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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE BIBLE (VINE SYMBOLISM)

08/11/2021Uncategorized1 corinthians, 1 Timothy, 2 Corinthians, 2 Timothy, adorned, angrily, bunch, Christ, customs, Deuteronomy, disadvantaged, Disciples, drink wine, drunken with wine, ecclesiastes, evil, front exterior, fruit, furits, Genesis, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's vine, God's vines, grape, grapevine, Isaiah, jesus, John, Judges, Leviticus, manners, manners and customs, Matthew, nazirite, Numbers, Old Testament, passages, pharisees, presence of God, priests, Psalm, Romans, sanctuary, Satan, Synagogue, thanksgiving, tithe, Titus, true vine, vines, vineyard, vineyards, wine, wine drinking, wine titheabarkley8

The vine was of great importance in the religion of Israel. It was used as a symbol of the religious life of Israel itself, and a carving of a bunch of grapes often adorned the front exterior of the synagogue. The symbolism was based upon passages such as Psalm 80 and Isaiah 5:1-5 where Israel is God’s vine.

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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBILE TIMES (ORPHAN “FATHERLESS” PT2)

08/11/2021Uncategorized3rd year, authors, Christ, Deuteronomy, disadvantaged, Disciples, everyday life in bible times, fair, Father, fatherless, gathering, gift, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Isaiah, Israelites, jesus, Jesus Christ, John, Lamentations, less-privileged, Matthew, merisms, new testament, Old Testament, orphan, orphans, rhetorically, royals, ruin, specturm, third year, treatmentabarkley8

Given that reality, the LORD addressed the plight of orphans in the laws given to the Israelites. God’s people were to set aside a tent of their field produce and animals born in their herds as a gift given at the sanctuary. Every third year, however, this tithe was to remain in storage at the local level so the disadvantaged of society, including orphans, would have access to it (Deut 14:22-29; 26:12-13). In addition, Israelites were to refrain from gathering a portion of their grain, olive, and grape harvest so that orphans and other disadvantaged people could gather food from land they did not own (Deut 24:19-21).

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DEFFINITION OF THE DAY (DEMONIC POSSESSION PT1)

08/10/2021Uncategorizedactions, adults, Azazel, blindness, Christ, Colossians, convulsions, deafness, defeated, definition, definition of the day, demon, demonic, demonic possessions, demonic spirit, Deuteronomy, evil, evil spirits, God, God the Father, God the Son, Isaiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, John, Leviticus, Luke, manifestations, Matthew, muteness, new testament, Old Testament, OT, possession, possessions, Psalm, rebellion, Seirim, self-destructive, serpent, superhuman strength, torment, various, wreakingabarkley8

Demons are identified in Scripture as fallen angels who joined Satan in his rebellion. They follow Satan, doing evil and wreaking havoc. They have limited power and like Satan are already defeated (Col 2:15).

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BIBLE BOOK OF THE DAY (ZECHARIAH)

07/22/2021Uncategorized18 years, 25, 25000, 332, 332bc, bood, Christ, church family, december, end time, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's help, grandson, greece, Haggai, Heaven's army, Iraq, Isaiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jewish, Lord, main point, Matthew, November, October, Old Testament, Persia, poor, rich, Sin, sinned, sinner, temple, town, writer, Zechariahabarkley8

Most other Bible prophets lived before God punished the Jews by exiling them to Assyria and Babylon, in what is now Iraq. So those earlier prophets warned the Jews where they were headed if they didn’t stop sinning. But even those prophets offered hope, promising that God would bring the Jews home one day.

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A VISIT TO HEAVEN

07/20/2021Uncategorized740 BC, Christ, coal, coals, day of Atonement, dies, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Heaven, Isaiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jewish, jews, king uzziah, Matthew, national annual, new testament, Old Testament, priests, ritual, Sin, sinned, survived, tongs, visit, Yom Kippurabarkley8

In a terrifying vision, Isaiah finds himself standing in heaven’s throne room in the presence of God. The time is 740 BC, the year King Uzziah dies.

“It’s all over!” Isaiah says. “I am doomed, for I am a sinful man” (Isaiah 6:5). He knows God is holy and that sin can’t survive in God’s presence.

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SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (FOUR/4)

06/26/2021Uncategorized4, Angel, apocalyptic prophecies, bible signs and symbols, bronze, Christ, clarity, completeness, Cover, cry, cubits, Daniel, Exdous, Ezekiel, Faith, food, four, four Gospels, geographical, glory, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Gospels, here I am, homeless, horizontal, hungry, Isaiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jewel, loosen, Lord, Luke, Matthew, naked, New Jerusalem, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, picture, prophet, revelation, seek, Sin, sinned, sinner, symbolic, wickedness, world, worship tent, yoke, Zacchaeusabarkley8

The number four and groups of four connect with our sense of place in the horizontal world. Everything around us is in one of four directions: east, west, north, or south. In the worldview of the Old Testament, complete descriptions were often developed in sets of four. When the tax collector Zacchaeus expressed his practical faith in Jesus, he included a promise to “pay four times as much as I owe to those I have cheated in any way” (Luke 19:8). Jesus accepted that commitment as a sign of genuine repentance, symbolic of completeness. And there are four Gospels, a complete picture of the life of Christ.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (FACE)

06/12/2021Uncategorizedayin, bible definition, Christ, definition, definition of the day, definitions, dictionary, Exodus, eye to eye, eyes, face, face to face, figuratively, Genesis, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Isaiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew, new testament, nose, Numbers, Old Testament, opsis, OT, presence of God, prosopon, sky, surface seen, theologically, theology, translatedabarkley8

The front of the person’s head. In the Bible several words are translated as “face.” In the OT panim is the most common and has the actual meaning of “face.” Aph (nose) and ayin (eyes, aspect) are also at times translated as face. In the NT the words used are opsis and prosopon.

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SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (CLEAN/UNCLEAN PT1)

05/21/2021Uncategorizedachieved, animals, bad, bird, birds, books, clean, clean and unclean, common, Deuteronomy, Genesis, goal, grasp, Holy, Isaiah, Joshua, lamb, levels, Leviticus, modern ears, new testament, Numbers, Old Testament, pig, pigs, Revelations, ritually clean, signs and symbols, state, theologians, theological, theologically, theology, unclean, unholyabarkley8

The Old Testament concept of being clean can be difficult to grasp. The basic idea sounds foreign to modern ears, and the legislation that describes how that state is achieved and maintained can overwhelm us, making books like Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy much more difficult to understand. But when we acquire a clearer understanding of the notion, we find that the image of being clean is a helpful one that spreads its influence from Genesis through Revelation.

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (WATCHMEN AND PORTERS)

05/14/2021Uncategorized1 Kings, 1 samuel, 2 Kings, 2 Samuel, Absalom, activity, alarm, bible customs & curiosities, bible customs and curiosities, cities, city, clock, curiosities, customs, Ezekiel, Habakkuk, Isaiah, Jerusalem, King David, Mahanaim, new testament, Old Testament, porter of the city, roatated, signals, suspicious, task, theologians, theological, theologically, theology, walled cities, Wathcman, Wathcmenabarkley8

This watchman had been posted on the city wall above the gates of Mahanaim to relay news about the battle against Absalom to King David (read 2 Samuel 18:24).

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

05/13/2021Uncategorizedanimals, 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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