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Judges 6
[Bible]Judges 6 tells how, while Israel lay under Midianite oppression, the angel of the LORD appeared and called Gideon as a deliverer, and how Gideon tore down his father's altar of Baal and twice sought a sign with a fleece.
Judges 13
[Bible]Judges 13 recounts how, during forty years of Philistine oppression, the angel of the LORD appeared to the wife of Manoah of the tribe of Dan to announce the birth of a Nazirite son, and how Samson was born.
2 Kings 19
[Bible]In this chapter, Hezekiah, facing the threats of Sennacherib king of Assyria, sends messengers to Isaiah and prays in the temple. God answers: the angel of the LORD strikes down 185,000 Assyrian soldiers, and Sennacherib is later killed in his own land.
Isaiah 37
[Bible]Isaiah 37 recounts how Hezekiah prays in the face of threats from Sennacherib, king of Assyria; how Isaiah prophesies deliverance; and how the angel of the LORD strikes the Assyrian army, so that Jerusalem is saved.
Daniel 8
[Bible]Daniel 8 records Daniel's vision of a ram and a male goat in the third year of King Belshazzar, together with its interpretation by the angel Gabriel. The chapter features a "little horn" that defiles the sanctuary and the "two thousand and three hundred days."
Luke 1
[Bible]Luke 1 opens with a preface in which the author explains to Theophilus his purpose in writing. The angel Gabriel then announces the births of John the Baptist and Jesus, followed by Mary's song of praise, the birth of John, and the prophecy of Zacharias.
Tobias
[People]Tobias (Korean: Tobia or Tobiya) is the protagonist of the Book of Tobit, one of the deuterocanonical books (Apocrypha) of the Old Testament, and the son of Tobit. Guided on a journey by the angel Raphael, he married Sarah and cured his blind father.
Kim Dong-myung (pastor)
[People]Kim Dong-myung was a Baptist pastor from Cheolsan, North Pyongan Province. In 1957 he founded the Korean Baptist Church of Los Angeles, laying the foundation for Korean ministry within the Southern Baptist Convention in the United States. He was the husband of Ahn Ei-sook, an activist who opposed Shinto shrine worship.
Broom Tree
[Bible]The broom tree (Hebrew rotem) is a leguminous shrub that grows in arid regions such as the Sinai wilderness and the Negev. In the Bible it is best known as the place where Elijah, fleeing from Jezebel, asked to die and was then given food by an angel.
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
[People]Pseudo-Dionysius was an anonymous Christian writer thought to have been active in the late fifth or early sixth century. He wrote under the name of Dionysius the Areopagite, mentioned in the Book of Acts, and his negative theology and his account of the angelic hierarchy exerted a major influence on medieval theology.
R. A. Torrey
[People]R. A. Torrey (1856–1928) was an American Congregational minister, revivalist, educator, and author. He worked alongside Dwight L. Moody and served as the first superintendent of the Moody Bible Institute and as dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles.
Exodus 23
[Bible]Exodus 23 is the final chapter of the Book of the Covenant. It sets out ordinances on just judgment and on the treatment of enemies and strangers, establishes the sabbatical year and the Sabbath, and prescribes three annual feasts. It closes with God's promise to send an angel to lead Israel into Canaan.
Wilderness
[Bible]The wilderness is arid land on which people find it difficult to settle and farm. In the Bible it is the place where Israel spent forty years after the Exodus, and it is portrayed as a setting of testing, of God's provision, and of new beginnings.
Magnificat
[Bible]The Magnificat is the song of praise to God that Mary offered after conceiving Jesus, when she visited Elizabeth, as recorded in Luke 1:46-55. It takes its name from the first word of its Latin text, Magnificat.
Great Whore
[Bible]A symbolic figure in Revelation 17–19 who is depicted riding a scarlet beast, drunk with the blood of the saints, and committing fornication with the kings of the earth. She is called "Babylon the Great."
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 20:4–6
[Bible Verses]A passage describing how the martyrs and those who had not worshiped the beast "lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." It is the only text in Scripture that directly mentions the millennium, and it stands at the center of the eschatological debate among premillennialism, amillennialism, and postmillennialism.
Luke 2:14
[Bible Verses]Luke 2:14 is the hymn of praise sung by the heavenly host before the shepherds on the night of Jesus' birth. It is central to Christmas worship and hymnody, and manuscripts and translations differ over to whom peace on earth is given.
Revelation 22:17
[Bible Verses]In this verse from the final chapter of the Bible, the Spirit and the bride (the church) say "Come," and the thirsty are invited to take the water of life freely. Interpreters debate whether it should be read as a prayer for the Second Coming or as a gospel invitation.
Revelation 21:23–24
[Bible Verses]A vision in the Book of Revelation in which the New Jerusalem has no need of the sun or moon, because the glory of God gives it light and the Lamb is its lamp. The passage is often cited as a depiction of the consummation of God's presence, and interpreters differ over the identity of the "nations" and the "kings of the earth" who enter by its light.