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MONDAY, MARCH 20TH, 2017
Northern Hemisphere
Spring Equinox:
Monday, March 20, 6:29 A.M. EDT
(EDT-Eastern Daylight Time / Eastern Daylight Savings Time)
FRIDAY, MARCH 17TH, 2017
^SAINT PATRICK^
SEE THE WRITING ABOUT SAINT PATRICK IN WBS #136 GENESIS 2 *GOD RESTED*
ACCORDING TO LEGEND, SAINT PATRICK USED THE THREE-LEAVED SHAMROCK TO EXPLAIN THE HOLY TRINITY TO IRISH PAGANS.
TO EVERYONE!
Joy is a fruit of the Holy Spirit - Galatians 5:22
Genesis 32:1-32
{whole chapter}
1/ So Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 2/ When
Jacobsaw them,
he said, “This is God’s camp.” And he called the name of that place Mahanaim {Literally Double Camp}.
3/ Then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom. 4/ And he commanded them, saying, “Speak thus to my lord Esau, ‘Thus your servant Jacob says: “I have dwelt with Laban and stayed there until now. 5/ I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.”’”
6/ Then the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and he also is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.” 7/ So Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies. 8/ And he said, “If Esau comes to the one company and attacks it, then the other company which is left will escape.”
9/ Then Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your family, and I will deal well with you’: 10/ I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which You have shown Your servant; for I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two companies. 11/ Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and attack me and the mother with the children. 12/ For You said, ‘I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’”
13/ So he lodged there that same night, and took what came to his hand as a present for Esau his brother: 14/ two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15/ thirty milk camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals. 16/ Then he delivered them to the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put some distance between successive droves.” 17/ And he commanded the first one, saying, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, ‘To whom do you belong, and where are you going? Whose are these in front of you?’ 18/ then you shall say, ‘They are your servant Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord Esau; and behold, he also is behind us.’” 19/ So he commanded the second, the third, and all who followed the droves, saying, “In this manner you shall speak to Esau when you find him; 20/ and also say, ‘Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.” 21/ So the present went on over before him, but he himself lodged that night in the camp.
Jacob Wrestles
22/ And he arose that night and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of Jabbok. 23/ He took them, sent them over the brook, and sent over what he had. 24/ Then Jacob was left alone; and a Man {considered to be an angel, referenced elsewhere in Hosea 12:4} wrestled with him until the breaking of day. 25/ Now when He {the angel} saw that He did not prevail against him, He {the angel} touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him. 26/ And He {the Angel} said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.”
But he said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me!”
27/ So He {the Angel} said to him, “What is your name?”
He said, “Jacob.”
28/ And He {the Angel} said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; {Literally Prince with God} for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
29/ Then Jacob asked, saying, “Tell me Your name, I pray.”
And He said, “Why is it that you ask about My name?” And He blessed him there.
30/ So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel {Literally Face of God}: “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” 31/ Just as he crossed over Penuel {Literally Face of God} the sun rose on him, and he limped on his hip. 32/ Therefore to this day the children of Israel do not eat the muscle that shrank, which is on the hip socket, because He touched the socket of Jacob’s hip in the muscle that shrank.
The word kosher, literally meaning “clean” or “pure,” refers to food that has been ritually prepared or blessed so it can be eaten by religious Jews. It comes from the Hebrew word kasher, meaning "proper" or "lawful," and became common in English in the mid-19th Century. According to the laws of the Torah {the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures {the Pentateuch}, also Christian Old Testament 1st five books of the Bible, to be eaten, a kosher species must be slaughtered by a "Schochet," a ritual slaughterer; because Jewish Law prohibits causing any pain to animals, the slaughtering has to be effected in such a way that unconsciousness is instantaneous and death occurs almost instantaneously.
Although we are Free in Christ Jesus and not required to keep Old Testament dietary laws, as we study the Bible we see it is important to know about them to make informed decisions as to whether or not incorporating them into our current lifestyle would lead to us having a better quality of life and be more beneficial and healthful for ourselves and for our families and loved ones.
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