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• Psalm 115

  [Bible]

  Psalm 115 is a hymn of praise that contrasts the powerlessness of man-made idols with the LORD who is in heaven, calling God's people to give glory to God alone and to trust in the LORD. It is one of the Hallel psalms (Psalms 113–118).

• Codex Alexandrinus

  [Bible]

  Codex Alexandrinus is a Greek manuscript of the Bible written around the fifth century, containing both the Old Testament (in the Septuagint) and the New Testament. Along with Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus, it ranks among the foremost ancient manuscripts of the Bible.

• 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.

• Acts 3

  [Bible]

  Acts 3 recounts how Peter and John, in the name of Jesus, raise up a man lame from birth at the temple gate called Beautiful, and how Peter then preaches to the people gathered in Solomon's Porch, calling them to repentance.

• Worship

  [Worship & Rites]

  Worship is the gathering in which believers come together to adore God and hear His Word. In Protestantism, the Sunday service held on the Lord's Day is central to church life.

• Thanksgiving

  [Feasts & Seasons]

  Thanksgiving is a Protestant observance in which believers thank God for the year's harvest and for the grace they have received. Korean Protestant churches generally observe Thanksgiving Sunday on the third Sunday of November.

• Discipleship Training

  [Christian Life]

  Discipleship training is a form of Christian education in which church members receive systematic instruction over a set period, through small-group Bible study, prayer, and examination of daily life, so that they may live as disciples of Jesus Christ. In Korea it spread widely as a program of lay training through Ok Han-heum and SaRang Community Church.

• Dispensationalism

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Dispensationalism is a theological system that reads biblical history as a series of "dispensations" (economies) through which God deals with humanity, and that distinguishes between Israel and the church. It originated in nineteenth-century Britain and has also significantly shaped the understanding of the end times in Korean churches.

• Total Mobilization Sunday

  [Worship & Rites]

  Total Mobilization Sunday is a Sunday on which the entire congregation joins in inviting unchurched neighbors to worship. Also called Evangelism Sunday or the New Life Festival, it is one of the best-known evangelistic events in Korean Protestant churches.

• Hebrews 10:25

  [Bible Verses]

  Hebrews 10:25 exhorts believers, "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." The verse is widely cited as a basis for attendance at corporate worship. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been at the center of debate over whether online worship can take the place of this "assembling."

• Leviticus 24:17–22

  [Bible Verses]

  A passage containing the law of retaliation, which requires that homicide and bodily injury be repaid in equal measure, together with the command that this law apply equally to the foreigner and the native-born. Because of the phrase "eye for eye, tooth for tooth," it is frequently cited in discussions of the Sermon on the Mount and of capital punishment.

• Circumcision

  [Bible]

  Circumcision is the rite of cutting away the foreskin of the male genital organ. In the Old Testament it was the sign of the covenant between God and the descendants of Abraham; in the New Testament it is interpreted in connection with circumcision of the heart and with baptism.

• Zealots

  [Bible]

  The Zealots were Jewish groups in first-century Judea under Roman rule who resisted foreign domination in the name of "zeal" for God and the Law. In the Bible the term appears as "Zelotes," the epithet of Simon, one of the twelve disciples.

• Date-Setting Eschatology

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Date-setting eschatology is the practice of predicting a specific date or year for Christ's Second Coming or the end of the world. In South Korea it became widely known through the claim that the Rapture would occur on October 28, 1992.

• Pharaoh Hophra

  [People]

  Pharaoh Hophra was a king of Egypt during the final years of the kingdom of Judah. He is named only once in the Bible, in Jeremiah 44:30, and is known as the Egyptian king on whom Judah relied in its resistance to Babylon.

• Vespasian

  [People]

  Vespasian (AD 9–79) was the Roman emperor (reigned 69–79) who founded the Flavian dynasty. Before becoming emperor, he commanded the suppression of the Jewish revolt, and his son Titus destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple in AD 70.

• Cup of Wrath

  [Bible]

  The cup of wrath is a biblical image that likens the judgment and anger God sends to a cup of wine that people must drink. It appears in the Old Testament prophets and the Psalms and carries into the New Testament in the prayer in Gethsemane and the Book of Revelation.

• Targum

  [Bible]

  A Targum is one of the ancient Jewish translations and paraphrases of the Hebrew Old Testament into Aramaic. The Targums are generally understood to have originated as oral explanations given when Scripture was read aloud in the synagogue.

• Temple Gatekeepers

  [Bible]

  The temple gatekeepers were Levites who guarded the gates of the tabernacle and the temple in Jerusalem and oversaw entry, the storehouses, and the temple furnishings. They are described most fully in 1 Chronicles and also appear in Psalm 84:10, a psalm of the sons of Korah.

• 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.