Genesis 9:20 “And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.” The evolutionary view of human history is that ancient man was so primitive that it took him over a million years to figure out farming. The problem with this view is that e...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:28 “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the ear...
Continue ReadingPsalm 84:11 “For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.” When the Bible talks about oil, it means olive oil, but when we talk about oil today, we think of eng...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:9 “And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.” We miss a great deal when we skip quickly through the historical account of creation, given to us in Genesis ...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:20a “And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life…” One of the interesting things that we notice as we read through Genesis 1 is how economical on words the chapter is. A great deal is said with ve...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:20 “And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.” On the fifth day of the Creation Week, God created swarms of sea creatures....
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:24 “And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.” The sixth day of the Creation Week seems to have been the busiest, as far as t...
Continue ReadingLeviticus 17:11 “For the life [nephesh] of the flesh is in the blood:” Some people find insects, such as butterflies, fascinating. But there are also those who cannot stand the sight of other insects. Wasps and leather jackets are not particularly l...
Continue ReadingGenesis 8:11 “And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.” In November 1963, an undersea volcano close to Iceland began to erupt. Emergi...
Continue ReadingLuke 14:34 “Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?” For thousands of years salt has been considered valuable as a seasoning, a preservative and even as a means of payment. But could salt preserve ba...
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