Fellow Students Studies

Wilderness - by Wayne M.
An excerpt from the study:
"Hosea 2:23 And I will sow her unto Me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not My people, Thou art My people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
(CB) I will sow her: i.e. the new Israel.
(CB) will have mercy, &c. = have pity; i.e. will [call her] Ruhamah.
(CB) her that had not obtained mercy = Lo-Ruhamah (not pitied).
(CB) not My people = Lo-ammi.
(CB) Thou art My people = Ammi [art] thou.

Midbar, our place in the wilderness. Midbar, pasture to be fed God’s Word. Midbar, kind of lonely in a world intoxicated with lies."

Tracing our European Ancestors - by Don H.
An excerpt from the study:
Where did the name America come from? In the 1961 edition of the Encyclopedia Americana in the article on "America", the origins of the word, America, are given. The German map maker, Martin Waldseemuller, had read about Italian Amerigo Vespucci’s travels to the new world. Waldseemuller named the new world America on his map, in honor of Amerigo, and the name stuck. (Note: The only country called "America" from either North America or South America is the United Sates of America.) The Italian name, Amerigo, actually comes from the old Saxon Gothic name Amelrich or Amelric. The "L" was dropped in the Italian version because it was difficult for the Italians to pronounce the word with the L and the R together. So America = Amerigo = Amelric.

Let’s do an etymology of Amelric: Am - el - ric. In Hebrew "am", Strong’s OT: 5971, means people or nation. In Hebrew "el", Strong’s OT: 410, means God. "Ric", in the old Sachsen Gothic means "powerful" or "mighty". So America then would mean "the People of God Almighty".

Born in Babel - by Wayne M.
An excerpt from the study:
Jdg.9:¹² Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us. ¹³ And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? ¹⁴ Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. ¹⁵ And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

In this parable the trees, that is RELIGION, saying, "Come thou, and reign over us", to four types.

(ONE) the olive tree, that is Israel’s true worship, planted by the fountain of living waters.

Jer.2:13 For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.