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The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• !BIBLE QUIZ! TODAY’S QUESTIONS: 89. “Fill in the Blanks: DURING THE CREATION, God said, ‘Let _____ make man in _____ image.’” 90. “WHAT DID DANIEL DO THAT CAUSED HIM TO BE THROWN INTO THE LIONS’ DEN?” 91. “TWO APOSTLES, MATTHEW AND JOHN, WROTE GOSPELS WHICH BEAR THEIR NAMES. TWO OTHER APOSTLES INFLUENCED THE WRITING OF THE OTHER TWO GOSPELS. WHO WAS BEHIND MARK’S GOSPEL, AND WHO WAS BEHIND LUKE’S?” 92. “AT THE BEGINNING OF REVELATION, SEVEN CHURCHES RECEIVE LETTERS FROM JESUS. HOW MANY OF THE...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• !BIBLE QUIZ! TODAY’S QUESTIONS: 85. “ANANIAS AND HIS WIFE LIED AND DIED. CAN YOU SPELL HER NAME?” And no, “Mrs. Ananias” won’t do. 86. “WHEN PHILIP ARRIVED AT THE ETHIOPIAN’S CHARIOT, WHAT WERE THE ETHIOPIAN’S TWO MALADIES, AND WHICH OF THE TWO DID PHILIP ADDRESS?” 87. “ON WHICH ROAD WAS SAUL TRAVELING WHEN JESUS VIOLENTLY CONFRONTED HIM?” 88. “WHEN PAUL WAS SHIPWRECKED ON MALTA, WHY DID THE PEOPLE OF MALTA DECIDE PAUL WAS A GOD?” ANSWERS APPEAR BELOW, WITH CORRESPONDING ART Q#85: “ANANIAS AND HIS...

Today (December 7th) marks the 82nd year anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor naval base. How sad that this date - which would live in infamy - has been nearly forgotten by toady's American population and especially our youth. Tragically it has been the successful revision of our American history by the Left and the evils of it that has made us weak and vulnerable to a present day "Pearl Harbor" of EXPONENTIAL proportions (Rev. 6). It was under the deception of peace and negotiations that Japan struck without warning. To set the stage for 1941, tensions were high...

December 6 is the feast of Saint Nicholas of Myra, later of Bari. Though known more commonly in modern times for his connection with “Santa Claus”, Saint Nicholas was considered a great saint in his day and numerous anecdotes relating to his acts of holiness, courage and generosity have come down to us from antiquity. Here is an excerpt from an anonymous history from the 4th century AD entitled, Praxis de Stratelatis (Act of the Generals). In it, we see Saint Nicholas doing what he does best: using his authority as bishop to rescue the innocent and speak the truth...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• !BIBLE QUIZ! TODAY’S QUESTIONS: 81. “AFTER JUDAS HANGED HIMSELF, WHAT ELSE OCCURRED TO HIS BODY?” 82. “ALTHOUGH THE OLD TESTAMENT PREDICTS MANY DETAILS OF JESUS’ CRUCIFIXION (PS.22, IS.53, ETC.), IT IS SILENT ON THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY WERE PRESENT, WITH NO SPECIFIC REFERENCES TO THE TWO CRUCIFIED THIEVES, THE CENTURION, SPECIFIC ONLOOKERS, MARY AND JOHN AND THE OTHER WOMEN, AND JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA AND NICODEMUS. ONLY ONE GROUP IS MENTIONED—WHICH IS IT?” 83. “ON RESURRECTION SUNDAY, THE RISEN JESUS MET MARY MAGDALENE AT THE TOMB...

Many out there in the Christian blogoshere might be wondering why I am posting on this topic? The thought that might be ringing through people's heads being, "What does Randy Rhoads have to do with biblical Christianity or prophetic events?" Well… my dear friends let me fill you in... and be a little personal. I wanted to share this post today for many are huge fans of Randy as I was as a young man; and being Randy’s birthday is today; 12/6; here we go!😊 Randy Rhoads was the original guitarist of Quiet Riot in the ’70s and then came...

SAINT NICHOLAS DAY On December 6th, Saint Nicholas Day recognizes the third-century saint who became an inspiration for the modern-day Santa Claus. #StNicholasDay St. Nicholas is known for selling all his possessions and giving his money to the poor. Raised as a devout Christian, St. Nicholas dedicated his whole life to serving the sick and suffering. Legendary stories about St. Nicholas later become part of the inspiration for the modern-day Santa Claus. For example, during the third century, a daughter's chances of marriage increased when her father offered a large dowry to prospective husbands. One story tells of a poor...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• !BIBLE QUIZ! TODAY’S QUESTIONS: 77. “WHAT WAS THE NAME OF MARY’S AND MARTHA’S BROTHER?” 78. “NEAR THE END OF THE LAST SUPPER, JESUS DID SOMETHING TO HIS DISCIPLES THAT UPSET ONE OF THEM. WHAT DID JESUS DO, AND WHO WAS UPSET BY IT?” 79. “WHICH APOSTLES DID JESUS ASK TO WATCH AND PRAY WITH HIM DURING HIS AGONY IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE?” 80. “IN THE DARKNESS, WHAT SIGNAL DID JUDAS USE TO IDENTIFY JESUS FOR THE ARRESTING SOLDIERS?” ANSWERS APPEAR BELOW, WITH CORRESPONDING ART...

I’ve been trying to put my finger on the Taylor Swift phenomenon for some time now. Evidently people pay obscene amounts of money to see her, and she is breaking world records on her latest tour. By all accounts (well, not quite all) it’s worth seeing, as Miss Swift parades out on the stage in outfit after outfit and dazzles swarms of people with a show like Superbowl halftime on crack.What’s going on here really, though?

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• !BIBLE QUIZ! TODAY’S QUESTIONS: 73. “HOW MANY TAX-COLLECTORS DID JESUS RESCUE?” 74. “WHO WERE THE FIVE PEOPLE WHO WERE PRESENT WITH JESUS WHEN HE WAS TRANSFIGURED ON THE MOUNTAIN?” 75. “IN JESUS’ PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN, WHO WERE THE TWO JEWS WHO IGNORED AND PASSED BY THE INJURED MAN?” 76. “WHEN JESUS VISITED MARY AND MARTHA, ONE SAT AT JESUS’ FEET AND LEFT ALL THE WORK FOR THE OTHER, WHO THEN COMPLAINED TO JESUS. WHICH WAS WHICH?” ANSWERS APPEAR BELOW, WITH CORRESPONDING ART Q#73:...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• !BIBLE QUIZ! TODAY’S QUESTIONS: 69. “IN SAMARIA, FAMOUSLY, JESUS MET WITH THE WOMAN AT THE WELL. WHO DUG THAT WELL?” 70. “WHAT PROMPTED PETER TO EXCLAIM, ‘GO AWAY, LORD, I AM A SINFUL MAN!’” 71. “WHO DEMANDED THAT HEROD BEHEAD JOHN THE BAPTIST?” 72. “WHEN JESUS PREACHED TO HIS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS IN HIS HOMETOWN SYNAGOGUE, HOW DID HIS FELLOW NAZARENES REACT? ” ANSWERS APPEAR BELOW, WITH CORRESPONDING ART Q#69: “IN SAMARIA, FAMOUSLY, JESUS MET WITH THE WOMAN AT THE WELL. WHO DUG THAT WELL?”...

In October 1789, President George Washington issued a thanksgiving proclamation “to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor….” This proclamation was thus not merely self-congratulation whereby the President and others applauded themselves for creating a new government provided by our Constitution. At that point we were transitioning from the Articles of Confederation which had neither three distinct branches of government nor the idea of federalism embodied in its organization. Would the new Constitution work? Would the misgivings of some leaders prove to be...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• !BIBLE QUIZ! TODAY’S QUESTIONS: 65. “HOW MANY OF THE FOURTEEN APOSTLES CAN YOU NAME?” AFTER JESUS’ FORTY DAYS’ IN THE WILDERNESS BEING TEMPTED, SATAN HAD THREE FINAL TEMPTATIONS FOR JESUS. WHAT WERE THEY? (IN ANY ORDER) 66. “One temptation” 67. “Another temptation” 68. “And another temptation” ANSWERS APPEAR BELOW, WITH CORRESPONDING ART Q#65: “HOW MANY OF THE FOURTEEN APOSTLES CAN YOU NAME?” A: ANDREW, BARTHOLOMEW (NATHANIEL), JAMES LESSER, JAMES GREATER, JOHN, JUDAS ISCARIOT, JUDAS (THADDEUS), MATTHEW, MATTHIAS, PAUL, PHILIP, SIMON PETER, SIMON ZEALOT, THOMAS LUKE...

“All the…large and small nationalities are destined to perish…in the revolutionary world storm... (A general war will) wipe out all…nations, down to their very names. The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only reactionary classes…but…reactionary peoples.” (“The Magyar Struggle,” Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Friedrich Engels, Jan. 13, 1849)One of the 20th century’s NWO apocalyptic purification movements was new pagan Marxist Communism, an evolutionary Gnostic pagan mass movement that impoverished Russians and purified the human gene pool by murdering millions of subhuman useless eaters (men, women, and children). Today’s NWO purification movement is...

RNS) — Ten minutes into a new documentary on the battle for women’s ordination in the Episcopal Church, a short archival clip shows the first time women were seated as full voting members in the denomination’s House of Deputies. But even as women took that minor step forward, they were introduced by a male priest who described the women deputies as “bringing us something the House has needed desperately for a long time — some beauty.” Such were the belittling attitudes toward women four years before a group of 11 seminary-educated female deacons challenged their church to accept them as...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• !BIBLE QUIZ! TODAY’S QUESTIONS: 61. “WHO ARE THE TWO PROSTITUTES SPECIFICALLY LISTED IN JESUS’ ANCESTRY?” 62. “AFTER JESUS’ BIRTH, BUT BEFORE HIS PARENTS COULD PRESENT HIM IN THE TEMPLE, WHAT HAD TO HAPPEN FIRST?” 63. “THE BIBLE DOES NOT ACTUALLY STATE HOW MANY MAGI VISITED YOUNG JESUS. WHY IS IT SO OFTEN ASSUMED THAT THERE WERE THREE MAGI?” 64. “WHO WAS JOHN THE BAPTIST’S MOST FAMOUS BAPTISEE?” ANSWERS APPEAR BELOW, WITH CORRESPONDING ART Q#61: “WHO ARE THE TWO PROSTITUTES SPECIFICALLY LISTED IN JESUS’ ANCESTRY?” A:...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• !BIBLE QUIZ! TODAY’S QUESTIONS: 57. “WHAT ANIMAL DID JESUS RIDE INTO JERUSALEM ON PALM SUNDAY?” 58. “WHAT COLORS ARE THE HORSES RIDDEN BY THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE?” 59. “WHAT TWO ANIMALS IS JESUS CALLED?” 60. “WHAT ANIMAL WILL JESUS RIDE AT HIS SECOND COMING?” ANSWERS APPEAR BELOW, WITH CORRESPONDING ART Q#57: “WHAT ANIMAL DID JESUS RIDE INTO JERUSALEM ON PALM SUNDAY?” A: A DONKEY MATTHEW 21 1 GIOTTO "Entry into Jerusalem" 2 CLIVE UPTTON "Palm Sunday" 3 MICHAEL PACHER "The Entry of Christ...

CNEWA EN | ESSearch DONATE Home ONE Magazine Fall 1977 The Martyrs of Najran ONE Magazine God • World • Human Family • Church The Martyrs of Najran A group of Coptic Christians in the sixth century are remembered for their faith. Every year on the 24th of October the Roman Catholic Church commemorates “the Martyrs of Najran.” Unless he has stumbled across the entry in some such books as Butler’s Lives of the Saints, the average person is not likely to have heard of either the martyrs or of Najran. The valley of Najran is in southwestern Saudi Arabia,...

Did you know that Thanksgiving is a Catholic holiday? True, it’s not on the Church calendar. And it is celebrated only in America, whereas Church holidays are universal. (snip) But any time a nation does anything in unison that involves families getting together and counting their blessings, it is a good thing. “Thanks,” says G.K. Chesterton, “is the highest form of thought.” And he mentions the fact that the worst moment for an atheist is when he is thankful and suddenly realizes he has no one to thank. (snip) What most people believe is a variation on what I was...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• !BIBLE QUIZ! TODAY’S QUESTIONS: 53. “WHAT ANIMAL TALKED TO BALAAM?” 54. “WHAT ANIMALS DID GOD USE TO FEED ELIJAH?” 55. “WHAT ANIMALS ATE JEZEBEL’S BODY AFTER SHE DIED? ” 56. “WHAT ANIMAL HAULED JONAH AROUND FOR THREE DAYS?” ANSWERS APPEAR BELOW, WITH CORRESPONDING ART Q#53: “WHAT ANIMAL TALKED TO BALAAM?” A: HIS DONKEY NUMBERS 22 1 2 3 PIETER LASTMAN "Balaam and the Ass" 4 PIETER LASTMAN "Balaam and the Ass" 5 PHILLIP RATNER Source 6 Source 7 GUSTAV JAEGER "Balaam Sees the Angel" 8...