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HAVING FAITH IN GOD

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Faith in God is a fundamental aspect of many people’s lives. It is a belief in a higher power that provides comfort, strength, and hope in times of uncertainty and adversity. Faith is not just a religious concept, but a universal one that is shared by people from all walks of life. It is the foundation of spirituality and a means of finding meaning and purpose in life.

Faith in God is rooted in the belief that there is a divine force that created and sustains the universe. This belief can be reinforced through personal experiences and encounters, religious teachings, and traditions. For many, faith is a way of connecting with something greater than themselves, and it provides a sense of purpose and direction in life.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (MUTENESS)

September 18, 2022Uncategorizedacts, bark, Christ, Daniel, definition, definition of the day, definitions, dogs, Exodus, Ezekiel, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, heavenly, Holy Bible, Isaiah, Israel, jesus, Jesus Christ, leaders, Matthew, mute, new testament, Old Testament, Psalm, sign, Signs, speech, speechless, suffer, suffering, symbol, Zechariahabarkley8

Inability to speak. In the OT muteness is traced to God (Exod 4:11). God made Ezekiel mute (Ezek 3:26) in response to Israel’s failure to listen to his message. Later He restored Ezekiel’s speech (24:27; 33:22) as a sign of the people’s receptiveness to hear. Daniel became speechless in response to the appearance of a heavenly messenger (Dan 10:15).

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OLD TESTAMENT ORIGIN OF THE PASSOVER

September 17, 2021Uncategorizedanimals, blimished, blood, blood on the door, brick, Christ, denied, Egypt's power, evil, Exodus, first born sons, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God's killed, great leader, home, homes marked with lambs blood, humans, Israelites, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ and the Passover, kill, lambs blood, land of Egypt, Lord, mad, materials, Matthew, memorial, Moses, naiton, new testament, origin of the passover, Pharaoh, Pharaoh's heart, sacrifice, Satan, straw, stubbornness, suffering, the Passoverabarkley8

THE PASSOVER is the Old Testament feast that celebrates and remembers God’s liberation of Israel from Egypt. After Joseph saved Egypt from starvation (Genesis 41), the Israelites lived in Egypt as guests. Eventually, the Egyptians forgot about Joseph and enslaved the Israelites for hundreds of years (Exodus 1:6-14).

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NAMES OF GOD (GOD OF ALL COMFORT)

July 8, 2021Uncategorized1 Corinthains, 2 Corinthians, believers, Christ, christians, comfort, context, Father, God, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, James, jesus, Jesus Christ, joy, joyful, Lord, Matthew, merices, names of God, new testament, optimistic, paul, sufferingabarkley8

(2 Corinthians 1:3) Blessed be God, even the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort.

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VISIONS OF SUFFERING (6:1-19: 10)

June 4, 2021Uncategorized7 seals, Angels, antichrist, apocolyps, archangel Michael, child, death, devastation, died, dragon, earth's rivers, earth-shaking, fire, fire on earth, God's Judgment, Heaven, hell, Jesus Christ, John, locusts, poisoned, rivers, Satan, Satan allies, sea, series, seven seals, sound of trumpet, suffering, symbol, the end times, the last days, unbelivers, vision of suffering, warabarkley8

This is the longest section of the book of Revelation. It describes the visions of John regarding a series of catastrophic events that God would use to judge the earth before the end of the age and the triumphant second coming of Christ.

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (1 PETER 4:12-19)

April 12, 2021bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, death, Faith, 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, preach, preaching, primitive, prophet, Proverbs, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 Peter, 2 peter, appear, ashame, ashamed, busybody, christians, evil, evildoer, Faith, Faithful, faithful Creator, fiery, glorify, glory, Gospel, joy, judge, judgment, Men, murderer, obey, rejoice, righteous, Satan, Scripture, scripture of the day, scriptures, Sin, sinned, sinner, suffering, thief, trial, ungodly, womenabarkley8

¹²Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

¹³But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

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WHY DOES GOD SEEM SO FRIGHTENING?

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, Faith, 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, primitive, prophet, Proverbs, rise, risen, rocks, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorizedacts, adversary, assured, awesome, believe, believer, bow, bowed, breath, channel, channels, cherub, coals, dark, darkness, discomfited, energy, Faith, Faithful, feet, fire, fly, forcefulness, foundation, foundations, fright, frightening, God, hail stones, Heaven, high, highest, injustice, kindle, language, lightning, Lord, moved, nostriles, nostrils, omnipotent, omnipotent power, pavilion, poetic, poetic language, power, Psalm, rode, shaken, siner, sinned, sinning, skies, smoke, suffer, suffering, thick, victim, waters, wind, wing, wrothabarkley8

The psalmist has an extremely high view of God’s ability to respond mightily to the believer’s plea for help. He uses poetic language to describe the indescribable-God’s almighty power. God sounds frightening because He is. When God acts to help someone prevail over injustice, the energy God expends will be much more frightening than the victim’s adversary.

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (JESUS’ CUP OF SUFFERING)

March 18, 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, forgive, 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, preach, preaching, prophet, rise, risen, rock, rocks, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorizedagony, arrest, arrested, cross, crucified, crucifixion, cup, Father, fury, garden, garden of gethsemane, gethsemane, Isaiah, Jesus Christ cup, Matthew, pass, pick up, Pray, prayer, Psalm, psalmist, punishment, sacrifice, Sin, sinned, sinner, sinning, suffer, sufferingabarkley8

This verse is part of Jesus’ prayer of agony in the Garden of Gethsemane before His arrest and crucifixion. This “cup” to which He referred was the suffering He would endure on the cross as an atoning sacrifice for sin.

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (MEDICINAL USE OF WINE)

May 19, 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, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, prophet, theology, Uncategorized1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, ailment, beverage, beverages, bible times, contaminated, devil, distress, drink, drinking, evil, hurt, Mark, mental, pain, physical pain, poured, Provbers, Satan, stomach, suffer, suffering, water, wine, wound, woundsabarkley8

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Contaminated water was a problem in Bible times, just as it still is in many parts of the world. Paul’s practical advice to Timothy was to drink a little wine along with the water that he had been drinking, which had caused a stomach ailment. Continue reading BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (MEDICINAL USE OF WINE) →

DEFINITION OF THE DAY (HELL)

May 1, 2020bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, death, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, NIV, Old Testament, rock, rocks, stones, sunday, theology, Uncategorized2 peter, Ancient Greeks, bible definition, darkness, dead, death, definition, definition of the day, definitions, devil, die, eternal fire, evil, Gehenna, gnashing, gnashing teeth, God, habitation, Hades, hell, homosexuals, James, Jerusalem, judgment, KJV, lake of fire, liars, Luke, Mark, Matthew, Moloch, New Testament usage, NT, Old Testament, Old Testament usage, OT, paganism, physical, prostitues, punished, punishment, revelation, sacrifices, Satan, satan angels, sheol, sinned, sinner, sinners, southeast, spiritual, suffering, Tartarus, teeth, ungodly, weeping, whores, wicked, worm, wormsabarkley8

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Usually understood as the final abode of the unrighteous dead wherein the ungodly suffer eternal punishment; the term translates one OT word and several NT words.

OLD TESTAMENT USAGE – The only Hebrew word translated “hell” in the KJV (though not in modern translatons) is Sheol. Sheol itself is a broad term that, depending on the context, may signify the abode of the both the righteous dead and the ungodly dead. Continue reading DEFINITION OF THE DAY (HELL) →

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