Napoleon said:
“The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conqueres all that oppose it.”
Abraham Lincoln:
“I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.”
George Washington:
“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”
Daniel Webster:
“If there is anything in my thoughts or style to commend, the credit is due to my parents for instilling in me an early love of the Scriptures. If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”
John Ruskin:
“Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.”
Horace Greeley:
“It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the ground work of human freedom.”
Andrew Jackson:
“ That book, sir is the rock on which our republic rests.”
Lord Tennyson:
“Bible reading is an education in itself.”
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I posted this on Joel's site this morning, but it's so good I wanted to post it here too. I just started reading a book a friend lent me and I found this interesing passage.
from page46 Rosh HaShanah and the Messianic Kindom to Come Joseph Good (1991)
“In the days of the Temple, Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah were celebrated on the same day. It is in this setting that those teachers who rejected Yeshua bring the woman caught in adultery before Him to hear His judgment regarding her. Just the day before, these same men had participated in the Sukkot water pouring ceremonies and had heard Yeshua cry out that if any man thirsted, to come to Him and He would give them a drink of living water. Being teachers, they had taught any related passages, as expressed before. With this understanding, what Yeshua did by writing in the earth take on new meaning, for these Rabbis would have known and taught the passage from
Jeremiah 17:12-13
“A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. O L-rd, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the L-rd, the fountain of living waters.”
When Yeshua wrote in the earth (probably their names), He fulfilled an obscure scriptural reference already associated by these same rabbis with the water pouring ceremony. The fact that they had just rejected Yeshua’s cry concerning the living water must have stung deeply. It is interesting to note that He was questioned about the Torah on the day known as “Rejoicing in the Torah.”
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I also think it was interesting that they brought the woman to be judged and were judged themselves in that their names may have been written in the earth by the Messiah
God does things perfectly and His timing is perfect.
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