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I set out to destroy Joseph because the Prince of Deceit blinded me with #jealousy. -Simeon #twelvepatriarchs
Proverbs 25:21-22 has something to say about envy and the desire for vengeance.
Hi All
When do you celebrate the New Moon, and thus Rosh Hashana?
Just wondering why the Sabbath of Rosh Hashana is celebrated the day before the new moon? If the New Moon is on September 16th at 7 PM Israel time, should not this mark the beginning of the Sabbath, as days start at night in scripture? (Gen 1:5, 8, 13, etc)
If the New Moon is only after the day then the sighting of it would not tell us when it starts but that it is over.
Also, do they blow the silver trumpets in Israel, as commanded in Numbers 10:10?
Have a great noisy Feast of Shouting!!!
I was very strong and feared nothing. My heart was hard, liver immovable, bowels without compassion. -Simeon #twelvepatriarchs
Compare Simeon's attitude to Judah's later in his life: "Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers." Genesis 44:33 ESV
In the last comic, I spoke about how the Bible explains how we are to love God and love others. There is a ditch we shouldn't fall into with that though: doing things in a checklist, or out of obligation.
Paul speaks a lot about this in his letters. Any time he is speaking about "the letter of the law", this is what he is referencing. God doesn't want us to do His commands as a "get out of hell free card", or "because we HAVE to, to be on His good side". He wants us to do them because we WANT to do them. We WANT to be closer to Him. He wants our hearts.
If we are just doing things out of obligation, there is no heart in it. It has no meaning. Think about you and your parents. Maybe one of the things they asked you to do was to take out the trash. Did you keep an eye on the trash to make sure that it was always taken out when it needed to be? You never complained if you missed an opportunity and if told it needed to be taken out, were quick to do it?
Or did you complain about how you hate having to take out the trash? You always waited until someone told you it needed to be taken out? And when you did take it out, you always had a bad attitude about it?
In both of these instances, you took the trash out, but which is loving? The same applies to God.
If you haven't before, read Isaiah 58. It is God talking about His people and how they think they are doing the things God wants them to do, but their heart isn't in it.
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