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Revelation 12
[Bible]Revelation 12 contains the vision of a woman clothed with the sun who gives birth to a son, a great red dragon who seeks to harm the child and the woman, and a war in heaven between Michael and the dragon, in which the dragon is cast down to the earth.
Psalm 58:3
[Bible Verses]A verse in Psalm 58 that indicts unjust rulers and judges and declares that the wicked go astray from birth. It is frequently cited in support of the doctrine of original sin. Interpreters debate whether it should be read as a statement about all people or as a poetic description of particular wicked individuals.
Purity Laws
[Bible]The purity laws are regulations of the Old Testament law that distinguish between the "clean" and the "unclean" in persons and objects and prescribe the procedures by which those who have become unclean may be made clean again. They appear chiefly in Leviticus 11–15 and Numbers 19.
Esau
[People]Esau is the firstborn son of Isaac and Rebekah in the Book of Genesis and the elder twin brother of Jacob. He is best known for selling his birthright for a bowl of pottage, and Scripture records him as the ancestor of the Edomites.
Maher-shalal-hash-baz
[People]Maher-shalal-hash-baz was a son of the prophet Isaiah and appears in Isaiah 8. His name, meaning "plunder comes swiftly, spoil comes speedily," served as a sign that Aram and the northern kingdom of Israel, which were threatening Judah, would fall to Assyria.
Benjamin
[People]Benjamin was the second son of Jacob and Rachel and the youngest of Jacob's twelve sons. He was the ancestor of the tribe of Benjamin, one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Genesis 19
[Bible]Genesis 19 recounts the arrival of two angels in Sodom, the escape of Lot's household from the city, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the birth to Lot's two daughters of the ancestors of the Moabites and the Ammonites.
Leviticus 12
[Bible]Leviticus 12 sets out the regulations governing the period of purification for a woman who has given birth and the offerings she brings when that period is completed. It also includes the command to circumcise a male child on the eighth day.
1 Peter 1:23
[Bible Verses]A verse stating that the believer's new birth has come about through incorruptible seed, that is, the living and abiding word of God. It is frequently cited in discussions of the relationship between regeneration (the new birth) and the word.
Isaiah 46
[Bible]Isaiah 46 contrasts Bel and Nebo, the gods of Babylon, which become burdens loaded onto beasts and hauled away, with the God who carries His people from birth until their hair turns gray.
Isaiah 49:1
[Bible Verses]Isaiah 49:1 opens the second "Servant Song" in the Book of Isaiah. In it the Servant of the LORD declares to distant peoples that he was called before his birth. The verse is frequently cited and discussed, especially regarding the identity of the Servant and whether the verse may be applied to an individual's calling.
Lystra
[Bible]Lystra was a city in the region of Lycaonia in Asia Minor. In Acts 14 and 16, it is the place where Paul healed a man who could not walk, where he was stoned, and where he took Timothy with him as a coworker.
Genesis 35
[Bible]In this chapter Jacob puts away the foreign idols in his household, goes up to Bethel, builds an altar, and is again given the name Israel. Rachel dies giving birth to Benjamin, and the chapter continues with a list of Jacob's twelve sons and closes with the death of Isaac.
Brother Lawrence
[People]Brother Lawrence, born Nicolas Herman, was a seventeenth-century French lay brother of the Discalced Carmelites. He taught that one should remain constantly aware of God even while working, and The Practice of the Presence of God, a collection of his teachings, has made him widely known across denominational lines.
Yi Gi-pung
[People]Yi Gi-pung (李基豊, 1865–1942) was a Korean Presbyterian minister. In 1907 he was one of the first seven Koreans ordained to the ministry, and as the first missionary sent out by the Independent Presbytery of the Korean Presbyterian Church, he founded churches on Jeju Island. He died from the aftereffects of torture he suffered for refusing Shinto shrine worship.
2 Corinthians 5:17
[Bible Verses]2 Corinthians 5:17 declares that if anyone is in Christ, he is "a new creature": "old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." It is cherished as a classic text on conversion and the new birth, though some interpreters read it as speaking of the whole new creation rather than only of individual transformation.
Thomas à Kempis
[People]Thomas à Kempis was a German-born monk who lived and worked in the Netherlands in the fifteenth century. He is known as the author of The Imitation of Christ, a devotional book that has been widely read across denominational lines.
Choi Heung-jong
[People]Choi Heung-jong (崔興宗, 1880–1966) was a Presbyterian minister and independence activist from Gwangju, Korea. He devoted his life to caring for people with Hansen's disease (leprosy), beggars, and tuberculosis patients, and he became known as "the father of beggars and lepers." His pen name was Obang (五放).
1 Samuel 4
[Bible]1 Samuel 4 is the chapter in which Israel suffers a heavy defeat at the hands of the Philistines at the battle of Aphek and loses the ark of the covenant. Eli and his two sons die, and the wife of Phinehas gives birth to a son and declares, "The glory is departed from Israel."
Malcolm Fenwick
[People]Malcolm C. Fenwick (1863–1935) was a Canadian independent missionary to Korea. In 1906, at Ganggyeong in South Chungcheong Province, he founded the Church of Christ in Corea (Daehan Gidokgyohoe), the parent body of the Korea Baptist Convention. He is regarded as the founder of the Baptist church in Korea.