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Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem

Character Studies From The Bible

Peter

(The Acts of the Apostles)

(Acts 8)

9 Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great, 10 and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, “This man is rightly called the Great Power of God.” 11 They followed him because he had amazed them for a long time with his sorcery. 12 But when they believed Philip as he proclaimed the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. 13 Simon himself believed and was baptized. And he followed Philip everywhere, astonished by the great signs and miracles he saw.

14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to Samaria. 15 When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit, 16 because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

18 When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money 19 and said, “Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”

20 Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money! 21 You have no part or share in this ministry, because your heart is not right before God. 22 Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord in the hope that he may forgive you for having such a thought in your heart. 23 For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.”

24 Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”

25 After they had further proclaimed the word of the Lord and testified about Jesus, Peter and John returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many Samaritan villages.

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Oh LORD, Our God,
How Wonderful,
How Majestic,
How Excellent is Your Most Holy Name!
Our Hearts overflow with praise and Wonder at Your Glory!
You Alone Are Worthy of Our Love and Adoration,
You Alone Are Worthy Of Worship,
For You Alone Are The Omnipotent,
Eternal and Omniscient,
Everlasting and Almighty God!

We Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem,
According to Your Will and Promise.
We Pray For the People and Leaders of Israel,
that They Will Look to You for the Protection
and Prosperity of their Nation.
We Also Pray For Revival in our own Beloved USA.


We Pray For The Swift and Sure Coming of Messiah,
Blessed Be He,
To Establish His Kingdom,
and Make All Things Right.


Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

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The first time I read this, as a new believer some 35 years ago, I thought that Peter was being a little harsh with Simon the Sorcerer. After all, I myself had come to the Lord out of a background of 60's style hippie occultism, and some old habits die hard.

But there was so much more to this. Simon Magus was a Jew, and the practice of Sorcery was strictly forbidden by both the Torah and the Prophets. He was doing a nice little business, making Sorcery his profession, and it was all about the money. He wasn't about to give up his sinful lifestyle just because he believed Peter's Message and was Baptized.

Next, by his actions, he showed that, in his heart, he believed that the Gifts of the Holy Spirit were just another "magic trick", the secret of which could be purchased with the right amount of money. When Jesus walked the earth, he rebuked the Pharisees for suggesting that His Power came from someone other than the Holy Spirit. They even attributed Jesus' Miracles to Beelzebub, which was their word for the devil. Simon didn't go THAT far, but his offense was in the same category.

Finally, Peter's rebuke had the exact correct result, as it caused Simon Magus to be instantly chastened, and ask for prayer.

Simon Magus' sin has been immortalized in the English Language by the word "simony". This word means the attempt to purchase Spiritual Power or even a position within the Church with money or favors. We may think that this was a Medieval practice which we hardly ever see today, but a quick perusal of the TV Channels will show that this still goes on quite a lot, in every denomination.

Come and Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.


Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

[metmom]

Very good.

Thank you.

[etabeta]

Joining in prayer. Blessings, etabeta

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Thank You, metmom, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.


Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

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Thank You, Etabeta, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.


Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

[Hiskid]

Thank you, LTOS. Good teaching again today.

We bless the Israelites by praying this in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Thank You, Hiskid, For Your Prayers and lovely graphics For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.


Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

[NEWwoman]

Interesting lesson. Simon...and today’s Simons. There’s nothing new under the sun.

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Thank You, NEWwoman, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.


Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

[Ezekiel]

We Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem

Here's something fun for you!

Yes 2

1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
2. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it:
3. And many people shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for from Zion shall go forth Torah, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem (מירושלם):

Mic 4

1. But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow to it:
2. And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for Torah shall go forth from Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem (מירושלם):

From Jerusalem is literally the "teaching of peace":

מירושלם

מיר ושלם

מיר=שלום

מיר+שלום

Mir=Shalom=Peace

"Out of Jerusalem" comes a double peace.

(Hope the text displayed properly, otherwise this post is going to look like a mess.)

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That's interesting...the Russian word for "Peace" is "Mir".

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem

Thank You, Ezekiel, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.


Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

[Ezekiel]

It gets better:

מיר+שלום

626=

Which is divisible by two:

626 = 313+313

Which now looks like a particular name written twice, in cursive:

Which is to say,

דוד דוד

Two Davids:

I shall see him, but not now; I shall behold him, but not near…

Two Davids “out of Jerusalem”, who teach peace. On one hand, this little track may appear to be just a tad creative. OTOH,

it loops right back to the simple meaning. A kid would see those numbers as letters or those letters as numbers because he “wouldn’t know any better.”

Eze 37

24. And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd; they shall also follow my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them:
25. And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, where your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell in it, they and their children, and their grandchildren for ever; and my servant David shall be their prince for ever:
26. And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore:
27. My tabernacle also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
28. And the nations shall know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore:

Shalom-Peace-Mir, Hebrew-English-Russian, the most common languages spoken in Israel by the olim.

Palindromes, gotta love 'em. They read the same from either direction. So if they are doubled within themselves, the message quickly multiplies.

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Wow...just a coincidence, I’m sure, but this morning I had to write a check to the plumber for $313.00.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Prayers up

[Ezekiel]

Heh, well here's another "coincidence":

As soon as I posted that I got up to refill my coffee and spouse (who was already in the kitchen) says, "Hey wow look, there's this albino dove outside. We've never had one like this before... what is it?"

So I look out the window and sure enough, we'd never had that type appear before. Not albino (had some minor black markings), but it was this *super bright* white. So white is looked almost reflective.

On one hand, it was "just a white dove", OTOH...

Well I went on to explain what I had just posted about peace, and voila... the dove appeared. A bright white "random" dove outta nowhere. Stuck around for as long as my explanation continued, then it left right after that.

Furthermore, yesterday we had had a conversation about the odd etymology of the Greek/Latin columbus/columba (dove), being rooted in diving and pools... talking about the use in the NT i.e. the pool of Bethesda (house of chesed) in Jerusalem, people diving in for healing... and how did *that* word come to mean "dove", esp. because the Greek/NT word for dove is something entirely different.

Well, maybe I just had that question answered. What else comes "out of Jerusalem"? Healing waters. Dive on in! :)

This is what I was reading yesterday re "doves" (relating to the word for pool):

John 5

1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

Made "whole", on the Sabbath. Whole = peace. "The same as... [H8003]." IOW, a body completely at "rest".

>>>In post-biblical Judaism, souls are envisioned as bird-like (Bahir 119), a concept that may be derived from the Biblical notion that dead spirits "chirp" (Isa. 29:4). The Guf, or Treasury of Souls is sometimes described as a columbarium, a dove cote. This connects it to a related legend: the "Palace of the Bird's Nest," the dwelling place of the Messiah's soul until his advent (Zohar II: 8a-9a). The Vilna Gaon explicitly declares that a dove is a symbol of the human soul (Commentary to Jonah, 1). The dove is also a symbol of the people Israel (Song of Songs Rabbah 2:14), an image frequently repeated in Midrash.<<<

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doves_as_symbols

There's something about plumbers and flowing water.

Eze 47

1. And he brought me back to the door of the house; and, behold, waters flowed from under the threshold of the house eastward; for the front of the house faced to the east, and water run out from beneath the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar...

It goes on.

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Thank You, DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.


Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

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Interesting!

And the reason I had to get a professional plumber was because my lovely stainless steel gourmet stove was set up for Natural gas, but my fuel source is propane.

Propane , because of its smaller molecular structure, needs a smaller nozzle or orifice than natural gas...a job for a professional gas-fitter.

Because, if the propane does not go through the narrow gate, it ends up in big nasty FLAMES.

[ConorMacNessa]

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH FOR
THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM!
And for the Preservation of the Valiant
Israeli Nation!

"Disputation With Simon Magus"
Filippino Lippi – 1481-1482
Cappella dei Brancacci
Santa Maria del Carmine
Firenze, Italia

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UT there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.

And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.

But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.

Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:

Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:

(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.

And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,

Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.

But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.

Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the LORD for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.

And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.

________________________________________________Acts 8:9-25 (KJV)

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Thank You, ConorMacNessa, For Your Prayers and Wonderful Graphics For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.


Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS