Here we find the beginning of the Jewish calendar, since God said in verse 2 that this is the beginning of months for His people (NASB). But this was to point towards Jesus to come many years later. Still, this passage is found in pages 38-39 of my NKJV Bible, pages 48-50 of my NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 84-86 of my VOICE copy (I’ll go read it really quick), and pages 81-83 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.
There was also the Passover, still celebrated by Jews today, which I think is pretty good, but they need to realize it’s Christ that should be worshipped instead, since this observance pointed to Him when it first came out.
Anyway, the whole land of Egypt had dead firstborn men everywhere, and so Pharaoh finally admitted Jesus defeated him, so he urged everyone of Israel to leave in haste, so they did, and all of Egypt thought they’d all be dead if the Israelites never left. Too bad Pharaoh changes his mind later on once again… I don’t know why he did that. I guess the power got to his head… I don’t know for sure; I guess it’s something I can never really understand, since people like him are authoritarian and such. Indeed, the man had rejected Jesus at least once in his life prior to that point. What I did enjoy hearing, though, was that recently, California opened up again, as its next-door neighbour, Arizona (where I’m from) had done over a year ago. Heck, I’d actually buy a house there if I had five million bucks, but I don’t think there’s a single place in the West that’s any safer than Gilbert is. I do love Arizona, though.
I should also mention that — I really hate to say this — I feel this isn’t remembered much in the churches of Christ nowadays, since the heresy of “Christian” nationalism still hasn’t even been bruised even once, well, except for Trump having to leave his job, I guess. Still, the people actually worship something like this, and they even came up with a Lee Greenwood Bible (complete with U.S. history mixed with Bible passages) — thank God they couldn’t find a publisher yet; I mean, Zondervan didn’t do it, so I feel they’ve done a good thing here. This is getting very strange. I just found out this week that someone had predicted back in 1936 this would be popular. We don’t know who said it and where he was from. But even so, with what’s happened in the last several years, I feel the U.S. has sealed his fate. I’m serious. People have said for years, “If God doesn’t judge the U.S., He’d have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah!” But the guilt here is even worse, for they’ve actually used God’s Name for political power to obscene degrees! I feel they’re going to criminalize everything but “Christian” nationalism soon, and that abuse will be required by law for every citizen per day. When we resist, they’ll give us a fate more bitter than death, since they know there are worse things than death that exist, like trafficking. It’s like when Snape killed Dumbledore then became headmaster of Hogwarts, and when he did that, he sealed off all seven secret passages between it and Hogsmeade. I’d rather die, to be completely honest. I pray my nieces receive Jesus soon… they don’t deserve to be violated like this!
If you want to pray about anything else, too, you can leave me an e-mail at ron.outland4727@gmail.com! I’ll read each one, write them down, then tape them to my bedroom walls! Hopefully your Juneteenth went good this year, and I’ll see you in the next one!
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