When the Christians lost the temple at Jerusalem at its destruction in A.D. 70‚ what did they do? They left. The bigger question‚ then is: Why did they leave? Part of the reason goes back to Israel’s original purpose to be the light of the world (Exodus 19:6). Before this time the Church had been spending its time in Jerusalem‚ preaching to the Jews‚ only. Now‚ through the destruction of Jerusalem‚ God was calling His people to go‚ away from those who rejected the message‚ to the Gentiles (Acts 22:21
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Different Narratives Surrounding the Birth of Jesus The story of Jesus is popular and well-known in the United States. However‚ when people attentively read the four gospels in the New Testament‚ it can be seen that difference in the narratives of Jesus’ birth. For example‚ the birth of Jesus is not mentioned in Mark Gospel. By contrast‚ John Gospel talks about the theological truth about Jesus before the beginning of the world‚ which means it is not about the human and natural birth. Matthew Gospel
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contains messages of divine judgment against Judah and Jerusalem‚ as well as against other nations. It addresses a rare concentration of references to central issues in the history of ancient Israel. Idolatry‚ violence‚ and deception abound in Judah when Zephaniah began prophesying. Zephaniah ’s prophesying made it clear that Yahweh would execute vengeance upon unrepentant wrongdoers. His adverse judgments would be visited not only upon Judah and Jerusalem‚ but also upon other peoples: the Philistines‚ Ammonites
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Theme of Missions in the NT God has always been a God concerned with missions. In the Old Testament His desire was for Israel to share Him with the entire world. Israel was not interested in this mission. They grew to hate the pagan world. God himself came to earth in the form of man to be a mission-model for us. Jesus came to “seek and to save the lost” (Luke 19:10). He then required all who followed him as a disciple to do the same. Jesus told his disciples in Matthew 4:19 to “come‚ follow
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where he did much teaching‚ preaching and healing and Jerusalem where he was crucified and rose again from the dead. Many pilgrims would go to Jerusalem at Easter to remember the last week in the life of Jesus ( Holy Week). They would visit: • Mount of Olives • The City • The Western Wall • Mount Zion • Garden of Gethsemane • The Via Dolorosa • The Church of the Holy Sepulchre • The Burial Cave Bethlehem lies six miles South of Jerusalem where pilgrims might visit the Church of the Nativity
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Chapter 18 Nomadic Empires And Eurasian Integration People: 1. Abbasids: Cosmopolitan Arabic dynasty {750-1258 CE} that replaced the Umayyads; founded by Abu al-Abbas and reached its peak under Harun al-Rashid. 2. Chinggis Khan: Born in 1170s in decades following death of Kabul Khan; elected khagan of all Mongol tribes in 1206; responsible for conquest of northern kingdoms of China; territories as faw west as the Abbasid regions; died in 1227‚ prior to conquest of most of Islamic world 3
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The Roman empire was a period of various political and historical victories. One of those victories is the capturing of Jerusalem. Titus Vespasianus Augustus‚ born in Dec. 30‚ 39 ce—died Sept. 13‚ 81 ce‚ eldest son of once Roman emperor Vespasian‚ succeeded in conquering the city of Jerusalem in seventy CE (Titus‚ 2016). To commemorate this significant victory‚ his brother‚ Domitian‚ orchestrated the construction of the arch as a tribute. This arch is still standing today and is called the Arch of
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from Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos‚ who requested that western volunteers come to his aid and help to repel the invading Seljuq Turks from Anatolia. An additional goal soon became the principal objective—the Christian reconquest of the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land and the freeing of the Eastern Christians from Islamic
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of Rome. Berkeley: University of California Press‚ 1984. Herzog‚ Chaim and Gichon‚ Mordechai. Battles of the Bible. New York: Random House‚ 1978. Hoffer‚ Eric. The True Believer. New York: Harper and Row‚ 1951. _______. I and II Maccabees in the Jerusalem Bible. Alexander Jones‚ ed.‚ New York: Doubleday and Company‚ 1966. Keller‚ Werner. The Bible as History. New York: William Morrow and Company‚ 1981. Learsi‚ Rufus. Israel: A History of the Jewish People. New York: The World Publishing Company‚ 1949
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Riley-Smith sets out five main arguments to show how these ideas of crusading evolved. Firstly‚ he argues that Pope Urban ’s original message was conventional‚ secondly that a more positive reaction was drawn from the laity (due to the ideas surrounding Jerusalem)‚ thirdly‚ that the original message of crusading had changed because of the horrible experiences of the first crusaders‚ fourth‚ that due to these experiences the crusaders developed their own concept of what a crusade was‚ and lastly‚ that these
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