariah 8:19).
Where today the period between the 17th of Tammuz and the 9th of Av is synonymous with fasting, mourning and lamenting, remembering the legacy of tragedy that comes with this period, God promises… The day is coming where those days will be remembered with joy, with gladness and with feasting.
How is that even possible? How can God turn such tragedy, such sorrow and despair, into something glorious? Well, could it be that God wants to do something so amazing, something so awesome, that it would by far eclipse the years of tragedy? Could it be that God wants to intervene on behalf of His people in such a supernatural way that it would simply overshadow the sorrow with the knowledge of God’s unfailing love and protection? And could it be that God plans to do it in such a spectacular way that no man will be able to take credit for it? That the hearts of all Israel will know, “This was our God”?
In fact, could it be that God wants to intervene in such a miraculous way that it would not only steady the hearts of Israel and those who love her? Could it be that this is God’s way of drawing those from the nations amassed against Israel to Him? Perhaps this is His way of overwhelming, of convincing. Because that is what the Psalmist asks for in Psalm 83:16;18: Give us the victory, shame our enemies “… that they may seek, inquire for, and insistently require Your name, O Lord. That they may know that You, Whose name alone is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.”
It’s speculative, yes. I don’t pretend to have the answers or speak on God’s behalf. But this I know. God is not bound by our dilemmas. Neither is He limited to our suggestions or solutions to a particularly tricky matter. In fact, His promise of “immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine” (Ephesians 3:20) has certainly stood the test of time. And what the world calls an unsolvable problem, an issue without any viable solution… Well, those are the things that God uses to show Himself. His plan for the Middle East hasn’t been derailed and isn’t veering even one degree off course. Every detail is where it’s always been – right under His control
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I use the King James Red Letter Edition and the Complete Jewish Bible Online. They are wonderful Study Aids! 
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If you look up a specific verse and go to Biblehub.com, you are presented with multiple versions
(well over thirty expanded) so you can compare any differences, and also along the right hand side
of the page: first the context for the verse, followed by cross references, which can be very elucidating
Scrolling further down the page you will see multiple commentaries followed by Strong's concordance.
(well over thirty expanded) so you can compare any differences, and also along the right hand side
of the page: first the context for the verse, followed by cross references, which can be very elucidating
Scrolling further down the page you will see multiple commentaries followed by Strong's concordance.
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Seriously, I would suggest when you read your New KJ, read the King James at the same time and compare what one says to the other. Sometimes it really does matter.
One example I always point out when discussing this is 1 Corinthians 13:`13
King James says:
13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Your Newfangled one probably says "love." Right?
See, there is a huge difference between "love" and "charity." Love is ok as far as it goes, but charity is the purest form of love there is. It is Godly love. It is not the love mankind shows for one person/place/thing or another.
Example being: I LOVE blackberry cobbler.......but I AIN'T very charitable towards it.
anyway, just a suggestion
One example I always point out when discussing this is 1 Corinthians 13:`13
King James says:
13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Your Newfangled one probably says "love." Right?
See, there is a huge difference between "love" and "charity." Love is ok as far as it goes, but charity is the purest form of love there is. It is Godly love. It is not the love mankind shows for one person/place/thing or another.
Example being: I LOVE blackberry cobbler.......but I AIN'T very charitable towards it.
anyway, just a suggestion-
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If you look up a specific verse and go to Biblehub.com, you are presented with multiple versions
(well over thirty expanded) so you can compare any differences, and also along the right hand side
of the page: first the context for the verse, followed by cross references, which can be very elucidating
Scrolling further down the page you will see multiple commentaries followed by Strong's concordance.
(well over thirty expanded) so you can compare any differences, and also along the right hand side
of the page: first the context for the verse, followed by cross references, which can be very elucidating
Scrolling further down the page you will see multiple commentaries followed by Strong's concordance.
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Seriously, I would suggest when you read your New KJ, read the King James at the same time and compare what one says to the other. Sometimes it really does matter.
One example I always point out when discussing this is 1 Corinthians 13:`13
King James says:
13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Your Newfangled one probably says "love." Right?
See, there is a huge difference between "love" and "charity." Love is ok as far as it goes, but charity is the purest form of love there is. It is Godly love. It is not the love mankind shows for one person/place/thing or another.
Example being: I LOVE blackberry cobbler.......but I AIN'T very charitable towards it.
anyway, just a suggestion
One example I always point out when discussing this is 1 Corinthians 13:`13
King James says:
13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Your Newfangled one probably says "love." Right?
See, there is a huge difference between "love" and "charity." Love is ok as far as it goes, but charity is the purest form of love there is. It is Godly love. It is not the love mankind shows for one person/place/thing or another.
Example being: I LOVE blackberry cobbler.......but I AIN'T very charitable towards it.
anyway, just a suggestion
