...................................................................LET US LEARN TOGETHER WHAT IS GOOD. Job 34:4b(NIV)................................................................Some people see the Bible as a long and boring book filled with incidents and events from the lives of ancient people who probably never existed. The biblical stories are seen as fables. Romans 15:4 (KJV) reveals: For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. In this blog, many of the situations and conversations found in the divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible have been placed in categories that correspond to expressive sayings and phrases. Reference information, background information and links connecting the people and places are given to help you find a place to begin reading the Bible for yourself.

Thursday, February 18, 2016

FYI - For Your Information

From a letter written by the apostle Paul,
with Sosthenes,
to believers in Corinth and everywhere:

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you. But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.-1 Corinthians 7:27-34***The Israelites descended from Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, and Isaac and Rebekah's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel). The Moabites descended from Abraham and Sarah's nephew Lot and Lot's oldest daughter and their son Moab. In the plains of Moab, Balaam the soothsayer (diviner) learned that blessing the Israelites was pleasing to the Lord God. Approximately 400 years after the Israelites killed Balaam, David was born into the tribe of Jacob's 4th born son Judah. Over a decade after David was born, the Lord God sent Samuel, the priest, prophet and judge from the tribe of Jacob's 3rd born son Levi, to Bethlehem to anoint David to reign as king. When David was 30 years old, he began to rule only over the tribe of Judah in the Promised Land. When David was 37 1/2 years old, he became the 2nd king to rule over all of the Israelites in the Promised Land, the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, and Isaac, and to Jacob, and their descendants. In a psalm, David revealed that praising the name of the Lord God and magnifying the Lord God with thanksgiving is pleasing to the Lord God. Solomon, a son born to David and Bathsheba, was the 3rd king to rule over all of the Israelites. In Gibeon, after the Lord God appeared to Solomon in a dream, Solomon pleased the Lord God by asking the Lord God to give him an understanding heart to govern the Israelites and distinguish between good and bad. Solomon's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson Uzziah (Azariah) was the 9th king to rule over the Israelites in Judah, the southern nation in the Promised Land. Jotham, the son born to Uzziah and Jerushah, was the 10th king. Jotham's son Ahaz was the 11th king, and Hezekiah, the son born to Ahaz and Abi (Abijah), was the 12th king to rule Judah. When Uzziah, Jotham Ahaz, and Hezekiah reigned, Isaiah the prophet received revelations and proclaimed the words of the Lord God to the Israelites. Over 600 years after the Lord God revealed to Isaiah that eunuchs who observe the Sabbath day and choose whatsoever pleases the Lord God will be rewarded with a place in the house of the Lord God and an everlasting name, John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, were born. John the Baptist was born into the tribe of Levi to Zechariah (Zacharias) the priest and his wife Elizabeth (Elisabeth). Jesus the Christ was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Elizabeth's relative Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born in Bethlehem into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. Approximately 30 years after John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ were born, Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. Jesus having prayed, the heavens tearing open, the Holy Spirit descended as a dove and lit upon Jesus. The Lord God in heaven audibly acknowledged his Son Jesus, and the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert wilderness. Jesus fasted 40 days and nights and was tempted. Afterwards, Jesus was tended to by angels, and Jesus went to the area near John the Baptist, and John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus to be the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world, and testified that Jesus is the Son of God. In Galilee, Jesus told specific Israelite men to follow him, and Jesus began to preach, teach and perform miracles among the Israelites, the treasured and chosen people of the Lord God. Jesus told a group of Israelites that his Father, the Lord God in heaven, does not leave him alone because he always does what pleases his Father. Less than 3 1/2 years after Jesus was born, Jesus was betrayed by Judas Iscariot the disciple and apostle, and Jesus was arrested, crucified, buried in a tomb, resurrected, seen by over 500 people and returned to heaven. Paul (Saul) was an Israelite and a Pharisee from the tribe of Jacob's 12th and last son Benjamin. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal tha Paul did not believe Jesus to be the Christ. Throughout Jerusalem, Paul persecuted and imprisoned Israelites who believed Jesus to be the Christ of God. When Paul was journeying to the synagogues in Damascus, Syria, to find, bind and take to Jerusalem any Israelite believers he found, Paul and those with him saw a light from heaven flash around them. Paul heard the voice of Jesus speaking to him, and Paul spoke to Jesus and obeyed Jesus. In Damascus Paul was baptized. From thenceforward, Paul the apostle journeyed and wrote divinely inspired letters, teaching Israelites and Gentiles, people not born into the Israelite tribes, the good news of Jesus the Christ and everlasting life. In a divinely inspired letter Paul sent to believers in Corinth, in ancient Greece, some cares of married and unmarried believers were described.-Genesis, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-25:18, 27:12-23, 31:1-54, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Samuel 1:1-3:21, 8:1-31:13, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 7:1-40, 2 Chronicles, Psalm 69, Isaiah 56:1-12, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26, 6:1-8:4, 9:1-31, 11:19-28:31, 1 Corinthians

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