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This divine judgment is to take place, according to the Biblical view, on earth, and is intended to be particularly a vindication of Israel. [13] This Day of Judgment ("Day of the Lord") is portrayed vividly in the Book of Jubilees and particularly in Enoch. The leading idea in Enoch is that the Deluge was the first world-judgment, and that the ...
The divine right of kings, or divine-right theory of kingship, is a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy. It asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving his right to rule directly from the will of God. The king is thus not subject to the will of his people, the aristocracy, or any other ...
Tziduk Hadin. Tziduk Hadin (Hebrew: צידוק הדין, "Justification of [Divine] Judgement") is a prayer recited at a Jewish funeral, immediately after the grave has been filled. The prayer affirms that the Divine Judgment is righteous and perfect. It is followed by Psalm 49.
W. E. Vine noted regarding the "fire" of this passage: "of the fire of Divine judgment upon the rejectors of Christ, Matt. 3:11 (where a distinction is to be made between the baptism of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and the fire of Divine retribution)". [4] Arndt and Gingrich speak of the "fire of divine Judgment Mt. 3:11; Lk. 3:16". [5]
This reference from the Bible forms the foundation for the doctrine known as the divine right of kings, or, in the German case, the divine right of the princes. Second, the violent actions of rebelling, robbing, and plundering placed the peasants "outside the law of God and Empire", so they deserved "death in body and soul, if only as ...
Jiaobei. Moon blocks or jiaobei (also written as jiao bei etc. variants; Chinese: 筊杯 or 珓杯; pinyin: jiǎo bēi; Jyutping: gaau2 bui1), also poe (from Chinese: 桮; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: poe; as used in the term " poe divination "), are wooden divination tools originating from China, which are used in pairs and thrown to seek divine guidance in ...
t. e. The Messiah in Judaism (Hebrew: מָשִׁיחַ, romanized: māšīaḥ) is a savior and liberator figure in Jewish eschatology who is believed to be the future redeemer of the Jews. The concept of messianism originated in Judaism, [1][2] and in the Hebrew Bible a messiah is a king or High Priest of Israel traditionally anointed with ...
Jeremiah [a] (c. 650 – c. 570 BC), [3] also called Jeremias [4] or the "weeping prophet", [5] was one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible.According to Jewish tradition, Jeremiah authored the book that bears his name, the Books of Kings and the Book of Lamentations, [6] with the assistance and under the editorship of Baruch ben Neriah, his scribe and disciple.