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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (COMMERCIALISM IN THE TEMPLE)

March 25, 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, Faith, Forgivness, 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, primitive, prophet, Proverbs, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorizedactivities, altar, animals, coins, commercialism in the temple, Exodus, festival, holy city, Isaiah, Jesus upset, jews, Matthew, officials, Passover in Jerusalem, pilgrims, sacrifice, temple, thievesabarkley8

These commercial activities that upset Jesus were being conducted in an outer court of the Jewish, temple during the observance of the Passover in Jerusalem.

All male Jews were expected to attend this festival, even if they lived a long distance from Jerusalem (Exod 23:17). The money changers were probably exchanging foreign coins of these pilgrims for the appropriate coins with which to pay the temple tax (Matt 17:24).

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (BURIED FOOD)

June 1, 2020bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, Dinner, eat, flour, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, gravel, harvest, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, Proverbs, rock, rocks, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized10, bible times, buried, buried food, chaotic, clay, clay jars, dry, field, fields, food, ground, harvest, havested, honey, Ishmael, jar, jeremiah, Jeremiah 41:8, Jew, jews, Judah, liquid, liquids, live, lives, oil, oil and honey, oils, pit, pits, rule, rules, seal, sealed, silos, stone, stones, straw, straws, supplies, ten, thieve, thievesabarkley8

Ishmael was a Jewish zealot who rebelled against the rule of Babylonia in the chaotic period after Judah fell to the Babylonian army. These ten men agreed to give Ishmael some food supplies that they had hidden in their fields if he would spare their lives. Continue reading BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (BURIED FOOD) →

SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-11: AVOIDING SEXUAL SIN)

May 15, 2020bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, curiosities, customs, 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, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 corinthians, 2 Corinthians, abusers, adulterous, devil, drunkard, drunkards, evil, God, greed, greedy, greedy people, Homosexuality, idolaters, kids application, Kids Application Bible, King James Bible, King James Holy Bible, Lord, Lord Jesus, prostitute, prostitutes, revilers, Satan, Scripture, scripture of the day, Sin, sinners, sins, spirit, swindlers, thieves, unrighteous, wash, washed, worshipersabarkley8

^9.Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

^10.Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. Continue reading SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-11: AVOIDING SEXUAL SIN) →

BIBLE CUSTOMS & CURIOSITIES (CARING FOR A VINEYARD)

May 6, 2019Uncategorizedagricultural, animals, Bible, bible customs and curiosities, bird, birds, Christ, commodities, devil, digged, evil, fenced, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, grapes, grapevine, harvesting, hedge, Isaiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, Job, juice, Lamentations, Matthew, new testament, NIV, Old Tesatment, product, Proverbs, ripe, ripening, rows, stakes, thieves, thornbush, tower, vineyardabarkley8

Wine was one of the most valuable agricultural commodities in Bible times. People grew grapes to make their own wine, and many farmers produced wine for sale as a commercial product. This verse, from Jesus’ parable of the vineyard owner, gives insight into how grapes were grown and made into wine.

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SIGNS & SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (HEAVEN)

April 23, 2018Uncategorized1 corinthians, acts, beauty, bible signs and symbols, Church, clouds, comfort, cross, crucified, Ephesians, Ezekiel, Genesis, God, God's home, going home, Heavens, heavn, Isaiah, Jacob, jesus, John, King, ladder, peace, peaceful, philippians, place of perfection, Psalm, resting place, revelation, Romans, signs and symbols, symbol, thieves, vision]abarkley8

In a literal sense, heaven is the eternal dwelling place of God (Gen 24:7), the angels (Gen 28:12), and the saints-Christians who have died (Eph 2:6; Rev 20:4). The imagery surrounding heaving in Scripture is filled with pictures of an otherworldly paradise, the world as it was meant to be in all of its original perfection. Heaven itself is not an image in Scripture-it is a real place, in the same way earth is a real place, in the same way earth Continue reading SIGNS & SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (HEAVEN) →