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PURITY, IMPURITY, AND THE TABERNACLE

August 30, 2021Uncategorizedanew, blood, body fluids, causes, Christ, christians, duration, entities, God, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy, impurity, Israelites, jesus, Jesus Christ, kind, Leviticus, Matthew, moral, Mosaic law, new testament, offering, Old Testament, pure, purity, ritual bathing, sacrifice, Sin, sinned, sinner, tabernacle, undoingabarkley8

The issue of purity was very important for the Israelites. The Tabernacle was at the center of all of Israel’s life. God’s presence in the midst of the camp determined the life of the people. An important function of the Mosaic Law was to instruct people on how to live in the presence of a holy God. The holy and the impure cannot coexist. Thus, God provided a means to cleanse what had become impure. God chose purification rites and sacrifices to prevent the destruction of the people when they became impure. The following table shows the main causes for ritual and moral impurity and the prescription for achieving purity anew.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (BLOOD OF CHRIST-MEANING AND EFFECTS)

August 24, 2021Uncategorized1 Peter, 2 peter, analogies, animals sacrifices, atoning, blemish, blood, blood of christ, blood sacrifice, both lega, Christ, cleanses, covenant, death, defect, definition of the day, definitions of the day, died, effect, Ephesians, God, God the Son, God-man, HCSB, Hebrews, jesus, Jesus Christ, justification, lamb, law, laws, legal transactions, Matthew, meaning, new testament, odds, offering, priest, propitiatation, redeemer, Revelations, Romans, sprinkle, sprinkling, sprinkling of bloodabarkley8

The term “blood of Christ” designates in the NT the atoning death of Christ. Atonement refers to the basis and process by which estranged people become at one with God (atonement=at-one-ment). When we identify with Jesus, we are no longer at odds with God. The meaning of Christ’s death is a great mystery. The NT seeks to express this meaning in

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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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SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (ALTAR)

August 24, 2020bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, 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, preach, preaching, primitive, the church, theology, Uncategorizedaltar, animal, animals, Bible, brazier, christian era, Church, communion, desert, east of Jordan River, Exodus, Exodus 27:1-8, Exodus 30:1-10, fashioned, Gad, Genesis, Genesis 12:7, Genesis 12:8, Genesis 13:18, Hebrew, Hebrews 9:22, Holy, horn, horns, incense, Isaac, Israel, Jacob, Jordan River, Joshua, Joshua 22, large, large stones, Leviticus, Leviticus 17:11, Manasseh, offering, Old Testament, Promised land, Reuben, rose, sacrifice, sacrifice offering, shechem, Sin, sins, sky, slaughter, smoke, stone, stones, Symbolically, symbolized, tools, worshipabarkley8

In the Old Testament, the object erected time and time again to communicate the presence and power of God was an altar. The altar could be a single rock or a loosely organized arrangement of large stones, so people were never far from an altar or could build one in a few moments. Nothing was more prominent as a biblical image for worship and allegiance to God than the altar. It is no exaggeration to say that the most visible sign of one’s devotion to the true God in the worship of the old covenant was the building of altars or traveling to them for acts of sacrifice or offering. Continue reading SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (ALTAR) →

SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (SACRIFICE/OFFERING)

June 17, 2019Uncategorized1 corinthians, 1 samuel, 2 Corinthians, 2 Samuel, abel, animal, animals, bible signs and symbols, Cain, Christ, daughter, daughters, David, Egypt, Elkanah, flock, flocks, forgiveness, Genesis, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greave, healthy, Heart, Heart Sacrifice, Hosea, jesus, Jewish, jews, King, King Saul, land, Lands, Levites, Leviticus, Lord, Mark, obey, offering, offerings, pain, payment, Peninnah, Psalm, rebuke, Sabbath, sacrifice, sacrifices, Saul, savior, share, Sinless, Son, symbolic, wroshipabarkley8

In order to understand the idea of sacrifices and offerings, we must go back to the very beginning of the Bible. By Genesis 4, the first sons, Cain and Abel, were practicing an early form of sacrifice: “Later Cain brought some crops from the land as an offering to the LORD. Abel also brought some choice parts of the firstborn animals from his flock. The LORD approved of Abel and his offering, but he didn’t approved of Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry and was disappointed” (Gen 4:3-5). From the beginning, offerings and sacrifices generally expressed two attitudes: gratitude and repentance. In the case of Cain and Abel, later history of sacrifice might lead us to think that God’s rejection of Cain’s offering was because it wasn’t a blood sacrifice, but the text doesn’t indicate such a conclusion. Cain’s offering was casual and perhaps careless; Abel’s was costly. Cain brought “some crops”; Abel presented “some choice parts.” Cain’s response to God’s correction revealed his heart. Continue reading SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (SACRIFICE/OFFERING) →

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