I had an enjoyable 56th birthday with family and friends. Thanks everyone for wishing me a happy birthday!

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Something I've been dealing with for about a decade is what to do with peoples' stuff when they have to go into retirement homes or pass away. This task always falls to somebody who ends up tossing out somebody else's lifetime of memories. Friends, if you 65 or older, do your family and friends a favor and start disposing of your stuff. Allocate to whom you want to have specific things while you're of sound mind and either give it to them or make a list. Do not just get a storage shed and shove it all in there.

*New Song!*
*WARNING: NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART*



Would you be pleased to hear some of my playlist and let me know your favourite song on it?



Mizmortriscendium
(Psalm 3)
By Dr Garth Grenache
and his Uncanny Valley Orchestra
2025:1:6


Foes multiply, their ranks swell high,
Against me they conspire.
"No hope in God," they falsely cry,
But YAH's my shield entire.

My glory He, who lifts my head,
I call, He hears my plea.
Though myriads round my path may spread,
YAH's strength sustains me free.

Arise, O YAH, my foes confound,
Their wicked teeth now shatter.
Salvation in You sole is found,
Your blessings ever matter.

Isaiah 14:1, “For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.” Does choosing the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as your God mean that you need to practice Judaism? Certainly not! Many of the traditions of Judaism (while designed to unite the Jewish people) are not found in the Bible. Choosing the Creator means choosing to live the way we are designed to live and following His instructions.

Question 15: Who compiled the Old Testament?

Answer:

It is claimed that the books of the Old Testament were collected and arranged under the supervision of Ezra, though modern scholarship disputes the claim. The epistles of Paul to the various churches were collected and incorporated with the other epistles and the Gospels and Revelation into one book during the first half of the second century and as we learn from Eusebius, were in general use soon after the year 300 A. D.

Question 14: What significance attaches to the frequent use of forty?

Answer:

It is not merely an arbitrary period or a "round number," but is chosen to convey die sense of fullness. Some of its prominent Scriptural uses are: Moses was forty days on the mount (Exodus 24:18, etc.); Elijah strengthened by angel food, fasted for forty days (1 Kings 19:8) ; the rain of the flood fell for forty days (Genesis 7:12) ; Noah opened the window of the ark after forty days (Genesis 8:6); the spies spent forty days in searching Canaan (Numbers 13:25) ; Moses twice fasted and prayed for forty days (Deuteronomy 9:18-25); Ezekiel bore the iniquities of Judah forty days (Ezekiel 4:6); Nineveh was allowed forty days to repent (Jonah 3:4) ; the Israelites wandered forty years in the wilderness (Numbers 34:33); Goliath defied Saul's army for forty days (1 Samuel 17:16) ; forty days was the period of embalming (Genesis 50:3); the Lord fasted for forty days (Matthew 4:2, etc.); the arisen Lord was seen for forty days (Acts 1:3); the Jews were forbidden to inflict more than forty stripes (Deuteronomy 25:3). It is noteworthy that Jerusalem was destroyed forty years after Moshiach's ascension and tradition says Yeshua was forty hours in the tomb. Lent lasts for forty days, as does also quarantine. St. Swithins betokens forty days' rain, while many ancient laws concerning physicians, knights, husbands, wives, widows, sanctuary privileges, fines, etc., all cluster about this number.

Question 13: Why is seven more used than any other number?

Answer:

The symbolism of "seven" should be traced back to the symbolism of its component elements, "three" and "four," which represent divinity and humanity. Hence, "seven" represents the union between YHVH and man. Among the Persians, the Greeks, the ancient Indians, the Romans and all nations where seven days in the week were recognized, the influence of the number seven prevailed. It was called by Cicero "the knot and cement of all things," because in "seven" the spiritual and natural world were comprehended in one idea. Some writers claim that the Hebrews borrowed it from their heathen neighbours. The Sabbath, being the seventh day, suggested seven as the appointment for all sacred periods. The seventh month was ushered in by the Feast of Trumpets; seven weeks was the interval between the Passover and the Pentecost and so on, recognizing seven as the symbol of all connected with the Divinity.

Question 12: What are the Sacred or Symbolical Numbers?

Answer:

There are certain numbers employed in Scripture that are known as sacred or symbolical' numbers. Among these are

Seven (perfection), as the triune symbol of deity and the four quarters of the earth;

Forty, a "round number," signifying duration, distance, quantity;

Ten (completeness);

Five, as used in offerings etc.;

Four, related to the quarters of the globe, the shape of the holy of holies in the temple, etc.;

Three, symbol of Supreme Divinity;

Twelve, which derives its significance from the twelve tribes and which has been called the "square number," the "zodiacal number," the "apostolic number." 12x12 means, symbolically, fixity and completeness and taken a thousand-fold, it gives the grand multiple of 144,000 (otherwise a countless multitude),

One thousand symbolizing the world wholly pervaded by the divine --- a world redeemed.