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Thought for Today: Monday June 24

Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff. To reflect on your blessings is to rehearse YHVH's accomplishments. To rehearse YHVH's accomplishments is to discover His heart. To discover His heart is to discover not just good gifts but the Good Giver.

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"We keep his commandments"

1J 3

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I owe Yah, Creator of everything that is, gratitude & servitude for the abundance of blessings and mercies He gives. Thank you Yah, for showing me the Way!

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My kids strongly dislike it when I compare our lives with those less fortunate as they see it as unfair. "We don't live in..." or "We aren't ..." is the general response.

I don't know if other parents have the same experience or whether I had the same mentality 30 years ago towards my parents.

BUT sometimes we have to compare our lives with others just to truly appreciate the blessings we do have as there is always someone else worse off. That then makes me so much more appreciative for what Father has blessed me with.

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A New Religion - First Century Christianity

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A New Religion - First Century Christianity

A New Religion: I don't think the present paradigm that is replacing historical religion with a new one is anything to be proud of.

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https://firstcenturychristiani....ty.net/a-new-religio

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A New Religion - First Century Christianity

A New Religion: I don't think the present paradigm that is replacing historical religion with a new one is anything to be proud of.

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https://docs.google.com/docume....nt/d/1fes9R_ThkzxM19

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I read about him in Isaiah 65:11 (actually, all of Isa. 65), and in several college history and anthropology courses. An old middle eastern deity of Fortune, reborn in ancient Europe and syncretized by the Catholic church into their first book, called the bible. Bad dude. The Most-High hates him and calls him "Smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all the day."
As for me and my house, we serve YHWH, Maker of heavens and earth.

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And it was told to the king of Jericho, “Behold, men of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land.”
Joshua 2:2

Did the Canaanites send spies into the Israelite camp in the wilderness? Did Rahab have spies in her own house? How else did the king of Jericho find out about Joshua's two spies in Joshua 2:2?

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My thinking has been...

Might their clothing have looked different with tassels on all their borders making them stand out? (I have seen some old carvings where people say it is of Israelites as their clothing had fringes all around the borders.) Hearing of what Father did for them in the wilderness and then seeing these strangers on their border and some in their land might have automatically been a "1+1 = spies" scenario.

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We don't know the names of the spies Joshua sent into Jericho. There have been countless men and women of God--teachers, prophets, rulers, soldiers, and farmers--whose names are forgotten by men. But God knows every single one of them. He will never forget.

The two spies in Joshua 2 were hand-picked by Joshua and sent in secret. The 12 spies sent by Moses were sent at the urging of the people. Autocrat vs democratic. But in both cases, only two spies were righteous. The will of the masses is usually wrong.

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You are right - "the will of the masses is usually wrong."
Pure "Democracy" is known casually by political scientists as "Mob-Rule," and is actually a dangerous and ineffective form of government. It allows for a single person or small group of people to temporarily or deceitfully sway the masses of the uninformed majority in their votes. Few countries use it, and none for very long. The USA never has, as we are not a democracy but a republic, governed by representatives with an election process by an Electoral Congress.
Neither Moshe or Yehoshua ben Nun were "autocrats" but theocrats, with their leadership tempered by the kohanim (priesthood) and judges of Yisrael in a quasi-representative government under the final and absolute authority of YHWH, Maker of heavens and earth.

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For an example of Procedural and Substantive Democracy, see the following:

https://www.facebook.com/downl....oad/1140614747200594

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I hope you all enjoyed the day of pentecost last week. My wife and I were at Jacob's Tent. It was good to see my friend Joseph Riverwind there.

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