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• Parable of the Sheep and the Goats

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  The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats is Jesus' teaching in Matthew 25:31-46, in which the returning Son of Man judges all nations, separating them as a shepherd divides the sheep from the goats. Through this scene Jesus teaches that whatever is done for the least of his brethren is done for him.

• Genealogy

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  A genealogy is a record that traces descent from ancestors to descendants by name. In the Bible, genealogies appear in Genesis, 1 Chronicles, Matthew, Luke, and elsewhere.

• Hardening of the Heart

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  Hardening of the heart is a biblical term for the condition of a heart that has grown hard and refuses to receive God's word and warnings. It is best known from the account in Exodus of the hardening of Pharaoh's heart.

• Sin of Jeroboam

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  The sin of Jeroboam refers to the actions of Jeroboam, the first king of the northern kingdom of Israel, who set up golden calves at Bethel and Dan and altered the system of worship on his own authority. In the books of Kings, the expression became the standard by which the kings of the northern kingdom were evaluated.

• Signs and Wonders

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  "Signs and wonders" is a biblical word pair referring to the marvelous works God performs to reveal his will and power. The Old Testament applies the phrase mainly to the Exodus, and the New Testament to the ministry of Jesus and the apostles.

• Three Uses of the Law

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  The three uses of the law is a teaching of Reformation theology that organizes the work of God's law into three functions: restraining evil in society, bringing people to recognize their sin, and guiding the life of the believer.

• Threefold Division of the Law

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The threefold division of the law is a theological framework that divides the Old Testament law into moral, ceremonial, and civil (judicial) law in order to explain which parts remain binding on Christians.

• Exodus 12

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  Exodus 12 records the tenth plague, the death of the firstborn of Egypt; the institution of the ordinances of the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread; and Israel's departure from Raamses and exodus from Egypt.

• Exodus 7

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  Exodus 7 is the chapter in which Moses and Aaron perform the sign of turning a rod into a serpent before Pharaoh and in which the first plague occurs, as the waters of the Nile ("the river") are turned to blood.

• Nicolaus von Zinzendorf

  [People]

  Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700–1760) was a German count and Pietist leader. He founded the Herrnhut community, revived the Moravian Brethren, and is regarded as a leading pioneer of Protestant foreign missions.

• Numbers 14

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  In this chapter the congregation of Israel, after hearing the spies' report, murmurs against Moses and Aaron and proposes returning to Egypt. Through Moses' intercession God pardons the people, yet He pronounces that the murmuring generation will wander in the wilderness for forty years and die there.

• Robert Hardie

  [People]

  Robert Alexander Hardie (1865–1949) was a Canadian medical missionary and Methodist minister. Known in Korea as Ha Ri-yeong (河鯉泳), he is remembered for leading the 1903 Wonsan Revival.

• Deuteronomy 6

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  Deuteronomy 6 is the chapter in which Moses delivers the confession of the one God that begins "Hear, O Israel" (the Shema), together with the command to love God. He urges Israel to teach these words to their children and not to forget the LORD even in times of plenty.

• Cell Church

  [History]

  The cell church is a model of ministry that understands the church as a network of small groups, or cells, that grow and multiply on their own. The term also refers to a movement that spread in South Korea from the late 1990s. This article also covers G12, one branch of the cell church movement.

• 1 Kings 12

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  1 Kings 12 is the chapter in which Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, rejects the people's request, causing Israel to divide into the southern kingdom of Judah and the northern kingdom of Israel, and in which Jeroboam sets up golden calves at Bethel and Dan.

• Beast (Book of Revelation)

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  In the Book of Revelation, the beast is a figure that receives authority from the dragon (Satan) and symbolizes the powers that oppose God and His saints. The best-known forms are the beast from the sea and the beast from the earth, and interpreters remain divided over their identity.

• Great Whore

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  The great whore is a symbolic figure in Revelation 17–19. She is depicted riding a scarlet beast, drunk with the blood of the saints, and committing fornication with the kings of the earth, and she is called "Babylon the Great."

• Zabdiel

  [People]

  Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim, is named in Nehemiah 11:14 as the overseer of 128 "mighty men of valour" from the priestly families who settled in Jerusalem after the return from exile.

• Anna Nitschmann

  [People]

  Anna Nitschmann (1715–1760) was an eighteenth-century woman leader of the Moravian Church. Chosen as an eldress of the Herrnhut community before the age of fifteen, she led its women members, and in 1757 she became Zinzendorf's second wife.

• Shinto Shrine Worship

  [History]

  Shinto shrine worship was a policy under Japanese colonial rule by which the Government-General of Korea compelled Koreans to bow at Shinto shrines (jinja), the sanctuaries of Japanese Shinto. In 1938 the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church adopted a resolution accepting the practice, and the resistance movement that opposed it produced both prisoners and martyrs.