Showing Off

For the Lord has built up Zion; He has appeared in His glory. Psalm 102:16 NASB Has appeared – Reputation!  That’s the deciding factor.  If God doesn’t fortify His chosen servant/warrior, then God’s reputation among the other kings will be sullied.  “Don’t do it for me,” writes the poet.  “Do it for Yourself.  You will be glorified among the kings…

Hitchhiker’s Guide to Babylon (1)

“Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their produce.   Take wives and become the fathers of sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there and do not decrease.   Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you…

Solomon’s Garden

  Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable idol of Moab, on the mountain which is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the detestable idol of the sons of Ammon. 1 Kings 11:7 NASB Built – The women got him. At least that’s the way most of us were taught (if we…