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. • 2Tim 2:3-7 . . No one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs-- he wants to please his commanding officer. A soldier's primary responsibility is to accomplish the mission assigned by their commanders. They don't give themselves leave to abandon their posts to go off on their...

. Well; insensitive folk who come from the womb unable to feel compassion, are in very grave danger of the sum of all fears. • Matt 5:7 . . Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. • Jas 2:13 . .For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy. As an experiment...

. • Matt 2:8-9a . . And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said: Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also. . . .When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east...

. It is a terrible, awful tragedy that so many people end up in Hell simply because they didn't believe Christ's crucifixion is an adequate retribution for their sins; and also that God is fully agreeable to shredding the indictment He was compiling against them listing all the bad things they...

. • Gen 3:22 . . And Jehovah God said: The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Actually, the Serpent had predicted that very thing. • Gen 3:5 . . God knows that when you eat [from the tree in the midst of the garden] your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God...

. The human mind consists of consciousness and sub-consciousness. The sub area is where we our minds store suppressed thoughts, feelings, and desires; in other words: things we'd just as soon forget rather than think about. For example: most Christians cannot admit, even to themselves, their...

. Many years ago it occurred to me that even if I was able to force myself to be pious enough during my lifetime to qualify for Heaven; I was pretty sure I couldn't keep it up for eternity. Sooner or later my true colors would show themselves. _

. This section of the book of Exodus records a curious incident. Jehovah had only just recently protected Israel from Pharaoh and the Egyptian army by means of a remarkable miracle at the Red Sea; (not to mention all the miracles that led up to their leaving the land) which inspired the people...

. Jehovah had been stiffening Pharaoh's resolve off and on during their confrontation over Moses' people leaving Egypt. Well; the intermissions wherein God allowed Pharaoh time to think about what he was doing were done; it was time to die and just to make sure Pharaoh didn't escape the grim...

. God's free will trumps everybody else's free will, and this fact is very evident in the confrontation that Jehovah forced between Himself and the Egyptian monarch holding Moses' people captive. • Rom 9:17-18 . . For the scripture says to Pharaoh: For this very purpose I raised you up, to...

. • Gen 25:27a . .When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, There was really no need for Esau to kill wildlife for fresh meat: as if the family were desperate for food; after all, Isaac was very wealthy in livestock. No. Esau hunted for sport, and his goal was not to help support...

. • Gen 18:20-21 . . And Jehovah said: The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is exceedingly grave. I will go down now, and see if they have done entirely according to its outcry, which has come to me; and if not, I will know. An "outcry" is defined as a protest...

. It's believed by a pretty large percentage of modern Christians that the so-called fallen nature is inherited from one's biological father. Oh? Then whence did Eve get it? She was constructed with material taken from Adam's body prior to the forbidden fruit incident. Since himself tasted the...

. • 1Cor 9:1 . . Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? • 2 Tim 1:12 . . I know whom I have believed Paul could honestly say those things because he experienced a close encounter with the real Jesus. (Acts 9:3-6, 22:6-10, and 26:12-18) Well, to be honest about it; I have never once experienced a...

. The Flood began on the seventeenth day of the second month of Noah's life, and it rained for forty days. Then the rain stopped so the water could begin draining off and leave the ark aground. A period of exactly five months went by. Those five months are recorded as exactly 150 days. If we...

. • Gen 15:4-5 . .The Lord took [Abram] outside and said: Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them. And He added: So shall your offspring be. In Abram's day, prior to the invention of optics, the only stars that people could see with their own eyes were those in our...

. • Gen 19:29-30a . .Thus it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain and annihilated the cities where Lot dwelt, God was mindful of Abraham and removed Lot from the midst of the upheaval. Lot went up from Zoar and settled in the hill country with his two daughters. The word for...

. • Gen 39:6b-7 . . Now Joseph was young, well built, and handsome. After a while, his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said; Sleep with me. The apparent overture wasn't a request. Since Joseph was a slave, it wasn't necessary for Potiphar's wife to seduce him. She only had to give...

. • Gen 48:5-6 . . Now, your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, shall be mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine no less than Reuben and Simeon. Progeny born to you after them shall be yours; but they shall be recorded under the names of their...

. • Gen 30:21 . . [Leah] bore [Jacob] a daughter, and named her Dinah. Dinah's name is translated from the Hebrew word Diynah (dee-naw'). That word is the feminine of duwn (doon) which means: judgment, justice. and/or fair play. You can bet Dinah was an instant hit with the women. Now they had...