Righteous Family Preserved

The Righteous Family Preserved

Faith and Obedience Required

• While God made a way of escape for Noah, He required obedient faith.
• God gave Noah specific instructions on how the ark was to be built.
•  Gen 6:14-16 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
• Ark Features
• 1 Door
• 3 floors
• 450 feet long
• 45 feet high
• 75 feet wide
• Gen 7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
• God even told Noah how many and what type of animals to take.
• Gen 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

One Plan of Escape

• God has never spared those who were disobedient to His word. 
• Because of Adam and Eve's sin, they had to leave the garden.
• Because of Cain's sin, a mark was upon him, and he was banished from the presence of the Lord.
• 1 Pet 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
• 2 Pet 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly:
• God has said,
• Gen 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man...

The Place of Safety

• One week before the flood, God led Noah. the animals and his family into the ark.
• God closed the door.
• Gen 7:15-16 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
• The rains came for 40 days; the water stayed at a level for 110 days.
• At the end of 150 days the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.
• After 40 days, Noah opened the window and sent out a raven and a dove.

Noah Receives a Promise

• One of the first things that Noah did upon leaving the ark was to build an altar upon which he offered burnt offerings to the Lord.
• This was not the end of God's communication with Noah.
• God told Noah and his family to multiply and fill the earth.
• He said from that time forward animals would fear humans and could be used for food.
• Gern 9:1-4 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon al! the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have, I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof. shall ye not eat.
• Before this time only plants were eaten. 
• Gen 2:8-9 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
• Remember death was a result of sin. That included the death of animals. 
• God also instituted human government
• Gen 9:9-13 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there anymore be a flood to destroy the earth. 12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

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CARROT LATKES (Fried Carrot Patties)

CARROT LATKES 

Ingredients: 

• 3 eggs
• 2c. grated carrots (6-8 carrots)
• 2 c. breadcrumbs or flour
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• ½ tsp. salt
• oil for frying

Directions: 

1. Put eggs in bowl and beat with fork.
2. Wash and peel carrots, and grate into bowl or place in food processor and process until mostly shredded.
3. Add rest of ingredients and mix well.
4. Heat oil in frying pan. 
5. Form batter into patties and fry on both sides until brown (about 3 minutes each side).
6. Drain on paper towels.

Serves 4-6

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the orgin of languages & The beginning of Nations

The Origin of Languages & The Beginning of Nations

After the Flood

After the flood, God commanded Noah and his sons to replenish the earth. In fulfilling this command, the human race was to spread out gradually over the face of the entire earth to repopulate it. Once again, however, the overwhelming majority of humanity disobeyed the voice of God. Instead of spreading out over the earth, they located in one specific area and decided to stay there and build a city.

The Tower of Babel

"'And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth" (Genesis 11:1-4).

• The Self-Centeredness of the People
• Let us notice the self-centeredness of these people and their disregard for God's commandment. He wanted them to Scatter over the whole earth to replenish it, but they wanted to build a city and a tower as a center of humanity to prevent themselves from scattering! In other words, their desire was exactly the opposite of God's Word.
• Different Languages Introduced
• Up to this time, everyone on the earth spoke the same language. Essentially, there was only one nation upon the face of the earth. This made the people's goal of constructing a great city all the more possible.
• But the Lord observed their disobedience and said, "Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language: and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech' (Genesis 11:6-7).
• By introducing different languages among the people, the Lord stopped their sinful effort. They could no longer communicate sufficiently to complete such an ambitious project, and they began to spread over the face of the earth, each person finding his place with those with whom he could talk.
• The Judgment of God in Dispersing the People
• The judgment of God caused the origin of languages and the beginning of nations. As a result, the earth was repopulated by the descendants of Noah as follows:
• Shem's Sons
• Shem's sons were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. 
• Some of the nations that sprang from these sons were the Persians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Hebrews, Lydians, and Syrians. 
• They settled in Assyria, Syria, Persia, northern Arabia, and Mesopotamia.
• Ham's Sons
• Ham's sons were Cush, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan. 
• Some of the nations to spring from these men were the Ethiopians, Egyptians, Libyans, and Canaanites. 
• Ham's descendants settled in Africa and Arabia.
• Japheth's Sons
• Japheth's sons were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
• From them came the Russians, Germans, Britons, Scythians, Medes, Ionians, Athenians, Iberians, and Thracians. 
• They settled in Asia Minor, Caucasia, and Europe.

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2 Kings

2 Kings 21:10-12(NKJV)

And the LORD Spoke by His servants the prophets, saying, Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations (he has acted more wickedly than all the Amorites who were before him. and has also made Judah sin with his idols), therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah. that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle.

Author

• The author of 1st and 2nd Kings is unknown but the writing if these two books are attributed to Jeremiah
• Jeremiah is also called the weeping prophet. 

Date

• 560-538 B.C.

Theme

• Lessons from the ruin of Israel and Judah
• Disobedience and Rebellion bring Captivity and Bondage

Purpose

• The apostasy of the divided kingdom brings captivity and bondage. 
• Judgment on the kingdom of Israel came through Assyria
• Judgment on the kingdom of Judah through Babylon. 
• The kingdoms experience short periods of revival under the rule of godly kings.

Content

• Elijah and Elisha: 2 Kings 1:1-8:15
• 2 Kings 2:9(NKJV) And so it was, when they had crossed over, that Eljah said to Elisha, "Ask! What may I do for you, before I am taken away from you?" Elisha said, "Please let a double portion of your spirit be upon me."
• Kings of Israel and Judah: 2 Kings 8:16-17:6

• Israel Captive to Assyria: 2 Kings 17:7-41
• 2 Kings 17:6-9(NKJV) In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and they had feared other gods, 8 and had walked in the statutes of the nations whom the Lord had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9 Also the children of Israel secretly did against the Lord their God things that were not right, and they built for themselves [a]high places in all their cities, from watchtower to fortified city.
• Judah Survives Assyrian Rule: 2 Kings 18:1-23:37
• 2 Kings 18:1-7(NKJV) Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah, king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign. 2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David had done. He removed the [b]high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the [c]wooden image and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and called it Nehushtan.  He trusted in the Lord God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor who were before him. 6 For he held fast to the Lord; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the Lord had commanded Moses.  The Lord was with him; he prospered wherever he went. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.
• Judah Captive to Babylon: 2 Kings 24:1-25:30
• 2 Kings 24:8-12(NKJV) Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father had done. At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.  And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, as his servants were besieging it. Then Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his princes, and his officers went out to the king of Babylon; and the king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, took him prisoner.

Christ In 2nd Kings

• Elijah the forerunner for Christ
• Elisha as a type of Christ

John 14:12(NKJV)

Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.

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El Consejo Eterno de Dios: Revelaciones Bíblicas

El Consejo Eterno de Dios: Revelaciones Bíblicas

 El Olam -El Dios Eterno- El Dios de la Eternidad 

El Alfa y la Omega: el principio y el fin

El primero y el último: el autor y el finalizador

Isaías 46:9-10 Acordaos de las cosas pasadas desde los tiempos antiguos; porque yo soy Dios, y no hay otro Dios, y nada hay semejante a mí, que anuncio lo por venir desde el principio, y desde la antigüedad lo que aún no era hecho; que digo: Mi consejo permanecerá, y haré todo lo que quiero;

Isaías 48:3-53 Lo que pasó, ya antes lo dije, y de mi boca salió; lo publiqué, lo hice pronto, y fue realidad.  Por cuanto conozco que eres duro, y barra de hierro tu cerviz, y tu frente de bronce, 5 te lo dije ya hace tiempo; antes que sucediera te lo advertí, para que no dijeras: Mi ídolo lo hizo, mis imágenes de escultura y de fundición mandaron estas cosas.

El Consejero

... El determinado consejo y la presciencia de Dios...  

El Consejo del Señor permanece para siempre, los planes de Su corazón para todas las generaciones. 

(Hechos 2:23; Salmos 33:11)

El consejo del Señor

Gradería

• Isaías 46:10-11 Aque anuncio lo por venir desde el principio, y desde la antigüedad lo que aún no era hecho; que digo: Mi consejo permanecerá, y haré todo lo que quiero; 11 que llamo desde el oriente al ave, y de tierra lejana al varón de mi consejo. Yo hablé, y lo haré venir; lo he pensado, y también lo haré.
• Proverbios 19:21 Muchos pensamientos hay en el corazón del hombre;Mas el consejo de Jehová permanecerá.
• Salmo 33:11Muchos pensamientos hay en el corazón del hombre;Mas el consejo de Jehová permanecerá.

Se acerca

• Isaías 5:19 Que dicen: Apresure, y apresure su obra, para que la veamos; y se acerque y venga el consejo del Santo de Israel, para que lo sepamos.
• Secretos revelados 
• Daniel 2:28 Mas hay un Dios en los cielos que revela los misterios, y da a conocer al rey Nabucodonosor lo que ha de ser en los postreros días. Tu sueño, y las visiones de tu cabeza sobre tu lecho, son estos;
• Amós 3:7 Ciertamente el Señor Dios no hará nada, sino que revela su secreto á sus siervos los profetas.
• Proverbios 3:32 Porque el perverso es abominación á Jehová, Mas su secreto está con los justos.
• Salmo 25:14 El secreto del Señor está con los que le temen; y él les mostrará su pacto.
• Deuteronomio 29:29 Las cosas secretas pertenecen al Señor nuestro Dios, pero las cosas reveladas son de nosotros y de nuestros hijos para siempre, para que cumplamos todas las palabras de esta ley.

Guías

• Salmo 32:8 Te instruiré y te enseñaré el camino por donde has de andar: Con mis ojos te guiaré.
• Isaías 28:29 Esto también viene del Señor de los ejércitos, el cual es admirable en consejo, y excelente en obrar (guía).
• Salmo 73:24 Con tu consejo me guiarás, y después me recibirás para gloria.

Planes Establecidos – Wages War

• Proverbios 20:18 Todo propósito se establece por consejo, Y con buen consejo hagan la guerra
• Proverbios 24:6 Porque con sabio consejo harás tu guerra: Y en la multitud de consejeros hay seguridad.

Herencia – Predestinado – Obras todas las cosas

• Efesios 1:11-12 en quien también hemos obtenido herencia, siendo predestinados según el propósito de aquel que hace todas las cosas según el designio de su voluntad: que seamos para alabanza de su gloria, el que primero confió en Cristo.

Inmutable – No Miente – Esperanza puesta ante nosotros – Ancla

• Hebreos 6:17-20 En lo cual Dios, queriendo mostrar más abundantemente a los herederos de la promesa la inmutabilidad de su consejo, lo confirmó con juramento: Para que por dos cosas inmutables, en las cuales era imposible que Dios mintiera, tuviéramos un fuerte consuelo los que hemos huido en busca de refugio para asirnos de la esperanza puesta delante de nosotros.  La cual esperanza tenemos como ancla del alma, segura y firme, y que entra en lo que está detrás del velo; Donde está el precursor para nosotros entró, Jesús mismo hecho sumo sacerdote para siempre según el orden de Melquisedec.

Percibir – Oír – Marcar – Llamar

• Jeremías 23:18 Porque ¿quién ha estado en el consejo de Jehová, y ha entendido y oído su palabra? ¿Quién se fijó en su palabra y la oyó?
• Jeremías 33:3 Llámame, y yo te responderé, y te mostraré cosas grandes y poderosas que no sabes.

Ahora a Él 

• Romanos 16:5-27 Y al que tiene poder para confirmaros conforme a mi evangelio, y a la predicación de Jesucristo, según la revelación del misterio, que había permanecido oculto desde el principio del mundo, pero ahora se ha manifestado, y por las Escrituras de los profetas, según el mandamiento del Dios eterno,  dada a conocer a todas las naciones por la obediencia de la fe: Al solo Dios sabio, sea la gloria por medio de Jesucristo por los siglos. Amén.

Happy Valentine's Day!

There is a special day it called Valentine's Day. It is when we give gifts and cards to our friends, to show we care for them. Valentine's Day is a great day because it's a day to show we care. We have parties with heart shaped cookies with red icing on them. Valentine's Day colors are red, pink, and white. My favorite part is to help people. We sometime learn to say friend in another language and or just another way. Here is a way I like to say it, amigo, ami, buds, and chum; we will be friends forever no matter what comes. 

Oh, Valentine's Day was not aways happy. Saint Valentine is remembered on Valentine Day. He was killed by a king, but I am getting ahead of myself. Saint Valentine was a good man. He helped people get married. Oh, he did miracles. he healed a blind girl, the daughter of a guard. Saint Valentine told the guard about Jesus. The guard asked if he could heal his daughter and tell her about Jesus and heaven above. So, Saint Valentine did both. Saint Valentine went in and out of jail all because he told people about Jesus. Saint Valentine fell in love with the guard's daughter, but the mean king did not like him. So, he was put to death. However, he had wrote a letter to his love, the guard's daughter. Saint Valentine died on February 14th. So, we remember him on February 14th. Saint Valentine gave to people, and he helped people before he died. He gave little hearts to people to remind them of their faith in God. So now we give cards to our friends to remember him and his faith in God and how he helped others on Valentine's Day.

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1 Kings

1 Kings 18:21(NKJV)

And Elijah came to all the people, and said, "How long will you falter between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him." But the people answered him not a word.

Author

• The author of 1st and 2nd Kings is unknown but the writing if these two books are attributed to Jeremiah

Date

• 560-538 B.C.

Theme

• Lessons from the divided kingdom

Purpose

• The books of 1 and 2 Kings originally existed as one volume in the original Hebrew text. 
• These books cover the history of the Israelites from the death of King David to the captivity of Judah. 
• King David is presented as the good example and King Jeroboam as a bad example of godly leadership. 
• 1 Kings covers the reign of Solomon through the reign of Jehoshaphat and Ahaziah.
• Solomon's name means peace

Content

• The Reign of Solomon: 1 Kings 1:1-11:43
• 1 Kings 1:37(NKJV) As the LORD has been with my lord the king, even so may He be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David.
• The Prayer of Solomon
• 1 Kings 3:5-9(NKJV) At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, "Ask! What shall I give you?" And Solomon said: "You have shown great mercy to Your servant David my father, because he walked before You in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You; You have continued this great kindness for him, and You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. Now, O LORD My God, You have made Your servant king instead of my father David, but I am a little child: I do not know how to go out or come in. And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted. Therefore, give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?"
• Solomon's Wisdom: 
• 1 Kings 4:29-30(NKJV) And God gave Solomon wisdom and exceedingly great understanding, and largeness of heart like the sand on the seashore. Thus, Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the men of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.
• Solomon Builds the Temple
• 1 Kings 6:1(NKJV) And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
• Solomon Turns His Heart from the Lord
• 1 Kings 11:1-4(NKJV) But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites from the nations of whom the LORD had said to the children of Israel, "You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely, they will turn away your hearts after their gods." Solomon clung to these in love. And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart. For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father David.
• Deuteronomy 17:14-17(NKJV) When you come to the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, "I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,' you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses; one from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the LORD has said to you, you shall not return that way again. Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself.
• Rehoboam and Jeroboam: 1 Kings 12:1-14:30
• The Divided Kingdom
• Rehoboam
• Judah the Southern Kingdom
• Judah, Benjamin, Levites
• Jeroboam
• Israel the Northern Kingdom
• The other 10 Tribes
• Kings of Israel and Judah: 1 Kings 15:1-16:34

• Elijah and Ahab: 1 Kings 17:1-19:21
• Elijha's Mount Carmel Victory: 1 Kings 18:20-46
• 1 Kings 18:21 And Elijah came to all the people, and said, “How long will you falter between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” But the people answered him not a word.
• Elijah and Elisha
• 1 Kings 19:19 So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he was with the twelfth. Then Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle on him.
• Ahab and Jezebel 1Kings 20:1-22:53
• 1 Kings 21:7 Then Jezebel his wife said to him, “You now exercise authority over Israel! Arise, eat food, and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

Christ in the 1st Kings

• The Need for King Jesus
• The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is here.
• Elijah the Forerunner for Christ
• Matthew 11:13-14:  For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. And if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who is to come.

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