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A Story of
Bethlehem:
The Kinsman-Redeemer
by Chuck Missler
And there were in the
same country shepherds abiding
in the field, keeping watch over
their flock by night. -
Luke 2:8
The book of Ruth, a
traditional reading at harvest
time during the Feast of Weeks
(Shavuot), is a book of only
four brief chapters that is both
a classic love story and also an
essential book of prophecy. One
cannot understand
Revelation
Chapter 5 without it.
It even has implications for our
Christmas season, which is one
of the reasons for providing a
précis in this issue.
Background
The family of Elimelech, due
to a local famine, leaves its
home in Bethlehem and immigrates
to Moab. The two sons marry
local girls, but the father and
the two sons subsequently pass
away, leaving his wife, Naomi,
and her two daughters-in-laws
destitute. Hearing that things
are now better back home, Naomi
decides to return to her native
Bethlehem. She urges the two
young girls to remain in their
homeland and begin new lives,
but Ruth refuses and insists on
accompanying Naomi.
The Law of
Gleaning
One of the values of this
book is to highlight the
operation of the laws of ancient
Israel. As a landowner, you were
permitted to reap on one pass
only: what was missed, or left
behind, was available to be
“gleaned” by the widows or the
destitute.2
Naomi and Ruth are, of
course, in that situation, and
Ruth, in her support of the
household, goes out to glean
after the reapers and “happens”3
onto the field of Boaz, one of
the wealthy landowners and the
hero of our story. Boaz arranges
for his reapers to drop
“handfuls on purpose” to assure
Ruth an abundant gathering. When
Noami learns of Ruth’s good
fortune, she is especially
delighted since it turns out
that Boaz is a kinsman of the
family, and that leads to the
opportunity that is the crux of
the tale.
To properly understand what
follows, it is necessary to be
familiar with several other laws
operative from the Torah.
The Law of
Redemption
When property is sold in our
culture, title is usually passed
“in fee simple,” in perpetuity
to the buyer. However, Israel’s
land was granted, in the days of
Joshua, to the tribes to be
retained within the family.
(That’s one of the reasons
genealogies were so important.)
When someone “sold” a
property—to pay debts, or
whatever—the transaction was
what we would view as a lease:
there were provisions for the
land to eventually return to the
family.A “title deed”
included the terms that a
kinsman of the family could
perform to “redeem” the property
to the family.5
The Law of
Levirate Marriage
There was also an unusual
procedure to assure the
continuation of a family in the
event of the death of a husband
without issue. If a widow had no
son, she could request the next
of kin to take her and raise
children to continue the family
bloodline.
It is from this background
that we understand Naomi’s
opportunity in
Ruth
Chapter 3.
She realizes that Boaz is a
kinsman; therefore, there was an
opportunity to regain the family
properties lost by her deceased
husband 10 years earlier and
also a chance for Ruth to have a
new life. Naomi instructs Ruth
on how to proceed.
The Threshing
Floor
The harvest included
winnowing the wheat at a
“threshing floor,” a parcel of
ground where there was a
prevailing wind. The grain was
tossed into the air and the
grain would fall downwind a
small distance; the chaff, being
lighter, would be carried
further downwind. When done
properly, two piles would
result: the furthest would be
burned as trash; the closer one
would be bagged for the
marketplace.
The harvest was, of course,
also a time for celebration, and
the evenings were accompanied by
festivities for having made
payroll another season, etc.
After the celebration, the
owners typically would sleep
near the grain to preclude
theft. Ruth is instructed by
Naomi to approach Boaz privately
at the threshing floor. What
follows is widely misunderstood
by the uninitiated reader.
The Request
Ruth approaches Boaz while he
is sleeping and requests him to
“spread his skirt over her as he
is a near kinsman.” This is not
the kind of proposition many
people assume it to be.
The shul (“skirt”),
or hem, was the emblem of rank
or authority in Israel, much
like the stripes on the sleeve
of a naval officer or airline
pilot in our culture. (This
insight is essential to really
understand David’s cutting
Saul’s hem,7
or why the woman with the issue
of blood touched Christ’s hem
etc.)
Ruth was asking Boaz to put
the authority of his
house over her. She is invoking
her right under the laws of
Israel for him to take her to
wife. Boaz was delighted to
accommodate her, but there
remained an obstacle to be
overcome.
A Nearer
Kinsman?
It seems that there is a
nearer kinsman who would
have to first step aside for
Boaz to assume his role. This is
a cloud over the otherwise
joyous proceedings. Boaz takes
on the task of confronting this
nearer kinsman, in front of the
city council, to force the
issue.
When a widow requested the
next of kin to perform the role
of the goel, or
kinsman-redeemer, he wasn’t
forced to. In fact, there were
three conditions to be met:
He had to be
qualified as a kinsman;
He had to be able
to perform;
He had to be willing.
There were two issues at
stake: the redeeming of the land
for Naomi and the taking of Ruth
to wife. As far as the land is
concerned, the man appears to be
willing. But for some
undisclosed reason, he is unable
to perform where Ruth is
concerned. That clears the way
for our hero, Boaz, to fulfill
his role as the goel.
The giving of the shoe needs
an explanation. If the nearer
kinsman declined the
responsibility, he would have to
yield one of his shoes and could
also suffer the indignity of
being spit upon. When he
declined, he performed the
traditional gesture by yielding
his shoe to Boaz. The shoe was
intended to be a symbol of
disgrace, but to Boaz it was a
marriage license!
(It may seem remarkable that
Boaz, a wealthy Jew, would take
a Gentile to wife. Remember who
his mother was: Rahab, the
harlot of Jericho Both Rahab and
Ruth are in Christ’s genealogy.)
A Closer Look
This elegant love story is a
classic in literature, and it
also gives us some interesting
insights into the life of
ancient Israel.
But if we look more closely,
we will discover that it is much
more than that. The plan of God
appears to be hidden among its
colorful symbols and roles. The
Bible frequently deals in
symbols, models, or “types.” As
we examine the role of Boaz as
the goel, or
kinsman-redeemer, we can easily
see how he, in some ways,
pre-figures our own
kinsman-redeemer, Jesus Christ.
Through his act of redemption,
Boaz returns Naomi (Israel) to
her land, and also takes Ruth (a
Gentile) as his bride. This
suggests a parallel with the
Church as the Gentile bride of
Christ.
The parallels between Boaz,
Naomi, and Ruth with Christ,
Israel, and the Church have been
widely recognized, and it is
remarkable to notice how many
additional details of the story
are consistent with this
viewpoint.
The Unnamed
Servant
Who first introduces Boaz to
Ruth? An unnamed servant. This
is suggestive of the role of the
Holy Spirit, and it is
interesting that in every
example that the Holy Spirit is
viewed in such a role, He is
always the “unnamed servant.” In
Genesis 24,
Abraham, as the Father, sent his
“eldest servant” to gather a
bride for his son Isaac. This
unnamed servant seems to be
mentioned elsewhereas Eliezer, which
means “Comforter.” Why does the
Holy Spirit always appear as the
unnamed servant?
Because Jesus said “He would
never testify of Himself.”14
It is interesting that, no
matter how much Boaz wanted
Ruth, as a gentleman there was
nothing he could do until she
declared herself. It was her
move. No matter how much Jesus
loves us, He awaits our
response. How about you? Have
you asked your Goel to
do His “kinsman-redeemer” part
for you?
The Nearer
Kinsman
What does the “nearer
kinsman” symbolize? Most
scholars view him as the Law.
What the Law could not do, Jesus
has already done for us. It is
also significant that at the
confrontation with the “nearer
kinsman,” it was Ruth’s position
to confront the nearer kinsman;
however, Boaz stood in
Ruth’s place and took the
entire burden upon himself.
This Christmas season we
will, of course, think of those
shepherds who were visited by
the angels announcing the birth
of the Son of David in
Bethlehem. It is interesting to
reflect on the possibility that
these shepherds were tending
their flocks in the very fields
that had belonged to Boaz and
Ruth so long before.
We note that this love story
climaxes with Boaz “purchasing”
his (Gentile) bride.15
Jesus also has purchased us: it
was with His blood on a wooden
cross two thousand years ago.
May His richest blessings attend
you and yours during this
special holiday season!
Appendix: The
Strange Toast
As they celebrated the
wedding of Ruth and Boaz at the
end of
Ruth
Chapter 4,
we encounter a rather strange
remark in verse 12: “May your
house be like Perez…” If you
understand the sordid tale of
Judah and Tamar,which leads to the
illegitimate birth of Perez, you
might be inclined to think,
“Same to you, fella!” What kind
of a “toast” or blessing is
that?
To understand what lies
behind this unusual prophecy, we
need to remember that in the
case of an illegitimate son,
there could be no inheritance
for ten generations.Appended to the Book
of Ruth is the genealogy from
Perez, and ten generations leads
us to David, anointed King over
Israel!
When Israel clamored for a
king and Samuel anointed Saul, we often get the
impression that David was an
“afterthought” when Saul didn’t
work out. Not so. Here, as early
as the time of the Judges, is a
prophecy that David was
God’s destined choice for King.
Perhaps that is why Samuel had
to go to the tribe of Benjamin,
rather than the royal tribe of
Judah
for his selection: the curse
on Perez’s line hadn’t run out
yet.
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"For God so loved the world, that he gave
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John Introduction and John
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Introduction. Hermeneutical
Caveats. Structure of the Gospels and the
Uniqueness of John’s. The
Pre-existent One. More than Metaphors: Logos,
Light, and the Metacosm. Dimensionless
Constants.
John 1:15-51
John the Baptist. The date
of Jesus’ birth. (Parenthetical notes on the
identity of the Two Witnesses of Rev 11.) The
first converts.
John 2
The first miracle. The
wedding at Cana. The water of purification (from
the Ashes of the Red Heifer).
The meeting with Nicodemus
at night. “Born Again”? The Serpent lifted in
the wilderness. The last testimony of John the
Baptist.
John 4 - 5
The Woman at the Well in
Samaria. The healing of the nobleman’s son.
John 5 is a key chapter
with some of the strongest arguments for the
deity of Jesus Christ.
John 6
The feeding of the 5,000.
The Bread of Life. Jesus walks on water.
John 7
Jesus at the Feast of
Tabernacles. Rivers of Living Water. Pharisees’
Unbelief.
John 8
The woman caught in
adultery. Jesus the Light of the World. A heated
“exchange” with the Pharisees.
John 9
Jesus heals the man born
blind. A look at “Spiritual Blindness.” Why Do
Christians Have Trials?
John 10
Jesus the Good Shepherd.
Eternal Security. Jesus rejected by the Jews.
John 11
The death and raising of
Lazarus. The plot against Jesus by the chief
priests and Pharisees.
John 12
Jesus anointed at Bethany.
The triumphal entry into Jerusalem. The Son of
Man “must be lifted up.”
John 13
Jesus washes His disciples’
feet. He foretells His betrayal. A New
Commandment.
John 14
Jesus is the Way, the
Truth, and the Light. The promise of the Holy
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John 15 - 16
Jesus is the True Vine. Our
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with the World. The work of the Holy Spirit. The
worry of the disciples. Jesus says, “I have
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John 17
The longest recorded prayer
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John 18
The betrayal and arrest of
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Caiaphas, and Pilate.
John 19
Jesus sentenced to die. The
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John 20
The Resurrection of Jesus
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and wounding 19, officials said.
BEIRUT
(AP) — Rebel fighters battled
regime troops inside the walls
of the sprawling central prison
compound in Syria's largest city
Wednesday, hours after blowing
open the gate with twin car
bombs in an attempted jailbreak,
activists said.
BENGHAZI,
Libya (AP) — Protesters and
disgruntled job seekers forced
the closure of an eastern Libyan
oil terminal on Wednesday for
the second time in six months,
disrupting exports, said an oil
ministry official.
CAIRO
(AP) — In the judiciary's latest
face-off with Egypt's Islamist
rulers, the country's top
council of judges decided
Wednesday to suspend its
participation in a
government-backed judicial
reform conference following a
renewed push by lawmakers on a
controversial bill that would
force thousands of their
colleagues into retirement.
CAIRO
(AP) — Egyptian state
prosecutors say three suspected
al-Qaida-linked militants
detained over the weekend were
plotting to attack the U.S. and
French embassies in Cairo using
car bombs.
MANAMA,
Bahrain (AP) — A lawyer says
Bahraini courts have sentenced
six people to a year in prison
on charges of making Twitter
posts deemed offensive to the
Gulf nation's king.
JERUSALEM
(AP) —
Israel's
prime
minister
is under
fire
again
for a
costly
lifestyle
at
taxpayers'
expense,
just as
his
government
is
slashing
welfare
benefits
and
raising
taxes to
cope
with a
huge
deficit.
DAMASCUS,
Syria
(AP) —
The
Syrian
government
wants
more
details
before
deciding
whether
to take
part in
a
proposed
U.S.-Russian
initiative
to
negotiate
a
peaceful
end to
Syria's
crisis,
the
country's
information
minister
said,
staking
out a
similar
position
to the
main
opposition
group.
TEHRAN,
Iran
(AP) —
Iran's
Foreign
Ministry
spokesman
says
Tehran's
nuclear
negotiator
is
seeking
a
"constructive"
response
from the
European
Union's
top
diplomat
in
upcoming
talks
aimed at
possibly
restarting
wider
dialogue
with the
U.S. and
other
world
powers.
RIYADH,
Saudi
Arabia
(AP) —
Saudi
Arabia
has
confirmed
four new
cases of
a deadly
new
respiratory
virus
related
to SARS
that
appears
centered
in the
Arabian
Peninsula
but that
has also
been
reported
in
Europe.
HEROR,
Iraq
(AP) —
The
first of
Kurdish
fighters
from
Turkey
have
entered
northern
Iraq as
part of
a peace
deal to
end a
long
uprising,
despite
Iraqi
objections
to the
transfer.
TRIPOLI,
Libya
(AP) — A
deadly
car bomb
exploded
Monday
near a
hospital
in a
busy
area
packed
with
civilians
in the
eastern
Libyan
city of
Benghazi,
destroying
part of
the
facility,
officials
said.
BAGHDAD
(AP) — A
sharp
rise in
attacks
on Sunni
holy
sites in
Iraq is
feeding
fears
that the
country
could
spiral
into a
new
round of
sectarian
violence
similar
to the
bloodletting
that
brought
Iraq to
its
knees in
2006 and
2007.
CAIRO
(AP) —
An
Egyptian
activist
charged
with
insulting
the
president
will
remain
in
detention
until
June 3,
when a
verdict
is
expected,
his
lawyer
said
Monday.
TRIPOLI,
Libya
(AP) — A
car bomb
exploded
Monday
near a
hospital
in the
eastern
Libyan
city of
Benghazi,
killing
at least
10
people,
officials
said, in
one of
the
biggest
attacks
since
the end
of the
civil
war that
ousted
former
dictator
Moammar
Gadhafi.
BEIRUT
(AP) —
Syria's
main
opposition
bloc
wants to
consult
its
allies
before
deciding
on
joining
a
U.S.-Russia
initiative
to
negotiate
a
peaceful
transition
in
Syria,
its
leader
said
Monday.
TRIPOLI,
Libya
(AP) — A
Libyan
security
official
says a
car bomb
that
exploded
near a
hospital
has
killed
at least
nine
people,
including
three
children,
in the
eastern
city of
Benghazi.
SANAA,
Yemen
(AP) — A
Yemeni
military
plane on
a
training
exercise
exploded
in
midair
over the
country's
capital
on
Monday,
killing
the
pilot
and
slamming
into a
residential
neighborhood,
according
to an
army
official.
BEIRUT
(AP) —
Syrian
troops
have
taken
full
control
of a
town
near the
highway
linking
the
capital
Damascus
with
Jordan,
a new
advance
in the
regime's
campaign
to drive
rebels
from the
strategic
south,
an
activist
group
said
Monday.
JERUSALEM
(AP) —
An
Israeli
Cabinet
minister
is
accusing
Russia
of
destabilizing
the
Middle
East by
selling
weapons
to
Syrian
President
Bashar
Assad's
regime.
DAMASCUS,
Syria (AP) — Syrian rebels on
Sunday released four Filipino
U.N. peacekeepers they abducted
last week in a dramatic incident
that prompted warnings from the
Philippines that the nation
could pull out its contingent
from the Golan Heights.
RABAT,
Morocco (AP) — Morocco's second
largest political party has
announced it is withdrawing from
the ruling coalition, and that
could lead to the fall of the
Islamist-led government brought
in by the Arab Spring.
CAIRO
(AP) — In his first comments to
the media since he was detained
more than two years ago, Egypt's
ousted leader Hosni Mubarak said
he is dismayed at the country's
state of affairs and
particularly the plight of the
poor.
ASSIUT,
Egypt (AP) — Egyptian security
officials say a Coptic Christian
who stabbed his wife for
converting to Islam has killed
himself by jumping out of a
fourth-story courthouse window.
JERUSALEM
(AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu will seek alternate
sleeping arrangements when
traveling after receiving a
sky-high bill for installing a
customized bed on a recent
flight to London, officials
close to the Israeli leader
said.
DAMASCUS,
Syria (AP) — Syria on Sunday
rejected Turkey's allegations
that it was behind two car bombs
that killed 46 people in Turkey
and wounded dozens more.
DAMASCUS,
Syria (AP) — A Syrian official
says six mortar shells have
struck a neighborhood in the
Syrian capital Damascus, causing
damage and casualties.
TEHRAN,
Iran (AP) — A pair of powerful
and divisive figures registered
Saturday to run in Iran's
presidential election, jolting
the political landscape ahead of
next month's vote to pick a
successor to President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad.
BEIRUT
(AP) — Syrian rebels on Saturday
cut a newly built bypass road
linking the capital Damascus
with the northern city of
Aleppo, an activist group said,
while state media reported that
government troops have secured a
strategic highway between the
capital and the southern city of
Daraa.
LUXOR,
Egypt (AP) — Egyptian
prosecutors extended the
detention Saturday of a Coptic
Christian teacher held over
accusations of blasphemy of
Islam and proselytizing
Christianity, security officials
said.
CAIRO (AP)
— Egypt's interior minister said
Saturday that security
authorities have arrested three
suspected al-Qaida-linked
militants who were planning to
carry out suicide attacks on
vital installations and an
unspecified foreign embassy.
TEHRAN,
Iran (AP) — An Iranian
semi-official news agency says a
court has lifted a ban on the
Reuters news agency, allowing it
to restart its operations in
Iran.
CAIRO
(AP) — The retrial of former
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
resumed Saturday, with
prosecutors requesting to
present new evidence from a
fact-finding commission's report
that claims the ex-leader had
full knowledge of the extent of
the violence used against
protesters.
BAGHDAD
(AP) — Iraqi officials say that
a suicide tanker truck packed
with explosives blew up outside
the home of an army intelligence
officer, killing three people
and wounding 18 others in the
country's north.
CAIRO (AP)
— Egypt state news agency says
the country's prosecutor has
ordered the release of a
prominent youth leader a day
after detaining him on
accusations that he incited
anti-government violence.
BEIRUT
(AP) — Internet service was
restored in Syria on Wednesday,
after a countrywide outage cut
off the country from the rest of
the world for nearly 20 hours,
state media said.
JERUSALEM
(AP) — Israeli police detained
the top Muslim cleric in the
Holy Land Wednesday in a rare
crackdown on a leading religious
figure, questioning him for
several hours before releasing
him without charge.
BEIRUT
(AP) — Internet service was
restored across Syria on
Wednesday, after a countrywide
outage cut off the country from
the rest of the world for nearly
20 hours, state media said.
BEIRUT
(AP) — Syrian state TV and a
U.S.-based Internet monitor say
Internet service in Syria has
been restored after a
countrywide outage that lasted
more than 16 hours.
In this
photo provided by Cedars-Sinai,
British cosmologist Stephen
Hawking, who has motor neuron
disease, gives a talk titled "A
Brief History of Mine," to
workers at Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center in Los Angeles, on
Tuesday, April 9, 2013. (AP
Photo/Cedars-Sinai, Eric Reed)
BEIRUT
(AP) — Syrian troops pushed
Wednesday into a strategic town
along the highway leading to the
Jordanian border as a massive
Internet outage engulfed most of
the country for a second day.
CAIRO (AP)
— Egypt's highest appeals court
upheld on Wednesday the
acquittal of 24 Hosni Mubarak
loyalists tried on charges of
having organized a
medieval-style attack by camel-
and horse-riding supporters of
the ousted president on a crowd
of demonstrators, a pivotal
moment in the country's 2011
uprising.
JERUSALEM
(AP) — Israeli police detained
the top Muslim cleric in the
Holy Land Wednesday in a rare
crackdown on a leading religious
figure, questioning him for
several hours before releasing
him without charge.
JERUSALEM
(AP) — Israeli police say they
have released the top Muslim
cleric in the holy land after
several hours of questioning
over disturbances at a disputed
Jerusalem holy site.
SANAA,
Yemen (AP) — Suspected militants
shot and killed three senior
Yemeni air force pilots
traveling to an air base in the
country's south on Wednesday,
security officials said.
AMMAN,
Jordan (AP) — Jordanian
lawmakers have denounced
Israel's arrest of a top
Palestinian cleric and in a
symbolic gesture, voted that the
Israeli ambassador to the
kingdom be expelled.
ABU DHABI,
United Arab Emirates (AP) — The
United Arab Emirates says three
of its citizens are in custody
in Tanzania in connection with a
church bombing that killed two
people and injured more than 50
others.
JERUSALEM
(AP) — Israeli police detained
on Wednesday the top Muslim
cleric in the Holy Land
following disturbances at a
disputed holy site in Jerusalem,
in a rare crackdown on a leading
religious figure that drew
fierce condemnations from
Palestinians.
BAGHDAD
(AP) — Iraqi officials say a
shooting and two car bombs have
killed four people and wounded
26 in the western and northern
parts of the country.
DUBAI,
United Arab Emirates (AP) — Just
a few years ago, Gulf Arab women
usually only felt comfortable
showing off their fashion sense
at ladies-only parties or family
gatherings. In public, at least
in their home countries, the
standard all-black abaya — a
simple floor-length covering and
accompanying head scarf — was
the only culturally accepted
option.
BEIRUT
(AP) — In his first response to
Israel's weekend airstrikes,
President Bashar Assad said
Tuesday that Syria is capable of
facing Israel, but stopped short
of threatening retaliation for
the strikes near the Syrian
capital of Damascus.
CAIRO
(AP) — Nine new Egyptian
ministers joined President
Mohammed Morsi's Cabinet on
Tuesday, including three members
of his Muslim Brotherhood, in a
reshuffle that officials said
was aimed at addressing the
country's financial woes and
securing a much-needed
international loan.
BEIRUT
(AP) — The Syrian regime on
Tuesday dispatched an obscure
proxy, a Damascus-based
Palestinian militant group, to
threaten retaliation for two
Israeli airstrikes over the
weekend.
ZAATARI,
Jordan (AP) — In a tent hospital
bed, a Syrian woman who was four
months pregnant when she fled
her country's civil war cradles
one of the newest residents of
this dust-swept refugee camp:
Her newborn son, just delivered
by cesarean.
BEIRUT
(AP) — President Bashar Assad's
regime has given a Palestinian
militant group the go-ahead to
set up missiles to attack Israel
in the wake of recent Israeli
airstrikes on the Syrian
capital, a spokesman for the
group said Tuesday.
JERUSALEM
(AP) — Two prominent Israeli
groups say Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu has stopped
approving new construction in
West Bank settlements in what
could be an attempt to restart
peace talks with the
Palestinians.
AMMAN,
Jordan (AP) — Iran's foreign
minister says it is Syria's Arab
neighbors — not Tehran — who
should respond to Israel's
recent airstrikes near Damascus.
TEHRAN,
Iran (AP) — Iranian authorities
opened the registration process
Tuesday for candidates in next
month's presidential election
that will pick a successor to
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
and offer a critical test for
reformists battered after years
of crackdowns.
TEHRAN,
Iran (AP) — Iran has started
registering candidates for next
month's presidential election
that will pick a successor to
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Over the
weekend Israel conducted
airstrikes against strategic
targets in Syria, including near
the capital city of Damascus.
Although the strikes had the
practical effect of
destabilizing the regime, Israel
appears to have not been trying
to knock out Syrian President
Bashir al-Assad but to prevent
Iranian advanced weaponry from
getting into the hands of
Hezbollah, Reuters reports:
BEIRUT
(AP) — From Israel's
perspective, its airstrikes near
Damascus were more about Iran
than Syria: Tehran's shipment of
guided missiles destroyed in the
weekend attacks would have posed
a potent threat had the weapons
reached Iranian proxy Hezbollah
in Lebanon.
BASRA,
Iraq (AP) — The fighter's body
was collected at an Iraqi border
crossing with Iran, then carried
on Monday through the streets of
this southern city as mourners
hailed his sacrifice in
protecting a revered shrine in
Syria.
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PATIENce
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End Times
Scenario
Chuck Missler
Session Listing
Session 1
Introduction. Eschatological Hermeneutics.
Preview of the Sessions. Daniel’s 70 Weeks.
Session 2
The Harpazo (“The Rapture”). Its Biblical
Basis. Alternative Views. Old Testament
Allusions.
Session 3
Pre-Rapture Events. The 70th Week of Daniel 9:
Definition; the Abomination of Desolation; the
AntiChrist; the First Beast and the False
Prophet; the Mark of the Beast.
Session 4
Babylon. Kings of the East. Armageddon (The
Refuge in Edom; The Sequence). The Second
Coming. The Kingdom.
Session 5
The Millennium: Satan bound. Amillennialism. The
Final Rebellion (Magog #2). The Great White
Throne. The Millennial Temple. The New
Jerusalem. Recap and Overview.
Session 6
Post-Rapture Events (for the Redeemed). The Bema
Seat. The Wedding of the Bride. The Kingdom
(from) Heaven. The Overcomers: the Metachoi.
Letters to 7 Churches.
African Missionary’s Notice
I’m part of the
fellowship of the unashamed.
I have Holy Spirit
power.
The die has been
cast. I have stepped over the line.
The decision
has been made. I’m a disciple of His.
I won’t
look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be
still.
My past is
redeemed, my present makes sense,
my future is
secure. I’m finished with low living,
sight
walking, small planning, smooth knees,
colourless dreams, tamed visions,
mundane
talking, cheap living, and dwarfed goals.
I no longer need
pre-eminence, prosperity,
position, promotions,
plaudits, or popularity.
I don’t have to be
right,
first, tops, recognized, praised,
regarded, or rewarded.
I now live by faith,
lean
on His presence, walk by patience,
lift by
prayer, and labour by power.
My face is set, my
gait is fast, my goal is heaven,
my road is
narrow, my way rough,
my companions few,
my
guide reliable, my mission clear.
I
cannot be bought,
compromised, detoured, lured away,
turned back,
deluded or delayed.
I will not flinch
in the face of sacrifice,
hesitate in the
presence of the adversary,
negotiate at the
table of the enemy,
ponder at the pool of
popularity,
or meander in the maze of
mediocrity.
I won’t give up,
shut up,
or let up, until I have stayed up,
stored up, prayed up,
paid up,
and preached up
for the cause of Christ.
I am a disciple of
Jesus.
I must go till He comes,
give till I
drop, preach till all know,
and work till He
stops me.
And when He comes for His own, He will
have no problems recognizing me
—my banner will
be clear!
— by an Anonymous African Pastor —nailed to his
wall prior to his execution
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Dr. Chuck
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