The year's Torah cycle with relevant New Testament scripture is available in Excel now. This will let anybody carry this into other years a little easier.
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Hello brothers and sisters. Here is our bulletin for the coming Sabbath celebration on 2/22/2025: https://firstfruits.cc/blog/20....25/02/20/sabbath-bul
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And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
Romans 8:23 ESV
Those who don’t have the firstfruits of the Spirit also groan as a part of creation, but the closer we walk in the Spirit, the greater our awareness of the effect of the curse on ourselves and on all of creation. That awareness comes with grief over the state of the world and an ever increasing longing for resolution. See Ecclesiastes 1:18.
As a follow up to my earlier article on why the IRS has to go: https://www.dailysignal.com/20....24/03/12/financial-c
For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
Romans 8:22 ESV
The Bible often treats Creation as if it is a living, willful thing. In Deuteronomy 4:26, Moses called on heaven and earth to witness against Israel if they betray God’s covenant. In Mark 16:15, Yeshua told his disciples to preach the gospel to the whole creation, not just to Israel or the nations. In Luke 19:40, he told the Pharisees that even the rocks would cry out if the people of Jerusalem didn’t praise him.
If Creation knows God’s Law, knows man’s place in God’s order, and recognizes the Messiah, then we shouldn’t be surprised to learn that Creation also longs to be free from the curse to which Adam subjected it.
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...that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
Romans 8:21 ESV
Some people will use Romans 8:19-21 to support a belief that they will be reunited with their pets in heaven or the new earth (whichever view they take of post-resurrection existence). As happy as I would be for this to be true, there doesn’t seem to be any evidence for it in Scripture, and it is logically untenable.
First, the definite article before “creation” means that it is very unlikely to refer to individual animals, but to the entirety of creation as a single entity. Second, since animals have no sin, it would seem unjust for only pets to be resurrected. However, if all animals who have ever lived are resurrected, the entire earth would be covered in them at least 100 meters deep.