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SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (KINGDOM)

June 29, 2020bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, death, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, preach, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 Kings, 2 Kings, a kingdom that is near, abundace, armies, death, God of Israel, Heaven, history, Holy Spirit, image, image of the kingdom, kingdom, kingship, Lord, Luke, Mark, Matthew, Messiah, power, revelation, Romans, sacrificial, salvation, second comingabarkley8

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The themes of God’s kingship and the eastern kingdom run throughout Scripture. God’s kingdom is a favorite motif of the psalmists and prophets, and was an especially comforting symbol to the Israelites who struggle under unjust and oppressive kings throughout history. In a general sense God is King over all creation because he made all things: “LORD of Armies, God of Israel, you are enthroned the angels. You alone are God of all the kingdoms of the world. You made heaven and earth” (2 Kings 19:15). Elsewhere we read, “Greatness power, splendor, glory, and majesty are yours, LORD, because Continue reading SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (KINGDOM) →

SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (MATTHEW 28:1-7 “THE RESURRECTION”)

June 24, 2020bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, death, easter, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, harvest, Holy Bible, idolatry, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, preaching, primitive, prophet, Proverbs, rise, risen, rock, rocks, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorizedclothing, dead, death, Disciples, earthquake, face, faint, galilee, guards, Heaven, kids, kids application, Kids Application Bible, lighting, Lord, Mary Magdalene, shook, the other Mary, white as snowabarkley8

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1.In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

²And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.

³His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: Continue reading SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (MATTHEW 28:1-7 “THE RESURRECTION”) →

SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (BODY)

May 27, 2020bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, death, Dinner, eat, flour, forgive, Forgivness, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, Proverbs, rise, risen, rock, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 corinthians, Adam, arm, bible signs and symbols, biblical, blood, blood of jesus, body and soul, body of Christ, bread, bread of life, Christ died, communion, cross, dead, death, die, earth, eye, flesh, foot, fristborn, Genesis, greek, head, Heart, Heaven, his image, Holy Bible, honeycomb, image, Job, new testament, Old Testament, Proverbs, Psalm, Redeemed, Romans, sacrifice, Signs, signs and symbols, spiritual well-being, symbolic, weightabarkley8

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Throughout Scripture we find the wonder and mystery of the human body, designed by God (Psa 139:13-15). Jesus created a body for himself, and Adam was the prototype. Paul described Jesus as “the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation” (Col 1:15). Jesus chose the human body as the from or image he would live in while on his earth mission. Our bodies become symbolic reminders that we were designed with a purpose, shaped to bye the aware and obedient servants of God, the Maker of heaven and earth. Furthermore, the fact that Jesus took on human flesh shows that through the body is dust and is wasting away (Gen 3:19; 2 Cor 4:16), it is good and useful, part of what makes us human beings in the image of God. Continue reading SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (BODY) →

DEFINITION OF THE DAY (SILENCE)

May 6, 2020bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, Church, curiosities, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, Proverbs, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorizedabsence, bible definition, Church, death, definition, definition of the day, definitions, dust, dwelt, elder, elders, God, ground, Habakkuk, head, heads, Heaven, help, Lamentations, Lord, Matthew, open, opened, pharisees, Psalm, revelation, reverence, sackcloth, Sadducees, shut, silence, silent, soul, sound, spirit, symbol, temple, virgin, virgins, woman, women, Zionabarkley8

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Absence of sound. The Bible uses silence in several ways: as reverence to God (Hab 2:20), as a symbol of death (Ps 94:17), as a symbol of Sheol (Ps 115:17), and as an expression of despair (Lam 2:10). It is a way to shut up the opposition (Matt 22:34). It is also used as a dramatic pause following the opening of the seventh seal in Rev 8:1. Continue reading DEFINITION OF THE DAY (SILENCE) →

SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (1 CORINTHIANS 13: 1-8 LOVE IS THE GREATEST)

May 1, 2020bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, NIV, Old Testament, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorizedbears, believers, bestow, devil, envy, evil, fail, Heaven, hopes, long suffering, love, poor, prophecies, prophecy, Satan, tongue, tongues, Truthabarkley8

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1.Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

^2.And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. Continue reading SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (1 CORINTHIANS 13: 1-8 LOVE IS THE GREATEST) →

BEFORE CHRIST, HOW DID PEOPLE GET TO HEAVEN?

December 4, 2019Uncategorizedacts, Acts 16:31, afterlife, Bible, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christ death, Christian, christian studies, christianity, chronological, dead, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's People, Heaven, His Son, holiness, Holy, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, living, Lord, Lord Jesus, new testament, Old Testament, Psalm, Psalm 49:15, theologyabarkley8

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People have always gotten to heaven by one way only-God’s way-through the work of Jesus Christ, His Son. That is the gospel, God’s Good News: God has made a way through an intractable divide between human sinfulness and divine holiness. That way is Jesus Continue reading BEFORE CHRIST, HOW DID PEOPLE GET TO HEAVEN? →

SINGS AND SYMBOLS (BIRTH)

December 2, 2019Uncategorizedapostle, baby, baptist, bear, Bear Children, bible signs and symbols, Birth and pain, Birth and Rebirth, Birth and timing, born, child, childbrith, children, Christ, chronological, Deuteronomy, devil, Elizabeth, Ephesians, Ezekiel, failures, Faith, Father, Galatians, genealogy, Genesis, gift, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Godhead, godspeed, grace, Hannah, Heaven, human, Issac, Jacob, jesus, Jesus Christ, John, kingdom, life, live, love, Manoah, Mark, mercy, metaphor, mother, Nation, new testament, Old Testament, paul, physical, Psalm, Rebekah, rich, Romans, salavation, Samson, Samuel, Sarah, Satan, signs and symbols, sinned, sinners, sins, soul, spiritual, supernatural, symbol, theology, virgin birth, womb, womenabarkley8

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Birth is our universal means of arrival in life. We can’t begin to experience all that life has to offer until we have passed through the moment of birth. Life has a formative phase in the womb that the psalmist describes beautifully: Continue reading SINGS AND SYMBOLS (BIRTH) →

DEFINITION OF THE DAY “FOOTSTOOL”

October 24, 2019Uncategorized1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, ark, bible definition, bible studies, carved, Christ, christianity, Christlike, David, definition, definitions, earth, Egypt, enemies, enemy, Ezekiel, foot, footstool, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Heaven, Hebrews, hell, holman, Isaiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, King, Lamentations, Lord, Luke, Mark, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, Psalm, stool, symbol, temple, theology, throne, triumph, tutankhamen, Zionabarkley8

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Piece of furniture for resting the feet, especially for one seated on a throne (2 Chron 9:18; James 2:3). The footstool of Tutankhamen of Egypt was carved with pictures of his enemies. Other Pharaohs were portrayed with their feet on their enemies’ heads. The footstool thus became a symbol for dominion. God is pictured as a king enthroned in heaven with the earth as His footstool (Isa 66:1; Matt 5:35). In Ps 99:5 and Lam 2:1 it is difficult to determine with certainty whether God’s footstool is the ark, the temple, or Zion (Isa 60:13, Ezek 43:7). Only 1 Chron 28:2 is an unambiguous reference to the ark as a resting place for God’s feet. Continue reading DEFINITION OF THE DAY “FOOTSTOOL” →

DOES THE BIBLE CONDONE SLAVERY?

March 13, 2019UncategorizedBible, Christ, condone, Ephesians, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, happiness, Heaven, hell, inhuman, jesus, Jesus Christ, master, masters, new testament, Old Testament, slave, slave-like, slavery, socialabarkley8

The Bible does NOT condone slavery but recognizes slavery as part of the social structure of the times. Rather than attacking slavery directly, biblical guidelines weakened and undermined the institution from the inside by reminding Christian masters that they had a Master and were to treat slaves as brothers (Ephesians 6:9). For slaves, the dignity that came with freedom in Christ had a powerful long-term social effect. Continue reading DOES THE BIBLE CONDONE SLAVERY? →

SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (CLEAR/CRYSTAL/TRANSPARENT)

February 25, 2019Uncategorized1 corinthians, Bible, bible signs and symbols, brilliant transparency, Christ, clarity, clear, color, crystal, devil, dim, evil, Ezekiel, glass, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Heaven, Holy Ghost, Holy Sprit, jesus, Job, John, knowledge, marvels, mirror, New Jerusalem, new testament, Old Testament, revelation, Satan, signs and symbols, symbol, symbolic, symbolizes, Symbols, transparent, veiled, veiled and dimabarkley8

iStock-119387130 The concept of transparency, which is technically not a color, is relatively rare in the Bible. The idea is mostly connected with the marvels of crystal, a hard substance that can be seen through. It provided a measure of clarity, but was considered a gem. Glass was still practically unknown. Continue reading SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (CLEAR/CRYSTAL/TRANSPARENT) →

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