Comments on: A Picture of a Savior…Who walks on water http://stepthruthescriptures.lionelwoods.net/a-picture-of-a-savior-who-walks-on-water/ Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:40:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Steve Scott http://stepthruthescriptures.lionelwoods.net/a-picture-of-a-savior-who-walks-on-water/comment-page-1/#comment-228 Steve Scott Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:54:07 +0000 http://stepthruthescriptures.lionelwoods.net/?p=103#comment-228 Boiling down what Chas said: If Yahweh isn't your god, Caesar is. Er, um, Pharaoh, in this case. Long live Molech worship! Joseph understood American politics well. Boiling down what Chas said: If Yahweh isn’t your god, Caesar is. Er, um, Pharaoh, in this case. Long live Molech worship!

Joseph understood American politics well.

]]> By: chas pike http://stepthruthescriptures.lionelwoods.net/a-picture-of-a-savior-who-walks-on-water/comment-page-1/#comment-226 chas pike Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:28:20 +0000 http://stepthruthescriptures.lionelwoods.net/?p=103#comment-226 my heart breaks for peter. what a much misunderstood and maligned soul. my heart breaks for peter. what a much misunderstood and maligned soul.

]]> By: Lionel Woods http://stepthruthescriptures.lionelwoods.net/a-picture-of-a-savior-who-walks-on-water/comment-page-1/#comment-225 Lionel Woods Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:44:47 +0000 http://stepthruthescriptures.lionelwoods.net/?p=103#comment-225 Good word Hutch. I really love your impartial and non-pompous view of Peter (you know I love the pictures of Christ). Often times the messages we hear is about how little Peter's faith was. However, the bible gives us a much different picture of Peter doesn't it? Good word Hutch. I really love your impartial and non-pompous view of Peter (you know I love the pictures of Christ). Often times the messages we hear is about how little Peter’s faith was. However, the bible gives us a much different picture of Peter doesn’t it?

]]> By: Hutch http://stepthruthescriptures.lionelwoods.net/a-picture-of-a-savior-who-walks-on-water/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Hutch Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:47:44 +0000 http://stepthruthescriptures.lionelwoods.net/?p=103#comment-224 Hey...you make Joe sound like the Federal Government...thanks for always making me think...thinking...thinking...thinking...this may take a while. Grin. Hey…you make Joe sound like the Federal Government…thanks for always making me think…thinking…thinking…thinking…this may take a while. Grin.

]]> By: chas pike http://stepthruthescriptures.lionelwoods.net/a-picture-of-a-savior-who-walks-on-water/comment-page-1/#comment-223 chas pike Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:42:54 +0000 http://stepthruthescriptures.lionelwoods.net/?p=103#comment-223 lots of nice stuff to say about joe. he is a great employee and serves each of his masters well. he knows how to survive in adversity, be it as a slave, as a prisoner, and as a master himself, the father of pharaoh. he creates irrigation systems that cause egypt to flourish. he is a city planner in the tradition of the chaldeans. he understands the power of resources, and also how to control economics for consolidating power. with visions from God, he sets about transforming all of egypt. he has them grow grain and build depositories the grain. he institutes a harsh tax, taking 20% of all crops. he takes from everyone to build up his power base. he does, however, let the priests slide, and collects nothing from them, and provides for them. of course they are his family,he has married into them. in seven years of plenty he takes enough of the peoples grain that he is able to sell it back to them. taking first their grain, then their money, then their livestock, and then the land itself. then he takes the people. they are all now slaves to the state, which provides a welfare system that keeps them alive enough to work. eventually all of egypt becomes sharecroppers, growing seed given to them by joseph, on land provided by joseph, paying a large tribute to the state. at some point he is taking in so much grain that he stops keeping books. what? wait a minute, he stops keeping books? he is accountable to no man, and "lord" over all of egypt. interesting fellow. abe and joe in egypt. fascinating. the presence of the descendants of terah has not been a good thing for egypt. the first time disease and pestilence are introduced, it is in egypt, and as a result of the presence of abraham. here is a coincidence that i find interesting; when abe goes to war to rescue lot, he carries off booty and slaves, women and children. remember? this is where night appears for the first time? and on the morning after that first night, we are introduced to melchizedek? melchizedek shows up with the bread and the wine and abe gives him 10% of the plunder. he allows the ones that help him to take what they want, making a big show out of taking nothing for himself. then he gives the slaves, the women and children, to the king of sodom. in doing this he delivers them over to death. they will all perish in sodom at the hands of the angel of death. joe enslaves all of egypt, taking all of their material possessions. some will say that he saved egypt. i guess. in the next book of the torah, all of their animals are killed, all of the land is poisoned, and once again the angel of death comes through and decimates the country, killing all the first born of egypt. so, egypt after the presence of joseph went into slavery and ultimate destruction. israel finds its way to egypt, and you know the story, the weeping, the game playing, the reconciliation, etc. israel allows itself to become slaves out of fear and complete lack of direction. they are in egypt living in the land of goshen, the richest most fertile valley in the world, and when the 7 year famine are over, they are still there. jake is there for 17 years before he dies. they are living off the "largess" of joseph, who, after having been delivered into slavery by his brothers, sets a snare that enslaves israel for hundreds of years. as he prepares to die, he tells his brothers that God will surely provide someone to lead them out of egypt. yet they are not captives, or are they? they have, however, offered themselves up as joseph's slaves. and they remain slaves of joseph's for hundreds of years, until they cart his carcas on a 40 years journey into the wilderness and burry his mummified body in the promised land. the only son of jacob's to be buried in the promised land. i know i am getting ahead of the program, but the next book will tell us that after a few hundred years, God remembers israel. so, for the period they are in egypt, after the death of joseph, God does not remember them. they are separated from God. isnt there another word for being separated from God? thats my two cents for today. thanks for listening. and thanks for the food. lots of nice stuff to say about joe. he is a great employee and serves each of his masters well. he knows how to survive in adversity, be it as a slave, as a prisoner, and as a master himself, the father of pharaoh.
he creates irrigation systems that cause egypt to flourish. he is a city planner in the tradition of the chaldeans. he understands the power of resources, and also how to control economics for consolidating power.
with visions from God, he sets about transforming all of egypt. he has them grow grain and build depositories the grain. he institutes a harsh tax, taking 20% of all crops. he takes from everyone to build up his power base. he does, however, let the priests slide, and collects nothing from them, and provides for them. of course they are his family,he has married into them.
in seven years of plenty he takes enough of the peoples grain that he is able to sell it back to them. taking first their grain, then their money, then their livestock, and then the land itself. then he takes the people. they are all now slaves to the state, which provides a welfare system that keeps them alive enough to work. eventually all of egypt becomes sharecroppers, growing seed given to them by joseph, on land provided by joseph, paying a large tribute to the state.
at some point he is taking in so much grain that he stops keeping books. what? wait a minute, he stops keeping books? he is accountable to no man, and “lord” over all of egypt. interesting fellow.
abe and joe in egypt. fascinating. the presence of the descendants of terah has not been a good thing for egypt. the first time disease and pestilence are introduced, it is in egypt, and as a result of the presence of abraham. here is a coincidence that i find interesting; when abe goes to war to rescue lot, he carries off booty and slaves, women and children. remember? this is where night appears for the first time? and on the morning after that first night, we are introduced to melchizedek? melchizedek shows up with the bread and the wine and abe gives him 10% of the plunder. he allows the ones that help him to take what they want, making a big show out of taking nothing for himself. then he gives the slaves, the women and children, to the king of sodom. in doing this he delivers them over to death. they will all perish in sodom at the hands of the angel of death.
joe enslaves all of egypt, taking all of their material possessions. some will say that he saved egypt. i guess. in the next book of the torah, all of their animals are killed, all of the land is poisoned, and once again the angel of death comes through and decimates the country, killing all the first born of egypt. so, egypt after the presence of joseph went into slavery and ultimate destruction.
israel finds its way to egypt, and you know the story, the weeping, the game playing, the reconciliation, etc. israel allows itself to become slaves out of fear and complete lack of direction. they are in egypt living in the land of goshen, the richest most fertile valley in the world, and when the 7 year famine are over, they are still there. jake is there for 17 years before he dies. they are living off the “largess” of joseph, who, after having been delivered into slavery by his brothers, sets a snare that enslaves israel for hundreds of years. as he prepares to die, he tells his brothers that God will surely provide someone to lead them out of egypt. yet they are not captives, or are they? they have, however, offered themselves up as joseph’s slaves. and they remain slaves of joseph’s for hundreds of years, until they cart his carcas on a 40 years journey into the wilderness and burry his mummified body in the promised land. the only son of jacob’s to be buried in the promised land.
i know i am getting ahead of the program, but the next book will tell us that after a few hundred years, God remembers israel. so, for the period they are in egypt, after the death of joseph, God does not remember them. they are separated from God. isnt there another word for being separated from God?
thats my two cents for today. thanks for listening. and thanks
for the food.

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