There is a movement in our day that affirms that Muslims worship the same God as the Jews and Christians. This argument is supported by the claim that “ALLAH” is simply the generic Arabic word for God. From a scholarly perspective, there is some truth to this argument because Jewish scholars have been using the […]

Today we begin Exodus Chapter 5. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James Version, click here. The showdown between Moses and Pharaoh is I believe a perfect opportunity to illustrate the importance of knowing (and using) God’s formal name. Practically every major Bible translation I’ve come across has deleted God’s personal […]

“But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it. ‘Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,’ she said.”-Exodus 4:25 This whole Tzipporah circumcision incident is a good opportunity to touch on an important theological principle that is actually all wrapped up in one singular Hebrew word. That […]

At a lodging-place on the way, Yahweh met Moshe and would have killed him, had not Tzipporah taken a flintstone and cut off the foreskin of her son. She threw it at his feet, saying, “What a bloody bridegroom you are for me!”  But then, God let Moshe be. She added, “A bloody bridegroom because of the […]

YHVH said to Moshe, “When you get back to Egypt, make sure that you do before Pharaoh every one of the wonders I have enabled you to do. Nevertheless, I am going to make him hardhearted, and he will refuse to let the people go.”-Exodus 4:21 What are we to make of God telling Moses […]