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AGAINST SO MANY BIBLICAL COMMANDS, HOW CAN SOLOMON ADVISE THAT THERE IS A TIME TO KILL, TO TEAR DOWN, AND TO HATE?

April 14, 2021bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, death, 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, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized12 oclock, baby, birth, birthing, build, builders, building, context, cried, cry, crying, dead, death, destruction, die, died, ecclesiastes, event, heal, healing, human, joyous, kill, killed, killer, killing, laugh, laughter, life, live, o'clock, repeat, rhythms, season, seasons, solomon, tears, time, twelveabarkley8

Solomon’s list of times and “seasons” must be viewed within the larger context of life an history. He is not necessarily saying, “Hey, it’s twelve o’clock, time to kill-so go out and bump someone off.” Rather, Solomon insists that human life takes place within a larger framework of events that repeat down through history: laughter, tears, killing, healing, destruction, building, death, birth.

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BIBLE SIGNS & SYMBOLS (ONE HUNDRED FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND)

March 13, 2018Uncategorized144000, abraham, Abraham descendants, Bible, bible signs and symbols, Galatians, gentiles, God, Heavenly Choir, Inclusive Body, Jesus Chris, jews, Messiah, number, paul, revelation, Symbols, twelveabarkley8

The number 144,000 is used in only one book of the Bible: Revelation. The number relates to a group mentioned in Revelation 7:4-8 made up of twelve thousand people from each of the twelve tribes of Israel. The significance of twelve is heightened by using twelve times twelve as a number. This large, exact number is immediately followed by an even larger and more expansive number in verse 9 (“a large crowd from every

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BIBLE SIGNS AND SYMBOLS “TWELVE”

September 21, 2015Uncategorized1 Kings, 12, 12 disciples, 12 prophecy, 12 tribes, 12 tribes of Judah, Bible, completeness, Exodus, Faith, Genesis, Jacob, Joshua, key verse, Luke, Mark, Matthew, new testament, number, Numbers, Old Testament, revelation, signs and symbols, symbolic, twelve, twelve disciples, twelve prophecy, twelve tribesabarkley8

Outside the Bible, the recognition of twelve months in the lunar calendar made the number twelve an important symbol for the annual cycles of life. In the Bible, this number usually symbolizes completeness, especially with regard to the people of God. Once the twelve tribes of Israel were established, uses of the number twelve became a symbol pointing to the entire people of God.

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