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MEN OF THE BIBLE (SAMSON: A STRONG AND WEAK MAN)

10/29/2019Uncategorized1000, alcohol, Ashkelon, begs, bible studies, bible study, blind, burn, burning, Christ, Christian, christian studies, christianity, christians, clothing, cocky, collapsed, cut, delilah, donkey, enemies, enemy, fire, food, forbidden, fox, garments, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, gold, groves, hair, Holy Bible, Israel, Israelites, jaw-bone, jesus, Jesus Christ, Judges, Judges 13:5, killed, leader, linen, Man, marriage, married, marry, Men of the Bible, military, nazirite, new testament, notorious, off, Old Testament, olive, Philistines, pride, proud, Samson, silver, sleep, Son, strong, theology, thousands, unclean, vineyards, warrior, warriors, weakabarkley8

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Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those words would have made a good motto for Israel during its period of the judges. The seemingly endless cycle in which the Israelites found themselves went like this: The people of Israel would rebel against God, so God would allow their enemies often the Philistines-to mistreat them. After serval decades of oppression, the Israelites would call out to God for help. Then God would send a judge-a military leader-to deliver them from their enemies. One of the last of these judges was Samson. Continue reading MEN OF THE BIBLE (SAMSON: A STRONG AND WEAK MAN) →

WHY IS SEXUAL PURITY SO IMPORTANT “1 THESSALONIANS 4:3-8”

06/07/2019Uncategorized1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, biologist, chastity, Christ, Church, churches, gender, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, govern, hierarchies, Hollywood, Homosexuality, jesus, Jesus Christ, Key, live, living, love, loyalty, marriage, married, marry, pure, purity, sex, sexual, sexual sin, spirit, spiritualabarkley8

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Sex is such a strong instinct that it affects every other motivation and loyalty. Biologists are just now discovering how the sex drive governs social organization in animal species from monkeys to dolphins. All animals live in hierarchies, and those hierarchies govern who mate with whom. Sex affects everything. Continue reading WHY IS SEXUAL PURITY SO IMPORTANT “1 THESSALONIANS 4:3-8” →

BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (MARRIAGE AMONG RELATIVES)

03/05/2019Uncategorizedabraham, Bible, bible customs and curiosities, bloodline, brother, Christ, common, daughter, devil, distant, distant relatives, evil, female, Genesis, Genesis 14:16, Genesis 29:10, Gensis 24:4, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, good, Isaac, Jacob, jesus, Jesus Christ, Kinsmen, Laban, male, marriage, marry, mesopotamia, mother, new testament, Old Testament, Rebekah, related, relationship, relatives, Satan, thee, tribe, wife, woman, wrongabarkley8

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Laban was the brother of Jacob’s mother, Rebekah (Genesis 29:10). This relationship would have made Laban’s daughter Rachel-the woman whom Jacob wanted to marry-Jacob’s first cousin. Continue reading BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (MARRIAGE AMONG RELATIVES) →

SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (MARRIAGE)

02/19/2019Uncategorizedbible signs and symbols, bride, bridegroom, Christ, Christ relationship, Church, earth, Ephesians, ephesians 5:30-32, flesh, Genesis, Genesis 1:28, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's faithfulness, Gomer, groom, Hosea, human image, human relationship, image, image of God, Jesus Christ, John, kingdom, kingdom of heaven, Lord, Lord God, Luke, Mark, marriage, marry, Matthew, naked, naked woman, New Jerusalem, new testament, of, Old Testament, paul, prostitue, revelation, Revelation 21:2, symbolic, symbolizes, Symbols, throne, unfaithful, unfaithfulness, wifeabarkley8

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Marriage and the related symbols of bride and bridegroom play as large a role in Scripture as they did in real life in the ancient world. whether we consider the Old Testament picture of Israel as the bride and God as her bridegroom (Isa 62:4-5; Jer 2:2) or the New Testament picture of the church as the bride and Jesus as the bridegroom (2 Cor 11:2; Eph 5:21-32; Rev 21:2, 9), the message points to a special relationship God longs to have with his people. (See also BRIDE, BRIDEGROOM.) Continue reading SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (MARRIAGE) →

MEN OF THE BIBLE “THE WISE MEN” HONORING THE KING

12/24/2018UncategorizedAngel, Angels, astrologers, bethlehem, Egypt, frankincense, gifts, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, gold, Honoring the King, Jesus birth, Jesus Christ, Joseph, killed, King, King Herod, King James Holy Bible, magi, marry, Marry and Joseph, Matthew, Matthew 2:2, Men of the Bible, myrrh, Nazareth, new king, symbolic, three, three wise men, traveled, two years old, visitors, wise menabarkley8

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Depending on how the original words are translated, Jesus received visitors who could be referred to as wise men, magi, or astrologers. We don’t know names, how far they traveled, or how many arrived. We usually think there were three of them because they brought three gifts, but there could have been more. Continue reading MEN OF THE BIBLE “THE WISE MEN” HONORING THE KING →

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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WHERE DID CAIN GET HIS WIFE? “GENESIS 4:17”

09/17/2015UncategorizedAble, brothers, Cain, children, Genesis, Leviticus, married, marry, problem, Problems, sisters, solution, Solutions, wifeabarkley8

Problem: There were no women for Cain to marry. There was only Adam, Eve (4:1), and his dead brother, Abel (4:8). Yet the Bible says Cain married and had children.

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