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2021, Copy Paste Chew Again, Gospel of Matthew

Give Me A Second

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How long ago are 9 years and why do I ask?
Give me a second. :)

Nine years ago my grandson who is now the Father of a 3-year-old and a 5-month-old was himself a seventeen-year-old, finishing his Junior year of high school. 

Wow!

Nine years ago I was prompted to write a post following a conversation about ‘don’t judge me’. 
I wrote another one today prompted by a Facebook post.  (A New Story)
Obviously, we are still dancing around that mulberry bush.

Here’s the start to that May 4, 2012 post:

Matthew 7: King James Version (KJV)
7 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
via Matthew 7:1-3 KJV – Judge not, that ye be not judged. For – Bible Gateway.

I participated, mostly as a reader, in a Facebook conversation today (Thursday). It is that conversation that prompts me to present this verse to you for this fine Friday morning.

For sure, for sure I smell the hot breath of hell every time today’s cultural interpretation of this verse is thrown as a trump card on the conversation table. Hear me! Such usage of this verse is nothing more than a ploy from the abyss aimed to silence those who know the truth about sin, hell, and eternal life.

Great day in the morning! as my Tennessee family has said.  READ the BIBLE! All of it! In CONTEXT! The WHOLE COUNSEL of GOD warns me that I better tell folks that JUDGMENT has come already upon them if they have NOT believed the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST.

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We have the GOD-GIVEN RIGHT to do right in this WRONG world,

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2021, Gospel of Matthew, Questions

Irises

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A really quick post this morning — I think.

 29 yet I tell you that not even Shlomo in all his glory was clothed as beautifully as one of these.  Matthew 6   source. 

Shlomo – that would be Solomon to us Westerners.

YESHUA, the GODMAN, JESUS if you prefer — look what JESUS said. 

yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed as beautifully as one of these.

If you check the Text in context you will see as one of these He is pointing out the flowers of the field – perhaps even irises . . . one of my favorites!

JESUS spoke to His disciples about Solomon. Solomon in as his glory – all the riches he had accumulated; all his accomplishments. 

How did JESUS know about Solomon to even tell His disciples? 
Solomon’s time on earth was approximately 967 years BEFORE YESHUA was born in Bethlehem. 

I have my own ideas. 
Do you? 

Something to think about isn’t it?

Do you know what pleases me so? 
JESUS knew Solomon! 
JESUS knows me! 
Does He know YOU?
Some He doesn’t –  check it out Matthew 7:23

Until Next Time ~ ~ ~

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2021, Calendar Reading Notes from The WORD, Gospel of Matthew

Dust Shaking

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 Matthew 10

14 But if the people of a house or town will not welcome you or listen to you, leave it and shake its dust from your feet! 15 Yes, I tell you, it will be more tolerable on the Day of Judgment for the people of S’dom [Sodom] and ‘Amora[Gomorrah] for that town!   emphasis added
source

In recent years I have learned it is well for me to search for an Eastern eye view of Scripture rather than trusting these Western eyes with which I was born. Scripture was not written in the West and when we read it that way, we often miss out. 

Shake the dust from your feet. 

I’ve read some Scholars think this directive sounds harsh. 
I don’t.
I think it was life and health for the disciples and a prophetic reminder/warning to those left behind (that sounds like mercy to me).

What do you think? 

Allow me to give you some reading materials that might shed some Eastern light. 

Shaking the Dust from their Feet

From Dust You Came. The Biblical Hebrew Meaning

Difficult Sayings  Shake off the Dust

We were made for this, 


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2021, Calendar Reading Notes from The WORD, Gospel of Matthew, Questions

That Hill ~ ~ ~

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I’m reading in Matthew 5 today.  Complete Jewish Bible.

Matthew 5

5 Seeing the crowds, Yeshua walked up the hill. After he sat down, his talmidim [disciples] came to him, 2 and he began to speak. This is what he taught them:  source

Seeing the crowds, Yeshua walked up the hill.

Yes, indeed He did!
This time He walked up the hill to teach. 

What other hill did He walk up? And did He walk up that hill for you?

We were made for this,