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This coming week, 9-15 November 2025 (18-24 Cheshvan 5786), the Bible reading plan covers Chayei Sarah (Life of Sarah).
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Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of YHWH that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?”
2 Kings 20:19

Contrast Hezekiah's selfish words with those of the atheist Thomas Paine: "I prefer peace, but if trouble must come, let it be in my time so that my children can live in peace." No man is perfectly wise nor perfectly foolish.

Also realize that an offensive, merciless war today is often better than many years of drawn out conflict and brutality later.

Isaiah said, “Bring a cake of figs. And let them take and lay it on the boil, that he may recover.”
2 Kings 20:7

Why figs? It looks like medical intervention and Isaiah even attributes the healing to the figs. Isaiah's prophecies were sometimes of a very practical nature, and God often responds to our foolishness by ensuring that we suffer the natural consequences without divine rescue.

Figs are symbolic of fruitfulness, which Hezekiah had not been. He did not have an heir yet, which threatened the entire lineage of David because the previous generation had been wiped out by wicked people.

The flowers are on the inside of the fruit. Tiny fig wasps enter the fruit to lay eggs and often die inside the fruit. Their bodies are dissolved by enzymes in the fruit, but this is a picture of how fruitfulness often requires conflict, uncleanness, and interaction with things that appear to be forbidden.

110725 / 15th day of the 8th month 5786
WORD FOR TODAY “are you ready”: Rom 14:12 So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God.

WISDOM FOR TODAY: Pro 20:20 He who curses his father or his mother, His lamp will go out in time of darkness.

Ask the LORD how you can serve HIM better

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