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The Herod's of the Bible...

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If you are like me at all you notice the name Herod throughout the New Testament a lot.  For a long time I thought they were the same person.  I thought they just lived forever kind of like Methuselah... But they are actually different people. So I wanted to study who they were and figure out as much about them as I could. Here is what I found out; (It might be completely boring to you but it was awesome to me!) The Herod’s Of The Bible The Herod families were IDUMEANS.  They were from EDOM (Edomites).  Which means that they were decedents from Abraham through Isaac then Esau, not Isaac then Jacob.  They saw themselves as Jews and they participated in God’s covenant with Abraham, but their ancestors did not go to Egypt with Joseph and did not return with Moses and Joshua. So they were Arabian Jews that allied themselves with Rome.  In 63 BC Pompey the Great of Rome invaded Palestine for the Roman Empire and Antipater joined fo...

Chosen To Serve (Acts 6:1-7)

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1  Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution.  2  And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables.  3  Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty.  4  But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”  5  And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen,   a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch.  6  These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and   laid ...