Biblical Proportions

Brian · February 2016

Hebrews 12:16

See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son.

OskrZS · February 2016

why that happened for one meal?

Brian · February 2016

Esau is furious and vows to kill Jacob. Rebekah intervenes to save her youngest son Jacob from being murdered by her eldest son, Esau.

Genesis 32–33 tells of Jacob and Esau's eventual reconciliation. Esau showed forgiveness in spite of this bitter conflict. Jacob sends his whole family and multiple wives of gifts to Esau as they approach each other in hopes that Esau will spare Jacob's life. Esau refuses the gifts, as he is now very wealthy and does not need them. Jacob bows down before Esau and insists that Esau receive the gifts. (After this, God confirms his renaming of Jacob as "Israel".) Jacob gets the name Israel after he wrestles with the Angel of God as he is traveling to Esau. His hip is knocked out of joint but he keeps on wrestling and gains the name.

Brian · February 2016

Throughout the Torah, and particularly in Bereshit, there is great deal of significance associated with names. A name is not merely a way to call someone but, rather, it encapsulates the essence of the individual.

The rule: A different name will be used for the same person depending upon the context.

The example: The Patriarch Jacob (Yaakov) / Israel.

The meaning: He was called Yaakov (derived from ‘heel‘) because when he was born, his hand was holding Esau’s heel He was also called Israel (meaning ‘head’ or ‘exalted one’) because he had triumphed over an angel. Thus his original name connotes a lowly, subservient nature while the one given him later in life implies strength and victory.

Malbim tells us that the name Yaakov always describes the Jewish masses, the common folk. Israel denotes the elite, the aristocracy, the scholars and saints who guide the masses.

Brian · February 2016

According to the Biblical tradition, King David conquered Jerusalem from the Jebusites and established it as the capital of the United Kingdom of Israel, and his son, King Solomon, commissioned the building of the First Temple. These foundational events, straddling the dawn of the 1st millennium BCE, assumed central symbolic importance for the Jewish people.

Brian · February 2016

Another name, "Zion", initially referred to a distinct part of the city, but later came to signify the city as a whole and to represent the biblical Land of Israel.

Brian · February 2016

Zion is a fictional city in The Matrix films. It is the last human city on the planet Earth after a cataclysmic nuclear war between mankind and sentient machines, which resulted in artificial lifeforms dominating the world.

Brian · February 2016

Brian · February 2016

Mass Immigration / Globalism are prerequisites to fundamental American change

Brian · February 2016

Brian · February 2016

Mass genocide is the only cure for rubbish genes?

OskrZS · February 2016

Sorry toó encripted, im scared already justo hearing mass genocide.

Brian · February 2016

New Agers call it Ascension.

Brian · February 2016

The question is why Jesus would let most people wonder about the meaning of His parables. The first instance of this is in His telling the parable of the seed and the soils. Before He interpreted this parable, He drew His disciples away from the crowd. They said to Him, "Why do You speak to them in parables?" Jesus answered them, "To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted. For whoever has, to him more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him. Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says,

‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive; For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.’ But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear. For truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it" (Matthew 13:10-17).