Monthly Archives: October 2024

EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (PHARISEE PT1)

10/31/2024UncategorizedGod, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, habits, Jesus Christ, leaders, leadr, meeting, new testament, Old Testament, phariseesabarkley8

The Pharisees became a recognizable group on the landscape of Jewish culture in the second century BC, making their presence felt throughout the New Testament era. The Pharisees were a highly identifiable group during the time of Jesus given their distinguished leaders, distinctive habits of living, and regular meeting. A person became a Pharisee not by family heritage as did the clergy of Israel or by being born into a wealthy, aristocratic family like the Sadducees but by pledging to lead a pure life that conformed to the many rules of the

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (JOY PT1)

10/31/2024UncategorizedChrist, english, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, greek, Hebrew, jesus, Jesus Christ, joy, joyful, Matthew, Old Testament, rejoiceabarkley8

State of delight and well-being that results from knowing and serving God. A number of Greek and Hebrew words are used to convey the ideas of joy and rejoicing. We have the same situation in English with such nearly synonymous words as joy, happiness, pleasure, delight, gladness, merriment, felicity, and enjoyment. The words “joy” and “rejoice” are the words used most often to translate the Hebrew and Greek words into English. Joy is found over 150 times in the Bible. If such words as “joyous” and “Joyful” are included, the number comes to over 200. The verb “rejoice” appears well over 200 times.

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (PROVERBS 1:1-33)

10/31/2024Uncategorizedchild, children, Christ, counsels, David, fear, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, grace, jesus, Jesus Christ, King, Lord, Matthew, new testament, Proverbs, Sin, sinned, wisdomabarkley8

1.The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

²To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

³To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

⁴To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

⁵A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (SPIRITS IN PRISON)

10/28/2024Uncategorized1 Peter, 2 peter, definion, definition of the day, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Matthew, prison, spirits in prisionabarkley8

In 1 Pet 3:19 the text says Christ “went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison” (HCSB). Peter further says that they “in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah.” Several interpretations have been offered concerning these curious words.

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (PSALMS 34:18-22)

10/28/2024UncategorizedChrist, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthewabarkley8

¹⁸The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (WASHING CLOTHES PT2)

10/28/2024UncategorizedChrist, clothen, everyday bible times, God, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Jesus Christ, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, wash, washing clothesabarkley8

(Exod 19:10, 14). The law they received from the Lord gave very specific instances when the Israelites were to wash their clothing as part of purification riturals-from touching the carcass of a clean animal that had died to touching something a person had touched who was having a natural discharge (Lev 11:25, 28, 40; 13:6, 34, 54-58; 14:8-9, 47; 15:5-6, 8, 10-11, 21-22; 17:15-16). The clergy and their assistants were to wash their clothing in connection with specific duties they performed (Lev 6:27; 16;26,28; Num 8:7, 21; 19:7-8, 10, 19,21). Again, because the washing of one’s clothing was done less frequently, the direction to do so was more arresting for those living in that era.

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