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Great Pyongyang Revival
[History]The Great Pyongyang Revival was a movement of repentance and spiritual awakening that began in January 1907 at the winter Bible study conference for men of South Pyongan Province, held at Jangdaehyeon Church in Pyongyang, and spread throughout Korea. It is regarded as the defining revival movement of Korean Protestantism.
Great Fire of Rome
[History]The Great Fire of Rome was a fire that destroyed a large part of the city of Rome in July AD 64, during the reign of the emperor Nero. It holds an important place in the history of Christian persecution because, according to Tacitus, Nero blamed the Christians for the fire and had them executed.
Cyrus
[People]Cyrus, known in general history as Cyrus II or Cyrus the Great, was a king of the ancient Persian Empire. The Bible records him as the ruler who permitted the people of Judah held captive in Babylon to return to their homeland and rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.
Herod
[People]Herod is the name used in the New Testament for Herod the Great and several of his descendants. It refers to multiple figures, including Herod the Great at the time of Jesus' birth, Herod Antipas, who executed John the Baptist, and Agrippa I and Agrippa II in the Book of Acts.
Euphrates
[Bible]The Euphrates is a great river of western Asia. In the Bible it appears as one of the four rivers into which the river flowing out of the Garden of Eden divided, and as the northeastern boundary of the land promised to Abraham's descendants.
Constantine I
[People]Constantine I (c. 272–337) was the Roman emperor who legalized Christianity and convened the Council of Nicaea. During his reign the church changed from a persecuted minority into a religion enjoying imperial protection.
Theodosius I
[People]Theodosius I (347–395) was the last emperor to rule both the eastern and western halves of the Roman Empire. He established Nicene Christianity as the official faith of the empire and convened the Council of Constantinople in 381.
Euphrates River
[Bible]The Euphrates is a great river of Western Asia that flows across Mesopotamia and still bears that name today. In the Bible it appears as one of the four rivers of Eden, as a boundary of the land promised to Abraham, and in scenes of judgment in the Book of Revelation.
Gregory I
[People]Gregory I (c. 540–604) was bishop of Rome (pope) from 590 to 604. He is regarded as one of the leading Fathers of the Western Church and is also known as Gregory the Great.
Ramesses II
[People]Ramesses II was a pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt who reigned for more than sixty years in the thirteenth century BC. Because he shares his name with Raamses, the store city mentioned in Exodus, he is frequently discussed in debates over the identity of the pharaoh of the Exodus.
Charlemagne
[People]Charlemagne (born 742 or c. 747–748; died 814) was king of the Franks. On Christmas Day 800 he was crowned emperor by Pope Leo III, and he is regarded as the figure who established the framework of politics, the church, and learning in medieval Western Europe.
Teresa of Ávila
[People]Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) was a Spanish Catholic nun and mystic (one who seeks direct union with God). She reformed the Carmelite Order, founding the Discalced Carmelites, and wrote The Interior Castle. In 1970 she became the first woman proclaimed a Doctor of the Church.
Noah's Flood
[Bible]Noah's Flood is an event recorded in Genesis 6–9. It tells how God judged a world filled with wickedness by means of a flood while preserving Noah's family and the animals in the ark, and how after the flood He made a covenant with the rainbow as its sign.
Philip the Tetrarch
[People]Philip the Tetrarch was a son of Herod the Great who ruled the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis northeast of the Sea of Galilee. He is named in Luke 3:1 and is known as the founder of Caesarea Philippi.
Matthew 22:37–40
[Bible Verses]In this passage Jesus, asked which is the greatest commandment, names love for God and love for neighbor and declares that all the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments. It is accepted across denominational lines as a summary of biblical ethics.
Matthew 28:19–20
[Bible Verses]In this passage the risen Jesus commands his disciples to make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to observe all that he has commanded. Known as the "Great Commission," it serves as a foundational text for missions, baptism, and discipleship.
Matthew 28:18–20
[Bible Verses]The closing verses of the Gospel of Matthew, in which the risen Jesus commands the eleven disciples to make disciples of all nations, baptizing and teaching them. Known as the "Great Commission," the passage is frequently cited as a basis for missions, for baptism, and for the Trinitarian baptismal formula.
Pachomius
[People]Pachomius (c. 292–346) was a fourth-century Egyptian monk. He is known as the first to organize cenobitic monasticism, in which a number of monks live together under a single rule.
Revelation 7:9-17
[Bible Verses]Revelation 7:9-17 is a vision of a countless multitude from every nation, clothed in white robes, praising God for salvation before his throne. Interpreters differ over the multitude's relationship to the 144,000 and over the meaning of "great tribulation." The passage is frequently read as a word of comfort at funeral services.
Parable of the Wedding Feast
[Bible]The Parable of the Wedding Feast is a parable of Jesus found in Matthew 22:1-14. A king invites guests to his son's wedding feast, but they refuse; he then has people gathered from the highways to fill the feast. Luke 14 contains a similar "Parable of the Great Banquet."