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+ | ====== February - The Romance of Redemption and Salvation ====== | ||
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+ | ==== Espoused to Christ ==== | ||
+ | === The Church the Bride of Jesus Christ === | ||
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+ | The faithful marriage union between one man and one woman is a representation of the ultimate intimate Spiritual union relationship between God and His people. | ||
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+ | **Note:** John the Baptist was not a Christian, he did not survive to become a member of the Christian Church that began on Resurrection [Easter] Sunday. John the Baptist was the last of the Old Testament Prophets (Matthew 11:13). | ||
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+ | ===== February 2 ===== | ||
+ | ==== The Excellent Way! ==== | ||
+ | === Christian Love and Charity - A More Excellent Way === | ||
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+ | **A More Excellent Way!** | ||
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+ | ===== February 3 ===== | ||
+ | ==== Biblical Redemption ==== | ||
+ | === Biblical Redemption - A Return to the Presence of God === | ||
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+ | Redemption is to purchase back something that once belonged to you, but is not currently in your possession. When Adam and the Woman [later named Eve, living] sinned, mankind was sold into sin. To be in sin is to be separated from the possession of God. On the cross, Jesus redeemed (purchased) back from sin, as His possession, all those who would choose to be reunited with God. | ||
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+ | **Old Testament Redemption** | ||
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+ | Redemption is expressed in the Old Testament as the blood covering of the Passover Feast that Israel celebrated in Egypt. The Passover in Egypt is an enactment of God redeeming (purchasing) with His blood His people back into His possession, from the possession of the world and slavery. Death has passed over the Jews and the Church, the redeemed have escaped death and have passed over into life with God. | ||
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+ | Moses' Song of Redemption and Salvation - after the Red Sea crossing. | ||
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+ | **New Testament Redemption** | ||
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+ | The New Testament redemption promise occurred on the night of the New Testament Passover (Last Supper) and the actual blood of Jesus was shed on the cross of Jesus - where Jesus, the Firstborn of God, gave His life and died, clearing the way for us to be freed from the sin and slavery of the world and to be redeemed [united] to God as His possession. | ||
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+ | **Note:** the atoning [life] blood of the New Testament is the blood of Jesus shed [poured out] after His death (full and final payment of sin) on the cross. | ||
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+ | ===== February 4 ===== | ||
+ | ==== Biblical Salvation ==== | ||
+ | === Biblical Salvation - Healing and Wellbeing in the Presence of God === | ||
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+ | Salvation means to be taken out of harm's way, "saved " from harm or danger, included in being saved is healing, emotional spiritual healing. Where there is danger there is suffering and injury; where there is salvation there is healing. | ||
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+ | Our salvation does not stop with us being saved from perishing in the fires of hell. We as Christians commonly ask others "are you saved?" | ||
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+ | **Old Testament Salvation** | ||
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+ | Moses' Song of Redemption and Salvation - after the Red Sea crossing. | ||
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+ | **New Testament Salvation** | ||
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+ | **Note:** the Jews are the Redeemed of God [Isaiah 43:1-2, Romans 9:4-5] though their eternal salvation in the Messiah Jesus Christ has been postponed [Romans 11:25] until they are individually in Heaven. The Christian Church and only the Christian Church experiences eternal salvation [John 5:24] while still on earth. | ||
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+ | **Also Note:** the Jewish, Old Testament salvation involved safety from an immediate danger i.e. deliverance from Egypt. Only the New Testament salvation in Jesus Christ provides eternal life salvation from sin. | ||
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+ | ===== February 5 ===== | ||
+ | ==== Eve ==== | ||
+ | === Eve the faithful and only wife of Adam === | ||
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+ | **The Fall of Mankind** | ||
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+ | The loss of earthly redemption-salvation and the beginning of the journey to eternal Heavenly Redemption-Salvation. | ||
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+ | Adam and Eve were of course involved in one of the most interesting and intriguing events of the Bible - the fall of mankind. | ||
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+ | said, The Serpent [Satan] misled me, and I did eat. ~ Genesis 3: | ||
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+ | **Note:** In some of the first events recorded in the Bible regarding mankind God talks first to Adam about eating the forbidden fruit and not to the woman because had God talked to Eve first about what went wrong then probably Eve would have only blamed herself and not Satan as was appropriate for the events that had happened. In the events as they unfolded God purposely spoke first to Adam and then Adam blamed the woman and once blamed the woman then rightfully blamed Satan for the fall of mankind. | ||
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+ | Had the woman taken the full responsibility for disobeying God, as Satan had planned, it's possible that Redemption-Salvation might not have been offed to mankind and that Adam, the woman and any | ||
+ | descendants would have remained dead in sin and separated from God. | ||
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+ | **Also Note:** Something that everyone needs to know about the human existence is that there is a propensity for us humans to do the wrong thing [sin] and for some even to do an evil thing **and then to shift the blame for the wrong behavior over to someone or something else**. Satan did this blame-shifting in the Garden of Eden when Satan tempted Eve (the woman) to disobey God and then Satan tried to | ||
+ | shift the blame and convince Eve that she had disobeyed God by her own choice. | ||
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+ | After the tempting by Satan and the fall of mankind in Adam and Eve, Adam then in faith named the woman (Eve - the mother of all living) signifying that both Adam and Eve through faith in God are both in | ||
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+ | **The Romance of Redemption and Salvation - Explained in the New Testament** | ||
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+ | The Bible teaches that Adam knowingly understood that in disobeying God it would facilitate his fall yet Adam purposely and knowingly fell in order to join his wife's predicament in the fall. Likewise Jesus purposely took on a body of flesh and blood knowing that He would be rejected and crucified but like Adam also knowing that it was the only way to rescue [Redemption-Salvation] His Bride the Church. | ||
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+ | ===== February 6 ===== | ||
+ | ==== Emzara ==== | ||
+ | === Emzara by some Jewish traditions was the wife of Noah === | ||
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+ | **Note:** all of mankind is physically related in Adam and Eve and then again in Noah and his wife. | ||
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+ | ===== February 7 ===== | ||
+ | ==== Sarah ==== | ||
+ | === Sarah the first and favored wife of Abraham === | ||
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+ | Abraham and Sarah are both descendants of Noah's oldest son Shem. | ||
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+ | Note: signifying [Revelation 2:17 and Revelation 3:12] their covenant, New Life [Born Again] relationship with God, He changed Abram' | ||
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+ | ===== February 8 ===== | ||
+ | ==== Rebecca ==== | ||
+ | === Rebecca (Rebekah) the wife of Isaac === | ||
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+ | Rebecca is the granddaughter of Abraham' | ||
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+ | Isaac and Rebecca are the parents of Esau and Jacob | ||
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+ | ===== February 9 ===== | ||
+ | ==== Rachel and Leah ==== | ||
+ | === Rachael the first love of Jacob and second wife while Leah was the first wife of Jacob === | ||
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+ | Jacob later renamed Israel [Genesis 35:10] is the Father of the 12 Tribes (Patriarchs - families) that comprise the Nation of Israel | ||
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+ | you? And they said, Of Haran are we. And he said unto them, Know all of you Laban the son [grandson] of Nahor? And they said, We know him. And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: | ||
+ | and, behold, Rachel his daughter comes with the sheep. ~ Genesis 29: | ||
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+ | **New Testament - Rachel and Jacob** | ||
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+ | ===== February 10 ===== | ||
+ | ==== Tamar, Rahab and Ruth ==== | ||
+ | === Tamar the daughter-in-law and accidental mistress of Judah, Rahab and Ruth === | ||
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+ | Early Gentile wives of the Tribe of Judah; Tamar, Rahab and Ruth. | ||
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+ | Tamar a Canaanite, Rahab a Canaanite prostitute from the city of Jericho and Ruth a widow from the country of Moab. | ||
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+ | with her again no more. And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins [sons - Pharez and Zarah] were in her womb. ~ Genesis 38: | ||
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+ | ===== February 11 ===== | ||
+ | ==== Asenath ==== | ||
+ | === Asenath the Egyptian wife of Joseph === | ||
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+ | Joseph married Asenath and they had the two children Ephraim and Manasseh whose descendants received an Inheritance from Israel-Jacob in Judea the Promise Land of Israel | ||
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+ | **Note:** Pharaoh Akhenaten who was very possibly the Egyptian Pharaoh of Joseph' | ||
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+ | ===== February 12 ===== | ||
+ | ==== Zipporah ==== | ||
+ | === Zipporah the first wife of Moses of the Tribe of Levi === | ||
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+ | **Note:** During the difficult time of slavery in Egypt the Children of Israel had stopped observing the covenant of circumcision that God had established with Abraham. Moses was sent by God to go back to Egypt to get the Children of God back in order with God and to get them out of the land of Egypt. Though Moses was on his way to set right the Children of God he had not yet set his own house right with God and it caused Moses to have an almost deadly encounter with God along the way. Apparently in jeopardy with God and quickly needing to perform the circumcisions Moses' wife Zipporah stepped in and circumcised one of their two sons while Moses circumcised the other. Sometime after the event Moses sent Zipporah and their two sons back to her father Jethro. Later after the Children of God were safely out of Egypt and at Mt. Sinai then Jethro hearing the news brought Zipporah and the two sons back to be reconciled with Moses. | ||
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+ | Eliezer were, Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many. ~ 1 Chronicles 23: | ||
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+ | ===== February 13 ===== | ||
+ | ==== Ahinoam ==== | ||
+ | === Ahinoam the wife of King Saul === | ||
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+ | King Saul (lit. asked for) was the first of the three human Kings over an undivided Israel. | ||
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+ | King Saul [a type of Satan] orders the Killing of all the Levitical Priests at Nob and then the destruction of the city of Nob. | ||
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+ | his armour bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armour bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. And when his armour bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him. So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armour bearer, and all his men, that same day together. ~ 1 Samuel 31: | ||
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+ | ===== February 14 ===== | ||
+ | ==== Bathsheba ==== | ||
+ | === Bathsheba the last of King David' | ||
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+ | King David was the second of the three human Kings over an undivided Israel. | ||
+ | King David (lit. beloved) is a type of the Messiah Jesus Christ. | ||
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+ | **The Eight Wives of King David** | ||
+ | Merab - not a wife - Kings Saul's oldest daughter offered to David but then deceitfully given as a wife to Adriel (1 Samuel 18:17).\\ | ||
+ | Michal - a daughter of King Saul - later divorced - no children with King David (1 Samuel 18:27).\\ | ||
+ | Ahinoam - from Jezreel a Jezreelitess (2 Samuel 3:2).\\ | ||
+ | Abigail - a type of the Christian Church (1 Samuel 25:23-35) - from Carmel a Carmelitess (2 Samuel 3:3).\\ | ||
+ | Maacah - a political marriage - a daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur (2 Samuel 3:3).\\ | ||
+ | Haggith - (2 Samuel 3:4).\\ | ||
+ | Abital - (1 Chronicles 3:3).\\ | ||
+ | Eglah - (2 Samuel 3:5).\\ | ||
+ | Bathsheba - the mother of Nathan [line of Jesus via Mary] and King Solomon (1 Chronicles 3:5). | ||
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+ | woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child. ~ 2 Samuel 11: | ||
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+ | The first child of David and Bathsheba dies in infancy. | ||
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+ | deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto you shall surely die. ~ 2 Samuel 12: | ||
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+ | ==== Pharaoh' | ||
+ | === King Solomon' | ||
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+ | King Solomon was the third and final of the three human Kings over an undivided Israel. | ||
+ | King Solomon (lit. peaceable - i.e. a false peace) is a type of the coming Antichrist. | ||
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+ | **King Solomon brings Egypt back into Israel** | ||
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+ | The Building of Solomon' | ||
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+ | **King Solomon' | ||
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+ | King Solomon Deceives Hiram the King of Tyre | ||
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+ | The Death and Aftermath of King Solomon | ||
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+ | **Jesus Christ Responds to the Worldly Kingdom of Solomon** | ||
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+ | ==== Salvation and Redemption ==== | ||
+ | === The Hope of Salvation and Final Eternal Redemption === | ||
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+ | **Salvation in the Presence of God** | ||
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+ | **Final Eternal Redemption** | ||
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+ | ===== February 17 ===== | ||
+ | ==== Zacharias ==== | ||
+ | === Zacharias a Levitical Priest and the Father of John the Baptist === | ||
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+ | ===== February 18 ===== | ||
+ | ==== Simeon ==== | ||
+ | === Simeon a Temple Prophet in Jerusalem === | ||
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+ | Simeon - Promised to see the Lord's Christ | ||
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+ | ==== Anna ==== | ||
+ | === Anna a Temple Prophetess in Jerusalem === | ||
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+ | ==== Mary ==== | ||
+ | === Mary the Mother of Jesus === | ||
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+ | The Genealogies of Joseph and Mary | ||
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+ | which [Jesus] was [via Mary] the son [Grandson] of Heli, ... which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of [King] David, ~ Luke 3: | ||
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+ | shall call me blessed. For He that is mighty has done to me great things; and Holy is His Name. And His mercy is on them that fear Him from generation to generation. He has showed strength with His | ||
+ | arm; He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He has put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. He has filled the hungry with good things; and the rich He has sent empty away. He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy; As He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed forever. ~ Luke 1: | ||
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+ | ===== February 21 ===== | ||
+ | ==== Christian Church ==== | ||
+ | === The Christian Church the Bride of Jesus Christ === | ||
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+ | The Christian Church in allegory, example only of a close personal relationship, | ||
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+ | be [a unified Kingdom] all in all. ~ 1 Corinthians 15: | ||
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+ | **Note:** notice that it is Father God and the Holy Spirit during the Christian Church Age that are gathering the Bride [Church - Congregation] for Jesus Christ. | ||
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+ | ==== Jewish Church ==== | ||
+ | === The Jewish Church is the Bride of God the Father === | ||
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+ | The Jewish Church in allegory, example only of a close personal relationship, | ||
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+ | ==== Church of The Martyred Saints of Revelation ==== | ||
+ | === The Church of The Martyred Saints of Revelation is the Bride of the Holy Spirit === | ||
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+ | ==== Claudia, Drusilla and Bernice ==== | ||
+ | === The Roman women; Claudia and the sisters Drusilla and Bernice of the Herodian Dynasty === | ||
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+ | **Pontius Pilate and Claudia** | ||
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+ | Saint Claudia - also spelled Proculla or Procla | ||
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+ | they had delivered Him. When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife [Claudia - according to Church tradition] sent unto him, saying, Have you nothing to do with that Just Man: for I have suffered | ||
+ | many things this day in a dream because of Him. ~ Matthew 27: | ||
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+ | **Antonius Felix and Drusilla** | ||
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+ | Drusilla (born 38 AD - died 25 August 79 AD) was a daughter of Herod Agrippa I [Matthew 2:1] and sister to Berenice, Mariamne and [King] Herod (Marcus Julius) Agrippa II [Acts 25:13]. - wiki.com | ||
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+ | these [the planned assassination attempt on Paul's life] things to me. And he called unto him two [Roman] Centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and | ||
+ | ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night; And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul [the Apostle] on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor. And he wrote a letter after this | ||
+ | manner: Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent Governor Felix sends greeting. ... ~ Acts 23: | ||
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+ | they [the 200 infantry soldiers] left the horsemen [cavalry] to go with him, and [the 200 infantry soldiers] returned to the castle [in Jerusalem]: Who, when they [the horsemen - cavalry] came to Caesarea and delivered the epistle [letter from Claudius Lysias] to the Governor [Felix], presented Paul also before him. And when the Governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was [from]. And when he understood that he [Paul] was of Cilicia [the city of Tarsus in Cilicia]; I will hear you, said he, when your accusers are also come [from Jerusalem]. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod' | ||
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+ | He [Felix] hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him. But after two years [Procurator] Porcius Festus | ||
+ | came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound. ~ Acts 24: | ||
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+ | Note: Berenice of Cilicia (28 AD – ?), also known as Julia Berenice and sometimes spelled Bernice, was a Jewish client queen of the Roman Empire during the second half of the 1st century [Acts 25:13]. - | ||
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+ | Also Note: [King Herod Agrippa II] had a great [friendship] with the [Jewish] historian Josephus, having supplied him with information for his history, Antiquities of the Jews. Josephus preserved two of the letters he received from him. - wiki.com | ||
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+ | There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix: About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him. To whom I answered, It is | ||
+ | not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have license to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him. | ||
+ | Therefore, when they were come here, without any delay on the next day I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought forth. Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none | ||
+ | accusation of such things as I supposed: But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, | ||
+ | manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters. But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of [Caesar Nero] Augustus [Nero Claudius | ||
+ | Caesar Augustus Germanicus], | ||
+ | the next day, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus' | ||
+ | forth. And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, all of you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, | ||
+ | crying that he ought not to live any longer. But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself has appealed to [Caesar Nero] Augustus, I have determined to send him. ~ Acts | ||
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+ | themselves, saying, This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds. Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar. ~ Acts 26: | ||
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+ | ===== February 25 ===== | ||
+ | ==== The Wives of Peter, John and Paul ==== | ||
+ | === The Wives of the Apostles; Peter, John and Paul === | ||
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+ | Note: those who remain with their spouses and obligations are going to get the greater reward. | ||
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+ | Also Note: there are some later Church Traditions regarding the wife of the Apostle Peter but they seem to be unsubstantiated. | ||
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+ | **Apostle John** | ||
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+ | The Apostle John became a Disciple of Jesus at a very young age and is considered by Church History to never have married. | ||
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+ | disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. ~ John 1: | ||
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+ | **Apostle Paul** | ||
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+ | ===== February 26 ===== | ||
+ | ==== Unnamed Helpers ==== | ||
+ | === Wives and Helpers Unnamed in the Bible === | ||
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+ | We noticed that Noah's wife, Mary's sister and the Apostle Peter' | ||
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+ | **The Holy Spirit - The Unnamed Helper and Comforter** | ||
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+ | cannot receive, because it sees Him not, neither knows Him: but all of you [Christians] know Him [but not by Name]; for He dwells with you, and shall be [after the Resurrection of Jesus] in you. ~ John 14: | ||
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+ | Temporarily being unnamed in the Bible - all receive a new name in Heaven, can be a compliment in fact the unnamed people of the Bible often represent a type of the Holy Spirit. Noah's wife, Mary's sister and the Apostle Peter' | ||
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+ | ===== February 27 ===== | ||
+ | ==== Christianity the Sibling of Judaism ==== | ||
+ | === Christianity is The Younger Sibling of Judaism === | ||
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+ | The Marriage of God the Father to the Nation of Israel has in a sense brought forth the Christian Church as The younger sibling Bride in the marriage to Jesus Christ. | ||
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+ | **Note:** in that Christianity was birthed through Judaism, we Christians do owe a debt of gratitude to Judaism. Christianity “The Way” has always been a subset of Judaism and for the most part will always be a “Sect” of Judaism. | ||
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+ | ===== February 28 ===== | ||
+ | ==== The Spirit and the Bride ==== | ||
+ | === Both the Spirit and the Bride offer the same Invitation === | ||
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+ | The Bride has an eternal part in the eternal Kingdom of God. | ||
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+ | whosoever will, let him take the water of [eternal] life freely. ~ Revelation 22: | ||
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