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Old Testament

BIBLE exposition and essays – OLD TESTAMENT Witness JESUS CHRIST through Old Testament + the BIBLE & Scripture taught by the Messiah Jesus, who revealed the LORD’s WORD in the Person of Christ Jesus.

Genesis – Malachi

Posts here typically cover multiple books of the Old Testament in QUOTES (but not any O.T. Book in its entirety). New Testament quotes connected to an Old Testament book are oven included.

MANY Quotes linked also to HEBREW with English usage in the Old Testament, i.e. LORD or Yᵊhōvâ

יְהֹוָה

a Year of Disaster & Death for the earth
January 6, in the year of our Lord, 2022: Remembering a Year of Disaster
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Note: Realizing that this 'quick take' includes several statistics, a quick scan of these will get you to the point of these few Scriptures and their implication for our future at the mercy of our Lord. 

(I also project some political opinion which may offend both sides of these issues in the U.S. & the world. 
Glad to hear your opinion IF it connects to Scripture. RH)
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“They have lied about the LORD
and said, ‘He won’t bother us!
No disasters will come upon us.
There will be no war or famine.
The Prophet Jeremiah 5:12 NLT

WORLD POPULATION = 7 [BILLION], 918 [MILLION},291,561 *Current – Source: worldometers.info

Considering the Disaster of A.D. 2021

These are the 10 deadliest natural disasters of 2021:
1. August 2021: Earthquake Kills 2,248 in Haiti
2. December 2021: Super Typhoon Rai Kills 375 in the Philippines
3. July 2021: Floods, Landslides in China Kill at Least 302
4. July 2021: Floods Kill More than 200 in Germany, Belgium
5. April 2021: Cyclone Seroja Kills at Least 222 Indonesia, East Timor, Australia
6. October 2021: Flash Floods, Landslides Kill 201 in India, Nepal
7. May 2021: Cyclone Tauktae Kills at Least 200 in India
8. August 2021: Hurricane Ida Kills 91 Across 9 U.S. States
9. December 2021: Tornado Kills 90 Across 5 U.S. States
10. December 2021: Volcano Eruption Kills 45 in Indonesia
Source: U.S. News & World Report

source:
- SARS‑CoV‑2 − (COVID-19)
  - 5.4–21.4 million total deaths (in ALL years) (as of December 2021)
- Deaths by #choice of unborn babies worldwide according to World ‘Health’ Organization:
  - 40-50 million abortions average per year
  - Approximately 125,000 abortion deaths of babies per day
More A.D. 2021 Disaster

FOOD
- 857,534,461 Undernourished people in the world
Refugees (migrants, illegal aliens, immigrants – Men, Women & Children without homes or a place to go)
- 281 million: The estimated number of international migrants in the world²
- 50.4 million: The number of internally displaced persons
- 26 million: Estimated number of refugees in the world
  - Source
Don’t let liars prosper here in our land.
Cause great disasters to fall on the violent.

Psalm 140:11 NLT

“So will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down with violence, and will never be found again.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ to John 18:21b

“Now behold, I Myself am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.
Genesis 6:17 – The word of the LORD to Noah.

Disaster and Death: Judgment of Sin and Wickedness!

Genesis 7
- 12 The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
- 20 The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
- 21 So all creatures that moved on the earth perished:
  - birds, livestock, animals, and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth,
  - and all mankind;
- 22 of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
So He wiped out [all existence] every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from mankind to animals, to crawling things, and the birds of the sky, and they were wiped out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.
Genesis 7:23 NASB20

The water prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.
וַיִּגְבְּרוּ הַמַּיִם עַל־הָאָרֶץ חֲמִשִּׁים וּמְאַת יֹום׃

Surely righteous people are praising your name;
the godly will live in your presence.
Psalm 140: 13
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What is your short take on this look at violence from Genesis, Jeremiah, Psalm 140 & Revelation?
Which disaster from A.D. 2021 impacted you most. And what do you think God will do about it SOON?


ASK your question in the Comments below OR give us your short take on the God of Creation.

ALL COMMENTS ARE WELCOME, but MODERATED. And all links provided for your further study are secure.

Roger@TalkofJESUS.COM 
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January 6, 2022
for the earth is filled with violence
January 5, in the year of our Lord, 2022: Violence.

What to do about violence
- Can WE prevent it?
- Who should judge it?
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The world of this 21st century A.D. remembers, in a moment of silence and more months of rage, those acts of violence WE THE PEOPLE have brought upon ourselves.

I will return to this application (tomorrow) after today's short take on Scripture from near the beginning of the Bible.
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“The end of humanity has come before Me;
for the earth is filled with violence because of people;
and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.”
Genesis 6:13 – The word of the LORD to Noah

Suppose the Perspective of God
1. IF you can imagine the destruction of just the past year through the eyes of the Creator, how would you view it?
2. (Do you know the blessing of Lamech, where today’s Scripture begins?)
“This one will give us comfort from our work and from the hard labor of our hands caused by the ground which the LORD has cursed.”
Genesis 5:29

Genesis 6

Corruption & Wickedness: Increasing Violence brings Judgment!
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Each of these could be a Scriptural topic to itself; however today's short take from Scripture will focus ONLY on violence.
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¹¹Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.
¹²And God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for humanity had corrupted its way upon the earth.
Genesis 6:11-12 NASB

13 Then God said to Noah, “The end of humanity has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of people; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.

Cleansing this wickedness

Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth. – Genesis 7:17
- Do YOU believe that the LORD God judged the violence of the earth by destroying ALL THE PEOPLE, except Noah and his family?
- Does GOD have a right to judge?
- Will GOD continue to judge violence and evil by punishment of humankind?
- Do you believe that GOD will again destroy the earth, this time by fire?
Violence – חָמָס

Violence is a word with an origin well-known to humankind, though by hearing and seeing it through partisan eyes we may not have recognized its source.

Listen: חָמָס
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Listen, then COMMENT with your ANSWER to violence.

VIOLENCE: To be continued January 7, in the year of our Lord, 2022.
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January 5, 2022
Good, good, very good & the knowledge of Good and Evil
- January 4, In the year of our Lord, 2022: Good
What do you know about good and evil?

Short takes from Scripture:

God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
And God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of the waters He called “seas”; and God saw that it was good.
The earth produced vegetation .. according to their kind; and God saw that it was good.
.. day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
And God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves.. and every winged bird according to its kind; and God saw that it was good.
God made the animals of the earth according to their kind.. and God saw that it was good.
And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. ..
Genesis 1:4,10.13,18,21,25,31

Creation: Good (so far)

Out of the ground the LORD God caused every tree to grow that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:9 NASB20

The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may freely eat; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for on the day that you eat from it you will certainly die.”
Genesis 2:16-17 – Command of the LORD God to the man Adam (which he would disobey)

So now that we know the difference: what is good?

טוֹב
- What does it mean to be good?
- Is the idea of a good man (or woman) any different in the New Testament?
But Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone.
Gospels of Mark 10:18 & Luke 18:19 NASB20
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What is your short take on the questions of good and evil? 

ASK your question in the Comments below OR give us your short take on how to be good.

ALL COMMENTS ARE WELCOME, but MODERATED. And all links provided for your further study are secure.

Roger@TalkofJESUS.COM 
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Have a GOOD COMMENT?

GOOD for you, and thanks for SHARING it.
January 4, 2022