12/09 Day 36 6cc Acts of Apostles(28) 3hrs

Ac 7:23 "Now when the time of his fortieth year was being fulfilled, it came into his heart to make an inspection of his brothers, the sons of Israel." Enoch. Noah. Abram (Abraham). Jacob. Joseph. Moses. And Jesus Christ. These are all men who played a key and crucial role in the outworking of the universal, unchanging purpose of the Almighty God respecting man and his earthly habitation. Deliberately, I left my listing of the chosen (called) ones to seven. First, out of coincidence--by the time I stopped at Jesus Christ (when I could have continued) the list was already long by seven. Second, then I took count and realized this limitation of my listing to seven would evoke in others the universally agreed spiritual significance and denotation of the number seven. So, seven the listing is to indicate the perfection of my conclusion. To emphasize it. To give it a seal of spiritual correctness. Make its acceptance memorable. The symbolism invested in seven. Among Enoch, Noah, Abram, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, and Jesus there are many others; and after Jesus till today or this writing (including every time it is read or heard, every time it may be played) there continues to be others. That God invited (or we could use the word, "drew") to function in one capacity or other to create a people for God himself. To sustain this creation. Grow it. To build it out till it is seven--as the symbolism goes. When I say, "I am looking for those who're looking," and I say this often, "I am looking for those who're looking," I am expressing and emphasizing a godness in me. The conclusion? God only looks for those who are looking! So, starting from Enoch to Jacob and through to Jesus God was looking for those who were looking. God is looking for those who are looking. God was always looking for those who were looking. God is always looking for those who are looking. Having purposed an eternal destiny for man, and resided its reality in the consciousness of man, and furnished the physical universe with material manifestations that help to perfect such a reality, God has kept looking for those who have permitted these manifestations to let an inspection into the reality of their consciousness come up into their hearts. These ones are looking. These are the ones said to be looking. To have been looking. To have looked. And, it's these ones that God picked, picks, is picking. Those looking. Who looked. Look. Will look. It becomes abundantly clear from a body of evidence (shortly following) that God never calls anyone at all until first He sees their heart impelling them to His godship and wonderful eternal purpose, the understanding of both of which He makes available to every man's consciousness the moment one is conceived. It starts with us. For example, "Enoch went on walking with the true God." (Ge 5:22) 'Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah because, as a righteous man, he proved himself faultless among his contemporaries, and walked with the true God.' (Ge 6:8,9) By the same token, and in view of the conclusion we have agreed upon above, we have supplied a veracious answer to the question respecting Abram, "how did Abraham know that the command he followed was God's voice, whose promise later impelled him further to a firmer demonstration of faithfulness?" As for Jacob, he was a "blameless man," (Ge 25:27) taking actions that built his progeny into the first theocratically constituted nation on earth, which 'came into Moses' heart' to preserve so that he took actions that indicated his inclination; eventually being called by God to be leader of this nation. A nation that had stood distinct for Joseph's discreetness and reverence, and which God had chosen for Jesus to be born in, wherefrom Jesus would accomplish his original delight about which it is written, "Look! I am come to do your will." (Heb 10:9) Look! I am come to do your will. It starts with us! All these and many others who, popularly or unpopularly, were used by God were those who were looking, whose consciousness had impelled them to levitate toward God. It starts with us. It started with them. They perfected the desire that grew from their self-permitted understanding of the God-resided consciousness of the reality of Godship and God's purpose respecting man and his eternity. This was how they looked. This is how to look. Nonetheless, God puts in us the consciousness and makes for the material backing of its veracity. So, God did for them what He simply has done for humanity-- He makes us look. The impulsion and consequent decision to look, however, or not to look, is absolutely under our individual jurisdiction. Yet, God is looking for those who are looking.

Day 11 6cc Jg/Ru (25) 2h29min: Jg 2:8

Then Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died at the age of a hundred and ten years.

So they buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath-Heres. And, so the Mosaic leadership ended. Joshua did not hand over to anyone.

And all that generation too were gathered to their fathers, and another generation began to rise after them that did not know Jehovah or the work that He had done for Israel, which begs the question, "did they not know Jehovah because they had been left with no custodian to lead them as Moses had done for them with Joshua?"

I answer, no.

The people of Israel did not know Jehovah because they chose not to. They failed to make Jehovah each one for themselves a personal friend to follow. They instead made an idol of the idea of His essence to which they applied whenever they needed miracles. In peace time God was irrelevant. But, when they needed to win a war, there was need for some magic.

There was no need for Joshua to mentor and raise up another leader. Jehovah remained leader and king in Israel. In fact, Gideon had to remind them that neither he nor a son of his would rule over them; "Jehovah is the one who will rule over you," (Jg 8:23) Really, the need for Joshua to lead the people only arose over Jehovah's disallowance of Moses to lead them into the land of promise.

Consequently, Moses was only chosen for the sole purpose of bringing God's people into the land of promise. So, Joshua only completed what Moses could not, after which the need for that ceased.

God would by some administration or by the hands of warrior-judges use His nation to annihilate His enemies while they were to spread true worship - the right way to live - from surrounding nations to the ends of the earth till God would find a suitable way of bringing His son to earth and redeem him from manhood to rule as...

11/08 Day 07 6cc Nu(18) 1h39min: Nu 32

Do Not Make Us Cross the Jordan

Why would Moses react so bitter? Couldn't he the leader discern our intentions?

We haven't appeared less equipped in battle formation before the sons of Israel, have we?
We haven't given any impression of complacency, having settled into this most suitable region for our numerous livestock, have we?

Look, he labeled us the brood of sinful men risen to dishearten the sons of Israel from crossing into the land that Jehovah will certainly give them!

But, we haven't meant any evil, have we?

We simply, and out of concern for our numerous livestock, little ones and our women, even grateful to our God for providing us a place such as this, and considering the burden we've all been through moving with the hosts, want to build here stone flock pens for our livestock and fortified cities for our little ones, while we ourselves shall go equipped in battle formation and shall not return to our homes until the sons of Israel have gotten the landed property, each with his own inheritance.

For we shall not get an inheritance with them from the side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us from the side of the Jordan toward the sunrising.

And, that is why we have said; "Do not make us cross the Jordan!"

But, Moses acquiesced later when we approached him and explicitly stated our intentions, which is what, O, I see, we hadn't done on our initial approach. We seemed to have just told him; "Do not make us cross the Jordan."

11/03 Day 02 6cc Ge(25) 2h39min

Ge 28:20-22

And Jacob went on to vow a vow, saying: "If God will continue with me and will certainly keep me on this way on which I am going and will certainly give me bread to eat and garments to wear and I shall certainly return in peace to the house of my father, then Jehovah will have proved to be my God. And this stone that I have set up as a pillar will become a house of God, and as for everything that you will give me I shall without fail give the tenth of it to you."

Hmmm, ambitious!

Up until this 6th comprehensive coverage of the Genesis account I could never relate to the Jacob character! I had seen Jacob only as self-invested, covetous, scheming. Calculating. I often wondered why his scheming altogether resulted positive, why God blessed him at all, why he was so favored, why a whole nation resulted from him, why God chose him to be in the line of the ancestry that produced the seed that is God's, if it took some undue bias.

But, I do not know God to be partial! No, not. No, not so.

From these verses I conclude there was something God saw, saw in Jacob. It was what God wanted to see after all. It was the reason God had made one man to make many men a people, people for Him. It was what God wanted after all. To propagate His purpose--to have out of one man a people, people for God's name.

Desire begets ambition.

It starts first with discerning what God may want from man. And ambitioning such achievement. Jacob so did.

Jacob was in touch with his family history and fully aware of God's promises to Abraham and desired to fulfill it. Jacob thought he could and wanted to build a people for God, a house of God.

This was the desire--earnest as was--that led to his ambition that led to his vow. This vow.

Perhaps he went about it the wrong way--coveted his brother's right as firstborn, bought the birthright, and connived with his mother to obtain the blessing that follow it--he, man as he was, understood that he needed the place of firstborn to achieve his ambition. Besides, Esau was not up to it.

I might conclude that whatever Jacob did, he did to achieve his ambitious desire. Right or wrong, he used the means at his disposal. God could only tolerate him, even as He tolerates us today, but so impressed with the desire that matched God's purpose, God blessed Jacob.

9/25 5cc 03 Day 03 Ex (20) 1h 53min

Ex 4:20a
Then Moses took his wife and his sons and made them ride on an ass, and he proceeded to return to the land of Egypt.

"And he proceeded to return to the land of Egypt." "He," not "they," as if one would be right should they think Moses returned to Egypt alone. But,....

Ex 4:24,25
Now it came about on the road at the lodging place that Jehovah got to meet him and kept looking for a way to put him to death. Finally Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and caused it to touch his feet and said: "It is because you are a bridegroom of blood to me."

Making it obvious that Moses had been joined by his wife and two sons back to Egypt. Perhaps, upon haste-making it had skipped their notice to get rid of their younger son's foreskin. Circumcision. Therefore, it is safe to conclude that Moses returned to Egypt with his family--wife and two sons.

So, safe to conclude so, and, there again,....

Ex 18:2,5,6
So Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after the sending of her away,.... So Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, and his sons and his wife came to Moses into the wilderness where he was camping, at the mountain of the true God. Then he sent word to Moses: "I, your father-in-law, Jethro, am come to you, and also your wife and her two sons with her."

How could Jethro have again been with Moses' family had Moses taken them with himself back to Egypt so that they had to come catch up with Moses, having got to hear that Moses and the rest of Israel were now in the wilderness? To catch up with him. To present to or hand over to him his wife and two sons; for Jethro alone went his way to his land after this.

Does the answer lie in the clause, "after the sending of her away?" Or is there some missing detail? What can it mean anyway, "after the sending of her away?"

9/23 5cc 01 Day 01 Ge(25) 2h11min

Ge 1:1 What Moses is telling us is what he is not saying according to what vision, revelation, and personal intuition available to him that judging from the much he is able to account every material available to God to prepare the earth--to be suitable for man's habitation whom God had had in mind and for whose purpose there was a bias for earth of the yet-to-be total numeration of planets in the cosmos--had been the makeup of the heavens or universe especially in relation to earth and had been in existence for as long as only-God-knows number of billeniums from "the beginning" until God conceptualized the suitability of a corporeal race of the man He had created and hosted psychecally. Ge 1:2-31 So that what we, judging from the account, like to call "creative days" are really days of, or years of preparing and positioning and composing the single-out earth in relation to other planets in the entire universe to a form that God had judged would be suitable for man. Thus, from discerning the line of creation or composition or recomposition or positioning or repositioning from the standpoint of God's mind, man really was the first of God's creation of what would be a physical but spirit-animated makeup, and man existed in God's mind even as he prepared a place to specially grow him or give him. There is need then to say that I speak of creation here with respect to the so-called "six creative days." So that I shall say that the earth as a planet part of the heavens that together with other untold number of planets and stars and so and so make up the universe (perhaps including God's very own habitation) had long been created and been preparatory to the six creative days of preparing the earth for a new creation--man. Therefore, the entire creative part of the Genesis account is to be summarized as: The man will like it like this but it is like. this; let us cause it to be like this instead of like this to be suitable for the man creation to come that will like it like this. Thus, it took God six groups of equal lengths of periods to make it like this suitable for man all He judged would be necessary for man. And, as presented to Moses and represented by Moses in this creative account of Genesis, each group of time accomplished a distinct activity or set of actions on God's to-do list until finally "there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a sixth day," upon which man finally arrived corporeal but inspirited and capable of retaining or sustaining such spirit until...

9/16 4cc 34 Day 34 Lu(24) 2h59min

Lu 18:1-8
1Sa 1:18 speaks of Hannah as having her face self-concerned no more after she had "prayed extendedly before Jehovah," 'pouring out her soul,' "out of the abundance of [her] concern and [her] vexation."

Did Hannah no more have any other concern besides this that would warrant more extended prayers?

This account at 1Sa was not about Hannah though. Still, no account of the Bible is so memoir-like to detail every bit of activity of a particular character from birth to death that we could tell that Hannah had no further needs to pray. But being human like us, we could safely conclude that she did. But, this case for a son was particular.

And, yet, here Jesus is illustrating the "need for [us] always to pray and not to give up," which evidently is in respect of certain difficulties.

Obviously, one can only persist in entreaty for some difficulty when such difficulty protracts and relief is a major concern, where the one understands the source of relief to be capable of bringing it about. But, being human, our patience and consequent persistence may easily wear thin--concluding we may not get this relief after all; why bother?

Lu 18:1-8 do indicate that Jehovah, in the present circumstances and order of things, may not be obliged to miraculously get us out of certain difficulties, troubles, or infirmities at certain times.

Nevertheless, if we pummel God to a finish by continually and persistently making him trouble with our own circumstance and the sort of relief we require he may just change his mind and "cause justice to be done to [us] speedily."

But, when the Son of man arrives, will he really find the faith on the earth?

Trial!

O is this it?