Highlights include clay model equivalents of firka paintings, depictions of Indian costumes, trades and professions, finely - wrought silver and copperware, votive bronzes, fossils and minerals, delicate ivories, and models
of temples made from pith.
You can make out that there some sort
of a temple made out of stone in there but it is just covered in trees and bushes.
Not exact matches
The shop is a tech - ified
temple at every turn, with touch - screens throughout, an NBA2K video game station, and a customization area where shoppers can put any name they want on a jersey (their own or a player's) and watch it get
made right in front
of them in 10 minutes flat.
Big Bang's sunglasses, for example, have pivoting
temples that fold in front
of the lenses; that
makes them easier to slip into a front pocket and less likely to get scratched.
Then she laughs, not so much at the joke but at herself and that period
of her life — the weeks she spent meditating alone in Rishikesh, India, the
temple town along the banks
of the Ganges that the Beatles once visited and
made famous.
If you study the sacrifices the jews
made in the
temple, you see the symbolism
of the lamb
of God being slain and his blood covering the sins
of the people.
Before Judas proceeded to leave this world, he decided that all people should have at least a good memory
of him and he went to the high priests and told them he had turned in guiltless blood, and additionally he threw the wage
of betrayel (30 silver coins) into the
temple, so that all people
of Isreal should get convinced that he had been a righteous man, having
made a mistake.
I have absolutely no problem with Poligomy it is the whole «an Angel gave golden plates (which have never been seen) to Joesph Smith» thing plus the whole women as subserviant to men aspect
of LDS and the «inner circle
of MEN only in the
temples running everything» that
make it hard for me to accept.
15 And when he had
made a scourge
of small cords, he drove them all out
of the
temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers» money, and overthrew the tables;
As a matter
of fact, when he will walk into the
temple of God, declaring himself to be God, it is then that it will all
make sense to Israel, they will see that they have been deceived, and when they reject him, he begins a slaughter
of God's people that will be unparalleled in all
of human history.
Similarly, when this tent
of our mortal lives is torn down in death, God has
made for us a
temple far more splendorous than this mortal body could ever be.
These builders
of churches and church organizations are the same builders who reject Christ as the Chief Cornerstone, Cap Stone and Master Builder
of the
temple which is the Father's design for His
temple is
made of living stones (see Matt.
«The God who
made the world and everything in it is the Lord
of heaven and earth and does not live in
temples built by human hands «Acts 17:24 «Then I heard another voice from heaven say: ««Come out
of her, my people,» so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any
of her plagues;» Revelation 18:4
After all, it is argued, the Romans themselves did not appear to take it seriously (Vespasian's famous deathbed joke, «I think I am becoming a god» seems to indicate as much): it could only be believed by those who were either insane, such as Caligula, who went so far as to sacrifice to himself daily and
made his beloved horse a high priest
of his cult, or irredeemably barbarian and by implication, stupid, such as the Britons
of Colchester who built an enormous
temple to the Divine Claudius.
I am always amazed at how people want to use just one sentence out
of a letter to Jewish Christians (Heb 10.25) to
make a supposed supreme command for people to conform to a tradition
of temple style gatherings.
They signify authority in a theological sense and remind the wearer
of his / her vows
made to God in the
temple.
It
made me think
of some
of the powerful stories where Jesus is talking about the tax collector going to the
temple and standing in the back — and being so humble and unwilling to approach the front
of the
temple.
The objection is often
made that a demon can not dwell in the body
of a believer because the believer's body is the «
temple of the Holy Spirit».
«When the enemies
of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a
temple for the LORD, the God
of Israel... [they] set out to discourage the people
of Judah and
make them afraid to go on building».
Acts 17:24 - 28 «24 The God who
made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord
of heaven and earth, does not dwell in
temples made with hands; 25 nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; 26 and He
made from one man every nation
of mankind to live on all the face
of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries
of their habitation, 27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one
of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some
of your own poets have said, «For we also are His children.»»
Footnotes suggest a scenario behind the text: an illness, an inability to
make pilgrimage to the Jerusalem
temple, the taunt
of naysayers who treat bad health as a sign
of divine disfavor, the persistent hope that the soul now cast down will once again be raised up.
God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind
of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a
temple (especially the God - cave
of the Holy
of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the
temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually
made his way into traditional church as we now know it.
Our founding fathers
made religious ministries tax exempt straight out
of the Bible: Furthermore, be aware
of the fact that you have no authority to impose tax, tribute, or toll on any
of the priests, the Levites, the musicians, the doorkeepers, the
temple servants, or the attendants at the
temple of this God.
Who they were is
made plain by the parable, the story
of a Pharisee and a tax collector who went to the
temple to pray (18:9 - 14).
Presenting myself to Christ as my Lord, I received the gift
of the HOLY Spirit
of God who lives inside this earthsuit with me,
making my body a HOLY
temple of the Spirit
of God (1Cor 6:19).
Herbert's pious advice
makes for a refreshing read, but the chief charms
of this volume are the insights it affords into Herbert's art; by examining the priest at work in the
temple, we better know The
Temple itself.
According to the New Testament, this experience
of the indwelling presence
of God is the essential source
of the Christian's power (Acts 18) and
of his peace and joy; (Romans 14:17) it is the best gift which the Father can bestow on his children; (Luke 11:13; John 14:26) it is the secret alike
of moral renewal (Titus 3:5) and
of practical guidance; (Acts 13:2) it furnishes the interior standards
of motive and behavior which must not be violated; (Ephesians 4:30) whatever else in Christian faith is valuable, even though it be the love
of God, becomes effective only when this experience
makes it inwardly real; (Romans 5:5) and the
temple is easily dispensable since to every Christian it can be said, «Know ye not that your body is a
temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you?»
Indeed, before climbing the Jain holy mountain
of Shatrunjaya with its amazingly beautiful
temples, we had been warned that we must not wear anything
made of leather.
Christ's whole life was a reconciling qurban: an approach to the Father, a real indwelling
of God's glory in the
temple of Christ's body, and an atonement
made for a people enslaved to death.
Thus, in the very things most characteristic
of the religion
of ancient man, namely altars, sacrifices and
temples, the prophets
of Israel took the first steps in the direction
of their abolition, for YHWH, being wholly different from the ancient gods, neither required the old cultic offerings, nor did He dwell in a house
made by hands.
But when the Hebrew people did not erect shrines and
temples all over their land, this would have
made foreigners think that they did not care about their God or care whether or not the people
of the land worshiped him.
«May all
of each and every singularity
of each one's Godly - Being that is
made manifest in each
of our
templed» bodice, be one day known by yourself in their right.minded namesake!
Revelation 3:12 Him that overcometh will I
make a pillar in the
temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name
of my God, and the name
of the city
of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out
of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Why do you see them selling stuff in church did Christ not say to the money changers my
temple should be a house
of prayer, but you have
made it a den
of thieves.
None
of this counted the freewill offerings a person might
make, but even without these offerings, it is estimated that a person's annual required «donation» to the
temple was around 30 %
of their annual income.
Paul, who
makes the contrast more often than does any other writer, is very clear that the body is good in itself — so good that it is a
temple of the Holy Spirit.
I imagine that a modern Jesus would use pepper spray on those trying to change the focus
of the temple from a House Of Prayer, to a place to make a opportunistic business profi
of the
temple from a House
Of Prayer, to a place to make a opportunistic business profi
Of Prayer, to a place to
make a opportunistic business profit.
He
made my first stop a visit to a modern, air - conditioned Buddhist
temple where a group
of very impressive, well - preserved statues
of Buddha from early Japan was on display.
and he took cords and
made a whip
of them and drove the moneychangers out
of the
temple....
But first we may note that the very fact that the
temple was chosen as the stage for this demonstration
made it clear at once that his aims, though he had been acclaimed as a king, were not political; it was the worship
of God, not the independence
of the Jewish state, that he was concerned with.
But you scribes, he says, fully approve when an unscrupulous son
makes a vow to dedicate all his income to the
temple, depriving his poor parents
of their only means
of support.
Jesus was reported to have said something about the destruction
of the
temple, and this was
made a charge against him.
He went up, John says, «not publicly, but almost in secret,» as if he wished to observe without being observed, taking the temperature
of feeling in metropolitan circles.2 But «when the festival was already half over» he was moved to address the crowds in the
temple.3 What he said so incensed them that he was in danger
of being lynched.4 In the Fourth Gospel this episode is
made, after John's manner, the setting for a whole series
of dialogues and discourses which are evidently his own composition, though they contain undoubted reminiscences
of earlier tradition, but there seems no valid reason to reject his statement that in September or October Jesus was in Jerusalem, and that the reception he met with finally convinced him — whatever premonitions he may previously have entertained — that any advance on the city would meet with implacable hostility.
«If it is true that God created our bodies to be
temples of divine dwelling, then are not our bodies places where God continues to choose to speak, and
make God's self intimately known?
It contrasts Moses and Jesus Christ,
temple made with hands and
temple made without hands, the sacrifice in the Old Testament and that in the New Testament, and priesthood in the Old Testament and the priesthood
of Jesus Christ.
The cult
of Christianity has shifted back to a
temple made by human hands and away from a
temple of God's presence moving throughout the world as good news.
When he got there, he found the
temple full
of merchants and money changers, and so he
made a whip out
of cords and cleansed the
temple (John 2:13 - 22).
He angrily turned over the money - changer's tables in the
temple and drove them out, telling them they have
made His father's house a «den
of theives.»
Making a whip
of cords, he drove all
of them out
of the
temple, both the sheep and the cattle.
Be very mindful how you pin a name on your brother sister; remember the church is there the burden and those who have sinned yet we become so eager to judge; the word has already judged him, God at this very moment is dealing with him in ways that no man can as we judge him, we have judged ourself, we can easily forgive when his sin is like ours, but when it is not; they killed CHRIST CAUSE HE SAID HE COULD RISE THE
TEMPLE IN THREE DAYS; to the people
of that day and time it was a lie; as we forgive him we are forgive ourselves for believing in man and not the word; the word is still true, and God can still use him; but we must believe and fellow the word God no matter what; God has a way
of making something good out
of what is bad; that where the hope comes in; the faith in blessed redemption; heal our nation lord; heal our minds love forgive all;