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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (JOHN 14:1-31)

July 6, 2021Uncategorizedbelieve, Christ, Father, glorified, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, Heart, jesus, Jesus Christ, Know God, life, many mansion, Matthew, name, new testament, Old Testament, Old Testment, place, seen him, seen me, sufficeth, troubledabarkley8

1.Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

²In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

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READING IN A SYNAGOGUE

November 20, 2019Uncategorizedbible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, chronological, cities, city, community, Disciples, elected, galilee, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Isaiah, Israel, Jerusalem, jesus, Jesus Christ, law, local, Lord, Luke, Nazareth, new testament, NIV, Old Testment, Palestine, people, preach, prophet, read, scriptures, Synagogue, theology, towns, writtenabarkley8

This synagogue in which Jesus read the Old Testament scriptures was in Nazareth, his hometown in the province of Galilee, Synagogues were built in towns and cities throughout Palestine. Their purpose was not to replace the temple in Jerusalem that served as the central place of worship and sacrifice for all Israel. Synagogues existed to reach the law to local people. Continue reading READING IN A SYNAGOGUE →

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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