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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (JOY PT1)

10/31/2024UncategorizedChrist, english, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, greek, Hebrew, jesus, Jesus Christ, joy, joyful, Matthew, Old Testament, rejoiceabarkley8

State of delight and well-being that results from knowing and serving God. A number of Greek and Hebrew words are used to convey the ideas of joy and rejoicing. We have the same situation in English with such nearly synonymous words as joy, happiness, pleasure, delight, gladness, merriment, felicity, and enjoyment. The words “joy” and “rejoice” are the words used most often to translate the Hebrew and Greek words into English. Joy is found over 150 times in the Bible. If such words as “joyous” and “Joyful” are included, the number comes to over 200. The verb “rejoice” appears well over 200 times.

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LEARING ABOUT A FALSE IDOL (RIOT)

09/14/2022UncategorizedChrist, Colossus, Diana, Ephesus, fight, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greece, greek, Hebrew, idol, idols, jesus, Jesus Christ, merchants, Mother of a riot, paul, Philon, prayed, pyramids, Religion, Rhodes, roman, Romans, Seven Wonders of the World, silversmith, statue, temple, worried, worship idols, worshippingabarkley8

Paul is too successful in Ephesus-at least as far as the idol-making lobbyists are concerned. There are Seven Wonders of the World. But the most beautiful, according to one writer who said he saw all seven, is a temple in Ephesus dedicated to the Greek goddess Artemis. Romans call her Diana.

“I have seen the walls and hanging gardens of ancient Babylon, the statue of Olympian Zeus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the mighty work of the high pyramids, and the tombs of Mausolus,” wrote the Greek scientist Philon in the 200s BC. “But when I saw the temple at Ephesus rising to the clouds, all these other wonders were put in the shade.”

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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE BIBLE (BASIC CLOTHING)

08/21/2022Uncategorizedbasic, basic clothing, Christ, clothes, clothing, customs, garments, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's armour, greek, Greek names, Hebrew, jesus, Jesus Christ, Luke, manners, manners and customs, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, poor, Sabbathabarkley8

Clothes were not easy to come by for most people and were very costly. The poor had only the clothes they stood up in. It was therefore realistic to trade a person for a pair of shoes (Amos 2:6), and it was quite revolutionary for John Baptist to tell people to give away spare coats (Luke 3:11). It is therefore interesting to see that in their codification of the law in the first

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (SABAOTH)

08/21/2022Uncategorized1 samuel, armies, definition, definition of the day, God's place, greek, Heaven, heavenly bodies, Hebrew, hosts, Israel, jehovah-sabaoth, Lord of Hosts, power, powerful, present people, Sabaoth, Sabbath, YaHWeHabarkley8

Transliteration of Hebrew, meaning “hosts, armies, heavenly bodies,” Part of a divine title, “Lord of Host,” variously interpreted as Lord of Israel’s armies (cp. 1 Sam 17:45); the stars; members of Yahweh’s heavenly court or council; a comprehensive title for all beings, heavenly and earthly; an intensive title describing God as all powerful. Interestingly, the title does not

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

07/25/2022Uncategorized1 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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WHAT DOES “FELLOWSHIP” MEAN?

04/25/2022UncategorizedChrist, Chrstians, communion, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greek, Hebrew, jesus, Jesus Christ, koinonia, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, One Church, one faith, one fellowshipabarkley8

“Fellowship” translates the Greek word koinonia, meaning association, communion, and close relationship. It implies participation in a mutual task and sharing possessions. In Christ, believers are able to enjoy this kind of intimacy with God and with fellow Christians.

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

09/22/2021Uncategorizedacts, 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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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (TAX COLLECTOR PT1)

09/20/2021Uncategorized20 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 IT EVER OKAY TO LIE?

09/17/2021Uncategorized10 Commandments, Abaraham, arguement, Christ, christians, devil, evil, Exdous, False gods, false religion, God, God the Father, greek, Hebrew spies, jesus, Jesus Christ, Joshua, lying, Matthew, Moses, Nazi, new testament, ninth commandment, obligation, own, patient, placebo, pure, Rahab, Satan, should we lie, Sin, sinned, sinner, sinners, sins, state, taming, taming the tongue, Ten Commandments, tongue, true, warrants, worriesabarkley8

To be entirely and blatantly truthful in everything we say could unnecessarily hurt a lot of feelings and create a lot of worries. Thus, in everyday conversation we say “white lies” about someone’s appearance or even about our own state of health.

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THE BEATITUDES

09/10/2021Uncategorizedannoying, arguement, beg, begging, blamelessness, crave, desire, Disciples, eagerly, eduction, forgive, frightening, frustrating, gentle, gentleness, God, God promises, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greek, happy, helpless, humility, hunger, hunger and thirst, innocence, Isaiah, Jew, John, lacking, lacking education, lowly, Luke, meaning, meek, meek person, merciful, Moses, new testament, Numbers, Old Testament, peacemakers, persecuted for righteousness, poor in spirit, powerful people, powerless, Psalm, pure in heart, reward, sad, sadness, The Beatitudes, thirst, trust Godabarkley8

WHAT DO THE BEATITIUDDES MEAN?

Jesus surprised his disciples by telling them what kind of people would be blessed by God. His list of traits are called the Beatitudes, meaning “to bless” or “to make happy.”

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