Tag: coronavirus
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COVID – the Affliction of Social Distancing
Solomon’s Jerusalem – the end of an era Until the death of Solomon in 931 B.C., a glorious city of Jerusalem overlooked a great empire blessed by the LORD God, but then the politics of Israel divided the great land. In just a few generations Israel (Samaria) succumbed in 722 B.C. and Judah when Jerusalem…
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Amos – For those who turn justice into wormwood
Whatever is wormwood? Sometimes when we read the Bible, especially the Old Testament and specifically the true Prophets of Scripture, we fail in the imagery of the language of centuries and millennia long past. Amos uses a word “לַעֲנָה” we translate into English as wormwood and most of us naturally ask, “whatever is wormwood?” Truly,…
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