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    Gen 29:1-8

    †. Gen 29:1 . . Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the Easterners. The geographic region in Turkey where Jacob went wasn't actually east by his reckoning. It was just about dead north. But the people who populated that region had roots in the east. Here's another version. "Then...
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    Gen 28:22

    †. Gen 28:22a . . And this stone, which I have set up as a pillar, shall be God's abode; Jacob's pillow stone wasn't really meant to be a dwelling or a container as we typically think of human habitat or animal cages. It was meant to be a sort of monitoring device. An 8th century BC Aramaic...
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    Gen 28:16-21

    †. Gen 28:16-17a . . Jacob awoke from his sleep and said: Surely the Lord is present in this place, and I did not know it! Shaken, he said: How awesome is this place! Actually Jacob was very frightened. I believe that place gave him the creeps. It isn't unusual for an encounter with God to...
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    Purgatory,as explained from the NT

    . Webster's defines "posit" as: to assume or affirm the existence of; viz: postulate. What Rome did in the councils of Florence and Trent, was to first of all posit the existence of a purgatory. This essential fact can be easily discerned in the language of paragraphs 1030, 1031, and 1032 of...
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    Purgatory,as explained from the NT

    . Since there are no passages in the Holy Bible that clearly, and without ambiguity, attest to the existence of a purgatory in the afterlife; theologians have taken to appropriating passages that allude to a purgatory; viz: that suggest a purgatory. A really cute specimen is located in one of...
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    Purgatory,as explained from the NT

    . One of the Church's earliest difficulties with a purgatory was the issue of on-going sin. In other words: each new sin committed while interred in a purgatory would add time to the penitent's original sentence; with the very real possibility of potentially snow-balling to the point where they...
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    Gen 28:12b-15

    †. Gen 28:12b . . a ladder was set on the ground and its top reached to the sky, and angels of God were going up and down on it. The word for "ladder" is from cullam (sool-lawm') which is actually a staircase. This is the one and only place in the entire Old Testament where that specific word...
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    Purgatory,as explained from the NT

    . By comparing Psalm 16:10 and Acts 2:27-31 with Luke 23:43 and John 20:17; it's easily discerned the paradise that the Lord promised the thief wasn't up in heaven, but rather, down in the netherworld sector where Lazarus and Abraham were at one time located in Luke 16:19-31. The important...
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    Gen 28:8-12a

    †. Gen 28:8 . . Esau realized that the Canaanite women displeased his father Isaac. Now that Esau no longer enjoyed the status of a pampered athlete, he's a little more attuned to the opinions of others around him; most especially to the dad who at one time gave the impression his eldest was...
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    The Jonah Syndrome

    . Were it not for the king's own personal initiative, nobody would have been spared. †. Jonah 3:6-10 . . For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. . . . And he caused it to be...
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    Eternal Life in Jesus the Christ

    . That always gets the die-hard Trinitarians huffing and puffing, and turning red in the face because while most of them readily mouth that they believe the Bible's Jesus is fully God and fully Human; in reality they actually believe he's fully God and somewhat less than Human. To them he...
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    Gen 28:1-7

    †. Gen 28:1a . . So Isaac sent for Jacob and blessed him. He instructed him: This is the first time, at least on record, that Isaac has shown any real interest in Jacob's spiritual condition. You just have to wonder if Jacob received any religious instruction at all from his dad. I would not be...
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    Eternal Life in Jesus the Christ

    . The Bible's Jesus is the result of numerous human couplings beginning with his mother's parents and going all the way back to Adam and Eve. †. Rom 1:3 . . Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David I'm going to stop right here and draw attention to an elephant in the middle of...
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    Gen 27:46

    †. Gen 27:46 . . And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary of living because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, I might as well die. I think Rebecca was becoming very lonely for the company of daughters-in...
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    "The Body of this Death" -NC

    . When I was a young man of 24 years back in 1968; I began to think seriously about my future as regards heaven and hell. I reasoned that even if I were to manage to be a really good boy from then on until the day of my death, I seriously doubt I could keep it up for eternity. Sooner or later I...
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    Gen 27:39-45

    †. Gen 27:39-40 . . And his father Isaac answered, saying to him: See, your abode shall be [away from] the fat of the earth and [from] the dew of heaven above. Yet by your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you grow restive, you shall break his yoke from your neck...
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    "The Body of this Death" -NC

    . The grammatical tense of "who shall deliver me" is future. In other words: Paul had not yet been liberated from the body of this death at the time of his writing Rom 7:9-25 but rather, anticipated liberation sometime in the future. That's actually pretty good news because I would hate to...
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    Gen 27:30-38

    †. Gen 27:30-33a . . No sooner had Jacob left the presence of his father Isaac-- after Isaac had finished blessing Jacob --than his brother Esau came back from his hunt. He too prepared a dish and brought it to his father. And he said to his father: Let my father sit up and eat of his son's...
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    Good Friday/Passover why different days?

    . Forget about charts, forget about feasts, and forget about Nisan. Just work with a normal seven-day week and you'll get it. First off: it's essential to begin with the premise that Jesus rose from the dead "on" the third day; not after the third day was over and done with. This isn't...
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    Gen 27:28-29

    †. Gen 27:28 . . May God give you of the dew of heaven and the fat of the earth, abundance of new grain and wine. The benediction, first of all, regards things in nature necessary for prosperity in an agrarian economy-- rain, fertile soil, and abundant yields. Rain is an especially precious...
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