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• Local Church

  The Local Church is a Christian movement begun in twentieth-century China by Watchman Nee and continued and spread by Witness Lee. Holding that there is only one church in each city, it does not use denominational names. Several Korean Presbyterian denominations have declared it heretical.

• Witness of the Holy Spirit

  The witness of the Holy Spirit is the doctrine that the Holy Spirit confirms truth in the hearts of believers. It refers chiefly to the Spirit's testimony that believers are children of God and to the Spirit's work of assuring them that Scripture is the Word of God.

• Jehovah's Witnesses

  Jehovah's Witnesses are a religious organization that grew out of a Bible study group begun in the United States in the late nineteenth century by Charles Taze Russell. The group rejects the Trinity, and several Korean Protestant denominations have formally declared it heretical.

• 1 John 5:7–8

  This passage states that there are three that bear witness: the Spirit, the water, and the blood. Some Latin manuscripts and later translations add the words "there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost." This addition, known as the Johannine Comma, has become the most famous case in biblical textual criticism.

• Deuteronomy 19:18-21

  A provision in Deuteronomy on perjury requiring that a person who bears false witness in court receive the very penalty he intended to bring upon another. Because it contains the principle of "eye for eye, tooth for tooth," it is frequently discussed in connection with the Sermon on the Mount.

• Matthew 24:14

  A prophecy of Jesus that this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world for a witness to all nations, and then the end will come. Because it links the motive for mission with the timing of the Second Coming, the verse figures prominently both in the missionary movement and in eschatological discussion.

• Job 16:19–21

  In the midst of his suffering, Job looks beyond the friends who condemn him and expresses his hope that a witness in heaven will take his side before God. The identity of this witness is frequently debated, and interpreters are divided.

• Tent of Meeting

  The Tent of Meeting is the tent where God met with Moses and Israel and spoke to them. In the Old Testament the term is used chiefly as another name for the tabernacle.

• Acts 4

  Acts 4 describes Peter and John bearing witness to the name of Jesus before the council and being released, after which the Jerusalem church prays together and shares its possessions.

• Simeon and Anna

  Simeon and Anna are two devout Jews in Luke 2 who recognized the infant Jesus as the Messiah and bore witness to him when he was presented at the Temple in Jerusalem. Simeon left a hymn of praise and a prophecy, and Anna is called a prophetess.

• Oath (Bible)

  An oath is an act in which God or a being greater than oneself is invoked as a witness to guarantee that one's words are true or that one will keep a promise. The Old Testament forbids swearing falsely, and in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus taught, "Swear not at all."

• Testimony

  A testimony is a believer's account, given before others, of faith experiences in his or her own life, bearing witness to what God has done.

• John 19:34–35

  After Jesus died on the cross, a soldier pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water came out. The passage then states that the one who saw this bears true witness. It is read as confirmation of Jesus' actual death and is often interpreted symbolically in connection with baptism and the Lord's Supper.

• Queen of Sheba

  The Queen of Sheba was a foreign queen who, having heard reports of Solomon's wisdom, came to Jerusalem and tested him with hard questions. Jesus called her "the queen of the south" and spoke of her as a witness at the judgment.

• John 15:26–27

  In this passage Jesus says that the "Comforter" (Paraclete), the "Spirit of truth" whom he will send from the Father, will testify of him, and that the disciples will also bear witness. The text speaks of the witness of the Holy Spirit together with the witness of the church, and it served as a key proof text in the dispute between the Eastern and Western churches over the procession of the Holy Spirit.

• 1 Peter 2:12

  First Peter 2:12 urges Christians living amid persecution and slander to conduct themselves with good works so that unbelievers may glorify God. It is frequently cited in support of the idea that the Christian life is itself a form of witness.

• Philippians 2:15

  Paul's exhortation to the Philippian believers to live as blameless children of God in the midst of "a crooked and perverse nation" and to shine as lights in the world. The verse is frequently cited in discussions of Christian holiness and of witness in the world.

• Tablets of the Testimony

  The tablets of the testimony are the two stone tablets, inscribed with the Ten Commandments, that God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai. They were kept inside the Ark of the Covenant as a witness to the covenant between God and Israel.

• Song of Moses

  The Song of Moses refers to two Old Testament poems attributed to Moses: the hymn of deliverance sung after the crossing of the Red Sea (Exodus 15) and the song bearing witness to the covenant that he delivered before his death (Deuteronomy 32).

• Job 16

  Job 16 is the first part of Job's reply to Eliphaz's second speech. Job calls his friends miserable comforters and laments the suffering he endures at God's hand, yet he confesses that his witness is in heaven.