Monthly Archives: September 2021

DEFINITION OF THE DAY (FIRE)

September 27, 2021UncategorizedApocrypha, Christ, definition of the day, definitions of the day, english, esh, flame, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greeks, heat, Hebrews, Isaac, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, pur, rub, rubbing, sacrifice, striking flintabarkley8

The word “fire” in our English Bibles normally translates the Hebrew word esh in the Old Testament and the Greek word pur (the root from which such English term as “pyromaniac” and “pure” are derived) in the NT. Both terms signify the physical manifestations of burning heat:, light, and flame. Ancient peoples kindled fire either by rapidly rubbing dry pieces of wood together creating enough fiction to ignite dry vegetation or by striking flint rocks thus creating sparks (cp. 2 Macc 10:3). Normally, fires were maintained and perpetuated to avoid the need for kindling. Abraham, for example, apparently carried a torch with him on his way to sacrifice Isaac in order to prevent having to kindle one at the altar (Gen 22:6-7).

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HOW COULD ANCIENT ISRAEL SUSTAIN 500,000 WAR CASUALTIES IN A DAY?

September 27, 2021Uncategorized1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, 500000, Ancient Israel, arguing, bible scholars, casualties, Christ, Chronicles, contested, counting, dead, death, died, enduring, field, five hundred thousand, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, half million, head count, Israel, Jesus Christ, kill, killed, killer, man by man, Matthew, number, numbered, pass away, passed, staggering, units, violenceabarkley8

The battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest three days in U.S. war history, saw about 100,000 men fall. The entire Vietnam war involved about 55,000 U.S. casualties. A half-million dead and injured in one day is a staggering sum, almost more violence then we can conceive an army enduring.

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IS CIVIL REBELLION EVER JUSTIFIED? (2 CHRONICLES 10:16-19)

September 27, 2021Uncategorized1 Chronicles, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Chronicles, 2 Thessalonians, Adoniram, armed, Christ, Church, churches, citizenship, civil, civil authority, civil rebellion, context, definitive, failed, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, government, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, judgment, justified, Kingdom of God, Matthew, national, negotiation, new testament, Old Testament, peace, rebellion, Romans, sanction, triumphant, violenceabarkley8

The Bible is not definitive on this point, so each person, church, and movement must come to peace with its position. Certainly the Bible includes several stories of resistance to government, even armed resistance. Sometimes, as in this passage, no moral judgment is attached to the report of resistance. Warfare is constant throughout of the Old Testament, including warfare ordained by God.

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THE TEN PLAGUES

September 22, 2021Uncategorizedattack, banks, blood, boils, cattle, Christ, darkness, dead, destroyed, die, died, disease, Egypt, egyptians, Exodus, false god, False gods, fire, firstborn sons, flies, frogs, gnats, God, God is supreme, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, gods, hail, Hapi, help, Heqt, humbled, Imhotep, infested, Israel, jesus, Jesus Christ, Kheper, locusts, Matthew, medicine, new testament, Nile, Nile River, Old Testament, rain, raining, rian, river, seth, swarmed, ten plagues, triumph, waterabarkley8

The ten plagues were direct attacks against the false gods of Egypt. The following table shows a possible pairing, among many, of plagues and Egyptian gods. However it might have been, it is certain that God was showing that Pharaoh was a false god. Only the LORD is God, and only he is in control of creation, including Egypt.

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SCRIPUTRES OF THE DAY (ACTS 21:26-36)

September 22, 2021Uncategorizedacts, arrested in the temple, ascertain, Asia, Christ, city, cry, Disciples, dragged, ephesian, Faith, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greek, Hebrew, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jew, kill, killed, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, paul, Roamns, Scripture, scripture of the day, scriptures, seven, seven days, temple, Trophimus, trust, turth, vowabarkley8

²⁶Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.

²⁷And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,

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HOW CAN JESUS BE CONSIDERED SINLESS WHEN THE BIBLE DESCRIBES HIS ANGER?

September 22, 2021Uncategorized4, 4 Gospels, anger, angry, campaign, Christ, dramatic, four Gospels, God, God the Son, God's name, jesus, Jesus anger, Jesus Christ, John, motivationg, new testament, Old Testament, power, sustianed, temple, whipabarkley8

All four Gospels describe Jesus clearing the money changers from the temple: none use the term “anger” as part of the description. We infer anger from the facts given and from the passion mentioned in John 2:17.

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WHY DID JESUS LET LAZARUS DIE?

September 22, 2021UncategorizedChrist, dead, death, die later, eternal life, Faith, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Haste, Heaven, heavenly, higher purpose, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus close freinds, Jesus raises Lasarus, John, Lazarus, Lazarus sisters, Maratha, mary, Mary and Martha, Matthew, miraculously, Old Testament, physical death, raised Lazarus, separation, Sin, sinned, sinnerabarkley8

No one knows. Jesus’ reasons for delay are not explained here. We can only surmise that a higher purpose-higher than saving people from physical death-caused Jesus not to go with immediate haste to His friend’s side. That purpose was surely the one that Jesus had come to fulfill: saving people from spiritual death, that is, from eternal separation from His loving heavenly Father.

Though Lazarus was raised miraculously, he did die later. So did Mary and Martha, the disciples, and all of Jesus’ closet friends. Jesus did not come to spare His loved ones the experience of physical death but to show them the path to eternal life.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (CROSS,CRUCIFIXION)

September 22, 2021Uncategorized1 corinthians, 2 Corinthians, 5, acts, bearing, believer, buried, burry, Christ, Christian paradox, cross, crossbeam, crucified, crucifixion, crucifying, dead, death, death of self, definition, definition of the day, definitions, Ephesians, Faith, five times, Galatians, God, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, imagery, imitate Jesus, individual, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus crucifixion, John, life, longer lives, Mark, martyrdom, Matthew, nail, nailed, necessary death, new testament, Old Testament, paul, Paul symbol, purpose, resurrection, Roman practice, Romans, sacrifice, self-denial, symbolabarkley8

THE SYMBOLIC MEANING: Jesus Himself establish established the primary figurative interpretation of the cross as a call to complete surrender to God. He used it five times as a symbol of true discipleship in terms of self-denial, taking up one’s cross, and following Him (Mark 8:34; 10:38; Matt 16:24; Luke 9:23; 14:27). Building on the Roman practice of bearing the crossbeam to the place of execution, Christ intended this to point to the necessary death of self, involving the sacrifice of one’s individuality for the purpose of following Jesus completely; and a willingness to imitate Jesus thoroughly, even to the extent of martyrdom.

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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (TAX COLLECTOR PT2)

September 22, 2021Uncategorizedacts, bible times, chief, chief tax collector, Christ, collector, dramatic, everyday life in bible times, God, God the Father, God the Son, God's House, greed, Jericho, jesus, Jew, Jewish, Jewish leaders, jews, love, Luke, Mark, Matthew, money changers, new testament, Old Testament, prostitutes, Sin, sin-ruined world, sinned, sinner, sinners, sins, tax, tax collector, Tax Collectors, teach, Zacchaeusabarkley8

We also find Jesus using the perceptions linked with tax collectors to jolt the Jewish leaders from their complacency. While he was teaching in the temple courts during the final week of his life on earth, Jesus frequently clashed with the Jewish leaders, who questioned his authority and resisted his invitations to know him as their Savior from sin.

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WHAT IS SPIRIT WAREFARE?

September 20, 2021Uncategorizedbattleground, Christ, devastation, devil, diseas, ecological, evil, forces, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's Kingdom, great number, intensity, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, person, Satan, sickness, soul, spiritual warefare, workabarkley8

It is cosmic conflict between the forces of good and evil. The outcome has been determined, but eh ongoing conflict still includes a great number of victories and defeats. The soul and life of each person is the battleground.

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