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PHall | August 13, 2019
A new realization came upon me as I study Revelation (that I hope will help you): The are two underlying and overlapping, repetitive OT motifs that fill Revelation: Creation and Exodus. This is because God’s power in Old Creation is the same power in New Creation. This is because God’s power in defeating the Old World […]
PHall | August 2, 2019
Can you keep one hand from knowing what the other is doing (Matthew 6)? Common sense says “no”. And common sense tells you the other time Jesus uses “hand” in the Sermon on the Mount, He isn’t being literal then either. Remember that the next time someone says Jesus literally commands us to cut off […]
PHall | August 2, 2019
It was customary practice in a Roman crucifixion for the prisoner to be forced to carry his own cross. Jesus carried His own cross until the weight and effects from the scourging made Him stumble. So don’t soften the frightening scene appearing in the minds of the disciples when Jesus said, “Whoever does not bear […]
PHall | July 26, 2019
There are days I wish I could spend doing nothing else than seeing the structures, including the chiastic structures, within the Bible. (ASV) A – TIME CREATED: 1) In the beginning B – PHYSICAL DUALITY: God created the heavens and the earth. C – DISORDER: 2) And the earth was waste and void; D – […]
PHall | July 26, 2019
David Suhor from the Satanic Temple delivered a unique invocation after several minutes of protester disruption at a Pensacola City Council meeting on July 14, 2016. Most Americans agree that is going too far. But most Americans don’t go far enough.“Jesus is the way” people will clamor, even if people don’t recognize Jesus as the […]
PHall | July 25, 2019
Fundamental Misunderstandings of the Golden Rule Do we have a fundamental misconception of one of Jesus’s fundamental “rules”?“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” is another way of phrasing the 2nd Great Command – “Love your neighbor as yourself.” The difference between them is “love” is worded as action – “do”. First […]
PHall | July 25, 2019
If one of the gospel books is about testifying or witnessing, it is John. Thirty-one times martureo is used in John, versus once in Matthew, once in Luke, and zero times in Mark. Here are 2 uses which go back to the legal requirement of needing 2 or 3 witnesses: • ““If I testify about myself, […]
PHall | July 25, 2019
What does it mean to believe the gospel?Belief is not easy. Nor is it a one time event. To help us understand, first notice Paul states twice the same fact of what he did (1 Corinthians15:1-2): • PAUL (v.1) “Now I make known unto you brethren, the gospel which I preached unto you”• PAUL (V.2) “which […]
PHall | July 19, 2019
Before reading the text understand the following:1. A disciple is a student. 2. Students are taught.3. Students are taught what the teacher teaches.4. Teachers teach what they are authorized to teach.All of that is straight forward. Students in a math class are taught math, not biology; that’s what the teacher is paid to teach. Again straight […]
PHall | July 19, 2019
If one of the gospel books is about testifying or witnessing, it is John. Thirty-one times martureo is used in John, versus once in Matthew, once in Luke, and zero times in Mark. Here are 2 uses which go back to the legal requirement of needing 2 or 3 witnesses: • ““If I testify about myself, […]