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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (A GOD WHO HEARS AND ACTS)

May 17, 2021Uncategorized1 Kings, 2 Kings, Baal, bible customs and curiosities, curiosities, customs, Elijah, God who hears and acts, Mount Carmel, new testament, Old Testament, priests, prophets, sings and symbols, theologians, theological, theologically, theologyabarkley8

The prophet Elijah challenged the prophets of the pagan god Baal to a contest on Mount Carmel. They laid a sacrificial animal on a pile of wood. The prophets of Baal would call on their gods, and Elijah would call on his. The god who answered by sending fire to consume the sacrifice would be declared the superior god (1 Kings 18:22-25).

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MEN OF THE BIBLE (ELIJAH “SOLO, BUT NOT ALONE”)

April 1, 2021bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, death, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, harvest, Holy Bible, idolatry, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, preach, preaching, prophet, Proverbs, rock, rocks, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 Kings, 12 stones, 12 tribes, 2 Kings, altar, Asherah, Baal, bild, built, devour, Elijah, evil, evil doers, facedown, false god, False gods, hell, Israel, large water, live, living, Lord, Meat, Men of the Bible, message, Mount Carmel, offer, offering, pots, prophets, Queen Jezebel, sacrifice, trench, twelve stones, twelve tribes, water, water pots, waterlogged, women of the bible, wood, worshipping, YaHWeHabarkley8

As a prophet of God in Israel during the reign of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel, Elijah was an endangered species. The evil royal couple had done everything in their power to rid the nation of God’s spokespeople so that their own prophets of the false gods Baal and Asherah could do their work unopposed.

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WOMEN OF THE BIBLE (JEZEBEL: HOW NOT TO LIVE YOUR LIFE)

June 10, 2019Uncategorized10 tribes, 1kings, 2kings, ahab, Asherah, Baal, bankrupt, blasphemy, brazen, Christ, dog food, Ethbaal, false prophets, Father, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jezebel, life, live, Lord, love, morally, Mount Carmel, mountain, mountaintop, new testament, Old Testment, Phoenician, rain, royalty, shame, shameless, slaughtered, ten tribes, woman, women of the bible, YaHWeHabarkley8

It’s hard find nice things to say about the woman whose name has become synonymous for being shameless, brazen, and morally bankrupt.

Jezebel came from royalty-her father was Ethbaal, a Phoenician king. She also married into royalty-her husband, Ahab, was the king of the ten tribes that made up the northern kingdom of Israel (see 1 Kings 16:29-33).

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