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Feature Pages(5+)
- FeatureHow old is the earth, and does it matter?MannaFest reads Genesis 1 as six ordinary days and reckons the earth's age in thousands of years from Scripture's own genealogies — and this page prints the other Christian readings at full strength, shows our own approved voices disagreeing, and states the hardest unsolved problem in the young-earth case in the young-earth section.
- FeatureNew Heavens and New EarthThe Bible's first new creation set facing its last: Isaiah 65–66 and Revelation 21–22, line answering line.
- FeatureThe Sign of JonahAsked for a sign, Jesus gives exactly one: Jonah's own three days and three nights, pointing forward to His own three days in the heart of the earth — and a second edge: a greater than Jonah is here, and this generation will not repent even at the greater sign.
- Feature2 Peter — the Study GuideAn apostle's last testament: grow in the true knowledge of Christ, know the false teachers by their judged precedents — the angels that sinned, the old world, Sodom — and do not be shaken by the scoffers: the day of the Lord comes as a thief.
- FeatureZephaniah — the Study GuideThe great Day of the LORD sweeps the whole earth, narrows onto Judah, widens across the nations, narrows again onto Jerusalem alone — and then, at its tightest point, narrows past the nation to one singing God, rejoicing over His remnant, before the book flares back out to all the peoples of the earth.
Verses(5+)
- VerseIsaiah 24:19The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.
- Verse1 Corinthians 10:26for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”
- VerseIsaiah 24:4The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
- VerseJob 41:33Nothing on earth is his equal— a creature devoid of fear!
- VersePsalms 66:1Make a joyful noise to God, all the earth!
People(2)
- PersonZephaniahProphet with the Twelve's longest pedigree (Zeph 1:1, four generations to Hizkiah); his book sweeps the Day of the LORD across the whole earth before narrowing to the God who…
- PersonThe Queen of ShebaCame from the ends of the earth with hard questions to test Solomon's wisdom and confessed the half had not been told her; Jesus cited her as a witness against his generation…
Places(2)
- PlacePhilippiA Roman colony in Macedonia and the first city of Europe to hear the gospel — a riverside prayer meeting, a delivered slave girl, a midnight earthquake, and a jailer's…
- PlaceHorebThe mountain of God — Sinai by its other name — where Moses saw the bush and where Elijah, forty days from Beersheba, heard not wind, earthquake, or fire, but a still small voice.
Manuscripts(1)
Words (Strong's)(5+)
Themes(1)
Topics(3)
Prophecies(5)
- ProphecyNew Heaven and New EarthGod will create a completely new heaven and earth for eternity.
- ProphecyKnowledge of God Covers EarthUniversal knowledge of God will characterize the kingdom.
- ProphecyThe Millennial KingdomChrist will reign on earth for 1,000 years in an era of peace and righteousness.
- ProphecyIsrael Scattered Among NationsIsrael would be scattered to every corner of the earth.
- ProphecyJewish Dispersion Into All NationsMoses predicted that disobedient Israel would be scattered 'from one end of the earth to the other' with no rest. Jesus repeated this prediction, specifying captivity 'into all…
Authors(5+)
- AuthorCosmas IndicopleustesCosmas was an Alexandrian merchant who spent his working life at sea. He sailed the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, traded along the coast of East Africa, and went inland into…
- AuthorCommodianCommodian wrote Christian poetry in Latin for people who were never going to read a theologian. Two works survive. The *Instructions* is a set of eighty short poems, each one…
- AuthorPrudentiusAurelius Prudentius Clemens was born in 348 in Roman Spain, probably at Calahorra or Saragossa. He tells his own story in a short preface written when he was fifty-seven, and…
- AuthorTheophilus of AlexandriaTheophilus was patriarch of Alexandria from 385 to 412. He was a formidable administrator, a capable writer, and by common consent one of the least attractive figures in the…
- AuthorOecumeniusOecumenius wrote the earliest Greek commentary on the book of Revelation that has come down to us. He wrote it in the first half of the sixth century, most likely in the 530s…
Apocrypha (study resources)(5+)
- Study resource2 Esdras 11:41For the earth hast thou not judged with truth.
- Study resourceSirach 17:1The Lord created man of the earth, and turned him into it again.
- Study resource2 Esdras 15:6For wickedness hath exceedingly polluted the whole earth, and their hurtful works are fulfilled.
- Study resourceSirach 16:29After this the Lord looked upon the earth, and filled it with his blessings.
- Study resource2 Esdras 10:13But the earth not so: for the multitude present in it according to the course of the earth is gone, as it came:
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