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Flight into Egypt
[Bible]The Flight into Egypt is the event in which Joseph, instructed in a dream after Herod the Great sought to kill the infant Jesus, took Mary and the child and fled to Egypt. After Herod's death the family returned and settled in Nazareth. The account appears only in Matthew 2.
Satan
[Bible]Satan is the name the Bible gives to an evil spiritual being who opposes and accuses God and His people. The Hebrew word means "adversary," and the New Testament uses it interchangeably with "the devil."
Herod's Temple
[Bible]Herod's Temple is the Second Temple in Jerusalem as extensively renovated and expanded by Herod the Great beginning in the late first century BC. It is the "temple" of the New Testament, frequented by Jesus and the early church, and it was destroyed by the Roman army in AD 70.
Temple Veil
[Bible]The temple veil was the curtain that separated the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place in the tabernacle and the Jerusalem temple. Only the high priest could pass behind it, and only once a year. The Gospels record that the veil was torn when Jesus died.
Jehovah-shalom
[Bible]Jehovah-shalom, meaning "The LORD is peace," is the name the judge Gideon gave to the altar he built at Ophrah. The name appears in Judges 6:24.
Stadion
[Bible]The stadion is a Greek unit of distance found in the New Testament, measuring about 185 meters. In Revelation it is used to give the dimensions of the New Jerusalem.
Armageddon
[Bible]Armageddon is a place name that appears only once in Scripture, in Revelation 16:16. It is described as the place where the kings opposed to God gather in the last days for "the battle of that great day of God Almighty."
Burning Bush
[Bible]The burning bush is the thornbush in Exodus 3 that burned with fire yet was not consumed when Moses first encountered God at Mount Horeb. The scene is read as a sign of God's presence and of Moses' call.
Ralph Winter
[People]Ralph D. Winter (1924–2009) was an American Presbyterian missionary and missiologist. At the 1974 Lausanne Congress he introduced the concept of "hidden peoples" (unreached people groups), and he founded the U.S. Center for World Mission.
Psalm 35
[Bible]Psalm 35 is an individual lament bearing the superscription "A Psalm of David." The psalmist appeals to the LORD for deliverance from enemies who hate him without cause and accuse him falsely, and he vows to give praise once he has been delivered.
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.
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.
Matthew 1:23
[Bible Verses]Matthew 1:23 is Matthew's testimony that the prophecy that a virgin would bear a son, whose name would be called Emmanuel, "God with us," was fulfilled in the birth of Jesus. It is one of the best-known Christmas verses and the central text in the debate over the virgin birth.
Hagar and Ishmael
[People]Hagar was Sarah's Egyptian maidservant who bore Abraham his son Ishmael, Abraham's firstborn. Their story appears in Genesis 16, 21, and 25, and Paul uses the account allegorically in Galatians 4.
Samson
[People]Samson was a judge of Israel in the Old Testament book of Judges. Born a Nazarite, he fought against the Philistines. Renowned for his great strength, he was captured after revealing the secret of his strength to Delilah, and he died when he brought down the temple of Dagon.
Gideon
[People]Gideon is a judge of Israel whose story is told in Judges 6–8. Also called Jerubbaal, he is best known for defeating Midian with three hundred men.
Joseph of Nazareth
[People]In the New Testament, Joseph is the husband of Mary and the legal father of Jesus. He is presented as a descendant of David and is recorded as having worked as a carpenter in Nazareth of Galilee.
Cornelius
[People]Cornelius is a Roman centurion stationed at Caesarea who appears in Acts 10. After hearing Peter's preaching, he received the Holy Spirit and was baptized. He is remembered as the central figure in the event through which the gospel was opened to the Gentiles.
Ethiopian Eunuch
[People]The Ethiopian eunuch is the treasury official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who appears in Acts 8. After Philip the evangelist explained a passage from Isaiah to him and proclaimed the gospel of Jesus, he was baptized.
Acts 8:32–35
[Bible Verses]In this passage Philip explains to an Ethiopian eunuch, who was reading the passage in Isaiah 53 about the one "led as a sheep to the slaughter," that the words refer to Jesus. Because it is a leading text identifying the "Suffering Servant" of Isaiah 53 with Jesus, it is frequently cited and discussed.