Volume 5, No.4, Nov. 1994
Jehoiada
Ahaziah of Israel, the son of Jehoram (son of good king Jehoshaphat of Judah) and Athaliah (Ahab and Jezebel's daughter), reigned only one year. But this was sufficient for the Bible to tell us in 2 Kings 8:27 that he “walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the Lord.” This king was killed in battle [...]
Two Secret Numbers
“The secret things belong unto the Lord our God but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.” Deuteronomy 29:29 The tools by which we understand the word and plan of God are the Holy Spirit combined with a careful inspection of the dictionary/concordance meaning of words and [...]
The Blood of Atonements (plural)
“And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin- offering of atonements: once in a year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.” (Exodus 30:10) In Hebrew the word rendered “atonements” in the King James Version is actually plural even though most translators, [...]