Shook, Jill SuzanneCultural Encounters
whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, to-day, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, “may my right hand forg...
Most of the meanings attributed to numbers in the Bible relate to prophecy, laws to be followed or punishments inflicted. The most common Biblical number is 7. According to Genesis, the Earth and everything in it was completed by God in six days, and the seventh day is reserved as the D...
Away from the centre, however, and closer to the walls, some areas of the town had been spared and some buildings had survived the onslaught, including the Augusteum, the former monastery that had once served as a home to Martin Luther and still housed the famous Lutherstube (Figure 1)....
Words have the power to build up and to tear down. The Bible says that our tongues are a world of iniquity. We bless God out of one side and curse Him out of the other side. Wegossipand bad mouth people made in God’s image, but we can also build them up with a few choice wo...
What does it mean to be of the world? First I think it means being non-biblical. When anyone or any group is of the world they are led by the world and the things of the world that are not of God. John makes clear what the world is about, “Do not love the world or the ...
CJ Lovik of RockIsland Books, after studying the sabbatical cycles, is suggesting a rapture no later thanthe Year of Jubilee that ends on the day of atonement on Tishri 10 2024 (October 12th, 2024). God has appointed man to self-govern for 6000 years 3970 to 2031) and not 5999 years....
You get to know many generations, you know, 50 years before to the present day decisions that they're facing. I think it could be really interesting for you. And Jubilee by Margaret Walker, uh, biographical novel based on Margaret Walker's, I think it's her great grandmother's life, ...
“Babylonian” idolatry, but this isn’t the context–in fact, Babylon’s idolatry barely gets a mention in the entire chapter; when it does, it is in relation to their being shamed as part of God’s overall vengeance. Furthermore, when the danger of idolatry is mentioned in the ...
Who so stolid and selfish that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation’s jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs? I am not that man. In a case like that, the dumb might eloquently speak, and the “lame man leap as an hart.” ...