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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (JONAH 4:1-11)

September 18, 2022Uncategorized1000, angry, cattle, Christ, city, country, dead, death, died, east wind, Father, fish, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, gourd, great city, great fish, hand, Holy Father, jesus, Jesus Christ, jonah, Lord, mad, Man, Matthew, moon, new testament, nineveh, north wind, Old Testament, rose, south wind, sun, thousand, west wind, whaleabarkley8

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

²And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

³Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (MARK 10:35-43)

September 16, 2022Uncategorizedbaptized, batism, Christ, drink, fish, glory, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Greatness is Serving, jesus, John, Mark, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, right hand, sons, teacher, Zebedeeabarkley8

³⁵And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire.

³⁶And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you?

³⁷They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (JONAH 1:1-17)

June 1, 2022UncategorizedAfraid, Amittai, belly of fish, cast lots, Christ, fish, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, great, great fish, Hebrew, jesus, Jesus Christ, jonah, Joppa, Lord, Lot, Matthew, new testament, nineveh, Old Testament, Pray, prayed, presence, Scripture, scritpure of the day, scritpures, sea, sea monster, sleep, sleeping, slept, Tarshiah, tempestuous, thrown into the sea, vowabarkley8

1.Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

²Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

³But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

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JONAH (AN ERRAND OF MERCY TO NINEVEH)

June 1, 2022Uncategorized605 bc, 900bc, allegory, Christ, fish, Gath Hepher, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's purpose, God's Spirit, great fish, Historical book, jesus, Jesus Christ, jonah, judgment, Luke, Matthew, message, new testament, Old Testament, reign, sea creature, sea monster, sign, solomonabarkley8

Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian Empire, which dominated the Ancient Near East for about 300 years (900 -605 B.C.). It began its rise to world power about the time of the division of the Hebrew kingdom, at the close of Solomon’s reign. It gradually absorbed and destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (DEAD SEA)

August 20, 2021Uncategorized1, 10 miles wide, 10 to 15 feet deep, 1300 feet deep, 24 hours, 50 miles long, aridity, below sea level, bible definition, biblical, biblical definition, biblical writers, body of water, border, can't sink, Canaan, Christ, Dead Sea, Dead Sea Scrolls, definition, definition of the day, definitions, Eastern Sea, empty, english, evaporation, fifty miles long, fish, geographical, God, God the Father, God the Son, heat, high salt content, Inland lake, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jordan River, Jordan Valley, land, law of God, less salty pools, location, locations, marine life, Matthew, new testament, one thousand and three hundred feet deep, salt sea, salty pools, Sea of the Plain, shallow, six million tons of water, southeastern, ten miles wide, ten to fifteen feet deep, vegetation, water, writersabarkley8

Inland lake at the end of the Jordan Valley on the southeastern border of Canaan with no outlets for water it receives; known as Salt Sea, Sea of the Plain, and Eastern Sea. Its current English name was applied to it through writings after A.D. 100. It is about 50 miles long and 10 miles wide at its widest point. The surface of the sea is 1,292 feet below the level of the Mediterranean Sea. At its deepest point the lake is 1,300 feet deep. At its most shallow, it is only 10 to 15 feet deep.

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THE PROPHECY THAT DOESN’T COME TRUE

August 10, 2021Uncategorized120000 citizens, 40 day's, belly, big fish, boat, Christ, doom, fish, forty days, God, God's People, great fish, great strom, Jesus Christ, jonah, Jonah 3:4, Jonah hides, kill nineveh's, loogie, Matthew, message, new testament, oberboard, obeys, Old Testament, opposite, prophecy, prophet, rebellion, rock, sails, storm, windabarkley8

There’s only one sentence of prophecy in this book. And it turns out wrong: “Forty days from now Nineveh will be destroyed!” (Jonah 3:4).

Never happened.

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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE BIBLE (SEINE NET FISHING)

August 10, 2021UncategorizedAlphaeus, boat, Christ, eight feet, fish, fishers of men, fishing, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, James, jesus, Jesus Christ, John, Judas, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, peter, Philip Bartholomew, seine net fishing, simon, Thaddeus, triangular, Zebedeeabarkley8

The seine net was about eight feet (three meters) broad and hundreds of feet long. It was suspended in the water like a net fence, kept afloat by corks, and weighted down with stone weights to keep it vertical. Either a single boat would make a huge circle with the net, or two boats would suspends the net between them and make a sweep toward the shore. When the net was in a tight circle, It was possible to pull in the lower rope so that the net formed a huge bag from which the fish could not escape.

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (LUKE 11:5-13)

June 26, 2021UncategorizedAsk, bread, Christ, egg, evil, Father, fish, friend comes at midnight, gifts, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, heavenly, Holy Spirit, jesus, Jesus Christ, journey, keep asking, knock, knocking, lend, loaves, Luke, Matthew, need, new testament, Old Testament, open, opened, rise, scorpion, seeking, shut, stone, theologians, theological, theologically, theologyabarkley8

⁵And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;

⁶For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?

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MEN OF THE BIBLE (JONAH “RUNNING FROM GOD”)

May 31, 2021Uncategorized3 days, 3 nights, 40 day's, 40 nights, Assyria, big fish, boat, cast lots, cease, common practice, creature, crewman, crewmen, dire, disaster, dressed, enemy, fish, giant fish, God the Father, God the Holy Ghost, God the Son, God's wrath, great big fish, great fish, inkling, Israel, jonah, Lord, lots, Men of the Bible, new testament, nineveh, Old Testament, open sea, overboard, preach, prophetic, running, sackcloth, sailor, sailors, storm, Tarshish, theologians, theological, theology, threatened, vessel, wale, warning, weather, woman of the bible, wrathabarkley8

Jonah stands alone among the prophets of the Old Testament. Certainly he was the only one (that we know of) to spend three days in the digestive tract of a fish. In the bigger picture, though, he was the only one (that we know of) to flatly refuse an assignment from God.

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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (TRAP/SNARE PT 3 OF 3)

May 13, 2021Uncategorizedanimals, arrogant, bid, cords, cruel, death, ecclesiastes, eternal fire, everyday life in bible times, Ezekiel, Fall, fish, harsh, Isaiah, jeremiah, last day, life, live, Luke, misfortune, path, Promised land, Psalm, ruin, snare, snares of death, trap, trapsabarkley8

Times of misfortune are also likened to the unexpected and inescapable nature of a trap: “Makeover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them” (Eccles 9:12). These harsh times could be the product of their own making, as in the case of the exile of God’s people from the Promised Land that entrapped them (Isa 42:22; Lam 4:20; Ezek 19:8).

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