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PHall | November 18, 2025
Was Israel Having A King Sinful? A common position is that Israel wanting a King was sinful. Israel even confesses “Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God, so that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil by asking for ourselves a king” (quoted 1 Samuel 12:19). I […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
Malachi and the Thief on the Cross Malachi has a unique teaching technique: 1. God makes an Accusation. 2.Then God Cross-examines Himself by speaking for the audience. 3.This is followed by God giving the evidence to convict. This got me thinking how this method could work today: 1. Accusation – “You are not saved because […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
The Only Begotton and First Born Jesus taught how the real events of the OT show his coming (John 5; Luke 24). Here are how two separate narratives become one in Jesus. Sacrifices, the Only and the First Born: Stories Foretelling Jesus 1. God provided the sacrifice to save the only begotten son (Genesis 22; […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
Why Are We Told the Story of Jael? There is only one woman in the Bible who directly killed a man. Her name was Jael. She hammered a tentpeg into the skull of Sisera (Judges 4). Why are we told this story? Considering she is the only woman in the Bible to have killed a […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
Difference Between Judaism and Christianity? An Orthodox Jew was interviewing a well-known “Christian Pastor”. The Jewish man stated, “other than a certain story”…. This sounded personally and painfully vague on his part, but some Jews refuse to say Jesus’s name because of Exodus 23:13: “Make no mention of the name of other Gods”. Back to […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
An Old Story Made New Again Do you remember this true event? Deity descended resulting in fire, speaking, loud sounds, crowd reacting to the sounds, water, and a promise received? This is the story of Israel at Mt. Sinai (Exodus 19), before crossing through the Jordan, to reach the Promised Land. There is a belief […]
PHall | August 17, 2025
A – ABIMELECH SON OF JERUBBAAL (vv.1-3) B – WORTHLESS AND RECKLESS MEN (v.4) C – 70 BROTHERS KILLED (v.5a) D – JOTHAM DOESN’T DIE – MEMORIAL STONE – OAK (vv.5b-6) E – TREES, BRANCHES, AND FIRE (vv.7-22) F – AMBUSH (vv.23-25) G – GAAL AND SHECHEM CONSPIRE AGAINST ABIMELECH […]
PHall | July 1, 2025
What went wrong and why?Compare the first and last verses of Judges and the gist of the book is revealed: 1:1 – “The Israelites inquired of the LORD” 21:25 – “Every one did what was right in in his own eyes.” Subsequent generations descended into a moral morass. They stopped inquiring of the Lord and […]
PHall | May 15, 2025
Were the first century Jewish believers in Jesus monotheistic? Yes. Did they believe Jesus to be Divine? Yes. How did they reconcile that God is one, and yet both the Father and Son are God? First, if you look at the Shema in the LXX, which is the Old Testament version quoted in the New […]
PHall | May 15, 2025
“Then God said, ‘Let there be light light’, and there was light. God saw the light was good and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” There was an evening, and there was a morning: one day.” (Genesis 1:3-5). Hermeneutical Lessons on authority: 1. […]