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Devotional Short Notes to Genesis 44
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kootvanwyk | 3336 | | 2018-11-26 | 2018-11-26 07:08 |
Devotional
Short Notes to Genesis 44
Is
experiential chit-chatting [ontology] in the presence of the Word of God
unrelated to the actual words in His text permissible? As Adventists our
thoughts [ep...
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Devotional Short Note on Genesis 45
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kootvanwyk | 2865 | | 2018-11-25 | 2018-11-25 20:44 |
Devotional
Short Note on Genesis 45
Joseph’s house
was very near the Pharaoh’s house so that Sesostris I’s palace members could
hear Joseph weeping. What a happy weeping. There are days in one’s life w...
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Day and Night in the Bible as a Phrase
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kootvanwyk | 3022 | | 2018-11-25 | 2018-11-25 20:46 |
Day and night [Heb. יוֹמָם וָלַיְלָה “day and night” and in the New Testament Greek ἡμέρας
καὶ νυκτὸς.
The University Museum
in Philadelphia housed many tablets and items in 1912-1914 and A. Po...
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Devotional Short Notes on Genesis 43
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kootvanwyk | 2872 | | 2018-11-25 | 2018-11-25 07:05 |
Devotional Short Notes on Genesis 43
The chapter start with Moses
excerpting from the Book of Jacob that there was a famine in the land and it
was very severe. Strict biblical chronology and the ...
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Devotional Short Notes to Genesis 41
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kootvanwyk | 2951 | | 2018-11-25 | 2018-11-25 00:07 |
Devotional
Short Notes to Genesis 41
Indeed we
pick up the fingerprints of Joseph in data from archaeology. The Word of God is
indeed a navigation for scholars who did not know what to do with pap...
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Devotional Short Note to Genesis 39
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kootvanwyk | 2902 | | 2018-11-21 | 2018-11-23 09:18 |
Devotional
Short Note to Genesis 39
My
teacher dr. Jacques Doukhan, very delighted teacher full of joy and happiness,
wrote recently a new SDA commentary on Genesis amplifying the SDA BCE Volume 1.
The...
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Debt and the Bible
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kootvanwyk | 2857 | | 2018-11-20 | 2018-11-20 23:37 |
Debt [Heb. נשיכי with the
added second person pronoun added to נשי = nešî, “pay your debt” 2 Kings 4:7; מַשָּׁאוֹת = mašāôṭ (Proverbs 22:26); נֹשֶׁא = nošê
“One that is in debt” (1 Samuel 22...
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Devotional Short Note on Genesis 38
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kootvanwyk | 4382 | | 2018-11-20 | 2018-11-20 07:14 |
Devotional Short Note on Genesis 38
Daniel Hämmerly Depuy
is a famous Seventh-day Adventist archaeologist of South America who wrote two
sets of Volumes on Biblical Archaeology of Paleo-testaments in 19...
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Devotional Short Note to Genesis 37
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kootvanwyk | 2934 | | 2018-11-19 | 2018-11-19 06:46 |
Devotional Short Note to Genesis 37
This chapter is the introduction of the Joseph historical narrative
by Moses from the Book of Jacob’s generations. It was a factual data account
from which Moses ex...
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Valley of Decision
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kootvanwyk | 3000 | | 2018-11-18 | 2018-11-18 15:45 |
Valley of Decision, The [Heb. בְּעֵמֶק הֶחָרוּץ, “the Valley of
Decision/Concision/Jehoshaphat/Threshing”]. Scripture and Translationsבְּעֵמֶק הֶחָרוּץ is twice used in Joel
3:14 and is translated diff...
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Devotional Short Note to Genesis 36
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kootvanwyk | 2992 | | 2018-11-18 | 2018-11-18 13:55 |
Devotional
Short Note to Genesis 36 Lists of
generations and relations are sometimes boring for those who are not part of
it. But for Moses, who was residing in the land of Midian adjacent to Edom, ...
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Super-virus of many diseases: Polio Virus
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kootvanwyk | 2899 | | 2018-11-17 | 2018-11-17 06:09 |
Super-virus of many diseases: Polio
Virus
It is my understanding that the Polio
Virus is the “mother” of many diseases. Whether it is Altzheimer, Parkinson,
Paralysis, Arthritis, Dimentia, Kidney failure ev...
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Devotional Short Note on Genesis 34
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kootvanwyk | 3086 | | 2018-11-16 | 2018-11-16 09:11 |
Devotional
Short Note on Genesis 34
It
is well for us to get our chronology right about the death of Jacob and the
preparation for the Book of the Life of Jacob, concerning Joseph that Moses is
goin...
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Devotional Short Note to Genesis 33
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kootvanwyk | 2872 | | 2018-11-15 | 2018-11-15 07:27 |
Devotional Short Note to Genesis 33
In Signs of the Times of July
1968: 29-30 there is an article by Adventist Archaeologist Siegfried Horn that
is accepting the consensus position that Succoth is ...
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Dress and Ornamentation
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kootvanwyk | 2799 | | 2018-11-14 | 2018-11-14 19:54 |
Dress and Ornamentation
“The human body is just another
costume” says Halprin in 1967 (Andrews et al 1967: 76). Instead of focusing here
on the textiles and materials; colors; names and mode of wearin...
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Devotional Short Note on Genesis 32
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kootvanwyk | 3010 | | 2018-11-13 | 2018-11-13 22:54 |
Devotional
Short Note on Genesis 32 In
consultation with my wife I heard that the age of Jacob’s marriage is
calculated with the life-span of Joseph, and if that is the case, that is what
I will do he...
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Devotional Short Note on Genesis 31
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kootvanwyk | 2883 | | 2018-11-11 | 2018-11-11 23:38 |
Devotional
Short Note of Genesis 31
From
my “rib’s” Band Genesis English Bible Reading online I collected the following
extracts. They are all on Genesis 31. Let me tell you about my wife. Has a ...
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Devotional Short Note on Genesis 30
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kootvanwyk | 2986 | | 2018-11-11 | 2018-11-11 12:34 |
Devotional
Short Note to Genesis 30 My
father use to say: “Behind every successful man stands a woman telling him what
to do”. My wife alerted me this morning about my wrong reading of a verse in
Genes...
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Devotional Short Note to Genesis 29
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kootvanwyk | 2996 | | 2018-11-11 | 2018-11-11 09:08 |
Devotional
Short Note to Genesis 29
It had
to be sometime close to 2030 BCE, at least between 2040 BCE when Esau got
married and also at least 20 years before Isaac died, who died in 2000 BCE. The...
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Devotional Short Note to Genesis 28
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kootvanwyk | 2870 | | 2018-11-09 | 2018-11-09 21:30 |
Devotional Short Note to Genesis 28
Moses is giving a briefer overview
here what was already covered before. Background material is given before he
could start the narrative later in the chapter. Esau ...
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