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Watching you stand next to me, your little hands clutch my fingers as you say,
Piggy back, give me a piggy back. Really, I just can’t resist a request said like that.
Pick you up, place you on my shoulders, carry you through the bush, over boulders.
Hear you squeal as the branches fall in your...
†. Gen 15:1a . . Some time later, the word of the Lord came to Abram
in a vision.
This is the very first record of a vision in the Bible. The Hebrew word is
machazeh (makh-az-eh') and it appears in only four places in the entire Old
Testament; which is pretty amazing considering the volume of...
Found this picture recently in my archives, restored it, and couldn’t resist sharing it. I love little ducklings. They’re soooo cute.
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†. Gen 14:20b . . And [Abram] gave him a tenth of everything.
According to Heb 7:1-4, this particular tenth regarded only the recent spoils
of war; not of all Abram's estate in its entirety. So then, tenths should be
reserved for times when you know in your heart that it was God who
engineered...
†. Gen 14:17 . .When he returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and
the kings with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the
Valley of Shaveh, which is the Valley of the King.
The location of the Shaveh Valley is a total mystery; this being the only
place in the entire Old Testament where...
†. Gen 14:13c . . who was dwelling at the terebinths of Mamre the
Amorite, kinsman of Eshkol and Aner, these being Abram's allies.
Abram had become a shrewd sheik. The best way to survive on the frontier
is to team up-- especially with someone that all the others know and fear.
That way most...
†. Gen 14:4b . . and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
El Ched wouldn't get wind of that right away of course. There was no email,
no radio, no sat-com, no land line, no snail mail, no cells, nor television, nor
telegraph, nor aircraft, nor motorized conveyances in that day so it would
take...
Will you just leave me alone? Screaming in the silent,
This motionless stalemate is cutting me like a knife.
Reaching for what is no longer there-
Trying to appear I care when I don’t care.
Just want to run away, run to a distant place,
Where the sun melts my plastic face.
Find a place where I...
†. Gen 14:1 . . Now, when King Amraphel of Shinar, King Arioch of
Ellasar, King Chedorlaomer of Elam, and King Tidal of nations.
Shinar was the whole of Babylonia; Ellasar was the leading tribe in its
southern part; and Elam was the original kingdom of Persia.
The Hebrew word for "nations" is...
Dream on baby, dream on
They might never seem to come true,
But dream on, baby, dream on.
Cause you never know when one will find you.
Dream on baby, dream on.
Though the critics and sceptics cry,
Dream on you will, baby, dream on.
Cause one day you’ll be waving them goodbye.
Dream on baby...
†. Gen 13:18a . . And Abram moved his tent, and came to dwell at
the terebinths of Mamre, which are in Hebron;
Hebron (Hevron) itself is today a city of over 70,000 people located about 20
miles south of Jerusalem at an elevation of 3,050 feet above sea level.
Hebron is sacred in Jewish...
†. Gen 13:13 . . Now the inhabitants of Sodom were very wicked
sinners against the Lord.
The precise location of ancient Sodom is uncertain. Some feel it was sited at
the south end of the Dead Sea; but it's really hard to know for sure.
According to Gen 14:1-3, the communities of Sodom...
†. Gen 13:1-2 . . From Egypt, Abram went up into the Negeb, with his
wife and all that he possessed, together with Lot. Now Abram was
very rich in cattle, silver, and gold.
The word for "rich" is from kabad (kaw-bad') which means: to be heavy, i.e.
in either a bad sense (burdensome, severe...
Through the darkness and gloom of the fog, pierced the incredibly bright light. The darkness was now illuminated, becoming a glaring bright white.
Stuck in the middle of this, twas a tiny little ship, it’ crew hazarding the ocean in search of ever elusive fame. Playing the ever dangerous...
Oh to be young again. I was at work just last week, and was filling up the sink with clean water. For a change, I put detergent in before I filled it up. (yes, my manager is always chiding me over the fact that I don’t put detergent in until I actually wash the dishes ) The result was a nice...
†. Gen 12:13 . . I beseech you; say that you are my sister, that it
may go well with me because of you, and that I may remain alive
thanks to you.
Abraham was shrewd. He was not only concerned about saving his skin, but
also about taking advantage of his being Sarai's kin; and actually that...
†. Gen 12:7c-8 . . And he built an altar there to the Lord who had
appeared to him. From there he moved on to the hill country east of
Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the
east; and he built there an altar to the Lord and invoked the Lord by
name.
Eusebius...
†. Gen 12:3c . . And all the families of the earth shall bless
themselves by you.
Now we see coming into play the most important part of God's plan for
Abram. At the moment God made that promise, every other family on the
earth was just about totally involved in paganism. Even Terah, Abram's...
†. Gen 12:1. .The Lord said to Abram: Go forth from your native land
and from your father's house to the land that I will show you.
Stephen said Abram was still living in Ur, and hadn't moved up to Haran yet
when God called him to leave his kin (Acts 7:2-3). There's no record of any
interaction...
†. Gen 11:32 . .The days of Terah came to 205 years; and Terah died in Haran.
Terah lived a relatively long life for his day. His son Abraham only lived to
175. But I sometimes wonder if Terah didn't cut his life short by staying in
Haran. Did he forget about God's call to Abram to go to...