Document #3 – a few aha bible history moments

The Book of Acts is the foundation of a Christian Worship Service.
1. Unequally yoked in worship also means believers trying to worship alongside unbelievers; unequally yoked. Whether in business, relationships or worship, Christians are not to be equally yoked with unbelievers. [Amos 3:3; 2 Corinthians 6:14, 15 & 16.]
1. AFTER salvation, bring them to church for worship, study, and fellowship as equally yoked.
Ponder this! Why does [John] Mark tell his readers about the young man fleeing the Garden of Gethsemane, but the other Gospels Matthew, Luke, and John never mention it?
1. Mark was likely the young man who fled the scene at Christ’s arrest in Gethsemane.
Barnabas and John Mark were cousins according to Colossians 4:10
There was often a mix of Jews/Israelis and Gentiles in the outer court of the synagogue listening to Paul preach. Only an Israelite of Judaism (not Jewish) conviction is allowed inside the synagogue.
The “Synagogue” as we read of it in the bible or anywhere else originated in and during the 70-year Babylonian captivity.
1. Sequence of Judaism worship: Tent of Tabernacle (Wilderness times; Moses) then the Temple of Solomon (Israel as a nation) then the Synagogue (Babylon).
Mark is the first New Testament book written – 70 A.D. (See #18)
We sleep, not die eternally. Old Testament and New Testament reference a perceived dead person as only in a state of sleep until the Bema Judgment or Great White Throne End Time days. Only his or her soul/spirit is missing.
2 Corinthians 4:14 “…knowing that he who raised (egeirō) the Lord Jesus will raise (egeirō) us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.” Egeirō means: to be awakened; to arouse; to rise (from one’s sleep). The body returns to dust and ashes but the soul sleeps until the time of resurrection.
Acts 14:2 “But the unbelieving” (apeitheo: willfully desiring tradition over Christ) “Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.” How similar is this to today’s church culture under the guise of protecting others from Covid-19, and political correctness?
*Local culture gives a hierarchy to right versus wrong. To God, it is all one thing called sin. (Acts 13:39)
Forgiveness means never bringing it up again to berate or excuse one’s actions; human-to-human and God-to-man. Lord’s Prayer says to forgive us just as we forgive all others.
1. This means according to the prayer that there are two types of sin. One between Man and God and another between man and man.
The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13) is preceded in the same chapter with “where to pray.” (Matthew 6:1 says to beware of showing off your righteous bias before others. Matthew 6:6 says…
1. Go alone into your prayer closet, close the door, and pray to the Father in heaven but in secret.
1. ONLY THEN does Jesus explain or give an example of prayer. Ignoring the previous couple of verses forbids the context of the Lord’s Prayer to be used as a congregational prayer i.e. One is to be alone in his or her prayer closet.
Finland is where the Tribe of Issachar ended up in modern times after the Assyrian dispersion of the northern Kingdom of Israel. Why we know this: Before a tank battle with Russia in WW II, General Gustaf Mannerheim of Finland addressed his army as “Men of Issachar.”
1. General Mannerheim? King Menahem of the House of Gadi was a king of the northern tribes of Israel between 749 BCE and 737 BCE. Hmmmm? Name similarities; family line?
1. Tribal members of Gad(i) along with the Tribe of Issachar are noted in secular history as having settled in a land we know as Finland?
Queen of Sheba visits King Solomon [Reigned 970 BCE to 931 BCE]. She returns to Ethiopia pregnant naming their son Menelik I. It means “son of the wise king.” Even Muslims teach this as a fact. She brings Judaism to Ethiopia plus a son from the Tribe of Judah; possibly a replica of the Ark of the Covenant or, one is given to Menelik I when he visited Israel to meet his father Solomon in 950 BCE.

1,000 years later Phillip meets the Ethiopian Eunuch [Acts 8] who was a follower of Judaism and converts him to Christianity via the scriptures of Isaiah. The Ethiopian was reading the prophecies of the coming Messiah upon his return trip from Jerusalem.
This high-ranking Ethiopian returns to Ethiopia with his New Testament faith and the nation eventually becomes Christian. Today Ethiopia is over 80% Christian claiming to also have the Ark of the Covenant reflecting their predisposition to Judaism. They are surrounded by Muslim nations that are only 3% to 4% Christians. 225 generations of Ethiopian kings claimed to be descended from the family line of Solomon.