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Posted on 03/11/2021 6:03:51 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6
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After what could have been the most horrible day in my life, I opened the Bible at random and read Zechariah 6:
“Four Chariots
6 I looked up again, and there before me were four chariots coming out from between two mountains—mountains of bronze. 2 The first chariot had red horses, the second black, 3 the third white, and the fourth dappled—all of them powerful. 4 I asked the angel who was speaking to me, “What are these, my lord?”
5 The angel answered me, “These are the four spirits[a] of heaven, going out from standing in the presence of the Lord of the whole world. 6 The one with the black horses is going toward the north country, the one with the white horses toward the west,[b] and the one with the dappled horses toward the south.”
7 When the powerful horses went out, they were straining to go throughout the earth. And he said, “Go throughout the earth!” So they went throughout the earth.
8 Then he called to me, “Look, those going toward the north country have given my Spirit[c] rest in the land of the north.”
The day was 9/11/01, and on that day I had witnessed four Planes, colored red and white (American Airlines) black and grey (United) flying, two to NYC, (North), one to the south (The Pentagon), and one to the west (Pennsylvania). The two bronze “mountains” were there as well (the Twin Towers).
Then, of course, came the “War on Terror”...patrolling the earth.
Of course, it may have been a TOTAL coincidence, and a total misinterpretation on my part, but we were all so emotionally shaken on that awful day twenty years ago, and I will never forget the shock I felt reading that particular Scripture portion, on that particular night, and what it said to me.
(Here is what the Scripture said to me)
“God is one the Throne. Nothing surprises Him. He is Omniscient. He sees the End from the beginning, and the Beginning from the End.
FEAR NOT.”
PS...I never shared that online before, because it was just too weird.
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Regardless whether your understanding and interpretation was correct, you certainly arrived at the correct bottom line of comforting reassurance in your hour of anxiety. How comforting that we can rely implicitly upon Him, knowing all the while not only that He is good thoroughly but also that He remains good perpetually.
One website reneged at the last moment, twice, but we soldier on!
Amen.
Thank you Dan for another great chapter and illustrations. Question: Why is wickedness always portrayed as female?
Had not occurred to me that it is. If so, it might relate to Eve’s beguilement by Satan. Others may have a more informed opinion. Meanwhile, I am a married man, so I’m not going anywhere near the humorous remarks which are trying to well up inside me.
Is it just me, or does the woman in post #10 really look like Gretchen Whitmer?
Many have said "There are no coincidences."
Nope, it ain't.
As a VERY happily divorced man...
...let me say...
...art and the Bible reflect reality!
*shrug* I was a bit disappointed that none looked like Pelosi..
You can all keep your remarks safely inside, I think I found an answer to my question! As valid as any other.
https://www.gotquestions.org/wickedness-woman.html
Good detective work! Seems quite reasonable.
Excellent! Thanks! As a nearly monolingual English speaker the assigning of genders to inanimate objects and free floating concepts isn’t something I normally think of (except ships are female, even if named after a male, unless you’re Russian, then ships are male...)
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