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Great Lent: The Season of Fasting

...3 — Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America A Tale of Two Easters ~The Didache~ CHURCH FATHERS: Apostolic Constitutions, Book VII https://www.buzzsprout.com/3196/52849-fasting-for-divine-intervention-fasting-edition-45 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection…: Section 18 Chapter 3: Fasting Through The Patristic Era | Bible.org Lent Reading/Devotional Plan: 40 Days with the Fathers: A Journey Through Church History 40 Days with the Fathers: Companion Texts...

Melchizedek to Jesus: The Divine Thread of Bread and Wine

...(from the Greek meaning “thanksgiving”), also known as Holy Communion or the Lord’s Supper, is central to Christian worship, or at least, it should be. In partaking of the bread and wine, Christians around the world and throughout history join in a spiritual mystery. As Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 10:16–17, “The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.” In every Communion service, we are not merely remembering a past event but participating in the ongoing...

What is Monarchical Trinitarianism?

...n 1:18 in Greek). As Justin Martyr explains, “For Christ is the first-begotten of God, and we have declared above that He is the Word of whom every race of men were partakers; and those who lived reasonably are Christians, even though they have been thought atheists” (Justin Martyr, First Apology, Chapter 46). This highlights that the Son, the Word, existed eternally with the Father before being begotten and manifested. Similarly, Hippolytus expounds on this concept, noting that “God, subsisting alone, and having nothing contemporaneous with Himself, determined to create the world … For He was neither without reason, nor wisdom, nor power, nor counsel...

Where Hal Lindsey and Dispensationalism Went Wrong

...ments” (Greek, stoicheion) is used, it refers to the elements of the old covenant (Galatians 4:3, 9; Colossians 2:8, 20–22; Hebrews 5:12–13). So, what was to be destroyed? — the old covenant, not the physical universe (Hebrews 8:13). Lindsey (p. 180, 181) references Daniel 12 as predicting the end of the world. But Daniel 12 itself says that the “TIME OF THE END” would be when the power of the holy people would be shattered and the daily sacrifices for sin taken away. That clearly happened in AD 70 with the fall of Jerusalem and destruction of the temple. Daniel 12 could not be clearer. Lindsey (p. 176) taught, as do all premillennialists, that...

The Mystery Of Epiphany And The Star Of Bethlehem

...ed on the Greek word used: παιδίον (paidion) meaning a young child. Jupiter was then right above Bethlehem when viewed from Jerusalem due to its paused retrograde motion, which lasted for about six days, which aligns with the Biblical text: Matthew 2:9 When they had heard the king, they set out; and there, ahead of them, went the star that they had seen at its rising, until it stopped over the place where the child was. A Sign of Revelation Epiphany invites us to marvel not only at the star but at the God who uses creation to reveal His glory. Whether the Star of Bethlehem was a miraculous light or an astronomical event, it points to Jesus, the true...

Armageddon Is Not A Battle Plan: What Revelation Actually Says — And Why It Matters Right Now

...and is a Greek transliteration of the Hebrew name har məgīddō (הר מגידו). John writes that the kings of the earth are gathered at Har-Megiddo — the Mount of Megiddo/Armageddon — a site in northern Israel deeply resonant in the Old Testament as a location of decisive conflict (Judg. 5:19; 2 Kgs. 23:29; 2 Chr. 35:22). So much so that by the time of the later prophets, the very name had become a byword for catastrophic loss and lamentation (Zech. 12:11). The imagery is deliberate and powerful. A great confrontation appears to be building. The stage is set. But here is what many readers entirely miss: no battle is described. Tel Megiddo wi...