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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...
†. Gen 11:28 . . Haran died in the lifetime of his father Terah, in his
native land, Ur of the Chaldeans.
The Grim Reaper cares not for the age of its victims, whether young or
whether old. Haran died before his dad. Many a parent has buried their
children before they even had a chance to live...
†. Gen 11:6 . . and Yhvh said: If, as one people with one language for
all, this is how they have begun to act, then nothing that they may
propose to do will be out of their reach.
To whom was Yhvh speaking when He spoke those words? Very likely to the
God that Yhvh represents. I think what...
Step up, take the fall.
Answer the call.
Tell me, what am I fighting for?
Here’s my hand, shoot the impudent man.
When no one else will, dare to stand.
Here’s my lot, whether you’re in or not.
This is everthing I got.
Step up, send your bullets here! Quell my fear!
Let me feel the glory as death...
†. Gen 11:1 . . Everyone on earth had the same language and the
same words.
The Hebrew word for "language" is from saphah (saw-faw') which means:
the lip. The one for "words" is from dabar (daw-baw') which means: a word
(as spoken or written)
Spoken languages are a combination of words and...
Damage control
Blazing wreck now just coals.
Once lively but now dark souls.
Fires of passion and winds of time
Wear down the body, soul, and mind.
Some of us push beyond the imaginable,
till what we hold is no longer manageable.
As everything falls apart which we wish won’t,
We should slow down...
†. Gen 10:1 . .These are the lines of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the
sons of Noah: sons were born to them after the Flood.
Chapter ten is a tiresome list of genealogies that some have found
interesting enough to devote entire books: generating a catalogue of nations
connecting Noah's descendants...
†. Gen 9:27a . . May God enlarge Japheth,
That seems more a prayer than a prediction. Japheth is generally regarded
as the father of several Gentile nations, most particularly the Romans and
the Greeks, who became mighty world powers. Japheth seemed like an okay
kind of guy who at least had a...