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It has become increasingly apparent to many who watch our culture that the age of maturity for the present young adult generation has climbed to about 30 years. The age of maturity used to be somewhere between 18 and 21—between …
(6) Seek the LORD and live,
Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
And devour it,
With no one to quench it in Bethel—
God threatens to send fire, symbolizing divine rejection and purification (Malachi 4:1), upon Israel because of her false religion. The Bible, though ultimately written for His spiritual children, focuses on ancient Israel because she …
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While all four gospels mention Barabbas in their accounts of Jesus Christ’s sacrifice on Passover day, Matthew, by a wide margin, pays the most attention to that aspect of the crucifixion story. He appears to have gone out of his way to include specific details, making scholars curious about why this event was so significant in his mind and what motivated his recounting of it. One theory is that in Matthew’s gospel, the Barabbas incident represents a fulfillment of part of the Day of Atonement ritual. In it, two goats were brought before the high priest, one to die and the other to be relea
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