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Remember the garden? Remember paradise? Remember the rabbinical teaching drawn from it? Let’s dive a little deeper. A good friend of mine, Mike Wlodarczyk, taught on the four layers of the word based on Mark 4:3-22. He introduced another acronym which we can use in English to better remember the four layers: LAMB. L for […] >>

Elohim is one of two words in the Hebrew that means God. The other one is El. Elohim is plural and means gods or, as a pluralis majestatis or generic term, God. Its singular is Eloah. El is singular, and elim in the plural. Elohim is used of God, when His characteristics of ruler, judge,… >>

“Did you see this?” Jesus and Ezekiel swimming in the river in Eze 47:6. Ezekiel is swimming, in the midst of the water, and the Lord asks: “Did you see this?” When God asks a question, it is not because he does not have the answer. “Adam, where are you?” Did God lose the only… >>

Live started in a garden. We call it paradise, from Persian pardes, garden. The word made its way into Aramaic and Hebrew, written PRDS. Later the rabbis based a teaching about the layers of the Word of God and a way of hermeneutics on this word: P = pschat, the literal sense of the Word… >>

In Mark 11, Jesus saw a fig-tree, and discovering that he bore no fruit he cursed the tree. Later that day Peter saw that the fig-tree had withered, and they started to talk about faith and the power of our words. In Mark 13:28-29 Jesus talks about the fig-tree again: And learn the parable of… >>

Which is first – experience or knowledge? I have to say that my experience usually does not match my knowledge. Let’s take God’s promiss to heal at any time, or to provide for us. Even though my experience tells me otherwise (my son is in hospital with a severe pneumonia at the time of writing,… >>