From This Week’s Torah Portion:
“All of you are standing today before YHWH your Elohim: your leaders, your tribes, your elders and your officers, all the men of Yisra’el, your little ones, your wives, and your sojourner who is in the midst of your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water, so that you should enter into covenant with YHWH your Elohim, and into His oath, which YHWH your Elohim makes with you today, in order to establish you today as a people for Himself, and He Himself be your Elohim, as He has spoken to you, and as He has sworn to your fathers, to Avraham, to Yitschaq, and to Ya’aqov.”
When YHWH your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire.
#deuteronomy 12:20 #reeh
It's fine if you want to be a vegetarian, but don't say God is against eating meat. He already said that he's not.
Just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.
Deuteronomy 12:22
It's also fine if you don't hunt, but, just as with eating meat, don't say God's against it. He already said that he's not.
Do you want a cutting garden that comes back every spring? Some flowers are hardy enough to handle winter and rise again. Here I have a list of six beautiful perennial flowers that you can plant once and enjoy year after year.
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The wicked eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
Proverbs 4:17
Bread and wine are symbols of fellowship and peace, yet the wicked who refuse to accept wise counsel twist brotherly relationship to criminality and violence. People who have been abused, neglected, and ostracized are usually desperate for human connection. The violent and lawless offer a kind of brotherhood, but it's a lie designed to draw the vulnerable.
Who was the young prophet in 2 Kings 9? He is variously called the son of a prophet, the servant of a prophet, and a member of the prophets guild. Jehu and King Joram's other generals knew him by sight, but he is never named in the text.
When he delivered the message to Jehu, he went far beyond the words that Elisha told him to speak. A prophet might deliver messages for other men, but ultimately he delivers messages from God. Nobody has the authority to dictate prophecy to a prophet except YHWH. Were the extra words given to him by God at that moment? Maybe. The absence of a name really makes me wonder.
"When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise"
Pr 21
Will be away at camp for three days, not sure how available computer and internet will be :) ?
I don't think there is a single passage in the whole Bible that isn't connected to multiple other passages.
Joshua 4:1 says, "When all the goy had completely passed over the Jordan…" This reminds me of Luke 21:24, "Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles is complete."
And when I read Isaiah 54, it almost seems like a commentary on the Book of Joshua.
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Two more days till sweet sweet Sabbath rest. ☺️
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