Tag: Luke

  • Jesus – Disaster & Sin – Tower of Siloam

    “I tell you, no! But … What day’s NEWS doesn’t HEADLINE: DISASTER? The world asks why God would allow this. Were those killed worse sinners than others, so God punished them by death? This is how we think. Even if we acknowledge sin (in others) we want to blame God for punishment, especially in providential…

    drawing pool of Siloam, ruins of pool of Siloam, painting of fall of tower of Siloam
  • Jesus – True Light Siloam the Darkness

    Who sinned? What an odd question we think. Disciples of Jesus ask Him as they observe a man blind from birth. Their rabbi instructs them that neither the sin of the man nor the sin of his parents caused his blindness. Then amazingly Jesus puts mud on the man’s eyes and sends him to the…

    drawing pool of Siloam, ruins of pool of Siloam, painting of fall of tower of Siloam
  • Shiloh IS Come

    … until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. לֹֽא־יָסוּר שֵׁבֶט מִֽיהוּדָה וּמְחֹקֵק מִבֵּין רַגְלָיו עַד כִּֽי־יָבֹא שֶׂילה וְלֹו יִקְּהַת עַמִּֽים׃ The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Genesis 49:10…

    [image of the Christ child] until Shiloh come and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Genesis 49:10 with picture of sleeping baby