Okay. How about another post for this fine Saturday?
Whatever your understanding or dearly held doctrine as to the 7-year Tribulation revealed in the Bible, this offering to you today speaks not in detail to the Tribulation but the Millennium – The Thousand-Year Reign of JESUS on planet earth from His throne in Jerusalem. I hope you will give this message your time and that you will receive encouragement, as well as do some rejoicing that the day is coming when ALL people will acknowledge that JESUS IS LORD.
As you listen/watch I hope you will notice and rejoice particularly at the reasons why there must be a Millennial reign of Yeshua, The Messiah. One of these reasons, I have believed for decades and it was a delight for me to hear it preached. Am I going to tell you here what that one of the reasons is? No. :) You get to listen/watch and find your particular reason.
Happy Weekend!
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Nothing big. Nothing pressing. Nothing urgent, I suppose. I just wanted to say hi. Just put something on the screen today.
Today is Saturday here in LA – that’s Lower Alabama. :)
We’ve had rain, rain, and rain. Which is okay with me — the tomatoes needed it and the watermelon too. No. Our garden plants are few but we have enjoyed watching them break through the soil and reach for the sun from tiny seeds. Yes. Heritage, Non-GMO, Organic seeds. I think that about covers it.
It’s quiet today. JT is studying to teach his Sunday School lesson in the morning and I am pondering what to go with the chicken later on today.
Mail delivery. I wonder what we have today. I told you this was nothing — just something to put on the screen.
Hey now! I see sunshine out my library window. Ooops that didn’t last long — but I have a picture. Wanna see?
That’s probably enough of this, huh?
genesis 8:22 “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.” source
Nice promise, isn’t it? I think some folks don’t know this.
Happy Weekend!
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8 But I tell you, even if he won’t get up because the man is his friend, yet because of the man’s hutzpah he will get up and give him as much as he needs. source
Do you see it? Hutzpah.
It’s a strong word. With much flavor and spice.
But let’s gets some history.
Yeshua is teaching and as He often does, He is sharing a parable for those with ears to hear. (Mark 4:33-34) In this parable, He is teaching the art of persistent asking (that is we must persist in asking until we get His answer) and He uses the word hutzpah.
Now the world has taken this word and used it to mean arrogant, obnoxious, and other such unpleasantries. [Yes. It’s the same word some add a C, some do not]
Do you see what I mean?
Now let me share with you a different slant and the one JESUS surely meant.
Boldness, Audacity, Insolence. Nerve. Gall OR a combination thereof weighted according to the situational need. (from the glossary of my Complete Jewish Bible)
Now let’s see the TEXT. Let’s see how JESUS illustrates the word.
9 “Moreover, I myself say to you: keep asking, and it will be given to you; keep seeking, and you will find; keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who goes on asking receives; and he who goes on seeking finds; and to him who continues knocking, the door will be opened. source
He is notsaying don’t take no for an answer. He is saying don’t stop untilyou get HIS ANSWER.
And don’t you love, I do, the first 6 words of verse 9? “Moreover, I myself say to you:
I Myself He said. I Myself am saying to you. How AWESOME is that? JESUS is saying to us: ask Father.
Ask Him with hutzpah. With full intent of asking until He gives you His Answer.
And know this please, Father does not wait long with His answers so He can see how long we will ask; He waits so WE will see how long WE will ask. How much hutzpah do we really have?
We do need to know! Don’t you think?
We were made for this,
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