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Gog
[People]Gog is the figure prophesied in Ezekiel 38–39 as the leader of an army that comes from the north against Israel in the last days. In Revelation 20, "Gog and Magog" serves as a name for the nations that oppose God.
Meshech
[People]Meshech is listed in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 as a son of Japheth. The name also designates the people and region descended from him, and in Ezekiel it appears together with Tubal as a northern nation.
Drink Offering
[Bible]The drink offering was an Old Testament offering in which a beverage such as wine was poured out to God, usually alongside the burnt offering or the peace offering. In the New Testament, Paul compared his own devotion and death to a drink offering.
Contentment
[Christian Life]Contentment is the disposition of being satisfied with one's circumstances, whether abundant or lacking, by regarding them as given by God. It is taught as a Christian virtue opposed to covetousness.
Fallen Angel
[Doctrine & Theology]A fallen angel is a spiritual being created by God as a good angel that rebelled against God and fell from its original place. Christian tradition generally identifies Satan and demons as fallen angels.
Meshech and Tubal
[Bible]Meshech and Tubal are two peoples introduced in the Old Testament as descendants of Japheth. In the Book of Ezekiel they appear as northern nations that traded with Tyre and as peoples ruled by Gog.
Brook of Egypt
[Bible]The Brook of Egypt is a seasonal stream (wadi) named in the Old Testament as the southwestern boundary of the land of Canaan. It is commonly identified with Wadi el-Arish in the northern Sinai Peninsula, though scholars differ on its exact location.
Deuteronomy 14
[Bible]Deuteronomy 14 sets out the regulations Israel was to observe as a holy people unto the LORD: mourning customs, the distinction between clean and unclean animals for food, the annual tithe, and the tithe brought every third year.
Nonconformists
[History]Nonconformists, also called Dissenters, were Protestants who, from the seventeenth century onward, did not conform to the worship and institutions of the established Church of England (the Anglican Church) and practiced their faith outside it. They emerged as a distinct body after the mass expulsion of ministers under the Act of Uniformity of 1662.
Psalm 3
[Bible]Psalm 3 is an eight-verse prayer presented as a psalm David composed when he fled from his son Absalom. Facing many enemies, the psalmist confesses the LORD as his shield and asks for deliverance.
Vocation
[Doctrine & Theology]Vocation is the Protestant theological understanding that regards as God's calling not only the path of pastors and missionaries but also the work by which Christians earn their living and the settings of their everyday lives.
Psalm 142
[Bible]Psalm 142 is an individual lament that its superscription introduces as a prayer of David "when he was in the cave." Isolated, with no one to care for him, the psalmist confesses that the LORD alone is his refuge and his portion, and he pleads for deliverance.
Wealth in the Bible
[Bible]In the Bible, the rich are people who possess great wealth. The Old Testament often portrays wealth as a blessing from God while condemning its abuse, and the New Testament repeatedly warns against a heart that trusts in riches.
Isaiah 50
[Bible]In Isaiah 50 the LORD answers the charge that he has abandoned his exiled people, after which the Servant of the LORD speaks in the first person of remaining obedient in the midst of suffering. Verses 4–9 are known as the "Third Servant Song."
Lamentations 1
[Bible]Lamentations 1 is a lament that portrays fallen Jerusalem as a widow left alone and mourns her devastation. Its 22 verses follow the order of the Hebrew alphabet, and the chapter confesses that the suffering came because of the people's sin.
Hebrews 4
[Bible]Hebrews 4 uses the disobedience of the wilderness generation as a warning and urges readers to strive to enter God's rest. It also presents the living word of God and Jesus, the great High Priest who understands our weaknesses.
Church Membership Register
[Christian Life]A church membership register is the record of a person's status as an enrolled member of a particular church, together with that member's personal details and history of faith; the term can also refer to the membership status itself.
Covenant Theology
[Doctrine & Theology]Covenant theology is a theological system, developed within the Reformed tradition, that seeks to understand the whole of Scripture and the history of salvation as a unity centered on the covenants (relationships grounded in promise) that God has made with human beings.
Youth With A Mission Korea (Yesu Jeondodan)
[Institutions]Youth With A Mission Korea (YWAM Korea), known in Korean as Yesu Jeondodan, is an interdenominational mission organization founded in 1973 by David E. Ross, an American Southern Presbyterian missionary, from a university student fellowship. Since 1980 it has operated as the Korean branch of the international mission organization Youth With A Mission (YWAM).
Solomon
[People]Solomon was the third king of the united kingdom of ancient Israel and the son of David. He is known as a wise king and as the builder of the Temple in Jerusalem.