Author: Jim

Rainbow

Found twice in Scripture
Revelation 4:3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Revelation 10:1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
Bow (rainbow)

Genesis 9:1-19 (vs 13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.)
Ezekiel 1:26-29 (vs 28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain,…) And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

RAINBOW – God’s promise, never to flood the WHOLE earth again.

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Answers to Prayer

The Lord makes a promise to His followers:
John 14:12-14 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
John reminds the Jewish believers:
1 John 5:12-15 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Paul tells Believers how to pray:
Philippians 4:6-7 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Ephesians 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
These promises are to those who believe the gospel:
1 Corinthians 15:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sinsaccording to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
And act upon that belief:
Romans 10:9-13That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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Six Steps Away From God (2)

This is for Believers
Genesis 3:1-7
1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

2-3 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
SIX STEPS AWAY FROM GOD:
Vs 1 Listen to Others
Vs 2-3 Answer in your own wisdom
Vs 4 Believe what they say
Vs 5 Ignore the truth
Vs 6 Follow their advice
Vs 7 When you find out you’ve been wrong … Cover it up …

The solution: Realize your sin, turn from it and the keep God and His Word first in your Life.

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In The Tomb

Explaining the Chart:
ABIB 14 Wednesday Passover Leviticus 23:6
Hung on the Cross and gave up his spirit Luke 23:26
Removed from the cross and placed into the tomb Luke 23:56
ABIB 15 Thursday A sabbath Day Luke 23:57 – Unleaven Bread Leviticus 23:6-7
Lies in the Tomb guarded by Temple Guards
ABIB 16 Friday
Lies in the Tomb guarded by Temple Guards
ABIB 17 Saturday 7th day Sabbath Leviticus 23:3
Lies in the Tomb guarded by Temple Guards
ABIB 18 Sunday 1st day of the week Luke 24:1
The Tomb is empty Luke 24:3
The Lord Jesus speaking of His death:
Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Mark 8:31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

Remember the Jewish day starts at 6PM – Night then Day

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God’s Final Word

   When his work on earth was complete, he said:
John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

   And the Apostle Paul tells us:
Hebrews 1:1-2 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 Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

   John the Apostle ends the Scripture with these words:
Revelation 22:18-21 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

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Ministry of Jesus

The Lord Jesus came to present Himself as the King of Isarel and bring in the Kingdom of God promised to Abraham. But the nation of Israel Rejected Him and had Him crucified. During His earthly ministry He tried to reach the Jew. The 4 Gospels a test to that.
John 1:11-12 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
The Lord came for the House of Israel only:
Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
And He sent His disciples to the Jew only:
Matthew 10:6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Paul reminds us of the Lord’s earthly ministry:
Romans 15:8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
After The Lord’s ascension into Heaven He called Saul (Paul) on the road to Damascus to go to the Gentiles with the salvation gospel;
Acts 9:1-6 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
The 4 Gospels contain many truths and we need to be aware of them. But believers need to be spending our study time in Romans to Philemon, the epistles of Paul.

THE LORD JESUS came for the House of Israel. He sent Paul for the gentiles.

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Jewelry

Jewelry mentioned in Scripture:
Bracelet, Necklace, Chain, Earrings, Ring, Signet (ring), Crown.
Abraham’s servant goes for the wife of Isaac.
Genesis 24:22 And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
Genesis 24:30 And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and braceletsupon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.
Genesis 24:47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, the daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earringupon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
God tells Jacob to visit his brother, Easu:
Genesis 35:4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
Tamar, Judah’s daughter in law tricks him:
Genesis 38:18 And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.
Genesis 38:25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.
Pharaoh rewards Jacob:
Genesis 41:42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
Aaron gathers jewelry to mold an idol:
Exodus 32:2-3 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
Moses gathers donations to build the Tabernacle:
Exodus 35:22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.
Moses servants have taken the sum of the men of war:
Numbers 31:50 We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.

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The Last Days

The Last days have different meanings
Jacob warns his sons:
Genesis 49:1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
Durning the 1000 year reign of Christ on earth:
Isaiah 2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
Micah 4:1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
God says:
Acts 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
Paul warns about Tribulation (7 years)
2 Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
A warning to believing Jews:
James 5:3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
Are you prepared for the last days? You don’t have to be there.
The rapture come first!
1 Corinthians 51:51-52 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

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Some WORLD and BIBLE Part 3

586 BC to 4 BC
586
Judah (southern kingdom) falls to Babylon
Gautama Buddha, founder of Buddhism, born in Nepal
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon dies
Aesop writes his fables Confucius, famous Chinese scholar, born
King Cyrus the Great conquers the Medes and founds the Persian Empire;
Lock and key, water level, and carpenter’s square invented
Horseback postal service in Persian Empire
539
Babylon overthrown by Cyrus of Persia
First Jewish exiles return to Jerusalem
Tragedy emerges as a form of Greek drama
Polo a sport among Persians
Public libraries open in Athens, Greece
New Temple completed in Jerusalem
Rome becomes a Republic
Glass first imported into China from Near East;
Indian surgeon, Susrata, performs cataract operation;
Origin of Halloween, a Celtic festival
490
First time Greek men choose short haircuts
Esther becomes Queen of Persia
480
Golden age of Athens, Greece, begins
470
Socrates, philosopher of the ancient world is born
460
Birth of Democritus, who introduced an atomic theory by arguing that all bodies are made of invisible and unchangeable atoms
Ezra returns to Jerusalem
The Parthenon built on top of Athens Acropolis
445
Nehemiah builds Jerusalem wall
Greek sculptor Pheidias makes a 60 foot high statue of Zeus –
one of the seven wonders of the ancient world
Romans agree to concept of a dictator in times of military emergency
Malachi becomes a prophet
400
SILENCE FROM GOD – Last 400 years
399
Socrates condemned to death by Athens jury
390
Aramaic begins to replace Hebrew as Jewish language
380
Aristotle born
375
Plato writes his most famous book “The Republic”
331
Alexander the Great defeats the Persian Empire
312
Rome builds first paved road, the “Appian Way” from Rome to Capua
285
Hebrew Old Testament translated into Greek and called the “Septuagint”
241
Romans conquer Sicily and add their first non
-Italian territory to the Roman Empire
220
Great wall of China built
169
Temple of Jerusalem plundered by Antiochus IV
165
Judas Maccabaeus begins a revolt against Antiochus IV
Jews and Astrologers banished from Rome
First Chinese ships reach east coast of India;
Ball bearings used in Danish cart wheels
100
Julius Caesar, first emperor of Rome, born
51
Cleopatra becomes last independent Egyptian ruler of the ancient world
44
Julius Caesar elected dictator for life, then assinated that same year
43
Romans conquer England and make it part of Roman Empire until 442 AD
30
Cleopatra and her lover, Mark Antony both die by suicide
Herod the Great made king of Judea by the Romans
Sumo wrestling in Japan
Mary mother of Jesus born
20
Herod the Great begins remodeling the Temple in Jerusalem
4
CHRIST IS BORN IN BETHELEM

*Dates are best extimates

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Some WORLD and BIBLE Part 2

DATE-BC EVENT
1375 BC to 600 BC

1375
Judges begin to rule Israel
Egyptian King Tutankhamen dies, is buried inside an immense treasure- laden tomb
Silk fabrics manufactured in China
1209
Deborah becomes Israel’s Judge
Labor strike in Thebes; first Chinese dictionary
Destruction of Troy during Trojan
1102
Samuel born
1085
Samuel becomes Israel’s Judge
1046
Saul becomes Israel’s first king
1010
David becomes Israel’s king
City or Peking built;
Greek theology fully developed;
California Indians build wood-reed houses;
Chinese Mathematics utilizes root multiplication, geometry, proportions, and theory of motion;
Glazing of bricks and tiles begins in Near East
970
Solomon becomes Israel’s king
959
Temple in Jerusalem completed
Gold vessels and jewelry popular in Northern Europe
930
Kingdom of Israel divides
900
Celts invade Britain;
Assyrians invent inflatable skins for soldiers to cross-rivers
875
Elijah prophesies in Israel
874
Ahab becomes Israel’s king
850
Evidence of highly developed metal and stone sculptures in Africa
848
Elijah prophesies in Israel
835
Joash becomes Israel’s king
Founding of Cartage, a Phoenician trading post
Development of caste system in India;
Babyloian and Chinese astronomers understand planetary movements;
Spoked wheels used in Europe;
Homer writes Iliad and Odyssey;
Ice skating a popular sport in northern Europe
793
Jonah becomes a prophet
First known date of Olympic games
Traditional date for founding of the city of Rome
Hosea becomes a prophet
Earliest music notation written in ancient Greece;
Celts introduce plow to Britain
Israel invaded by Tiglath-pileser III of Assyria
740
Isaiah becomes a prophet
Israel (northern kingdom) falls
Hezekiah becomes Judah’s king
701
Jerusalem besieged by Sennacherib of Assyria
False teeth invented in Italy
Japan established as a nation
Soldering of iron invented
Horse racing first held at 33rd Olympic Games
640
Josiah becomes Judah’s king
Jeremiah becomes a prophet
Assyrian capital of Nineveh destroyed
605
Daniel taken captive to Babylon
Temple of Diana built in Ephesus
– one of the seven wonders of the ancient world

*Dates are best estimates

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