Daily Archives: September 21, 2015

MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE BIBLE (AGRICULTURE) “PART 1OF 2”

September 21, 2015Uncategorizedagriculture, Calendar, Canaan, crops, Deuteronomy, Egypt, Exodus, farmers, Gezer, Jewish, jonah, Judges, Luke, manners and customs, Nahum, Proverbs, yearsabarkley8

When the Jewish people entered Canaan and took up agriculture after the seminomadic life of forty years in the wilderness, they were entering into work that went back in their own history for hundreds of years and into a country that was extremely rich in plants. Ur of the Chaldees, where Abraham had come from, was sustained by healthy agricultural system based on irrigation ditches from the river bank, stone ploughshares, and flint

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (EPHESIANS 3:1-10) “SALVATION IS FOR EVERYONE”

September 21, 2015UncategorizedChurch, Ephesians, everyone, gentiles, God, Jesus Christ, new testament, paul, salvation, scripture of the dayabarkley8

I, Paul the servant of Christ, am here in jail because of you–for preaching that you Gentiles are a part of God’s house. No doubt you already know that God has given me this special work of showing God’s favor to you Gentiles, as I briefly mentioned before in one of my letters. God himself showed me this secret plan of his, that the Gentiles, too, are

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THE APOSTLE OF THE DAY “PETER”

September 21, 2015Uncategorized12 apostles, 12 disciples, early church, fisherman, Jesus Christ, John, Matthew, new testament, peter, simon, twelve apostles, twelve disciplesabarkley8

The apostle Peter (also called Simon and Cephas) was one of Jesus’ earliest disciples, and along with his brother Andrew, was a fisherman. He first met Jesus alone the Jordan River where John was baptizing (John 1:40-42) and traveled with Him through Galilee for a

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BIBLE SIGNS AND SYMBOLS “TWELVE”

September 21, 2015Uncategorized1 Kings, 12, 12 disciples, 12 prophecy, 12 tribes, 12 tribes of Judah, Bible, completeness, Exodus, Faith, Genesis, Jacob, Joshua, key verse, Luke, Mark, Matthew, new testament, number, Numbers, Old Testament, revelation, signs and symbols, symbolic, twelve, twelve disciples, twelve prophecy, twelve tribesabarkley8

Outside the Bible, the recognition of twelve months in the lunar calendar made the number twelve an important symbol for the annual cycles of life. In the Bible, this number usually symbolizes completeness, especially with regard to the people of God. Once the twelve tribes of Israel were established, uses of the number twelve became a symbol pointing to the entire people of God.

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