Daily Archives: June 12, 2021

SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (1 CORINTHIANS 14:20-25 “TONGUES A SIGN TO UNBELIEVERS”)

June 12, 2021Uncategorized1 corinthians, believe, children, Christ, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, jesus, Jesus Christ, Lord, Men, new testament, Old Testament, scripture of the day, spake, speak, tongues, womenabarkley8

²⁰Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

²¹In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (FACE)

June 12, 2021Uncategorizedayin, bible definition, Christ, definition, definition of the day, definitions, dictionary, Exodus, eye to eye, eyes, face, face to face, figuratively, Genesis, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Isaiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew, new testament, nose, Numbers, Old Testament, opsis, OT, presence of God, prosopon, sky, surface seen, theologically, theology, translatedabarkley8

The front of the person’s head. In the Bible several words are translated as “face.” In the OT panim is the most common and has the actual meaning of “face.” Aph (nose) and ayin (eyes, aspect) are also at times translated as face. In the NT the words used are opsis and prosopon.

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PETER’S HOUSE

June 12, 2021UncategorizedCapernaum, Christ, Church, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, jesus, Jesus Christ disciples, Lady Egeria, new testament, octagon shaped, Old Testament, original walls, peter, Peter's house, Peter's original houseabarkley8

About thirty years from the city synagogue are ruins of what many believe was Peter’s house. Several clues point to this.

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A KING’S TALE (KING AHAZIAH)

June 12, 2021Uncategorized1 Kings, 2 Kings, 2 years, Baal, battle, Christ, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, jesus, Jesus Christ, King Ahaziah, new testament, Old Testament, reigned, two years, wicked king ahababarkley8

After Ahab was killed in a battle against the Arameans, he was succeeded as king by his son Ahaziah, Ahaziah reigned only two years before dying from an injury he suffered in a fall at the royal palace in Samaria (2 Kings 1:2,17). Ahaziah continued the policies of Ahab, worshipped the pagan god Baal (1 kings 22:53)

HOW IS GOD A “DEVOURING FIRE”?

June 12, 2021Uncategorized40 years, Christ, Deuteronomy, devouring fire, Egypt, fire, forty years, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's jealousy, Hebrew, Hebrews, image of God, jesus, Jesus Christ, metaphor, mist, Moses, Mount sinai, new testament, Old Testament, sinful enemies, Ten Commandments, The Promise Landabarkley8

This quote is part of the Bible’s earliest record of God. The Hebrew people leaving Egypt understood God as a devouring fire (Exodus 24:17), especially when Moses entered the mist on top of Mount Sinai to receive God’s commandments. Moses spoke of God as a devouring fire (Deuteronomy 4:24) when he explained to the people why he, their leader for forty years, could not enter the promised land with them.

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (BOLD ACCESS TO THE KING)

June 12, 2021Uncategorizedbible customs and curiosities, Christ, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, jesus, King, Kings, new testament, Old Testamentabarkley8

serious king with crown holding sword isolated on grey

As a person become famous or rise to a high position, he limits his accessibility to others for his own protection. Many kings of Bible times, for example, could not be approached by anyone but their most trusted adviser. The Persians had a law that anyone who came into their king’s presence without his permission could pay with their lives (read Esther 4:11).

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