Category Archives: – Thru the Bible Series

We began this series on January 11, 2017 and continues to this day.

It chronicles our ongoing trek through the Bible beginning in Genesis, though our trek has not followed a 100% traditional order.

We have attempted to keep books whose contents are related in time, as much together as possible with some noteworth exceptions.

The specific chapters covered are NOT usually part of the title of each post making specific scriptures a little tricky to find by a simple “search”.

To compensate for that we have a page dedicated to this series which lists each of the scriptures we’ve covered so far as a link. It is our hope that this will help aid you in your studies….God Bless!

Proverb 29 Dreams

Good thing Paul didn’t pursue his dreams!

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This is the final chapter in the second division of the greater book of Proverbs, which is comprised of a collection of Solomon’s wise saying collected and compiled by the order of King Hezekiah many years after Solomon’s death.

Perhaps the most noteworthy verse in chapter 29 is verse 18 and we spend a fair amount of time with it.

Ironically, what makes this verse noteworthy is not due to any particularly outstanding truth it reveals, but because of how often it is misunderstood and mistaught in the church today as a justification for selfish pursuits and materialist lives.

To accomplish this amazing feat of diabolical twisting of the passage, Proverbs 29:18 is typically never quoted in its entirety. Additionally, it is artificially connected with partial and misquotes of Habakkuk 1:5 and 2:2.

If Paul had been raised under and followed the modern misteachings of this verse, prior to his Apostolic ministry, he would have gone to the Jews and the New Testament as we know it would not even exist.

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Proverb Parable Prodigal

When a Proverb becomes a Parable

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So much is lost to many in this generation, due to their desire to protect themselves from what they misunderstand or perceive as a threat to their freedom. I speak in regard to their primitive understanding of the Law and its role in the life of the New Covenant believer. This is only exacerbated through poor teaching. So many things Paul said are read & only understood on a surface level without any thought to the duplicity it creates throughout the rest of the New Testament, not to mention scripture as a whole.

If every favorable reference to the teachings & life guiding principles of the Old Testament were removed from the New, along with all lead in & out material written solely for those references, what would remain of the New Testament would be an exceedingly brief number of pages filled with loose & disconnected thoughts.

The body of the New Testament contains about 5,000 verses, and many estimates place the quotes, references & allusions to the Old Testament to be between 2,000-4,000. That is a serious amount of material to remove!

I say this because I believe many do not even read the Old Testament & those that do, often miss where these exact words, thoughts, teachings or illustrations are mentioned in the New Testament & I believe that is precisely what happened with Proverbs 28:7.

If Jesus was not referencing this passage in His parable of the prodigal, it would be quite surprising indeed!

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Scrutinize praise proverbs 27

It is Wisdom to scrutinize Praise!

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Tonight’s chapter in Proverbs is one of the simplest we have yet encountered. Its wisdom ranges from just solid common sense and good advice to instruction which is both practical and well thought through.

Nearly the whole chapter is worded so clearly, that other than some simple commentary on a per verse basis, there are only two verses which I felt needed any real study. These are verses 9 and 21. 

Verse 9 is just a simple clarification and personal disclaimer whereas verse 21 does offer more than one possible meaning regarding scrutinizing praise. So I felt as if we would benefit from spending a little time on it.

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Meddling Proverbs 26

Meddling in someone else’s argument is like…

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This chapter offers guidance on very practical matters, includes a few nice little proverbial puzzles to solve as well as a comical illustration of a stone and a sling.

One of the puzzles deal with silver being used as a glaze on some cheap clay pots and another regards two paradoxical statements regarding whether to and how to answer a fool. This last one employs some rich combinations of parallelism which adds both to the intrigue and the mystery of the verse’s wisdom.

I hope you enjoy the teaching as much as I enjoyed studying it out.

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Blood

About Blood and the Day of Atonement

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Podcast: Download (203.9MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS         Wednesday 08/01/18  Message – About Blood and the Day of Atonement Series: Thru the Bible ***Video is HERE***   About Blood and the Day of Atonement Leviticus 16 God teaches Aaron the Fear of the Lord Moses was a unique personage in history since He carried two specific mantles which are not at all similar or even all that compatible. Moses was a prophet – As such he was the eyes of Israel and the mouthpiece of God. Seers – Prophets were called seers, when viewed from the human perspective. […]

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