...................................................................LET US LEARN TOGETHER WHAT IS GOOD. Job 34:4b(NIV)................................................................Some people see the Bible as a long and boring book filled with incidents and events from the lives of ancient people who probably never existed. The biblical stories are seen as fables. Notably, Romans 15:4 reveals: For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.(KJV) In this blog, many of the situations and conversations found in the divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible have been placed in categories that correspond to expressive sayings and phrases. Reference information, background information and links connecting the people and places are given to help you find a place to begin reading the Bible for yourself.

Friday, December 26, 2014

Nope

And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines? The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand. Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more. Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation. And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day. And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.-Judges 10:11-16***Throughout the years after the Lord God told Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) to depart from his country and kin and come into the land he would be shown, the Lord kept Abraham safe and gave Abraham the victory in battle. Isaac was born to 100-year-old Abraham and 90-year-old Sarah (Sarai). When Isaac was 40 years old, he was married to Rebekah, Abraham and Sarah's grandniece. Jacob (Israel) was the youngest fraternal twin son born to Isaac and Rebekah. The Lord God kept Isaac and Jacob safe and protected. In Padan Aram, Haran, Jacob was married to Leah and Rachel, the daughters of Rebekah's brother Laban the Syrian (Aramean). Levi was the 3rd son born to Jacob and Leah, and Judah was Jacob and Leah's 4th born son. Joseph was the 1st son born to Jacob and Rachel. Near Bethlehem, Jacob and Rachel's 2nd and last son Benjamin was born, and Rachel died. Miriam and her younger brothers Aaron and Moses were born into the tribe of Levi. Before the Lord God sent 80-year-old Moses and 83-year-old Aaron to lead the Israelites away from Egyptian slavery, the Lord God told Moses that he would be with him. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that the Lord God went before the Israelites in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. In the desert wilderness of Sinai, in the region of Mount Sinai, months after Moses and Aaron led the Israelites across the divinely parted Red Sea and into the desert wilderness of Shur, the Israelites heard the voice of the Lord God proclaim the Ten Commandments to them. The Lord God commanded the Israelites not to worship or make any other gods. When Moses was upon Mount Sinai 40 days and nights with the Lord God, the Israelites told Aaron to make gods to lead them, and began worshiping the golden calf that Aaron made. During the 40-year journey to Canaan, the Promised Land, Miriam the prophetess died and was buried in Kadesh, in the desert wilderness of Zin, and 123-year-old Aaron the high priest died upon Mount Hor, and King Sihon and the Amorites were defeated by the Israelites, and the Israelites conquered Jazer (Jaazer), a Moabite city controlled by the Amorites. When Moses went upon Mount Nebo, the Lord God showed Moses the Promised Land, and 120-year-old Moses the prophet died and was divinely buried. Joshua, Moses' aide and successor, was from the tribe of Ephraim, descended from Joseph and his wife Asenath, and Joseph and Asenath's 2nd born son Ephraim, whom Jacob proclaimed to be his own son. Joshua led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, and Isaac, and to Jacob, and their descendants. After 110-year-old Joshua died and was buried in his tribe's portion of the Promised Land, the Israelites were led by elders, judges, and their own minds. Ehud the judge led the Israelites to defeat the Moabites, Ammonites and Amalekites. Shamgar the judge killed 600 Philistines. Gideon the judge led the Israelites to victory over the Midianites, Amalekites and their allies from the east. When Samuel the priest, prophet and judge from the tribe of Levi was old, and his sons Joel (Vashni) and Abiah (Abijah) were not obeying the commands of the Lord God, and King Nahash and his Ammonite army were preparing to attack, the Israelite elders demanded that Samuel appoint a king to lead them. Samuel anointed Saul, from the tribe of Benjamin, to reign as king, according to the command of the Lord God. Approximately 1,000 years after David, from the tribe of Judah, became the 2nd king to rule over all of the Israelites, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 13:1-14:45, 20:1-25:18, 27:12-23, 31:1-54, 32:44-52, 33:50-56, Deuteronomy, Joshua 1:1-12:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 7:20-29, 8:1-40, 9:35-29:30, 2 Chronicles, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

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