Daniel Botkin
- 5 days ago
Perfect Peace & Fullness of Joy
God wants His children to have peace. One reason we know this is because the Aaronic Benediction ends with the words “The LORD lift up...
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Daniel Botkin
- Aug 1
Hebrew Word Study: Shabbat
Some people think the Hebrew word for Sabbath, shabbat, means “rest.” This is not entirely incorrect, but it is somewhat misleading. The...
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Daniel Botkin
- Jul 24
Can a Believer be Possessed by a Demon?
Can a true, born-again believer be possessed by a demon? It depends on what you mean by “possessed.” If you mean possession in terms of...
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Daniel Botkin
- Jul 17
Peer Pressure
To illustrate the danger of caving in to peer pressure, the late Elmer Josephson once wrote about an event that happened in the 1940s....
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Daniel Botkin
- Jul 10
Just Enough Hebrew to be Dangerous
I have said it before and I say it again: You do not need to know Hebrew (or Greek or Aramaic) to have a close walk with the Lord and to...
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Daniel Botkin
- Jul 3
Being an Israelite In Deed
“And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that He had answered them well, asked Him, Which...
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Daniel Botkin
- Jun 26
“It Appertaineth Not Unto Thee”
“It appertaineth not unto thee.” These were words of correction and warning spoken to King Uzziah by the priests when King Uzziah went...
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Daniel Botkin
- Jun 19
As Christ Also Loved the Church . . .
In the New Testament, commandments are given to husbands and wives, telling men how to be godly husbands, and women how to be godly...
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Daniel Botkin
- Jun 12
Dino Dan & The Dope Debate
Starting January 1, 2020, it became legal in Illinois to use marijuana for “recreational” purposes. So for over two years now, it has...
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Daniel Botkin
- Jun 5
The Real Meaning of Messianic
Congregations like the one I attend are most commonly described as Messianic, and the movement with which I identify is commonly called...
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Daniel Botkin
- May 29
Christians Keeping Old Testament Commandments: Not a Yes/No Question, But a Question of Which Ones
When talking to Christians about keeping the commandments of the Torah, Old Testament “law” (or, more accurately, “instruction”), it is...
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Daniel Botkin
- May 22
Psalm 19: A Two-Fold Revelation of God
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth His handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night...
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Daniel Botkin
- May 15
Mixed Feelings About Fun
FUN, n. Sport; vulgar merriment. A low word. (Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language) Like most people, I enjoy...
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Daniel Botkin
- May 8
Flat Earth: A Doctrine of Demons?
Some of you may not know it, but there is a growing number of otherwise intelligent people who actually believe the earth is flat. Flat...
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Daniel Botkin
- May 1
The Necessity of Non-Punitive Suffering
“For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might...
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Daniel Botkin
- Apr 24
PASSOVER: A Time for Separating Hebrews from Egyptians
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who put everybody into one of two categories, and those who don’t. I do because the...
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Daniel Botkin
- Apr 17
Respecting Roman Catholics – Protesting Roman Catholicism
Christians who are not Roman Catholic are usually referred to as Protestants. The word Protestant comes from the word protest, so another...
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Daniel Botkin
- Apr 10
Exposing Uncleanness & Weighing the Spirits
“All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits” (Prov. 16:2). To rationalize means to try to justify...
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Daniel Botkin
- Apr 3
OCD and Autistic Traits in the Godhead?
Autistic people are often afflicted with severe OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). We have seen this in our autistic daughter Autumn....
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Daniel Botkin
- Mar 27
Limiting The Holy One of Israel
“How oft did they provoke Him in the wilderness, and grieve Him in the desert! Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the...
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Daniel Botkin
- Mar 20
Three Parables: Warnings & Dangers Facing God’s People Between the 1st & the 2nd Coming of the LORD
In Psalm chapter two, we see the enemies of God taking counsel together against the LORD and against His mashiach, His anointed Messiah....
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Daniel Botkin
- Mar 13
The Return of the King
King Jesus, Melech Yeshua, is coming back. Psalm chapter two says He will rule with a rod of iron and dash the heathen in pieces like a...
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Daniel Botkin
- Mar 6
Our Thoughts & Our Thinking: A Major Hindrance to Spiritual Growth
Jews point out that one major difference between Christianity and Judaism is that Christianity focuses a great deal on what people should...
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Daniel Botkin
- Feb 27
Leah and Rachel
Jacob was a man who gave and got more than he bargained for. His original plan was to work for seven years for one wife, Rachel. Instead,...
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