Bible Study Online - Bible Stories & Bible Events
The Bible is an extraordinary Book to say the least. There are not enough words that could sum up all that the Bible has to offer. On this page I will provide a list that deals with certain Biblical stories that have taken place throughout time. Although the Bible main theme revolves around Jesus Christ, keep in mind that the Bible also deals with history, poetry, prophecy and the epistles (letters) along with so much more. The Bible has sixty-six different books within its covers which took over 1,500 years to write. These authors did not come from some exclusive elite club, but they came from various places with totally different backgrounds. You had some that were rich and you had some that lived in poverty. You had kings and philosophers who also had the honor in contributing to this wonderful piece. You had musicians and poets along with farmers and fishermen who also had the privilege of contributing. You had a doctor and a tax collector along with a sheepherder that God used to help with His masterpiece. And finally you had teachers and prophets that were able to add to what God had given them as well. Some were able to write in palaces and others wrote in prisons. You had some that were able to write in the grandest cites, while others wrote in the wilderness. Some had to write in the mist of a war, while others had the privilege to write when they were surrounded by peace and prosperity. And of course by the authors being so different they had different styles of writing when it came to what God had given them. Some wrote on history while others wrote about stories and events. You had some that wrote beautiful poetry and others told powerful prophecies. Then their were some who wrote proverbs to talked about God's wisdom while others wrote letters of concern, that warned of things to come. With so many separate volumes and authors with different backgrounds, along with the many different types of styles of writing, it's amazing that the Bible holds a seamless unity all throughout. Nothing within it is out of place; and everything is within a particular order. RSS FEED TOOL : This option will help keep you updated on all the latest pages from "Christian Resources Today." This tool is located at the bottom of the Navigation Menu over to your left. SHARE THIS PAGE TOOL : This option is for those that like to use Social Networks like Facebook or MySpace. This site tool is located at the very bottom of every page. PAY IT FORWARD TOOL : This is another site tool feature that will allow you to share a specific page that's located on this website. You can do this by using a special HTML CODE (that we provide you with) which is specific to that one particular page. This will allow you to share that particular page on your blog, a Web page, forums, your Social Networking account, or anywhere else that someone would find this page to be a blessing. This link is also located at the very bottom of every page. Voice In The Wilderness This is a subject that has and continues to be highly debated amongst believers and nonbelievers. But there's one thing that I can say about the Bible? While everybody else is steadily looking for answers, the Bible continues to provide them for all those who are willing to hear.
God made it very clear that man was the only creature that had his image and likeness. By humanity having this honor bestowed upon it, there was no other part of God's creation that possessed a higher level of life - not even the angels. So why two different creation accounts?
"And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.(Genesis 2: 9-10)
My opinion is that Cain was trying to offer up to God an offering from something that was cursed. Plus Cain knew this, but refused to follow the command or law that was in place at the time. He could have easily purchase a first born lamb from Abel, and stayed within God's permissive will. But because of pride he did not have the will to humble himself.
"By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God." (Hebrews 11:5)
"When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born unto them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them that they chose, then the Lord said, 'My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years.'" (Genesis 6: 1-3)
"The Lord saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time." (Genesis 6:5)
"So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks." (Genesis 6:14-16)
"But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. This is theaccount of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless amongthe people of his time, and he walked with God." (Genesis 6:8-9) So now we find ourselves during this particular Biblical Era when God has decided that He was going to destroy all of mankind and every other living thing that He had made that was upon the earth.
"Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth." (Genesis 11:4)
This city, "Ur of the Chaldeans" was a very important city that was located within the southern part of Mesopotamia. This city has also been acknowledged as the main areas were civilization had begun. But since the Sumerians had gained power over the city at that time, we find that it would be the Sumer civilization that would get the official credit in the secular history books.
Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing
While she was resting, an angel of the Lord would find her, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?" the angel would ask her. "I'm running away from my mistress," Hagar would tell the angel. "Go back to your mistress and submit to her and I will increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count. You are now with child and you will have a son.
Now we find ourselves approximately one year after God had delivered this message to Abraham and Sarah. So the Lord was gracious to Sarah and He did what He had promised her? Sarah had indeed become pregnant and she gave birth to a boy, in which Abraham had obeyed God and named him Isaac.
Rebekah the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah who was the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor, had came out with her water jar on her shoulder. She was very beautiful and pure, for no other man had ever lain with her. So Rebekah went down to the spring to fill her water jar and was headed back to her household. When Eliezer had seen her, he hurried to meet her.
The commotion between the two unborn boys were so great, that it had made Rebekah very uneasy, "Why is this happening to me?" Rebekah would inquire of the Lord. "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger," the Lord would inform Rebekah.
Now we have Jacob who once had the benefits and the privileges of his father's great estate, who has now been sent on his way all alone and on foot. He has his brother's vengeful anger following behind him and with the path of uncertainty lying before him. Will Jacob have the faith to stay true to his newly discovered purpose, or will he waver and try to take his destiny into his own hands?
So Jacob would serve seven years in order for him to get the right to marry Rachel. The love that Jacob had for Rachel was so strong, the seven years of labor that Jacob had agreed to and finished, seemed like only a few days to him. So after the seven years had passed, Jacob approached Laban, "Give me my wife, my time is completed, and I want to lie with her." Shortly after Laban brought together all his relatives and invited his surrounding neighbors and gave a great feast in what seemed to be in honor of Jacob and Rachel.
I'm assuming that Jacob had continued to pray to God for help and during the night, God sends an angel down to meet with him. I'm also assuming that Jacob wasn't satisfied with the message that the angel had brought. For when the angel tried to leave, Jacob engaged the angel and began to wrestle with it, for he refused to let God's messenger go. He would wrestle with this angel all night, and when daybreak had come the angel suffered himself and did not overpower the promise bearer.
But let's take it step by step so that we can delightfully consume the Word of God. It tastes so much better when you can savor and enjoy it with out force feeding yourself with an overload of fractured information all at once. So let's move forward, for we know that Reuben, Simeon and Levi had already made major mistakes in their early lives. Now I'm not suggesting that this was the reason why God chose Joseph to play an important part in Israel's future or why he became Jacob's favorite son. There are other factors that would play into this and I will address them shortly.
We must keep in mind that Joseph is around the age of seventeen so you can imagine his excitement when it comes to him possibly ruling over his brothers. Now Joseph has another dream and once again he goes to tell his brothers and his father. "Listen, I had another dream and this time the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowing down to me." Now perhaps this was too far fetch for any of them to comprehend being that Joseph was so young. "What is this dream you had, will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you," Jacob would say with great concern to his young son.
The next time we hear about Miriam, is when she was helping Moses lead the Israelites in a song of victory, after they were lead out of the hands of the Egyptians. This is right after they had witness the awesome power of God, and saw Pharaoh's army swallowed by the sea.(Exodus 15: 20-21)
Now we have the record of Deborah of Lapidoth who was a prophetess that held the position as a Judge over Israel. She is one of two out of the fifteen judges that had a prophetic ministry; the other was the prophet Samuel.
One day while Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, he was met by Ahijah the prophet of Shiloh. This is when Ahijah delivered the message on how God was going to tear the kingdom away from king Solomon, leaving him only with one. God uses Ahijah to tell Jeroboam that he would be getting the other ten tribes.
Well of course this angered the one true God, who in return sent a prophet from Judah to deliver a message to Jeroboam. Now this prophet, we are not told of his name, but that he was a prophet that came down from Judah. Now what's interesting about this event, is the fact that Jeroboam was dedicating his newly built alter when the man of God had came and confronted the alter where Jeroboam was standing.
The false prophet then saddled up his donkey and rode after him. He then found this man of God sitting under an oak tree, and asked him if he was the man of God that came from Judah? The man of God replied and told him that yes, he was indeed that man. So then the false prophet had ask him to come home with him and dine at his house. Then once again the man of God had to refuse the invite for they went against God's original instructions.
The account of Elijah also includes the accounts of king Ahab and his wife Jezebel. The interaction between the three makes it almost impossible to separate the accounts. The thing that stands out immediately about the Prophet Elijah is that he comes on the scene in the Bible, from out of no where and immediately becomes a problem for king Ahab and his wife Jezebel.
Elijah also points out that he is the only prophet that was their representing God and that Baal had four hundred and fifty prophets representing him. Now after hearing this, the people said nothing. Then Elijah sends out a request for two bulls that would be used for sacrifices, one would be offered to God and the other would be offered to Baal.
The ministry of this exciting prophet starts right where Prophet Elijah ministry had ended. Prophet Elisha found himself in a rare position to be able to have the divine mantle that God place on Prophet Elijah to be passed on to him.
This second phase would begin with Ben-Hadad king of Aram bringing along with him, what I would like to call, his thirty two kings of mass destruction. Now we are not told the background or the specifics of who these thirty two kings were. We can only assume that they were probably kingdoms that had surrender and became vassals to Ben-Hadad from his past wars.
So after saying this Ahab turns towards Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to fight against Ramoth Gilead?" After hearing the Israel king's request, Jehoshaphat agrees to help Ahab in his quest to retake Ramoth Gilead. But the Judean king had one request of his own? He wanted to make sure that Ahab would seek the counsel of the Lord first. You see, Jehoshaphat was a very wise and God fearing king. In everything that he did, he walked in the ways of his father Asa, and did not stray from them; he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord.
So now we find that "The Prophets of the Groves," which were the personal prophet regiment of four hundred, that answered to the Israel king Ahab. We find that they were all prophesying that victory will fall into the king's hands if he decided to attack the city of Ramoth Gilead, which was still under the rule of Ben-Hadad the Aramean king. Jehoshaphat was not satisfied with what Ahab prophets were prophesying and had requested for a prophet that serves theone true God to step forward.
When he came to the bank of the river, the prophet would use the cloak to strike the water with. "Where now is the Lord, the God of Elijah?" he would cry out. Then the prophet would strike the water for a second time causing it to divide allowing him to cross over on dry ground to the other side. This would not only be Elisha's first recorded miracle, but this would be a divine confirmation from the heavens showing that Elisha had now been commissioned by the Lord.
When the army arrived at Dothan, it had surrounded the town. "Oh my lord, what shall we do?" the servant had asked Elisha. "Don't be afraid, those who are with us are more than those who are with them," Elisha told his servant. "O Lord, open his eyes so he may see." Elisha prayed to the Lord. Then all of a sudden the Lord had indeed opened the servant's eyes and behold he saw a great army of horses and chariots of fire that covered the hills and filled the entire landscape that surrounded Elisha.
Now down in Jezreel we find that Jezebel had heard the news about Jehoram her son's death and the death of her grandson Ahaziah. So she painted her face and arranged her hair in anticipation of Jehu's arrival. "Have you come in peace Zimri, you murderer of your master?" Jezebel would call out to Jehu as he entered through the city gates. "Who is on my side? Who?" Jehu shouted back at her. "Throw her down!" Jehu ordered the two eunuchs (a castrated man that serves in the royal palace) that were looking down at him from the wall. So the eunuchs grabbed the wicked queen mother Jezebel and threw her off the wall.
Now Huldah the prophetess was the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah. Her husband was an official in the king's court that was in charge of the keeping of the wardrobe. She also lived close by, for she stayed in the second rank buildings that were close to the royal palace in an area called Mishneh.
Scholars have stated that Hosea is of Bethshemesh and of the tribe of Issachar. His ministry is to suggest that he served about 50 years, although the numbers are often stated between the ranges of 40 - 60 years. Which some are saying that perhaps that he was the longest serving prophet. He was a Biblical prophet who wept for the northern kingdom (Ephraim) that God used him to serve. Let it be noted that Ephraim was the first of the twelve tribes to backslide.
Although it's been recorded that Jesus did not do any miracles in that city when He visited, many still believed in Him. So now here we find Philip three years after, continuing the work of his Lord, Jesus Christ.
Now after some of God's prophets had arrived at Antioch, we find that one named Agabus stood up from out of the group and gave a prophecy concerning the Roman Empire? He told how a great famine will strike the whole Roman Empire. Now at this time, the Roman Empire was considered the whole world in the eyes and pride of Claudius Caesar, just like the claims Alexander had made before him.
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