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Exquisite inspiring beauty!

I’m so glad,

Hallelujah Lyrics

Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do ya? It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing "Hallelujah"

Your faith was strong, but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew ya

Leonard Cohen Hallelujah -

Thanks. Quite apropos to the moment.

Apparently, ol’ Leonard knew Bible stories without believing its Story

# 38. It was not merely soothing nerves.

From gotquestions.org who can explain it better than I.

https://www.gotquestions.org/evil-spirit-Saul.html

Why did God send an evil spirit to torment King Saul?

First Samuel 16:14 says, “The Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD tormented him.” This is also mentioned in 1 Samuel 16:15–16, 23; 18:10; and 19:9. Why did God let an evil spirit torment Saul? In what way was the evil spirit “from” the Lord?

First, the evil spirit was “from” the Lord in that it was allowed by God to harass Saul. Ultimately, all created things are under God’s control. It is likely that this evil spirit was part of God’s judgment upon Saul for his disobedience. Saul had directly disobeyed God on two occasions (1 Samuel 13:1–14; 15:1–35). Therefore, God removed His Spirit from Saul and allowed an evil spirit to torment him. Likely, Satan and the demons had always wanted to attack Saul; God was now simply giving them permission to do so.

Second, the evil spirit was used to bring David into the life of Saul. This account is recorded immediately following David’s anointing as the future king of Israel. The reader would be wondering how a shepherd boy would become king. First Samuel 16 reveals the first step in this journey. When the king’s servants saw the torment Saul was enduring, they suggested, “See, an evil spirit from God is tormenting you. Let our lord command his servants here to search for someone who can play the lyre. He will play when the evil spirit from God comes on you, and you will feel better” (1 Samuel 16:15–16).

One of the king’s servants referred David to the king, describing the youth as a great harp player, among other things (verse 18). Saul called David to come and found him to be a great comfort: “David came to Saul and entered his service. Saul liked him very much, and David became one of his armor-bearers. Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, ‘Allow David to remain in my service, for I am pleased with him.’ Whenever the spirit from God came on Saul, David would take up his lyre and play. Then relief would come to Saul; he would feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him” (1 Samuel 16:21–23).

It is important to note that this evil spirit that troubled Saul was only temporary. The final verse notes that the evil spirit came on multiple occasions to bother Saul, but also it departed from him.

A related question is, does God send evil spirits to torment people today? There are examples of individuals in the New Testament being turned over to Satan or demons for punishment. God allowed Ananias and Sapphira to be filled with the spirit of Satan as a warning and example to the early church (Acts 5:1–11). A man in the Corinthian church was committing incest and adultery, and God commanded the leaders to “hand him over to Satan” to destroy his sinful nature and save his soul (1 Corinthians 5:1–5). God allowed a messenger of Satan to torment the apostle Paul in order to teach him to rely on God’s grace and power and not become conceited because of the tremendous abundance of spiritual truth he was given (2 Corinthians 12:7).

The New Testament reveals how God can use the presence of evil spirits to reveal His power. Jesus showed His power over demons on multiple occasions; every time Jesus cast out a demon, it was an affirmation of the Lord’s authority. The account of Jesus’ casting out the demons who entered a herd of pigs indicates that perhaps as many as 2,000 evil spirits were present, yet they all feared the power of Christ (Mark 5:1–13).

If God does allow evil spirits to torment people today, He does so with the goal of our good and His glory (Romans 8:28). And, just as in Job’s case, Satan and his minions can do only what God allows them to do (Job 1:12; 2:6). They never act independently of God’s sovereign and perfect will and purpose. If believers suspect they are being tormented by demonic forces, the first response is to repent of any known sin. Then we should ask for wisdom to understand what we are to learn from the situation. Then we are to submit to whatever God has allowed in our lives, trusting that it will result in the building up of our faith and the glory of God.

Evil spirits are no match for the power of God. As Ephesians 6:10–12 commands, “Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

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Thank you for this clarifying essay. I rely on viewers like you to add context and data as it interests them.

The Bible explores Saul's personal psychological and spiritual angst all the way to Endor, to a degree unmatched for any other person. It's as though his height is a metaphor for his woes.

Then, David versus Goliath and Saul and himself and Nathan and Absalom and God....

Apparently, ol’ Leonard knew Bible stories without believing its Story

What? Cohen believed 'the story' his whole life...

The Story = Jesus. My understanding is that Cohen did not receive Jesus as his Savior and Lord.

my pastor thinks Bathsheba was a victim

our ladies Bible study class thinks that she invited David’s attention by bathing in public

In my experience, females are acutely aware of nearby males who might be watching.

The Story = Jesus. My understanding is that Cohen did not receive Jesus as his Savior and Lord.

A woman named 'Bath' became famous for taking a bath because David had been watching. 🤔

And then over here:

Krist offer son has said that he would like the first three lines of Leonard Cohen's "Bird on the Wire" on his tombstone:

Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free

It's a wired er weird little world out there, because:

David’s Alarm Clock

The Talmud relates that a lyre hung over David’s bed, and once midnight arrived, the northern wind would come and cause the lyre to play on its own. David would immediately rise from his bed and study Torah until the first rays of dawn.

What Is the Significance of King David’s Harp?

As for David's Harp, it's like what Maria said:

"Do-re-mi-fa-so and so on are only the tools we use to build a song. Once you have these notes in your heads you can sing a million different tunes, by mixing them up. Like this:"

Strange that the clip begins with "Esther".

Understanding, flipped on its head.. who can keep up?

Like a bird on a lyre
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free..

The 'first three lines', they sure do stand out:

Half-Shekel – Metaphor for Entanglement

Of possible interest:

Behind The Song: Leonard Cohen, “Bird On The Wire”

Like a bird on the wire... the article doesn't say, but I figured that he had been watching 'drunk' birds trying to balance on the wires. I see that a lot, doves especially.

7 string lyre = OT
8 string lyre = NT
10 string lyre = heaven
double-neck guitar = Hotel California

Well why not. It's on-topic. It's all in the timing anyway.

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓑𝓲𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓲𝓷 𝓟𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼

A song sung to a harp:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_new_shekel#Coins

lyre:

An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.

From another perspective, the lesson here is that the nation of Israel is entangled with G-d. Perhaps this is why the coin is called shekel hakodesh, the "holy coin." This holy bond is inseparable. When we are entangled with G-d, nothing can harm us. This is why, perhaps, a half-coin offered by every Jew in the desert was meant to atone for them and save their lives.

https://quantumtorah.com/half-shekel-metaphor-for-entanglement/

lyric (n.)
"a lyric poem" (one suggestive of music or fit to be sung), 1580s, from French lyrique "short poem expressing personal emotion," from Latin lyricus "of or for the lyre," from Greek lyrikos "singing to the lyre," from lyra (see lyre). Meaning "words of a popular song" is first recorded 1876. Related: lyrics

psalm (n.)
"sacred poem or song," especially one expressing praise and thanksgiving, Old English psealm (West Saxon sealm; Anglian salm), partly from Old French psaume, saume, and partly from Church Latin psalmus, from Greek psalmos "song sung to a harp," originally "performance on stringed instrument; a plucking of the harp" (compare psaltes "harper"), from psallein "play on a stringed instrument, pull, twitch" (see feel (v.)).

Used in Septuagint for Hebrew mizmor "song," especially the sort sung by David to the harp and collected in the Old Testament Book of Psalms. Related: Psalmodize. After some hesitation, the pedantic ps- spelling prevailed in English, as it has in many neighboring languages (German, French, etc.), but English is almost alone in not pronouncing the p-.

*Plucky!*

What If an Israeli National Symbol Is a Fake?
The trouble with the Maadana lyre.

>>>
[Bathja] Bayer was a specialist in the archaeology of music and had devoted much of her studies to biblical lyres. She said that she had information about the Maadana. It turned out she had some startling news: The princess, the lyre, the entire seal, Bayer said, was a forgery.

The Maadana lyre could never have existed in any ancient culture, she argued. Its asymmetrical sound box was unlike any other known ancient lyres, and with the crossbar resting on the top of outcurving arms, the instrument would collapse the first time it was tuned.
>>>
Furthermore, Bayer argued, it was unlikely a woman of royalty in seventh-century B.C.E. Jerusalem would wish to publicly associate with a lyre. In those days, she said, a female musician would have been considered a prostitute.

Poor Bathja. She didn't know. Imagine a cardiologist being convinced that all the heart (love) symbols are fake because they aren't anatomically correct.

It's the soul of the thing.

Perhaps, G-d was teaching Moses the concept of entanglement as well. Each of us is only half-coin or, rather, half-person. Together, we can form a whole.

>>>On the first blush, this seems mind-boggling. How could the second electron “find out” about the collapse the wavefunction of the first electron faster than the speed of light allows it (if they are far enough from each other)? How does the signal caring the information travel from the first electron to the second?<<<

The trouble with the Maadana lyre.

(It would collapse the first time it was tuned.)

How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?

watched My Fair Lady last night
How delightful!
my only regret is that I did not have a bigger screen to take in all the art

and yes
this is one to watch again and again

I’ve grown accustomed to her face....

I’ve grown accustomed to her face....

I'm sort of thinking that they end up getting married...That he does not just keep her around like a family pet.

I could have danced all night...

They’re equals now, no longer teacher and student. They respect each other.

So anything can happen. And his amazing mother will finally insist that he grow up.