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The Cross Town Christmas Championship Bowl
Football Holiday Championships

SUNDAY DECEMBER 25 2022 CE

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The Pregame Show

T.H. WELCOME to the most important event of your day – in fact, the game of the week played in the ADVENT HOLIDAY TOURS of most of AMERICAN Football.

I’m your seasoned-face ANNOUNCER T.H. Pickwin along with my colleagues Big-Talk Passer and our close-up interview specialist Blondie Smilestats-Smith.

Big-Talk, if you had been the QB for today’s Christmas Bowl game when you were in college a few years back [all smile, some chuckle] how would you have approached this key match-up?

B.T. That’s a great question, T.H. First of all you may remember that when I came out of college this would have been just a post-semester trip to play football and tourist in a warmer destination, so this expanded playoff game series creates a lot of opportunities for unheard of football players to be seen by a national audience.

BLONDIE S. You’re absolutely on target, B.T. In fact, today’s CHRISTMAS BOWL GAME is one of just thirty-five [35] college bowl games this December which could provide opportunities for thousands of players on seventy [70] teams to have their moment in the sun on the big-screen. [All nod enthusiastically.]

T.H. Wow! And of course this means that these thousands of players will bring more than a million fans to watch these thirty-five [35] bowl games this month, not to mention the more traditional New Year’s bowl games and extended championship games into January.

B.T. And T.H. all this in addition to NFL Pro games on Sundays and several other days in December..

BLONDIE S. .. and let’s not forget that both college and pro basketball are getting into full swing too; which reminds me later I’ll have some inside information from the MLB winter meetings and the latest rumors of where the money-players will be moving next spring.

T.H. Thanks Blondie. We look forward to that in your half-time insider report.

NOW, due to some unexpected help from Mother Nature we will be taking you directly to our Christmas Bowl Kick-off report with B.T.’s keys to the game as soon as we hear from today’s sponsors of the College Football Holiday Bowl series.

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Christmas Day 2022 of the Common Era

First Half Matchups

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Second Half Coach Interviews

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[10 second responses]

Final Time-out

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Miller-time Crowd response

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December 25, 2022
Gardener, Shepherd and Hunter: 7 Scenes Unseen by Man

ACT 2 – Scene 1 – in an unseen place

Where am I?

I have brought you to a place unseen by man.

You showed me a scene I had never seen of the death of Abel.. and Eve mourning the loss of her son murdered by her other son… and about sin in Eden. Was this story of Moses true?

I have shown you scenes revealed to Moses from near the beginning of time. His story was true, though Moses was not there.

Tell me, why did Moses leave Egypt?

By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter..
[Click here to read NASB in context]
Hebrews 11:24

By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he persevered, as though seeing Him who is unseen.
Hebrews 11:27 NASB

Moses was sort of a shepherd then, wasn’t he?

Yes, in a sense.. But a later shepherd led his followers to the right answer from Scripture to your question. Do you recall what David said?

מִזְמוֹר לְדָוִד יְהוָה רֹעִי לֹא אֶחְסָֽר׃

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Moses followed the unseen Shepherd as he led the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt.

So is this place like when you showed me what happened east of Eden?

These scenes take place in the unseen places above the heavens — or beneath the earth — places connected to the timeline of man yet separate from the mortal life of any one man or woman.

I don’t think I understand, I thought as my Guide explained unseen places where He has evidently led me.

Allow me to show you one such unseen scene from around the time of Moses. The actions here impact a righteous man who lived in a different land. But this scene does not take place there.

Unseen in Uz

One day the angels [sons of God] came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan [the adversary] also came with them.

The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”

Satan answered the LORD, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”

Job 1:6-7 NIV

Do you know this story?

Yes. It’s about Job, who suffers all kinds of evil without knowing why.

Is Job part of this conversation with the LORD in the unseen place? So who is the main character in this story of Job?

I knew the obvious answer. Job was clueless about God allowing him to suffer severely for some time.

Satan.. And didn’t you also say that Moses called him the Serpent?

You yourself recognized the Serpent as the hunter. And what prey does he hunt?

Souls! The soul of Cain.. the soul of Eve.. the soul of Adam..

So too is Satan hissing at God when he calls for evil to tempt Job’s soul toward the pit of darkness.

So the Serpent’s name is really Satan.

שָׂטָן

śāṭān – noun

superhuman adversary, הַשּׂ׳ :
a. of Job, one of בְּנֵי אֱלֹהִים Job 1:6, 7 (twice in verse); Job 1:8, 9, 12 (twice in verse); Job 2:1, 2(twice in verse); Job 2:3, 4 (twice in verse); Job 2:6, 7.
b. of high priest of Israel before י׳, Zechariah 3:1, 2(twice in verse); Greek Version of the LXX. ὁ διάβολος.
c. as proper name שׂ׳ Satan 1 Chronicles 21:1 (interpret 2 Samuel 24:1), Greek Version of the LXX διάβολος (Greek Version of the LXX σατάν 1 Kings 11:14, 23; Σατανᾶς Matthew 4:10; Mark 1:13; Luke 10:18 + 33 times NT).

Source- [Lexicon :: Strong’s H7854 – śāṭān

And as Moses said, this Tempter is cunning; and as a spirit shepherding evil in the unseen places he has many names, sometimes even appearing as a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

שָׂטַן

śāṭan – verb

Outline of Biblical Usage
(Qal) to be or act as an adversary, resist, oppose

Strong’s Definitions
שָׂטַן sâṭan, saw-tan’; a primitive root; to attack, (figuratively) accuse:—(be an) adversary, resist.

Strong’s Number H7853 matches the Hebrew שָׂטַן (śāṭan), which occurs 6 times in 6 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Job seemed helpless; not able to do anything about the evil.

Satan requested permission from God to contend with him on earth.

My thoughts and countenance were really quite dejected by now..

Remember what David said about the valley of the shadow of death? .. It is the place of evil.

I recalled briefly the Lord’s words to Cain before he murdered Abel.. The LORD cautioned Able BEFORE he turned against his brother and against the LORD who was with him and leading him along the valley of the shadow…

So how can any man resist evil from these unseen places and remain faithful to the LORD?

Do you know how David petitioned the LORD when God was angry at him for his sin?

Just like Moses, I thought, David had murdered a man. He had blood on his hands.. NO LESS THAN CAIN!

A psalm of David. A petition. NIV

LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
Psalm 38:1 NIV

Some prayers are praises to God who we cannot see, while others are petitions from our place near the valley of the shadow to the unseen place — a place above time and circumstance where the Lord sits on the Throne of justice and the Mercy Seat of redemption.

Psalm 38 NASB, KJ21, OJB, WLC

Yᵊhōvâ

Hashem, rebuke me not in Thy wrath; neither chasten me in Thy hot displeasure.

2 (3) For Thine khitzim (arrows) pierce me, Thy hand presseth me sorely.

3 There is no soundness in my flesh, because of Thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones, because of my sin.

4 For mine iniquities have gone over mine head; as a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

5 My wounds are foul and corrupt because of my foolishness.

6 (7) I am bent down; I am brought low

I go in mourning all day long.
7 For my sides are filled with burning,
And there is no healthy part in my flesh.

8 I am feeble and sorely broken; I have groaned because of the disquiet of my heart.

David pleads for mercy, confessing his guilty deeds by which he deserves the WRATH OF GOD.. He then bows down to God acknowledging:

Lord, all my desire is before You;
And my sighing is not hidden from You.

I know now after seeing these unseen places that I have NO right to expect anything from God…

David is quiet before the LORD, then pleaing:

Yes, I am like a person who does not hear,
And in whose mouth are no arguments.
¹⁵For I wait for You, Lord;
You will answer, Lord my God.

AND listen to David’s plea to the Judge of all men. Read it:

(WLC 38:21) וּמְשַׁלְּמֵי רָעָה תַּחַת טוֹבָה יִשְׂטְנוּנִי תַּחַת רדופי־ טֽוֹב׃

They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
Psalm 38:20 KJV

Eve encountered an adversary opposed to God! As did the first adam and the sons of adam.. Job.. and David.. And yes, so have you. And WHY? David tells us.

Because those who follow God and do what is good suffer evil by the hand of the adversary of the LORD God lurking in the unseen places. For Satan is an enemy of all Light which overcomes the darkness.

21 Do not abandon me, Lord;
My God, do not be far from me!
22 Hurry to help me,
Lord, my salvation!

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Gospel of John 1:5 NIV

To be continued…

May 14, 2022
Gardener, Shepherd and Hunter: 6 – Synopsis ACT 1
The Scenes

Once upon a time…
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An illustration of times in life beyond the bounds of time and place.
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We learned (with our eyes closed) that sometimes the only way for the blind to see beyond the ends of the infinite line of time is to listen to our Guide rather than than embrace the false vision of a fallen world.

Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and tend it.
Genesis 2:15 NASB20

The Characters
- Narrator
- a Guide, who has led our Narrator through scenes so far near the beginning of time and engages us in conversation and thought about God’s word and character
- Cahyin – קַ֫יִן proper name, masculine Cain, Kain eldest son of Adam and Eve
  - a farmer (or a gardener)
- Abel – הֶבֶל Hebel, heh’-bel; , the son of Adam:—Abel.
  - a shepherd
- the LORD – יְהֹוָה Yᵊhōvâ
- Eve – חַוָּה khav-vaw’ Eve = “life” or “living”
  - (living with the grief of the death of her son Abel and the sin of her son Cain)
- the Serpent – נָחָשׁ naw-khawsh’, From נָחַשׁ nâchash, naw-khash’; a primitive root; properly, to hiss
  - the Hunter, cunning, constantly questioning God and known by many names
Now Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a cultivator of the ground.
Genesis 4;2b NASB20

Some takeaways from Act 1

He has sown the seeds of envy and will harvest the thistles of thanklessness.
Insight of the Guide about the Gardener, Cahyin

“Not only is this tragic death of their son Abel new to them,” my guide pointed out to me, “the impact of DEATH itself has just gripped Adam and Eve — two parents who the LORD had told many years before,

‘You shall surely die.’”
Genesis 2:17 וּמֵעֵץ הַדַּעַת טוֹב וָרָע לֹא תֹאכַל מִמֶּנּוּ כִּי בְּיוֹם אֲכָלְךָ מִמֶּנּוּ מוֹת תָּמֽוּת׃

You open your eyes in a place of darkness. And darkness and deception are the place where the hunter hides.

If you look closely you will find the hunter wherever there is disobedience to God.

Now the serpent was more cunning than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made.
Genesis 3:1a NASB20

Introducing the first adam:
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COMMENTARY: Adam did not create Eve. 
Some Bibles translate 'Adam' as 'man' because Scripture commonly uses the word to mean (literally) mankind (by contrast to creatures of God not in His image).
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Lexicon :: Strong’s H120 – ‘āḏām אָדָם

Then the man said,
“At last this is bone of my bones,
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called ‘woman,’
Because she was taken out of man.”

Reintroducing ‘Eve’

Lexicon :: Strong’s H802 – ‘iššâ אִשָּׁה

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife H802; and they shall become one flesh.
Genesis 2:24 NASB20
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COMMENTARY: Note that WIFE and WOMAN are the same word: אִשָּׁה 'iššâ
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Once upon a time…

… there was a woman. She was wife of the man. They both sinned. And almost immediately their own children (even as grown men) also sinned.

It was only then that Eve would have wailed wantonly with tears of remorse.

For by their sin, she and her husband would first witness death — as the LORD God had warned — DEATH of their son by the blood-stained hands of the first son of the first adam who disobeyed God.

They had ALL been deceived by the constant, cunning questioning by the hissing hater of God.

Did God really say..?

To be continued..

God willing…
May 3, 2022