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This Book: In Between (Amos 8 v11-14)

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     To see the full message, scroll to the bottom and click through.   There is a time in human history that people sometimes call ‘the great silence’ or ‘the intertestamental period.’  ______  The Old Testament ends with the words of the prophet Malachi:  The LORD of Heaven’s Armies says, “The day of judgment is coming, burning like a furnace. On that day the arrogant and the wicked will be burned up like straw. They will be consumed—roots, branches, and all. But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings. And you will go free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture...  Look, I am sending you the prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the LORD arrives. His preaching will turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise I will come and strike the land with a curse.” Malachi 4 v1, 5-6  I think when most of us hear the word ‘cu...
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This Book: The Writings of Wisdom - Proverbs 3 v13-20

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    To see the full message, scroll to the bottom and click through.   Wisdom can be found in every  book,  in every kind of writing  that's  in the  Bible . In the imagination and the insights of poets. In the hope-filled  pro mises and the stream ing  tears of the  pro phets. In the priorities and the penalties of law. In  the examples  of everyday people  just  like us. ______ The book of  Proverbs , the book of  Eccle siastes, and the  Song of Songs   are held together as being  ‘ wisdom literature. ’   Wisdom literature is written not by  pro phets ,  speaking to humanity on behalf of  God . Or  by priests ,  speaking to  God  on behalf of humanity.  Wisdom literature is written by  ‘ wise ones, ’-- w ise human beings speaking to human beings about what it is to be human and to  do  it well , and t o be in relationship with...
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