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Shiloh
[Bible]Shiloh was a town in the central hill country of Israel. From the time of Joshua until the early days of Samuel, the tabernacle and the ark of the covenant remained there, making it the center of Israel's worship.
Caesarea
[Bible]Caesarea was a Roman-era port city on the Mediterranean coast. According to Acts, it was where Cornelius was converted and where Paul was held in custody for two years. It is distinct from Caesarea Philippi in the northern interior.
Antioch
[Bible]Antioch is the name of two cities in the New Testament: Syrian Antioch, where believers were first called "Christians" and from which Paul's missionary journeys set out, and Pisidian Antioch, where Paul preached in the synagogue.
Revelation 12:9
[Bible Verses]Revelation 12:9 belongs to the vision of war in heaven in Revelation 12. In it the great dragon is cast down to the earth and identified as "that old serpent," the Devil, and Satan. The verse is frequently cited in discussions of the Devil's identity and origin and of when Satan was cast out.
Remnant
[Bible]The remnant is a biblical concept referring to a small group that survives God's judgment and tribulation and thereby carries on the line of the covenant people. It is prominent in the Old Testament prophetic books and is taken up in the New Testament by Paul.
Rimmon
[Bible]Rimmon is the name of a god worshiped in Damascus, the capital of Aram. The name appears in 2 Kings 5, where Naaman, the Aramean commander who had been healed of leprosy, asks pardon for entering the house of Rimmon when he accompanies his king there to worship.
Leaven
[Bible]Leaven is fermented dough used to make bread rise. In the Old Testament it appears in the regulations for the Feast of Unleavened Bread and for sacrificial offerings. In the New Testament it serves as an image both of the kingdom of God and of evil teaching and sin.
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.
Secundus
[People]Secundus was a Christian from Thessalonica who is mentioned only once in Scripture, in Acts 20:4. He was one of the companions, along with Aristarchus and others, who traveled with Paul near the end of his third missionary journey.
Unleavened Bread
[Bible]Unleavened bread (Hebrew matzah) is flat bread baked without leaven. In the Bible it was eaten at Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread in commemoration of the Exodus, and it was also used as a sacrificial offering.
Nile River
[Bible]The Nile is a river in northeastern Africa that flows northward through Egypt and empties into the Mediterranean Sea. In the Bible it is the setting of Pharaoh's dream, which Joseph interpreted, of the birth of Moses, and of the ten plagues.
Antipas
[People]Antipas was a first-century Christian who is called "my faithful martyr" in the message to the church in Pergamum in Revelation 2:13 and is recorded as having been put to death in Pergamum.
Assos
[Bible]Assos was a port city on the northwestern coast of Asia Minor. In Acts 20 it is the place where Paul, having walked from Troas, rejoined his companions and boarded ship.
Purification after Childbirth
[Bible]Purification after childbirth is an Old Testament ordinance under which a woman who had given birth, after completing a prescribed period, brought offerings to the sanctuary to have her ritual purity restored. It is set out in Leviticus 12, and in Luke 2 Mary observes it.
Threshing Floor
[Bible]A threshing floor was a broad, level area where harvested grain was threshed to separate the kernels from the chaff. In the Bible it can signify abundance, and it also serves as an image of judgment, in which the grain is separated from the chaff.
George Whitefield
[People]George Whitefield (1714–1770) was a priest of the Church of England and an itinerant preacher. He is regarded as one of the figures who sparked the eighteenth-century Great Awakening through his open-air preaching in Britain and the North American colonies, and he was a leader of Calvinistic Methodism.
Karl Rahner
[People]Karl Rahner (1904–1984) was a German Catholic theologian and Jesuit priest. He served as a theological expert at the Second Vatican Council and is widely known for his concept of the "anonymous Christian."
Amy Carmichael
[People]Amy Carmichael (1867–1951) was an Irish missionary. She served in South India for fifty-five years, founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, and is known for rescuing and caring for children who had been dedicated to Hindu temples.
Bede
[People]Bede (672/673–735) was a monk, priest, and scholar of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria in England. He wrote the *Ecclesiastical History of the English People*, which records how the Anglo-Saxons came to accept Christianity, and for this work he is called the "Father of English History."
Bernard of Clairvaux
[People]Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090–1153) was a twelfth-century French abbot and theologian. He played a central role in the growth of the Cistercian Order, and through his preaching and spiritual writings he exerted great influence on the medieval Western church.