Acts1: 6-11…..A huge event and a spectacular promise!

So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come uponContinue reading “Acts1: 6-11…..A huge event and a spectacular promise!”

Acts 1: 1-5….Luke continues writing beyond the resurrection.

In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearingContinue reading “Acts 1: 1-5….Luke continues writing beyond the resurrection.”

Genesis 2: 18-23…..Names galore ending in woman!

Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what heContinue reading “Genesis 2: 18-23…..Names galore ending in woman!”

Genesis 2: 10-17…. The beauty stated and a command given.

A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone areContinue reading “Genesis 2: 10-17…. The beauty stated and a command given.”

Genesis 2: 5-9…..The story repeated.

When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, and a mist was going up from the land and was wateringContinue reading “Genesis 2: 5-9…..The story repeated.”

Genesis 2: 1-4 The end of the week.

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on itContinue reading “Genesis 2: 1-4 The end of the week.”

Genesis 1: 26-31….Mankind in the picture.

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”So God created man in hisContinue reading “Genesis 1: 26-31….Mankind in the picture.”

Genesis 1: 20-25: Sea and land life created.

And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.Continue reading “Genesis 1: 20-25: Sea and land life created.”

Genesis 1: 11-19…..And so Creation proceeds.

And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed,Continue reading “Genesis 1: 11-19…..And so Creation proceeds.”

Genesis 1: 6-10…..The Creator claims that His work is good!

And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. And God called the expanse Heaven.Continue reading “Genesis 1: 6-10…..The Creator claims that His work is good!”