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TRUSTING IN GOD’S PLAN WITH JESUS CHRIST

April 21, 2023Uncategorizedbooks of the Bible, Christ, christian faith, cross, Daniel, dead, death, deeper, ecclesiastes, Ezekiel, Father's plan, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, Isaiah, jeremiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, John, King James Holy Bible, Lementations, new testament, Old Testament, personal sacrifice, Proverbs, songs of solomon, sovereign God, trusting in Godabarkley8

Trusting in God’s plan is a fundamental aspect of Christian faith. As followers of Jesus Christ, we are called to trust in God’s sovereignty and his perfect plan for our lives. In this article, we will explore how Jesus Christ’s life and teachings illustrate the importance of trusting in God’s plan.

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (EZEKIEL 1:1-21)

September 22, 2022Uncategorized2 wings, animal, animals, beryl, bodie, bodies, burnished brass, Buzi, captivity, Chaldeans, Chebar, Christ, colour, creatures, dreadful, Eagle, earth, Ezekiel, fire, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, Jehoiachin, jesus, Jesus Christ, lamp, lamps, land, lion, live, living, living creatures, Lord, Man, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, ox, oxyn, rings, rivers, son of Buzi, spirit, two wings, visons of God, wheel, wheels, wings, woman, womenabarkley8

1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

²In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (MUTENESS)

September 18, 2022Uncategorizedacts, bark, Christ, Daniel, definition, definition of the day, definitions, dogs, Exodus, Ezekiel, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, heavenly, Holy Bible, Isaiah, Israel, jesus, Jesus Christ, leaders, Matthew, mute, new testament, Old Testament, Psalm, sign, Signs, speech, speechless, suffer, suffering, symbol, Zechariahabarkley8

Inability to speak. In the OT muteness is traced to God (Exod 4:11). God made Ezekiel mute (Ezek 3:26) in response to Israel’s failure to listen to his message. Later He restored Ezekiel’s speech (24:27; 33:22) as a sign of the people’s receptiveness to hear. Daniel became speechless in response to the appearance of a heavenly messenger (Dan 10:15).

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (A MAN WITH AN INKHORN)

August 21, 2022Uncategorized6 men, Babylonian army, Bible, bible customs and curiosities, curiosities, customs, Ezekiel, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, ink, inkhorn, jeremiah, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, judgment, kit, lampblack, new testament, Old Testament, six men, sootabarkley8

In Ezekiel’s vision, he saw six men from the north arrive in Jerusalem. They probably represented the Babylonian army, whom God had appointed as His instrument of judgement against His people because of their sin and idolatry.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (DARKNESS)

July 20, 2022Uncategorized1 Thessalonians, 2 John, 2 peter, 2 Thessalonians, Angels, Christ, crucifixion, Daniel, dark, definition of the day, definitions, Deuteronomy, disobedient, Ephesians, Ezekiel, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, human, Isaiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, Job, Jude, light, lighting, Lord, Luke, new testament, Old Testament, OT, Proverbs, Psalm, Romansabarkley8

Absence of lights is used in both physical and figurative senses in both the OT and NT. The darkness that covered the deep before God’s creation of light symbolizes chaos in opposition to God’s orderly creations (Gen 1:2-3). Elsewhere darkness, as well as light, is recognized as the creation of God (Isa 45:7). Darkness is a place where “workers of iniquity may hide” (Job 34:22 NASB); however, darkness does not hide one from God (Psa 139:11-12; Dan 2:22).

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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS IN THE BIBLE (ANGELS UNAWEAR)

April 27, 2022Uncategorized1 Peter, 2 John, 2 peter, 3 John, Angels, angels unaware, Christ, Ezekiel, Gaalatians, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Hebrews, hospitality, jeremiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, jews, love, manners and customs, Old Testament, philoxeniah, Zephaniahabarkley8

The Jews believed that God sometimes sent angels in disguise to test whether people were obeying the law of hospitality. They knew that this had happened to Abraham (Genesis 18:2-13) and to Gideon (Judges 6:17-22), and they believed therefore that the same thing might happen to them (Hebrews 13:2). This style of thinking gave rise to problems as well as opened the way for revelation. Many Jews thought that if they were in the house of God then they would be under God’s protection, and as a result tended to be careless in their daily living (Jeremiah 7:14). They did not realize that the glory of God had departed from the Temple and that it was no longer, therefore, the house of God (Ezekiel 11:23).

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (A KING IN A STABLE)

April 27, 2022Uncategorizedbaby, bible customs and curiosities, bible times, bibles, custom, Ezekiel, Ezekiel 16:4, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Jesus Christ, Joseph, King, King in a Stable, Kings, Luke, manger, mary, new testament, newborn, no room, Old Testament, primitive shelters, rock shelters, shelters, Stable, travelers, utensilsabarkley8

After His birth in a stable in Bethlehem, the baby Jesus was placed in a manger, a feeding trough for livestock. This manger may have been hewed out of rock. Stone mangers about tree feet long, eighteen inches wide, and two feet deep have been discovered in the ruins of King Ahab’s stables at the ancient city of Megiddo.

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SHEPHERD IMAGERY IN THE BIBLE

September 17, 2021Uncategorized1 Peter, 2 peter, 3 John, acts, bad leader, care for sheep, Chief Shepherd, Christ, compassion, Disciples, Ezekiel, flock, foreign, Genesis, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God's people, Good shepherd, imagery, Isaiah, jesus, Jesus Actions, Jesus Christ, John, Mark, Matthew, Messiah, new testament, Old Testament, parables, prophets, Psalm, revelation, sacrifice, shepherd, shepherds, shepherds duties, Zechariahabarkley8

OLD TESTAMENT

God is the Shepherd (Gen 49:24; Ps 23; 80:1).
God’s appointed leaders are undershepherds (Ezek 34).
Many people in the Old Testament were shepherds by trade, like Abel, Abraham, Isaac, Rachel, Jacob, Moses, and David.
Foreign leaders were sometimes called shepherds when their leadership impacted God’s people (Isa 44:28).
The prophets depicted the distress of Israel without leadership or bad leader in terms of a flock without a shepherd (Ezek 34:1-10; Zech 10:2; 13:7).
The prophets used shepherds imagery to point to the Messiah to come (Ezek 34:22-24; 37:24; Isa 40:11; Zech 13:7; see also Matt 26:31; Mark 14:27).

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (HUNT/HUNTER)

September 13, 2021Uncategorized1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Ancient egyptians, arrows, Ashurbanipal, blood, bow, bow and arrows, Christ, civilization, David, definition of the day, Deuteronomy, driving, egyptians, Esau, Ezekiel, food, food sources, gazelle, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, hunt, hunter, hunters, Isaiah, Ishmael, Israelite ancestors, jeremiah, Jesus Christ, Job, josephus, Judah, Kings of Israel, Leviticus, lion, magic, magical, Matthew, methods of hunting, Mosaic law, NASB, new testament, Nimrod, NIV, Old Testament, Pastorals, Phoenicians, Proverbs, REB, Saul, seminmadic stageabarkley8

To pursue game for food or pleasure. Hunting was an important supplementary food source, especially in the seminomadic stage of civilization. Genesis mentions several hunters by name, none of whom are Israelite ancestors (Nimrod, 10:9; Ishmael 21:20; Esau, 25:27), perhaps suggesting that hunting was more characteristic of Israel’s neighbors than of Israel. Hunting was, however, regulated by Mosaic law. The blood of captured game was to be poured out on the ground (Lev 17:13). Deuteronomy 14:3-5 outlines what game was permitted as ritually clean food.

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THE ALTAR OF INCENSE

August 30, 2021Uncategorized1 john, 1 samuel, 2 John, 2 Samuel, 3 John, blood, bread, burn, burned, burning, Christ, Christ death, day of Atonement, Deuteronomy, Ezekiel, glory, glroy, God, God is God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's People, gold lamps, golden lamps, high priest, holy place, Holy Spirit, incense, jesus, Jesus Christ, John, lamp, Leviticus, Matthew, most holy place, new testament, Numbers, Old Testament, people, Pleased, Pray, prayer, prayers, presence, Psalm, revelation, Romans, sacrifice, symbol, symbolic, tabernacleabarkley8

Any priest could offer incense accompanied by some of the grain offering on the altar of incense. It is possible that priests offered incense by itself, although there are no clear indications for this practice (Leviticus 10:1-3; Numbers 16:16-18; Deuteronomy 33:10; 1 Samuel 2:28; Ezekiel 8:10-11).

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