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THE TEN PLAGUES

September 22, 2021Uncategorizedattack, banks, blood, boils, cattle, Christ, darkness, dead, destroyed, die, died, disease, Egypt, egyptians, Exodus, false god, False gods, fire, firstborn sons, flies, frogs, gnats, God, God is supreme, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, gods, hail, Hapi, help, Heqt, humbled, Imhotep, infested, Israel, jesus, Jesus Christ, Kheper, locusts, Matthew, medicine, new testament, Nile, Nile River, Old Testament, rain, raining, rian, river, seth, swarmed, ten plagues, triumph, waterabarkley8

The ten plagues were direct attacks against the false gods of Egypt. The following table shows a possible pairing, among many, of plagues and Egyptian gods. However it might have been, it is certain that God was showing that Pharaoh was a false god. Only the LORD is God, and only he is in control of creation, including Egypt.

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SCRIPUTRES OF THE DAY (ACTS 21:26-36)

September 22, 2021Uncategorizedacts, arrested in the temple, ascertain, Asia, Christ, city, cry, Disciples, dragged, ephesian, Faith, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greek, Hebrew, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jew, kill, killed, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, paul, Roamns, Scripture, scripture of the day, scriptures, seven, seven days, temple, Trophimus, trust, turth, vowabarkley8

²⁶Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.

²⁷And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,

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WHY DID JESUS LET LAZARUS DIE?

September 22, 2021UncategorizedChrist, dead, death, die later, eternal life, Faith, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Haste, Heaven, heavenly, higher purpose, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus close freinds, Jesus raises Lasarus, John, Lazarus, Lazarus sisters, Maratha, mary, Mary and Martha, Matthew, miraculously, Old Testament, physical death, raised Lazarus, separation, Sin, sinned, sinnerabarkley8

No one knows. Jesus’ reasons for delay are not explained here. We can only surmise that a higher purpose-higher than saving people from physical death-caused Jesus not to go with immediate haste to His friend’s side. That purpose was surely the one that Jesus had come to fulfill: saving people from spiritual death, that is, from eternal separation from His loving heavenly Father.

Though Lazarus was raised miraculously, he did die later. So did Mary and Martha, the disciples, and all of Jesus’ closet friends. Jesus did not come to spare His loved ones the experience of physical death but to show them the path to eternal life.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (CROSS,CRUCIFIXION)

September 22, 2021Uncategorized1 corinthians, 2 Corinthians, 5, acts, bearing, believer, buried, burry, Christ, Christian paradox, cross, crossbeam, crucified, crucifixion, crucifying, dead, death, death of self, definition, definition of the day, definitions, Ephesians, Faith, five times, Galatians, God, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, imagery, imitate Jesus, individual, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus crucifixion, John, life, longer lives, Mark, martyrdom, Matthew, nail, nailed, necessary death, new testament, Old Testament, paul, Paul symbol, purpose, resurrection, Roman practice, Romans, sacrifice, self-denial, symbolabarkley8

THE SYMBOLIC MEANING: Jesus Himself establish established the primary figurative interpretation of the cross as a call to complete surrender to God. He used it five times as a symbol of true discipleship in terms of self-denial, taking up one’s cross, and following Him (Mark 8:34; 10:38; Matt 16:24; Luke 9:23; 14:27). Building on the Roman practice of bearing the crossbeam to the place of execution, Christ intended this to point to the necessary death of self, involving the sacrifice of one’s individuality for the purpose of following Jesus completely; and a willingness to imitate Jesus thoroughly, even to the extent of martyrdom.

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WHAT IS SPIRIT WAREFARE?

September 20, 2021Uncategorizedbattleground, Christ, devastation, devil, diseas, ecological, evil, forces, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's Kingdom, great number, intensity, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, person, Satan, sickness, soul, spiritual warefare, workabarkley8

It is cosmic conflict between the forces of good and evil. The outcome has been determined, but eh ongoing conflict still includes a great number of victories and defeats. The soul and life of each person is the battleground.

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WHY DO CHRISTIANS BELEIVE IN THE TRINITY?

September 20, 2021UncategorizedChrist, Christian, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Jesus Christ, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, The Holy Spirit, trinityabarkley8

THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD

“Here, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.” (Deut 6:4)
“Before me no god was formed nor will there be one after me.” (Isa 43:10).

THE FATHER IS GOD

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (PRAISE)

September 20, 2021Uncategorized1 corinthians, 1 samuel, 2 Corinthians, 2 Samuel, book of Psalm, capable, Christ, Colossians, definition of the day, definitions, glory, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Hallel, human praise, instrumental, jesus, Jesus Christ, Judges, linked, Luke, Matthew, Music, natural, new testament, Old Testament, praise, Pray, prayer, praying, price, Proverbs, Psalm, value, vocal, world, worshipabarkley8

One of humanity’s many responses to God’s revelation of Himself. The Bible recognizes that men and women also may be the objects of praise, either from other people (Prov 27:21; 31:30) or from God Himself (Rom 2:29), and that angels and the natural world are likewise capable of praising God (Ps 148). Nevertheless, human praise of God is one of Scripture’s major themes.

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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (TAX COLLECTOR PT1)

September 20, 2021Uncategorized20 percent, abusers, alcohol, business, Christ, connotations, dishonest, everyday life in bible times, feared, fruit, gluttons, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Gospel, Gospels, grain, greek, half-shekel, Hebrew, herd, inheritances taxes, Jesus Christ, Jew, jews, Leviticus, Luke, manner, Matthew, oil, Old Testament, pagans, pay, picture, produce, Promised land, prostitiutes, public sinners, region, regions, Romans, sanctuary, Sin, sinned, sinner, sixty-five years, state, state taxes, system, tax collector, tax farming, two drachma, wineabarkley8

During the Roman era, tax collectors and the manner in which taxes were collected evolved and varied from one region to the next. Here we offer a general picture of the process that will allow us to appreciate the role tax collectors played in the Gospels. Taxes were paid to both the temple and the state, each of which established its own tax code without consideration of the other. First-century Jews paid a religious tithe of their produce, herd, and flock (Lev 27:30-32); they were also required to pay the half-shekel or two-drachma tax for sanctuary upkeep (Exod 30:13; Matt 17:24). The state demanded taxes that included a poll tax levied on males fourteen to sixty-five years of age and females twelve to sixty-five, real estate tax, customs tax collected at road and harbor stations, a tax on produce that amounted to 10 percent on grain and 20 percent on wine, fruit, and oil, a 1 percent income tax, and sales and inheritance taxes.

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IS HEAVEN’S POPULATION LIMITED TO 144,000

September 20, 2021Uncategorized144000, Christ, cult, daughters of God, elders, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Heaven, heavens population, hundred, Jehovah's witnesses cult, jesus, Jim Jones, Jones Town, Literal head count, literalism, Matthew, multiplied by one thousand, Nation, nations, new testament, Old Testament, population, revelation, Son's of God, sum, symbol, symbolic, taught, thousandabarkley8

The number cannot be taken literally. Even the literalism formerly taught by the Jehovah’s Witnesses cult (prior to its own growth spurt) has been revised. If not a literal head count, the number must be symbolic, and likely meant to point to the completion of God’s work of salvation among all the nations.

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ISRAEL AT SINAI

September 17, 2021Uncategorized1 Kings, 2 Kings, abraham, blood, Christ, covenant, creatures, descendants, desert, dominates, earth, foot, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, holy nation, honey, Isaiah, Israel, James, jesus, Jesus Christ, land, Lord, Matthew, midst, milk, Moses, Mount sinai, mountain, new testament, Numbers, Old Testament, Pharaoh, priests, relationship, Sinai, slave, slaves, Ten Commandments, theophany, validatingabarkley8

Exodus 19 describes Israel arriving at Sinai. This chapter is important for understanding the events at Sinai, where Israel spent over two years (Numbers 10:11). God addressed the people as “the house of Jacob. . . the people of Israel . . .” (Exodus 19:3) as a way to remind them that they were the people of the covenant, the descendants of Abraham. What was about to happen at Sinai was not a new covenant with the people but an extension of the covenant God made with Abraham.

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