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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (TAX COLLECTOR PT2)

September 22, 2021Uncategorizedacts, bible times, chief, chief tax collector, Christ, collector, dramatic, everyday life in bible times, God, God the Father, God the Son, God's House, greed, Jericho, jesus, Jew, Jewish, Jewish leaders, jews, love, Luke, Mark, Matthew, money changers, new testament, Old Testament, prostitutes, Sin, sin-ruined world, sinned, sinner, sinners, sins, tax, tax collector, Tax Collectors, teach, Zacchaeusabarkley8

We also find Jesus using the perceptions linked with tax collectors to jolt the Jewish leaders from their complacency. While he was teaching in the temple courts during the final week of his life on earth, Jesus frequently clashed with the Jewish leaders, who questioned his authority and resisted his invitations to know him as their Savior from sin.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (PRAISE)

September 20, 2021Uncategorized1 corinthians, 1 samuel, 2 Corinthians, 2 Samuel, book of Psalm, capable, Christ, Colossians, definition of the day, definitions, glory, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Hallel, human praise, instrumental, jesus, Jesus Christ, Judges, linked, Luke, Matthew, Music, natural, new testament, Old Testament, praise, Pray, prayer, praying, price, Proverbs, Psalm, value, vocal, world, worshipabarkley8

One of humanity’s many responses to God’s revelation of Himself. The Bible recognizes that men and women also may be the objects of praise, either from other people (Prov 27:21; 31:30) or from God Himself (Rom 2:29), and that angels and the natural world are likewise capable of praising God (Ps 148). Nevertheless, human praise of God is one of Scripture’s major themes.

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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (TAX COLLECTOR PT1)

September 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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THE PASSOVER IN THE BIBLE

September 17, 2021Uncategorized1 corinthians, 2 Corinthians, acts, Annas, bones, Caiphas, Christ, community, covering blood, Exodus, God, God the Father, God the Son, herod, home, Israelites, jesus, Jesus Christ, John, Last Supper, Luke, male lamb, marked, Matthew, Nisan, Old Testament, Passover in the Bible, Romans, sacrificed lamb, shed blood, Sin, sinned, sinner, soldiers, supper, unbrokenabarkley8

In Exodus 12, God gives Moses the instructions and requirements for the Passover.

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JESUS AND THE NAMES OF GOD

September 13, 2021Uncategorized1 corinthians, 1 Peter, 2 Corinthians, 2 peter, Christ, Ephesians, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Jesus Christ, Jesus is El Olam, Jesus is eternal, Jesus is God, Jesus is life giving, Jesus is omnipresent, Jesus is omniscient, John, Luke, Mark, Matthew, Names of Jesus Christ, new testament, Old Testament, one with God, revelation, word, Word was with Godabarkley8

The New Testament alludes to Jesus’ divine nature by comparing Jesus to several names and attributes used for God. Here are a few examples of Jesus being compared to God.

JESUS IS GOD: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1).

JESUS IS ONE WITH GOD: Jesus said, “I and the Father are one.” (John 10:30).

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THE BEATITUDES

September 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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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (MONEY CHANGERS)

September 10, 2021Uncategorized20 percent, 300 percent, altar, animals, animals sacrifices, changers, Christ, cities, city, commission, definition, definition of the day, foreign, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greek, Hebrew, invest, invested, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jew, Jewish, John, Kermotistes, kollubistes, loaned, Luke, Matthew, money, money changers, new testament, Old Testament, origin, pay, sell, Semitic, Semitic origin, shekel, small change, sold animals, table, temple, temple tax, trapetzites, vendorsabarkley8

Persons whose profession was to sell or exchange Roman or other moneys for Jewish money acceptable in the temple worship. In NT times regions and cities issued their own money. This caused Jews of the Dispersion, those who lived outside of Judea, to bring many kinds of money to Jerusalem. To help visitors change money into that acceptable in Jerusalem, money changers set up tables in the temple court of the Gentiles. Syrian silver coins were the money of Jerusalem then, and worshipers used them to pay their temple tax of a half shekel and to buy sacrifices for the altar.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (GHOST)

September 1, 2021Uncategorized8 times, breathing, definition, definition of the day, definitions, eight times, Ghost, give up the ghost, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, jesus, KJV, Luke, Mark, Matthew, new testament, predominant, walked, waterabarkley8

KJV uses “ghost” in two senses, for the human life force and for God’s Holy Spirit. KJV never uses “ghost” for the disembodied spirits of the dead. All 11 OT references involves the phrases “give up the ghost” (e.g., Gen 25:8; 35:29), which means to cease breathing or simply to die. This phrase occurs eight times in the NT (Matt 27:50; Acts 5:5; 12:23). The predominant NT use is for the Holy Spirit.

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

August 30, 2021Uncategorizedaccomplished, baptism, baptized, beat, believers, blessed, Christ, cut, daughter-in-law, divided, division, drink, drunken, due season, earth, family, Father, father in law, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, household, jesus, Jesus Christ, law, Lord, Luke, Matthew, mother, mother in law, new testament, Old Testament, people, peter, portion, risen, ruler, Scripture, scriptures of the day, servant, shower, sister, Son, Son in law, son of god, Son of Man, straitened, sunder, three, unbelievers, wiseabarkley8

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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