Old Testament

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Answer:

The physical House of Israel - all 12 tribes in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, God opened up His Holy Spirit to all who would obey Him by following His Son, Jesus Christ and become a member of God's Church. They are called Spiritual Israelites or true Christians and are of all races. So today, it is God's Church which is central, yet the physical descendants of Israel all, still exist and God does not forget their special relationship with Him even if they did.

I believe that Adam and Eve were created in the perfect image of God. Since everything that was created was perfect. Once sin had entered the universe everything in it was affected by it. God told Adam and Eve that they would die. They had no idea what death was. They obviously did not die right there on the spot, but even the cells in there bodies had started to deplete and deteriorate the moment they disobeyed God. I believe that the five senses of man, sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste were at one time one hundred percent, and now have deteriorated quite a bit since the beginning. Our minds capabilities were being used at 100 percent of its capacities. At the present scientists say we probably use only 2 percent. Our bodies were perfect and were designed never to die. One day they will be made new again, and being a child of God , I certainly cannot wait for that moment.

Another Answer:

Unlike the idea of our evolving over vast amounts of time, the Scripture clearly shows man created fully grown in God's image unlike the animal or plant kinds, with a complete language, the ability to think and chose for themselves, and dominance over everything on the Earth:

26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all[a] the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

29 And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. 30 Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food"; and it was so. 31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Here Abraham was willing to sacrifice his only son Isaac , and not Isaiah.

The offering of Isaac was a foreshadowing of the death of Jesus. A Father offering His only Son. This took place on Mount Moriah, the very same place where 2000 years later God's own Son was offered. Thus it was a foreshadowing, here at the birth of the Hebrew nation, of the grand event the nation was born to bring about.

Benjamin was Jacob's youngest son. (See Genesis 29:31-30:24, 35:16-18). Only Benjamin was born in the land of Canaan.

The order of their Jacob's sons from oldest to youngest is the following:

1. Reuben
2. Simeon
3. Levi
4. Judah
5. Dan
6. Naphtali
7. Gad
8. Asher
9. Issachar
10. Zebulun
11. Joseph
12. Benjamin

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The book of Proverbs was written in several layers, with the first layer being a story of Lady Wisdom, a spirit or goddess who was with God at the creation. Later layers added the introduction that attributed the book to Solomon (verse 1:1), as well as material about philosophical wisdom, that has tended to obscure the older verses about (Lady) Wisdom. By the last century BCE, some parts of Judaism were becoming uncomfortable with Wisdom, and she ceased to be part of the Judaic belief system by the end of the first century CE. However, the Book of Proverbs was too important to omit from the Hebrew canon. English translations also sometimes show 'wisdom' in lower case, where the original meaning suggests the person of Wisdom.

We are told to know Wisdom and perceive her words of understanding, then we see Wisdom taking to us. At first, these words could indeed be attributed to Solomon, but then Proverbs 1:20 makes it clear who the speaker really was(KJV): "Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets ..."

For those Christians who believe in the trinity concept of the God beings, the Word became flesh and was called the Son of God, Jesus the Christ. He was always with God and all things are made through Him:

The Eternal Word

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend[a] it.

Ageless or Eternal. Paul makes an analogy to Melchizedek being Jesus as the King of Righteousness - and there is only one:

The King of Righteousness

1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2 to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated "king of righteousness," and then also king of Salem, meaning "king of peace," 3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.

The exact location of the Ark of the Covenant is unknown. In Ezra 1:54, it states that the Babylonians took the ark of God and carried it into Babylon.

Answer:

There is no such verse as "Ezra 1:54."

No one knows for sure where the Ark is now. Even 1800 years ago, the Talmud-sages discussed this question (Yoma 53b). The Talmud (ibid.) states two opinions in this matter. According to one opinion, the Ark of the Covenant was carried off by the Babylonians when they destroyed the First Temple.
According to the second opinion, around 35 years before the First Destruction, King Josiah (Yoshiah) hid the Ark in a secret chamber constructed for this purpose, since it was already apparent that the Temple wouldn't last much longer. The Prophets had been foretelling the destruction of the Temple for some time.
Tradition states that when he built the Temple, King Solomon prepared a hidden shaft and room deep underneath the Temple Mount for just such an eventuality (Maimonides, in the Hilchot Beit HaBechirah 4:1).
The second opinion is the accepted one (Maimonides, ibid, 4:1-2). However, it is possible to account for both opinions, since all of the Temple vessels had duplicates which were made in order to be used if the original vessel got lost or defiled (Talmud, Hagigah 26b). We may postulate that the Babylonians carried into captivity an empty duplicate Ark which had been placed in the Holy of Holies after King Josiah concealed the original.