Archives for August 2022

Samson was born for the purpose of becoming a thorn in the flesh of the Philistines. That meant he would be in constant and close contact with them. But it did not mean he was to become as one of them. The Philistines were his enemy, not his close buddies… Even if some degree of […]

“So the P’lishtim seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to ‘Azah. There they bound him with two bronze chains and put him to work grinding grain at the mill in the prison.”-Judges 16:21 The New Testament describes a person who comes to faith in Yeshua as being “born again”. That’s really […]

So the big question that arises is… Did Samson lose his salvation when he allowed his hair to get cut? Or to be even more precise… Was he spiritually and eternally cut off from the Lord and as a result destined for what the Hebrew Bible calls the Place of Torments (what the New Testament […]

Yesterday I talked about how it is NOT good to attach our faith to some outward symbol like the Star of David or a crucifix for example. However, there’s another side to that coin. Just because we shouldn’t make idols out of God-ordained symbols doesn’t mean we should take them lightly either. Again, a perfect […]

Men have always had a tendency to misuse symbols. The problem is we either emotionally or intellectually transfer our faith from the invisible God of Israel who resides in the heavens to some physical symbol here on earth. A perfect example is the bronze serpent on that pole that Moses erected out in the wilderness […]