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Understanding Worship Flags in the Bible

hey there creative worshipers my name is Andrea York from Catch the Fire worship flags today's worship flag FAQ is from our series what are worship flags today we're tackling the question are flags in the Bible this video is brought to you by Catch the Fire worship flags elevate your praise to the next level and one that I took very very stand what worship flags are I was a Bible teacher I was teaching Bible studies I was writing Bible studies and I had never heard worship flags used in the Bible my spirit was just aroused when I started to use worship flags but I wanted to align my head my head knowledge and my heart and so if you're asking this question I think you're in the right spot today first we have to understand that the scripture is not written in English it was translated from the original language of Hebrew Aramaic and Greek and so while we don't actually you see the term worship flag used in the Bible we do have other English words so words like a standard where you raise up a standard or you or Banner the word Banner there's multiple Hebrew words that the Bible uses one word is a Nace n-e-s actually where we get a derivative of yahuwah nisi one of the names of God the Lord is my banner another one of the Hebrew words is a day gal or a daggle spelled d-e-g-e-l or d-a-g-a-l they're similar words with similar meanings and they are translated into our English Bible under the use of standard or a banner there's too many bible verses to recite Or List here in this video but we do have resources on our website that you are welcome to take a look at I do want to mention a few scriptures that do include worship flags first I'll give you my very favorite scripture relating to worship flags it comes from Jeremiah 50 verse 2 where the Lord instructed Jeremiah to say raise up a standard raise up a banner and declare to the Nations that Babylon has fallen what I love about the scripture is that the Lord was instructing the people of Israel to raise up a banner to declare something worse that flag was declaring something it also says in Isaiah 31 9 that at the site of the battle Center the enemy flee in Terror so even just coming forward with their flags flying high the enemy is fleeing and of course we know from Psalm A Song of Solomon 2 verse 4 that his Banner Over Me Is love that he actually has a flag that is waved over you as a sign of his affection for you and of course we also have a lot of mentions in the Book of Numbers chapters 2 and 10 specifically this is how the Israelites set up camp in Numbers chapter two they set up their Camp according to their standard according to their flag so it would be act very much like the way that we have national flags or even family flag that's how they would have their dress and know where they were going in Numbers chapter 10 it also stated how they were to go out to battle and it was according to their standard so our worship plagues in the Bible yes worship plagues are in the Bible we just have to understand what words are used we see the state standard or Banner these are most typical words that have been translated from the Hebrew into into our English language but as we understand a further depth of study in Hebrew that it's actually quite littered with worship flags in the Bible I hope that helps please like and follow for more answered FAQ from our what our worship flag series elevate your praise to the next level with worship flags good [Music]