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• Manaen

  [People]

  Manaen is an early church figure named in Acts 13:1 as one of the prophets and teachers of the church at Antioch. He is described as one "which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch," that is, as Herod's foster brother or childhood companion.

• Divination

  [Bible]

  Divination is the attempt to discover the future or the divine will through omens, instruments, or mediums. The Old Testament law forbids it, and the New Testament maintains the same position.

• Merari

  [People]

  Merari was the third son of Levi, the son of Jacob. His descendants, the Merarites, became the Levitical clan responsible during the wilderness period for carrying the structural components of the tabernacle, such as its boards, pillars, and sockets.

• Reprobation

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Reprobation is the Reformed doctrine of predestination holding that God decreed from eternity not to choose certain people for salvation but to leave them in their sin. It is the counterpart of election.

• Leviathan

  [Bible]

  Leviathan is a great sea creature mentioned in Job, Psalms, and Isaiah. The name serves as a symbol of a power beyond human control or of the chaos and evil that stand against God.

• Orphans and Widows

  [Bible]

  "Orphans and widows" is a biblical word pair for people whose livelihood and legal protection were weakened by the loss of a husband or father. Often grouped with the sojourner, they represent the socially vulnerable for whom God shows special care.

• Seven Sacraments

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The Seven Sacraments are the seven rites that the Catholic Church professes to be signs of grace instituted by Christ: Baptism, Confirmation, the Eucharist, Penance, the Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony. Most Protestants recognize only two sacraments, Baptism and the Lord's Supper.

• Deuteronomy 14

  [Bible]

  Deuteronomy 14 sets out the regulations Israel was to observe as a holy people unto the LORD: mourning customs, the distinction between clean and unclean animals for food, the annual tithe, and the tithe brought every third year.

• The Navigators

  [Institutions]

  The Navigators is an interdenominational mission organization founded by Dawson Trotman in the United States in 1933. It is known for discipleship training centered on one-to-one mentoring and Scripture memorization. Its ministry in Korea officially began in 1966.

• Territorial Spirits

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Territorial spirits are evil spiritual beings believed to rule over particular nations, cities, or regions. The term was widely used in the spiritual warfare movement of the 1980s and 1990s, and assessments of it vary sharply among denominations and theologians.

• Psalm 92

  [Bible]

  Psalm 92 is a psalm of thanksgiving bearing the superscription "A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day." It contrasts the short-lived prosperity of the wicked with the enduring fruitfulness of the righteous and celebrates the exaltation and uprightness of the LORD.

• Preparation for Communion

  [Christian Life]

  Preparation for Communion refers both to the spiritual preparation in which believers examine themselves and prepare their hearts before the Lord's Supper and to the practical work of preparing the bread and cup and setting the Communion table.

• Isaiah 51

  [Bible]

  Isaiah 51 recalls God's calling of Abraham and the Exodus as it promises the restoration of Zion. It also proclaims to Jerusalem, which has drunk the cup of wrath, that God will take that cup from her hand and give it to her enemies.

• Ezekiel 10

  [Bible]

  Ezekiel 10 is part of Ezekiel's vision of the Jerusalem temple. It describes the cherubim and the wheels once more and depicts the glory of the LORD departing from the threshold of the temple and moving to the east gate.

• 1 Timothy 3

  [Bible]

  1 Timothy 3 lists the qualifications for bishops (overseers) and deacons in the church, calls the church "the pillar and ground of the truth," and closes with a brief confession concerning Christ.

• 1 John 2

  [Bible]

  1 John 2 presents Jesus Christ as the advocate and the propitiation for sins and addresses keeping the commandments, loving one's brother, the exhortation not to love the world, the warning about antichrists, and the charge to abide in him.

• 1 John 3

  [Bible]

  1 John 3 teaches that the children of God are revealed by a life of doing righteousness and loving one another, and it presents Christ's laying down of His life as the standard of love.

• Shelomoth

  [People]

  Shelomoth was a Levite of David's time and a descendant of Eliezer, the son of Moses. With his brothers, he was in charge of the treasuries of the dedicated things that David and the military commanders had set apart (1 Chronicles 26).

• Imnah

  [People]

  Imnah is a biblical figure, a son of Asher and grandson of Jacob, whose name appears in the genealogies of Genesis, Numbers, and 1 Chronicles. In Numbers he is recorded as the ancestor of "the family of the Jimnites" within the tribe of Asher.

• 1 John 4:2–3

  [Bible Verses]

  This passage presents the confession that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh as the criterion distinguishing the Spirit of God from the spirit of antichrist. It is frequently cited as a basis for confessing the Incarnation and for discerning spirits.