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PHall | August 18, 2019
Ever notice how Genesis ends as a reversal for how it begins? Adam and Eve are “home” and then forced to leave when death starts to come. Jacob/Israel is away from “home” (in Egypt), death comes, and is carried away back to home in Canaan. This is more than just a cool literary bookend. Herein […]
PHall | August 16, 2019
Ever notice how Genesis ends as a reversal for how it begins? Adam and Eve are “home” and then forced to leave when death starts to come. Jacob/Israel is away from “home” (in Egypt), death comes, and is carried away back to home in Canaan. This is more than just a cool literary bookend. Herein […]
PHall | August 13, 2019
There was no food in Egypt due to a 7 year famine. Joseph through divine providence had stored up food for 7 years. Food meant life. The Egyptians, and other nations, came to Joseph to buy food. He was the only source. Then their money ran out. Next they sold their livestock. Then their livestock […]
PHall | August 2, 2019
Often, I have been “bothered” or maybe a better word is “confused”, at how often the Bible is so unnecessarily repetitive within the same scene. I think I am discovering why. Check this out: Genesis 31:1-9 A – 1) Now Jacob heard what Laban’s sons were saying: “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s […]
PHall | August 2, 2019
When an apple tree bears apples that are not yet ripe for picking, are they still apples? There is a biblical term for children called “fruit of the womb” sometimes translated as “children” (Genesis 30:2). If unripe apples are still apples, why wouldn’t “unripe” fruit of the womb still be children?
PHall | August 2, 2019
Is this significant or nothing: When reading Genesis 1, I noticed how the word seed was used repeatedly, even when unnecessary. Such an example of the latter is, “I have given you every seed-bearing plant…and every tree whose fruit contains seed” to eat. Why not just say plants and fruit? Would the significance be the […]
PHall | August 2, 2019
Abraham is admired and exalted as a man of faith, and rightfully so (Romans 4). But…I just noticed (or had forgotten) that although Abraham faithfully went to a land not knowing where he was going (Hebrews 11) he did go empty handed! He took “all the possessions” and “all the people they had acquired” (Genesis […]
PHall | August 2, 2019
1. It’s about a father and son.2. The phrase “here I am” is repeated.3. There is a substitution. 4. There is “deception”.5. There is a blessing.6. An animal plays an intricate role.7. There is an intent to kill a family member).8. Following the story, there is another about getting a wife, but not marrying a wife […]
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 | June 27, 2019
God’s preferred, created, family order – shown in Genesis 1-3 – is a process that gives a better opportunity to be spiritually enriched. And because God’s ways are for our good , it helps people out of emotional and economical poverty.That last reason – economic stability – is not a “higher order” or prime moral […]