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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (FAST PT 1 OF 3)

April 5, 2021bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, Dinner, easter, eat, flour, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, harvest, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lamentation, Lamentations, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, preach, preaching, primitive, prophet, Proverbs, rise, risen, rock, rocks, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 Chronicles, 1 samuel, 2 Chronicles, 2 Samuel, bible times, bodies, body, Daniel, David, day of Atonement, daylight, eight hours, enegry, everyday life in bible times, excerise, Exodus, fast, fasting, food, forty, four hours, glucose, Judges, King David, knee, Leviticus, lord's ability, metabolism, muscles, proteins, Psalm, seven, Sin, sinned, sinner, three, vulnerabilityabarkley8

Today intentional abstention from food and drink for a given period of time is more likely associated with preparation for a medical test or in conjunction with a weight-loss plan than with spiritual development. But in the Bible, the physical act of fasting was employed in order to enrich an awareness of mortal vulnerability and to sharpen awareness of the Lord’s ability to provide.

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PUNISHMENT BY SCOURGING

December 20, 2019Uncategorized2 Corinthians, back, bible study, blood, bood, chest, Christ, chronological, cross, Deuteronomy, flesh, flog, forty, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, humane, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jewish, law, Matthew, metal, new testament, Old Testament, punish, punishment, Romans, scourging, theologyabarkley8

It was customary among the Romans to scourge or flog a condemned criminal before he was executed. A scourge was a whip with sharp pieces of metal or bone imbedded in the leather. The back and chest of the criminal were struck repeatedly with this whip until the flesh was severely lacerated, sometimes all the way down to the bone. Continue reading PUNISHMENT BY SCOURGING →

WOMEN OF THE BIBLE “RAHAB- THE SHADY LADY”

June 12, 2019Uncategorized40, abraham, Bible, Boaz, brother, Canaanites, Christ, death, Egypt, egyptians, Exodus, eyebrows, Faith, false, False gods, forty, forty years, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, gods, Gospel, Heart, Hebrews, Holy Bible, Holy Land, hooker, Israel, Israelties, James, Jericho, jesus, Jesus Christ, Joshua, Lady, Lord, married, Matthew, Mediterranean, milk, million, Moses, new testament, night, numbuers, Old Testament, prostitute, Rahab, red rope, Salmon, scarlet, shady, Shady Lady, sister, spies, spirit, spy, window, woman, woman of the bible, women of the bible, young womanabarkley8

HEBREWS 11:31- “By faith the prostitute received the spies in peace and didn’t perish with those who disobeyed.”

There’s no nice way to say it. Rahab was a harlot-in modern parlance, a hooker. At her home atop the wall that surrounded the bustling, ancient city of Jericho, Rahab took in strange men and gave out sexual favors.

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BIBLE SIGNS & SYMBOLS (FORTY)

October 18, 2018Uncategorized1kings, 2 Corinthians, 40, 40 day's, 40 nights, Bible, Deuteronomy, devil, Elijah, Exodus, Ezekiel, flood, forty, forty days, forty nights, Genesis, God, Hebrews, Israel, jonah, Judges, judgment, Matthew, Moses, Mount Horeb, mountain, Noah, Philistines, Samson, Satan, serpent, signs and symbols, testingabarkley8

We should note at the outset that in the era before clocks and precise record keeping, numbers were often an estimation. Three and five signified a little, and forty a lot more. That is not to say that forty was never an accurate number, only that precision was not the intent of biblical authors. Continue reading BIBLE SIGNS & SYMBOLS (FORTY) →