Content. The Book of Obadiah isbased on a prophetic vision concerning the fall of Edom, a mountain dwelling nation whose founding father was Esau. Obadiah describes an encounter with Yahweh, who addresses Edom's arrogance and charges them for their "violence against your brother Jacob". What i...
Question:Elisha’s request of Naaman to immerse himself seven times in the Jordan River in order to be healed[ii]and his “stretching himself” upon a child to raise him from the dead[iii]seem highly unusual. Was there any special meaning to Elisha’s actions?
Included in the quotes below are extracts from the first creeds to use the term “Catholic”; so that the term can be seen in its historical context, which is supplied by the other quotations. It is from this broader context that the meaning of the term in the creeds is established, ...
A prophet is a mouthpiece of God, expressing His nature and will. The prophet is one who has the Spirit, a child of God used as an instrument to make His will known to people. He/she is a vehicle by which God relates to the world and makes known to men the things of the Kingdom...
“And the large and spacious building which thy father saw is vain imaginations and the pride of the children of men” 1 Nephi 12:18 The Know In Lehi’s prophetic vision of the tree of life, he described a great and spacious building. After partaking of its fruit and experiencing for ...
什么是后现代主义(What is postmodernism) Data worth having From the usual study, accumulation and summary Where there is a problem, there must be some Please also criticize and correct me! What is postmodernism? Sink of ice Lets eliminate several impossible definitions of postmodernism from the ver...
Some 250 years ago, a great Jewish saint and mystic, the Gaon of Vilna, taught that when the light of Torah came into the world it split into two parts. Only one part was revealed directly, the prophetic experience. The other part was hidden in the wisdoms of nature and the time will...
Of these, only ardent is free of negative implications in describing both desire and dedication: an ardent lover; an ardent patriot. ... Fervent and fervid come from the same root,meaning to boil. Their relationship is somewhat like that of impassioned and passionate. Fervent, like impassioned...
Depending on how spiritual you are, some of us are sensitive to negative energy. If someone is sending you negative energy (in waking life) then it is not uncommon to dream of an alligator attack. What is the meaning of a crocodile chasing you in a dream? The crocodile chasing you ...
Many genuine, born-again Christians take the Bible literally. They approach the prophetic portions of scripture grammatically and historically. Even though prophecies contain figurative language, they interpret them according to their plain meaning. They believed like this from the first century until tod...