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ISRAEL AT SINAI

September 17, 2021Uncategorized1 Kings, 2 Kings, abraham, blood, Christ, covenant, creatures, descendants, desert, dominates, earth, foot, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, holy nation, honey, Isaiah, Israel, James, jesus, Jesus Christ, land, Lord, Matthew, midst, milk, Moses, Mount sinai, mountain, new testament, Numbers, Old Testament, Pharaoh, priests, relationship, Sinai, slave, slaves, Ten Commandments, theophany, validatingabarkley8

Exodus 19 describes Israel arriving at Sinai. This chapter is important for understanding the events at Sinai, where Israel spent over two years (Numbers 10:11). God addressed the people as “the house of Jacob. . . the people of Israel . . .” (Exodus 19:3) as a way to remind them that they were the people of the covenant, the descendants of Abraham. What was about to happen at Sinai was not a new covenant with the people but an extension of the covenant God made with Abraham.

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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (MOUNTAIN, TO MOVE)

February 23, 20211 corinthians, 2 Corinthians, bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, Faith, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jeremiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, primitive, prophet, Proverbs, rock, rocks, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorizedair, authors, biblical, earth, everyday, everyday life in bible times, Exdous, exiles, Gods presence, in bible times, Job, landscape, life, Lord, Luke, Messiah, metaphors, Micah, mountain, move, Nahum, Psalm, quake, quaking, skipping, swaying, thinner, travelers, trembling, wax, worshipabarkley8

Mountains are fitting, places to worship God, but as metaphors they become particularly effective theology instructors when moved or disturbed at God’s direction. As the Lord’s unlimited presence took up residence on Mount Sinai, the mountain trembled, smoked, and blazed as a way of showing how unique and powerful God’s presence was (Exod 19:16-19). This event was recalled centuries later when the poet spoke of the Lord as the one “who touches the mountains, and they smoke” (Psa 104:32; 144:5). The mountains of the Promised Land are

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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

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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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BIBLE SIGNS & SYMBOLS (FORTY)

October 18, 2018Uncategorized1kings, 2 Corinthians, 40, 40 day's, 40 nights, Bible, Deuteronomy, devil, Elijah, Exodus, Ezekiel, flood, forty, forty days, forty nights, Genesis, God, Hebrews, Israel, jonah, Judges, judgment, Matthew, Moses, Mount Horeb, mountain, Noah, Philistines, Samson, Satan, serpent, signs and symbols, testingabarkley8

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We should note at the outset that in the era before clocks and precise record keeping, numbers were often an estimation. Three and five signified a little, and forty a lot more. That is not to say that forty was never an accurate number, only that precision was not the intent of biblical authors. Continue reading BIBLE SIGNS & SYMBOLS (FORTY) →

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