You, you who have devoured the vineyard; the loot wrested from the poor is in your houses.15 What do you mean by crushing my people, and grinding down the faces of the poor? says the Lord, the God of hosts. The Haughty Women of Zion[k] 16 The Lord said: Because the daughters of...
in any case, neither incompatible with His power (to do only the good) nor does it show that He lacks power (over humanity). Second, in order to demonstrate
“All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. But He does according to His will in the host of heaven And among the inhabitants of the earth; And no one can hold back His hand Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’Christian Standard BibleAll the inhabitants of the ...
You’ll also notice that the Bible reading plan is set up week by week rather than day by day. One week you will devote every day to the four chapters of Philippians. In this weekly format, you could read the whole book on the first day of the week, then reread little parts the ot...
Mene mene tekel upharsin: what does it mean? The inscription “mene mene tekel upharsin”, found in Daniel 5:25, is an inscription written upon the wall of Belshazzar’s Babylonian palace by a bloodless hand. The meaning The meaning of the phrase mene mene tekel upharsin is as follows: ...
This text flashes new light on this whole topic. Don’t miss it. One group gets the mark of the beastin their foreheadswhile the other group has the name of God writtenin their foreheads. Does Revelation mean to imply that the 144,000 will have visible words written on their skin abov...
Changes in how documents and correspondence are verified and safeguarded mean that signet rings are no longer needed as practical tools to verify or secure documents. The signet ring, however, remains one of the most common types ofrings in menswear, thanks in no small part to its unique and...
In temples, they don ancient regalia, helmets, or masks. Thanks to their veils of secrecy and archaic symbols like the All-Seeing Eye, outsiders find fraternal orders endlessly fascinating. But what does it all mean? By the early 20th century, nearly all of America’s white wealthy elite ...
This does not mean that the clandestine authors were impervious to modern philosophical ideas. Indeed, while criticizing and contesting them, they also used, transformed, and adapted them for their own pur-poses, which were completely different from those of the original authors.Certainly, the ...
The Arab nobles would never have let themselves be buried close to something they considered unclean or unholy. I would suggest that the 7th century Arab Muslims were quite familiar with the martyrdom of the Christians by the Jews, that it was still a part of living memory, and would have...