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New from 119 Ministries! We continue our verse-by-verse study through 2 Peter. In this teaching, we cover 2 Peter 1:16:21. Hope it is a blessing to you!
I really like this group! Hope to see more pics of projects in progress or finished. Very inspiring. I usually only have time to pick up sewing in the winter. I made several skirts last year. I’m learning new techniques and trying to figure out my machine automatic button hole function is supposed to work. I’ve messed up so many times! Might go to the sewing shop and ask for help too.
There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek.
Romans 2:9-10
God assigns rewards and penalties based on your actual, real-life conformity to his standards of behavior. Some will be given in this life and some after the resurrection.
SERIES A -- YHVH’S PIONEERS -- LESSON 2
LIFE
THE BREATH OF LIFE
From Genesis 2:4-25:
For some time after Adonai Elohiym created the heavens and the earth there were no plants, because Adonai Elohiym had not yet sent rain to water the land or placed man upon it to cultivate it. There was no moisture, except for the mists which rose from the ground and spread across the land. Then from the dust of the ground Adonai fashioned a man’s body and breathed into it the breath of life. And man became a living person. Then Adonai planted a garden toward the east in a place called Eden, and in this garden, He placed the man He had created. There were many varieties of trees in the garden, all beautiful and filled with good fruit. In the middle of the garden were two unusual trees. One was the tree of life. The other, the tree that helps one knows good from evil. A river flowed out of Eden through the garden, watering the plants and trees. As it left the garden, the river divided into four branches. One branch was called Pishon, which flowed through the land of Havilah. This land was known for its fine gold, bdellium, and onyx stone. The second branch of the river, called Gihon, flowed around the land of Cush. The third, the Tigris, flowed east of Assyria. The fourth branch was named Euphrates. Adonai placed the man He had made in the Garden of Eden to care for it. [You may eat all you wish from any tree in the garden, except from the tree that helps you know good from evil,] Adonai said. [If you eat the fruit of that tree, you will certainly die.] Then Adonai said, [Man should not live in the garden alone. I will make someone to help him.] From the ground Adonai created the animals to roam the fields and the birds to fill the skies. He brought all these creatures before the man so that he could name them, for Adonai gave that responsibility to him. Thus, the man gave each animal and bird its name. But still the man Adam did not have a helper. Then Adonai caused a deep sleep to come upon the man. While he slept, Adonai removed one of his ribs and healed the opening from which it came. From the rib Adonai fashioned a woman and brought her to the man. [This is one of my bones and part of my flesh,] said the man. [She will be called woman, for she was taken from man.] This is why a man shall leave father and mother and become one flesh with his wife. And the man and woman were both naked, but they were not ashamed.
COMMENTARY
THE FERTILE CRESCENT
The other planets in our solar system are sterile and empty. Our earth is joyfully alive with plants, trees, fish, birds, animals, and people. Life too is a gift from YHVH. Living things, made to enjoy YHVH’s Creation, are a vital testimony to His great Love. Rugged mountains, far-reaching expanses of desert, and lonely wilderness consume thousands of miles of the Middle East. This is land which stubbornly resists settlement. Cities and villages, flocks and herds, and the people who care for them need water. Farmers and vineyard keepers need not only water, but fertile soil in which to plant their crops. The wilderness has little of either water or fertile soil. But in the midst of this vast stretch of lonely land there is a great crescent of water and fertile soil. On a map of the world, this crescent of rich land may seem small, but it stretches for about a thousand miles. Since this great arc of land was a fertile, crescent-shaped plot of land in the midst of the wilderness, it was often referred to as [the fertile crescent.] The soil of the fertile crescent was capable of producing food for growing populations, often clustered in or around earliest cities and their satellite villages. Wheat, barley and beans grew in abundance and cattle thrived on the plentiful pasture. Thus, it is not surprising that earliest civilizations spread along this fertile land, stretching from the Persian Gulf on the eastern side to the land of Canaan, later Israel, on the west. The crescent was watered by some of the great rivers of the Bible; the Tigris, Euphrates, Orontes, and the Jordan. In addition, there were numerous lesser-known rivers. These rivers not only provided water for fields and vineyards, pastures and gardens, but offered travel and communications as well. They connected the isolated cities of the Mesopotamian plain, and helped create one of the earliest great empires. Here the Sumerians, early empire builders, reached great heights of power and achievement. They built great cities and developed the earliest known system of writing. Abraham’s roots came from the Sumerians, for he grew up in their important city of Ur, near the south-eastern base of the fertile crescent. In his pilgrimage to Canaan, he moved along the fertile crescent and not straight west across the hostile desert. Sumerian culture was more advanced in early Bible history than the culture of Canaan and Syria to the west. It was not until many years later, when the Israelites conquered Canaan and settled the land, that the western side of the fertile crescent developed its resources and gained its place in world power.
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