Hebrew Poetry

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In Job we see “poetic devices” commonly attributed to “Hebrew poetry” that also predominant in Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Solomon, and the prophets ─ major and minor. Yet, with neither rhyme nor meter in either the English or the original languages.

This “poetry” generally consists of “couplets of Truth” – either two lines articulating synonymous truths in different words, or two lines contrasting antithetical truths also in different words ─ for example: 

“For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth” (Job 19:25). 

“The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit” (Pro 12:5). 

The science of Hebrew poetry over the centuries has determined other minor variant protocols by systematically dissecting and analyzing Scripture. 

Yet the fundamental “couplets of Truth” overwhelmingly predominates ─ but what does it mean? The science of Hebrew poetry is nothing more than a way to NOT answer that question! 

Yet, Scripture holds the answer: 

“In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established” (2Co 13:1). 

This is the mandate of Scripture! If God holds man to this standard—how much more will He hold Himself to that same standard by authenticating His Word “In the mouth of two or three witnesses. “Couplets of Truth” appear to be two of the three. 



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Left Behind

Horses and Horsemen

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The march to Armageddon begins with the cadence of horses charging into battle – but are they really horses or some high-tech semblance thereof: 




“Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen… even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords” (cf. Ezekiel 38:3). 

And Armageddon ends with mutilated flesh of stallions intermingled with the sanguinary flesh of the mighty: 

“… he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them…” (cf. Revelation19:17-18).

Contemporary evangelical culture interrupts “horses, and of them that sit on them” metaphorically in that “war horses” no longer contribute to a plausible end time scenario. 

Yet, are we to likewise transgress the normative historical grammatical interruption of the text as it was contemporarly used and understood. 


Before the explosion of Trinity on 16 July 1945, Enrico Fermi theorizing that an electromagnetic event would accompany the blast insisted that all telemetric cables be meticulously shielded. However, the official report of that first nuclear test indicated that shielding efforts were not adequate: "All signal lines were completely shielded, in many cases doubly shielded. In spite of this many records were lost because of spurious pickup at the time of the explosion that paralyzed the recording equipment."



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