My Mysterious Bible

Unveiling Ecclesiastes 10:19

Examining a strange passage about money in Ecclesiastes.

Melchizedek in the New Testament

Exploring the very different profile of Melchizedek in the New Testament as compared to the Old. 
Resources Used:
Robert Hinckley, "Adam, Aaron, and the Garden Sanctuary." Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology, XXII/4 (2013): 5-12.more. by Robert Hinckley.
 
Commentary Critical & Explanatory on the Whole Bible 
 
The Lexam Bible Dictionary
 
Naked Bible Podcast 170

Melchizedeck in the Old Testament

Who is this mysterious Priest/King of Salem? Who does he worship? 
 
Resources used:
The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament
The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures
Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (DDD)
Naked Bible 166: Melchizedek Part 1a

Why does Ezekiel spend hundreds of days on his side?

Ezekiel gives us an extreme example of a sign act.
 
Resources used:
Faithlife Study Bible
Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible
Victor Harold Matthews, Mark W. Chavalas, and John H. Walton, The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament, electronic ed. (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000), Eze 4:1–3.
Sign Acts: The Weird, Wonderful World of Prophetic CommunicationVisual Aids for an Ancient Audienceby Whitney Woollard – Sep 12, 2018 bibleproject.com
Lamar Eugene Cooper, Ezekiel, vol. 17, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1994).
 

Balaam's Error

What exactly is Balaam's error, and what does the New Testament have to say about him?

Episode 22 Balaam and the talking Donkey

The significance of Balaam and the talking Donkey.
 
Resources used:
Victor Harold Matthews, Mark W. Chavalas, and John H. Walton, The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament, electronic ed. (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000), Nu 22:22–30.
 
Dennis Cole, Numbers, vol. 3B, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2000), 389–391.
 
Gordon J. Wenham, Numbers: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 4, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1981), 191.
 
NET Bible notes on Numbers 22
 
BALAAM AND HIS TALKING DONKEY BY FRED BLUMENTHAL. JEWISH BIBLE QUARTERLY Vol. 34, No. 2,2006
 
Extra information:
 
What was Balaam's real error - Dr Michael Heiser
 
https://bibleproject.com/explore/video/numbers/?utm_source=web_social_share&medium=shared_video
 

Episode 21 Elohim, I don't think that means what you think it means part 2

We dive into what Elohim does and does not mean when not used to refer to the God of the Bible.

Episode 20 Elohim, I do not think that means what you think it means part 1.

Introduction to the term elohim.

Episode 19 Foreknowledge does not equal predestination.

God's foreknowledge does not equate to predestination.
 
Resources used: The Unseen Realm by Michael S. Heiser.

Episode 18 Are there really unicorns in the bible?

Why are there unicorns in the King James Version of the Bible?
 
Resources used:
Lexam Bible Dictionary. 
Bringing back the Aurochs