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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (JOB 1:6-22 “THE DEVIL AND GOD HAVE A TALK”)

March 30, 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, death, Dinner, Faith, forgive, Forgivness, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, harvest, Holy Bible, idolatry, jeremiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, Judah, King James Holy Bible, Lamentation, Lamentations, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, preach, preaching, primitive, prophet, Proverbs, rise, risen, rock, rocks, stones, sunday, the church, theology, UncategorizedAngel, Angels, bless, blessed, daughter, daughters, dead, devil, died, eldest, escaped, evil, fear, fell, fire, friends, gave, God's law, house, Job, job sinned, Man, messenger, mother, naked, name of the Lord, oxen, perfect, plow, plowing, sabeans, Satan, Scripture, scriptures, scriture of the day, servant, servants, Son, son's, talk, thither, upright, wine, wombs, worshippedabarkley8

⁶Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.

⁷And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

⁸And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

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BIBLE CUSTOMS & CURIOSITIES (HELPLESS PAGAN GODS)

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, death, Faith, Forgivness, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, the church, theology, Uncategorizedall-powerful, art, arts, assyrian, babylonians, beast, bel, boweth, burden, city, city of babylon, devil, evil, helpless pagan gods, Horses, idol, idols, Isaiah, jeremiah, King Nebuchadnezzar, KJV, marduk, Merodach, Nebo, NIV, other gods, oxen, pagan god, power, powerful, Satan, science, weak, wisdom, worship, YaHWeHabarkley8

One of Isaiah’s favorite themes was that the pagan gods of his time were powerless, while Yahweh, the supreme God of the Israelites, was all-powerful. Here the prophet portrayed two gods of the Assyrians and Babylonians as so weak and helpless that they had to be carried around by oxen and horses.

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SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (BULL/CALF)

June 1, 2020bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 Kings, 2 Kings, 3 yrs old, aaron, agricultural, altar, ancient, animal, animals, ark, Asherah, Baal, bible signs and symbols, breeding, bull, bull/calf, bulls, calf, calves, castrated, cattle, chopped, cows, creator, cultures, Deuteronomy, devil, eat, eats, Egypt, eli, evil, exile, fuel, gideon, God, gods, golden calf, Hannah, idol, Isaiah, Israel, Jeroboam, Job, Judges, leather, Leviticus, Luke, meal, Meat, milk, natural, oxen, perfect animals, Philistines, plows, power, prodigal son, Psalm, sacrificing, Samuel, Satan, Shiloh, signs and symbols, Sin, sinner, sinners, strenght, symbolic, Symbols, tabernacle, wagon, wagons, wealth, wild life, wooden, work, workforce, worship, young Samuelabarkley8

Cattle were primarily a measure or symbol of wealth in biblical times. They were both familiar and significant, good characteristics for symbolic use. Among his livestock, the wealthy Job had a thousand oxen (Job 1:3). Cattle not only provided meat, milk, leather, and other by-products, they were the main animal workforce in ancient agricultural societies. Oxen (castrated bulls) pulled plows as well as wagons. Continue reading SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (BULL/CALF) →

WHY DID KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR LOSE HIS MENTAL HEALTH?

February 19, 2019UncategorizedBabylon, beast, chewing, cow, cows, Daniel, Daniel 4:31-32, dream, dreaming, dreams, dumb, dumb beast, dwell, dwelling, dwelling place, ears, furnace, gearter, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's Power, grass, grass chewing, great, greater ears, health, Heart, hight, humble, humbles, humbling, impressed, issue, issues, Jesus Christ, King, King Nebuchadnezzar, mental, mental health, most, most High, Nebuchadnezzar, ox, oxen, power, prideabarkley8

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)

November 14, 2018Uncategorized1 Chronicles, 1 corinthians, 2 Samuel, abundance, Babylon, Bible, David, Deuteronomy, farm, farmer, farmers, floor, God, God of Israel, Holy Bible, Hosea, Isaiah, Jebusite, Jesus Christ, Joel, John, Judgement, judgment, Lord, Matthew, muzzling, new testament, Old Testament, Ornan, ox, oxen, paul, Psalm, Religion, signs and symbols, symbolizes, Symbols, threshing, threshing floorabarkley8

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) →

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