The Bible references many different peoples who interacted with the Israelites in the ancient world. One of the most politically important groups was the Assyrians, who played a key role in the history of Israel. Ancient Assyria was a powerful empire that kept written records of its own, and ...
Who were the prophets?[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "The art prophecy is very difficult," Mark Twain once said,...Schorn, Joelu.s.catholic
Islam honors all the prophets who were sent to mankind. Muslims respect all prophets in general, but Jesus in particular, because he was one of the prophets who foretold the coming of Muhammad. Muslims, too, await the second coming of Jesus. They consider him one of the greatest of Allah'...
Who was Paul in the Bible? There is much we can learn from the life of the apostle Paul. Far from ordinary, Paul was given the opportunity to do extraordinary things for the kingdom of God. The story of Paul is a story of redemption in Jesus Christ and a testimony that no one is ...
8Long ago, the prophets who preceded you and me prophesied wars, disasters, and plagues against many countries and great kingdoms.9But the prophet who prophesied peace was recognized as a prophet that theLordsent only if the message of the prophet came true.” ...
Peter is known by several other names in the Bible. It’s common for Bible characters to go by two names, use a nickname, or like theApostle Paul, to have one name in Hebrew and another in Greek. Peter’s original name was Simon, but Jesus called him Cephas (John 1:42), which is...
The LORD provides His wisdom and purposes to particular individuals. Christ’s prophets, in turn, receive a great intimacy with Him and Heaven. Isaiah was commanded to share these divine revelations to others (Numbers 12:6;2 Peter 1:20-21). Those that listen then share the revelations to ...
Daniel: The Prophet Who Was Not a Prophet In Christian Bibles, Daniel is honoured as the fourth of the so-called “greater” prophets (rather than placed among the “minor” prophets). The original Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) is comprised of the Torah (first five books of Moses), Nevi’im (...
But there’s a lot of nuance that goes into answering this question. The Bible didn’t fall out of heaven, and it was a long time in the making. So,let’s take a closer look at the people whom tradition says wrote the Bible.Before we jump into the list of names, let me throw ...
Douay-Rheims Bible Thewords of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Thecua: which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Ozias king of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joas king of Israel two years before the earthquake. ...