Posted on 01/22/2023 7:45:48 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6
Since we don’t have a new episode appearing today, I thought I’d publish this little table on which Matthew and Thomas collaborated (!), compiling a record of miracles shown on The Chosen.
EPISODE TITLE | DONE BY | DONE FOR | DESCRIPTION | ||
“I Have Called You By Name” | Jesus | Mary Magdalene | Redeemed Her from Demon Possession & Alcoholism | ||
“The Rock On Which It Is Built” | Jesus | Simon & Andrew | Remitted Their Debt, through Enormous Fish-Catch | ||
“The Wedding Gift” | Jesus | Mary, Abner & Dinah, Thomas & Ramah | Embarrassment Prevented, by Turning Water into Wine | ||
“Indescribable Compassion” | Jesus | Leper | Cleansed Him from Leprosy | ||
“Indescribable Compassion” | Jesus | Paralyzed Man | Forgave His Sin, Removed His Paralysis | ||
“Invitations” | Jesus | Dasha, Eden’s Mother | Healed Her Fever & Cough | ||
“I Am He” | Jesus | Photina, Samaritan Woman at Jacob’s Well | ”Coincidental” Encounter at the Well at Mid-Day; Revealed His Knowledge of Her to Generate Her Saving Faith | ||
“Thunder” | Jesus | Melech | Healed His Broken Leg | ||
“I Saw You” | Jesus | Nathanael | Reported What Was Done in Private under the Fig Tree, to Generate His Saving Faith | ||
“Matthew 4:24” | Jesus | Many, Anonymously | Miscellaneous Healings over Many Hours | ||
“The Perfect Opportunity” | Jesus | Jesse, Paralyzed for 38 Years, at the Bethesda Pool | Cured His Paralysis, Grabbed Simon the Zealot’s Attention | ||
“Spirit” | Jesus | Caleb | Cast Out Demons | ||
“Unlawful” | Jesus | Elam | Healed His Withered Hand, on the Sabbath | ||
EPISODE TITLE | DONE BY | DONE FOR | DESCRIPTION | ||
“Physician, Heal Yourself” | Jesus | Self & Us | Walked Through and Away From Homicidal Nazarene Crowd | ||
“Clean, Part 1” | John & Thomas | Young Woman | Healed Her Blindness | ||
“Clean, Part 1” | Nathanael & Thaddeus | Woman | Healed Her Deafness | ||
“Clean, Part 1” | Big & Little James | Young Man | Healed His Lameness | ||
“Clean, Part 1” | Matthew & SimonZ | Young Man | Cast Out His Demon(s) | ||
“Clean, Part 1” | Nathanael & Thaddeus | Woman | Raised Her Back to Life | ||
“Clean, Part 1” | Judas & Simon | Young Woman | Cast Out Her Demon(s) | ||
“Clean, Part 1” | Matthew & SimonZ | Teen Boy | Healed His Lameness | ||
“Clean, Part 2” | Jesus | Veronica | Healed Her Bleeding | ||
“Clean, Part 2” | Jesus | Nili, Jairus’ Daughter | Raised Her Back to Life | ||
“Intensity in Tent City” | Jesus | Woman | Raised Her from Bending Over Chronically | ||
“Intensity in Tent City” | Jesus | Man | Healed Amputatable Leg | ||
“Intensity in Tent City” | Jesus | Boy | Healed His Blindness | ||
“Intensity in Tent City” | Jesus | Older Man | Healed His Muteness | ||
“Intensity in Tent City” | Jesus | Abner & Nadal, John’s Disciples | Arranged their Presence during Several Miracles, to Encourage John | ||
“Intensity in Tent City” | Jesus | Shula | Healed Her Blindness | ||
“Intensity in Tent City” | Jesus | Barnaby | Healed His Lameness |
I expect I’ve missed some—let me know, please. I might update when episodes 7 and 8 drop.
Thanks
Since we don't have a new episode appearing today...
The real world always has something entertaining going on somewhere (everywhere), all-day-every-day!
I'm only pointing this stuff out. So for today...
"MIRACLES PORTRAYED" (in pictures):
Today is the Chinese New Year. "Chinese" (the adjective, sini) is spelled the same in Hebrew as "Sinai". סיני
Heavenly stems and earthly branches
Every year, a heavenly stem (one of five elements, which fall into the yin or yang category) is paired with an earthly branch (one of the 12 Chinese zodiac animals).
Gui Mao is the 40th element of the Chinese sexagenary cycle -- the Heavenly Stem "Gui" represents water, whereas the earthly branch "Mao" represents Rabbit. That makes 2023 the Year of the Water Rabbit.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/chinese-zodiac-predictions-2023-hnk-intl/index.html
Water, Moses, Ingenuity (currently, as of Jan 19, 2023), 40...
The number 40 has great significance throughout the Torah and the Talmud. The number 40 represents transition or change; the concept of renewal; a new beginning. The number 40 has the power to lift a spiritual state.
Specifically the 40th year is the "Yin" Water Rabbi er rabbiT:
癸 Yin Water 卯 Rabbit Jan 22 2023 – Feb 09 2024
Mem is the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Numerical value: 40
Sound: "M"
Meaning: 1. Water 2. Mashiachhttps://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/137085/jewish/Mem.htm
"Yin" in Hebrew is spelled the same as yayin, "wine":
יין
Water (as represented by the 40) and wine:
There's a great deal of Jewish commentary regarding the mystery of wine. "When wine goes in, the secret comes out." It involves a word play on 70, because yayin, wine [יין] = 70 = sod, secret [סוד].
(Yayin rhymes with ayin the letter that = 70 and means eye, fountain, well, spring.)
Yet here we are today, at the beginning of the Chinese [סינית f.] year that is the 40th term which is the [yin/wine] year of the Water Rabbi er rabbiT. With Hebrew as the translation-catalyst, wine and water are all in this together, so I figured I should draw this one out of the hat:
Water as 40, the secret of wine
If you separate the "L" [אל, the Latin letter] part of the 4 and turn it 180, the components of the 4 become a dalet [ד] and a vav [ו], and the 0 is a samech [ס], thereby spelling "sod", the secret of wine.
סוד
סוד
70
Then there was that famous cover song released 40 years ago (Aug 1983) by UB-40 (the band named for Unemployment Benefit Form 40): Red Red Wine
"In 1988, UB40 performed the song at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert."
See what I mean?? It's always something! Every detail.
It's the New Year of '23. The 23rd state, born on March 15, 1820, is the place of first light on America. It's name indicates that it is "from wine" (the letter mem, 40 + wine, 70: מיין). Motto: Dirigo, "I lead."
מיין first appears in the Torah when Noah awoke from "his wine" [מיינו] in Genesis 9:24, but in the second place it stands alone as a word (without the possessive suffix), just like the name of the place:
Gen 499 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
12 His eyes shall be red with wine [מיין], and his teeth white with milk.
Maine will turn 203 this year, same as in the very beginning -- the sum of the first three letters of the Torah, which are immediately repeated as the second word, bara [ברא], "created."
In fact, the Ides of March once signified the new year, which meant celebrations and rejoicing.
Yet when heroes in movies, books and television shows are faced with the Ides of March, it's always a bad omen. Several television shows have had episodes named "The Ides of March." And it's never good news.
https://www.history.com/news/beware-the-ides-of-march-but-why
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Keep an eye out for a Water Rabbi serving wine. There's a picture for everything! 😉
Peachy keen!
Thanks for clearing that up! Now we know....
So it’s not based on the Bible
No. Don’t know whether you’ve seen the series, but the writers start with the Bible and then fill in the gaps with what they consider to be plausible conjectures. They run the scripts past a roundtable: Catholic priest, Evangelical scholar and Messianic rabbi.
Haven’t watched, yet, but...found this...
https://www.thebibleartist.com/post/the-chosen-season-3-episode-6-recap-review-analysis
Would take as long to read that as to watch the episode.
I meant the origin of the table you posted - so I remember where I got it. (Didn't want anyone to think I was actually that clever).
Saw this, too....
Christian Post ^ | 1/17/23 | By Jeannie Ortega Law, Christian Post Reporter
Posted on 1/23/2023, 12:15:26 AM by 6thavenue
Fans of “The Chosen” crashed the Fathom Events website on Sunday after the series creator announced that the season 3 finale would be released in movie theaters on select dates.
“The Chosen” creator Dallas Jenkins revealed Sunday night that the final two episodes of season 3 will be in theaters at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Feb. 2 and Feb. 3. Following the announcement, fans rushed to the site to buy tickets, causing it to crash.
Season 3 of the series has broken records by having the “most interaction” from any other season in the past, according to a statement from “The Chosen.” Now the show is bringing people back to the theaters to catch the final episodes, 7 and 8.
(Excerpt) Read more at christianpost.com ...
God is always imaginative and relentless in bringing His saving Gospel to humans, but The Chosen is a brand-new means. Television has been available for seventy-five years and internet streaming for twenty-five, but only now has He facilitated this fifty-six hour extravaganza.
It is easy to suppose that it augurs the End Times: He is ramping up His efforts, to culminate in the extreme efforts of the Great Tribulation.
Dan
It's all so integrated. So many secrets. Never boring. (YMMV)
Wine and water, "MIRACLES PORTRAYED"...
The only state with one syllable.
~ 3500 mi of coastline, so no wonder:
Maine is not only מיין "from wine" (from 70), it's also from water (i.e. the letter ayin which is 70) because
The language of the Jews is literally "YIDdish", and it tells us that the state of first light of Day on America is
מעין
"From the eye" (well, fountain, spring, letter ayin...)
Spelled mem (מ -- 40, water) + ayin [עין], which is the letter [ע] that is 70.
מעין adds up to 170 ("one 70") and permutes to na'im:
"Behold, how good and how pleasant [na'im: נעים] it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" ~ King David (Psalm 133)
Ayin and mem together spell "am" [עם], people, so there you go. David was obviously a man of letters.
A doubling of the waters and of the 70s. From wine in Hebrew, from an ayin in Yiddish.
At its first place in the Torah, מעין is in the plural, in the context of 40, doubled:
Genesis 7
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains [מעינות] of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
I might as well add that in the extended letter values, the final mem [ם] = 600.
Dirigo: "I lead"
I suspect this kind of stuff tends to irritate people, especially because what's America have to do with anything in the Bible. Most experts can't find America anywhere in Bible prophecy, and if they can't find her she must not be there. They do, however, have an eagle eye out for a rebuilt Temple to appear in the middle of JerUSAlem.
Not only is '23 the year of the Wine-Water Rabbi (the 40th in the 60-year cycle),
there's the tradition that when Moses broke the first set of tablets, all the letters flew up to heaven, but that only 22 returned. The Messiah thus will be coming along with the missing 23rd letter.
The 23rd state's state animal is the same as FR's, the Moose. Everyone around here knows that if you can't trust Mooses, whom can you trust? 😉
~ EZ
It is very well done. It’s hard not to binge on the show. It does use some carefully considered conjecture but as you said in a plausible way. You rather recognize where it ‘fills in’. The gentle humor is one example.
It does make you think more about what it might’ve been like, walking hundreds of miles and being together with a group of humans who tried to be good, were good but also had human frailties.
The actor who plays Jesus put a lot of thought into delivering some of the recorded words of Jesus that make meaning come through beautifully.
It does deepen my faith, although it’s always part of my life, this series has brought some new thoughts to it. Kind of like Jesus is there or I am there in those days. I love that. I know it’s a tv series and I hope that the effect lasts. It’s always good to keep it rolling.
I don't even attempt to resist bingeing on it--but then, I'm retired. Jerry Jenkins, Dallas' dad, said a year ago that he had seen every episode twenty-two times. Now that is crazy. Normal is the seventeen times I've seen them.
“Jerry Jenkins, Dallas’ dad, said a year ago that he had seen every episode twenty-two times. Now that is crazy. Normal is the seventeen times I’ve seen them”.
Lol.
Well, I’m on my first run but, who knows?
~ 3500 mi of coastline?
What did they do? Measure every rock in New England?....................
Now do AM-erica.....................
I like "scary"! 👻
Re the 23rd "missing" letter, more fun in the world of weird-simple-spooky:
A contraction is where an apostrophe represents a missing letter. In Hebrew acronyms [for single words] and other assorted applications, what's used is a geresh (or double geresh, depending on the particulars).
A geresh looks almost the same as an apostrophe, and
"Most keyboards do not have a key for the geresh. As a result, an apostrophe ( ', Unicode U+0027) is often substituted for it."
Upon switching over to the Hebrew language keyboard, the apostrophe is the "W" key. It's easy to find the missing letter apostrophe because it's located right under the "23".
The giving of the Law is part of the holiday of Shavuot, which is also the traditional date for the death and birth of King David. One people saying "Yes!" to the Torah @ Sinai, and
That was the date for the famous first telegraph message: May 24, 1844
The important message worth sending?
"What hath God wrought" (Num 23:23)
which is normally read in July in Parshat Balak, -- the 40th weekly Torah portion -- but it was obviously a special occasion.
Unicode 23 is #, the number sign, found on the 3 key.
Unicode 40 is @, found on the 2 key
Numbers 23:23... It's like some kind of message for everyone to figure out how to unite as one (as if they need to be told!?):
InformationChromosomes come in pairs. Normally, each cell in the human body has 23 pairs of chromosomes (46 total chromosomes). Half come from the mother; the other half come from the father.
https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/special-topic/chromosome
W: Double You
Who would be surprised if it turns out that those genealogy research companies are actually government fronts up to no good, but there's always the Master Comedian er Craftsman who can demonstrate who is truly in charge of everything, because...
"23 and ME"? Seriously, you can't make this stuff up.
Even Mooses would be able to tell ya!
You could overwrite every bad decree with this kind of intel, even with just the push of a button:
The delete control character (also called DEL or rubout) is the last character in the ASCII repertoire, with the code 127.[1] It is supposed to do nothing and was designed to erase incorrect characters on paper tape. It is denoted as ^? in caret notation and is U+007F in Unicode.
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HistoryThis code was originally used to mark deleted characters on punched tape, since any character could be changed to all ones by punching holes everywhere. If a character was punched erroneously, punching out all seven bits caused this position to be ignored or deleted.[2][3]
"And it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus..."
Calypso John Denver Jacques Cousteau
(Outstanding matching video scenes in that one.)
Gotta go... a beautiful boy bluebird just showed up and I realized that I've got to clear all the snow off of the feeders and trays.
Now do AM-erica.....................
That's the initial pun -- "people, nation"
The spelling in Hebrew is with an alef, therefore em [....אמ], "mother" [אם].
(This is great -- even the end of this post, "May it be a Year of Great Wonder", matched right back up to the topic of the thread, "miracles portrayed".)
As I was putting together the following information, "300" came up a few times in the articles. It fit with the letter shin (300) as the eternal flame (the light), so I thought I'd mention it. The letter also resembles a hovering dove. This appears in jewerly designs, for example:
18K GOLD DIAMOND
STAR OF DAVID DOVE PENDANT
A Star of David made of matte 18k yellow gold,
comprised of a Hebrew letter shin and a gold triangle.
A single, dazzling diamond is set in the center of the shin.
Columbia, like Jonah, means "dove", and
The Talmud compares the spirit of God hovering over the waters to a dove that hovers over her young.[14][15][16]
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.
Back to the telegraph line and getting a rope (and gold star jewelry)...
John Gast's 1872 painting American Progress depicts Columbia as the Spirit of the Frontier,
carrying telegraph lines across the Western frontier to fulfill manifest destiny.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(personification)
"New Jerusalem" (location), Yom Kippur and the first lighthouse in America:
You are Jonah. The real you, for "Jonah" -- in Kabbalistic parlance -- is another name for the soul. Hence, the story of Jonah is the story of a soul's journey here on earth. Thus, on Yom Kippur, as we examine our lives and consider our purpose in this world, we remember the historical Jonah whose real-life narrative symbolizes our spiritual odyssey.
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/430304/jewish/The-Story-of-Your-Life.htm
essay: a short piece of writing on a particular subject.
Ergo, the little book of Jonah is the... "You"essay.
Friday night, September 14, 1716 (Julian), the beginning of Yom Kippur 5477...
(Here are the corresponding Gregorian and Hebrew dates.)
As early as 1675, settlers lit bonfires on a hill overlooking Boston Harbor as an aid to navigation, but it wasnt until 1715 that the Colony of Massachusetts Bay spent almost 2,400 British pounds to construct a light tower, the first in the New World. When on September 14, 1716, the beacon from Little Brewster Island pierced the night sky overlooking Boston Harbor for the first time, there were only seventy lighthouses in existence in the whole world.
https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=473
The first lighthouse in America was on Little Brewster Island in Boston Harbor and was lit on September 14, 1716. When the British took over and controlled the harbor in 1775, General George Washington dispatched 300 men in whale boats to overtake the island and destroy the lighthouse so as not to be useful to the British. After the war, in 1783, a new lighthouse was built on the site of the old, reusing some of the original materials at the base. This new lighthouse, which stands today, was built seventy five feet high with seven foot walls at the base, tapering to less than three feet at the top.
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In 2003, Dr. Sally Snowman was hired as keeper, becoming the 70th keeper, and the first female, to serve at Boston Light.
https://www.bostonpreservation.org/advocacy-project/boston-light-little-brewster-island
... as we examine our lives and consider our purpose in this world, we remember the historical Jonah whose real-life narrative symbolizes our spiritual odyssey:
"I'm going to retire on December 31st, 2023," she said.
"I'm so privileged to be the 70th keeper of the Boston Light, with the first 69 all men.
"Can you imagine coming across the Atlantic Ocean in the 1700s, a horrible trip, and then seeing this lighthouse flashing?
"It gave hope, it's the light showing the way."
First and last female keeper of 300-year-old lighthouse prepares to farewell job she loves (Jan 1, 2023)
First and last:
The historic Boston Light overlooks the sea from Little Brewster Island, casting a light beam 27 miles into the Atlantic. This is the oldest continually used and last staffed lighthouse in the country, which dates back to the Revolutionary War.
https://www.nps.gov/boha/learn/historyculture/boston-light.htm
300 and 6 years since the first light as of
Sun, 25 September 2022 (Gregorian) after sunset = 1st of Tishrei, 5783, and
The Talmud compares the spirit of God hovering over the waters to a dove that hovers over her young.
This hovering dove is located in Genesis 1:2. The Spirit of God [רוח אלהים] = 300, and comes attached to the "and" -- the letter vav [ו] which = 6...
Genesis 1
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God [ורוח אלהים] moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
On that note, here's the name JERUSALEM because in Hebrew, the corresponding red letters are the shin and the vav, the 300 and the 6:
יְר-וּשָׁ-לַיִם
2. "And the spirit of G‑d hovered upon the waters." (Gen. 1:2) Midrash Rabba explains that this "spirit of G‑d" hovering upon the waters is actually the "soul of Mashiach"...
So, the simplest acronym for this year—תשפג—is “May it be a Year of Great Wonder” (תְּהֵא שְׁנַת פֶּלֶא גָּדוֹל). The “Great Wonder” that we are anticipating this year is the coming of Mashiach, who is related to the word “wonder,” since Isaiah calls Mashiach the “wondrous counselor” (פֶּלֶא יוֹעֵץ), which itself equals the word “physician” (רוֹפֵא).[4]
The Mashiach is the expert physician who comes to heal us from all our ailments. He achieves this with the Torah. So that is the simplest thing we should have in mind and pray to Hashem that we merit seeing it with our physical eyes this year.
"Ben He He said: According to the labor is the reward." (Pirkei Avot 5. 23)
AM-erica:
6:00 -- "Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today."
Here we go again.
You essay, You essay, You essay
(Gotta laugh......)
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