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Four times we are told in the book of Genesis that man was made in the image of God (Genesis 1:26, 27; 5:3; 9:6). The Hebrew word for “image” is selem. This word has the idea of representing someone or something. In the Old Testament, the word was sometimes used to refer to images of idols. The English form of the Hebrew word for ...
Bible Answer: The “Promised Land” is so named because it was territory that God had promised to Abram, who was later renamed as Abraham. The territory was included in what is called the Abrahamic Covenant and it is described in Genesis 12:1-4. In the covenant God promised Abram that 1) he would become a great nation, 2) have a land of his ...
The Trinity. The third explanation is that God is a Trinity. That is the only view that satisfies the “Us” in the passage. The study series Jesus Is God explains the concept of the Trinity. It reveals that God is one. Then it demonstrates from Scripture that Jesus was God in the Old and New Testaments. The Holy Spirit is also God.
Revelation 7:4-8 (NASB) Seal of God — Revelation 9:4. The term “ seal of God on their foreheads” occurs in Revelation 9:4. Even though Revelation 7:3 refers to the term differently as “have sealed the bond-servants of our God on their foreheads” it is essentially the same thing. Revelation 9:1-3 begins the description of the fifth ...
In Gen 15:17 a smoking oven and flaming torch represent the presence of God in a fiery theophany. 1. The New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology end Exegesis defines tannur as an “oven, firepot or a furnace. 2 That is, the “smoking oven” was a portable firepot which was emitting smoke.
The scenes in heaven describe God’s presentation of the gospel to the peoples of the earth and warning of eternal judgment. There are also three woes (Revelation 8:13; 9:12; 11:14; 18:10, 16, 19). The first two woes describe progressively worse demonic activity; the third woe , which is repeated three times, is about the battle of Armageddon.
Conclusion: The manufacture of images for the purpose of worshipping them is sin. God is not interested in images. He wants our holiness, our love and our faith. In Isaiah 53:1-12 we see that God wants us to believe Him. To believe Him about His Righteous One – the Messiah!
Evil Angels Are Demons. When Satan sinned in heaven by wanting to be like God, he motivated one-third of the angels in heaven to follow him and rebel against God. But Satan was cast out of heaven and they were thrown out too. . . . swept away a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth.
Acts 10:26 But Peter raised him up, saying, “Stand up; I too am just a man.” (NASB) Acts 10:25. To pray to images of the saints and Mary is to deflect worship away from God the Father and to engage in idolatry (Isaiah 44:17; Isaiah 45:20). Isaiah 44:17 and Isaiah 45:20 describe people who make images and then pray to them.
James 1:13-15 (NASB) This means it is not true that God has your life all planned out. God has not planned out every detail of our life. The evil we do is our choice. Since the first man Adam sinned, each person who is born into this world has inherited Adam’s sin nature. We are all born as sinners.