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Post by Tamrin on Mar 29, 2009 9:11:54 GMT 10
Text for the Week:So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at herJohn 8:7
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 5, 2009 7:01:46 GMT 10
Text for the Week:And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worshipActs 8:27
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 10, 2009 9:39:50 GMT 10
Text for Good Friday:And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?Mark 15:34
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 12, 2009 8:53:06 GMT 10
Text for the week:Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the firstMatthew 27:64
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 19, 2009 9:10:10 GMT 10
Text for the Week:For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy landDeuteronomy 15:11
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 26, 2009 9:34:35 GMT 10
Text for the Week:Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto GodPsalm 68:31
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Post by Tamrin on May 3, 2009 9:06:12 GMT 10
Text for the week:And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothingI Corinthians 13:2
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Post by Tamrin on May 10, 2009 8:09:27 GMT 10
Text for the Week:And [Josiah] the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal [not a proper name but a title, meaning "the Lord"], and for the grove [Asherah], and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal [i.e., the Lord], to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
And he brought out the grove [ashera] from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites [kadoshim = "holy ones'], that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove [ashera].II Kings 23:4/7
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Post by Tamrin on May 17, 2009 8:40:06 GMT 10
Text for the Week:3 ... brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north where was the seat of the image of jealousy [image of Asherah], which provoketh to jealousy. 4 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel [Shekinah] was there... 5 ... So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy [image of Asherah] in the entry... 8 Then he said unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door [i.e., a sealed door]... 10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things [e.g., the brazen serpent], and abominable beasts [e.g., lions and cherubim], and all the idols [e.g., asherim] of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the walls round about. 11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel [i.e., the proto-Sanhedrin], and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand... 14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord’s house which was toward the north; and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz... [Ezekial was writing in Babylon, where Tammuz was the local name for the consort of the goddess] 16 And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs towards the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. 17 Then he said unto me ... they have filled the land with violence[unspecified, presumably theological violence], and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose .
Ezekiel 8:3/17
Ezekiel 8, Butler Tay Arts
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Post by Tamrin on May 24, 2009 15:51:10 GMT 10
Text for the Week:Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear. And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living. And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it. Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.I Kings 3:16/28 In I Kings 3:16, the Hebrew word translated as "harlot" is "zanah," one of several meaning of which is to be a " cult prostitute" (one supposes common prostitutes would not presume to present themselves as such to the king). If this story refers to women who officiated in administering sex as a sacrament in the Jerusalem temple (as was the custom elsewhere in the region at the time), one might suppose they did so as priestesses of Asherah (the holy ones, "Kadoshim"). We read:Please note, the degree to which the pre-Judaic Hebrews differed from their neighbors prior to the Deuteronomistic innovations under Josiah is debatable, even in terms of the Biblical account. BTW, I am definitely NOT advocating a return to or emulation of the archaic Hebrew religion. I consider wistfully a time when the sensuously erotic was a matter of sacramental celebration, but consider our modern society (myself included) too corrupted with pervasive and degrading pornographic images for the practice of such rites, without them too easily becoming hurtful and demeaning.
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