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2 Kings 19:35

'...and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.'

(Some translations alter this so it makes a little more sense... but I prefer this version )

Gif

Reminds me of some old blues song, " ... a man could wake up dead ..."
Some of the blues guys were pretty big on the Bible.

'Gonna wake up one of these days and find your own self dead'
-Blues Brothers

Gif

Here's a nice discussion of a verse that's always been one of my favourites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDxcyqeRc-4&eurl=http://outchurched.com/

Hi anhaga

I couldn't watch all of it. I found his 'style' too disturbing. Interesting not far into the clip he actually does a 'nazi salute' gesticulation. I'm not necessarily saying that was deliberate, but the way he's pacing around continually and throwing his arms in the air all the time, it's not surprising.

I find interesting that *I* personally found it impossible to watch all of it.

Did you get as far as the part where he says that everything that is wrong with the US stems from the fact that men pee sitting down?

...hilarious.

The guy is wasting his time in Tempe...he should come down here to Florida and give us all a good Sunday Morning Laugh.

I do think he should have a serious word with his "German" wife, who obviously, perhaps intentionally, mistranslated the notice on the bathroom wall, and then let him write a sermon about it.

alec

Proverbs 18:7 : A fool's mouth is his ruin...

*I* should remember that too

Psalm 137 does have a beautiful opening, WG, but the rest of it isn't quite so nice.

TRiG.

"The Lord delights in those who hope in his mercy."

From Psalm 147:11

Re TRiG:

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

-Psalm 137



Gif

'And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;'

Mathew 27:51

You stopped before you got to the best bit!

'...And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.'
- Matthew 27:52-53

Gif

Yes Gif, and does all sound a bit org****c, doesn't it?

(I'm being extra careful with my asterisks because of the probation).

Gif

That must have been an exiting time to be alive. Similar to living at the time of Smith Wigglesworth's ministry.

mikey2

If Matthew 27:52-53 is any indication, it would also have been an exciting time to be undead

Some of the less adventurous among the live population may have been dismayed to find re-animated corpses, saintly or not, walking the streets

The kind of excitement one normally hopes to avoid...

They probably couldn't see them because of all the 3-hour eclipses happening.

Gif

Wouldn't the halos be a dead giveaway?

To be more seriously theological for a moment why you two are having a bit of humorous banter, this link explains about the veil being torn in two and its significance in for once and for all letting God and 'man' be joined. Apparently before this numerous animal sacrifices were made over and over by the Jewish High priest in and sixty foot high, made of blue purple and scarlet material, (sounds pretty impressive to me) and Josephus says horses attached to either side couldn't rip it apart.

It is quite interesting to realise how Christianity became differentiated from Judaism at the moment of Christ's sacrifice. And once again it seems to me that the fact of Jesus' suffering is primary to Christianity. I'm seriously starting to think that is possibly more important to Christians than the resurrection itself? Apropos something I said to Vicky recently about believing in the literal resurrection.

http://www.gotquestions.org/temple-veil-torn.html)

(And yes, I know it's a Christian site. Doesn't seem too extremist to me though).

(And *no*, I'm not *getting* religion, but I do find all this symbolism quite interesting.)

Sorry for that confusion in the middle. Don't know how that happened.

*...Jewish High priest in the temple behind the veil. The veil was 4 inches thick and sixty foot high....*

I'm more curious about those 'many bodies of dead saints' wandering about, not to mention the 'many' unto whom they 'appeared'

I mean, what did all those undead guys do subsequently? Did they move back to their former homes? Did they look for work? Or did they suddenly become de-animated, and become unsightly heaps of decomposing flesh/bones/piles of dust as the case may be?

It is also quite interesting to note the absence of secular historical records about such astonishingly unnatural events