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SCRIPTURES OF THE DAY (JOHN 11:1-27)

May 2, 2022UncategorizedBethany, Christ, dead, death, didymus, died, feet, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Grave, hair, jesus, Jesus Christ, jews, Judaea, Lazarus, Lazarus is dead, Lord, love, Martha, mary, master, new testament, Old Testament, scripture of the day, seeth, sick, sister, sleep, townabarkley8

11 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

²(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

³Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (A KING IN A STABLE)

April 27, 2022Uncategorizedbaby, bible customs and curiosities, bible times, bibles, custom, Ezekiel, Ezekiel 16:4, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Jesus Christ, Joseph, King, King in a Stable, Kings, Luke, manger, mary, new testament, newborn, no room, Old Testament, primitive shelters, rock shelters, shelters, Stable, travelers, utensilsabarkley8

After His birth in a stable in Bethlehem, the baby Jesus was placed in a manger, a feeding trough for livestock. This manger may have been hewed out of rock. Stone mangers about tree feet long, eighteen inches wide, and two feet deep have been discovered in the ruins of King Ahab’s stables at the ancient city of Megiddo.

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WHY DID JESUS LET LAZARUS DIE?

September 22, 2021UncategorizedChrist, dead, death, die later, eternal life, Faith, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Haste, Heaven, heavenly, higher purpose, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus close freinds, Jesus raises Lasarus, John, Lazarus, Lazarus sisters, Maratha, mary, Mary and Martha, Matthew, miraculously, Old Testament, physical death, raised Lazarus, separation, Sin, sinned, sinnerabarkley8

No one knows. Jesus’ reasons for delay are not explained here. We can only surmise that a higher purpose-higher than saving people from physical death-caused Jesus not to go with immediate haste to His friend’s side. That purpose was surely the one that Jesus had come to fulfill: saving people from spiritual death, that is, from eternal separation from His loving heavenly Father.

Though Lazarus was raised miraculously, he did die later. So did Mary and Martha, the disciples, and all of Jesus’ closet friends. Jesus did not come to spare His loved ones the experience of physical death but to show them the path to eternal life.

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WHAT IS BELIEF?

September 17, 2021UncategorizedBiblical faith, Catholic faith, Christ, dynamic, Ephesians, exercise, Faith, Faith in Christ Jesus, faith in God, Faith in Jesus Christ, family, family tree, fellowship, God, God exists, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's goodness, God's grace, God's love, grace, growing, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, human person, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus Family, John, Lord, Martha, mary, Matthew, mind, minds, motivated, mountains, new testament, Old Testament, power, powerful, sense, Sin, sinner, soul, strength, the Good News, trustabarkley8

Faith refers to (1) the exercise of our capacity to trust someone or something, as, for example, a rock climber has faith in his or her rope; (2) a set of beliefs, such as “Catholic faith”; (3) a deeper, very personal movement of the heart toward God that includes the first two meanings, yet moves beyond them into personal fellowship with God.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (INN)

September 6, 2021Uncategorizedanimals, building, camp, camping, camping place, Christ, definition of the day, dwellings, family, first century, Genesis, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greek, ground, Hebrew, Innkeeper, jeremiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, Joshua, journey, lodging place, Mark, mary, Matthew, new testament, no room at the Inn, OT, passages, piece, presence, public, public inn, public inns, roman, shelter, shelters, smooth skinned, spring, virgin maryabarkley8

Different kinds of shelters or dwellings. In the OT the Hebrew word translated “inn” or “lodging place” might refer to a camping place for an individual (Jer 9:2), a family on a journey (Exod 4:24), an entire caravan (Gen 42:27; 43:21), or an army (Josh 4:3,8). In these passages (with the possible exception of the reference in Jeremiah) the presence of a building is not implied. Often the reference is only to a convenient piece of ground near a spring. It is doubtful that inns in the sense of public inns with a building existed in OT times.

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HOW CAN A VIRGIN GIVE BIRTH?

September 6, 2021UncategorizedChrist, Church, cross-gender, fertilization, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, history, jesus, Jesus Christ, mary, mating, Matthew, new testament, organic, pregnancy, pregnant, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, sexual union, virgin birth, virgin mary, virginityabarkley8

Physically, it is not possible. While certain organic species are able to procreate without cross-gender mating. Humans have never done so apart from the miraculous conception here. It is not possible to formulate any scientific explanation for the fertilization and pregnancy process described in this passage. Nor are we given any information on the nature of God’s role in this birth, other than attributing Mary’s pregnancy to divine intervention.

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SHAKING JESUS’ FAMILY TREE

August 24, 2021Uncategorized1 samuel, 2 Samuel, aaron, abraham, ancestry, apples, Bathsheba, brother, Christ, cousin, dad, family tree, Father, father-in-law, genealogy, generations, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, Jericho, jesus, Jesus family tree, Jew, Jewish, jews, Joseph, King David, Kings, legal document, Luke, Man, mary, Matthew, Men, Messiah, mom, mother, mother-in-law, nephew, new testament, Old Testament, Rachel, Rahab, revered king, Ruth, sister, Tamar, Uriah, virgin, womenabarkley8

The Jews from Matthew’s day would have disagreed. Tradition-minded Jews kept a record of their ancestors partly because certain rights and responsibilities were inherited. Priests descended from Aaron, the brother of Moses. Kings-and the coming Messiah-would descend from David, Israel’s most revered king.

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (ACTS 1:9-26 JESUS ASCENDS TO HEAVEN, THE UPPER ROOM PRAYER MEETING, MATTHIAS CHOSEN)

May 7, 2021UncategorizedAceldama, Alphaeus, andrew, apostleship, apparel, baptism, Barsabas, Bartholomew, bowels, brother of James, Disciples, dwell, eleven apostles, field of blood, filled, galilee, Heaven, Holy Ghost, James, Jerusalem, John, Joseph, journey, Judas, Justus, manner, mary, Matthew, Matthias, number, Olivet, peter, philip, resurrection, Sabbath, scripture of the day, Simon Zelotes, Thomas, together, tongues, transgression, womenabarkley8

⁹And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

¹⁰And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;

¹¹Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

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WOMEN OF THE BIBLE (MARY “THE MOTHER AND FIRST DISCIPLE OF JESUS”)

May 7, 2021UncategorizedAngel, baby's birth, Cana, children, death, Egypt, final breath, galilee, God's Spirit, grief, Herod's death, husband, Jesus mother, John, Joseph, love, Luke, Mark, mary, Matthew, mom, Nazareth, ominous, parenting, pharisees, religious, roman, Sadducees, sanhedrin, scribes, temple, the Lord saves, wooden crossabarkley8

Mary had a front-row seat for an unbelievable life full of amazing stories: the angel Gabriel showing up out of the blue to tell her that she, a virgin, was pregnant (Luke 1:26-38)-and not just expecting, but expecting the Son of God; the baby’s birth in an animal shed far from home (Luke 2:1-7); the odd parade of well-wishers saying beautiful and occasionally frightening things (Matt 2:1-12; Luke 2:8-38); the mad dash to Egypt to escape Herod’s wrath (Matt 2:13-14).

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WOMEN OF THE DAY (MARY “THE SISTER OF MARTHA”)

April 5, 2021bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, death, Faith, forgive, Forgivness, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lamentations, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, preach, preaching, primitive, prophet, rise, risen, rock, stones, sunday, the church, theology, UncategorizedBethany, bible study, brother, death, exotic, Father, Grave, greet, Jerusalem, John, Judas, kitchen, kneel, Lazarus, leave her alone, lesson, Luke, Mark, Martha, mary, Marys, memory, Men of the Bible, mother, Nazareth, New Tesatment, Old Testament, Rabbi, savior, simon, sister, Truth, women of the bibleabarkley8

The New Testament is full of “Marys.” With six or seven different women sharing that same name, it’s easy to get confused. The Mary we’re looking at here was a resident of Bethany, near Jerusalem. She was the sister of Martha and Lazarus. We meet her in three separate stories in the New Testament.

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