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What Happened To The Tower of Babel?

The Tower of Babel is one of those Bible stories most Christians know by heart. The Bible states that the Tower of Babel had the potential to have its top reach into Heaven. God then came down to stop man from completing their goals with this tower. If this city and tower were real, what happened to them? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture to answer these questions and more in her video, What Happened To The Tower of Babel?

Genesis 11:1-9
Genesis 1:6-8, 14-18
Ecclesiastes 1:9
Revelation 6:14
Revelation 16:20
Genesis 10:25

What Happened To The Tower of Babel?

The Tower of Babel

¹ Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. ²And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. ³And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. ⁴Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” ⁵And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. ⁶And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. ⁷Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” ⁸So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. ⁹Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

Genesis 11:1-9

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Teleportation Devices In The Bible

Throughout Scripture, we see accounts of teleportation from Enoch being taken by God to Philip being taken from one city to another by the Holy Spirit. This now begs the question, are there teleportation devices recorded in the Scriptures, and if there are, what did they open? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture for evidence in her video, Teleportation Devices In The Bible.

Acts 8:38-40
Genesis 5:24
2 Kings 2:11-12
Revelation 11:12
Acts 1:9-11
Revelation 6:12-17
1 Thessalonians 4:17
Genesis 11:4-7
Deuteronomy 1:28
Psalms 78:23-24
Genesis 7:11
Genesis 28:17

Teleportation in the Bible

Teleportation Devices in the Bible

¹ Now when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. ²And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel. ³And the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that today the Lord will take away your master from over you?” And he said, “Yes, I know it; keep quiet.”

⁴Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho.” But he said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho. ⁵The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho drew near to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that today the Lord will take away your master from over you?” And he answered, “Yes, I know it; keep quiet.”

⁶Then Elijah said to him, “Please stay here, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.” But he said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on. ⁷Fifty men of the sons of the prophets also went and stood at some distance from them, as they both were standing by the Jordan. ⁸Then Elijah took his cloak and rolled it up and struck the water, and the water was parted to the one side and to the other, till the two of them could go over on dry ground.

⁹When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.” And Elisha said, “Please let there be a double portion of your spirit on me.” ¹⁰And he said, “You have asked a hard thing; yet, if you see me as I am being taken from you, it shall be so for you, but if you do not see me, it shall not be so.” ¹¹And as they still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. ¹²And Elisha saw it and he cried, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” And he saw him no more.

2 Kings 2:1-12

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Five Biblical Statements That Claim Jesus Is God

The belief that God is made up of three separate persons (The Trinity Doctrine) with one mind, heart, and desire is the foundation of Christianity. This belief that Jesus is God is the very reason He was crucified and His followers attacked and persecuted. 2,000 years later, the divinity of the LORD Jesus Christ is still being questioned, debated, and discussed not just in the world but the Church. How can we say that Jesus saves us and call on His name for salvation, yet claim He was not God incarnate? This one statement alone is blasphemy if the divinity of Christ is from the Spirit of Error. Join ArieRashelle as she guides us through Scripture, pointing out multiple statements claiming the divinity of Jesus Christ in her video, Five Biblical Statements That Claim Jesus Is God.

Genesis 1:1
Isaiah 44:24-25
Genesis 1:1
Exodus 20:3
Deuteronomy 10:17
Psalms 82:1
Genesis 1:26-27
Colossians 1:15-20
Hebrews 6:19-20
Hebrews 1:1-4
1 John 2:22
John 1:29
Acts 8:32-35
Revelation 17:14
John 1
Revelation 19:13-16
Psalms 136:1-3
Matthew 22:37
Deuteronomy 6:5
Matthew 22:44
Psalms 110:1
1 Samuel 8:7
Isaiah 44:6
Isaiah 48:12
Revelation 1:8
Revelation 21:5-7
Revelation 22:12-13
John 10:11-18
Psalms 23:1
Zechariah 11:17
Jeremiah 23:1
Matthew 22:41-46
2 Corinthians 3:12-18
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
Matthew 1:23
Philippians 2:5-11
Matthew 1:1-17
Psalms 89:35-37
Acts 2:29-31
Revelation 5:5
Revelation 22:16
Philippians 2:10-11
Isaiah 45:23

Five Biblical Statements That Claim Jesus Is God

The Trinity Doctrine In The Bible

¹⁹Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.

Matthew 28:19-20

⁶And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

Galatians 4:6

²²At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, ²³and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon. ²⁴So the Jews gathered around Him and said to Him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” ²⁵Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name bear witness about me, ²⁶but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep. ²⁷My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. ³⁰I and the Father are one.” ³¹The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. ³²Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” ³³The Jews answered Him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.” ³⁴Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? ³⁵If He called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken— ³⁶do you say of Him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? ³⁷If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; ³⁸but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” ³⁹Again they sought to arrest Him, but He escaped from their hands.

John 10:22-39

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Why Memorial Day Should Be Important For Christians

Only one day a year is dedicated to remembering our fallen soldiers that gave their lives for our freedom. Many of us don’t even realize or truly grasp what we get this one day a year off for. Others of us aren’t 100% positive we, the Church (Christians/Disciples of Christ), should be honoring and commemorating this day at all. So, where does that leave us? Join ArieRashelle as she opens our eyes to the importance of this day, especially for Christians, in her video Why Memorial Day Should Be Important For Christians.

John 15:13

Why Memorial Day Should Be Important For Christians

The Greatest Act of Love

¹⁰If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in His love. ¹¹These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. ¹²This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ¹³Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴You are my friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, He may give it to you. ¹⁷These things I command you, so that you will love one another.

John 15:10-17

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The Armor of God Pt. 4: What is Supplication?

Paul tells us to wield the Sword of the Spirit with all prayer and supplication, but what’s the difference? Does it matter if we know the difference between prayer and supplication? If prayer is asking or petitioning God, then is supplication asking God on behalf of other people? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture in order to fully understand the difference between prayer and supplication in her video, The Armor of God Pt. 4: What is Supplication?

Ephesians 6:17-20
Luke 22:39-44
Daniel 9
Numbers 23:19
Psalms 62:2
Psalms 94:22
Exodus 32:9-14
Genesis 6:6-8
1 Chronicles 21:13-17
Matthew 26:50-54
Genesis 41:32
Revelation 3:10
Revelation 3:15-16
James 4:4-8
James 5:16 (KJV)
Proverbs 27:17
Ecclesiastes 4:12
Matthew 17:1
Matthew 26:37
Matthew 6:12
1 Peter 2:24
John 14:27
Matthew 6:11
Matthew 6:25-34
James 1:5
Isaiah 40:29-31

The Armor of God

What is Supplication?

¹⁰Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. ¹¹Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. ¹²For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
¹³Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. ¹⁴Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. ¹⁶In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; ¹⁷and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, ¹⁸praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, ¹⁹and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, ²⁰for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.

Ephesians 6:10-20

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The Armor of God Pt. 3: What is Prayer?

Prayer is a basic foundation in Christianity. We pray in order to commune with God and get to know Him better, but what if there is more to prayer? Many of us are confused on how to pray, and so we avoid it as much as possible, especially around other people. Why? What’s so special about prayer that makes us nervous or makes us want to avoid it altogether? What does it mean to pray? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture in order to find the answer to our question and more in her video, The Armor of God Pt. 3: What is Prayer?

Ephesians 6:17-20
Matthew 21:12-17
John 2:13-22
Hebrews 11:37-38
Revelation 6:12-17
John 10:1-21
Jeremiah 7:8-15
John 1:1-18
Revelation 19:10
James 4:1-8
Matthew 6:25-34
James 1:2-8
Matthew 7:24-27
Luke 6:46-49
Matthew 7:7-11
James 4:4-9
John 15:13-16
Psalms 37:3-5
Romans 12:2
2 Corinthians 3:18
Ezekiel 11:19-20
Ezekiel 36:26
1 Corinthians 3:17

The Armor of God

What is Prayer?

Ephesians 6:10-20

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What is the Role of a Mother?

In today’s society, we’ve tried to blur the roles of a mother and a father. In fact, we’ve gotten to the point where we’ve begun demeaning the role of a mother. But why? Is this what God had in mind when He created Eve, the mother of all living? What exactly does God expect of mothers? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture to understand the purpose of mothers in her video, What is the Role of a Mother?

1 Corinthians 11:3
Ephesians 5:23
Proverbs 31:16
2 Kings 4:8-17
2 Kings 4:18-21
Proverbs 31:15
Isaiah 66:13
2 Kings 4:22-37
1 Peter 5:7
Matthew 15:21-28
James 2:14-20
Proverbs 22:6
Proverbs 1:8
Proverbs 6:20
Proverbs 6:23
Revelation 21:23
Proverbs 31:1
Proverbs 31:26
Ruth 2:17-23
Ruth 3:1-4
Ruth 1:20
Ruth 4:13-17
Matthew 1:1-17
Proverbs 1:7
Proverbs 8:13
2 Timothy 1:5
1 Corinthians 7:13-14
Galatians 3:28
Acts 16:1

The Role of a Mother

What Does The Bible Say About Mothers?

The Teacher

²⁰My son, keep your father’s commandment,
and forsake not your mother’s teaching.

Proverbs 6:20

The Caretaker

¹⁸When the child had grown, he went out one day to his father among the reapers. ¹⁹And he said to his father, “Oh, my head, my head!” The father said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.” ²⁰And when he had lifted him and brought him to his mother, the child sat on her lap till noon, and then he died. ²¹And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God and shut the door behind him and went out. ²²Then she called to her husband and said, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may quickly go to the man of God and come back again.”

2 Kings 4:18-22

The Intercessor

²⁵So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her coming, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Look, there is the Shunammite. ²⁶Run at once to meet her and say to her, ‘Is all well with you? Is all well with your husband? Is all well with the child?’” And she answered, “All is well.” ²⁷And when she came to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came to push her away. But the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for she is in bitter distress, and the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me.”

2 Kings 4:25-27

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The Nephilim Pt. 2: The Book of Enoch

The Nephilim is one of the most debated topics in the Church as well as outside the Church in the secular world. This topic is often accompanied by the Book of Enoch. More times than not, the Book of Enoch is used to explain the origin of the Nephilim, but is the Book of Enoch trustworthy? Does the Book of Enoch contradict the Bible, or was the Book of Enoch taken out of the Bible? Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he searches through Scripture to find answers to these questions and more in his video, The Nephilim Pt. 2: The Book of Enoch.

Genesis 5:21-24
1 Timothy 2:5-6
Ezekiel 14:12-14
Genesis 7:6-7
1 Peter 3:20
Genesis 7:21-22
Romans 3:4
Numbers 13:25-33
Deuteronomy 1:27-29
Jeremiah 1:12
Genesis 6:4
Genesis 10:8-9
Genesis 11:1-4
Joshua 15:14

The Nephilim

The Biblical Account of the Nephilim

¹ When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, ²the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. ³Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” ⁴The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.

Genesis 6:1-4

The Biblical account of the Nephilim is a much different picture than that of the pseudepigraphical Book of Enoch. The Biblical account of the Nephilim is that of fear and terror, whereas the Book of Enoch describes them as great, mighty men, men of renown.

³⁰But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” ³¹Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.” ³²So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height. ³³And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

Numbers 13:30-33

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Who Is Abaddon? Pt. 3: The Nebuchadnezzar Connection

So far, we’ve come to the conclusion that Abaddon and Lucifer are the same being due to the overwhelming amount of Biblical evidence. We also discussed how Abaddon is the king of Babylon, so shouldn’t he be connected to Nebuchadnezzar in some way? And if he is connected, how are the physical king of Babylon and the physical king of Babylon connected? And are there any correlations between Abaddon and Nebuchadnezzar other than Babylon itself? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture to connect the most infamous king of Babylon and the angel of the Bottomless Pit in her video, Who Is Abaddon? Pt. 3: The Nebuchadnezzar Connection.

Revelation 9:11-12
Hebrews 1:14
Revelation 11:1-14
Revelation 17:1-18
Isaiah 14:12-15
Revelation 9:1-12
Isaiah 14:3-4
Genesis 1:31
Revelation 17:9-11
2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
Proverbs 30:5-6
Jeremiah 27:6
Jeremiah 25:9
Jeremiah 43:10
Daniel 4:10-27
Revelation 9:5
Revelation 17:9-11
Daniel 7:23-26
Matthew 24:15-22
Daniel 11:20-45
Daniel 12:11
Daniel 4:28-33
Exodus 12:12
1 Samuel 5:1-12
Daniel 4:34-37
Revelation 17:12-14
Daniel 7:23-27
Revelation 6:12-17
Revelation 16:12-16
Revelation 13
Revelation 19:20
Revelation 12:9
Revelation 11:1-14
Daniel 7:11-12

Who Is Abaddon?

The Nebuchadnezzar Connection

¹And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. ²He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. ³Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. ⁴They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
⁵They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. ⁶And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them. ⁷In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces, ⁸their hair like women’s hair, and their teeth like lions’ teeth; ⁹they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle. ¹⁰They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails. ¹¹They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.
¹²The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.

Revelation 9:1-12

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Why Did Mary Wipe Jesus’ Feet With Her Hair?

Before the Last Supper or the Crucifixion of Jesus, Mary anointed Jesus at Bethany. When she did this, she did something strange; she wiped Jesus’ feet with her hair. This seems like such an odd action, which obviously begs the question of why. Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture to understand the purpose of Mary’s actions in her video, Why Did Mary Wipe Jesus’ Feet With Her Hair?

John 12:1-8
John 11:1-7
John 11:17-27
Luke 10:38-42
John 11:28-37
Mark 5:35-43
John 11:38-44
James 1:5-8
John 12:1-3
1 Corinthians 11:14-15
Luke 7:36-50
Ruth 3:1-5
Ruth 4:1-10
Exodus 4:24-26

Jesus Anointed At Bethany

Why Did Mary Wipe Jesus’ Feet With Her Hair?

¹ Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. ²So they gave a dinner for Him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with Him at table. ³Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. ⁴But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples (he who was about to betray Him), said, ⁵“Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” ⁶He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it. ⁷Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial. ⁸For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”

John 12:1-7

Mary wiped the feet of Jesus with her hair. Why? Could it have been an act of repentance?

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