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 |
| After Life | Abraham's Bosom |
| Angels | Gabriel • Supernatural Abilities |
| Anxiety | Not Knowing What is Next |
| Apocrypha | Apocrypha • Apocryphal and Other Extra-Biblical Writings |
| 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 |
| Atonement | Anointing the Mercy Seat • The Aroma of Atonement |
| Baptism | Baptism by Fire • No Baptisms |
| 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 |
| Blessing | Trust is Necessary for Blessing • Blessings and Curses |
| Bondservant, Servant, and Slave | Bondservant Revisited • Slave, Servant, or Bondservant? |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Crucifixion | Outside the City |
| Daniel | Daniel and the Magi • A Breakdown of the Abominations and Desolations in the Book of Daniel |
| 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 • Many ‘Millennialisms’ |
| Eternal Life | Living Water |
| Evangelism | Taking Offense • A Connection Between Evangelism and Prayer Requests? |
| Evil | What is Evil? |
| Faith | Faith in What? • Mountain Movers • Why is Faith So Important? • Faith Made Her Well • Justified by Faith |
| False Prophets | True Test |
| Fear | Admitting our Fears • Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith? |
| Flood | Nephilim • A Global Flood, Not a Local Flood |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Gold | Metals of Redemption |
| Gospel | Gospel Genealogy Overview • Teaching Them • Now What? • Go! |
| Healing | Leprosy • Healing • Laying On Of Hands • Healing Revisited |
| Heaven | Heaven Revisited |
| 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? |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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? |
| 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 |
| Love | Commanded to Love? • Love One Another |
| Magi | Daniel and the Magi • Three Gifts |
| Marriage | Marriage • Monogamous Marriage Revisited |
| Miracles | Supernatural or Supernormal |
| 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? |
| Parables | Summary of the Kingdom Parables |
| Passion Week | Timing |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Resurrection | Resurrection is What the Bible Teaches |
| Retaliation | Retaliation Revisited |
| Reward in Heaven | What Exactly is a Reward? |
| Sabbath | Trick Question: How many Sabbaths in a year? • The Dilemma of the Sabbath • The Lord of the Sabbath |
| 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? |
| Sadducees | Sadducees |
| Saints | Old Testament Saints |
| 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 |
| Spiritual Fruit | Bearing Fruit |
| Spiritual Gifts | Spiritual Gifts |
| Stones | The Identification of Stones in Scripture |
| 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 |
| Tithing | Tithing |
| 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 |
| Worldview | What is a Wordview? • Paradigm Change |
| Worship | True Worship? What does that mean? • A New Song |
