Monthly Archives: March 2022

NAMES OF GOD (JEHOVAH)

March 30, 2022UncategorizedGod, Jehoavah, Jehoavah witnesses, Jesus Christ, names of God, new testament, Old Testamentabarkley8

Exodus 6:3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.

With these words, the Lord reassured Moses that He would stand with him and give him the strength and power to lead the Israelites out of Egyptian slavery. He had already given Moses this promise at the burning bush (see Exodus 3:2,12), but Moses needed encouragement after Pharaoh rejected his first requested to release the Israelites.

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (MATTHEW 10:26-28 “HAVE NO FEAR”)

March 28, 2022UncategorizedChrist, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, scriture of the dayabarkley8

²⁶Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

²⁷What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (FINDING JOY IN THE LORD)

March 28, 2022Uncategorizedanimal, animal skin, bible customs and curiosities, Christ, curiosities, customs, finding joy in the LORD, fire, fires, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, happiness, happy, jesus, Jesus Christ, joy, Lord, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, Psalm, skin, skinsabarkley8

In Bible times wine and other liquids were stored in containers made of animal skins (read Matthew 9:17). These skins would eventually become brittle and develop cracks, particularly when exposed to the smoke given off by fires that burned in the tents and primitive houses of that time.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (SIGNET)

March 28, 2022UncategorizedChrist, definition, definition of the day, definitions, document, ephod, Esther, Exodus, gem, gems, Genesis, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, HCSB, jesus, Jesus Christ, Joseph, King Darius, Matthew, Mordecai, new testament, Old Testament, priest, rich, signature, signet, YaHWeH, Zerubbabelabarkley8

Usually a ring with a seal carefully crafted upon it that an important or rich person used to authenticate a document. It was used much like a signature on a document today. The ring of kings would carry the highest authority in a land and empowered subordinates to act for the king. Examples of such rings in the Bible are: Pharaoh’s ring given to Joseph (Gen 41:42); Ahasuerus’s ring given to Haman and then to Mordecai after Haman was hanged (Esther 3:10,12; 8:2); King Darius’s sealing the den of lions after Daniel was thrown into it (Dan 6:17).

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FAITHFUL FRIDAY

March 25, 2022Uncategorized1 corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Christ, Faith, Faithful, faithful Friday, God, God of all comfort, God the Father, God the Son, jesus, Jesus Christ, new testament, Old Testamentabarkley8

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (2CORINTHIANS 1:3-8 “GOD OF ALL COMFORT”)

March 24, 2022Uncategorized1 corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Christ, God, God of comfort, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, scripture of the dayabarkley8

³Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

⁴Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

⁵For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (A BETTER REFLECTION)

March 24, 2022Uncategorizedbible customs and curiosities, Christ, curiosities, customs, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, jesus, Matthew, mirror, mirrors, new testament, Old Testament, reflectionsabarkley8

The New International Version renders the phrase “now we see through a glass, darkly” as “now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror.” Paul referred to mirrors of Bibles times that were made of highly polished metal (read Exodus 38:8).

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WOMEN OF THE BIBLE (MARY MAGDALENE “CLINGING TO CHIRST”)

March 24, 2022UncategorizedChrist, clinging to christ, demon possessed, devoted, died, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus death, John, Luke, male followers, Mark, Mary Magdalene, Matthew, Old Testament, prostitiute, women of the bible, womenJudasabarkley8

When discussing the most devoted followers of Jesus’ the New Testament writers say far less about three of the apostles-Barholomew; James, son of Alphaeus; and Thaddaeus (likely the nickname for Judas, the son of James)-than they say about Mary Magdalene.

She was from Magdala, a small town in Galilee in northern Israel, And since Mary was such a popular name in the New Testament, people took to calling this particular Mary by her hometown.

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