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WHAT’S SO IMPORTANT ABOUT THE PREDICTION OF NINEVEH’S DOWNFALL?

May 21, 2021Uncategorized300 years, Almighty God, Assyria, capital, city, city of nineveh, conqureed, empire, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, high, invisble, King, learning, Nahum, nineveh, path, people, powerful, predict, prophecy, techonology, theologians, theological, theologically, theology, three hundred years, wallsabarkley8

At the time of Nahum’s prophecy, Assyria (of which Nineveh was the capital) was the most powerful empire on earth. For three hundred years the Assyrians had conquered all people’s in their path. Nineveh, the shinning center of Assyrian culture, learning, and technology, was

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EVERDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (FAST 2 OF 3)

April 8, 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, prophet, Proverbs, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 Chronicles, 1 samuel, 2 Chronicles, 2 Samuel, acts, armu, baptism, child, creator, dead, death, Deuteronomy, died, everyday life in bible times, excerise, Exodus, Ezra, face, fast, fasting, Israelites, Jerusalem, Jesus baptism, Jew, jews, Matthew, Moses, mourn, Nation, nehemiah, Persia, presence of God's power, seeking, travel, wall, wallsabarkley8

People also fasted in advance of special experiences or in connection with prayerful inquiry. Moses fasted prior to receiving the tablets of stone containing the Ten Commandments on the two separate occasions they were given (Exod 34:28; Deut 9:9). Immediately after his baptism, Jesus retreated into the wilderness where he too fasted as he initiated his public ministry (Matt 4:1-2). Fasting also accompanied special inquiry of the Lord, whether interceding on behalf of a

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BIBLE CUSTOMS & CURIOSITIES (POLICING THE STREETS)

April 5, 2021bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, easter, Faith, forgive, 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, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 samuel, 2 Samuel, area, bride, cities, city, danger, dangerous, day, guard, guards, husband, Husbands, Job, King, Kings, night, order, patrol, police, policed, policing the streets, posted, prostitute, search, shulamite, Solomon's birde, song of solomon, street, streets, today, wall, walled, walled cities, wallsabarkley8

Walled cities of Bible times had guards posted on the walls to warn of approaching danger (2 Sam 18:26). These words of Solomon’s bride showed that armed guards also policed the area inside the walls, particularly at night.

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BIBLE CUSTOMS & CURIOSITIES (IDOLS IN THE TEMPLS)

March 1, 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, primitive, prophet, rock, rocks, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorizedadopted, ancient, beasts, bible customs and curiosities, clean, creeping, decorated, eat, Exodus, Ezekiel, God, God's Judgment, gods, guilty, house of Israel, idol, idols, Jerusalem, Jewish, Leviticus, naitons, NIV, pagan, pagan gods, pagan temples, paint, painting, prophet, raw, sculptures, temple, temples, Ten Commandments, unclean, walls, worldabarkley8

In a vision the prophet Ezekiel saw the temple of the Jewish people in Jerusalem. He was shocked to see on its walls paintings or sculptures of unclean animals that God’s people were not supposed to eat (Leviticus 11:1-19).

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (A HOUSE ON A WALL)

February 21, 2019Uncategorized2 Samuel, 2 Samuel 18:24, acts, Acts 9:24, around, believers, Bible, bible customs and curiosities, bible times, bottom, build, building, built, Christ, city wall, Damascus, dirt, enemies, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, house, inner, inner wall, Jericho, jesus, Joshua, Joshua 2:6, kill, killed, killer, maximum protection, new testament, Old Testament, paul, Protection, Rahab, rubble, spies, strenght, strengthen walls, the, top, wall, wall house, walls, windowabarkley8

Some walled cities of Bible times had an inner wall and an outer wall for maximum protection (see note on 2 Samuel 18:24). To strengthen these walls, the space between them was filled with dirt and rubble at selected points. Houses were sometimes built right into the city wall by placing them on top of these piles of rubble. Continue reading BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (A HOUSE ON A WALL) →

SIGNS & SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (TRUMPET/SHOFAR)

May 22, 2018Uncategorized1 corinthians, 1 samuel, Amos, Bible, bible signs and symbols, God, government, Hannah, Holy Bible, horn, horns, jeremiah, Jericho, Jesus Christ, Job, joy, Judges, new testament, Old Testament, Psalm, rejoiced, revelation, shofar, Signs, sounds, Symbols, tool, trumpet, wallsabarkley8

Trumpets in Bible times were made of metal or bone and formed into an instrument at least two feet long. They had a high sound that could be regulated to some degree, but they were used more for signaling than for making music. Rams’ horns, also called shofar, were signaling instruments used to assemble the army (Judg 3:27; 1Sam 13:3) or sound an alarm (Job 39:24-25; Jer 6:1; Amos 3:6). They are the most commonly mentioned instrument in the Bible, with seventy-two references.

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