Podcasts about 20corinthians

Show #2367 Show Notes: Psalm 78 (Message): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2078&version=MSG Charlie Kirk on Church: https://x.com/TheGabriel72/status/1900879564487729366 John 10: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=JOhn%2010&version=KJV 1 Corinthians 14:26 (Message): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2014%3A26&version=MSG Dave Daubenmire, a veteran 35 year high school football coach, was spurred to […]

Show #2361 Show Notes: Hebrews 12: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=hebrews%2012&version=KJV ‘Beset’: https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/beset Communion Verses: 1 Corinthians 15:50-58 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=%201%20Corinthians%2015%3A50-58&version=KJV 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2011%3A23-26&version=KJV John 11:25 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john%2011%3A25&version=KJV Utmost for His Highest: https://utmost.org/updated/today/ Like Like You Were Dying – Tim McGraw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9TShlMkQnc […]

Show #2350 Show Notes: 1 Corinthians 2: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%202&version=KJV Coach’s latest: https://coachdavelive.com/articles/america-is-drowning-in-artificial-stupidity Astronauts stuck in space: https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/stranded-starliner-astronauts-finally-have-a-return-date-and-its-sooner-than-expected Dave Daubenmire, a veteran 35 year high school football coach, was spurred to action when attacked and […]

Wrestling with simping - Being Accountable to AdonaiWebsite: http://www.battle4freedom.com/Network: https://www.mojo50.comStreaming: https://www.rumble.com/Battle4Freedomhttps://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2016%3A13&version=CJB1 Corinthians 16:13Stay alert, stand firm in the faith, behave like a mentsh, grow strong.Genesis 32:14 (13) He stayed there that night; then he chose from among his possessions the following as a present for `Esav his brother: 15 (14) two hundred female goats and twenty males, two hundred female sheep and twenty males, 16 (15) thirty milk-camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten colts. 17 (16) He turned them over to his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Cross over in front of me, and keep a space between each drove and the next one." Genesis 32:18 (17) He instructed the servant in front, "When `Esav my brother meets you and asks you, `Whose servant are you? Where are you going? And whose animals are these?' 19 (18) then you are to say, `They belong to your servant Ya`akov, and they are a present he has sent to my lord `Esav; and Ya`akov himself is just behind us.'" Genesis 32:20 (19) He also instructed the second servant, and the third, and all that followed the droves, "When you encounter `Esav, you are to speak to him in the same way, 21 (20) and you are to add, `And there, just behind us, is your servant Ya`akov.'" For he said, "I will appease him first with the present that goes ahead of me; then, after that, I will see him myself — and maybe he will be friendly toward me." 22 (21) So the present crossed over ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.Genesis 32:23 (22) He got up that night, took his two wives, his two slave-girls, and his eleven children, and forded the Yabok. 24 (23) He took them and sent them across the stream, then sent his possessions across; 25 (24) and Ya`akov was left alone. Then some man wrestled with him until daybreak. 26 (25) When he saw that he did not defeat Ya`akov, he struck Ya`akov's hip socket, so that his hip was dislocated while wrestling with him. 27 (26) The man said, "Let me go, because it's daybreak." But Ya`akov replied, "I won't let you go unless you bless me." 28 (27) The man asked, "What is your name?" and he answered, "Ya`akov." 29 (28) Then the man said, "From now on, you will no longer be called Ya`akov, but Isra'el; because you have shown your strength to both G_d and men and have prevailed." 30 (29) Ya`akov asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he answered, "Why are you asking about my name?" and blessed him there.Genesis 32:31 (30) Ya`akov called the place P'ni-El [face of G_d], "Because I have seen G_d face to face, yet my life is spared." 32 (31) As the sun rose upon him he went on past P'ni-El, limping at the hip. 33 (32) This is why, to this day, the people of Isra'el do not eat the thigh muscle that passes along the hip socket — because the man struck Ya`akov's hip at its socket.Genesis 33:1 Ya`akov raised his eyes and looked out; and there was `Esav coming, and four hundred men with him. So Ya`akov divided the children between Le'ah, Rachel and the two slave-girls, 2 putting the slave-girls and their children first, Le'ah and her children second, and Rachel and Yosef last. 3 Then he himself passed on ahead of them and prostrated himself on the ground seven times before approaching his brother. Genesis 33:4 `Esav ran to meet him, hugged him, threw his arms around his neck and kissed him; and they wept. 5 Esav looked up; on seeing the women and children, he asked, "Who are these with you?" Ya`akov answered, "The children G_d has graciously given to your servant."Genesis 33:6 Then the slave-girls approached with their children, and they prostrated themselves; 7 Le'ah too and her children approached and prostrated themselves; and last came Yosef and Rachel; and they prostrated themselves. 8 `Esav asked, "What was the meaning of this procession of droves I encountered?" and he answered, "It was to win my lord's favor." 9 `Esav replied, "I have plenty already; my brother, keep your possessions for yourself." Genesis 33:10 Ya`akov said, "No, please! If now I have won your favor, then accept my gift. Just seeing your face has been like seeing the face of G_d, now that you have received me. 11 So please accept the gift I have brought you, for G_d has dealt kindly with me and I have enough." Thus he urged him, until he accepted it.Genesis 33:12 `Esav said, "Let's break camp and get going. I'll go first." 13 Ya`akov said to him, "My lord knows that the children are small, and the sheep and cattle suckling their young concern me, because if they overdrive them even one day, all the flocks will die. 14 Instead, please, let my lord go on ahead of his servant. I will travel more slowly, at the pace of the cattle ahead of me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Se`ir." Genesis 33:15 `Esav replied, "Then let me leave with you some of the people I have with me." But Ya`akov said, "There's no need for my lord to be so kind to me." 16 So `Esav left that day to return to Se`ir. 17 Ya`akov went on to Sukkot, where he built himself a house and put up shelters for his cattle. This is why the place is called Sukkot [shelters].Genesis 33:18 Having traveled from Paddan-Aram, Ya`akov arrived safely at the city of Sh'khem, in Kena`an, and set up camp near the city. 19 From the sons of Hamor Sh'khem's father he bought for one hundred pieces of silver the parcel of land where he had pitched his tent. 20 There he put up an altar, which he called El-Elohei-Yisra'el [G_d, the G_d of Isra'el].Credit to:https://www.pexels.com/@clickerhappy/ (Wrestling photo)

As we dive into the passage (2 Corinthians 5:11-21), we will discover the essence of the Gospel ministry (reconciliation with God and then each other) and how that puts "The Meaning" back into our lives (good, loving relationships with God and each other). If this is indeed the meaning of life, how will you leverage your life for the sake of the Gospel? 

As we dive into the passage (2 Corinthians 5:11-21), we will discover the essence of the Gospel ministry (reconciliation with God and then each other) and how that puts "The Meaning" back into our lives (good, loving relationships with God and each other). If this is indeed the meaning of life, how will you leverage your life for the sake of the Gospel? 

Sunday, Janaury 26, 2025 Title: “Renew Hope” Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:5-15 (NRSV) By: Rev. Steve Price Bulletin https://trinitygnv.org/s/Sunday-Bulletin-01-26-25-930-11AM.pdf Scripture https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%204%3A5-15%20&version=NRSVUE To support the ongoing ministries of Trinity, consider making a gift here: https://pushpay.com/g/trinitygnv?src=hpp For more information, go to https://trinitygnv.org/ Copyrighted content included in this webcast is used with license under one or more of the following: Christian Copyright Solutions WORSHIP cast Streaming License and PERFORM music License #7840 (to publicly perform and/or web stream any musical composition controlled by ASCAP, BMI and SESAC), CVLI (Christian Video Licensing International) #503915511, CVLI ScreenVue License #502477880, CCLI Church Streaming & Podcast License #CSPL016331, CCLI Church Copyright License #1022361, and/or CCLI Church Rehearsal License #CRL011587.

Show #2324 Show Notes: 1 Corinthians 6: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%206&version=KJV James 1: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James%201&version=KJV ‘Enticed’: https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/enticed ‘Conceived’: https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/conceived Little Foxes: https://www.gotquestions.org/foxes-Song-Solomon.html Vaccine Damage spread through intercourse: https://x.com/thehealthb0t/status/1875475003183132773 Dr Ardis on Nicotine: https://x.com/bgatesisapyscho/status/1876636563230044645?mx=2 ‘Doctrine’: https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/doctrine ‘Sceptic’: https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/Sceptic Dave Daubenmire, a veteran 35 […]

Read the Passage: 1 Corinthians 14 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2014&version=ESV

Read the Passage: 1 Cor. 14 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2014&version=ESV

Reading by Pastor Michelle Dunn ---   2 Corinthians 10-13   https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%2010-13&version=ESV&interface=print

Reading by Pastor Teressa Wiley ---   2 Corinthians 5-9   https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%205-9&version=ESV&interface=print

Reading by Deborah Volosin ---   2 Corinthians 1-4   https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%201-4&version=ESV&interface=print

Reading by Carmelo Ruiz ---   1 Corinthians 15-16   https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2015-16&version=ESV&interface=print

Reading by David Anderson ---   1 Corinthians 12-14   https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2012-14&version=ESV&interface=print

Reading by Tina Anderson ---   1 Corinthians 9-11   https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%209-11&version=ESV&interface=print

Reading by Felipe Frutos ---   1 Corinthians 5-8   https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%205-8&version=ESV&interface=print

Reading by Steve Luna ---   1 Corinthians 1-4   https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%201-4&version=ESV&interface=print

Show #2291 Show Notes: Did Nephilim really return after the flood? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUW4Uk5RakE Genesis 6: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=gen%206&version=KJV Truckin For Troops: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=truckin%20for%20troops Cowboy’s Camp: https://www.facebook.com/100008209754595/videos/542508821999959 Media Meltdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAQ13r9HREA 1 Corinthians 2: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%202&version=KJV ‘Mystery’: https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/mystery Natural, Spiritual and Carnal Man: https://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/bible-definitions-natural-man-spiritual-man-carnal-man/ Maddow […]

Do you praise God in EVERYTHING?... the Good AND the Pain? With Thanksgiving fast approaching, it is common to be thankful for the good gifts, graces, love, or comforts of life. But, how often do we thank God for the thorn in our side, the pit we have fallen into, or the desert we simply cannot find a way out of? In this episode of the Catholic podcast, Draw Near, Fred and Kara reflect on 2 Scripture passages focusing on gratitude to God in the midst of difficulty. Scripture passages mentioned this episode: Fred's Passage: Psalm 103 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20103&version=RSV) Kara's Passage: 2 Corinthians 12: 5-10 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%2012%3A5-10&version=NRSVUE) Book Fred and/or Kara to speak by visiting the Draw Near "booking page (https://www.drawnear.me/booking)." Click here (https://www.drawnear.me/donate) to become a patron! Patrons are essentially "sponsors" and co-producers or Draw Near as it could not happen without them. "Like" and follow us on Facebook! (https://www.facebook.com/fredandkara). Follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/drawnear.me/)! Who are "Fred and Kara?" Find out by visiting our home page. (https://www.drawnear.me/) Like our podcast? Hit that “subscribe” button AND the notification button/bell to know when new episodes are posted! Give us a rating! Leave a review! Tell your friends! Even more, pray for us! Draw Near Theme © Fred Shellabarger & Kara Kardell

November 17, 2024 Sunday Worship  Series: "Peacemakers?" Title: "Flip the Script" Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:16-18 By: Rev. Steve Price Bulletins https://trinitygnv.org/s/Sunday-Bulletin-11-17-24-93011AM-mtge.pdf https://trinitygnv.org/s/Sunday-Bulletin-11-17-24-8AM.pdf Scripture https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%205%3A16-18&version=CEB To support the ongoing ministries of Trinity, consider making a gift here: https://pushpay.com/g/trinitygnv?src=hpp For more information, go to https://trinitygnv.org/ Copyrighted content included in this webcast is used with license under one or more of the following: Christian Copyright Solutions WORSHIP cast Streaming License and PERFORM music License #7840 (to publicly perform and/or web stream any musical composition controlled by ASCAP, BMI and SESAC), CVLI (Christian Video Licensing International) #503915511, CVLI ScreenVue License #502477880, CCLI Church Streaming & Podcast License #CSPL016331, CCLI Church Copyright License #1022361, and/or CCLI Church Rehearsal License #CRL011587.

Read the Passage: 1 Corinthians 12 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2012&version=NASB1995

Read the Passage: 1 Corinthians 11 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2011&version=NASB1995

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Read the Passage: 1 Corinthians 12 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2012&version=NASB1995

Read the Passage: 1 Corinthians 12 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2012&version=ESV

Read the Passage: 1 Corinthians 13 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2013&version=ESV

Read the Passage: 1 Corinthians 13 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2013&version=ESV

Colossians 3:23-24English Standard VersionWhatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.Read full chapter1 Corinthians 7:17English Standard VersionOnly let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.Read full chapter1 Corinthians 7:17 in all English translationsGenesis 1:28English Standard VersionAnd God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Roots of Brainfog: Bad diets and busynessWebsite: http://www.battle4freedom.com/Network: https://www.mojo50.comStreaming: https://www.rumble.com/Battle4Freedomhttps://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%206%3A19-20&version=TLV1 Corinthians 6:19-20Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Ruach ha-Kodesh who is in you, whom you have from G_d, and that you are not your own? For you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify G_d in your body.https://mol.im/a/13891833This innovative AI exercise bike is $200 off when you use this codehttps://mol.im/a/13879657Grab this cheaper Ozempic alternative now on Amazon Prime US Deal Dayshttps://mol.im/a/13952719Recover from your hangover quick with this $20 liver relief patchhttps://youtu.be/N8DVJcQxM7Q?si=WK8WlOsjK-J2BxnlThe Causes of Brain Foghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3l-PYvPGZ8The #1 Best Anti-inflammatory Food in the World (Surprising)https://youtu.be/Og5xAdC8EUI?si=KSH7SExb4WaTtT4AHow your digestive system works - Emma Brycehttps://youtu.be/g5PPN51-0no?si=T7Im1i91tu4nDKpHNature's Top Anti-Inflammatory Medicinal Foodshttps://mol.im/a/13953365Tame cravings and boost metabolism with this powerful probioticThanks to Anna Shvets, https://www.pexels.com/@shvetsa/, for the brain image.Thanks to Markus Spiske, https://www.pexels.com/@markusspiske/, for the fog image.

Statistics do lie - Creeper by the dozenWebsite: http://www.battle4freedom.com/Network: https://www.mojo50.comStreaming: https://www.rumble.com/Battle4Freedomhttps://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%207%3A35&version=TLV1 Corinthians 7:35Now I say this for your own benefit—not to put a restraint on you, but to promote proper and constant service to the Lord without distraction.Obama scolds black male voters over not supporting Kamala Harris https://mol.im/a/13948647Candance Owens and Kamala's Uncle.https://www.facebook.com/share/xL9LjephaWuauVWH/?mibextid=ox5AEWCDC stats reveals startling number of people with ADHD in US https://mol.im/a/13946023Heart condition suffered by 130M Americans raise risk of dementia https://mol.im/a/13945753Texas elementary school student dies in mystery 'medical emergency' https://mol.im/a/13947313Meat Recall Update: List of 10million pounds of products recalled https://mol.im/a/13945711Krispy Kreme is giving out free donuts to fast-food fans https://mol.im/a/13946561Springfield health officials admit strain treating influx of Haitians https://mol.im/a/13946869Severe geomagnetic storm could disrupt critical systems Thursday https://mol.im/a/13946363Grab this cheaper Ozempic alternative now on Amazon Prime US Deal Days https://mol.im/a/1387965Americans 'left paralyzed by mandated Covid vaccines' https://mol.im/a/13881941Afghan accused of plotting terror attack worked for the CIA https://mol.im/a/13946177Christians and Halloween 

Judgment all around - None Escape G_d`s WrathWebsite: http://www.battle4freedom.com/Network: https://www.mojo50.comStreaming: https://www.rumble.com/Battle4Freedomhttps://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%205%3A10&version=TLV2 Corinthians 5:10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Messiah, so that each one may receive what is due for the things he did while in the body—whether good or bad.Genesis 19Sodom and Gomorrah1 Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, while Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 Then he said, "Here, please my lords, please turn aside to your servant's house, spend the night and wash your feet. Then you can get up early and go on your way."But they said, "No. We will spend the night in the open plaza."3 But he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and they came into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked matzot, and they ate. 4 They had not yet lain down when the men of the city (the men of Sodom) surrounded the house—from youth to elderly, all the people without exception. 5 And they called out to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have relations with them!"6 But Lot went out to them at the doorway and shut the door behind him, 7 and said, "Please, my brothers, don't act wickedly. 8 Look, I have two daughters who haven't been intimate with a man. Please let me bring them out to you—do to them whatever is good in your eyes! However, do nothing to these men—since they have come under the protection of my roof."9 "Get out of the way!" they said, and they said, "This one came as an outsider and dares to judge! Now we'll treat you worse than them!"So they strongly pressed against the man, Lot, and moved in close to break the door down. 10 But the men reached out their hands, brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door. 11 Then they struck the men at the doorway of the house with blindness—from youth to elderly—so that they gave up trying to find the doorway.12 Then the men said to Lot, "Who else related to you is still here? A son-in-law, your sons and your daughters, whoever else is related to you in the city—bring them out of the place! 13 For we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become so great before Adonai that Adonai has sent us to destroy it."14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters, "Get up!" he said, "Get out of this place! For Adonai is about to destroy the city!" But in the eyes of his sons-in-law, he was like a joker.15 So when morning dawned the angels rushed Lot, saying, "Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be swept away with the city's iniquity!" 16 But he hesitated. So the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand and his two daughters' hands—because of Adonai's compassion for him—and they brought him out and left him outside the city.17 When they brought them outside, one said, "Flee for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stop anywhere in the surrounding area! Escape to the hills, or else you'll be swept away!"18 But Lot said to them, "No, my Lord, please! 19 Look, please, your servant has found favor in Your eyes and You have magnified Your merciful loyalty, which You have shown me by letting me live. But I can't escape to the hill country—for the disaster will overtake me and I'll die! 20 Look, please, this city is close enough to flee there, and it's little. Please let me escape there. Isn't it small? And let me live!"21 So He said to him, "Behold, I will grant your request concerning this matter too—not to demolish the city of which you have spoken. 22 Hurry! Flee to safety there, because I cannot do anything until you arrive there." (This is why the town is named Zoar.)23 The moment the sun rose upon the land, Lot entered Zoar, 24 and Adonai rained sulfur and fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah from Adonai out of the sky. 25 So He demolished these cities and the whole surrounding area, all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation of the ground.26 But his wife looked behind him and she turned into a pillar of salt.27 Now Abraham rose early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Adonai, 28 and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward the entire land of the surrounding area, and saw, behold, the smoke of the land ascended like smoke from a furnace. 29 So it was, as God destroyed the cities of the surrounding area, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the upheaval, when He demolished the cities where Lot had dwelt.Lot Fathers Moab and Ammon30 Then Lot went up from Zoar and dwelled on the mountain, his two daughters with him, because he was afraid to dwell in Zoar. So he lived in a cave—he and his two daughters.31 Then the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to come to us as is the custom of the whole land. 32 Come on! Let's make our father drink wine so that we can lie with him and keep the seed from our father alive. 33 So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn came and lay down with her father. Yet he did not know that she lay down and got up. 34 On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, "See! I slept with my father last night. Let's make him drink wine tonight as well. Come on! Sleep with him so that we'll keep the seed from our father alive." 35 So they made their father drink wine that night as well, and the younger got up and lay down with him and he did not know that she lay down and got up. 36 So Lot's two daughters become pregnant by their father. 37 Then the firstborn gave birth to a son and named him Moab: he is the ancestor of the Moabites to this day. 38 The younger also gave birth to a son and named him Ben-Ammi: he is the ancestor of the sons of Ammon to this day.

Series: "Wesleyan Hymns" Title: "O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing" Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:14-21 (NRSVUE) By: Rev. Marisa Gertz Bulletin https://trinitygnv.org/s/635-Bulletin-09-18-24-4gjb.pdf Scripture https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%205%3A14-21&version=NRSVUE To support the ongoing ministries of Trinity, please make a gift here:  https://pushpay.com/g/trinitygnv?src=hpp For more information, go to https://trinitygnv.org/

Wednesday, September 18, 2024 Series: "Wesleyan Hymns" Title: "O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing" Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:14-21 (NRSVUE) By: Rev. Marisa Gertz Bulletin https://trinitygnv.org/s/635-Bulletin-09-18-24-4gjb.pdf Scripture https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%205%3A14-21&version=NRSVUE To support the ongoing ministries of Trinity, please make a gift here:  https://pushpay.com/g/trinitygnv?src=hpp For more information, go to https://trinitygnv.org/

Pastor Bryan preaches the climax of 1 Corinthians (15:35-58) this Sunday with a message titled, "Glorify God and Enjoy Him Forever!" Glory is the theme of the day as we worship, pray and seek God through the Scriptures.

Pastor Bryan preaches the climax of 1 Corinthians (15:35-58) this Sunday with a message titled, "Glorify God and Enjoy Him Forever!" Glory is the theme of the day as we worship, pray and seek God through the Scriptures.

Show #2239 Show Notes: Communion verse: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2015%3A50-58&version=KJV and https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2011%3A23-26&version=KJV LAN Prayer: https://thelibertyactionnetwork.com/united-nations-general-assembly-09-10-2024-10-10-2024/ 2 Thessalonians 2: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20thess%202&version=KJV Haitian voodoo is real: https://www.mediaite.com/news/marianne-williamson-defends-trump-over-eating-the-pets-claim-haitian-voodoo-is-in-fact-real/ Catholicism in Haiti: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Haiti Dewine’s deep connection to Haiti: https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/ohio-gov-dewines-deep-connections-to-haiti-inform-response-to-springfield-controversy/M5HTIUUODNE4FIUPQ2AHDQSIHA/ Ephesians 6: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=eph%206&version=KJV ‘Swine’: https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/swine Abortion Clinician tells […]

Series: “Wesleyan Hymns” Message: “Christ the Lord is Risen Today” Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15 By: Rev. Steve Price Bulletin https://trinitygnv.org/s/635-Bulletin-09-11-24-hkcy.pdf Scripture https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2015&version=CEB To support the ongoing ministries of Trinity, please make a gift here:  https://pushpay.com/g/trinitygnv?src=hpp For more information, go to https://trinitygnv.org/

Wednesday, September 11, 2024 Series: “Wesleyan Hymns” Message: “Christ the Lord is Risen Today” Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15 By: Rev. Steve Price Bulletin https://trinitygnv.org/s/635-Bulletin-09-11-24-hkcy.pdf Scripture https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2015&version=CEB To support the ongoing ministries of Trinity, please make a gift here:  https://pushpay.com/g/trinitygnv?src=hpp For more information, go to https://trinitygnv.org/

  Show Notes: All Hail the Power of Jesus Name  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuMh_ept-Js https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd_u58cQpMI  Crown Him with many crowns 1 Corinthians 6:9-11: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%206%3A9-11&version=KJV Isaiah 55: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isaiah%2055&version=KJV Psalm 14: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm%2014&version=KJV Deuteronomy 32:17-22:https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deut%2032%3A17-22&version=KJV Revelation 15:3-4 : https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Rev%2015%3A3-4&version=KJV 2 Samuel 24:14-17: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Samuel%2024%3A14-17&version=KJV […]

Removing the Blinders - It has been smoke and mirrorsWebsite: http://www.battle4freedom.com/studio/?removing-the-blindersNetwork: https://www.mojo50.comStreaming: https://www.rumble.com/Battle4Freedomhttps://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%204%3A4&version=CJB2 Corinthians 4:4They do not come to trust because the god of the 'olam hazeh has blinded their minds, in order to prevent them from seeing the light shining from the Good News about the glory of the Messiah, who is the image of G_d.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13694795/Donald-Trump-didnt-know-Kamala-Harris-black-interview-black-journalists-association.htmlDonald Trump says Kamala Harris 'became a black person' after being 'Indian all the way'https://mol.im/a/13697675Southport stabbing suspect, 17, is named for the first time as he appears in court charged with murdering three little girls at Taylor Swift-themed dance class and harming 10 others with a 'curved kitchen knife'pic.twitter.com/VqFgMhQERZYour average crypto dev is a mirror image of what political candidates, and parties, bring to the table. Pay now and wait for the impossible.https://mol.im/a/13699127How a $130B renewables industry makes enemies of Midwestern farmershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKdQpzg4JosRachel MathewsCCMBChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYzX3YZoMrsWhy the whole banking system is a scam - Godfrey Bloom MEPBrexit Party MEPshttps://www.facebook.com/reel/1128908138266997National Association for Women - FeminismHow many times can we say, "Two sides of the same coin," before we actually believe it?

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Guilt Cost Analysis - Perpetual path of povertyhttp://www.battle4freedom.com/studio/?guilt-cost-analysisNetwork: https://www.mojo50.comStreaming: https://www.rumble.com/Battle4FreedomDeclaring that those who do not give at mandated level are robbing G_d!Malachi 3:8Can a person rob G_d? Yet you rob me. But you ask, "How have we robbed you?" In tenths and voluntary contributions.https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Malachi+3%3A8&version=CJBTwitter users are furious as major change comes into force on X TODAYhttps://mol.im/a/13525531Bill Maher snaps at Charlamagne Tha godhttps://mol.im/a/13534859The US town being sued for racism... for paying black residentshttps://mol.im/a/13533663Democratic candidate is accused of racist attacks against HIMSELFhttps://mol.im/a/13535649Moment pro-life Colorado Republican is brutally grilled about abortionhttps://mol.im/a/13535665Journalist threatened with jail over publishing transgender shooterhttps://mol.im/a/13536175https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1248&context=faculty_pubsxamining the impact of differing guilt advertising appeals on charitable giving among the Generation Z cohort https://www.fosters.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2019/02/03/shame-and-guilt-are-not-proper-motives-for-charity/6126349007/Shame and guilt are not proper motives for charityHow Does It Feel to Not Give to Charity?https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_does_it_feel_to_not_give_to_charityhttps://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2023-05-10/to-stem-the-housing-crisis-religious-congregations-are-building-homesTo Stem the Housing Crisis, Religious Congregations Are Building Homes2 Corinthians 9:7Each should give according to what he has decided in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for G_d loves a cheerful giver.https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%209%3A7&version=CJB

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Updated April 15, 2021: This topic of the "firmament" is also of great interest to atheists. A popular anti-creationist made a 40-minute YouTube video critical of this article. We may have hit a nerve. A favorite claim of many atheists is that the Bible teaches that the earth is surrounded by a solid domed sky. Instead, the Bible actually teaches that the firmament of Day Two is the crust of the earth, which divided water below the crust from the waters on the surface. Documenting this thereby rebuts that widespread false allegation. When we first published this article, that extra bonus was unexpected. So we've embedded and responded to Brett Palmer's video including by pointing out that the Babylonian creation epic, Enuma Elish, below, corroborates this understanding of the "firmament" as first referring to the earth's crust (i.e., biblically, to paradise, to heaven on earth). And we show that the Bible's Hebrew word for firmament, raqia, from the verb raqa, refers not only to the heavens above, but explicitly, to the crust of the earth. And we present the meaning of the Syrian geographical place name, Raqqa, and extend to antiquity the etymology of the English word, rock. At Real Science Radio (which airs on America's most-powerful radio station), we teach Dr. Walt Brown's Hydroplate Theory as the best understanding of the global flood, geology and the relevant scriptures. If the following is correct, all flood models based on the "canopy theory" and "plate tectonics" are false.On Day Two God Made the Crust of the Earth: Dr. Walt Brown's Hydroplate Theory helps to understand the global flood, geology and the relevant scriptures. On Day Two of creation, God formed the crust of the earth, called the firmament (Hebrew: raqia), which extended for miles above a worldwide subterranean ocean, and the crust of course also held waters upon its surface. If this is true, we would expect to read in the Bible that initially, the surface of the earth was covered only with water, and that then God made the earth's crust above the water. And consistent with the Hydroplate Theory (which describes a layer of water at least one-mile thick that was perhaps dozens of miles below the earth's surface), in fact the Bible teaches that God: - "In the beginning God created... the earth. ...and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters" (Genesis 1:1-2). Then God, - "laid out (raqa) the earth above the waters" (Psalm 136:6). And, - "by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth [was] standing out of water and in the water" (2 Peter 3:5). - "Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament" (Gen. 1:7). So, "The earth is the Lord's... For He has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the waters" (Ps.24:1-2). Where the Water Came From: The global flood then began when those "fountains of the great deep were broken up" (Gen. 7:11) for the pre-flood earth had been "standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water" (2 Peter 3:5-6). Those waters had been stored up for global judgment if needed. For when "the heavens were made," the Bible says of much of the Earth's water back then that God "lays up the deep in storehouses" (Ps. 33:6-7; see also Prov. 8:27-28). For God created not only the surface waters, for He "made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters" (Rev. 14:7 KJV [as with many versions; some like the NKJV say "springs of water"). Dr. Brown's book, In the Beginning, demonstrates powerfully that the world's major geologic features flow logically from these initial conditions. But some creationists who disagree point out that, "God called the firmament Heaven" (Gen. 1:8), claiming that this firmament must be either the atmosphere (e.g., Henry Morris) or outer space (e.g., Russell Humphreys). Heaven on Earth, Hell Beneath: However at RSR we show that, whether figurative or literal, the crust of the earth is the boundary between heaven and hell. It is consistent with Biblical history that God would originally call the crust of the earth "heaven." For at creation, "He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters, at the boundary of light and darkness. The pillars of heaven tremble (Job 26:10-11). And then, "He divideth (not raqa but raga) the sea with his power" (Job 26:12 KJV, Jubilee, Websters, etc.). God designated the region below the crust as the initial abode of those who may pass away. Hell is the holding prison for the unrepentant dead. "Hell from beneath is excited about you, to meet you at your coming" (Isa. 14:9; etc.). For the newly-made earth, the Lord logically referred to everything from the crust and above as heaven. Hence dozens of verses indicate that heaven also refers to the earth's atmosphere as in "rain from heaven," the "dew of heaven," "birds of heaven," "dust from the heaven," city walls "fortified up to heaven," smoke rises "to the midst of heaven," "the heavens are shut" in drought, "frost of heaven," "clouds of heaven," "snow from heaven," "hail from heaven," and the east winds "blow in the heavens." Thus even after the Fall, from Genesis and Job, through the Gospels, Acts and Revelation, the Bible continued to refer to the atmosphere, one molecule above the ground, as heaven. Apart from this understanding, a Bible student might think that while the surface of the Moon is in "heaven", that the paradise God made on the surface of the Earth is not. Also, the Bible's thirty-two occurrences of the phrase "kingdom of heaven" appear only in the royal Gospel of Matthew, and some of these (Mat. 11:12; 13:24 with Mat. 13:38; 16:19; Mat. 18:1 with Luke 9:46; etc.) locate this kingdom of "heaven" at least partially on earth. Lucifer Fell from Heaven on Earth: "God called the firmament Heaven," because the earth's crust formed the boundary between heaven and the future hell. The firmament also divided the waters of the earth (Gen. 1:2, 6) which even reserved the floodwaters of judgment below ground. For God "lays up the deep in storehouses" so "let all the earth fear the Lord," (Ps. 33:7-8), because He "shut in the sea with doors" until in the flood "it burst forth and issued from the womb," (Job. 38:8). But after the Fall, which likely occurred within a week of Creation, earth lost its heavenly designation, for apparently God will never fully replicate the first earth. Only two detailed Bible stories involve happenings that occured prior to the Fall, the creation account and the record of Lucifer's fall. And both of these events refer to earth as heaven. Isaiah 14:12 describes "Lucifer" as "fallen from heaven," yet Scripture places him on earth at the moment of his fall. "You were in Eden, the garden of God," (Ezek. 28:13). And "you have said in your heart: "I will ascend into heaven... I will ascend above the heights of the clouds," (Isa. 14:13-14). "Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit," (Isa. 14:15). Even though he was on earth, Lucifer fell "from heaven," because prior to the Fall, the surface of the earth was part of heaven's realm. * Bible Students Understand the Firmament, But Get Confused at 1:8: See this explained in this five-minute segment, in our 2-hour flood video, that begins at 48:30. Just click and the video will start at the correct point... Consider the flesh. Notice that just as gravity pulls our physical flesh down toward the center of the earth, the Fall created the world system which relentlessly pulls our spiritual flesh, drawing us down toward the lowest depths until death, and then the believer's released spirit soars upward to heaven, whereas the unbeliever's unfettered spirit falls downward, the firmament no longer keeping him out of Hades, thus his soul plummets into hell. C.S. Lewis wrote the preface to D.E. Harding's esoteric The Hierarchy of Heaven & Earth in which Harding wrote that "Hierarchy is... something like the ancient circles of heaven and earth and hell" (1952, p. 27), and that the "narrowest Hell would be widest Heaven if the Devil could only bring himself to turn round and look out from the Centre instead of in at himself" (p. 187). In the modern classic, Soul of Science, (1994, p. 38), Pearcey and Thaxton describe the view of Christian "medieval cosmology" that "at the very center of the universe was Hell, then the earth, then (moving outward from the center) the progressively nobler spheres of the heavens." Christians continue to affirm this hierarchy quoting Paul who was "caught up to the third heaven" (2 Cor 12:2), the first being the sky, the second is space, and the third God's habitation. King David even refers to the deep, as the "channels of the sea", where in the flood "the foundations of the world were uncovered", which were "the foundations of heaven" (2 Sam. 22:8, 16). Incidentally, the never-before-seen consequences of the flood caused the troubles David lists here. The lightnings, thunder, dark waters, thick clouds, darkness, volcanic eruptions, smoke, coal and fire, the earth shaking, and when the "channels of the sea appeared" only then the "foundations of the world were uncovered..." Moses Qualified His Last Four Uses of Firmament: Moses used the word firmament nine times in the creation account. He intentionally distinguished the last four occurrences from the first four, which all pivot around the central instance where God called the earth's firmament Heaven. Each of the four in the second grouping (Genesis 1:14, 15, 17, 20) is qualified separately by an exceptional repetition. The prepositional phrase "of the heavens" makes a distinction between the first firmament of the earth, and the second "firmament of the heavens." And if firmament means the "heavens," the very term "firmament of the heavens" would seem unnecessarily redundant, especially when repeated four times. However, the qualifier "of the heavens" is added so that the reader will not confuse this firmament of sky and space with the previous firmament of earth. Thus, readers alien to the notion of "heaven" on earth should nonetheless be able to separate the two firmaments, and understand God's meaning. Now, millennia after the Fall, God's own record of creation notwithstanding, sin has almost completely obscured the original perspective of the earth's surface as "heaven." The Things God Called Day and Earth: "God called the light Day." Yet like with the word firmament, Genesis has two very different meanings for light. Day 4 would be unintelligible without recognizing its initial meaning. "Then God made two great Days to rule the heavens"? No. The same is true for the dry land that "God called... Earth". If it had only one meaning, then the Earth would have been created on Day Two when the "Earth" appeared. Our Full Firmament Video: Above we pointed to a five-minute excerpt. Here's the full 30-minute segment out of our Global Flood video on raqia titled, Is the Day 2 firmament of Genesis the Earth's crust?: Kingdom of Heaven Lost on Earth: When man rebelled, earth became more like hell than heaven. Thus man's habitation on the surface of the earth lost its heavenly designation. The Bible describes Hell as below, bounded by the firmament. However in the beginning "God called the firmament Heaven" because that's where He placed Adam and Eve, above ground on the surface, in the heavens, in fellowship with Him, not in any other realm but in His kingdom, in heaven on earth. 2011 UPDATE - Atheists and the Solid Dome: YouTube anti-creationist Brett Palmer created a 40-minute rebuttal video (embedded here) of this little article on the firmament. Seems like we hit a nerve. Aside from Brett casting aspersions from the recently invented flat-earth myth, consider that as with many other atheists, he claims that the word firmament (Hebrew raqia) discredits the creation account by showing that Genesis cannot be God's Word because it merely echoes the ancient world's false belief in a solid domed sky above the earth. So, if raqia (firmament) refers not only to the heavens, but also to the crust of the earth, standing above a subterranean chamber of water, then atheists would lose a favorite argument. Raqia is the noun from the verb raqa meaning being hammered or spread out, as in working metal into a thin sheet or plate. "They beat (raqa) the gold into thin sheets" (Exodus 39:3). "The goldsmith overspreads (raqa) it with gold" (Isaiah 40:19; i.e., gold-plated). Similarly, God overspread the waters of the earth with the plates of the earth's crust, i.e., the firmament, what Walt Brown calls hydroplates. For "God made the firmament (raqia), and divided the waters which were under the firmament (raqia, the crustal plates) from the waters which were above the firmament" (Genesis 1:7). Please review again the verses listed below. For not only did God create "the sea and the fountains" (Rev. 14:7), if this understanding of raqia is is the Bible's actual meaning, then we would expect also to read that initially the surface of the earth was covered only with water, and that then God made the earth's crust above the water: - "In the beginning God created... the earth. ...darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters." Gen. 1:1-2 - God "laid out the earth above the waters" Ps. 136:6- "by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water" 2 Pet. 3:5 - "Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament." Gen. 1:7 "The earth is the Lord's... For He has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the waters." Ps. 24:1-2 When the Bible specifically links raqa to the earth (as in the passages below), and because words typically have multiple meanings, it is extreme to insist that raqia cannot refer to anything but the heavens. Genesis was written back when pagans wondered what held up the earth. Perhaps it rested on the back of a tortoise, or on a pillar, or was held up by Atlas. Yet the most ancient Scripture teaches that God, "hangs the earth on nothing" (Job 26:7), which is visually consistent with modern astronomical observation. For just as the firmament of the earth holds up the mountains, so too, the firmament "of the heavens" is strong enough to hold the earth.God Raqa the EARTH! Firmament (raqia) is used "of the heavens" commonly and eleven times the Bible speaks of God stretching out the heavens. Then there is something not included in the above video. Another three times the Bible says that God raqa the earth itself. This shows, unlike as stressed on YouTube, that raqia very naturally also refers to the earth. Dr. Walt Brown's book lists these verses but I'll repeat them here for Mr. Palmer's consideration: To Him who laid out (raqa) the earth above the waters… Ps. 136:6 Thus says God the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth (raqa) the earth and that which comes from it… Isa. 42:5 “I am the Lord, who makes all things, who stretches out the heavens all alone, who spreads abroad (raqa) the earth by Myself;" Isa. 44:24 The firmament (raqia) of the creation account was iconic in ancient Israel, as the Tyndale Bible Dictionary says, "the firmament is always related to Creation." So the repetition and by two authors shows that the wording is deliberate. Thus these verses show an ancient awareness in Scripture that God raqa the Earth, that is, that His stretching out of the raqia of Genesis 1:8 readily refers to terra firma, or as the King James translators coined the word from the Latin, the firmament. Raqia and Heaven Both Refer Also to the Earth Raqa the Earth Heaven on Earth To Him who laid out (raqa) the earth above the waters...  Ps. 136:6 "He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters, at the boundary of light and darkness. The pillars of heaven tremble... He stirs up the sea with His power..." Job 26:10-12 Thus says God the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth (raqa) the earth...  Isa. 42:5 "And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force." Mat. 11:12; "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field;" and "the field is the world..." Mat. 13:24, 38 I am the Lord... who stretches out the heavens all alone, who spreads abroad (raqa) the earth by Myself  Isa. 44:24 "And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven" Mat. 16:19 [and 18:18] Etymology of Raqia: The word raqia relates to raqa as sharia (law) relates to shara'a (to ordain or decree). Further, the ancient Middle East commonly ended names in "ia," and in this particular example of early Hebrew usage, raqia, though not a proper name, is the name for something created by raqa. (Atheist Brett Palmer, though not especially reliable, does specifically agree with this explanation in his follow-up video.) Pillars of Heaven: Regarding the crust of the Earth being referred to as heaven, consider the "pillars" which formed beneath the crust, as Dr. Brown describes it, at many "locations, the [subterranean] chamber's sagging ceiling pressed against the chamber's floor. These solid contacts will be called pillars." Thus since they supported the Earth's surface, they could be referred to as "pillars of heaven", just beneath the surface, which would "tremble" when they were crushed in God's judgment of the great flood of Noah's day, When God, "stirs up the sea with His power", as Job put it. "He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters, at the boundary of light and darkness. The pillars of heaven tremble... He stirs up the sea with His power..." (Job 26:10-12). Earth's Foundation with Pillars Sunk into their Bases: This doesn't have to confuse Bible students. This five-minute segment at 1:04:22 depicts the pillars. Just click and the video will start at the correct point... * No One Before Or Since? Palmer says, virtually alleging omniscience for himself, that "no one before or since Enyart has ever asserted that two firmaments were created in the creation story." However, the nearly contemporaneous Babylonian creation epic states directly that heaven above and the "firm ground below" were called by the same name, that is, "heaven." First though consider Google. The claim then is that the term firmament refers to sky and space, and also to the sphere of the world. So, as the originator of this concept :) that firmament has two meanings, I am gratified that it's catching on. The Google results for "define:firmament" gives two meanings: The heavens or the sky, esp. when regarded as a tangible thing A sphere or world viewed as a collection of people * Not Half Bad and Not Half Right: Hey, for Google, that's not half bad, for the firmament (the Earth's surface) was called heaven so that Adam and Eve could be fruitful and multiply and fill the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. Then regarding Palmer's claim that, "no one before or since Enyart has ever asserted that two firmaments were created," Dr. Brown's book credits "two pastors" with showing him this simple heaven-on-earth understanding of Genesis 1:8. The pastor before me later publishing a book on the topic: Paradise: Past, Present, and Future, and of course since then, Walt Brown too has adopted this understanding. >* Babylonian Creation Epic: The ancient pagan world had a corrupted memory of biblical accounts. Compare for example Egypt's sun god arising out of the waters of creation with, "God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, 'Let there be light.'" Likewise the flood of Noah's day is remembered in Babylon's Epic of Gilgamesh. Also, the seven tablets of Enuma Elish similarities to the seven days of the creation week include man's creation on the sixth day which is presented on the sixth tablet. The first creation tablet describes the "waters commingling as a single body" when "no marsh land had [yet] appeared", reminiscent of the firmament dividing the waters (Gen. 1:6-7) and the dry land appearing (Gen. 1:9). The truth reported by Moses in Genesis 1:8a, that God called the firmament heaven (referring to the crust of the Earth, i.e., God's kingdom of heaven, on Earth) is emphasized in the first lines of the first Babylonian creation tablet which state, "When on high the heaven had not been named, Firm ground below had not been called by that name." That is, before the term "heaven" even applied to sky and space, before that not even the firmament below had yet been called that same name, i.e., heaven. (This translation, "firm ground below had not [yet] been called by that name", appears in old-earth Oxford Prof. John Lennox' book Seven Days that Divide the World. Importantly, after discussing this matter personally with Dr. Lennox, RSR can report that he does not agree with our Genesis 1:8 interpretation, so in no way would he publish a biased translation to make our point.) For as Moses wrote, "God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament... And God called the firmament Heaven... Then God said, '...let the dry land appear.'" So whereas atheist video maker Palmer (see above) says that "no one before or since Enyart has ever asserted that two firmaments were created in the creation story", Brett can now consider that this Babylonian Enuma Elish creation epic parallels the Hydroplate Theory's understanding of the firmament as referring also, and originally, to the "firm ground below" the heavens. And thus, because God raqa the Earth, by creating the raqia, that is, the solid rock crust of the Earth, therefore, the etymology of the English word rock can now be traced back much further than the medieval Latin rocca. Not surprisingly then, studying geography we find that root word in the names of various ancient places in the region. For example, in 2015 Raqqa hit the headlines as the capital city of the Islamic terrorist group ISIS. An accurate understanding of Genesis is essential for understanding early history. Thus we can now trace the etymology of our English word rock to that very Epic of Gilgamesh flood account, with Gilgamesh being the king of Uruk, located in the south of the modern nation with a name that means "deeply rooted, well-watered", for God placed the water deep under the raqia which explains the name of the ancient place, Iraq. (See also Bob's draft comments on the Enuma text.) * Countries, Regions, and Peoples Ending in A and IA: Why do so many place names end in ia? God raqa the raqia to give mankind a place to live on the face of the Earth. In the web's most complete list of place names that end in ia, see about 120 significant geographical regions that end with -a or -ia, and others that sound like they end in ia, like Kenya and Libya. (RSR maintains this list.) Consider also, not unlike the city of Raqqa and the country of Iraq, the continent of Africa may have a related etymology, and consider also that in Arabic afar means dust, earth. And the names of many lands that do not end in -ia, as Egypt, still give a nod to the suffix when referencing their people, as with Egyptian, Akkadian, Persian, and the more modern Caucasian, with -ian equating also to the -yan as discussed at rsr.org/yan such as Aryan (meaning from the Sun land).* Seven-Day Week: The worldwide use of a seven-day week results from the creation account. And those seven days are named for the heavenly bodies (Saturn, Sun, Moon, etc.) as God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years." (On a related topic we interviewed Scientific American editor and atheist Michael Shermer for Real Science Radio. That full show is so much fun to listen to.) "Dr. Shermer, while much of the ancient world was worshiping heavenly bodies, could you at least agree that the Bible is correct on page one, where it states that the Sun is a light?" [Moses was correct also when he taught in Deuteronomy that the planets and stars are not gods and should not be worshiped.] "So can you agree that the Bible is correct in Genesis chapter one, that the Sun is not a god, but a light?" To which Shermer infamously replied, which you can hear in this 73-second excerpt (and transcript) that the sun is not a light. Wow. It's often difficult to have a reasonable discussion with atheists. Also, the worldwide use of blood sacrifices resulted from God commanding Adam and Noah to sacrifice animals prefiguring the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. * A Solid Dome Sky Belief Widespread Yet Not Intuitive: As Wikipedia reports, "The notion of the sky as a solid object (rather than just an atmospheric expanse) was widespread among both ancient civilizations and primitive cultures, including ancient Greece, Egypt, China, India, native Americans, Australian Aborigines, and also early Christians. It is probably a universal human trait to perceive the sky as a solid dome." Retrieved 8-27-11. However, with the many varied movements in the heavens of the Sun, Moon, planets, stars, comets, and meteorites, it's not intuitive that so much of the whole world would end up believing that the Earth had a solid-domed sky. Except, of course, if the ancients who populated the world after the global flood were misunderstanding the raqia of Day Two as referring to the heavens instead of to the crust of the earth. Conclusion: So, the Bible speaks of Earth using the same term, raqia, as for the firmament "of the heavens" (clarified that way in Genesis 1). Yet when the paradise of Eden and God's Kingdom of Heaven on Earth became "filled with violence," mankind began to forget that God made earth as part of His Kingdom of heaven. Thus, what changed was the common use of the term heaven for the Earth. © 2007 - 2017 Bob Enyart, RSR.org.com * RSR's Global Flood and Hydroplate Theory: Here's our best-selling flood video which is available also on DVD, Blu-ray, and download. We hope you enjoy this: Email: From Walt Brown to Bob Enyart on March 22, 2005: "Dear Bob, I like your proposal concerning Genesis 1:8a, and after much thought, have decided to include it [in the 8th edition of In the Beginning]. I have credited Pastor Diego Rodriguez and you as the originators of this very attractive explanation. ... Thank you for sending me your explanation. -Walt" Biologos: Note that Francis Collins' theistic-evolution group BioLogos uses their misunderstanding of the firmament in their effort to diminish the authority of Genesis. For example, "Genesis... says things that are at odds with what modern people know to be true of the world... The other cosmologies from the ancient world depict some solid structure in the sky. The most natural explanation of the raqia is that it also reflects this understanding. There is no indication that Genesis is a novel description of the sky." In other words, Collins claims that Genesis' presentation of the firmament [in contrast to the biblical and historical insights above] equates to that of pagan myths. As old-earth Christians, they therefore reject the global flood and many other biblical teachings. See this explained in our Trading Genesis video: Bio: Bob Enyart co-hosts Real Science Radio and pastors Denver Bible Church. Bob first had a technical career working: - at McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company on the Army's Apache helicopter - as a systems analyst for "Baby Bell" U S West - as a program manager for Microsoft, and - as a senior analyst for PC Week Bob became a believer in 1973, entered full-time Christian work in 1989, and in 1991 began hosting a daily show on America's most powerful Christian radio station, the 50,000-watt AM 670 KLTT. In 1999, the elders and pastor of Denver's Derby Bible Church ordained Bob into the ministry. In 2000, Derby planted Denver Bible Church with Bob as pastor and in 2015 as a host of Real Science Radio Bob was inducted into the Creation Science Hall of Fame. You can see Bob Enyart's materials online or call 1-800-8Enyart. If you enjoyed this article, you may also want to read Why Canaan was Cursed?, Polygamy in the Bible, and Slavery in the Bible. And you can hear Bob at RealScienceRadio.com!