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ineffable-kelpie · 11 months

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Fic throwback thursday

Fanfic writers: if there’s an old story of yours that never made it to tumblr, or got buried, or just hasn’t gotten much attention in a while, consider this an invitation to promote it! I would love to see my dash filled with fic recs I missed the first time around. You wrote the words, and you should be proud of them no matter how much time has passed. Add this note to your post, and let’s see how many writers we can get to self-promote!

I did one of these a while ago, and had a lot of fun seeing other people’s old fic recs, so here’s another one!

These Little Ones

Rating: G

Wordcount: 9,888

Chapters: 6/6

Summary:

Some retellings of biblical stories, wherein Aziraphale and Crowley are fond of children and softer than their jobs allow them to be.

#good omens fanfic #cyankelpie's fic #fic throwback thursday #throwback to both 2020 and to biblical times #featuring #the first-ever childbirth #the Great Flood #Abraham almost sacrificing Isaac #Aziraphale awkwardly trying to rationalize after stopping Abraham from sacrificing Isaac #the ten plagues #mainly just one of them #King 'I'm gonna cut this baby in half' Solomon #Dagon not understanding human developmental stages #Crowley accidentally delivering the messiah (not in a basket)#there's a lot of weird stuff happening in the bible I just stuck Aziraphale and Crowley nearby

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anatomicalmartyr · 1 year

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phonydiaries · 7 months

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Art History Pieces that Remind me of Lies of P

this is fully self-indulgent content that nobody asked for but as an enormous art history nerd I just needed to shout into the void about it

Bernini's David

I mean, as a little guy constantly battling enormous guys, P's just very biblical David coded in general but something about his posture here, like the way he's winding up...i don't know. Love it. Love this sculpture so much. There's like a million statues of David and this one isn't as famous as Michelangelo's, but it's my favorite. Honorable mention for Donatello's version of David as well, but I wasn't sure about posting brass sculpture peen on tumblr dot gov.

Caravaggio's Boy with Fruit Basket

ngl this one is more related to the Andrew Garfield recreation of this painting where he's putting his entire pussy into it but NEways! I don't have a ton to say about this one besides pretty boy <3 and also that I love baroque paintings; the lighting always looks so welcoming and warm and I want to live in them forever.

Michelangelo's Madonna Pieta

I mean OBVIOUSLY we've all seen the Madonna Pieta imagery in-game but I got so so so so so hype seeing it in the game trailer because in all my art history classes this was one of my absolute favorite pieces we looked at. The biblical context behind it is so fucking gutwrenchingly sad and the fact that the blessed mother is proportionally huge compared to christ (like if this were to scale, she'd be about 7 feet tall) is so cool to me. Enormous holy woman cradling her dead child... I could say so much about it, but I'll spare you the essay. I just love this sculpture so fucking much. seeing it in-person someday is on my bucket list.

The Sacrifice of Isaac - Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi

These two bronze reliefs were actually made as part of a competition, so both of the artists depicted the same biblical scene of Abraham in the process of sacrificing his son Isaac and then being stopped by angels. The top image by Lorenzo Ghiberti I think was the winner? which I was always kinda miffed about, I liked Brunelleschi's piece a lot better because Isaac looks so fearful and almost like he's trying to break his bonds; his father looks more frenzied and ruthless and the angel's hand is literally pulling his arm away because the blade has already made contact with Isaac's neck like- I don't know I really love that we're witnessing the absolute highest moment of tension in the scene. So. Gepetto Bad. Bad old man. Be nice to your fucking son. That's my P related thought about this piece.

#lyd posting #lies of p #lop #shoutout cynthia my art history professor she's a real one

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fellissuffering · 2 months

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OOC post but what the FUCK is the bible???? I KNEW IT WAS MESSED UP BUT WHAT THE HELL MISS-

I DID NOT EXPECT DAMN DEATH, SOMEONE IMPREGNATING ANOTHER PERSON EVEN THO THEY HAVE A WIFE, AND THE SON BEING ALMOST SACRIFICED-

WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH THE BIBLE- AND THE STORY OF ABRAHAM?? GOD LITERALLY DESTROYING A TOWN OR WHATEVER, PEOPLE MAKING THE FUCK OUT, SOMEONE GETTING TURNED TO SALT AND OTHER SHIT-

LITERALLY SOBBING ON THE INSIDE RIGHT NOW WHAT THE HECK- I WAS LITERALLY GONNA SMITE ABRAHAM IF HE WERE TO ACTUALLY MAKE ISAAC AS SACRIFICE-

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#bible #bible stuff #bible story #bible study #WHAT THE ACTUAL FUUUUCK #LITERALLY GOING INSANE #MISS #MISS WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT'S THE OLD TESTAMENT??#MIS WTF DO YOU MEAN THAT'S NORMAL??

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eternal-rest · 2 years

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The story of Abraham and Isaac is incredibly fucked up for that reason.

This dude almost sacrificed his son because God told him to. Yeah, he didn’t do it, as people never fail to remind me. But he almost did. He was more than willing to. He put God before his child. And Christians treat that as a beautiful golden example of obedience that everyone should follow, but fail to realize how fucked up it is for a parent to be willing to do that to their child.

If you’re a parent, nothing should come before your child. Not God, not religion , nothing. Children need their parents to protect them at all costs. A decent parent is one who would be willing to fight God himself to protect their child. That would be an unpopular opinion among Christians, who believe in blind faith and would use all sorts of mental gymnastics to justify their twisted morals. But any parent who truly loves their child would understand this.

Isaac trusted his dad the whole way up the mountain. Even when things didn’t add up. Because that’s what so many kids do. They trust their parents to protect them, because if their parents don’t protect them, then who will? That is the role of a parent, to love and protect their child unconditionally. And that’s what every kid longs for from the minute they enter this world. He trusted his dad. Because why would his dad ever hurt him?

And that trust was repaid by his dad almost murdering him. Because a voice told him to. A voice that he believed was God.

I don’t believe in this story. I don’t believe in the Bible. But it’s still a heartbreaking story, because there are so many kids out there that trusted their parents to protect them, only to have that trust betrayed. Only to be hurt by the same people who were supposed to keep them safe.

And the reality for many children echoes that story. Because many children are not only hurt by the people who are supposed to love and protect them, but also hurt in the name of religion. If I had a dollar for every parent who hurt their child because they put religion before their child, I’d never run out of money. From kicking your kid out because they’re gay, to torturing and murdering them because you think God told you to.

If you hear a voice, whether that’s an internal or external voice, telling you to hurt your child in any way, that is not the voice of a good loving being. That’s the voice of a monster.

#christianity #ritual abuse #abraham and isaac

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a-typical · 1 year

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Relatively early in his long life, Abraham went to Egypt to tough out a famine with his wife Sarah. He realized that such a beautiful woman would be desirable to the Egyptians and that therefore his own life, as her husband, might be endangered. So he decided to pass her off as his sister. In this capacity she was taken into Pharaoh's harem, and Abraham consequently became rich in Pharaoh's favour. God disapproved of this cosy arrangement, and sent plagues on Pharaoh and his house (why not on Abraham?). An understandably aggrieved Pharaoh demanded to know why Abraham had not told him Sarah was his wife. He then handed her back to Abraham and kicked them both out of Egypt (Genesis 12: 18-19). Weirdly, it seems that the couple later tried to pull the same stunt again, this time with Abimelech the King of Gerar. He too was induced by Abraham to marry Sarah, again having been led to believe she was Abraham's sister, not his wife (Genesis 20: 2-5). He too expressed his indignation, in almost identical terms to Pharaoh's, and one can't help sympathizing with both of them. Is the similarity another indicator of textual unreliability?

Such unpleasant episodes in Abraham's story are mere peccadilloes compared with the infamous tale of the sacrificing of his son Isaac (Muslim scripture tells the same story about Abraham's other son, Ishmael). God ordered Abraham to make a burnt offering of his longed-for son. Abraham built an altar, put firewood upon it, and trussed Isaac up on top of the wood. His murdering knife was already in his hand when an angel dramatically intervened with the news of a last-minute change of plan: God was only joking after all, 'tempting' Abraham, and testing his faith. A modern moralist cannot help but wonder how a child could ever recover from such psychological trauma. By the standards of modern morality, this disgraceful story is an example simultaneously of child abuse, bullying in two asymmetrical power relationships, and the first recorded use of the Nuremberg defence: 'I was only obeying orders.' Yet the legend is one of the great foundational myths of all three monotheistic religions.

Once again, modern theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Isaac should not be taken as literal fact. And, once again, the appropriate response is twofold. First, many many people, even to this day, do take the whole of their scripture to be literal fact, and they have a great deal of political power over the rest of us, especially in the United States and in the Islamic world. Second, if not as literal fact, how should we take the story? As an allegory? Then an allegory for what? Surely nothing praiseworthy.

As a moral lesson? But what kind of morals could one derive from this appalling story? Remember, all I am trying to establish for the moment is that we do not, as a matter of fact, derive our morals from scripture. Or, if we do, we pick and choose among the scriptures for the nice bits and reject the nasty. But then we must have some independent criterion for deciding which are the moral bits: a criterion which, wherever it comes from, cannot come from scripture itself and is presumably available to all of us whether we are religious or not.

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in-fearandtrembling · 11 months

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And right there, in the midst of sorrow and a wall that seems stronger than the one around Jericho, you realise that He never changed.

The same God of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob and of Israel is still the same God who lives today.

You cry and hurt but it is in the pain that you realise the simple truth that God is eternal and never changes.

And that means if He was good to Abraham and to Sarah, He will be good to you.

You realise that if He was good enough to send His son, to shed His blood as the perfect atonement for your sins then maybe, just maybe, He is good enough to carry you out of the pit that seems too dark for any light to penetrate.

And then you remember His word that says that when you seek Him you will find Him when you seek Him with your whole heart and so you open up your heart.

You open up your heart to him and through the tears comes out a desparate cry, a song of longing that says ‘Lord, I need you. Lord, I am willing’.

You open up your heart to Him and through the gasps for air you cry out to Him saying ‘Lord, it hurts but I am trusting you. I am trusting that you are good and I will see your hand in this very land, this very place I am living in’.

An honest expression of sorrow becomes a prayer. A heartfelt and gut-wrenching prayer that reaches heaven and if you could believe it, He sees your tears and weeps with you.

He says, ‘Daughter, lift your head up. I love you and we will get through this together’.

And even though He is invisible, you feel His arms around you. He encloses His arms around you in a hug that warms up your spirit and you realise that finally, you are home.

And then in the blink of an eye a miracle happens.

You almost miss it but you hear a whisper in your spirit.

The wall begins to crumble. The sea begins to fold apart. The barren land becomes fruitful. He leads you down the way He has created in the wilderness.

You almost miss it but He tells you to keep His focus on Him and so you do. You walk with Him, letting each fear fall off you with every step.

And it is there, on that path that He created out of what could not be seen that you realise that there is no place that you would rather be than with Him.

You realise that one day in the wilderness with the lover and creator of your soul is better than a hundred years in a land of milk and honey without Him.

And it is there that you realise that the holy and promised land was never the ultimate blessing but that He cared more about the tears and sorrows that you surrendered to Him whilst you were still in the wilderness.

And so your heart travels back to that desolate place. To that barren land that once bore no fruit.

You realise that without even knowing it, it was there where you built your very first alter to God. It is there that you sacrificed your wisdom, your flesh, your hopes and all of your dreams to the God you could not see but knew so deeply.

Without realising it, by uttering the words ‘Lord, I am willing’ you had given Him your Isaac and by His everlasting grace, He had given Isaac back to you.

The pilgrimage begins and so you press on. One step after another. Holding on to the very hand that formed you.

This here, is Holy Land.

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cryptozoologic · 2 months

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What do you think that conversation between Abraham and Isaac was like after the whole…almost-sacrificed-thing happened?

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majorpublicintersection · 2 months

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bible tales were a part of the mythology roster of fairty tales that I narrated for my sister growing up, so she mixes up the myths and proverbs quite frequently. anyway, today she asked me about isaac and odysseus, thinking she was talking about isaac and abraham. and like, at this point, she read the odyssey by school so did she just think talamachus was also almost sacrificed as a child or HOW

#like my fucking bad #BUT I DIDNT KNOW I HAD THIS IMPACT ON YOUR PSYCJE #making her read the oddyssey again srs

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superjakethegreat · 3 months

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The Lord Provides

February 19, 2024

So Abraham called that place, “The LORD Will Provide.” And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD, it will be provided.” 

Genesis 22:14

It started as the worst day of Abraham’s life. His precious son—his only child—had been a source of great joy. God had promised that Abraham and his son would be ancestors of the most important person in the history of the world—Jesus, God himself.

But then God threw Abraham a curveball—a big one. He asked Abraham to sacrifice his son to him. It didn’t make sense AT ALL. God created life, He loves life, and He protects life. God loved Abraham and his son deeply. Why would he end Isaac’s life so soon? How would he ever become a great-great-great-great-(fill in a lot more ‘greats’)-grandfather of Jesus? Isaac was only a boy; he hadn’t had any children yet.

Yet, Abraham trusted God and His promises. Analyzing it all, Abraham concluded that God must be planning a resurrection of His son from the dead (Hebrews 11:17-19). That was the only way, he thought, that God could fulfill His promise of blessing the whole world through the Savior that God promised would descend from Abraham through Isaac. So he marched up the mountain with his son, ready to do what God commanded because he knew he could count on God’s unchangeable promises.

The Lord stopped Abraham before he harmed his son. He also provided a substitute sacrifice—a ram. What a breathtaking blessing! Being able to sacrifice the ram instead of his son! Abraham gave the special place a name. He didn’t call it “The worst day of my life” or “The day I almost lost my son.” No, not a self-centered name. Instead, he called it “The LORD Will Provide.”

The Lord has provided for us, too. He sacrificed his Son to die the death we deserved as sinners. As sinners, we don’t deserve to have the favor of the Lord, yet in Christ, we do. We don’t deserve his forgiveness, yet in Christ, it is ours. The Lord has provided a substitute for us. Jesus died to free us to live with the Lord forever.

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princeofgod-2021 · 4 months

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LIGHT OF LIFE 463

John 1:4

DIVINE ORDER 28: BEGINNING OF MARRIAGE 6

Eph 5:25 And to the HUSBANDS, YOU ARE TO DEMONSTRATE LOVE FOR YOUR WIVES WITH THE SAME TENDER DEVOTION THAT CHRIST DEMONSTRATED TO US, HIS BRIDE. For HE DIED FOR US, SACRIFICING HIMSELF TPT

THE NEED FOR WOMAN 2

In knowing the FOUNDATIONAL need of the woman in a man’s life, we need to look closely.

In Genesis Chapter 2, God didn’t really state exactly what the Woman’s purpose or function in the Man’s life would be.

It was simply stated that she was going to be a SUITABLE help.

Gen 2:18 Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to live alone. I WILL MAKE A SUITABLE COMPANION TO HELP HIM." GNB

From Vs 18 to end, the strongest point implied in creating the woman for the man, is to get his a COMPANION; someone to accompany him on his sojourn on earth.

Someone to be close to him and give comfort to him in all his challenges and projections.

Ecc 4:11 Furthermore, if two lie down together, THEY CAN KEEP EACH OTHER WARM, but how can one person keep warm by himself? NET

As Adam named the Animals, I think he saw something in the Animals that he desired.

Gen 2:20 The man gave names to all the tame animals, to all the birds in the air, and to all the wild animals. He saw many animals and birds, BUT HE COULD NOT FIND A COMPANION THAT WAS RIGHT FOR HIM. ERV

He saw the Lion come with his Lioness and all other animals with their own individual Companions.

I am sure that must have stirred up some sentiments and yearning in him.

Do we all remember how Isaac felt when he received rebeccah?

Gen 24:67 ISAAC TOOK REBEKAH INTO THE TENT WHERE HIS MOTHER HAD LIVED BEFORE SHE DIED, and Rebekah became his wife. He loved her and was COMFORTED over the loss of his mother. CEV

That scripture could make it look like Rebeccah was just to comfort Isaac over the lose of his mother, but the real point is that he had started experiencing what COMFORT a woman brings to a Man’s life and he felt that loss immediately his mom died.

I believe that Abraham, his father, saw the sadness in him after Sarah died in the previous chapter.

Gen 23:1-2 Now the years of Sarah's life were a hundred and twenty-seven. And Sarah's death took place in Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan: and ABRAHAM WENT INTO HIS HOUSE, WEEPING AND SORROWING FOR SARAH. BBE

Abraham’s poignance is clear pointer to the facts about Companionship.

Even after almost 100yrs of marriage, a man in a good relationship with his wife will feel a great loss at her death.

Meanwhile, Abraham realized that he had been sharing his wife [intimately] with his son Isaac, when he saw Isaac’s sorrow too.

The young man [now] needed his own woman.

Gen 24:4 Go back to my country, to my own people, to FIND A WIFE FOR MY SON ISAAC. BRING HER HERE TO HIM." ERV

Beloved, the Foundational Benefit derivable from marriage is the Fusion of Souls, the Contact, Comfort, Friendship and Love developed by effectual communication from both.

It is plain to see because this is actually what God wants His relationship with man to be.

Gen 3:8-9 IN THE COOL OF THE EVENING, the man and his wife heard the LORD God walking around in the garden. So they hid from the LORD God among the trees in the garden. The LORD God called to the man and asked him, "WHERE ARE YOU?" GW

In the cool evening, when the Sun must have gone down and most of the day’s activities are done with, God comes to relate with the Humans.

The best time in Marriage for “Soul-Bonding” and strength renewal, is at end of day, when you NEED to help each other “unwind” and be reassured together of the days ahead.

What did Jesus call the Holy Spirit?

Joh 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another COMFORTER, so that He may be with you forever, MKJV

This means Jesus himself is a Comforter, the Spirit is another and you can be sure that God is the Principal Comforter therefore.

Keep your finger on this till next lesson please.

I pray that your Marriages will yield its very best for you both from now, IN JESUS NAME.

Come back on Monday, as we proceed in digging into this inspiring Subtopic.

Brother Prince

Friday, January 26, 2024

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dearest-lady-disdain · 5 months

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of course what got me out of my creative slump was writing almost blasphemous fanfictiom about the whole abraham nearly sacrificing isaac because god told him so situation. of course

#i heard that story when i was eleven and have been making a concious choice to go apeshit about it ever since

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junietuesday · 8 months

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my good omens knowledge of stories of human sacrifice to god finally coming in handy during english class when my teacher asks abt the biblical connection to okonkwo killing his almost-kid in things fall apart and my classmates name abraham and isaac but i also get job and his children and the story of the other guy sacrificing his daughter

#june speaks

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yokefellows · 10 months

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Today’s Saying

It’s when we courageously face the painful side of life and stop running from it that the presence of Jesus clicks into place in our hearts.

Today’s Scripture

Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter his glory? Luke 24:26

Today’s Sermonette

Cleopas and his friend still hadn’t caught on.

They had all the pieces of the puzzle but couldn’t put them together, It’s almost humorous to see them reporting to Jesus about Jesus without recognising him.

Imagine-so close, but still so blind! All those facts, but missing the truth. This is the blindness of the well informed!

Jesus patiently listened as they told him the”new”! Then he started putting the puzzle pieces together, beginning with the clue to the whole picture, “The clue to the Christ is the suffering first, then the glory.”

They gave him that blank look. So, step by dusty step, he gave them a tour of the Old Testament, showing the prophecies about a suffering Saviour. Piece after piece snapped into place:

Abel’s blood sacrifice, Abraham’s virtually sacrificing Isaac, the Passover lamb, the scapegoat, the bronze serpent, on a pole, the “suffering servant” of Isaiah.

They had shut their eyes to suffering and had missed their Saviour. How foolish! How blind!

We are no different today. Though Jesus reigns now in glory, he often shows himself most clearly to us in our suffering.

It’s when we courageously face the painful side of life and stop running from it that the presence of Jesus clicks into place in our hearts. And in our suffering with him we find our deepest fellowship with him.

Today’s Supplication

Father, teach me, that in running from suffering and avoiding the pain you are allowing into my life, I am missing you. Help me to walk more closely with you. For your sake, Amen.

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dailyaudiobible · 2 years

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06/22/2022 DAB Transcript

2 Kings 3:1-4:17, Acts 14:8-28, Psalm 140:1-13, Proverbs 17:22

Today is the 22nd day of June, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian, it’s great to be here with you today, as we do what we do every day, gather and take the next step forward together. And we are getting ourselves moved into the Book of second Kings and the times of the prophet Elisha and the kings that were in that time period, both in the northern Kingdom of Israel and in the southern Kingdom of Judah. So, let’s pick up the story, 2 Kings chapter 3 verse 1 through 4 verse 17 today.

Commentary:

Okay, a couple of things for us to sort of us to stay in the story with or at least to look at from the portion of the stories that we’re reading right now. In the Book of 2 Kings, Elisha is clearly the leading prophet in the land, as he’s taking on the mantle of Elijah. And in one of the scenes today with Elisha, he goes to a city named Shunem and there’s a lady there, she’s married to a man, and they have means, they have some resources, and they end up building a room for Elisha to stay in when he’s passing through and he begins to do that. And he begins to inquire, what could be done for her, what they could ask the king or even military commanders, or the Lord, what does she need. And she kind of, essentially says, I have my home and I have my own people, like I have what I need but what she doesn’t have is a child. And so, Elisha calls her and tells her, about this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms. That is her greatest hope. And so, she’s like, no, my lord, please, don’t mislead your servant, right. Like, don’t get my hopes up for no reason. This has been a hopeless place in my life. Really interesting what Elisha said, when he told her she would have a child, about this time next year. That is a very similar scene to what Sarah, Abraham’s wife, heard, when the promised child Isaac, was to be born. And as it turned out, the woman became pregnant and about that time next year, she gave birth to a son.

Then, in the Book of Acts we well, we actually concluded Paul's first missionary journey. Today, they made it back to Antioch. So, they had been out and about in the different cities and we saw this seen today, that is almost comical if it weren't so tragic, just how erratic things were for the people bringing the Gospel of Jesus. So, we’re in a city called Lystra. And the Apostle Paul is speaking, he's teaching the good news. And there’s a person who has been lame and never walked and Paul can see that he has faith and he calls them out right, like in the middle of church, like right in the middle of it all. Stand up on your feet and the person stood up on their feet and began to walk. This is a sign and a wonder in a pagan town. So, they determined that yes, indeed this is miraculous. Yes indeed, this is divine. It is of the gods and so they decide that Paul and Barnabas are actually Zeus and Hermes and the next thing you know a crowd is gathering from the city and the priests of Zeus are coming with animals to sacrifice to Paul and Barnabas. So, that's the height of heights, right. Like, nobody that I know has ever wanted to be sacrificed to, but nobody's ever tried to offer a sacrifice to them, to appease them, so that they would extend their goodwill upon them. This is what's happening. So, Paul and Barnabas are freaking out about this, this is like the exact opposite of what they’re after, they’re trying to reveal Jesus. They are trying to expose God to these pagan people who are worshiping false gods and instead, it seems that the people think that they are those false gods, embodied. So, they got to run into the crowd and say we’re not gods, we are humans. Instead, the crowd turns on them and stones Paul and leaves him for dead. That is a massive shift to be happening on the same day. Like, one extreme to the other. Paul wasn't dead though. But, man, he was left for dead. So, I mean a person who gets stoned to death, you can only imagine broken bones and the blood and the suffering of something like that, it seems hard to kind of imagine. Paul was fully stoned and left for dead and he gets back up and goes into the city. And they just continue their journey. That’s a miraculous thing in and of itself that they just continued their journey, strengthening those who have come to believe, but it is also a picture of the fact that the good news of the Gospel has always faced resistance from the very beginning. In fact, the kind of resistance that they are facing right now, is really unheard of, for most of us. This kind of resistance and persecution certainly does exist in the world and people do, indeed, die for the name of Jesus, because they will not denounce their faith, in certain parts of the world. But, for most of us, this isn't really an issue. But what we need to see here is, is that it was an issue for the early church. They had to learn to find joy while they were enduring hardship. Otherwise, immense discouragement would descend upon the people and they would fall into depression and fall away right. So, they had to find a way to encourage themselves. One of the things that we will see, as we continue through the New Testament, is that one of the ways that they found, to encourage themselves was to embrace endurance. As we continue on in our journey in the New Testament, and get into the letters, we will see that the theme of endurance is everywhere. Everywhere, people are having to endure. So, I'm just pointing it out right now, because we’re seeing it. Like, this is part of the recipe of the early church, enduring hardship and finding joy, just to be associated with the name of Jesus, just to know you are in the family of God, just be in, brought them joy and when they suffered, they counted it joy, because Jesus had suffered. And so, to suffer along with Jesus, alongside Jesus, as Jesus did, was considered something to hold onto dearly, which really is in a sharp contrast to the way that we perceive things usually. And so, let's consider those things that we are having to endure right now and how we look at those things. And let's begin to realize that just because something is hard doesn't mean it's bad. And these difficulties that we face and learn to endure, shape us, just like the wilderness and we are seeing endurance shape the early church in the book of Acts.

Prayer:

And so, Father, we don't like endurance, we would prefer not to participate in endurance. We would prefer that we could just ask You to take everything away and that it would just go away. And yet, we would become very, very weak, when we actually need to mature and become strong. So, help us to properly interpret the things that we have to endure, because sometimes there are things that we have to contend for and we are pleading with You. At other times, You are inviting us in, to walk-through something because we are going to gain knowledge and wisdom that we cannot get any other way. Help us to have a discerning heart. Help us to listen to Your Holy Spirit, so that we understand and properly interpret what's going on with us. Come, Holy Spirit, into this, we pray, in the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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dailyaudiobible.com, that's home base, that’s where you find out what's going on around here. I mentioned yesterday and will continue to mention that we have something special coming up on the seventh day of July, and that is our own little Global Campfire holiday, known as the Daily Audio Bible long walk. And I kind of unpacked that a little bit yesterday but I think the first long walk was in 2008. So, this would be the 14th one, coming up here, 14 years in a row we've had this holiday, so it’s a tradition around here and it's quite simple. We have reached the halfway point of the year and as we move through the halfway time in the year, it's a good time to reflect, we’re halfway through. So, we reflect back on where we’ve come from but we’re also, so we’re just kind of re-setting ourselves for the second half of the year, so that we finish strong, and so, in the middle, is where we find ourselves and we just simply give ourselves permission to take a day. Not a random day, an intentional day off to spend with God. We may talk to God every day. Hopefully we do. Hopefully lots. Hopefully it's an ongoing conversation but so rarely do we have the time to have uninterrupted time with most anybody, including God. And so, all of our communications are quick texts, quick posts, quick calls. We don’t ever really have the time to just let time stand still. Although, we have the capacity for that. If we’ve ever fallen in love, we know that time can stand still and we do all kinds of romantic silly things, long walks being one of them. Where so much communication can happen. So, we take a day, in the middle of the year. The 7th of July and go somewhere beautiful and that somewhere beautiful for you can be the closest park to where you live or can be hours away, to a place that’s so beautiful and has so much meaning for you. It doesn't really matter, the important thing is to go outside and enjoy what God has made, what He has bestowed upon us to enjoy. And we take a day and we’re spending a lot of the time in silence and we’re not filling our minds with all kinds of visual and all kinds of inputs. We’re just observing the beauty of creation and drinking it in, it’s very healing, to just walk and sit and watch the squirrels and the bunnies and hear the birds and the breeze on our face. It's so restorative but then to be spending that time with God, where we actually are unhurried and uninterrupted, where we can say everything that is in our hearts. Everything that needs to be said and also take unhurried time to just walk in silence and feel the presence of the Lord and hear as He responds to us and gives us advance words about what the second half of our year is supposed to look like. I mean, this can sound like something that we should do on a regular basis and that's true but we just don't. But as we've, kind of immersed ourselves in the Scriptures and we’re halfway through and we’re moving toward the second half, this is the time, to give ourselves a day of unhurried time in our lives. I mean, every day, we come around the Global Campfire and so often I say like we’re just exhaling, we’re releasing everything that's going on, we’re giving ourselves permission for a few minutes of this day, to be devoted to the Scriptures. And all those anxieties and all of the stresses that come with life, we can go get all those things, like we can pick up where we left off, but it's remarkable how often the Bible is speaking so specifically to us, that, when we leave the Global Campfire and go back into our day, our posture has changed. Some things have shifted, we've reminded ourselves of the story that we’re in and what's most important to us, becomes more and more clear. Imagine what a day with God could do, to reprioritize the trajectory of our lives. And so, make plans for that, for 7 July. There will be thousands and thousands and thousands of us all over the world, going for a long walk with God. And so that's a very individual thing, but what makes it a communal thing is that we can share with each other. And so, we’ll put a post for the Long Walk up on the Daily Audio Bible Facebook page, and we can all come back and share pictures or videos. Cause, that's the thing, like, we’re on this Long Walk and we don't want to forget. So, maybe we take pictures and but we can share those things and they become, those pictures become windows, into each other's lives. Whether it's a little video that you took of where you are, or little video of you, kind of talking about where you are and sending greetings or pictures, whatever. Something that commemorates your Long Walk and we get to share those together and it's beautiful. It's absolutely stunning to me, not only to see the beauty of creation all over the world and to be able to get a glimpse into where brothers and sisters are and what it looks like where they live and to be able to share the same thing, myself. But just to drink in the beauty all over the world and just to hear the stories as we share with one another of our Long Walks, makes it a community experience. And so, that is coming up on the seventh day of July, which is two weeks from tomorrow. So, let's make plans for that.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, thank you. We couldn't be here if we weren't in this together and so thank you, profoundly for your partnership, as we head into the summertime. There is a link on the homepage at dailyaudiobible.com. If you’re using the app, you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner or the mailing address is P.O. Box 1996 Springhill, Tennessee 37174.

And as always if you have a prayer request or encouragement, you can hit the Hotline button in the app, that's the little red button up at the top or you can dial 877-942-4253.

And that's it for today, I'm Brian, I love you and I'll be waiting for you here, tomorrow.

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one thing that became even MORE increasingly apparent this episode is just how little control chuck has over cas. cas still remains as the ONLY being in existence that chuck cannot control, nor predict. and i guarantee that that drives him absolutely insane. the self hating angel with the broken wings. the one that fell from heaven, because he fell in love with humanity, especially and specifically the humanity in dean winchester. he is the ONLY castiel from all of chuck’s reiterations of him, to have continuously rebelled. who “once he laid a hand on dean in hell he was lost”. the one who has and still would follow dean winchester to the ends of the earth. THIS broken, self hating, fallen angel of thursday, is unpredictable to god himself. everytime something didn’t go according to plan, it was all brought upon because of cas. remember in “the monster at the end of this book” when cas told dean to go get chuck because he had an archangel tied to him? and chuck straight up said “wait what are you doing here? you’re supposed to be at the motel i didn’t write this” that was all cas. even the apocalypse. after all, “it was adverted by two boys, an old drunk, and a fallen angel” and yet he doesn’t take credit for the fact that HE was the decisive figure in this equation. he is the sole reason for the success of ending the apocalypse. at the same time, he is also the angel who became soft when he fell figuratively and literally for one human. he gained humanity by falling in love with it. he gained a family by rebelling against god and everything he’s known. and most of all, he’s gained freedom, and is quite possibly the only being in existence, aside from chuck, who is actually free. you wanna know what i think? i think chuck has never been scared of jack. he’s killed him before and i guarantee he would do it again. no, jack is a ploy. jack is a ploy that god himself put there. all as a distraction from the one real entity that could stop him, castiel. that’s why cas didn’t have a title card this episode. chuck was writing everyone else. all their names, nothing more than simple chapter headings. he’s controlling them all. but not cas. he’s never been able to predict him. he’s never been able to control him. and that scares him. that scares him because he knows that the very being he directly brought into this world, his own son, is the one who could take him out. it’s kinda ironic isnt it? that chuck loves the ‘abraham and isaac’ dynamic so much, the whole “father kills the son” story and yet, his own son is the one that could kill him. a rewrite on his own favorite story. it’s funny almost. castiel, little ol’ self hating castiel, he has the power. he has the power to defeat god. he’s been conditioned and gaslit for years by chuck, to believe he is not powerful. to believe that he is broken, no good, and a waste. all those times sam and dean excluded him? the out of character moments where dean would cuss out cas and belittle him despite all he’s done for him? it wasn’t them, but rather chuck controlling them to say that. after all these years, he needed to beat down cas, make him believe that he is nothing, that he is broken beyond repair, that he has brought nothing but pain, and what better way to do that then through the one man that castiel fell from heaven for? what better way to do it then to have it yelled from the mouth of the man whom castiel learned to love humanity from? what better way to do it then from the family he has made, and sacrificed everything for? this was all intentional. this was all planned out by chuck for a long time now. and once he saw that cas rebelled, that he fell from heaven due to his love for humanity, he knew he was in trouble. he’s scared. so he did what he could. which is why cas never uses himself and his powers to its full potential anymore. it’s why cas isn’t aware of the true power he holds over chuck. i don’t know what this means for cas, hell, i don’t even know if it’ll come into play. but i do know that there’s more to cas than meets the eye, whether he knows it or not.

#supernatural #castiel #cas #deancas #destiel #spn

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