Category Archives: Bible Study

Shepherding, An Honorable Profession

Posted on February 10, 2025 | 2 comments

Jesus claimed to be the Good shepherd. Not only in the Bible but from Egyptian and Mesopotamian records we learn that the rulers are referred to as the shepherd of the people.

Shepherd with sheep in green pastures. Photo (C)FERRELL JENKINS 2008, Nazareth Village.

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Destruction of the Temple in A.D. 70

Posted on February 7, 2025 | 1 comment

The photo below shows stones that fell, or were pushed from, the temple platform when the Romans destroyed the temple and the city of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.

Evidence of Roman destruction of the Temple precinct in A.D. 70. Photo: ferrelljenkins.blog.
Photo by Ferrell Jenkins.

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Pomegranate Growing at Lachish

Posted on February 6, 2025 | Leave a comment

The Pomegranate was a popular fruit in Bible times. The ancient Israelites were promised “a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey” (Deuteronomy 8:8 ESV).

Our photo below shows the Pomegranate growing at Lachish in modern times.

Photo (c)FerrellJenkins2011

 

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Books Available at FC Bookstore

Posted on February 4, 2025 | Leave a comment

With former students and other acquaintances attending the Florida College Homecoming and Bible lectureship this week, I thought it would be wise to make a list of my available books that you will be able to purchase from the Florida College Bookstore. while you are on campus.

Ask one of the workers where the books are located when you visit the store.

  • Better Things (Workbook on Hebrews)
  • Studies in the Book of Revelation
  • Between the Testaments (Linking Old and New)
  • The Early Church
  • The Finger of God (A Study of the Holy Spirit)
  • The Middle East Conflict and the Bible
  • Biblical Authority
  • God’s Eternal Purpose (Workbook on Ephesians)
  • The Old Testament in the Book of Revelation (new edition in preparation. Follow FerrellJenkins.blog for the announcement and for photographs you may use in your preaching and teaching.

Many of these books make excellent class studies.

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Lilies of the Field

Posted on January 27, 2025 | 1 comment

Jesus used an illustration of little flowers like those shown in our photo below to teach Hs disciples that God cares for them. See Luke 11:27. Older English translations used the term lilies. Some scholars identify the Anemone as the flower Jesus had in mind. When one sees fields full of these in the spring it is hard to disagree.

Jesus referred to little flowers like these as the lilies of the field.
Little flowers like these bloom on the hillsides and fields in abundance in the spring in the Bible lands. Photo (c) Ferrell Jenkins

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The Site of Colossae

Posted on January 25, 2025 | Comments Off on The Site of Colossae

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Sunset at the Suez Canal

Posted on January 24, 2025 | Leave a comment

The photo below shows a beautiful sunset across the Suez Canal in
the vicinity of Lake Timsah.

Suez Canal at the area of Lake Timsa.
Photo copyright by Ferrell Jenkins. Our photos may be used freely in teaching and preaching. A credit line is always appreciated. Publishers should use the link available on the home page.

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Aerial View of Hazor

Posted on January 23, 2025 | Leave a comment

Over the years of leading tours and making personal study trips I have flown over many of the significant Biblical sites. The aerial view sometimes provides a perspective not available from the ground view.

Below is a view of the mound or tell (tel in Israel) of ancient Hazor.

Tel Hazor from the air, showing both lower and upper mound. Photo by Ferrell Jenkins.

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The Horns of Hattin

Posted on January 22, 2025 | Leave a comment

Apologies to those who received an Email of the post without the image. FJ

The photo below provides a view of the Horns of Hattin with a view NW from Highway 77 near Tiberias, Israel, and the Sea of Galilee .

The Horns of Hattin NE from Highway 77 near Tiberias.
The Horns of Hattin. Photo by Ferrell Jenkins.

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Jerusalem from the Tower of David

Posted on January 18, 2025 | Leave a comment

The photo below was made from the roof of the Tower of David at Jaffa (Joppa) Gate. It gives one a nice view of some of the highlights of the Old City of Jerusalem and, left to right, Mount Scopus, and the northern portion of the Mount of Olivet.

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