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catenaaurea · 2 years ago

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The Roman Catechism

Part One: The Creed

ARTICLE IV : "Suffered Under Pontius Pilate, Was Crucified, Dead, And Buried”

Importance Of This Article

How necessary is a knowledge of this Article, and how assiduous the pastor should be in stirring up in the minds of the faithful the frequent recollection of our Lord's Passion we learn from the Apostle when he says that he knows nothing but Jesus Christ and him crucified. The pastor, therefore, should exercise the greatest care and pains in giving a thorough explanation of this subject in order that the faithful “being moved by the remembrance of so great a benefit" may give themselves entirely to the contemplation of the goodness and love of God towards us.

First Part of this Article: '"Suffered Under Pontius Pilate, was Crucified”,

The first part of this Article (of the second we shall treat hereafter) proposes for our belief that when Pontius Pilate governed the province of Judea under Tiberius Caesar Christ the Lord was nailed to a cross. Having been seized, mocked, outraged and tortured in various forms He was finally crucified.

"Suffered,"

It cannot be a matter of doubt that His soul, as to its inferior part, was sensible of these torments; for as He really assumed human nature, it is a necessary consequence that He really, and in His soul, experienced a most acute sense of pain. Hence these words of the Savior: My soul is sorrowful even unto death.

Although human nature was united to the Divine Person, He felt the bitterness of His Passion as acutely as if no such union had existed, because in the one Person of Jesus Christ were preserved the properties of both natures, human and divine; and therefore what was passible and mortal remained passible and mortal; while what was impassible and immortal, that is, His Divine Nature, continued impassible and immortal.

"Under Pontius Pilate"

Since we find it here so diligently recorded that Jesus Christ suffered when Pontius Pilate was procurator of Judea, the pastor should explain the reason. By fixing the time, which we find also done by the Apostle Paul, so important and so necessary an event is rendered more easily ascertainable by all. Furthermore those words show that the Savior's prediction was really verified: They shall deliver him to the Gentiles, to be mocked and scourged and crucified.

"Was Crucified"

The fact that He suffered death precisely on the wood of the cross must also be attributed to a particular counsel of God, which decreed that life should return by the way whence death had arisen The serpent who had triumphed over our first parents by the wood (of a tree) was vanquished by Christ on the wood of the cross.

Many other reasons which the Fathers have discussed in detail might be adduced to show that it was fit that our Redeemer should suffer death on the cross rather than in any other way. But, as the pastor will show, it is enough for the faithful to believe that this kind of death was chosen by the Savior because it appeared better adapted and more appropriate to the redemption of the human race; for there certainly could be none more ignominious and humiliating. Not only among the Gentiles was the punishment of the cross held accursed and full of shame and infamy, but even in the Law of Moses the man is called accursed that hangeth on a tree.

Importance Of The History Of The Passion

Furthermore, the pastor should not omit the historical part of this Article, which has been so carefully set forth by the holy Evangelists; so that the faithful may be acquainted with at least the principal points of this mystery, that is to say, such as seem more necessary to confirm the truth of our faith. For it is on this Article, as on their foundation, that the Christian faith and religion rest; and if this truth be firmly established, all the rest is secure. Indeed, if one thing more than another presents difficulty to the mind and understanding of man, assuredly it is the mystery of the cross, which, beyond all doubt, must be considered the most difficult of all; so much so that only with great difficulty can we grasp the fact that our salvation depends on the cross, and on Him who for us was nailed thereon. In this, however, as the Apostle teaches, we may well admire the wonderful Providence of God; for, seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching, to save them that believe. It is no wonder, then, that the Prophets, before the coming of Christ, and the Apostles, after His death and Resurrection, labored so strenuously to convince mankind that He was the Redeemer of the world, and to bring them under the power and obedience of the Crucified.

Figures And Prophecies Of The Passion And Death Of The Savior

Since, therefore, nothing is so far above the reach of human reason as the mystery of the cross, the Lord immediately after the fall ceased not, both by figures and prophecies, to signify the death by which His Son was to die.

To mention a few of these types. First of all, Abel, who fell a victim of the envy of his brother, Isaac who was commanded to be offered in sacrifice, the lamb immolated by the Jews on their departure from Egypt, and also the brazen serpent lifted up by Moses in the desert, were all figures of the Passion and death of Christ the Lord.

As to the Prophets, how many there were who foretold Christ's Passion and death is too well known to require development here. Not to speak of David, whose Psalms embrace all the principal mysteries of Redemption, the oracles of Isaias in particular are so clear and graphic that he might be said rather to have recorded a past than predicted a future event.

#Roman Catechism part 10 #Catholic #Christian

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burialuntrue2007 · 1 year ago

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"Listen to the silence," Margarita was saying to the Master, the sand crunching under her bare feet. "Listen and take pleasure in what you were not given in life—quiet. Look, there up ahead is your eternal home, which you've been given as a reward. I can see the Venetian window and the grape-vine curling up to the roof. There is your home, your eternal home. I know that in the evenings people you like will come to see you, people who interest you and who will not upset you. They will play for you, sing for you, and you will see how the room looks in candlelight. You will fall asleep with your grimy eternal cap on your head, you will fall asleep with a smile on your lips. Sleep will strengthen you, you will begin to reason wisely. And you will never be able to chase me away. I will guard your sleep." Thus spoke Margarita as she walked with the Master toward their eternal home, and it seemed to the Master that Margarita's words flowed like the stream they had left behind, flowed and whispered, and the Master's anxious, needle-pricked memory began to fade. Someone was releasing the Master into freedom, as he himself had released the hero he created. That hero, who was absolved on Sunday morning, had departed into the abyss, never to return, the son of an astrologer-king, the cruel fifth procurator of Judea, the knight Pontius Pilate.

The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov

#quotes #this is the part that makes me cry every single time

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wisdomfish · 2 years ago

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What became of Pilate?

Unfortunately, his encounter with Christ left him an unchanged man. According to Josephus, Pilate’s contempt for his subjects and his readiness to resort to force that threatened the precarious stability of Judea led him to disperse violently a Samaritan mob that had gathered to hear a prophetic demagogue preach on Mount Gerizim. It was one mistake too far. The outcry from the Samaritans was so great that the legate of Syria, Vitellius, intervened and deposed Pilate in AD 36.

For the next stage of Pilate’s life, one only finds unsubstantiated legends and no objective accounts. The procurator who presided over the most famous trial of history and who has been a byword for moral compromise ever since now passes into obscurity. However, the historical basis for the Gospels’ claims that he existed and their presentation of how he behaved at Christ’s trial can be asserted confidently

~ Peter Harris

#pilate #jesus #josephus #resort #judea #mount gerizim #samaritan #syria #vitellius

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ragneidr · 21 days ago

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The Master and Margarita, mу art, 297×420 , pencil drawing, 2024

"Listen to the silence, listen and enjoy what you were never given in life – the quiet. Ahead lies your eternal home, given to you as a reward. There, a Venetian window and climbing vines reach up to the roof. I know that in the evening, those you love, those who interest you, and those who will not disturb you will come to you. They will play for you, they will sing for you, and you will see the light in the room when the candles burn. You will fall asleep with a smile on your lips. Sleep will strengthen you, and you will think wisely. You will no longer be able to drive me away. I will guard your sleep.

I feel as if someone is setting me free. Just as I have just released the hero I created. This hero has gone into the abyss… Gone irrevocably… Forgiven on the night before Sunday… The son of the star-gazer king… Cruel… the fifth procurator of Judea… The rider Pontius Pilate…" "

#pencildrawing#pencilart#artworks#instaart#artgalley#drawings#artragneidr#derwent#derwentpencils#yuliyakravets#ragneidrart #TheMasterandMargarita #Margarita #Margaret #novel #Bulgakov #ClassicTragedy #LoveAndLoss #yellowflowers #DramaticArt #blackcat #writer #russianclassics #religión #PontiusPilate #RomanticTragedy

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semper-legens · 22 days ago

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104. The Temple of Fortuna, by Elodie Harper

Owned?: No, library Page count: 374 My summary: Amara's success has reached new heights. From a slave in a brothel to a courtesan in Pompeii to the betrothed of a freedman who sits at the emperor's right hand. But her little family - the enslaved man she loves, and the daughter whose freedom she has fought so hard to procure - is still at home in Pompeii, still beholden to her former master so that her secret does not get out. But there's more trouble stirring. The earth is rumbling. There is the smell of sulphur in the air. Volcano day is approaching, and Amara's world will never be the same… My rating: 4/5 My commentary:

The last in the Wolf Den trilogy! And this is an interesting one again. The formula gets shaken up somewhat because the stakes of this book are different - there's a ticking clock to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, soon to happen in this, the first year of Emperor Titus' reign. Amara has her own problems going on, but the volcano waits for nobody, and has no mercy on anyone, rich or poor. In some senses, I liked this less - it was more disaster movie than the close personal drama of the previous books. But like, set your story in Pompeii in 79 CE, you're gonna have to reckon with Vesuvius. I didn't dislike it, especially as that meant a little more face time for everyone's favourite Ancient Roman natural historian, Gaius Plinius Secundus aka Pliny the Elder. It was just a shift in the way the story had progressed to this point, and that in itself is interesting.

Amara is at her highest point here - her patron might be a freedman, but he's well-connected in Rome, and she's rubbing shoulders with the highest powers in the land. That still, however, comes with its own struggles. The opening scene has Amara attend Berenice, the Emperor's lover, as she prepares to leave for Judea, exiled from the court and from Titus' life. It's a chilling reflection of her own future fate should she fail to be all that her lover wants, and if he decides to get rid of her. Similarly, she is pulled between two worlds; wealth and luxury in Rome, versus love and domesticity in Pompeii. She doesn't really know her daughter, and while Philos has been raising Rufina, he can be recalled to attend Rufus at a moment's notice, and would neither be able to see his daughter nor the woman he loves again. As such, even though she has far more than she could ever have dreamed of in the Wolf Den, Amara is just…empty, here. She's compromised so much of herself - the love she has for Philos, her motherhood, her genuine wants and desires - because she has to in order to get ahead and live a comfortable life. She's making sacrifices for Rufina as much as she can, but the main sacrifice is of their relationship. It's heartbreaking to read.

And once again, the prospect of violence rears its ugly head. Felix is extorting Amara, with the promise that if she stops paying him, he will let the truth of Rufina's parentage come out, thereby potentially condemning her to a life of slavery and Amara to ruin. Time and again, Amara's friends have recommended that she kill Felix; time and again she has refused, that being a bridge too far for her. But here is where Felix finally dies. I had assumed the volcano would get him, but he survives that, only to be taken out by Amara in her last act as Amara, before she becomes Timarete for good. I like this cap on their story, that Amara has to know and understand violence and that her ruthlessness still remains, even when she has a happy and settled life. Sometimes, you just have to stab the man who symbolises all that has gone wrong in your existence.

This book is more of a thriller than the previous novels, entirely because of the lingering threat of Vesuvius. Obviously the average reader knows that the volcano is soon to erupt, but the characters don't - it wasn't known that Vesuvius was a volcano until it erupted. And while the volcano was preceded by earthquakes and sulphur fumes and other signs, the average person didn't know that they were portents of a volcanic eruption specifically; earth tremors were common in the region, and knowledge of the signs of a volcano was the purview of natural historians, not the common man. As such, the eruption comes as a shock to all of the characters, and we play a little in the dramatic irony of people making plans we know will be distrupted, at the very least. Amara's concerns over getting her daughter to Rome have an extra layer to them; her lingering in Pompeii gains a new drama. In the end, the volcano provides a chance for a new future. Philos sets himself up as a freedman, and Amara sheds her courtesan identity to become Timarete once more, his wife and her own woman. While I was predicting this from the outset (they'd be fools not to take the opportunity to remake themselves in the chaos of the volcano) there's still a bittersweet tinge to it that I much appreciated in the name of realism. Many of their Pompeiian friends are dead or missing, and they have lost everything they couldn't carry away from their home. Amara is genuinely sad that she had to ditch her former patron. But she's alive, and Philos is alive, and they can be a family. And, maybe, they can find happiness in the end of all of it.

Next, a murder on a Caribbean island sends shockwaves through a community.

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dfroza · 8 months ago

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A spreading of the message

even amidst persecution

seeking those who will “believe…”

Today’s reading of the Scriptures from the New Testament is the 8th chapter of the book of Acts:

Some devout men buried Stephen and mourned his passing with loud cries of grief. But Saul, this young man who seemed to be supervising the whole violent event, was pleased by Stephen’s death. That very day, the whole church in Jerusalem began experiencing severe persecution. All of the followers of Jesus—except for the emissaries themselves—fled to the countryside of Judea and Samaria. Young Saul went on a rampage—hunting the church, house after house, dragging both men and women to prison.

All those who had been scattered by the persecution moved from place to place; and wherever they went, they weren’t afraid or silent. Instead, they spread the message of Jesus.

Philip, for example, headed north to the city of Samaria, and he told them the news of the Anointed One. The crowds were united in their desire to understand Philip’s message. They not only listened with their ears, but they witnessed miraculous signs with their eyes. Unclean spirits cried out with loud screams as they were exorcised from people. Paralyzed people and lame people moved and walked in plain view. So the city was swept with joy.

There was a fellow named Simon who had a widespread and long-standing reputation as a sorcerer in Samaria. Everyone—not just poor or uneducated people, but also the city’s elite—paid him great respect. Because he had amazed them with his magic, they thought, “This is a truly great man, full of the power of the God of Greatness.” But they were even more impressed with Philip as he proclaimed the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus the Anointed. Both men and women received ceremonial washing through baptism— and even Simon himself became a believer. After his baptism, he shadowed Philip constantly, and he was as amazed as everyone else when he saw great and miraculous signs taking place.

Meanwhile word had reached the Lord’s emissaries in Jerusalem that the message of God was welcomed in Samaria—a land of half-breeds and heretics in the minds of many Judeans. They sent Peter and John to pray for the Samaritans. They were especially eager to see if the new believers would receive the Holy Spirit because until this point they had been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus but had not experienced the Holy Spirit. When Peter and John laid hands on the people, the Holy Spirit did indeed come upon them all.

Simon watched all this closely. He saw the Holy Spirit coming to the people when the apostles laid hands on them. So he came to Peter and John and offered them money.

Simon: I want to purchase this ability to confer the Holy Spirit on people through the laying on of my hands.

Peter: May your silver rot right along with you, Simon! To think the Holy Spirit is some kind of magic that can be procured with money! You aren’t even close to being ready for this kind of ministry; your heart is not right with God. You need to turn from your past, and you need to pray that the Lord will forgive the evil intent of your heart. I can see deep bitterness has poisoned you, and wickedness has locked you in chains.

Simon: Please—you must pray to the Lord for me. I don’t want these terrible things to be true of me.

Peter and John preached to and talked with the Samaritans about the message of the Lord; and then they returned to Jerusalem, stopping in many other Samaritan villages along the way to proclaim the good news.

A heavenly messenger brought this short message from the Lord to Philip during his time preaching in Samaria:

Messenger of the Lord: Leave Samaria. Go south to the Jerusalem-Gaza road.

The message was especially unusual because this road runs through the middle of uninhabited desert. But Philip got up, left the excitement of Samaria, and did as he was told to do. Along this road, Philip saw a chariot in the distance. In the chariot was a dignitary from Ethiopia (the treasurer for Queen Candace), an African man who had been castrated. He had gone north to Jerusalem to worship at the Jewish temple, and he was now heading southwest on his way home. He was seated in the chariot and was reading aloud from a scroll of the prophet Isaiah.

Philip received another prompting from the Holy Spirit:

Holy Spirit: Go over to the chariot and climb on board.

So he started running until he was even with the chariot. Philip heard the Ethiopian reading aloud and recognized the words from the prophet Isaiah.

Philip: Do you understand the meaning of what you’re reading?

The Ethiopian: How can I understand it unless I have a mentor?

Then he invited Philip to sit in the chariot. Here’s the passage he was reading from the Hebrew Scriptures:

Like a sheep, He was led to be slaughtered.

Like a lamb about to be shorn of its wool,

He was completely silent.

He was humiliated, and He received no justice.

Who can describe His peers? Who would treat Him this way?

For they snuffed out His life.

The Ethiopian: Here’s my first question. Is the prophet describing his own situation, or is he describing someone else’s calamity?

That began a conversation in which Philip used the passage to explain the good news of Jesus. Eventually the chariot passed a body of water beside the road.

The Ethiopian: Since there is water here, is there anything that might prevent me from being ceremonially washed through baptism and identified as a disciple of Jesus?

Philip: [If you believe in your heart that Jesus the Anointed is God’s Son, then nothing can stop you.

The Ethiopian said that he believed.]

He commanded the charioteer to stop the horses. Then Philip and the Ethiopian official walked together into the water. There Philip baptized him, initiating him as a fellow disciple. When they came out of the water, Philip was immediately caught up by the Holy Spirit and taken from the sight of the Ethiopian, who climbed back into his chariot and continued on his journey, overflowing with joy. Philip found himself at a town called Azotus (formerly the Philistine capital city of Ashdod, on the Mediterranean); and from there he traveled north again, proclaiming the good news in town after town until he came to Caesarea.

The Book of Acts, Chapter 8 (The Voice)

A note from The Voice translation:

They flee to the very places where Jesus said His disciples would be His witnesses at the beginning of this book. As a result, the persecution spreads the message of Christ rather than hinders it. Commenting about similar events a century later, church father Tertullian will write, “The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church.”

Today’s paired reading from the First Testament is the 41st chapter of the book of Genesis:

Two years later, Pharaoh had a dream. He dreamed that he was standing by the Nile River, and out of the Nile came seven healthy, fat cows. They all grazed in the grassy reeds at the river’s edge. Then, seven other cows, ugly and thin, came up out of the Nile and stood by them on the bank of the river. And the ugly, thin cows ate the seven healthy, fat cows. And then Pharaoh woke up, startled.

Again he fell asleep and dreamed a second time. This time, seven ears of grain, all plump and fine, were growing on one stalk. Then seven other ears that were shriveled and burnt by the east wind sprouted up after them. The shriveled ears swallowed up the seven plump and full ears. Then Pharaoh woke up again, realizing it was only a dream.

In the morning he felt uneasy, so he sent for all of the magicians and all of the wise men of Egypt to come and consult with him. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him. They had no idea what they could mean.

The chief cupbearer remembered Joseph, so he went to Pharaoh.

Cupbearer: I am reminded today of something I did wrong. Once when Pharaoh was angry with his servants, he put me and the chief baker in custody in the house of the captain of the guard. One night we both had a dream. The dreams were unique, and their interpretations were also unique. There was a young Hebrew there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. When we told him our dreams, he interpreted them for us. Things turned out exactly as he had interpreted them: I was restored to my office, and the baker was impaled.

Pharaoh sent for Joseph, hoping he could also interpret Pharaoh’s dream. His officers rushed to the dungeon to get Joseph ready to meet the king. After he had been allowed to shave and change his clothes, he was brought before Pharaoh.

Pharaoh (to Joseph): I’ve had a dream, and I can’t find anyone who can tell me what it means. But I’ve heard that when someone tells you a dream, you are able to interpret it.

Joseph: I cannot do this, but God will answer Pharaoh’s request and relieve your concerns.

Pharaoh: In my dream, I was standing on the bank of the Nile River, and seven healthy, fat cows came up out of the Nile River and grazed in the grassy reeds at the river’s edge. Then seven other cows came up after them. They were miserable, very ugly and thin. Never had I seen such horrible-looking cows in all the land of Egypt. Anyway, the thin, ugly cows ate the first seven fat cows. But after they had eaten them, no one would have known they had done so because they were still as ugly as before. Then I woke up. I fell asleep and dreamed a second time. I saw in this dream seven ears of grain, all plump and fine, growing on one stalk. And then seven ears that were withered, shriveled up, and burnt by the east wind sprouted after them. The thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. When I told the magicians about these dreams, there was no one who could explain them to me.

Joseph (to Pharaoh): Pharaoh’s dreams are one and the same. God is revealing to Pharaoh what He is going to do. The seven good cows are seven years and the seven good ears are the same seven years—years of plenty. Both dreams tell one story. The seven thin and ugly cows that came up after them are also seven years, as are the seven thin ears burnt by the east wind. These are seven years of famine. As I told Pharaoh, God is showing Pharaoh what He means to do and what will come. There will be seven years of great abundance throughout all the land of Egypt. But after that, there will be seven years of famine. Whatever abundance was once enjoyed will be totally forgotten, because the famine will consume the land. The famine will be so severe that no one will know what it is like to have enough of anything. The doubling of Pharaoh’s dream means this future is fixed by God, and He will make it happen very soon.

My advice is that Pharaoh should select someone who is wise and discerning and put him in charge of the land of Egypt during this time. Pharaoh should appoint officers over the land and direct them to take one-fifth of all that the land of Egypt produces during the seven abundant years, gather it together, store it up, and guard it under Pharaoh’s authority. That way each city will have a supply of food. The food would then be held in reserve for the people during the seven years of famine that are sure to come to Egypt. In this way, the people of Egypt will not starve to death during the famine.

Pharaoh and all his advisors liked Joseph’s suggestion.

Pharaoh (to his advisors): Is there anyone else you know like Joseph who has the Spirit of God within him?

(to Joseph) Since God has shown all of this to you, I can’t imagine anyone wiser and more discerning than you. Therefore you will be in charge of my household. All of my people will report to you and do as you say. Only I, because I sit on the throne, will be greater than you. I hereby appoint you head over all of the land of Egypt.

As a symbol of his power, Pharaoh removed the signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s. Then he dressed him in fine linens and put a gold chain around his neck. He had Joseph ride in the chariot reserved for his second-in-command, and servants ordered everyone, “Kneel!” as he rode by. So this was how Pharaoh appointed Joseph head over all of the land of Egypt. But Pharaoh had one more declaration.

Pharaoh (to Joseph): I am Pharaoh, and I decree that no one may do anything in the land of Egypt without your consent.

Then Pharaoh gave Joseph an Egyptian name, Zaphenath-paneah, and arranged for him to marry an Egyptian woman, Asenath (daughter of Potiphera, priest of On). So this was how Joseph gained authority over all the land of Egypt.

Now Joseph was 30 years old when he entered into Pharaoh’s service. He left the king of Egypt’s presence to travel throughout the land. For seven years—the years of plenty—the land produced abundantly. Joseph gathered up all of the food he could during those seven years of plenty in the land of Egypt and stored the grain in the cities. He arranged for every city to store the food grown in local fields. And he stored up so much grain—as much as the grains of sand on the seashore—that he stopped measuring it. It was more than anyone could measure!

Now before the famine began, Joseph had two sons by his wife Asenath (daughter of Potiphera, priest of On). Joseph named his firstborn son Manasseh because he said, “God has made me forget all about my hardship and all of my father’s family.” He named the second son Ephraim, because as he said, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my misfortune.”

Eventually, the seven years of plenty in the land of Egypt came to an end, and the seven years of famine settled in, just as Joseph had predicted. Although the famine extended to all the surrounding lands, in Egypt there was still food stored away in the cities. When the people in Egypt became famished, they appealed to Pharaoh for food; and Pharaoh directed them all to Joseph.

Pharaoh: Go to Joseph, and do what he tells you to do.

So when the famine had spread across the land of Egypt, Joseph opened up the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians. But he waited until the famine had become severe in the land. When the surrounding peoples heard Egypt still had food, they journeyed to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because by this time the entire world was in the grip of a severe famine.

The Book of Genesis, Chapter 41 (The Voice)

A note from The Voice translation:

Pharaoh wants there to be no doubt that Joseph is his second-in-command. So he holds a formal ceremony and presents Joseph with special gifts, symbols of high office and power. He gives Joseph his signet ring, mounted with Pharaoh’s personal seal. He dresses him in royal garb and provides him with the finest chariot available. He issues decrees that put Joseph in charge of all affairs in Egypt. Finally, to top it off and to make sure this son of Israel would be fully accepted into Egyptian society, he gives him an Egyptian name and arranges a marriage with a high-profile priestly family. Just a few hours before, Joseph was a prisoner. Now he is in charge of all the land.

A link to my personal reading of the Scriptures for friday, April 12 of 2024 with a paired chapter from each Testament (the First & the New) of the Bible along with Today’s Proverbs and Psalms

A post by John Parsons about turning away from the past (tense):

The search for chametz (חפש ח��ץ) before Passover may be likened to the soul searching we do before the High Holidays in the fall, when we take an inventory of our spiritual condition (חשבון נפש) and do teshuvah. The Torah instructs us to carefully search and remove sources of inner impurity so that we might experience the truth that we are a "new lump" - that is, a new substance that is purged from the sour and rotting influences of our past lives... And since Yeshua has been sacrificed as your Passover Lamb, you are indeed a new creation (בּריה חדשׁה) made "unleavened" (pure) by the power of the Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 5:17). Therefore you are likewise commanded to put away the "old nature" (יצר הרע) and purge from your life the old influences that inwardly canker you and make you sick (Eph. 4:22; Col. 3:9). Walk without hypocrisy in the truth of the love of God for your soul.

[ Hebrew for Christians ]

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Psalm 139:23-24 reading:

https://hebrew4christians.com/Blessings/Blessing_Cards/psalm139-23-24-jjp.mp3

Hebrew page:

https://hebrew4christians.com/Blessings/Blessing_Cards/psalm139-23-24-lesson.pdf

For more information about the search for chametz, see:

https://hebrew4christians.com/Holidays/Spring_Holidays/Pesach/Chametz/chametz.html

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from yesterday’s email by Israel365:

Israel is exalted when they worship God alone

This passage is not just another of many prophecies in the Bible foretelling the return of Israel to their land and the reinstatement of the Temple worship. The point of this passage is different. Ezekiel is telling us that the prestige and exalted status of the nation of Israel will come about only when we are worshipping God fully.

A personal note:

the last Temple was destroyed in Jerusalem in 70 AD and there is a desire by some to rebuild and reinstate the worship set forth from ancient times, although the sacrifice of the Messiah and Son Yeshua fulfilled Yom Kippur by truly cleansing us from sin and its death sentence by giving us A new True nature (inside, Anew) being reborn of the 2nd (last) Adam

but we do see the prophecy given to Ezekiel of a coming Temple on earth and a set form of worship in Israel which looks forward to when the Son will rule from Jerusalem as King for 1,000 years followed by the heaven and earth.

Today’s message (Days of Praise) from the Institute for Creation Research

April 12, 2024

Balaam's Error

“Woe unto them! for they...ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward.” (Jude 1:11)

Balaam is a very complex character recorded in Numbers 22–24. He is cited for an ability to communicate with “the LORD” and had a reputation for accurate prophecy (Numbers 22:6-8). As the new nation of Israel traveled northward into the Sinai Peninsula, Balak the king of Moab became worried that Israel would subjugate his nation and recruited Balaam to curse them.

Balaam “loved the wages of unrighteousness” (2 Peter 2:15) but was astute enough to know that he could not talk God into doing anything God did not want to do! But even though Balaam was aware of the dangers of getting involved on the wrong side of God’s work, he wormed and squirmed through several interchanges with God until he was finally allowed to go. “God’s anger was kindled” at the stubbornness of this man, and the famous interchange with the donkey took place (Numbers 22:22-31).

Still Balaam persisted with his venture for Balak of Moab and “ran greedily” after the reward that he had been promised. When he arrived at the place where he planned to curse Israel, Balaam knew enough about the correct sacrifices to build the right kinds of altars and sacrifice the right kinds of animals, then he proceeded to seek God’s “word” for Israel. Three times God “put a word” in Balaam’s mouth to bless Israel, and three times Balak insisted that he try again to curse them.

Instead of repenting of his foolishness, Balaam bragged about his ability to know what God wanted and “taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel” (Revelation 2:14). Those who prostitute the gifts of God for their own profit will come under a “greater condemnation” (James 3:1). May God protect us from the Balaams among the churches. HMM III

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About the formation of great dunes with an article by the ICR from the March/April 2024 issue of Acts & Facts

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casmong · 10 months ago

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The Hope of Israel

“So for this reason I have called to see you and speak with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.” Acts 28:20

For the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.—The mention of “chain” in the singular agrees with the fact stated in Acts 28:30, that he was entrusted to the keeping of a single soldier.

The words “the hope [מִקְוֵ֤ה (miq·wêh)] of Israel [יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ (yiś·rā·’êl)]” occurs verbatim twice in Jeremiah's prophecy, a man who himself spent a long time being imprisoned for the faith and being ‘bound by chains’[ Jeremiah 14:8; 17:13], with both references making mention of YAH being a Saviour who saves, and that there is no other to save.

The word ‘hope’ is itself reference to a cord, as when Rahab hid the spies that came to asses how to conquer Jericho she hid them and after the city authorities were gone let them down through her window and made a covenant that they would rescue her from the destruction they would bring, and the token of the arrangement would be the scarlet [הַשָּׁנִ֨י (haš·šā·nî)] cord [תִּקְוַ֡ת (tiq·waṯ) חוּט֩ (ḥūṭ)] she used to facilitate their escape[Joshua 2:18]. A cord was made of twining strands of natural fibers together, which teaches of how our lives are intertwined with YAH and our Savior Jesus the Anointed.

The scripture carefully makes mentions of the chord being ‘scarlet’, which of course brings our minds and makes reference to the Saviour and Messiah, the 'hope of Israel', who in the Messianic prayer of Psalm 22 started with 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?' and then later continues on to say "but I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.- Psalm 22:6

The Mention of "am a worm" [תוֹלַ֣עַת (ṯō·w·la·‘aṯ) - worm, scarlet stuff, crimson] alludes to 'coccus ilicis' or scarlet worm, where when the female is ready to give birth to her young, she would attach her body permanently to the trunk of a tree, and would deposit her eggs beneath her body where they would be protected until the larvae were hatched and able to enter their own life cycle. As the mother died, the crimson fluid stained her body and the surrounding wood. It is from the dead bodies of such female scarlet worms, the commercial scarlet dyes of antiquity were extracted. It was this scarlet blood stain that was used to color the cord Rahab used to allow the spies to escape all these years before, and it will be the blood stain of Jesus that also saves us.

This hope of Israel also referred to the hope of the resurrection as previously mentioned [Acts 26:6,7], where Jesus will return as the realization of the things hoped for of Messiah, and the evidence of things yet to be seen; of Jesus the Christ the Anointed [One], who is himself the hope of Israel.

The context was that Paul was already a prisoner in Judea, and more that forty Jews covenanted themselves to assassinate Paul for preaching Jesus[Acts 23:12], and had made arrangements with the ruling Jewish Council (viz Sanhedrin) to invite Paul for an audience, so that their co-conspirators and murderous assassins could kill Paul. Paul's nephew heard of the plot and eventually informed Paul who being a Roman citizen made arrangement with the 'chief captain' [Gk χιλίαρχος, ου, ὁ (chiliarchos) - chilliarch, a commander of a thousand men, a military tribune] who dispatched two centurion and two hundred men, who safely brought Paul to Caesarea before Antonius Felix the procurator (viz governor) and ranking Roman official in charge of Judea and Samaria. Caesarea in Palestine or Caesarea Maritima was at the time the administrative headquarters of the Roman procurators and of the Roman garrison in Palestine.

After the Jewish rulers and their eloquent orator Tertullus 'descended' from Jerusalem to Caesarea and were unable to persuade Felix to hand Paul over to them. Eventually after two years Felix was replaced by Porcius Festus (~55 AD), who sent Paul to Rome to stand trial under Emperor Nero. Even though Paul was again able to argue his point, that he did not violate Jewish, nor Roman laws, nor committed treason against Caesar, but because Festus was newly appointed in the notoriously rebellious province, he wanted to gain good will among the rambunctious Jews, and so intended to send Paul to be tried before the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem. To avoid being handed over to the Jews who wanted to kill him, he appealed to Caesar, and being that he was a Roman citizen they were obligated to grant his request.

So in that context, Paul is saying that the only reason he is bound with a chain is because he preached Jesus Christ, the hope of Israel; and since he was actually innocent according to Jewish and Roman laws and customs, the only reason why he was a prisoner bound with a chain is because of the gospel he believed and preached.

The connotation of the hope of Israel is that the hope of Israel is a Saviour and Deliverer and Redeemer, and when the things hoped for come to fruition those who trust and place their confidence in the hope of Israel will be safe.

#hope #grace #jesus #god #love #faith #bless

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ramrodd · 1 year ago

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Did Constantine Really Convert?

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Constantine discovered after the Milvian Bridge that all the solders were Christians on both side of the bridge and that the Italian Cohort at the core of the Praetorian Guard, the republican administrative state of the Republic and the Empire. was a secret Christian Fellowship that held the Holy Grail of the Last Supper. Jesus told Cornelius and Pilate where it was in the Upper Room in the hospitality center of Mary of Jerusalem, John Mark's mother. Bread and Wine was the essence of the Christian Fellowship that had conveyed from

Melchizedek by way of Passover to Tiberius from the Cross. Theophilus was the Bishop of the Italian Cohort and the staff officer in charge of the Christian manifesto of the Roman Republic, Hebrews. All this conveyed to Constantine as a consequence of his victory based on the Christian-Druid talisman, XP.. You need to connect the dots between his vision before the battle Revelation 13. The Holy Spirit will lead you from their.

Constantine's fatal decision to dismantle the Praetorian Guard lsimply accelerated the disintegration of the Roman Republic of Empire. The Praetorian Guard was the republican administrate state of the Roman Republic (which is the model of the Articles of Confederation) and the Empire with a permanent Chief Executive Officer. The Roman Stoics were very fastidious in the selection of the temporary dictators, such as Cincinnatus, in times of crises, but the nature of the sociology at that required a proactive capacity the Republicans system doesn't provide. ,

The Praetorian Guard represented a horizontal structure that supported the vertical structures of Roman sociology and anthropology. The Praetorian Guard was the Federal Government of the Roman nation The Praetorian Guard provided all the bureaucratic services for the diplomatic/military career path Julius Caesar and Pilate were on. The centurions provided an essential inspector general function that von Steubin brought to Valley Forge. The difference between True Warfare and Real, or Primitive, Warfare is the difference between Rome and the rest of the world.

The deterioration of this instrument, the Roman administrative state spread out across the Mediterranean Basin to sustain Pax Roman. Sejanus was something of a genius in terms of personnel management and administration and and he ran a very clean ship: there were very few blatantly corrupt diplomats in the field Pilate was in charge of a Roman colony that included Judea. He may have appropriated the gold from the Temple, but he used it to finance an aqueduct that delivered that wealth to the community communities around the Galilee. Everybody was living large under Pilate. Josephus claims that he was an advocate for Jewish assimilation into Pax Romana as rational self-interest, in contrast to the Zealots, who were also living large, but wanted the entire pie. After Sejanus was executed, his successors lacked entirely his Salt Water operational nuance It was the corruption of the Roman Procurator that created and triggered the critical mass of the Jewish Wars. But the centurions represented the moral substance across the Empire that overcame the decadence of the executive classes.

And then Constantine took that away and tried substitute verticle structures of the Council of Nicea for the horizontal stability of the Praetorian Guard. The thing is , the Italian Cohort of the Praetorian Guard didn't realize they were Christians until it became dangerous to be a Christian, Which occurred the moment Tiberius introduced the term to Roman Senate in the midst of the purges from Sejanus. The relationships of the Pope to the Swiss Guard is what Constantine discovered his relationship to the Christians at the Milvian Bridge. He may not have actually converted, but his mother became the Patron Saint of Christian archeology.

The future of your scholarship is James Tabor's intuition that Mark and John are an entwined lnarrative.

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