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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (2 CORINTHIANS 11:22-33 “SUFFERING FOR CHIRST”)

August 21, 2022Uncategorized1 corinthians, 2 Corinthians, abraham, abundant, Aretas, bless, blessed, Christ, city, countrymen, damascense, day, death, died, Father, fool, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Heathen, Holy Bible, Israelites, jesus, Jesus Christ, journey, King, labours, liar, lie, Matthew, ministers, naked, nakedness, new testament, Old Testament, pain, painfullness, perils, preach, preachers, prisons, shipwreck, sufferedabarkley8

²²Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I

²³Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

²⁴Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

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BIBILE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (BURIAL IN CAVES)

August 16, 2022Uncategorizedabraham, Abraham's wife, bible customs and curiosities, body, books of the Bible, burial, buried, buried in caves, Canaan, cave, caves, Christ, curiosities, customs, dead, decompose, died, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Hebron, Isaiah, jesus, Jesus buried in cave, Jesus Christ, Machpelah, Matthew, natural cave, new testament, Old Testament, Palestine, solid rock, tomb, tombs, wifeabarkley8

This is the first burial recorded in the Bible. Sarah was probably buried soon after she died. In the hot climate of Palestine, a body would quickly begin to decompose.

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WILL GOD ELIMINATE ALL TROUBLE FROM OUR LIVES?

July 27, 2022Uncategorizedabandon, abraham, amok, brink, broke, broken, children, Christ, crisis, cry, David, eliminate, eternity, God, God the Father, God the Son, grace, happiness, heard, Heaven, helper, history, idea, jesus, Jesus Christ, joy, live, lives, love, Man, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, paul, save, strength, theology, troubles, twofolds, victory, womanabarkley8

Some Christians actually preach this idea, and many people become disillusioned when their experience turns painful. The only people who can claim to live trouble-free are those who redefine “trouble” into a word that describes absolutely nothing. Only with this kind of word play (theology run amok) can Christians claim that their life experience is trouble-free.

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ISRAEL AT SINAI

September 17, 2021Uncategorized1 Kings, 2 Kings, abraham, blood, Christ, covenant, creatures, descendants, desert, dominates, earth, foot, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, holy nation, honey, Isaiah, Israel, James, jesus, Jesus Christ, land, Lord, Matthew, midst, milk, Moses, Mount sinai, mountain, new testament, Numbers, Old Testament, Pharaoh, priests, relationship, Sinai, slave, slaves, Ten Commandments, theophany, validatingabarkley8

Exodus 19 describes Israel arriving at Sinai. This chapter is important for understanding the events at Sinai, where Israel spent over two years (Numbers 10:11). God addressed the people as “the house of Jacob. . . the people of Israel . . .” (Exodus 19:3) as a way to remind them that they were the people of the covenant, the descendants of Abraham. What was about to happen at Sinai was not a new covenant with the people but an extension of the covenant God made with Abraham.

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THE ARK IN BATTLE

September 13, 2021Uncategorizedabraham, army, Baal, chief gods, children of Israel, Christ, earth, Exodus, false god, False gods, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, gods, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus in the ark of the covenant, King, land, Lord, Matthew, Moses, narrates, new testament, Old Testament, Pharaoh, power, powerful, promise land, warrirorabarkley8

When God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, Pharaoh and his armies chased them. The Israelites were afraid and complained to God. Moses said to them, “Do not be afraid. . . The LORD will fight for you. . . ” (Exodus 14:13-14).

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WOMEN OF THE BIBLE (SARAH)

September 6, 2021Uncategorizedabraham, abram, Almighty God, angry, belongings, boneheaded, Christ, chuckled, crazy, cry, daughter, Egypt, egyptians, flustered, giggling, God, God Name, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, grandiose, great nation, guffaw, husband, hushed, Jesus Christ, laughter, long-suffering, Lord, Matthew, Men of the Bible, mother, new testament, Old Testament, panic, parents, Pray, prays, Sarah, Sarai, sister, smiling, Son, stricken, supernatural, Visitiors, wagonload, wife, women of the bible, wrinkled, YaHWeHabarkley8

The Bible doesn’t reveal how Sarah (Sarai) reached when she learned that Abram wanted her to be his wife (see Gen 11:29). We’re also not told how she handled the fact that she was barren (see 11:30), though we could probably imagine how devastating this realization was.

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JESUS AND THE PLLLAR

September 6, 2021Uncategorized1 Kings, 2 Kings, abraham, acts, children of Israel, Christ, darkness, Egypt, egyptian, Exodus, fear, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's Power, hearts, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Horeb, Israel, jesus, Jesus and the pillar, Jesus Christ, Mamre, Manifestation, Matthew, Mount sinai, new testament, Old Testament, pillar, pillars, power, resurrected, sealed, setting Numbers, striking, text, theophanany, violent windabarkley8

From the moment the Israelites left Egypt, danger followed them all the way. Between the Egyptian army pursuing them and the dangers in the wilderness, the Israelites were a crowd of scared, tired people. They had seen God’s power in Egypt, but they were walking into the unknown. Seeing the cloud during the day and the column of fire during the night was probably a great comfort. The pillar of cloud and fire functioned as a reminder of God’s guiding and protective care, shown in Exodus 14:19, the pillar interposed between Israel and the pursuing Egyptian army, striking fear into the camp of Egypt and encouraging the Israelites.

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SHAKING JESUS’ FAMILY TREE

August 24, 2021Uncategorized1 samuel, 2 Samuel, aaron, abraham, ancestry, apples, Bathsheba, brother, Christ, cousin, dad, family tree, Father, father-in-law, genealogy, generations, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, Jericho, jesus, Jesus family tree, Jew, Jewish, jews, Joseph, King David, Kings, legal document, Luke, Man, mary, Matthew, Men, Messiah, mom, mother, mother-in-law, nephew, new testament, Old Testament, Rachel, Rahab, revered king, Ruth, sister, Tamar, Uriah, virgin, womenabarkley8

The Jews from Matthew’s day would have disagreed. Tradition-minded Jews kept a record of their ancestors partly because certain rights and responsibilities were inherited. Priests descended from Aaron, the brother of Moses. Kings-and the coming Messiah-would descend from David, Israel’s most revered king.

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SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (CIRCUMCISE PT 1)

May 14, 2021Uncategorizedabraham, Ammon, amputation, bible signs and symbols, blood, circumcise, circumcision, city, clan, community, Deuteronomy, Edom, egyptian, everyday life in bible times, female, female circumcision, flint knife, foreskin, Genesis, household, Israelities, Jacob, jeremiah, Joshua, Leviticus, Lord's statement, male circumcision, male member, Mesopotamian, Moab, new testament, Old Testament, theologians, theological, theologically, theology, Western Semitic, wildernessabarkley8

Male circumcision requires the amputation of the foreskin in order to expose the glans of the penis. The Bible mentions that this procedure was common not only among the Israelites but also in Egypt, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and among “all who live in the wilderness” (Jer 9:25-26); conspicuous by its absence is any mention within Mesopotamian cultures. Consequently, when the Lord spoke with Abraham about circumcision (Gen 17:1-14), any familiarity he had with the procedure probably was gleaned during his Egyptian stay rather than from his experience in his former homeland.

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