It’s true, we know about the unicorns, and now a talking donkey comes into scripture! Donkeys play a surprisingly important role in God’s plan on earth. Jesus and his followers were coming closer to Jerusalem. But first they stopped at Bethphage at the hill called the Mount of Olives. From there Jesus sent two of his followers into town. ...
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There is a good deal written about the luminary angel, that is a star in the Book of Enoch (the Book of Heavenly Luminaries, chapters 72–82). Luminaries also include the sun and moon. I remember reading about misbehaving stars, which I shared in class a few months back. While the luminaries themselves are celestial objects, the text disting...
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I came across God’s command to “utterly destroy” several times this morning, and it got me wondering how many times the circumstances were so dire that the only thing left to do was utterly destroy. Running a search, I found that the combination of those two words, “utterly destroy,” appears in the Old Testament 51 times as both a verb a...
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Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to have six full weeks to look at the issue of how pain moves in and occupies the body. We ask that not only have the opportunity to look at it, but to disappear it, to deeply and completely understand, acknowledge, see the - have the awareness, have the knowledge, hav...
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Having recently passed Easter and the remembrance of Jesus Christ, Son of God, being sacrificed for the remission of sin, for those who fully embrace and believe in God, Father and Creator of all, we can look back at Mosaic law to see what thus ended. Throughout the early books of the Bible, we see a constant need for offering and sacrifice. The s...
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