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IS GOD BOTH GOOD AND EVIL? (ISAIAH 45:7 EXPLAINED)

July 25, 2022Uncategorized1 King, 1 Kings, 1 samuel, 2 Kings, 2 Samuel, adjective, affliction, Amos, bad, Benjamine, calamity, Christ, condemnation, Deuteronomy, devil, disater, displease, Esther, evil, Exodus, feminine, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Grave, greek, Isaiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew, Matthew Henery commentary, Men, misery, naught, new testament, noisome, noun, Old Testament, pronoun, sorrow, spectrum, verb, vex, wicked, women, wretchednessabarkley8

ISAIAH 45:7 – ⁷I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

FROM THE HEBREW AND GREEK KEY WORD STUDY BIBLE pg 1993

7451. ra’, rah; from 7489; bad or (as noun) evil (natural) or mora): -adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease (-ure), distress, evil (I – favouredness], man, thing), + exceedingly, x great, grief (-vous), misery, naught (-ty), noisome, + not please, sad (-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked (-ly, -ness, one), worse (-st), wretchedness, wrong. [Including feminine, ra’ ‘ah, raw-aw’; as adjective or noun.)

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURISITIES (THE ULTIMATE HONOR)

June 1, 2022Uncategorizedbible customs, bible customs and curiosities, capital, Christ, city, crown, curiosities, customs, Esther, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, haman, head, honor, Horse, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jew, jews, King James Version, king's throne, Matthew, Mordecai, new testament, Old Testament, royal, streets, sweet, sweeter, the ultimate honorabarkley8

This was Haman’s response to the king when he asked how to honor one of his subjects. Haman outlined the highest royal recognition possible because he thought the king intended to honor him.

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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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A LITTLE KNOWN FACT ABOUT MORDECAI

June 24, 2021UncategorizedAmalekite, Christ, citizens, cousin, Egypt, Esther, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, haman, hand, headquartered, Hebrew, holocaust, India, Iran, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jew, Jewish hero, Jewish queen, kin, King, Matthew, minister, Mordecai, new testament, nomadic, Old Testament, Persian Empire, queen, requestabarkley8

Mordecai is a Jewish hero who helped save his race from a holocaust throughout the vast Persian Empire, which stretched from India to Egypt.

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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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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (SLAVE “TO BECOME OR TO BE FREED” PT 1 OF 2)

April 19, 2021bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, christians, 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, OT, study, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 Kings, 1 samuel, 2 Kings, 2 Samuel, abolition, abuse, armies, autonomy, bible times, biblical authors, Deuteronomy, difficult, dirt, energy, Esther, everyday, everyday life in bible times, Exodus, financial, Genesis, hand, invested, Isaiah, Joshua, kidnapping, lacks, Lamentations, Leviticus, life, maiming, nehemiah, owner, ownership, person, property, punishment, quo, sexual, sexual abuse, slave, slavery, social, war, well-beingabarkley8

We may expect that the idea of one person owning another would be strongly censured in the Bible. What we find instead is a general acknowledgment of the existence of slavery, the use of slavery as a metaphor, and a theological trajectory that moved society in the direction of abolition without formally demanding it.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (FASTING)

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, Faith, forgive, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, NIV, Old Testament, Proverbs, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 Kings, 1 Peter, 1 samuel, 1 Timothy, 2 Kings, 2 peter, 2 Samuel, 2 Timothy, beauty, biblical, clearer, clothe, clothes, clothing, definition, definition of the day, definitions, Esther, Exodus, fashioned, Genesis, hectic, Jewelry, Joshua, Judges, lioncloths, Matthew, prevail, priest, revelation, righteous, robe, style, styles, stylist, technical, tunic, wardrobe, wear, worn, Zechariahabarkley8

The practice of using clothing to make a statement regarding one’s status or position in society was just as prevalent in the biblical world as it is today. However, clothing styles did not change as rapidly in antiquity and so the effort to remain stylish was less hectic.

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THE TIME BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS

September 29, 20201 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, 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, Uncategorized60 titles, Anglican Churches, antiquity, Apocrypha, apocrypha pseudepigrapha, Aramaic, Bible, books, catholic, catholic traditions, Dead Sea Scrolls, Enoch, Esther, Ezra, false, false inscription, false titles, group, groups, inscription, Jewish, judaism, judgment, life, Moses, name, names, new testament, Noah, notable person, Old Testament, organization, orthodox, pseudepigrapha, rabbinic, Religion, Roman Catholic, school, schools, temple, time, traditions, world, worship, writersabarkley8

Most of the writers of the NT grew up in the world of “second Temple Judaism,” the time between the temple’s reconstruction (516 B.C.) and its final destruction (A.D. 70). This period introduced changes into the political structure, culture, and religion of the OT world.

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SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (XERXES THE GREAT “and Other Significant Rulers”)

September 1, 20202 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, jeremiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lamentation, Lamentations, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, preach, prophet, Proverbs, rocks, sunday, the church, Uncategorizedabused, actions, anti-Semitic, babylonians, baptist, bethlehem, Bible, bible signs and symbols, birth, birth of Jesus, book, Christ, christians, Cyrus, Daniel, daughters, empire, Esther, Ezra, fox, haman, help, Herod Antipas, Herod the Great, historical, Holy Bible, Isaiah, Isaiah 44:28, Isaiah 45:1, Israel, jeremiah, Jerusalem, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jew, jews, John 18-19, judgment, King Nebuchadnezzar, Luke, Luke 13:31, Luke 23, Mariamne, Mark, Mark 15, Mark 6:21-29, Matthew 14:6-12, Matthew 27, mercy, murder, murdered, Nebuchadnezzar, neo-babylonian, Palestine, Persia, Pontius Pilate, religious groups, roman, Romans, rule, rulers, signigicant, signs and symbols, slaughter, sons, spirit, spiritual, symbolic, Symbolically, symbolizes, symbolizing, Symbols, temple, the Great, wrath, Xerxes, Xerxes the Greatabarkley8

The Bible is a historical book as well as a spiritual one. As such, it contains many important historical leaders and describes their impact on the nation of Israel. These people are not often used as symbols in the Bibles, but their influence on the history of God’s people carries symbolic importance because of the particular interactions they had. The Jews look back on these leaders as people who operated under the sovereign will of God either to help them as an instrument of mercy or to test and punish them as an executor of his just wrath.

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SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (CLOTHING)

June 8, 2020bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, Forgivness, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lamentation, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 corinthians, 1 samuel, 2 Corinthians, 2 Samuel, Adam, Adam and Eve, Bible, bible signs and symbols, bible studies, bible study, bless, blessing, cloth, clothed, clothes, clothing and spiritual state, Deuteronomy, Endor, Esther, Eve, Exodus, Ezekiel, Fall, fallen, garment, garments, Genesis, Gibeon, grief, Isaiah, John, Joshua, Leviticus, Luke, Mark, Matthew, mourning, new testament, Old Testament, Psalm, purple, records, revelation, robe, robes, Romans, royal, Signs, signs and symbols, slavation, spirit, spiritural, study, Symbols, tear, violence, worn-outabarkley8

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Garments are used as biblical symbols in almost as many ways as there are styles of clothing. Clothes are used as expression of socioeconomics status, spiritual well-being, and emotional state. They can protect, conceal, or display an inner reality of the wearer. They can last for a long time or wear out quickly (Neh 9:21; Matt 6:19). They can consist of leaves (Gen 3:7), animal skin (Gen 3:21; Matt 3:4), rags (Isa 64:6), pure white linen (Dan 7:9; Rev 19:14), or anything in between. They can be literal or figurative. Yet despite al this variety, the use of clothing as a symbol falls into a few set patterns that yield a wealth of insight. Continue reading SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (CLOTHING) →

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