Topic: Customs in Bible times

Question

How did shepherds use honey and a limestone rock to help sick sheep?

Answer

I think of David of old. Hallelujah! Yes, sir. When he said there is…Where he talked about…He said, “Taste and see the Lord is good. It tastes like honey in the rock.” A little old description I used to use, thinking about an old scrip they used to carry on their side here, a little sack that they p...

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How was a covenant or agreement made in the Old Testament?

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But in the Old Testament, the way they made a agreement, they took a animal, and killed it and split it open, stood between the dead pieces; like God did with the little white Light, confirming the covenant with Abraham, that He would save him and his seed. And he stood there, and they wrote a contr...

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What did shepherds do with honey and a limestone rock when one of their sheep got sick?

Answer

Taste like honey in the rock. You think that’s silly, but that’s the God’s truth out of His Bible. That’s right. Tastes like honey in the rock. David being a shepherd, he had a experience. You know, the old shepherd’s they used to carry a scrip bag on their side. And every time they’d carry it in th...

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What were swaddling clothes made from?

Answer

And she’s holding this baby. I can imagine seeing He’s wrapped in swaddling cloth, the King of Glory, wrapped in swaddling cloth. They tell me that’s what they take off the back of a yoke of an ox. When it’s—keep it from rubbing its shoulders, they take this cloth off. And there’s nothing to put on...

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What were the swaddling clothes the baby Jesus was wrapped in?

Answer

Let’s look along the line. But way down there I see a little girl standing, about eighteen, nineteen years old with a veil over her face, holding two turtledoves: a peasant’s offering, poor man. And she’s got a baby in her arm. And some of them says, “Say, that’s that Mary; that—that’s that illegiti...

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What is the adoption of a son, and how is it different from being born one?

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A son was born in Israel, and then after eight days he was circumcised and become an Israelite; but he was borned of the father. And then, if that child was given a tutor, Galatians teaches us, then after he was raised up to a certain age, and he become very faithful to the father’s work and everyth...

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What was the old custom of tearing a contract in two over a slain beast?

Answer

In the old days, when a contract was made, you know what they did? Notice. God just telling me to say this, I don’t know. A person would go and write a—a contract on a piece of paper. They’d write the contract. And then on the contract, they’d write what it was they was going to do, then they’d tear...

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How does the old custom of tearing a covenant in two apply to God's covenant with the Church?

Answer

Them days, when they made a covenant, they would take a lamb or a beast. They’d write a covenant out, two men between them. They would write it out what it was. And then they would kill a beast. And over this beast, they would tear this thing in two. One man would take one part and one the other. An...