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Resurrection (2)

Now at that time Michael, the great prince who stands guard over the sons of your people, will arise. And there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the book, will be rescued.  And many of those who sleep…
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Resurrection (1)

Now at that time Michael, the great prince who stands guard over the sons of your people, will arise. And there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the book, will be rescued.  And many of those who sleep…
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The End of Conversation

And these three men left off answering Job because he was right in his own eyes.  Job 32:1  Robert Alter Right in his own eyes – The book of Job is a disturbing story.  It’s hard to imagine that God would allow such terrible suffering for a man who served Him with all his heart. …
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Faith and Failure

She weeps on through the night, and her tears are on her cheek.  Lamentations 1:2  Robert Alter Weeps on – “If faith is to become real, catastrophe must be acknowledged and fully spoken.”[1] Perhaps you need to read that Zornberg statement again.  Slowly.  If you want a real faith, faith that matters, that has grit,…
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Not Quite What You Thought

Train up a child [a]in the way he should go, even when he grows older he will not abandon it.  Proverbs 22:6  NASB In the way he should go – Did you see that little footnote before this phrase?  In the margin, the NASB says, “according to his way.”   It’s not quite the same idea, is…
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DIY

Israel has been saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation; You will not be put to shame or humiliated to all eternity.  Isaiah 45:17  NASB Eternity – Isaiah just got it wrong.  He wrote long before the continuous anti-Semitism of Europe and certainly before WWII.  Israel was humiliated over and over and over again.  I guess this…
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