Hello! Several Old Testament passages reference "Sabbaths" (Strongs 07676, shabbath), "New Moons" (Strongs 02320, chodesh), and "Set Feasts" (Strongs 04150, mow‘ed), along with the occasional mention of "feasts" (Strongs 02282, chag) as well (all verses NKJV, emphasis mine):
Behold, I am...
Hello! Some say that the Sabbath is an eternal law that was practiced by Adam and Eve and should still be practiced now under the New Testament. Others say that it was a temporal law that started with the time of Moses and ended under the New Testament with Christ. With this in mind, I'd like to...
Today's message at church examined the opposition that Nehemiah faced when building Jerusalem's walls. Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the Ammonite were the main characters leading this opposition but even Geshem the Arab was in on it.
The first we hear from them is in Chapter 2 vs 10...
Today we started an eight week series on the book of Nehemiah. And we started with the first chapter. The speaker gave a good historical background to the book and to Nehemiah the wine-taster of the King Artaxerxes of Persia. The first chapter finds Nehemiah meeting people from Jerusalem...
Nehemiah
God Of The Wall
5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the Lord your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise. —Nehemiah 9:5 (KJV)
The millennium-old debate over fake news, and the profound negative impact it can have on a person’s reputation, is well-documented within the holy pages of the Bible.
Take for instance the story of Nehemiah, the governor of Judah.
In his return to the Promised Land, Nehemiah quickly went to...