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DEMONS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

August 16, 2021Uncategorized1 Chronicles, 1 Kings, 2 Chronicles, 2 Kings, art, biblical, Christ, CSB, demon, demons, false god, False gods, goat idols, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greek, Hebrew, hero, ibex, Illness, jesus, Jesus Christ, judaism, KJV, Late Babylonian, Leviticus, Matthew, Mesopotamian, native, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, OT, Psalm, sair, shed, spirit, Sumerians, wild goat, YaHWeHabarkley8

Little is known about the Israelite view of malevolent spirits, popularly called “demons” in contemporary usage. In contemporary usage. In addition to the Hebrew word shed, translate “false gods” in Ps 106:37, the OT has a Hebrew word sair, translated in the NIV as “goat idols” (Lev 17:7: 2 Chron 11:15: see the NIV text note on Lev 17:7). Some suggest that the use of sair also refers to demons in Isa 13:21; 34:14 (NIV “wild goats). This Hebrew word refers to an actual goat in Gen 37:31 and frequently in texts prescribing a goat for sacrifice (e.g., Lev 4:23; Nu 7:16).

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IS IT ALL RIGHT TO ASK GOD TO “SPEED IT UP”?

April 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, Proverbs, rise, risen, rock, rocks, stones, sunday, the church, Uncategorizedart, ask God, assistance, attitudes, coincide, crisis, deliver, deliverance, emotions, encourages, feelings, Haste, Holy Bible, human, hurt, intergrity, moods, O LORD, pain, poor, Psalm, showy, signal, speed, tarrying, true Godabarkley8

The request that God speed His intervention is not a complaint about slowness so much as a free expression of the writer’s acute sense of need. Everywhere the Bible encourages believers to speak openly with God about feelings, moods, and attitudes. The God of the Bible is not like

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BIBLE CUSTOMS & CURIOSITIES (HELPLESS PAGAN GODS)

February 23, 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, 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, the church, theology, Uncategorizedall-powerful, art, arts, assyrian, babylonians, beast, bel, boweth, burden, city, city of babylon, devil, evil, helpless pagan gods, Horses, idol, idols, Isaiah, jeremiah, King Nebuchadnezzar, KJV, marduk, Merodach, Nebo, NIV, other gods, oxen, pagan god, power, powerful, Satan, science, weak, wisdom, worship, YaHWeHabarkley8

One of Isaiah’s favorite themes was that the pagan gods of his time were powerless, while Yahweh, the supreme God of the Israelites, was all-powerful. Here the prophet portrayed two gods of the Assyrians and Babylonians as so weak and helpless that they had to be carried around by oxen and horses.

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SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (5)

August 30, 2018Uncategorized5, art, beauty, Benjamin, Bible, brothers, Exodus, fairness, five, Genesis, God, gold, Holy Spirit, Isaiah, Israelites, Jesus Christ, Kings, Levites, Matthew, new testament, number, Numbers, Old Testament, Signs, signs and symbols, silver, standard, Symbols, symmetryabarkley8

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The number five, with its immediate connection to the fingers of one hand, often represents a small amount in the Bible. The idea expressed in modern terms is “just a handful.” When faced with the hunger of five thousand, all Jesus’ disciples could come up with was a child’s lunch of five loaves and two fish (John 6:9). Yet Jesus had no problem multiplying that small gift into abundance for the meal. Isaiah mentions five Egyptian cities that will be unusual as a foreign remnant from that land and that will “swear

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