Search results for: “EMPIRE”
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Jews in Berea receive and believe the Gospel
What do Christians mean when they call themselves Bereans? Berean Bible Believer Are YOU one? No doubt you have your own imagery. (Let’s set our pictures of the past aside for a moment and go straight to the source – THE BIBLE – for some context of Paul’s visit to Berea.) Acts of the Apostles…
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Signs of Release from the Bondage of Culture
The Bondage of Culture and Corruption .. that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. This is only reference to ‘bondage’ in the English Standard Bible — BONDAGE is not a very popular word of cultural correctness — and “bondage…
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take up a song of mourning: the coastlands shake
Take up a song of mourning for what God is about to do to you; For a nation led by the ungodly was never great And a nation will never build again an altar to Molech or a goddess of the virgin Earth. The earth quakes and Empires crumble TODAY, we interrupt the earthquakes and…
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A cultural clash at the Agora in Roman Philippi
a Roman Government of Greek Culture The Roman-built forum in Philippi with its bustling traditional Greek agora resembled the forum in Rome (cover-photo remains of the Roman forum pillars shows some of the grandeur of these most-public areas of the Empires greatest cities. Similar-sized pillars in the foreground of the Philippi Forum and agora (to…
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A Python of Prophesy Stalking Paul in Philippi
Who is this soothsaying python of Philippi? Luke mentions this woman in Acts 16 who follows Paul, Silas and Timothy around as they frequent a place of prayer down by the river. She may not have had such a nickname but her presence foretells the inevitable upcoming skirmishes between good and evil in Europe. Acts…
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Lydia a Worshipper Down By The River
Lydia, a worshiper of God A brief outline of the opening of Europe to the Gospel of Jesus Christ beginning with the baptism of Lydia, a Jewish woman near a city with with few Jews. I’ll take you back to Philippi, Macedonia (geographically part of Greece) in the 1st c. superpower Empire of Rome and…
