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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (EZEKIEL 1:1-21)

Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,

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INFORMATION ABOUT GAD, ASHER, ISSACHAR (3 OF THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL)

MEANING: “Good fortune (or “warrior”)

SYMBOL: Tents, like a battlefield camp

STONE/COLOR: Emerald (or diamond) /Possibly a stone with little color

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WHY DID KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR LOSE HIS MENTAL HEALTH?

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Nothing humbles likes utter humiliation. Ever though Nebuchadnezzar was impressed with God’s power in the furnace incident, he did not come to terms with his own standing before God. His pride and position caused him to accept the worship of others as if he were a god. Continue reading WHY DID KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR LOSE HIS MENTAL HEALTH?

SIGNS & SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (THRESHING FLOOR)

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The harvest and preparation of grain for use as food requires the separation of the kernels from the stalks on which they grow. Because most harvesting today is done mechanically, the significance of a threshing floor and its usefulness as a symbol is somewhat lost to us. A threshing floor was a large, open, hard surface, so threshing floors were often located on hilltops. After bundles of stalks were laid on the surface of the Continue reading SIGNS & SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (THRESHING FLOOR)