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Think Like Abraham!

How so?  Adam & Abraham are two of the biggest Patriarchs in Genesis.    Adam is the Patriarch of all of humanity just as Abraham is the Patriarch of all Israel (both spiritual & ethnic).   In addition, the command to be fruitful & multiply & exercise dominion isn’t just a command, it’s a promise & a blessing.   The same is true with respect to God’s promises to Abraham.  Both also involve Adam & Abraham & their respective families producing children/offspring.  These two declarations on God’s part are therefore analogous.  In order to bring those promises to pass, God provided Adam & Abraham the means to fulfill their covenant obligations.   Adam was given Eve (& vice versa), & Abraham & Sarah were given each other too.   In relation to one particular person who they loved who was integral to the fulfillment of God’s covenantal promises, Adam was given Eve & Abraham was given Isaac.  ...

Pentecost Reading: Revelation 20 - 22

Christ and Satan 20  Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven. He had the key to the abyss and a great chain in his hand.  2  He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, bound him for a thousand years,  3  threw him into the abyss, locked it, and set a seal on it, so that he could no longer deceive the nations until the thousand years come to an end. After this he must be released for a short time. They Lived and Reigned With Christ 4  Then I saw thrones, and those who were sitting on them were given the authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshipped the beast and his image, and they did not receive his mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.  5  (The rest of the dead did not live until the thousand years came to an end.) This is the first resurre...

Pentecost Reading: Ezekiel 46 - 48

Other Festivals and the Prince 46  This is what the  Lord  God says. The gate into the inner courtyard which faces east must remain closed on the six work days, but on the Sabbath day it is to be opened, and on the day of the New Moon it is to be opened.  2  The prince is to enter through the vestibule of the gateway at the outer, eastern end of the gatehouse and stand by the gatepost, and the priests are to offer his burnt offering and fellowship offerings. He is to prostrate himself on the threshold of the gateway and then go out, but the gate will not be closed until evening.  3  The people of the land are to prostrate themselves before the  Lord  at the entrance to that gate on Sabbaths and New Moons. 4  The burnt offering that the prince is to offer to the  Lord  on the day of the Sabbath is to consist of six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish.  5  The grain offering is to be an ephah for the ram, an...