Did Dinah make it? I don’t think she died, but she never got any restoration, as far as we know. Too often this happens when someone gets raped or abused in some other way… but I’m not speaking on this, now, for Jacob soon returns to Bethel where he had that dream about a ladder to Heaven (Genesis 28:10-22). There, he builds an altar to God and names it “Bethel” — there’s actually a church called Bethel Church in northern California, Redding, to be exact. I thought there were some issues with a prayer group called Sozo ministries in 2012, but three years later, I found it to be helpful, for the Holy Spirit had intended to deliver many traumatized people from demonic haunts in their head or on their hearts. I’ve had about four or five, now… I find that super-good, the Sozo thing 😇😇😇😇😇 sorry for my misunderstanding when I was 21. Two Rivers does it, and so should other churches, if they would listen to Jesus. But many still won’t, so soon, He’ll put them out of business. Thank God for many new house churches that are trying to honour Him; I pray they are sincere about it. I think that’s the future of the Christian Church as a whole — denominationalism is total bullcrap. Sorry for my words (haha) but I’m being frank here. Oh, this passage is found in page 21 of my NKJV Bible, page 27 of my NASB Bible, page 46 of my VOICE copy, and pages 45-46 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.
I noticed in verse 11 that multiple nations will come out of Jacob, but I only know of one so far, Israel (north and south; see Ezekiel 37:15-28). I don’t understand why God said a lot of nations would be descended from Jacob, but… hang on… I looked it up on Google, and couldn’t find anything genuine of consequence to Jacob’s descendants creating more nations. Not even the U.S. and U.K. commentary I found on an article online (I don’t want to mention the source) is that reliable, for both nations are more or less Christianized but not converted. Indeed, if anyone were to ask me, “Have either of them fallen yet?” I’d like to say (and I don’t want to say this about Britain)… the two nations have already fallen… to conservative nonsense so that too many would lovelessly follow them into Hell. The newly elected leader, Boris Johnson, is likely at work both with rejecting immigrants and refugees and also trying to be as thoroughly conservative as, unfortunately, the U.S. will become, and we, the nonpartisan Christians, are perceived as threats… and so are all non-Republicans who don’t follow things like this. Indeed, even the other parties are all beyond redemption, for you know what happened in the previous election, do I need to remind you? I sure hope not! That’s the reason we can’t really have nice things anymore, you know. But I believe revival will come to both the U.S. and the U.K. still; it’s just not going to be easy. Besides, the unbelief aggravates my spirit so that I am muzzled like a dog, figuratively speaking. Yet the natives will be fruitful and multiply once again; I just wish the evil one didn’t succeed in his plans to get more than one nation hopelessly and permanently conservative. It’s endangering God’s very throne, for if His throne is by righteousness and justice (Psalm 97:2), injustice and unrighteousness spell the end of His reign if He doesn’t do something about it sooner or later. God did NOT found any nation that gives hypocrisy a platform, for He didn’t do that with Israel with this motive. Yet Israel is still a people, and I think it’s pretty cool; I just wish they honoured Him correctly.
Also, I talked with a guy at work whose name is Justin (today was his last day at the store) and was able to introduce him to my church; he wants to go, and I think that’s awesome! I recommend him going to Awaken at 7 p.m. on Thursdays (such as three days from now). Hey, Justin, if you’re reading this, you’re invited, dude. (I showed him the URL to this website by writing it down.) You can also come to any church service on the weekends, such as Saturdays at 6 p.m., and Sundays at either 9 or 11 a.m. Beyond that, though, I won’t share what else we’ve talked about, but I do know he was inspired by this blog site 😁😁😁😁😁
The family tree of Israel is still incomplete, though, for Jacob still has only 11 sons (he fathers 12 tribes, two of which coming from one son, and his third son having allotments among the brethren). We’ll see that next time here on ablog-of-bible-notes-and-things.com! But I’ll mostly talk about Joseph’s humble beginnings and Jacob’s dedication to him from his birth. In the meantime, if you want to make any prayer requests, you can leave some in my e-mail: ron.outland4727@gmail.com! I’ll read each request, write them down, then tape them to my bedroom walls! I hope you found this encouraging, and like I said, I’ll see you in the other half of this chapter 😎😎😎
Edit: I realize I spoke almost nothing of identity in Jesus, I’m sorry 😅 I think believers are just prone to follow liberating things that, thank God, don’t screw people up, for every Jesus-lover is about freedom and truth like I am. Sorry for the lack of identity-speaking here 😂😂😂😂😂
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