defending Jerusalem for the people in the city and not the city itself. Balian says to the people of Jerusalem‚ “It has fallen to us‚ to defend Jerusalem‚ and we have made our preparations as well as they can be made. None of us took this city from Muslims. No Muslim of the great army now coming against us was born when this city was lost. We fight over an offence we did not give‚ against those who were not alive to be offended. What is Jerusalem? Your holy places lie over the Jewish temple that the
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them. He had no regard for their religious teachings but was well aware of the power they had with the people and the threat they posed to the stability of his kingdom if he were to attack them. the Pharisees and Jesus objected to the way the Temple in Jerusalem had become too central to Jewish life when the priests had become a corrupt elite. However‚ they differed on the solution to the problem. The Pharisees wanted to bring holiness
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My Personal Philosophy of Music in Christian Praise and Worship Praise and Worship is all about connecting with God. (William Temple.1881) Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of mind with his truth‚ the purifying of imagination by his beauty‚ the opening of the heart to his love‚ the surrender of his will to his purpose and all of this gathered up in adoration‚ the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable
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celebration that commemorates the fulfillment of Zechariah 9:9 where Jesus makes his triumphal entrance into Jerusalem. The event took place one week prior to His resurrection‚ and it is a day that kicks off the Holy Week. But why the palms? The palms we now wave in our Palm Sunday celebrations represent the palms that were waved by the crowd and placed in Jesus’ path when he rode the donkey into Jerusalem. In many churches the palms are then saved to be burned after and used the following year in the Ash
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the priest‚ was born approximately in 623 B.C. in Jerusalem and lived during the Babylonian captivity (Constable). He was taken captive around 597 B.C. with Jehoiachin. Jehoiachin‚ the King of Judah was eighteen at the time of exile and had been the King of Jerusalem for three months (ESV 1496). King Nebuchadnezzar exiled thousands of citizens
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The Dead Sea Scrolls has been called the archaeological discovery has had the all-time greatest Biblical impact. They have provided documented manuscripts 1‚000 years older than the previous oldest manuscript. “The Dead Sea Scrolls have demonstrated that the Old Testament was accurately transmitted during this interval. In addition‚ they provide a wealth of information on the times leading up to‚ and during‚ the life of Christ.” According to —Dr. Bryant Wood‚ archaeologist‚ Associates for Biblical
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sympathy for the Jews most-accursed‚ people born to be slaves. 3rd class providence. Not important. Revenue Expansion Syria. Bordered Had 3 legions of Roman soldiers Judea was very small 160 km long 70 km wide Jerusalem Capital center of religious life Role as Governor Served 11 years Was in charge of military Conclusion While we cannot make a biography about Pilate‚ we can study the area where he reigned‚ and some of the decisions that he made
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either through divine or human agency (Leonard & McClure‚ 2004). Some sacred places are sites for mourning. Let us‚ for the purpose of discussion‚ consider religion as an evolution or an expression of established myths. The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and the Golgotha‚ the hill and site where
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The Minor prophet- Joel and his Prophetic Book The Book of Joel is part of the Hebrew Bible. Joel is part of a group of twelve prophetic books known as the Minor Prophets or simply as The Twelve; the distinction ’minor ’ indicates the short length of the text in relation to the larger prophetic texts known as the "Major Prophets". Swindoll (1979‚ no pagination) states ‘Dating the writing of the book of Joel remains one of the most difficult tasks for Old Testament scholars because unlike most prophetic
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Virginia April 04‚ 2011 Table of Contents Introduction 2 Setting the stage: the expansion of the Jewish Diaspora 2 the Jewish roots of Christianity 4 Hellenistic Judaism and Early Church 6 Jewish Christian relations after the fall of Jerusalem 8 The Last straw: the Bar Kokhba Revolt 13 the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt and Jewish-Christian relations 16 the final parting of the ways. 19 Conclusion 22 Bibliography 25 Introduction Students of church history often puzzled
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