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SIGNS & SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE JAR/POTTERY/VESSEL/

10/17/2018Uncategorized1 corinthians, 2 Corinthians, are, bible signs and symbols, bodies, chorinthians, clay, clay jars, clay pots, Dead Sea, Genesis, God, God the potter, Holy Ghost, jar, jeremiah, Jesus Christ, Job, life, Lord, paul, pots, potter house, pottery, prophets, Qumran, Romans, Siloam, Symbols, vessel, vessels, waterabarkley8

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Working in clay is one of the ancient professions. Long before paper, damp clay served as a surface to receive the marks that represented early writing called cuneiform. And people discovered that baked clay contained water and could be used for cooking more efficiently than tightest woven baskets. When one of our brilliant ancestors discovered the potter’s wheel, the age of clay had arrived. Eventually, clay pots became widely used

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SIGNS & SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (TRUMPET/SHOFAR)

05/22/2018Uncategorized1 corinthians, 1 samuel, Amos, Bible, bible signs and symbols, God, government, Hannah, Holy Bible, horn, horns, jeremiah, Jericho, Jesus Christ, Job, joy, Judges, new testament, Old Testament, Psalm, rejoiced, revelation, shofar, Signs, sounds, Symbols, tool, trumpet, wallsabarkley8

2009141003web Trumpets in Bible times were made of metal or bone and formed into an instrument at least two feet long. They had a high sound that could be regulated to some degree, but they were used more for signaling than for making music. Rams’ horns, also called shofar, were signaling instruments used to assemble the army (Judg 3:27; 1Sam 13:3) or sound an alarm (Job 39:24-25; Jer 6:1; Amos 3:6). They are the most commonly mentioned instrument in the Bible, with seventy-two references.

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MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF THE BIBLE (DOMESTIC ACTIVITIES)

10/06/2017Uncategorized1 samuel, activities, Bible, breakfast, cleaning, domestic, eating, Exodus, fetching water, Genesis, God, Holy Bible, Hosea, jeremiah, Jesus Christ, Job, John, Luke, manners and customs, Matthew, milling, Moses, Proverbs, shopping, woman, woman at the wellabarkley8

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Most people in Bible times go up early, before the sun was up, so that they could make the most of the hours of daylight and allows for the extreme heat at midday in the summer. Abraham got up early to obey God’s command to sacrifice (Genesis 22:3); Moses got up early in the morning to meet God on Mount Sinai (Exodus 34:4); Job offered worship early in the morning (Job 1:5); Jesus prayed before sunrise (Mark 1:35).

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BIBLE SIGNS & SYMBOLS (CAMEL)

10/02/2017UncategorizedBible, camel, God, Holy Bible, jeremiah, Jesus Christ, Leviticus, Signs, signs and symbols, Symbolsabarkley8

Camels were a common sight throughout Bible times, particularly in cities and villages along caravan routes, where these long-distance beasts of burden might pause for a night before trudging on to their destination. In addition to being a means of

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BIBLE SIGNS & SYMBOLS (ARM)

09/22/2017Uncategorized1 Kings, 2 Kings, arm, bible signs and symbols, Deuteronomy, Exodus, God, Isaiah, jeremiah, Jerusalem, jesus, Jesus Christ, judgment, love, power, powerfull arm of God, Psalmabarkley8

Arm

Aside from its physical definition, arm is used in Scripture as a symbol of power in action–either divine or human. The context will of course determine whether the word is meant literally or figuratively, and whether its figurative sense is power used for good or for evil.

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MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF THE BIBLE (SPORTS)

09/13/2016Uncategorized1 corinthians, 1 Peter, 2 Timothy, Athletic sports, entertainment, games, Genesis, greek, Greek gods, Hasidim, Hebrews, jeremiah, Jude, Judges, new testament, Olympian, Olympics, philippians, Romans, Sadducees, Sports, Zeusabarkley8

Athletic Sports

Entertainment and spectator/participatory sports did not develop until Greek and Roman times. Races had been run in Israel (Jeremiah 12:5), but they were not for entertainment. It was the promotion of sports in the Greek fashion in 170 BC that led to the division among Jews between Sadducees and Hasidim.

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BIBLE SIGNS AND SYMBOLS “RING”

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While we almost always think first of marriage when the subject of rings comes up, the Bible records no instances where a ring is used as a symbol of marriage or wedding vows. But surprisingly, the first time a ring is mentioned in Scripture involves an interesting account of surrogate courtship. When Abraham’s servant Eliezer arrive in Haran on a mission to find a wife for young Isaac, he met a young woman at the city well whose name was Rebekah (Gen. 24:1-67). Discovering that Rebekah’s parents were relations of

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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE BIBLE “THE MARKETPLACE”

09/15/2015UncategorizedBible, buy, jeremiah, Luke, manners and customs, marketplace, nehemiah, sellabarkley8

We know little of the way that trading was done locally. There was normally an open place inside the city gate that served as a market square, and streets leading from the square would have served as dwellings for traders. There was a street of the bakers in Jeremiah’s time (Jeremiah 37:21), and the valley between the eastern and western ridges of Jerusalem was known as the valley of the cheesemakers. It is clear that there must have Continue reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE BIBLE “THE MARKETPLACE” →