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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (DISTURBANCE AT THE THEATER)

July 27, 2022Uncategorized25, 25000, amphitheaters, ancient, archaeologists, Aristarchus, athens, bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, built, Christ, city, Companion, corinth, curiosities, customs, Demetrius, Gaius, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew, new testament, paul, Pergamos, Philippi, roman, row, seats, stadium, theater, warabarkley8

The riot inspired by Demetrius spilled over into the entire city. The people gathered at the amphitheater to join in the demonstration.

The Roman theater at Ephesus has been unearthed by archaeologists. Built similar to a modern stadium, it had row upon row of tiered seats built of stone. It could seat about twenty-five thousand people.

The Roman theater in ancient Ephesus. The citizens of this city rioted when Paul confronted them with God’s Word.

Huge amphitheaters like this were built by the Greeks and Roman throughout the ancient world. Others have been discovered at Athens, Corinth, Miletus, Pergamos, and Philippi.

ACTS 19:29 – ²⁹And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.

THE WILDERNESS

September 1, 2021Uncategorizedancient, barrenness, chaos, darkness, death, died, dry desert, east, generations, God, God promised, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, grace, grateful, harmony, Heart, holy nation, hot, Israel, jesus, Jesus Christ, journey, light, mercy, negative, new testament, Noah, Noah's ark, Old Testament, order, poewerful, positive, possession, sirocco, slaves, summer, the wilderness, vegetation, wilderness, worshipabarkley8

The wilderness played an important role, affecting life in ancient Israel in several different ways. For instance, every year, at the beginning and end of summer, a hot, dry desert wind blows from the east. This wind, called sirocco, raises the temperature and can be quite destructive to vegetation. The wind was yearly reminder to Israel that the wilderness was within reach.

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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (SACRED STONE “TO SET UP OR TO DESTROY” PT2)

August 20, 2021Uncategorized7, 9, ancient, carved, Christ, deity, devil, everyday life in bible times, evil, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Jesus Christ, landscape, masseba, Matthew, Near Eastern culture, nine, physical location, Promised land, sacred stone, sacred stones, Satan, scholars, shorter stones, south, stone, survive, tall stones, taller stones, west, worshipersabarkley8

Most often, however, it appears that a masseba was set up as a sacred stone. In this case, the unnaturally placed stone or series of stones provided worshipers with a physical location at which to meet their deity. To this day, surviving sacred stones break the natural contours of the landscape, inviting us to come in for a closer look.

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HOW IS A PERSON “CUT OFF” FROM HIS PEOPLE?

August 17, 2021UncategorizedAchan, age, ancient, banishement, Christ, covenant, cut off, equally, etc, Europes, fedualism, gender, God, God the Father, God the Son, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew, new testament, Numbers, Old Testament, quiet, race, sex, sinned, sinner, stubbornness, whiteabarkley8

By banishment, which in the ancient world was the social equivalent of execution (also an option). Today, our identity and sense of self are radically individualistic. We believe that each individual has rights that a just society will distribute equally; that is, without respect to differences of race, age, or matters of conscience such as religious preference. These ideas find their origin in Europe’s emergence from feudalism and in the democratic revolutions of the eighteenth century.

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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (TEAR A GARMENT PT 1 OF 2)

April 22, 2021bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, christians, Church, curiosities, customs, death, evil, Faith, forgive, Forgivness, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, Judah, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, OT, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 Kings, 1 samuel, 2 Kings, 2 Samuel, accident, ancient, assyrian, culture, dead, death, died, dressers, ecclesiastes, Esther, everyday life in bible times, Exodus, Ezra, failure, garment, Genesis, grief, Hezekiah, intense, Jerusalem, Job, Joshua, King, King Hezekiah, loss of position, Mark, Matthew, mourning, national, Near East, people, personal level, raising children, rip, ripped, risk, ritual, siege, tearing, torn, torn garmentabarkley8

If we tear our clothing, it is generally by accident unless we are tearing up an old garment for rags. This was not true in the culture of Bible times where the tearing of one’s garment was an external sign of one’s internal pain. The average person of the era did not have multiple changes of clothing like we do in our closets and dressers; consequently, they took great care to prevent accident tearing of their clothing (Exod 28:32; Matt 9:16; Mark 2:21). But there was “a time to tear and a time to mend” (Eccles 3:7); the time to intentionally tear was a time of intense grief that might have included repentance.

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WOMEN OF THE BIBLE (HANNAH “THE MOM WHO LET GO”)

April 16, 2021bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, harvest, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, preaching, primitive, prophet, Proverbs, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 samuel, 2 Samuel, 5, adviser, ancient, child, children, country, eli, Elkanah, Ephraim, fertility, firstborn, God has heard, great prophet, Hannah, Israel's kings, Jew, Jewish, kid, kids, Lord, love, man of the bible, Men of the Bible, nazirite, Peninnah, Pray, praying, Ramathaim, Ramathaim-zophim, sister, sister wife, sob, sobs, sons, spiritual, swore, town, vow, wife, woman of the bible, women of the bible, zophimabarkley8

In the Old Testament book of 1 Samuel, we meet a woman named Hannah. She was married in a man named Elkanah, of the tribe of Ephraim. They lived in the hill country, in a little town with a big name-Ramathaim-zophim.

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HOW DID THE SPIRIT OF GOD “COME UPON” ANCIENT LEADERS?

April 8, 2021bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, Faith, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, preaching, prophet, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, acts, ancient, Asa, Azariah, divine, empowers, fills, God, help, King Asa, kingdom, leaders, mechanics, Oded, pagan, pagan kingdom, purpose, special sense, spirit, spirit of God, unclear, word, worshipabarkley8

The mechanics are unclear, as always, but the result was a special sense of divine help and presence that enabled the leader to do God’s will. In very few places in the Bible is the coming of the Holy Spirit described in any detail (Acts 2), but the spirit descends, fills, and empowers according to God’s will and purpose.

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (HAIRLESS MOABITES)

April 8, 2021bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, death, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, preach, preaching, primitive, prophet, Proverbs, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorizedancient, bajith, bald, baldness, beard, cut, cutting beard, dibon, distress, Ezra, hair, hairless, hairless moabites, humilitae, husband, Husbands, Isaiah, Israelites, Lord, married, medeba, misery, Moab, Moabites, mourning, nations, Nebo, pagan, pagan wives, people, shaved, sign, symbolized, wife, wives, worldabarkley8

Chapter 15 and 16 of Isaiah contain the prophet’s declaration of God’s judgment against the Moabites, enemies of the Israelites. The Lord would humiliate these people. Isaiah declared, by making them bald and cutting off their beards.

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DEFINITON OF THE DAY (SCHOOL)

March 16, 20211 corinthians, 2 Corinthians, bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, forgive, Forgivness, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, preach, preaching, primitive, prophet, Proverbs, rise, risen, rock, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorizedacts, ancient, Babylon, children, definition, definition of the day, definitions, exiles, Father, greek, Jewish, judea, Kochab, Maccabees, mother, OT, pharisees, Religion, religious, Sabbath, school, shetah, Synagogue, worshipabarkley8

Place and agency for education, particularly of children. The word “school” is not mentioned in the OT and only once in the NT where the reference is to a Greek school (Acts 19:9). Until the exile in Babylon (586 B.C.), the education of children was like the of all ancient peoples: it was centered in the home. The main concern of the Jewish people was for religious education in the home.

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BIBLE CUSTOMS & CURIOSITIES (IDOLS IN THE TEMPLS)

March 1, 20211 corinthians, 2 Corinthians, bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, death, Faith, forgive, Forgivness, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, preach, preaching, primitive, prophet, rock, rocks, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorizedadopted, ancient, beasts, bible customs and curiosities, clean, creeping, decorated, eat, Exodus, Ezekiel, God, God's Judgment, gods, guilty, house of Israel, idol, idols, Jerusalem, Jewish, Leviticus, naitons, NIV, pagan, pagan gods, pagan temples, paint, painting, prophet, raw, sculptures, temple, temples, Ten Commandments, unclean, walls, worldabarkley8

In a vision the prophet Ezekiel saw the temple of the Jewish people in Jerusalem. He was shocked to see on its walls paintings or sculptures of unclean animals that God’s people were not supposed to eat (Leviticus 11:1-19).

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