Amos 7:1 (MEV): This is what the Lord God showed me: He was forming a plague of locusts when the latter growth was beginning to sprout up, the latter growth after the king’s reaping. In the particular translation i use for reading this verse is striking. There is something that I encountered there that I …
Author: Tim Eakins
They Had no Knowledge Between Good and Evil
Deuteronomy 1:39 (MEV): Moreover, your little ones, who you said would be a prey, and your children, who in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it. It amazes me. How often are questions posed about children and …
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What Seems to be Vengeance Becomes a Beautiful Picture of Redemption
Numbers 35:29 (MEV): So these things will be for a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all your dwelling places. Moses by direction from God had just given established the idea of sanctuary cities. These are places to where someone who accidentally kills another person can flee and escape vengeance. When reading …
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Bring Two Live Clean Birds
Leviticus 14:4 (MEV): Then the priest shall command that two live clean birds and cedar wood and scarlet fabric and hyssop be brought for him who is to be cleansed. Remember, this is not a ritual to perform that cleanses leprosy. It is one performed to show that one who had leprosy is now clean. …
The Priest Shall Go Out of the Camp
Leviticus 14:1 (MEV): The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: It was Moses who got direct revelation from God. I ponder over that, especially in light of what follows in this part. Leviticus 14:2–3 (MEV): This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: It shall be reported to the priest, …
Why Three Times?
Exodus 23:14–17 (MEV): Three times in the year you must celebrate a feast to Me. You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the appointed time of the month Aviv, for in it you came out from Egypt. No one shall appear …
Do This in Remembrance of Me
1 Corinthians 11:23–26 (MEV): I have received of the Lord that which I delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus, on the night in which He was betrayed, took bread. When He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take and eat. This is My body which is broken for you. Do this in …
Thump’m with Bible?
Matthew 7:21–23 (MEV): “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done …
Denying the Lord Who Bought Them
2 Peter 2:1 (MEV): But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. Even denying the Lord who bought them. Why make such a statement about false …
Fulfill Her Week
Genesis 29:21–24 (MEV): Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, so that I may have relations with her.” Laban gathered together all the men of the place and prepared a feast. But in the evening he took Leah his daughter and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob had …
