1 Samuel 15;22, “But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.” Had the mixed multitude been obedient there would have been no need for the sacrificial system.

I got this message from a brother in India. Keep him and others on the field, in your prayers.
Shalom
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/u....rn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:48b

Does anyone have any good studies on the asking for signs? We see Gideon do this, however we also see it portrayed negatively in John.

Thought for Today: Thursday November 17:

May you walk in Moshiach’s Authority, rest in His care and live under His divine protection today. May you pray with passion, speak with precision, and listen with discernment. May you have the grit and grace to go after everything YHVH has Promised you. You have all you need to live a joy-jumping day today!

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Genesis 25:6 indicates Abraham fathered children with at least two concubines, Hagar and Keturah. In the ancient Hebrew cultural context, a concubine was a wife with all the legal protections and obligations that implies, but she was also a purchased slave with all of the protections and obligations implied by that status. It was a lesser position than a free wife, but how good or bad life might be depended almost entirely on the culture and family. Just like everything else.

Finally got back to the Coop this weekend. Made some rear access doors. I have been going through the footage and it looks like some is missing. So I am thinking I will simply upload in episodes rather than as a complete start to finish (since it still isnt finished, wasnt expecting it to take this long lol.)

I don't think Keturah was the same person as Hagar. If Keturah was just another name for Hagar, then she was having children at over sixty years of age. It's more likely that they were two different women.

Abraham was 140 years old when Sarah died, and his marriage to Keturah appears to have happened after that. If so, then there was probably more than one hundred years age difference between them. There was a lesser age difference between Jacob and his two wives, Rachel and Leah, but still more than 40 years.

Those men lived much longer than we do, but that was still a pretty big gap. There's nothing morally wrong with a man marrying a much younger woman, depending on his health and how long he expects to live after the marriage. Any qualms we have are in our own minds and cultural prejudices.