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WOMEN OF THE BIBLE (SARAH)

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The Bible doesn’t reveal how Sarah (Sarai) reached when she learned that Abram wanted her to be his wife (see Gen 11:29). We’re also not told how she handled the fact that she was barren (see 11:30), though we could probably imagine how devastating this realization was.

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THE MERCY SEAT

09/06/2021Uncategorizedappeal, bronze, cherubim, Christ, cloud, earthly ministry, Father, fire, flaming torch, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's grace, gold, heard, heavenly temple, Hebrews, high priest, holy place, jesus, Jesus Christ, Lord, Matthew, mercy, most holy place, new testament, Old Testament, pillar, precise manner, shekinah, silver, smoke, Solomon's, the Lord Presence, The mercy seat, the tabernacle, visible presence, visible presence of God, voice, yearsabarkley8

God promised to be present upon the mercy seat (Exodus 25:22; see also 30:6, 36). The mercy seat was a kind of portable throne, carried along the poles of the ark and complete with an canopy of angel wings. The cherubim faced the center of the seat while their wings overspread if. The picture of God as King of Israel enthroned on the mercy seat is clear no matter where the ark might be: in the wilderness, in battle, or in his tent (the Tabernacle).

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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (SACRED STONES PT4)

09/01/2021Uncategorized1 Kings, 2 Kings, Asa, biblical authors, Christ, destoryer, everyday life in bible times, Faith, faithfulness, God, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Hezekiah, Hosea, hyperbole, Jehu, jesus, Jesus Christ, Joram, Josiah, Kings, Lord, Micah, new testament, Old Testament, pagan worship, Rehoboam, sacred stone, sacred stones, son of Solomonabarkley8

The evaluation at times took a decidedly negative tone. Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, was the first to have his reign characterized in a more negative way due to the first that Judah “step up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree” (1 Kings 14:23). This was clearly a case of hyperbole; nevertheless a land that appeared full of what God had forbidden characterized Rehoboam’s rule as less than it needed to be.

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THE MOST HOLY PLACE

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The Tabernacle must have been a great mystery for people. Even priests did not know everything about this holy tent. A place where only one man, once a year, entered; where God’s powerful presence was visible; where the high priest brought blood and incense to do a ritual of atonement for the sins of the all the people; the Tabernacle was a place of wonder.

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SCRIPTURES OF THE DAY (LUKE 12:40-56)

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⁴⁰Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

⁴¹Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?

⁴²And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?

⁴³Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (SACRED STONE “TO SET UP OR TO DESTORY” PT3)

08/24/2021UncategorizedChrist, cod, destory, Deuteronomy, everyday life in bible times, Exodus, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Land, Jesus Christ, law, Leviticus, Lord, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, pagan, pagan worship, Promised land, sacred stones, stone, stonesabarkley8

As the Israelites met and engaged the people who occupied the Promise Land before them, they might have been tempted to adopt the sacred-stone concept. To be sure, the Lord did allow a certain amount of parity between pagan worship and Israelite worship, such as the use of sacrifice, temple, and priesthood; but the line was drawn at employing sacred stone. “Do not make idols or set us an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God” (Lev 26:1; see Deut 16:22). But what about the sacred stones that had already been built by the previous occupants of the Promised Land?

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (GOVERNMENT “THE NATURE AND CALLING OF MAN”)

08/23/2021UncategorizedAdam, affirms, Authority, bible definition, bible dictionary, chapters, complex, creation, CSB, definition, definitions, definitions of the day, devoted heart, dominion, earth, effect, fallen world, female, flows, fundamental, God, God is Lord, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, gods, government, ground, Hebrews, helper, humanity, images of God, jesus, Jesus Christ, KJV, Lord, male, mankind, Matthew, metanarrative, NIV, NKJV, polemically, Psalm, psalmist, roman government, rule, Sin, sinned, sins, vice-regentsabarkley8

The fundamental truth about government in the Bible’s worldview and metanarrative is that the one triune God revealed in the Scriptures of the OT and NT is the sovereign ruler from which all authority flows. Whatever man and human governments are, they are not to be confused with god(s)-though some may make claims to that effect. On the other hand, they are not mere usurpers upon the creation. Man is the pinnacle of God’s creation. The psalmist, echoed by the writer of Hebrews in the NT, marveled poetically that God was “mindful” of man at all (Ps 8:4-6 NIV; Heb 2:6-8 KJV); but Scripture affirms human dominion over the earth (Gen 1:28-30; Psa 8:6-8; 115:16).

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (NUMBERS 5:21-24)

08/17/2021Uncategorizedamen, belly, bitter, bitter water, book, cursing, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Lord, Man, oath, Old Testament, priest, Scripture, scripture of the day, scritpures, womanabarkley8

²¹Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;

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DEAD SAVIOR

08/17/2021Uncategorizedcreated, creator, dead, Dead Sea, earth, God, God the Father, harm, Isaiah 53, Israel, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jeswish, Jewish, jews, King David, Lord, Matthew, Messiah, new testament, prophecy, savorabarkley8

One of the biggest surprises in the Bible is the kind of Messiah God sent to save Israel. Jews expected a warrior. Someone like King David, only better. A leader who would free them from oppressors. restore Israel’s lost glory, and even create heaven on earth.

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