When a book as complex as the Bible is being studied many details can easily be overlooked. Several of the commentaries available on this website contain a number of notes that go beyond the normal exposition; we call them “Considerations.” Just as the name implies, these are things to consider while reading the Scriptural text and commentary. But they can also be useful in answering some Biblical or theological questions, so we have compiled several of them and listed them here (as well as a few others) on this page. This list will provide links to the various commentary pages where the contents of the consideration can be read. If you wish to return to this page after reading, click on the "Go Back" button on the lower left corner of the page.
| Subject | Related Consideration Title(s) |
| Accuracy | Accuracy Revisited • Accuracy Assured • Don't Get Mad at Your Maps! |
| After Life | Abraham's Bosom |
| Alternate Spirituality | Fortune Telling |
| Angels | Gabriel • Supernatural Abilities |
| Anxiety | Not Knowing What is Next |
| Apocrypha | Apocrypha • Apocryphal and Other Extra-Biblical Writings |
| Apologetics | Barriers that Prevent Acceptance of the Gospel Message • Christian Apologetics • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly • Reason the Scriptures |
| Appointed Times/Feasts | Passover in the Talmud • Easter Sunday • The Same Pentecost • Wait! Add Leaven? • Sound the Alarm • A Time to Rejoice • Other Notable Celebrations • The Eigth Day • Church Calendar • Prophetic Overview • Often Not Taught |
| Atonement | Anointing the Mercy Seat • The Aroma of Atonement • The Blood of Jesus |
| Baptism (see also Sacraments below) | Baptism by Fire • No Baptisms • Forgiveness of Sins • Baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ |
| Barriers to Truth | Presuppositions • Common Barriers • Intellectual Barriers • Don’t Let the Wine Intoxicate Your Thoughts |
| Behold | Behold! |
| Belief | Compromise |
| Bible | Without Genesis • Hermeneutics • Potential Contradictions • Everything Including Grumbling • Biblical Numbering Schemes • A Key Verse of the Bible • Heptadic Structure • Going Up • The Truth in Context • Two Isaiahs? • The Scariest Words in the Bible • Mysteries • A Hermeneutic Overview • Examine the Scriptures • The Whole Counsel of God |
| Blessing | Trust is Necessary for Blessing • Blessings and Curses |
| Bondservant, Servant, and Slave | Bondservant Revisited • Slave, Servant, or Bondservant? • Slavery |
| Bottomless Pit | Bottomless Pit |
| Bronze | Metals of Redemption |
| Caesar | Introducing the Caesars |
| Christianity | Is there such as thing as a complacent Christian? • Blocked By A Christian • Higher Calling? • Vectors and Polarizations • Are Christians Secure in their Salvation? • Hypocrites • A Christian’s Vocation • Christians Should Never Forget • Adopted as Children of God • It’s Not About Us • Not Easy • Extraordinary Love + Extraordinary Action = Extraordinary Witness • Losing Heart • Doubt • Born Again • Being Obedient • Following Takes Effort • Alive and Free, But Still Bound • One of the Most Profound and Damning Statements in the Bible • Unity, so what? • Waiting for God • Blessing God • But Christians die just like everyone else! • Children of God • So Close But Yet…A Lesson of Applied Ignorance • Comfort Versus Comfortable • Slow to Accuse |
| Christian Persecution | Christian Martyrs • The Persecution Continues |
| Church | A Model of the Bride of Christ • Danger in Comfort • Warning: Not for Incoming Use Only • The Need to Reform • Church Discipline • Altars • Sacraments • Should the Church Be Operated as a Business? • Denominations Revisited • The Body of Christ • What Does Paul Mean When He Refers to the Church? • Is God-ordained Equal to Man-ordained? • Church Was Born • Church Councils • Sunday Morning Worship |
| Covenant | Covenants • Name Changing • Circumcision • Covenant Promise or Blessing • Conditional vs. Unconditional • The New Covenant Did Not Replace All of the Previous Covenants • God’s Unconditional Promises and Covenants • Abrahamic Covenant Revisited • Covenant Review • The New Covenant |
| Creation | Only What We Need to Know • Modern Thinking • Age of the Earth • Day-Age Theory • Illumination • According to Their Own Kinds • Let them be for signs and for seasons… • Body, Soul and Spirit • Image of God • Social Gospel • Surely Die • Decay • Knowing Good and Evil • Only One Human Race • A New Creation |
| Crucifixion | Outside the City |
| Daniel | Daniel and the Magi • A Breakdown of the Abominations and Desolations in the Book of Daniel |
| Death | The Sting of Death |
| Demons | Demons • Demon Possession |
| Disciples | Disciples • Leaving Everything to Follow Jesus • From Ordinary to Extraordinary • Not of This World • Not Seeing the “Big Picture” |
| Egypt | Summary of the Plagues • What About the Hardening of Pharaoh’s Heart? |
| Election and Predestination | Election and Predestination |
| Eschatology (End Times) | The Red Heifer Connection to Eschatology • Are We in the End Times? • The Role of a Christian During the Last Days • The Tail Wagging the Dog? • Armageddon • Other Future Wars in Prophecy • Babylon Revisited • Mystery Babylon • The Rapture vs. The Second Coming • Stuck in the Muck • Millennium • Many ‘Millennialisms’ • The Last Trumpet |
| Eternal Life | Living Water |
| Evangelism | Taking Offense • A Connection Between Evangelism and Prayer Requests? • Our Witness Should Reflect Jesus • We are Ambassadors for Christ • Preach the Word • Difficulties in Evangelizing to Pagan People |
| Evil | What is Evil? |
| Faith | Faith in What? • Mountain Movers • Why is Faith So Important? • Faith Made Her Well • Justified by Faith • Giving is an Act of Faith |
| False Deities | Moon God • False Deities in the Bible |
| False Prophets and Teachers | True Test • The Birth of False Teaching • Quick to Deceive, Distort, and Corrupt |
| Fear | Admitting our Fears • Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith? • Fear of God Versus Fearing God |
| Flood | Nephilim • A Global Flood, Not a Local Flood |
| Forgiveness | Forgiveness |
| God | The Godhead • God's Timing • End of Rope Beginning of God • Inconsistent God? • God Allowed vs. God Ordained • Abomination • Why obey God? • The Sovereignty of God Revisited • God Keeps His Promises • Know Him • Only God Knows the Heart • Tetragrammaton • Helping God • Give Credit to God • The Sovereignty of God • Vows to God • The Shema in a Nutshell • God’s Presence in Clouds • Shekinah Glory • Asking God for a Sign • Where Was God? • Never Leave or Forsake • The God that Brought the Israelites Out of Egypt • Whose Side is God On? • Hearing from God • God's Plan for You • Fearing God • God Cannot Lie nor Change His Mind • Timing |
| God's Word | Follow God’s Word • Nothing But the Truth - All Blemishes Are Visible • Women Included • How Does God’s Word Get Corrupted? • Truly, Truly • The Eternal Building Code |
| Gold | Metals of Redemption |
| Gospel | Gospel Genealogy Overview • Teaching Them • Now What? • Go! |
| Hardened Hearts | Harden Hearts |
| Healing | Leprosy • Healing • Laying On Of Hands • Healing Revisited |
| Heaven | Heaven Revisited |
| Healing | The Expectation of Healing • Does God Still Heal? |
| Hebrew Song and Poetry | Hebrew Poetry and Song |
| Hell | Hell on Earth? • Hell By Any Other Name is Still Hell or Is it? • Who Has the Authority to Cast Someone to Hell? |
| Herod | Meet the Herods |
| Holiness | Consecration • Water of Purification • Holy After the Cross • Holy • Unclean and Unwanted • Contrary to the World |
| Holy Spirit | Add, Subtract, Multiply or Divide Infinity • Take Not • Filled With the Holy Spirit • Holy Spirit Revisited |
| Homosexuality | Homosexuality Revisited • Homosexuality and the Church |
| Human Existence | Dichotomy • The Third Component • Spiritual Consumption |
| Human Comprehension of God | Get Behind Me Satan! • The Reason You Are Wrong • The Ultimate Goal |
| Idols | Idols and Idol Worship • Clearly Idolatry • Nehushtan • Baal and Those Cities Hyphenated with Baal • The Mythology of Asherah • Fertility Deities or God? Perhaps Both? • Demonic Idols |
| Israel | The Name of Israel • Why would God use a nation contrary to His own nature to punish Israel? • Evidence of Destruction • The Nation of Israel as God’s Vineyard • Left Desolate, Very Desolate • The Tribes of Israel • Royal Bloodline • Beyond the Jordan • Arabah |
| Israelities en route to the Promised Land | Exodus Route • Potential Route • Random or Precision? • Banners of the Tribes • Total Population • If God is For Us • Depravity of Man Revisited • Who and What is Balaam? • Is Being on the East Side Out of the Will of God? • Borders Commanded |
| Jesus | Jesus is the Rock • Nazirite versus Nazarene • The Star over Bethlehem • The Potential Impact of the Daughters of Zelophehad on the Genealogy of Jesus • Beyond Recognition • How much power? • The Enigma We Call Jesus • The Second Coming • The Blood Curse of Jechoniah • Not a Last Name • Authority • Son of Man • Tell No One • The Lord of the Sabbath • Three Days and Three Nights • Relationship vs. Religion • Jesus Praying • Hosanna • Anointing • Nard • Mary Understood • Betrayed by a Friend • Made Him to Be Sin • Introduction to Jesus’ Trials • Why Jesus Came Out • Angered and Grieved • Humble Beginnings • Was Jesus Disobedient? • Full of the Spirit • Did Jesus Break the Law? • Forgive Them! They Do Not Know What They Are Doing! • Subatomic Bonding by Jesus? • Theophanies and Christophanies • Did Jesus Say He is God? • Split in Two • Dying for Another • Victim of Politics • The Role and Titles of the Messiah • Prophetic Promises • The Messiah Had to be a Man • Names and Titles of Jesus • Jesus at Caesarea Philippi • In the Lineage of Jesus • Jesus is the Rock • Last Adam • Pleasing Jesus • Why Did the Jews Reject Jesus? |
| John the Baptist | Why Did John the Baptist Still Have Disciples? • Why Did John Have Doubts? |
| Jubilee | Land for Peace • A Christian Perspective of the Year of Jubilee |
| Judaism | Ancient Jewish Writings • Two Calendar System • Ritual Cleansing • Sad History • Sanhedrin • Being an Obedient Jew • Capital Punishment by the Jews Revoked • Required Pilgrimage • Replacement Theology • Jewish Diasporas • Jewish Diasporas Revisited • The Vicious Cycle of Apathy • Replacement Theology Revisited • Antisemitism • Lineage Versus Territory Names • The High Priests |
| Judgment | Not Wishing Any to Perish • Shall Not Perish |
| Kingdom of God | Kingdom of Heaven • Prepare • Comparing the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God to Heaven • Kingdom of the World |
| Kinsman Redeemer | Kinsman Redeemer |
| Law | Nothing Was to be Added or Subtracted • Invalid Testimony? • The Law of Christ • The Law of God |
| Legalism | Legalism |
| Levites | Being a Possession of God • Why Disperse the Levities? |
| Life | Traumatic Events in Life • Tearing Clothes • Is Life Fair? • Grumbling is Human Nature • Respect for Life Must Be Taught and Understood • The Meaning of Life • Where God Guides He Provides • Expect Persecution |
| Love | Commanded to Love? • Love One Another • Supernatural Love |
| Magi | Daniel and the Magi • Three Gifts |
| Marriage | Marriage • Monogamous Marriage Revisited • Mariage (Revisited) • Unequally Yoked? |
| Millenium | See Eschatology (End Times) |
| Miracles | Supernatural or Supernormal • Sun and Moon Stand Still • Miracles, Signs, and Wonders |
| Moses | Introducing Moses • Was Moses Allowed in the Most Holy Place in the Tabernacle? • A Broken Model • Moses’ Body |
| Mourning | Sackcloth and Ashes |
| Names | Names Revisited • Old Testament Names • What’s in a Name? • Names of Locations |
| Nazareth | Nazirite versus Nazarene |
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Parables | Summary of the Kingdom Parables |
| Passion Week | Timing • Three Days |
| Passover (Last Supper) | Introduction to Passover • Remember Him |
| Parenting | The Parent’s Job • Does That Answer Your Question? |
| Pharisees | Pharisees • Stalking Jesus • Were the Pharisees Ignorant? • Misrepresenting God • Demanding Evidence • Potentially Sinister |
| Prayer | Incense and Prayer • Prayer • Fasting • Not Enough Faith • Prayer Before and After Bible Study • Prayer • Behold, He is Praying! • Pray With Expectation • Fasting |
| Priests | Minimum Age of a Priest • Priests vs. Pastors • Chief Priest versus High Priest • Priests No Longer Required |
| Promised Land | No Survivors • Who is Worthy to Enter? • Total Annihilation • Canaanites • Anakim |
| Promises | Fulfillment of Unfulfilled Promises • Not Seeing the "Big Picture" |
| Prophecy | Prophecy • Prophecy Revisited Again • Uncut Stones • The Prophetic Truth • The Wrath of God, Cruelty and Suffering • Prophecy • Prophecy Fulfilled • Times of the Gentiles • Why Study Prophecy Revisited
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Rapture | Removed for Judgment? • Rapture Revisited |
| Redemption | Models of Redemption • Redemption and Intercession Interlocked |
| Reminders | Memory |
| Resurrection | Resurrection is What the Bible Teaches |
| Retaliation | Retaliation Revisited |
| Reward in Heaven | What Exactly is a Reward? • Crowns |
| Sabbath | Trick Question: How many Sabbaths in a year? • The Dilemma of the Sabbath • The Lord of the Sabbath • Sabbath Day's Journey |
| Sacrifices | The Connection to Romans 12 • Pleasing Aroma • Overview of Offerings • Summary of the Number of Animal Sacrifices • Why Would God No Longer Desire Sacrifices? |
| Sacraments | Sacraments |
| Sadducees | Sadducees |
| Saints | Old Testament Saints |
| Salvation | Once Saved |
| Samaritans | Samaritans |
| Satan | Introducing Satan • Satan's Motivation • No Denials • Beelzebul • Satan’s Attempts to Stop God’s Plan • Names of Satan |
| Sheep | Sheep |
| Silver | Thirty Pieces of Silver • Metals of Redemption
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| Sin | Depravity of Man • Intentional versus Unintentional • A Contextual Conundrum? • No Mention of Sin • Unpardonable? • Loose Tongues • Pride • Closing the Gap • Consequences of Sin • Generational Curses • Washed by Jesus |
| Sodom and Gomorrah | Intercession • The Lure of Sin • Righteous in God's Eyes • Location in Question • Pillar of Salt • Drunk with Wine |
| Solomon | Royal Regulations Rejected |
| Spiritual Discernment | A Spiritual Conundrum • Self Examination |
| Spiritual Fruit | Bearing Fruit |
| Spiritual Gifts | Spiritual Gifts • How Do You Know What Your Spiritual Gift is? • Prophets, Teachers, and Other Spiritual Gifts |
| Spiritual Warfare | Spiritual Warfare • Should Christians Be Exorcists? |
| Stones | The Identification of Stones in Scripture • Hailstones |
| Strongholds | Strongholds |
| Suffering | Suffer Too? • The Problem of Suffering |
| Synagogues | Synagogues |
| Tabernacle | You Can See Jesus in the Furniture • Cherubs Have a Public Relations Problem • Metals of Redemption • Reconciliation Through Sacrifice Revisited • New Beginnings |
| Tax Collectors | Why Tax-Collectors Were Loathed |
| Temple | Temple Destroyed • Tisha b’Av • Temple Mount • Temple Location Revisited • Millennial Temple • Temple versus Tabernacle |
| Temptation | Temptation |
| Ten Commandments | Introduction to the Ten Commandments • Legalism |
| Three Days | Three Days |
| Time Keeping | Hours and Watches • The Ninth Hour |
| Tithing | Tithing |
| Tolerance | Tolerance |
| Transfiguration | A Glance Into the Future? • Why Moses and Elijah? |
| Trinity | Introducing the Trinity |
| Trusting God | Trusting in God Can Be Contrary to Reason • Akedah • Proof Testing |
| Truth | John and Truth • Truth Revisited |
| Twelve Tribes | Twelve Tribes |
| Unity | Unity |
| Vows | Vows, Promises, and Covenants |
| Worldview | What is a Wordview? • Paradigm Change |
| Worship | True Worship? What does that mean? • A New Song • The Enemy Within |
