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PHall | March 10, 2011
Leviticus 3:1 NASB ‘Now if his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he is going to offer out of the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without defect before the LORD. Leviticus 3:1 HCSB “If his offering is a fellowship sacrifice, and he is presenting an animal from the herd, […]
PHall | February 18, 2011
I have been told I am wrong. To be honest, none of the translators agree with me. By strict definition I could be right, but apparently everyone thinks I am wrong. So I invite you to do a little exercise with me, one that will hopefully make us better Bible students, one that will encourage […]
PHall | February 17, 2011
Just a couple of notes on the birth of Moses. Exodus 2:3 HCSB But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile. The word […]
PHall | February 5, 2011
The story begins with a child being born, by grace escaping the wrath of a king, raised and adopted by one that he was not biologically related to, and then the story continues by skipping to his adulthood. Who is the story about? It is about both Jesus and Moses. Matthew records the story of […]
PHall | February 4, 2011
Who are the three kings of Israel? Technically and literally, the immediate thought recalls Saul, David and Solomon. But I wonder if there is another way to ask and answer this question, a moral application. Spiritually, the three kings of Israel are: Yahweh, Self, and Satan. The first and rightful king of Israel was God […]
PHall | February 4, 2011
The keys to studying books like Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy are to see the story behind the story, to study it for the reality that it presented and the reality that it foreshadowed. And then finally we must study it to find yourself in the story. All three of these make the story real. […]
PHall | February 1, 2011
There is a contextual problem with interpreting the “sons of God” as angels in Genesis 6:4, and that is because of the contextual lineage flow of the previous chapters. Chapter 4 – Lineage of Cain – By their descriptions, they were not godly. Chapter 5 – Lineage of Seth – It was in the lifetime […]
PHall | January 29, 2011
“(I)n this first, basal pronouncement of Scripture there is a denial of all the principal false philosophies which men have propounded.” “In the beginning God” – that denies Atheism with its doctrine of no God. “In the beginning God” – that denies Polytheism with its doctrine of many gods. “In the beginning God created” – […]
PHall | January 29, 2011
GENESIS AND REVELATION or First Things First, Last Things Last Similarities Both have a new beginning and a new order. Both have tree of life, the river, the bride, and the walk of God with man. Both have the same moral and spiritual ideals. Contrasts Genesis Paradise closed (3:23) Dispossession through sin (3:23) The curse imposed (3:17) […]
PHall | January 29, 2011
There is a spiritual completeness about the Pentateuch. Its five parts not only give us a consecutive history covering the first two thousand five hundred years of human history; they constitute a progressive spiritual unity, setting forth, in their main features, what has been described as “the order of the experience of the people of […]