Reading the Bible thorugh in One Year. Jan 3, 2003
Reading Genesis 6 - 9
Chapter 6
v. 1 - 2 What were these sons of God. Fallen angels, or Godly men (from Seth's line)?
v 3 Man had to have his life shortened. The longer he lived, the more sin he lived in, the more depraved this world got.
v 4 - 5 support the thoughts above.
v 6 - 8 God plans to destroy man and the earth. But Noah stops the complete destruction.
v 9 - 12 Do you realize that if Noah had been corrupt as well, we would not be here to talk about it. It is only through Noah that we are continued.
v 13 - 22 God tells Noah what to do and makes a covenant with him. This is the first covenant between man and God in the Bible (at least named a covenant). In these verses Noah is commanded only to bring in two of every animal.
Chapter 7
v 1 - 3 In what appears to be a contridiction, God commands more animals that two of certain types. The pair were for continuation of the species, the extras were for sacrafices.
v 4 No doubt about it here. God is going to destroy the earth.
v 5 - 12 And God does
v 13 - 24 All on the earth were destroyed. The fish were not destroyed, they could not be by the water, but what did it do to their eco-system?
Chapter 8
v 1 As if He should ever forget anyone of us, God remembers Noah, thinking fondly of him.
v 2 - 6 And when God thinks fondly, the rain stops.
v 7 - 14 Noah wisely tests to see if it is safe to come out of the Ark. God who had been so clear in how to build the ark and populate it is now silent when it comes time to leave.
v 15 - 19 But then He does speak, it is time to leave the ark and take all out, and Noah does.
v 20 - 21 The covenant is completed. Noah offers the sacrafice. God brought him through and he offers to God what will cover the sins of his past.
v. The pricipal of seedtime and harvest is here. Like there is heat and cold, day and night, there will be a time of planting and a time of reaping. That planting can be of yourself, your finace, what ever, but it is a principal that what you reap you will havest.
Chapter 9
v 1 - 3 All living things and plants are given for us to eat. Just one rule.
v 4 If it still has the blood of life in it, do not eat it.
v 5 - 6 God will require the beast to give its life if it eats the blood. Just as he will man.
v 7 - 17 The sign of the bow (the sign of the hunter) is placed in the sky, as a symbol that God will not destroy all by a flood ever again. This flood and this bow are not signs that man has risen above the fallen state, only that God has been able to remove much evil so that he can start anew his plan for redemption.
v 18 - 28 Very obscure to me what went on, Ham does something wrong and his sone gets punished.
Psalm 3
Though David was at a time of trouble, a time when it looked like he could not win, he trusted in the Lord who heard (and responed) from His holy hill. That my faith could ever be that strong.
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Monday, January 06, 2003
Sunday, January 05, 2003
Reading the Bible thorugh in One Year. Jan 2, 2003
Reading Genesis 3 - 5
Chapter 3
1 - 5 One rule is all they had. One stinking rule. Eat or do not eat. I have asked myself for years why could they not keep one stinking rule. But I saw in reading this time something new. Eating ment they were ruling themselves, not letting God rule them. In other words, it could have been any rule, like 'Don't kick the cat!' and man would have still broken it because by nature man is not one to be ruled over but to rule over others. The very authority he was given in Chapter 2 is what led to the downfall here. He wanted self control, not God control. And we strugle with it even now.
Eve enlarges the truth here. Is she doing it on purpose, did Adam teach her falsely, why?
v. 6 Did Adam know what Eve was giving her to eat. I have heard preachers say that it is his fault, he was there with her and took the fruit willingly. But I am not so sure about that. Maybe she gave it to him and he had been off somewhare working. In the end it is all bad, we have the fall. I have read where people say Adam could have stoped the fall because he took and ate willingly, not decived like Eve was. How much of this is men-bashing? I sure Adam should have recognized the fruit so it is a mute point.
v. 7 - 8 They were naked. They had seen the power now, they were naked. They were vulnerable. There is more than phyical nakedness here, there is the eternal power strugle that has gone on through the ages.
v 9 Can you hear God, "Kids what are you doing?" As a parent I can see it.
v 10 - 11 How did he know he was naked? The fruit. But look at the reaction. He is vulnerable to God. Instead of talking to God, he is no longer on that equal level he was on before. He is now subserviant to God. He is naked, exposed to him.
v 12 - 13 Here we have the oldest profession in the Bible. It is called passing the buck. It still goes on today.
v 14 Why is the serpant cursed? Did he allow Satan to use him. Did the animal kingdom have a greater ability before the fall? Does this curse cause all the animals to fall under it or just the serpant?
v. 15 Clearly the promise of the Messiah and what would happen. The serpant would appear to defeat Him, but in the end, the Messiah would crush the serpant.
v. 16 God says clearly the problem here that is in most marriges today. Your desire shall be to rule over your husband, but he is to rule over you (my rough translation). Man is not to be an abuser in this situation. But no matter what, he is to lead. It is up to the woman to learn not to take the leadership role, to go against what is being taught in the world today. There is to be a joint-sharing of the power but in the end, the man to make the decisions.
v. 17 - 19 The man gets the worst sentance here. Woman is just going to get a desire to rule over the husband, but man is going to get to work the rest of his life, and it is to be hard work. And it will not come without many problems. Want to know why you have problems at work. Thank Adam for the bristles and thorns.
v. 21 Man's work (fig leaves) will never do in redemption. Blood has to be shed (leather clothes).
v. 22 - 24 Man is now removed from the direct communion that he had with God. He can no longer talk to God when he wants to as he could in the garrden, he is now limited to when God wants to talk to him.
If man had eaten from the tree of life, would he forever live in his sins? Is this a foreshadow of the person Jesus who would give us life on a tree (cross)?
Chapter 4
v 1 - 2 We see here the farmer and the herdsman. They are forever at odds with each other throughtout history.
v 3 - 5 Why did God not respect the offering of Cain? Was it not meat, that was of the blood, necessary to cover the sins? Was it an attitute problem, giving some food, maybe not the best. Able offfers first fruits, the first of the born of his heards. Cain offers some food. I think it was more than the blood, I think it was the attitude. He did not bring the best or the first, he brought some. And when what he brought was not good enough, did he look to himself to find out why? Or did he get angry and blame others? How about me? When I do not do my best, do I get angry at others for it?
v 6 - 8 God says to him that his efforts need to be his best efforts, not just getting by. And if he does not then anger will take over. And it does.
v 9 We are our brothers keeper, and if we do not do so, we will suffer from not taking care of him.
v 10 - 15 Even though God cursed Cain, He gave him, the sinner, a mark, so that no one else would kill him. He protected the sinner even when he did not deserve it.
v 16 - 24 A short listing of the decendants of Cain.
Also near the end of this, sin is increasing. Lamach is bosting of his sin.
v 25 Seth is born to replace the killed Able. The bloodline of Jesus has started. Did Satan use Cain here to stop the bloodline of Jesus from starting only to have it backfire when Eve became pregnant again?
Chapter 5
From Adam to Noah, 10 people total. Another 10 like 'God spoke'.
Psalm 2
v 1 - 3 People will always try to break from God's rule, just as the nations will try to fight the anointed one God had put on the throne of Israel. I guess the anointed one on the throne of our heart is moved out by our desire to rule our own lives.
v 4 - 6 God laughs at the whole thing. He has set the authority on the throne.
v 7 - 9 God tells his Son that all He has to do is ask for the nations and He shall have them. Jesus did that (john 17). But gave us the job to do it.
v 10 - 12 All the nations (and the people) are to submit to God.
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Reading Genesis 3 - 5
Chapter 3
1 - 5 One rule is all they had. One stinking rule. Eat or do not eat. I have asked myself for years why could they not keep one stinking rule. But I saw in reading this time something new. Eating ment they were ruling themselves, not letting God rule them. In other words, it could have been any rule, like 'Don't kick the cat!' and man would have still broken it because by nature man is not one to be ruled over but to rule over others. The very authority he was given in Chapter 2 is what led to the downfall here. He wanted self control, not God control. And we strugle with it even now.
Eve enlarges the truth here. Is she doing it on purpose, did Adam teach her falsely, why?
v. 6 Did Adam know what Eve was giving her to eat. I have heard preachers say that it is his fault, he was there with her and took the fruit willingly. But I am not so sure about that. Maybe she gave it to him and he had been off somewhare working. In the end it is all bad, we have the fall. I have read where people say Adam could have stoped the fall because he took and ate willingly, not decived like Eve was. How much of this is men-bashing? I sure Adam should have recognized the fruit so it is a mute point.
v. 7 - 8 They were naked. They had seen the power now, they were naked. They were vulnerable. There is more than phyical nakedness here, there is the eternal power strugle that has gone on through the ages.
v 9 Can you hear God, "Kids what are you doing?" As a parent I can see it.
v 10 - 11 How did he know he was naked? The fruit. But look at the reaction. He is vulnerable to God. Instead of talking to God, he is no longer on that equal level he was on before. He is now subserviant to God. He is naked, exposed to him.
v 12 - 13 Here we have the oldest profession in the Bible. It is called passing the buck. It still goes on today.
v 14 Why is the serpant cursed? Did he allow Satan to use him. Did the animal kingdom have a greater ability before the fall? Does this curse cause all the animals to fall under it or just the serpant?
v. 15 Clearly the promise of the Messiah and what would happen. The serpant would appear to defeat Him, but in the end, the Messiah would crush the serpant.
v. 16 God says clearly the problem here that is in most marriges today. Your desire shall be to rule over your husband, but he is to rule over you (my rough translation). Man is not to be an abuser in this situation. But no matter what, he is to lead. It is up to the woman to learn not to take the leadership role, to go against what is being taught in the world today. There is to be a joint-sharing of the power but in the end, the man to make the decisions.
v. 17 - 19 The man gets the worst sentance here. Woman is just going to get a desire to rule over the husband, but man is going to get to work the rest of his life, and it is to be hard work. And it will not come without many problems. Want to know why you have problems at work. Thank Adam for the bristles and thorns.
v. 21 Man's work (fig leaves) will never do in redemption. Blood has to be shed (leather clothes).
v. 22 - 24 Man is now removed from the direct communion that he had with God. He can no longer talk to God when he wants to as he could in the garrden, he is now limited to when God wants to talk to him.
If man had eaten from the tree of life, would he forever live in his sins? Is this a foreshadow of the person Jesus who would give us life on a tree (cross)?
Chapter 4
v 1 - 2 We see here the farmer and the herdsman. They are forever at odds with each other throughtout history.
v 3 - 5 Why did God not respect the offering of Cain? Was it not meat, that was of the blood, necessary to cover the sins? Was it an attitute problem, giving some food, maybe not the best. Able offfers first fruits, the first of the born of his heards. Cain offers some food. I think it was more than the blood, I think it was the attitude. He did not bring the best or the first, he brought some. And when what he brought was not good enough, did he look to himself to find out why? Or did he get angry and blame others? How about me? When I do not do my best, do I get angry at others for it?
v 6 - 8 God says to him that his efforts need to be his best efforts, not just getting by. And if he does not then anger will take over. And it does.
v 9 We are our brothers keeper, and if we do not do so, we will suffer from not taking care of him.
v 10 - 15 Even though God cursed Cain, He gave him, the sinner, a mark, so that no one else would kill him. He protected the sinner even when he did not deserve it.
v 16 - 24 A short listing of the decendants of Cain.
Also near the end of this, sin is increasing. Lamach is bosting of his sin.
v 25 Seth is born to replace the killed Able. The bloodline of Jesus has started. Did Satan use Cain here to stop the bloodline of Jesus from starting only to have it backfire when Eve became pregnant again?
Chapter 5
From Adam to Noah, 10 people total. Another 10 like 'God spoke'.
Psalm 2
v 1 - 3 People will always try to break from God's rule, just as the nations will try to fight the anointed one God had put on the throne of Israel. I guess the anointed one on the throne of our heart is moved out by our desire to rule our own lives.
v 4 - 6 God laughs at the whole thing. He has set the authority on the throne.
v 7 - 9 God tells his Son that all He has to do is ask for the nations and He shall have them. Jesus did that (john 17). But gave us the job to do it.
v 10 - 12 All the nations (and the people) are to submit to God.
Follow along at Country Keepers. Thanks Gary
Saturday, January 04, 2003
Reading the Bible thorugh in One Year. Jan 1, 2003
Reading Genesis 1 - 2
Chapter1
v.1 The created item is responsible to the creator for his actions. As a creation of God, I can only be responsible to my creator, and I am responsible to persue Christlikeness so that I can reproduce Him in my life.
God created, has the meaning of formed out or carved out.
v.2 If the earth was without form and void (chaos), did God fail in creating the earth? Or is it that the process is a continual one, that takes time, even for our God, and it took God the 6 full days to bring order out of what He had created?
v. 3 - 29 As each day happens the order of the earth becomes more and more prominant. Notice also that God has order in each day (there was evening and morning..., God saw that it was good..., etc). Also each item needed to be in exsistance before the other one could. God is truly a God of order.
Another thing to note is that there are 10 "and God's said." Is this any relation to the decaloge that he will give to Moses later?
God created the family here.. he created man (male and female) when he created Adam. And he made us in His image. A combined unit of one, a family.
Chapter 1 ends, all is perfect. Why are we in disharmony now?
Chapter 2
v1 - 3 Could God really rest? Would the mere napping of God put us out of exsistance? What we have here is no further creation.
v 4 - 7 Man was formed, and breath the breath of life into his nostrils. What seperates man from the animals, they were all formed, but in man is breathed the breath of life. I content that no matter what they try to do, they will never prove evolution as God breathed life into Adam, and that is what seperates us from the animals. What ever it was that was breathed in seperates us. We have a body as does any animal, and we have a soul, a part of us that thinks, which I believe the animals do, but what seperates us is what God breathed into us, I believe a spirit. It makes us a triune being like God, and sperates us from the animals.
v 8 - 9 The trees, Life and death. Why did God put them both there?
v 16 - 17 All God had for Adam to follow was one rule. Notice here that Eve has not been created. When she was created, since Adam was male and female, did she have all the knowledge he did as to what God said (she is responsible for the fall), or did Adam have the only knowledge (Adam is responsible for not telling Eve properly)?
v 18 - 20 God gave Adam authority over the earth, and He proves it here. Adam names the animals. We see that God is not the authority over this earth at this point, Adam is, and that sets up for the transfer of authority that is about to take place.
Psalm 1
v. 1 Sin is progressive. You walk, stand and sit in it. By then it is to late. What keeps you from it?
v 2 meditate the word, have it become a part of you so that if you were cut into a million pieces, each part would have that bit of the Word in it.
v 3 So many have problems with the prosperity message. I guess they need to take this verse out. What ever he does prospers. Now, my time is not God's time. And I do not know when the time of completion is. This is not like my batchlor's degree I am working on, when I take certain classes, I get my degree. Only God knows for sure when my classes are over and my prosperity is on the way.
v. 4 The ungodly, those sitting earlier, are uprooted and blown about like chaff, parts of the harvest that have no use and irrate you, only suitable for burning, and so light they blow around with a light wind.
v. 5 Though on this earth they may judge me, in the end, they will not, My God will judge me, I will not be in their judgement and they will not be in my group. We will be permanatly seperated, and they like chaff will only be good for fuel for the fire.
v 6 God knows both of our ways.
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Reading Genesis 1 - 2
Chapter1
v.1 The created item is responsible to the creator for his actions. As a creation of God, I can only be responsible to my creator, and I am responsible to persue Christlikeness so that I can reproduce Him in my life.
God created, has the meaning of formed out or carved out.
v.2 If the earth was without form and void (chaos), did God fail in creating the earth? Or is it that the process is a continual one, that takes time, even for our God, and it took God the 6 full days to bring order out of what He had created?
v. 3 - 29 As each day happens the order of the earth becomes more and more prominant. Notice also that God has order in each day (there was evening and morning..., God saw that it was good..., etc). Also each item needed to be in exsistance before the other one could. God is truly a God of order.
Another thing to note is that there are 10 "and God's said." Is this any relation to the decaloge that he will give to Moses later?
God created the family here.. he created man (male and female) when he created Adam. And he made us in His image. A combined unit of one, a family.
Chapter 1 ends, all is perfect. Why are we in disharmony now?
Chapter 2
v1 - 3 Could God really rest? Would the mere napping of God put us out of exsistance? What we have here is no further creation.
v 4 - 7 Man was formed, and breath the breath of life into his nostrils. What seperates man from the animals, they were all formed, but in man is breathed the breath of life. I content that no matter what they try to do, they will never prove evolution as God breathed life into Adam, and that is what seperates us from the animals. What ever it was that was breathed in seperates us. We have a body as does any animal, and we have a soul, a part of us that thinks, which I believe the animals do, but what seperates us is what God breathed into us, I believe a spirit. It makes us a triune being like God, and sperates us from the animals.
v 8 - 9 The trees, Life and death. Why did God put them both there?
v 16 - 17 All God had for Adam to follow was one rule. Notice here that Eve has not been created. When she was created, since Adam was male and female, did she have all the knowledge he did as to what God said (she is responsible for the fall), or did Adam have the only knowledge (Adam is responsible for not telling Eve properly)?
v 18 - 20 God gave Adam authority over the earth, and He proves it here. Adam names the animals. We see that God is not the authority over this earth at this point, Adam is, and that sets up for the transfer of authority that is about to take place.
Psalm 1
v. 1 Sin is progressive. You walk, stand and sit in it. By then it is to late. What keeps you from it?
v 2 meditate the word, have it become a part of you so that if you were cut into a million pieces, each part would have that bit of the Word in it.
v 3 So many have problems with the prosperity message. I guess they need to take this verse out. What ever he does prospers. Now, my time is not God's time. And I do not know when the time of completion is. This is not like my batchlor's degree I am working on, when I take certain classes, I get my degree. Only God knows for sure when my classes are over and my prosperity is on the way.
v. 4 The ungodly, those sitting earlier, are uprooted and blown about like chaff, parts of the harvest that have no use and irrate you, only suitable for burning, and so light they blow around with a light wind.
v. 5 Though on this earth they may judge me, in the end, they will not, My God will judge me, I will not be in their judgement and they will not be in my group. We will be permanatly seperated, and they like chaff will only be good for fuel for the fire.
v 6 God knows both of our ways.
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Tuesday, December 24, 2002
Thursday, December 19, 2002
Tuesday, November 05, 2002
abstract cs/0210020 Tetris is Hard So what is news about that. What is news is that if you are good at Tetris, you are good at analyzing problems and solving them.
Friday, November 01, 2002
vnunet.com Office 11 demands Windows upgrade So big deal. Do you want this to still be able to write files to a format that Word running on DOS will still read. For once I stand with Microsoft and against the critics. How dumb can you get?
Tuesday, October 22, 2002
XML-packed Office 11 goes into beta. So? You want to use XML in your office documents, use openoffice.org, and it is free... gee gotta love it when it is free, and the product is not bad either.
Monday, October 21, 2002
Ganers (and non-gamers too) watch your MSn closelyPC World New Zealand - MSN Messenger worm steals game keys. You know what they say about a pennie's worth of protection don't you? Neither do I but it sounds nice.
Saturday, October 12, 2002
Friday, October 04, 2002
The Register I know I keep harping on it, but can one really say Microsoft and security in the same sentense without it being an oxymoron
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
Friday, August 16, 2002
Wednesday, July 24, 2002
vnunet.com WebTV 'virus' calls the cops Got to love it. Where you you like to call the Cops today. Or if Microsoft = Bad Boy..... Bad Boy Bad Boy, what you gonna do, whatcha gonna do when they come for you.
Saturday, June 29, 2002
CNN.com - Police: Children die in hot car while mom at salon - June 29, 2002 A Detroit woman whose two small children died in her car while she was getting her hair styled has been taken into custody, police said.
What an excuse for a human being, She was either stupid or did not care for her kids. They were 10 mths and 3 years. I have a 4 and 5 year old, I would not leave them alone in the house, much less in a closed car.
THE EYE-OPENER
As you got up this morning, I watched you, and hoped you would talk to me, even if it was just a few words, asking my opinion or thanking me for something good that happened in your life yesterday. But I noticed you
were too busy, trying to find the right outfit to wear.
When you ran around the house getting ready, I knew there would be a few minutes for you to stop and say hello, but you were to busy. At one point you had to wait, fifteen minutes with nothing to do except sit in a chair.
Then I saw you spring to your feet. I thought you wanted to talk to me but you ran to the phone and called a friend to get the latest gossip instead. I watched patiently all day long.
With all your activities I guess you were too busy to say anything to me. I noticed that before lunch you looked around, maybe you felt embarrassed to talk to me, that is why you didn't bow your head. You glanced three or four tables over and you noticed some of your friends talking to me briefly before they ate, but you didn't. That's okay.
There is still more time left, and I hope that you will talk to me yet. You went home and it seems as if you had lots of things to do. After a few of them were done, you turned on the TV. I don't know if you like TV or not, just about anything goes there and you spend a lot of time each day in front of it not thinking about anything, just enjoying the show. I waited patiently again as you watched the TV and ate your meal, but again you didn't talk to me.
Bedtime--I guess you felt too tired. After you said goodnight to your family you plopped into bed and fell asleep in no time. That's okay because you may not realize that I am always there for you. I've got patience, more than you will ever know. I even want to teach you how to be patient with others as well.
I love you so much that I wait everyday for a nod, prayer or thought or a thankful part of your heart. It is hard to have a one-sided conversation.
Well, you are getting up once again. And once again I will wait, with nothing but love for you. Hoping that today you will give me some time.
Have a nice day! Your friend, GOD
--Selected from Pastor Tim's Illustrations: http://www.cybersaltlists.org/
Thursday, June 27, 2002
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Narnia books attacked as racist and sexist Man, I wonder where this guy gets off, claiming the Narnia series is a blantant attempt at propaganda in the cause of the religion, but his books are not. You really have to read this to appreciate it.
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