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holiness, and the end everlasting life. *For the wages of sin [rejecting Jesus] is death; but **the gift of God is
eternal life [Hebrews 13:20-21] through Jesus Christ our Lord."
Preview: The Vagabond Priesthood - Sons of Sceva - a Bible Study by
David Anson Brown
Acts 19:11-20 And God wrought special miracles by the hands of [the Apostle] Paul: So that from his body were
brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of
them. *Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the
name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you [evil spirit] by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. And there were seven
sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the [vagabond] priests {not Levitical priests}, which did so [exorcisms]. And
the evil spirit answered and said, *Jesus I know, and Paul [a servant] I know; **but who are ye [vagabond]? And
the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they
fled out of that house naked and wounded. And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at
Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the Name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. And many that believed came,
and [publically] confessed, and shewed their deeds [Christian characteristics]. Many of them also which used
curious arts [witchcraft] brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of
them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. So mightily grew the Word of God and prevailed. -- Wiki.com
Vagabond: A vagabond or "drifter" is an itinerant person. Such people may be called drifters, tramps, rogues, or
hobos. A vagabond is characterized by almost continuous traveling, lacking a fixed home, temporary abode, or
permanent residence. Vagabonds are not bums, as bums are not known for traveling, preferring to stay in one
location. Historically, "vagabond" was a British legal term similar to vagrant, deriving from the Latin for
'purposeless wandering'. Following the Peasants' Revolt, British constables were authorized under a 1383 statute to
collar vagabonds and force them to show their means of support; if they could not, they were jailed. By the 19th
century the vagabond was associated more closely with Bohemianism. The critic Arthur Compton-Rickett compiled
a review of the type, in which he defined it as men "with a vagrant strain in the blood, a natural inquisitiveness
about the world beyond their doors." Examples included Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Leo Tolstoy,
William Hazlitt, and Thomas de Quincey.
Preview: The Biblical triune (3 in 1) nature [testimony, salvation,
judgment] of the water, blood and Spirit (also represented in breath,
wind, fire) that are each freely offered and given from God to all of
mankind globally as a witness of sin (and eventually as a judgment
against sin), a testimony of the once physical presence of Jesus Christ
and as an eternal remedy for our own individual Salvation
Where the Apostle Peter's significant life changing event during his time with Jesus seemed to be at the Mount of
Transfiguration (Mark 9:1-8, 2 Peter 1:16-18) the Apostle John's significant life changing event with Jesus seems to
have been at the cross (John 19:34-35, 1 John 5:7-9) when Jesus was pierced by the Roman spear and the blood and
water poured out from the wound in Jesus' side. The Apostle John then regards the presence of the Spirit and the
separation of the blood and water coming out from Jesus as a witness, a judgment, and a testimony of salvation for
all of mankind. When the Basic Christian blog History study returns in about a week we will Biblically look into the
blood, water and fire (spirit), testimonies and judgments of the Bible from throughout the Old Testament starting in
Genesis and continuing consistently throughout the entire Bible then concluding in book of Revelation [the sin of
Adam and Eve and the shedding of blood, the flood of Noah, the Aaronic Priesthood, the Last Supper Communion,
the atoning cross of Jesus Christ, the Resurrection of Jesus and birth (Alpha) of the Christian Church, the Pentecost
global Spirit empowerment and witness, the calling home into heaven by Jesus the rapture (Omega) of the Christian
Church, Revelation-Tribulation]. -- "John 19:34-35 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced His [Jesus'] side,
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