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WHY WAS EZRA SO UPSET ABOUT MIXED MARRIAGES?

May 26, 2020bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 Kings, 2 Kings, above, Boaz, Christ, Deuteronomy, devil, evil, Ezra, foreign, glory, God, gods, intermarriage, interracial marriages, Israel, marriages, married, marry, Midianite, Midianite Woman, mix, mixed, mixing, nations, Satan, syncretism, womanabarkley8

Israel’s greatest problem throughout its history was syncretism-the mixing of pagan religion with worship of the true God. God judged Israel severely for failing to keep worship clean and pure. And one of the easiest inroads to Israel’s heart was through intermarriage with pagan people’s Ezra knew this well, thus his vehement and emotional opposition to taking foreign spouses. Continue reading WHY WAS EZRA SO UPSET ABOUT MIXED MARRIAGES? →

WHY WAS EZRA SO UPSET ABOUT MIXED MARRIAGE? EZRA 9

June 5, 2019Uncategorized1 Kings, 1 Kings 11:1-13, Christ, Deuteronomy, Exodus, Ezra, Faith, faithfulness, foreign spouses, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Israel, jesus, Jesus Christ, Lord, Lords, marriage, marriages, married, Midianite, mixed, mixed marriages, Moabite, Moses, new testament, Old Testament, pagan, pagan religion, Religion, Rute, spouse, spouses, upsetabarkley8

Israel’s greatest problem throughout its history was syncrestism-the mixing of pagan religion with worship of the true God. God judged Israel severely for failing to keep worship clean and pure. And one of the easiest inroads to Israel’s heart was through intermarriage with pagan peoples. Ezra knew this well, thus his vehement and emotional opposition to takign foreign spuses. Continue reading WHY WAS EZRA SO UPSET ABOUT MIXED MARRIAGE? EZRA 9 →

MEN OF THE BIBLE “GIDEON”

May 6, 2019Uncategorized300 men, Angel, camp, crop, crops, gideon, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Israel, Israelites, Jesus Christ, Joash, joy, Judges, Judges7:14, livestock, Lord, melee, Men of the Bible, Midianite, terrorized, torch, wildabarkley8

Judges 7:14- “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has handed the entire Midianite camp over to him.”

Gideon was threshing grain in a wine a press, to hide it from the marauding, when an angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, “The LORD is with you, mighty warrior” (Jud 6:12). Continue reading MEN OF THE BIBLE “GIDEON” →

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