The Amalekites were a nation of people descended from the biblical Esau. Amalek was the illegitimate son of Elifaz -- the oldest son of Esau -- and Elifaz's concubine, Timna. Rabbinic literature describes the Amalekites as full of intense and everlasting hatred for the Jews. Like other nation...
Peter is one of the most prominent figures in the gospels and Acts, and Paul refers to him throughouthis letters. Peter is often the first one to state the obvious and say what everyone else is thinking (or at least whathe’sthinking), and he takes center stage in numerous biblical acc...
so the townspeople could run inside for safety behind closed massive gates. God commissioned Ezekiel, one of God’s greatest prophets, to be a “watchman” on the wall—to warn people of coming dangers. Sometimes the people listened; but often...
“God wrote the Bible.” The Holy Spirit movedprophetslikeMosesand apostles likePaulto write about God’s relationship with the world (1 Ti 3:16;2 Pe 1:20–21). “About 40 people wrote the Bible.” Theindividual bookswere written by many authors over many years in many places to many...
In contrast, “the ancient Egyptians were the only Oriental nation who objected to wearing the beard,” says McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Apang “ang mga Egiptohanon sang una amo lamang ang katawhan sa Sidlangan nga indi magpatu...
Ted Cruz Wants You to See Him as a Biblical Hero Posted in Uncategorized Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Well, that was really something, wasn’t it? Last night, on the third night of the Republican National Convention—a night that’s historically served to showcase the vice-presidential...
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The word “Bible” is not a biblical word. The Old Testament writings were in the hands of the men who wrote the books of the New Testament, but they do not call these writings the Bible; they name them the Scriptures, the Holy Scriptures, the Sacred Writings, or else they refer 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 (...
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his