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Unaware of God's judgement

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For Sunday - The Noah's Ark Window in Tissington, Derbyshire (Photo credit: UGArdener ) “. . . And they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.” Matthew 24:39 Universal was the doom, neither rich nor poor escaped: the learned and the illiterate, the admired and the abhorred, the religious and the profane, the old and the young, all sank in one common ruin. Some had doubtless ridiculed the patriarch—where now their merry jests? Others had threatened him for his zeal which they counted madness—where now their boastings and hard speeches? The critic who judged the old man’s work is drowned in the same sea which covers his sneering companions. Those who spoke patronizingly of the good man’s fidelity to his convictions, but shared not in them, have sunk to rise no more, and the workers who for pay helped to build the wondrous ark, are all lost also. The flood swept themall away, and made no single exception. Even so, out ...

Sing unto God

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Image via Wikipedia "Sing unto God , sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH , and rejoice before him." ( Psalm 68:4 )   The name JAH, by which this verse exhorts us to praise the Lord, is a contracted form of Jehovah , or Yahweh , which is the commonly used name of the self-existing, self-revealing God, usually shown as LORD in English. When combined with the Hebrew verb for "praise" ( hallal ), it becomes " Hallelujah ," meaning "Praise ye the LORD!"   It is no coincidence that this word, "Hallelujah," occurs exactly 22 times in the book of Psalms, also known as the book of the Praises of Israel , for there are exactly 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet , the language which God used to reveal His eternal word ( 119:89 ) to man. This serves to remind us that the very purpose of human languages is to praise the Lord who created us and has died to redeem us.   The first occurrence in the psalms o...