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Sabbatical Year
[Bible]The sabbatical year was an institution of Old Testament law under which the land was to rest every seventh year and debts owed by fellow Israelites were to be released. It appears in Leviticus 25, Exodus 23, and Deuteronomy 15.
Exodus 20:8-11
[Bible Verses]The fourth of the Ten Commandments, which commands that the Sabbath be remembered and kept holy: after six days of labor, no work is to be done on the seventh day. Denominations differ on whether Christians should keep this commandment on Sunday, the Lord's Day, or on the Saturday Sabbath.
Prophetic Books
[Bible]The Prophetic Books are the books of the Old Testament that bear the names of prophets. In Protestant usage the term refers to the seventeen books from Isaiah through Malachi, which are divided by length into five Major Prophets and twelve Minor Prophets.
Babylon the Great
[Bible]Babylon the Great is a symbolic city that appears in Revelation 14–18. It represents worldly power that opposes God and the judgment that falls upon that power.
Lamech (Descendant of Cain)
[People]Lamech is a descendant of Cain who appears in Genesis 4 and belongs to the seventh generation from Adam. He is known for taking two wives and for the so-called "Song of Lamech," a poem celebrating vengeance.
Adultery
[Bible]Adultery is sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse. The Bible forbids it in the Ten Commandments, and the prophets also used the term as a metaphor for forsaking God to serve idols.
Puritans
[History]The Puritans were Protestants active in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Regarding the reformation of the established church (the Church of England) as incomplete, they sought to "purify" its worship, church polity, and daily life more thoroughly in accordance with Scripture.
Judges
[Bible]Judges is the seventh book of the Old Testament, a twenty-one-chapter historical book recounting the stories of the "judges" who led Israel from the death of Joshua until the establishment of the monarchy.
Nahum
[Bible]Nahum is the seventh of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. It proclaims the coming destruction of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire, and consists of three chapters.
Seven Trumpets
[Bible]The seven trumpets are the trumpets blown in succession by seven angels in Revelation 8–11, together with the plagues and events that follow each one. They form the second set of seven judgments, placed between the seven seals and the seven bowls.
Revelation 10
[Bible]Revelation 10 is the chapter set between the sixth and seventh trumpets. A mighty angel comes down holding an open little book, and John, after taking and eating the book, is commanded to prophesy again.
History of Christianity in China
[History]The history of Christianity in China extends from the arrival of the Church of the East under the Tang dynasty in the seventh century, through the Catholic and Protestant missions, to the present day. After the Communist government came to power, Chinese Protestantism divided into the government-registered Three-Self churches and the unregistered house churches.
Genesis 2
[Bible]Genesis 2 concludes the creation account with the rest of the seventh day and then tells of the man formed from the dust, the garden in Eden, the tree from which he was forbidden to eat, the creation of the woman, and the two becoming one flesh.
Revelation 7
[Bible]Revelation 7 stands between the opening of the sixth and seventh seals. It contains two scenes: the sealing of God's servants on their foreheads (the 144,000 from the tribes of Israel), and a great multitude clothed in white, which no one can number, praising God before the throne.
Revelation 11
[Bible]Revelation 11 records the measuring of the temple; the two witnesses who prophesy for 1,260 days, are killed, and rise again; the sounding of the seventh trumpet; and the opening of the temple in heaven.
Revelation 8
[Bible]Revelation 8 is the chapter in which the Lamb opens the seventh seal and heaven falls silent. Seven angels receive trumpets, and four of them sound in turn, bringing plagues upon a third of the earth, the sea, the rivers, and the heavens.
Day of Atonement
[Bible]The Day of Atonement was an annual holy day of Old Testament Israel, observed on the tenth day of the seventh month, when the high priest entered the Most Holy Place to make atonement for the sins of the people and for the sanctuary. Its procedure is described in Leviticus 16.
Feast of Tabernacles
[Bible]The Feast of Tabernacles is one of the three pilgrimage feasts of Israel. Observed after the autumn harvest had been gathered, it began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month and lasted seven days, during which the people dwelt in booths in remembrance of the wilderness years. It is also called the Feast of Booths and the Feast of Ingathering.
London Baptist Confession of Faith
[Doctrine & Theology]The London Baptist Confession of Faith is a confession of faith jointly produced by Calvinistic Baptist churches in London, England, in the seventeenth century. There are two confessions: the First Confession of 1644 and the Second Confession, formally adopted in 1689. The term "1689 Confession" usually refers to the Second Confession.
Genesis 1:1
[Bible Verses]The first sentence of the Bible, declaring that God created the heavens and the earth. It is the starting point of the Christian doctrine of creation and the first verse cited in the creation–evolution debate over the timing and manner of creation.