Psalm 95:7b-11 Today, if only you would hear his voice,
8 “Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,
as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness,
9 where your ancestors tested me;
they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
10 For forty years I was angry with that generation;
I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they have not known my ways.’
11 So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’”
Yes, it is from this mess we have the word mess-hall in the military.
Here let me interject a story from my childhood. In Sweden at that time we had Christianity as a subject first thing in the morning every day in the lower grades. My younger brother was in first grade, the teacher always started with Genesis, and had come to this passage in the Bible. I was in middle school in town, and his elementary school was local. Anyhow, upon hearing the story he exclaimed “It is the same with my big brother, he eats and eats and is never getting any fatter” The story spread from our village to town, and I got yet another nickname.
It was an early dream of Climate change.
Climate Change is “best” solved by taxation of the abundance, but unlike today that abundance was not to be spent immediately, but be put in storage for the lean, dry years.
The famine is recorded in hieroglyphs, like in the tablet below.
Joseph is in prison.
Dreams are prominent in the Old Testament.
In the New Testament the importance of dreams did go away. The reference in Acts is from Joel 2:38 “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.”
The reference in Jude is a warning not to trust in dreams: Jude 8: In the very same way, on the strength of their dreams these ungodly people pollute their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings.
The importance of visions continues through the New testament.
Trances are mentioned three times, all in Acts.
Schechem = Sychar
| Now there stands a large shrine where Sarah’s grave is. |
Think about that!
Or, “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” (KJV)
This was before kosher laws, where dairy products and meat are eaten separately.
This is now the sixth name of God introduced.
The covenant is with Isaac, not Ishmael.
But Ishmael was still circumcised with Abraham, and his male household!
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