-Book
of Jasher.(means
'upright').is
referred to in Joshua 10:13.
The.Book
of Jasher.was
probably
a kind of national sacred
songbook, a collection of songs in praise of the heroes of Israel, a 'book
of golden deeds' a national anthology.(a
collection of literary pieces, such as poems, short stories or plays; a
miscellany, an assortment or a catalog, as of complaints, comments or ideas).
We have only two specimens
from the book:
1) the words of Joshua which
he spake to the Lord at the crisis of the battle of Beth-horon.(Joshua
10:12,13).and
2).'the
Song of the Bow' that beautiful and touching mournful elegy
which David composed on the occasion of the death of Saul and Jonathan:.2Samuel
1:18-27.
Other
books, some long since lost or long removed from circulation, are also
mentioned in the Old Testament.
-Serpent.who
beguiled
the
first woman:.Easton's
Bible Dictionary:."A
real serpent was the agent of the temptation, as is plain from what is
said of the natural characteristic of the serpent in the first verse of
the chapter and from the curse pronounced upon the animal itself. But that
Satan
was the actual tempter and that he used the serpent merely as his instrument,
is evident from the nature of the transaction, for although the serpent
may be the most subtle of all the beasts of the field, yet it has not the
high intellectual faculties which the tempter here displayed."
Angels can take any form
1,
2.
-Emerods:
Bleeding piles known to the ancient Romans as mariscae and today as hemorrhoids.
-Haman:
Comprised with.Easton's
Dictionary:.the
name Haman is of Persian
origin and means, magnificent,
the name of the vizier.(i.e.,
the prime
minister).of
the Persian king Ahasuerus.(Esther
3:1, etc.). He is called an "Agagite",
as.Agag.was
one of the titles of Amalekite kings and denotes
that Haman was descended from the royal family of the
Amalekites,
the bitterest enemies of ancient Israel.
Balaam
a prophet, predicted
that the Amalekites, even though they were one of the first nations on
Earth,
would perish
as a people forever. Haman was the last of the Amalekite race.
His parents were originally brought to Persia as captives taken in war.
He plotted to have the ancient Jews eradicated:.Esther
3:13. The result of his plot was he was hanged on the gallows which
he had erected for Mordecai the Jew:.Esther
7:1-10. And so ended the race of the Amalekites.
-Padanaram:
The plain of Aram or the plain of the highlands, commonly regarded as the
district of Mesopotamia.(map).lying
around Haran.
-Shewbread:
This bread consisted of twelve loaves made of the finest flour. They were
flat and thin and were placed in two rows of six each on a table in the
holy place before the Lord. They were renewed every Sabbath and had special
instructions for baking this holy bread.(Leviticus
24:5-9).and
those loaves that were removed to give place to the new ones were to be
eaten by the priests only in the holy place.(see
1Samuel
21:3-6; compare Matthew 12:3,4).
The number of the loaves represented the twelve tribes of Israel and also
the entire spiritual Israel, 'the
true Israel' and the placing of them on the table symbolized the entire
consecration of Israel to the Lord and their acceptance of God as their
God. The table for the bread was made of acacia wood, 3 feet long, 18 inches
broad and 2 feet 3 inches high. It was plated with pure gold. Two staves,
plated
with gold, passed through golden rings, were used for carrying it.
Comprised with.Barne's
Notes:."The
law commanded that twelve loaves of bread should be laid on the table in
the holy place in the ancient tabernacle, to remain a week and then to
be eaten by the priests only. Their place was supplied then by fresh bread.
This was called the shewbread."; again,.Leviticus
24:5-9.
David, fleeing
from Saul, weary and hungry, had come to Ahimelech the priest and had found
only this bread. David had asked it of him and had eaten it, contrary to
the letter of the law:.1Samuel
21:1-6. It proved that in cases of necessity the laws did not bind
a man; a principle which all laws admit. So the necessity of the disciples
justified them in doing on the sabbath what would have been otherwise unlawful.
-Notes on Genesis
1:1
comprised from.Leopold's
Notes.on
'without form and void':
By an outstanding double
expression an almost onomatopoeic effect.(the
formation or use of words such as 'buzz' or 'murmur' that imitate the sounds
associated with the objects or actions they refer to, such as 'buzz' is
an onomatopoeic word to describe the sound of bees).is
secured to describe the utmost of an unformed and unshapen mass: 'waste'
and 'void', original being 'tóhû wavóhû'.
Tóhû.('tohu',
'without form').is
really a noun used as an emphatic.adjective,
as is also of course, 'bóhû'.('bohu',
'void'). The verb 'it was', original
is 'hayethah' and cannot bear the emphasis in a sentence where two such
significant predicates
follow.
It must merely serve as a
copula. Consequently, all attempts to put into this verb
some thought like: 'the Earth then was there', or 'lay thus for quite a
time', are grammatically quite inadmissible. Now tóhû as such
means originally unformedness and so can come to mean a 'waste'
only in the sense of being not yet put into shape, not in the sense of
having been laid waste by some catastrophe, as all those would postulate
who try at every point to make room for geologic periods of development.
All later usage of the word points in the same direction. It occurs once
again with bóhû in.Jeremiah
4:23. The Earth was yet to be formed into the physical from frequencies.(*),
for all ever and always will be frequencies.
Jabez:
The Creator remained distant from Jabez.(1Chronicles
4:9,10) until Jabez called on Him,
although the Creator darn well does what He
wants, when He wants and to whom and how He so wishes! He downright.stopped
Paul cold!
The Creator deals with each
of us differently. He knows us better than we know ourselves.
Jabez
wanted God's hand to be upon him. God answered him. He will you too!
but,
if you too pray for God's hand upon you or for God
to
fill you with His Spirit.(His
nature, His power, etc.), what are
you going to do with it?
You may be the hose and the
Spirit of God the water inside it and you may ask for more of God's Spirit
and then see no difference. You may feel like a living contradiction to
Ephesians
1:19. Why? You've asked for more of His Spirit. He always answers that:.Matthew
7:7-11 "Ask and it shall be given you; seek and you shall find; knock
and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asks receives and he
that seeks finds and to him that knocks it shall be opened. Or what man
is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or
if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being
evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how
much more
shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask
him?"
So where's the problem? God
has
answered! You know He has. He has increased the pressure inside the hose.
But, hey, open the nozzle! Give opportunity.(Matthew
5:44).for
it to flow:.Titus
2:7 "In all things showing yourself a pattern of good works....." Hebrews
10:24 "And let us consider one another to provoke.(original
'sharpen up, prod, urge', why?).unto
love and to good works." Matthew 5:16
"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works
and glorify your Father which is in heaven."
Tabitha's
example. More:.Ephesians
2:10; 1Timothy 2:10;
5:10;
6:18;
2Timothy
3:17);
Titus 2:14;
3:8;
1Peter
2:12.
-Romans
13:1-8 "Let every soul.be
subject unto.(Jeremiah
27:1-17) the higher powers. For
there
is no power
but of God. The powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore
resists the power, resists the ordinance of God and they that resist receive
to themselves damnation.(as
happened in an ancient high priest's life named Eli).
For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Will you then
not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good and you will have praise
of the same, for he is the minister of God to you.for
good.(if
they really are for good, as some are not and are totally given
to evil as reported
by Janet Ossebaard). But if you do
that which is evil, be afraid, for he bears not the sword in vain; for
he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that do
evil.(that
is, those of a bad nature).
Wherefore you must needs be subject, not only for wrath's sake.(you
may get yourself into trouble), but
also for conscience sake. For this cause pay your tribute.(taxes).also.
For they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
Render therefore to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute is due; custom
to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour. Owe no man any
thing, but to love one another. For he that loves another has fulfilled
the law.(what
law?)."
1Peter
2:13,14 "Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's
sake, whether it be to the king, as supreme or unto governors, as unto
them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers.(watch
your ass in life).and
for the praise of them that do well."
But if those in positions
of trust are not honorable and are avoiding punishement of evildoers and
are in fact evildoers themselves, who also avoid praising those who are
doing the best they can for others, then you're under no obligation to
submit to these criminals at all. More:.1Peter
2:13,14.
1Peter
2:17-19 "Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the
king. Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the
good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is thankworthy, if a
man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully."
Hebrews 13:17
"Obey them that have the rule over you and submit yourselves. For they
watch for your souls.(so,
do they, are they, watching for your souls, that is, watching out for benefit
of you and others or are they out to use you and rip you off and poison
you all toward eventual death?.Matthew
7:16), as they that must give account, that they may
do it with joy and not with grief..."
1Timothy 2:1,2
"I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions
and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings and for all
that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life
in all Godliness and honesty."
Acts
23:1-5 "And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren,
I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day. And the
high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the
mouth. Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite you, you whited wall, for
sit you to judge me after the law and command me to be smitten contrary
to the law? And they that stood by said, Revilest you God's high priest?
Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest for it
is written.(where?.Exodus
22:28), You shalt not speak evil
of the ruler of your people."
Acts
24:16 "And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience
void of offence toward God and toward men."
Barnes
New Testament Notes.on
this passage:."There
were cases where it was right to resist the laws. This the Christian religion
clearly taught and, in cases like these, it was indispensable for Christians
to take a stand when the laws interfered with the rights of conscience
and when they commanded the worship of idols or any moral wrong, then it
was their duty to refuse submission.(ancient
Daniel's example:.Daniel
6:1-24).
"The general principle will
be seen to be, that we are to obey in all things which are not contrary
to the law of love..The
law of love includes you too.
"The higher powers:.The
magistracy; the supreme government. It undoubtedly here refers to the Roman.magistracy
and has relation not so much to the rulers as to the supreme authority
which was established as the constitution of government.".Matthew
28:18.
"Christians should be subject
to magistrates,
as they have received their appointment from God as
it were. As Christians, therefore, are to be subject to God, so they
are to honour God by honouring the arrangement which he has instituted
for the.good.government of humanity. There are many corrupt
magistrates. Judgment
is needed:.1Corinthians
6:2,3.
"Are ordained of God: This
word 'ordained' denotes
the ordering or arrangement which subsists
in a military company or army. God sets them in order, assigns them their
location, changes and directs them as he pleases. This does not mean that
he originates or causes the evil dispositions of rulers, but that he directs
and controls their appointment. By this we are not to infer:
1. that he approves their
conduct; nor,
2. that what they do is
always right; nor,
3. that it is our duty always
to submit to them. Their requirements may be opposed to the law of God,
which is the law of love and then we are to obey God rather than man:.Acts
4:13-23; 5:25-29. But it is meant
that the power is entrusted to them by God and that he has the authority
to remove them when he pleases.
"If they abuse their power,
however, they do it at their peril and when so abused, the obligation to
obey them ceases. It could not be and never was a question, whether they
should obey a magistrate when he commanded a thing that was plainly contrary
to the law of God.(what
law of God?).
"The question was, whether
they should obey a heathen magistrate at all. This question the apostle
answers in the affirmative, because God had made government necessary and
because it was arranged and ordered by his providence."
From.Adam
Clarke's Commentary.by
Gary Gallant:."Nothing
can justify the opposition of the subjects to the ruler but overt
attempts on his part to change the constitution or to rule contrary to
law. When the ruler acts thus he dissolves the compact between him and
his people; his authority is no longer binding, because illegal and it
is illegal because he is acting contrary to the laws of that constitution,
according to which, on being raised to the supreme power, he promised to
govern. This conduct justifies opposition to his government; but I contend
that no personal misconduct in the ruler, no immorality in his own life,
while he governs according to law, can justify either rebellion against
him or contempt of his authority. For his political conduct he is accountable
to his people, for his moral conduct he is accountable to God, his conscience."