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Scripture is the word commonly used for the Written Word of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible.

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Understand today the discipline of the LORD your God
- Do YOU, (children) claiming God as your Father and Jesus Christ as YOUR Lord know this one?
11:1 וְאָהַבְתָּ אֵת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וְשָׁמַרְתָּ מִשְׁמַרְתּוֹ וְחֻקֹּתָיו וּמִשְׁפָּטָיו וּמִצְוֺתָיו כָּל־הַיָּמִֽים׃
Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11 :: Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC)

Keep in mind that I am not talking now to your children, who have never experienced the discipline of the LORD your God or seen his greatness and his strong hand and powerful arm.
Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11:2

What is the difference between Discipline of the LORD & the Punishment of God?

Water covers the earth!

The LORD GOD wipes the slate clean! No more creatures on earth EXCEPT Noah.

And that was not even punishment, but pure judgment of the created men and women, fallen deeply into sin.

God’s created world may have had a flood or two in this past year of our Lord, BUT not like the first flood.

Covenant of our Forefathers

After the LORD cleanses creation, He makes a covenant with Abraham and gives His LAW through Moses.

Moses also makes a covenant with the LORD on behalf of Israel:

24:3 וַיָּבֹא מֹשֶׁה וַיְסַפֵּר לָעָם אֵת כָּל־דִּבְרֵי יְהוָה וְאֵת כָּל־הַמִּשְׁפָּטִים וַיַּעַן כָּל־הָעָם קוֹל אֶחָד וַיֹּאמְרוּ כָּל־הַדְּבָרִים אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּר יְהוָה נַעֲשֶֽׂה׃
Exodus 24:3b KJV – .. and all the people answered with one voice, and said, ‘All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.’.

פָּקַד pâqad, paw-kad’; a primitive root; to visit (with friendly or hostile intent)
- to attend to, muster, number, reckon, visit, punish, appoint, look after, care for
“But go now, lead the people where I told you. Behold, My angel shall go before you; nevertheless on the day when I punish^H6485, I will punish^H6485 them for their sin.”
Then the LORD struck the people with a plague, because of what they did with the calf which Aaron had made.
Exodus 32:34-35 NASB20 – Strong’s H6485 = number (119x), visit (59x), punish (31x),

This is punishment: that the Lord attends to His own and that our reckoning will be by the hand of our Creator and Heavenly Father, who must punish His children who break our promises and violate our covenant.

Discipline of the LORD – יָסַר
- to chasten, discipline, instruct, admonish
“Out of the heavens He let you hear His voice to discipline^H3256 you; and on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire. – Deuteronomy 4:36

“So you are to know in your heart that the LORD your God was disciplining^H3256 you just as a man disciplines^H3256 his son. – Deuteronomy 8:5

“.. but your own eyes have seen all the great work of the LORD which He did.

“You shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding you today..
Deuteronomy 11:8a

Punishment of God – פָּקַד
- visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children..
  - עָוֹן — ʿāôn – perversity, depravity, iniquity, guilt or punishment of iniquity
‘You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, inflicting H6485 the punishment of the fathers on the children, even on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Beware that your hearts are not easily deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods, and worship them.

“Otherwise, the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the sky so that there will be no rain, and the ground will not yield its produce; then you will quickly perish from the good land which the LORD is giving you.
Deuteronomy 11:17 [11:16 quoted above]

‘You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, inflicting the punishment of the fathers on the children, even on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me..
Deuteronomy 5:9

Will you receive the Discipline of the LORD our Father OR Punishment for your Sins?

דברים 11

מוּסָר:: From יָסַר (H3256)

“Know this day that I am not speaking with your sons who have not known and who have not seen the discipline^H4148 of the LORD your God—His greatness, His mighty hand, His outstretched arm.. but your own eyes have seen all the great work of the Lord which He did.
Deuteronomy 11:2,7 on the discipline of the LORD. – NASB
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What is your Short Take on these Scriptures about Discipline and Punishment?

Please add your COMMENT at the bottom of this post. - RH
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January 11, 2022
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?


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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