There isn’t really a lot for me to say here, except to see the previous post, Blog 172, about Golem, and then just look at the red highlighted sections in the Scriptural passages below. (Please also note the NKJV translations and compare with the more literal translation in the highlighted passages. We can easily be misled by the more common translations.) We have spoken so much about the cycles of Creation in previous discussions. The cycles are times of growth, maturing. The LORD’s means of balancing out Creation – organic things are born and mature and die. And the cycle begins again.
⦁ John 12:24-26
24 Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. 25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.
Golem
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גמל Camel
- Impression גמל camel; wean; mature גלם lack form מלך king cognate permutations (determine value)
- The key in understanding the cognate permutations, as previously discussed, is to open the mind to think of ways that the continuum can encompass the words/phrases highlighted. In this case, what does “determining value” mean? Is it man/people determining value; is it the LORD determining value? Recall the 1 Samuel 8 soliloquy about kings from last time. Very curious the words that are included in this cognate permutation group. Remember 1 Samuel 16:7.
⦁ 1 Samuel 16:7
7 But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look upon his appearance and upon the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks to eye, but the LORD looks to heart.”
⦁ Genesis 2:15-20 NKJV
15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
18 And the LORD God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” 19 Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.
⦁ Genesis 8:21-22 NKJV
21 And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.
22 “While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”
⦁ Genesis 25:23-28 NKJV
23 And the LORD said to her:
“Two nations are in your womb,
Two peoples shall be separated from your body;
One people shall be stronger than the other,
And the older shall serve the younger.”
24 So when her days were fulfilled for her to give birth, indeed there were twins in her womb. 25 And the first came out red. He was like a hairy garment all over; so they called his name Esau. 26 Afterward his brother came out, and his hand took hold of Esau’s heel; so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
27 So the boys grew. And Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob was a mild man, dwelling in tents. 28 And Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
⦁ Job 1:17-21 NKJV
17 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels and took them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
18 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, 19 and suddenly a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
20 Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell to the ground and worshiped. 21 And he said:
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
And naked shall I return there.
The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away;
Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
The cycles, as noted by Job, are “give and take.”
The design of the LORD is to bring growth and then to bring to an end. A book I was recently reading reminded that the purpose is to be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:22 and 1:28), and noted that swamps have lots of growth (multiplying) but do not produce fruit (I did not research that statement, but it made her point. ((Knowing Who We Are, Laceye C. Warner.)) In the design of Creation, seen in Genesis 8:22, the references indicate the harvest, which is the gathering of the fruit of the growth. Winter is not mentioned. The focus is what we have reaped from what was sown… and again we can think of the Parable of the Sower…
Blessings – PG
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