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In Matthew 21 we find that Jesus was hungry and saw a fig tree by the side of the road. As He came close to it, He saw that it had no figs on it, so He cursed it and it withered (Matthew 21:19). It may appear that Jesus is just responding in anger to the tree, cursing it in tantrum-like behavior. Bu...

After 1380 B.C.Jebus, the original name of ancient Jerusalem, is populated by the Jebusites (a Canaanite tribe). It is a city built on seven hills. A partial siege carried out by the tribe of Judah against the city (Judges 1:8) takes place a short time after the death of Joshua. 1010David begins his...

Every time there is a war or a natural catastrophe, someone asks me if I think it means that Jesus’ return is near. I always answer no, because I am not a false prophet: Jesus actually said that wars, rumors of wars, and natural catastrophes are not signs of the end of the age.Jesus said whoever say...

PreambleChristology as the Fundamental Christian DoctrineThe Theological and Legal Necessity for the Virgin BirthJesus as MediatorJesus as SacrificeThe Narrative Necessity for the Virgin BirthThe AnnunciationJoseph’s ReactionMary’s Visit to ElizabethJesus in the Temple at the Age of TwelveThe Charac...

Mishmarot Height 13.4 cm (5 1/4 in.), length 21.1 cm (8 1/4 in.) 4Q321 (Mishmarot Ba) Parchment Copied ca. 50-25 B.C.E. Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority (10) A significant feature of the community was its calendar, which was based on a solar system of 364 days, unlike the common Jewish ...

Serekh ha-Milhamah4Q285 (SM) Parchment Copied early first century C.E. Height 4 cm (1 1/2 in.), length 5 cm (2 in.) Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority (12) This six-line fragment, commonly referred to as the "Pierced Messiah" text, is written in a Herodian script of the first half of the f...

The American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln American Civil War history with slideshows, photos, music, major battles like Gettysburg as well as personalities like Lincoln, Grant, Lee and the Black Regiments Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 He was an unusual man in many ways. One minute he would wrestle wi...

American Civil War Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 Warren W. Hassler, Jr.: Emeritus Professor of American History, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Author of Commanders of the Army of the Potomac and others. In great deeds something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms chang...

World War One, Nations Involved Austria-Hungary Declared war on Serbia .........July 28, 1914Declared war on Russia ........Aug 6, 1914Declared war on Belgium ......Aug 28, 1914Declared war on Portugal ......March 15, 1916BelgiumRefused German ultimatum demanding permission for German troops to cro...

It was not only by his demonstration that lightning is identical with electricity that Franklin did an important work in connection with electrical science. He is also entitled to great credit for the stimulus imparted by his experiments and writings to further discoveries in this field. Franklin wa...

The American Civil War, Civil War BattlesEdited by: Robert Guisepi2002 Fort Sumter, April 12-14, 1861 Casualties = 0 On April 10, 1861, Brig. Gen. Beauregard, in command of the provisional Confederate forces at Charleston, South Carolina, demanded the surrender of the Union garrison of Fort Sumter i...

CORTEZ, Hernando (1485-1547) The Spanish soldier Cortez is known as the conqueror of Mexico. He was born in the small town of Medellin in southwestern Spain. When Cortez was about 18, he sailed for the island of Hispaniola, then the Spanish headquarters in the West Indies. He was a soldier and a far...

Horatio Nelson and Wellington In the center of London's Trafalgar Square stands a column topped by a statue of Admiral Nelson. The square was named in honor of Lord Nelson's victory in the battle of Trafalgar (1805). Nelson was one of England's great naval heroes. His brilliant victories during the ...

JACKSON, Stonewall (1824-63). No leader in the American Civil War was more skilled or gallant than Stonewall Jackson. His earnestness of purpose, determination to do right as he saw it, and military genius made him admired by friend and foe alike. Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born on Jan. 21, 1824, i...

The American Civil War, Abolition, Jefferson Davis During the Civil War, Jefferson Davis was president of the Confederate States and Abraham Lincoln led the United States. Both were born in Kentucky, several months apart, Davis on June 3, 1808. The Lincolns moved to Indiana soon after, then to Illin...

John Buford(1826-1863) Within six months of his having played a key role in the opening of the battle of Gettysburg, cavalryman John Buford was dead of typhoid fever. The Kentucky-born soldier had moved to Illinois before being appointed to West Point. Graduating in 1848 he was posted to the dragoo...

Joshua Chamberlain Lying in a hollow, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain writes home to his wife Fanny, describing the Battle of Sharpsburg... "At about mid night I rode softly along examining our pickets, & whenever the horse stumbled -- whiz-- would come a bullet in the dark. All this morning, & ...

Joshua ChamberlainLying in a hollow, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain writes home to his wife Fanny, describingthe Battle of Sharpsburg... "At about mid night I rode softly along examining our pickets, & whenever the horsestumbled -- whiz-- would come a bullet in the dark. All this morning, & at ...

LENIN (1870-1924). Few individuals in modern history had as profound an effect on their times or evoked as much heated debate as the Russian revolutionary Lenin. To his supporters, Lenin appeared as the individual who, through the sheer force of his will and dedication to the revolutionary struggle,...

Abraham Lincoln Lincoln's Letter To Mrs. Bixby Author: Lincoln, Abraham Date: 1864 Executive Mansion, Washington, November 21, 1864. Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Massachusetts: Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you ar...

Nathan Bedford Forrest(1821-1877) With no formal military training, Nathan Bedford Forrest became one of the leading cavalry figures of the Civil War. The native Tennesseean had amassed a fortune, which he estimated at $1,500,000, as a slave trader and plantation owner before enlisting in the Confed...

Union Of Denmark, Sweden, And NorwayAuthor: Sinding, Paul C.1397Canute the Great, King of England and Denmark, by successful wars addedalmost the whole of Norway to his dominions. At his death in 1035 hiskingdoms were divided, and fell into anarchy and discord for two centuries,until the tyrant Blac...

Quotations of Thomas Jefferson "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. . . ."Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 "it is the great parent of science & of virtue: and that a nation will be great in both, always in proportion as it is free."Thomas Jefferson ...

Russia, A History The World History Project Russia has been inhabited for at least 4,000 years. Waves of nomadic invasions occurred until the 13th century. Goths, Huns, Bulgars, Avars, Khazars, Turks, Magyars, and other invaders marauded the steppes and influenced Slavic culture, including that of ...

SARTRE, Jean-Paul (1905-80). One of the leading exponents of existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre was also well known as a writer. He expressed his dedication to his philosophy both in what he wrote and in the way he lived his life. Jean-Paul Sartre was born on June 21, 1905, in Paris, France. In 1919 h...

SHERMAN, William Tecumseh (1820-91). Ranked second only to General Ulysses S. Grant as the greatest Northern commander in the American Civil War, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman was a master of modern warfare. Like Grant, Sherman was born in Ohio when it was a frontier state. He was named Tecumseh for...

The Spanish Influenza Spanish Influenza Outbreak, 1918 by Sarah Cummings I had a little bird. Its name was Enza.I opened the window, And in-flu-enza* Children's Rhyme In the midst of perfect health, in a circumscribed community... the first case of influenza would occur, and then within the nex...

Union Of Denmark, Sweden, And NorwayAuthor: Sinding, Paul C.Union Of Denmark, Sweden, And Norway1397Canute the Great, King of England and Denmark, by successful wars addedalmost the whole of Norway to his dominions. At his death in 1035 hiskingdoms were divided, and fell into anarchy and discord for...

American Civil War Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 Warren W. Hassler, Jr.: Emeritus Professor of American History, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Author of Commanders of the Army of the Potomac and others. The war in the West in 1862Military events, meanwhile, were transpiring in ot...

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One of the interesting aspects of a number of ancient languages like Hebrew is that in their written form, where we have numbers and letters, they have only letters. In each language there are no numeric characters but the letters are also used as numbers. The context told the reader the word was a ...

Dennis Bratcher First presented as a lecture, November, 1998, Theology Department, Korea Nazarene University,Chonan, Republic of South Korea The Prophets In the Hebrew canon of Scripture, the collection of books called The Prophets includes the books of Joshua, Judges, 1-2 Samuel, and 1-2 Kings (the...

Military History of the Roman State This is a listing of works relevant to particular campaigns and battles in Roman history (753 BC - AD 476). For a study of aspects of the Roman Army, see the main bibliography on Roman Warfare. I have added some annotations of my own to the individual items. This ...

Threshing Floors were used in the ancient world to separate grain from the chaff. This was usually a two step process. First, the cut stalks of grain were spread on the threshing floor and a threshing sledge was pulled over the stalks by oxen. The sledge was a simple wooden sled or heavy board with ...

IgnEph prologue:1 Ignatius, who is also Theophorus, unto her which hath been blessed in greatness through the plentitude of God the Father; which hath been foreordained before the ages to be forever and unto abiding and unchangeable glory, united and elect in a true passion, by the will of the Fathe...

ChanceNatureNatural LawPersonal GodWorship ExperienceThe Church FamilyChance A lot of times people say that things were caused by chance. For example, if I flip a coin 100 times, I will find that it comes up heads more or less half the time. So these people say that the chance caused the outcome. Bu...

Part I: New Evangelicalism - Its HistoryPart II: New Evangelicalism - Its ChracteristicsPart III: New Evangelicalism - Its FruitsThe following is part two of a three-part article, first published in 1995 under the title of Fundamentalism, Modernism, and New-Evangelicalism. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF NEW ...

Part I: New Evangelicalism - Its HistoryPart II: New Evangelicalism - Its ChracteristicsPart III: New Evangelicalism - Its FruitsThe following is part three of a three-part article, first published in 1995 under the title of Fundamentalism, Modernism, and New-Evangelicalism. THE APOSTATE FRUIT OF NE ...

Answers to the Freedom From Religion Foundation's Quiz Answers to Dan Barker's 30 Questions Dan Barker is an atheist who used to be a pastor. Dan is currently an employee for the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). Dan has composed something called the "Easter Challenge." He has asked the publi...

An event in the external world brought about by the immediate agency or the simple volition of God, operating without the use of means capable of being discerned by the senses, and designed to authenticate the divine commission of a religious teacher and the truth of his message (John 2:18; Matt. 12...

The recurrence of seven - or an exact multiple of seven - is found throughout the Bible and is widely recognized. The frequent occurrence of the number seven is conspicuous even to a casual reader. Here are many instances of the number seven's appearances in the Bible. God bless you! Seven days of c...

Did you know that the rapture is very different than the second coming of Jesus Christ? Jesus came once from about 1 B.C. to 32 A.D., He'll come briefly, in the sky, for the rapture and He'll come for one, final time (commonly called "Christ's second coming"). The Rapturevs.Christ's Second Coming1Je...

Webster's dictionary definition: 1) to experience great pleasure or delight : REJOICE, 2) the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires : DELIGHT. Hebrew dictionary definition: 8057. simchah, sim-khaw'; from H8056 blithesomeness or glee,...

The purpose of this chronology is to assist Christians of any denomination in their search for knowledge and truth regarding the development of the Christian religion. The primary sources used in assembling this list include a chronology by Paul Harvey, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, the Acade ...

The fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is a vast subject. In fact, the Messianic prophecies alone have provided enough material for the publication of many books. Other books have been written solely about the Old Testament prophecies concerning certain cities or about certain world empires,...

According to the New Testament accounts, Jesus, during His ministry, often predicted that He would be raised from the dead (see John 10:17; Luke 9:22, 11:29,30, 16:31, 18:33; Mark 8:31, 9:9, 9:31, 10:34, 14:28; Matt. 16:4, 16:21, 17:9, 17:23, 20:19, 26:32, 27:63). He offered His future resurrection ...

The Scopes Trial of 1925 has made an almost indelible impression upon the consciousness of modern Americans as an indication of the hopelessly anti-intellectual, obscurantist, and bigoted nature of "Fundamentalism," or the literal belief in the Bible. However, the image that most of us have of the t...

Adler, W. 1989 Time Immemorial: Archaic History and Its Sources in Christian Chronography from Julius Africanus to George Syncellus. Dumbarton Oaks Studies, 26. Washington, Dumbarton Oaks.Alexandre, M. 1988 Le commencement du Livre Genèse I-V: La version grecque de la Septante et sa réception. Paris...

Jesus Christ is eternal God. As a member of the Trinity, He is co-equal with God the Father and with God the Holy Spirit. That is, He has the same essence as God the Father. (See Topic: Essence of God) Jesus Christ has all of the divine attributes that God the Father has, including :Eternity -- ISA....

These are my personal suggestions for Protestant ministers whose denominations don’t give them guidance on what to wear while they conduct worship. I am following the general ecumenical practice in the United States. Presbyterians can use these suggestions; however, if they wish to wear the distinct...