Monthly Archives: August 2026

Tired, Too

We have a trio of items for this week’s Bible lesson. First, review Genesis 3:21 where God clothed Adam and Eve with skins. These days, everyone assumes this is an obscure reference to shedding blood as forerunner to the sacrificial … Continue reading

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Zionist Mesmerism

Re: How “Israelism” Has Replaced Christianity as the American Civic Religion For a moment, let’s put aside how Ron Unz doesn’t really understand Christian faith. He’s looking at it as a religion from a social sciences perspective. He wonders why … Continue reading

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Prophecy: God versus Devil

The conjurer Saul visited at Endor had a familiar spirit. It’s a well established practice from those days that someone would cultivate an alliance with a Nephilim spirit. She was familiar with it; she could recognize it in some fashion. … Continue reading

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Melchizedek Part 4

Re: Naked Bible 170: Melchizedek Part 3 Heiser rehashes some of the material leading up to this final lesson. Then he gets into the New Testament. Where Melchizedek shows up in the New Testament is Hebrews 6:13-7:4. Here we see … Continue reading

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How It Works

Okay folks, one more time: The biblical doctrine of divine election is not how it is, but simply how it works. We cannot possibly know how it actually is in Eternity. Scripture makes that clear. We can only know what … Continue reading

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Heiser and Leviticus 15

Re: Naked Bible 75: Leviticus 12-15 Last year I was wading through Heiser’s series on Leviticus. I didn’t cover much of it here, but picked out items of special interest. However, since that time, something he said in this particular … Continue reading

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Melchizedek Part 3

Re: Naked Bible 168: Melchizedek Part 2 During the Second Temple Period (AKA, Intertestamental Period), the messianic expectations began to arise. Along with this was a lot of speculation about the role of Melchizedek in light of passages like Psalm … Continue reading

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Few Men Left

This piece is very insightful, but way too long. Let me summarize. When people grow up without a highly specialized society, when they are obliged to spend more of their time in hunting, gathering or agrarian pursuits, everyone has pretty … Continue reading

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Salvation and Election

(This continues the previous post.) Creation is obliged to glorify the Lord. It does that automatically. What differentiates humans from the rest of the natural world is the moral responsibility of doing it by choice. ontology — The branch of … Continue reading

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Cain’s Wife and Election

People keep asking: Where did Cain’s wife come from? The answer is not direct. We have to go back to were Cain stood, in the sense of what Scripture tells us. We must restore to our minds the biblical outlook … Continue reading

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