Both David & Solomon were great Kings and a terrible fathers. The sword never left David’s house after his affair with Bathsheba. His get of that tryst—Solomon in all his glory—the man who addressed so many excellent pieces of advice to his son in proverbs—in turn produced a twit in Rehoboam.
Perhaps both David and Solomon were motivated to write because they instinctively knew that their lives were off the mark. in the way that you and I know our lives are off the mark. (though we may have different markers.) In David and Solomon their mark may have been that instinctive sense of generations where great grand dad is followed by grand dad who is followed by dad who is followed by son who is followed grandson who is followed by great grandson. A man will know when he is in a proper continuation of his line. And when his actions are out line with that continuation.
nah, that’s probably too grandiose—or certainly too grandiose for the thinking of a young man—most of whom don’t think with their heads all that much anyway.
most conservatives today have experienced over the last many decades a sheering force on the foundations of the USA. Maybe that sheering force is what moved David and Solomon to write.
Musk could be the modern Noah. A guy — here at free republic someone wrote that the hebrew word for ark that noah used —and the hebrew word for basket that carried Moses as a baby on the nile—are the same word. Both baby and man were for a time completely in God’s hands...to do as He willed.
“The dark side never learns because it already knows everything already.”
The deep question is how do you open up the civilization to the ways of God.
So light comes in.
imho beyond you and I—(because all change has to start at home)—it has to start in the universities.
There needs to be a paradigm shift.
someone wrote that the hebrew word for ark that noah used -- and the hebrew word for basket that carried Moses as a baby on the nile -- are the same word.
"teva"
Definitions 5 and 7 loop back to my previous musical post (#40) about the letters in the spaces.
Also, acronym in Hebrew is "roshei teivot", lit. the heads of words (the word for word, "teva")
We know that the other famous Ark is the Ark of the Covenant: Aron ha-Brit.
... a sheering force on the foundations of the USA. Maybe that sheering force is what moved David and Solomon to write.
The acronym for the United States is [ארה״ב], which stands for the name of the US: Artzot ha-Brit, lit. lands of the covenant.
This common pattern for forming an acronym would generate the same "roshei teivot" for "Aron ha-Brit.
Of course, it's not like anyone's going to use that acronym for the Ark of the Covenant, otherwise people might see it and think that the Ark of the Covenant is the United States.
The deep question is how do you open up the civilization to the ways of God.
So light comes in.
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There needs to be a paradigm shift.
US Government -- famous for its acronyms, and acronyms for acronyms. Who'd find anything in a US Government warehouse. It would be like finding a neil in a haystack.
You don't. It finds *you*.
An interesting point of debate in the Jewish spheres is whether the Messiah arrives and then the Temple is built, or if the Temple drops down, already built.
As you mentioned earlier...
Miracles by definition rarely happen.
They are God's way of telling you that your way of doing things needs to change.
An "Aha" light bulb moment is the sudden "miraculous" lightning speed arrival of an epiphany, not a material manifestation.
The miracle is the change required in order to see the light (revelation), because it's been sitting around all along.
"Say...what's a mountain goat doing way up here in a cloud bank?"
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him...
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