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bowieandqueen11 · 5 months
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Fickle Bird / Izzy Hands Imagine
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Request: Would you be willing to do another spicy Izzy hands x reader ? Loved your previous stories!!
Thank you so much!! I'm always happy to see how much people enjoying reading for Izzy :) Assigned babygirl by the fandom and I am here for it,
Warning: This is smutty as heck, so 18+ only please!!! Sexual biting, sexual allusions and strong language!
(I do not own OFMD or its characters, all rights go to creators. Gif credit goes to @unwanted-animal.)
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Izzy Hands was becoming irritatingly querulous.
It had taken him far too many hours of laboriously hard work to finally pull you away from your crewmates. Every time you turned your head, he had been right there behind you. Doing his best to throw you sad eyes, hanging his head and ostentatiously ducking out of your line of vision as if he were plagued by tenebrous shrouds. He had tugged at your collar while Stede Bonnet's crew were idly mulling around, pretending to do their assigned chores on deck; he had done his best to subtly lead you away from Lucius, growing more and more irritated by each passing second you ignored his advances and continued your conversation.
He had wrapped his arms around your waist, jutting his chin into your shoulder as you did your best to shake him off and clear up your friend's dinner plates with Roach. Even though a sharp jab at his ribs got him to take a sheepish step back. running a glove through his hair to slick it back with an imperceptible look bored into the side of your cheek, you did your best to ignore the phantom chills of his stout fingers caressing carelessly over your stomach.
By the end of the night, he was two seconds away from hauling you over his shoulder and throwing the two of you into the ball room; as clouds steamed out of his ears, the visualisation of slamming the door shut with the heel of his boot and taking you right there and then, with stupid Lucius Spriggs being able to hear, was getting far too enticing.
Israel Hands had always been flighty. Impatient. Agitated, when it came to you. You had always known him to be: ever since your tenure on the great Captain Blackbeard's vessel almost five years ago now, Izzy had been protective over you and your relationship. Fear bore jealousy: a heart-breaking self-conscious disposition masked behind layers of seething hardness spawned only the animosity of Stede Bonnet's crew, and served to hinder his plans all the more.
As much as you did enjoy teasing the man, you knew that even he had his limit.
Which is how you found yourself nearly flown, well, more like catapulted to the other side of the beach during one of Bonnet's 'stupid fucking dilly-dallies around the poncy parts of Tangerine Cove', as your ever sweet significant other had put it. Before Buttons could even step foot on the shore: before Lucius could even settle down underneath a palm tree to sketch Black Pete, who had carefully positioned his near naked body to be splayed out against the foamy bubbles like a starfish, before Frenchie had even managed to haul the rest of Wee John's gunpowder out onto the strand, Izzy hand taken your hand tightly in his, his grip ready to pop your fingers like sea grapes.
You only laughed as the two of you ran, kicking sand across your feet as you scurried after him and towards an incredibly conspicuous, raggedy looking wall of orange lichen eaten stones placed as a make-shift border between the stretches of beach. Izzy didn't say a word. Instead he almost seemed to glide in front of you, as if beaks were pecking at his feet, threatening to perch upon a bough in his heart and thrum; he knew, if he couldn't make it behind these stones right now, his frail soul was about to snap under the weight of it all.
The intensity of his gaze as he helped you step over the ring was enough to take your breath away.
He sinks to his knees before you, wasting no time in knocking you to the scything sand; his hand splays out against your stomach and pushes you gruffly, until you've fallen onto your bottom and he has easy access to your legs. He whimpers as he hitches them up, frantically lining your ankles with wet kisses and hot, open-mouthed bruises as he wraps them around his neck. His hands are soft, so tender, yet they claw into your skin as he begins to knead the muscles of your calves. You can feel him inch closer and closer - his hands winding down your inner thighs until they're resting on your inner legs, thumbs tantalisingly close to stroking your panty line.
'Is this alright... sweetheart', he asks breathlessly, pressing his fingers down into the meat of your hips until his full weight his almost exclusively leaning against your stomach. He leans forward to nip against your mouth.
'Hmm- hmph', you jolt as you feel Izzy guide his hand further down towards your growing heat. 'Oh god yes. I swear, I was about to explode on that ship. As much as I appreciate the new company, especially with how cranky Edward has been recently, it's so hard between the two crews merging and escaping the English to find a moment alone.'
'Says the little tease. 'Oh Lucius, you're so funny, and I love your hair. And you're such a great drawer. You should draw me some time, and we should skip off into the sunset'-'
The back of his head is suddenly jolted up as you grasp onto the strands of hair near his crown. His mouth shudders at the feeling, opening and closing like a blubbering fish. Like a swallow caught in a trap. You graze your fingernails down to the nape of his neck apologetically, not before chiding him with a humoured 'jealousy has never suited you, Israel Hands. Now shut up and put that mouth to better use, before I go take Pete's place.'
He growls at you, baring his teeth, but you can tell by the way he gets straight to work that he takes your jesting as light-hearted. He lets the words wash over his head: right now, he was busy burying himself within you; his nose glides across the pulse point jittering through your neck, his eyes heavy and lidded as he barely breaths. Barely moves.
The little flirt. He was trying to get his own back.
He just rests there, just lets you shiver under the short pants that roll off his tongue and fan out across your collar bone, his teeth daring to dart out every so often and graze across the skin by your earlobe. His lips continue their ghostly ravishing, finally coming to a stop by cautiously hovering over your racing heartbeat.
You were getting far too impatient. The feel of your hands scrambling down to tug at his thigh holster would almost had made him laugh, if it hadn't been for the fortuitous brush of the side of your palm against his growing bulge.
But two can play at that game. You almost want to scream when he cocks his head up to throw you a shit-eating grin, before the flat part of his tongue licks out to swirl against the top of your left bosom.
'If you don't- hmph- if you don't stop, someone is going to catch u-oh-'. Your reprimands were astutely silenced by Izzy with a teasingly light stroke of his pointer and middle finger down the thin material covering your groin. He made sure to drag his thumb behind, digging in against the material a little harsher with it, until you could almost feel the rugged tip of his fingernail inside you.
'Oh, fuck off. If you're any louder, even the fucking sirens will start popping up to see what that... titillating sound is.'
If Izzy wasn't too busy running the flat edge of his tongue up the seam of your inner leg, you would have had half a mind to shove him off you right there and then.
'Stop complaining.'
He drags his thumb along his lips before popping it in his mouth, sucking at the leather. His eyes never leave yours as his teeth clench into the material, tugging it off and throwing it blindly behind his back. The feeling of the coarse pad being suddenly replaced by a warm, firm fingertip against the outside of your folds was enough to make you buck your hips up in wild euphoria.
This man. He was going to drive you absolutely mad.
'Even I didn't think you were such a squirmy little thing', he states with a calculated grin. 'Didn't take much for you to fall apart in front of me, now, did it? Never does though, to be fair.'
'Oh, you're one to talk. One more - mmph- one more sad look in my direction and I would have pinned you to the floor in front of Bonnet's crew. You're proper needy, aren't you? Couldn't- couldn't wait- couldn't stop begging-'
He was far too impertinent for your persiflage. God, how he had wanted this-how he had wanted you for far longer than his dogged soul was willing to admit. It had near driven him to that sweet, twilight chasm of madness: sent him tumbling over the edge until he was near plagued, near driven to his knees to beg for forgiveness for his loving sin at your placating shrine. He was almost about to burn with embarrassment, but Israel Hands was too far gone to care.
Instead, he swallows thickly before taking your hand, cupping it around his neck. Then he whimpers, and the two of you are really in it then.
'I would let you fucking wreck me, you know that?', he chokes out from behind gritted teeth, trying to stop the pulsating feeling aching in the pit of his stomach.
'Sweet man', you reach up to brush his cheek with your free hand, and he almost recoils at the touch. 'You're safe with me Iz. Always. You don't have to hide what you want.'
He cups his fingers over your own: he can barely stop them from contracting over your knuckles as he throws his head back to the heavens and closes his eyes in contentment. His body starts squirming then, the heat from your fingertips making every nerve ending down the back of his spine alight, and he can't help - doesn't want to stop the way he starts rocking his hips back and forth across your legs. The lust seems to be radiating off his glowing cheeks as he furrows his eyebrows in blissful agony.
He drags his free hand down your arm until he reaches the scabbard to the right of his stomach. You poke the inside of your lip with your tongue, watching the sharp edge slice across the air to be placed, with a precision only wrought with a extensive practice, to lay underneath the cold metal bravely guarding your chest. With a quick whip of his wrist, off your blouse went: the first button soared through the air without Izzy needing to even open his eyes. But as he peeked one open and saw the line of tantalising skin grow wider down your rising breast, all semblance of restrained self-mastery fled from his brain.
The rest were ripped open by a clenched glove. You were surprised none of the rest of the crew popped their heads up at the sound: the rip of cotton material being shredded straight across your jiggling bosoms, your buttons flying off like mini cannonballs being struck into the unsuspecting shifts of sand.
Pop. Pop. Pop.
You didn't want to give him the satisfaction of seeing how your legs imperceptivity clenched together at the way he subconsciously wet his bottom lip, his nose scrunching up as he nearly snarled at the sight of the unhampered skin freed from your tight blouse.
He's voracious as he bites down like a starved stray and pierces the edge of your right breast with his front teeth. The faint sunlight blinds your eyes and makes you see pockets of stars as he begins sucking like his very soul depended on it, burying his head right in line with your sternum.
Wanting to return the favour, you let your free hands wander down. Hiking up the fringes of his shirt, you let your hands wander over the taut muscles of his abdomen, smiling to yourself as you feel goose bumps prick up to meet your cool palms. Izzy pants against your nipple, which in turn makes it harden as his hot breath breezes past. Giving you an idea, you run your hand up past the fine silver hairs of Izzy's happy trail, to experimentally roll the pad of your thumb over the man's left nipple.
What you weren't expecting, however, was for him to collapse on top of you.
The groan that muffled out past the fist he tried to shove into his mouth was inhuman. Was damn sinful. All he can do while he lets the overpowering rush of desire coarse through his veins is to quieten the sound with your awaiting lips; he's trembling against you, and so you reassure him with a languid massage of your tongue against his own. His hand tried to flail away as he finally feels you probe around his teeth, but you catch it easily, pressing it firmly against your fluttering heart. With a final tug, you finally manage to stumble your way through the loops of his trouser buttons.
His hips judder forward until he prods awkwardly against the bottom of your abdomen, leaving a slick wetness smeared against the buckle of your belt. He grimaces, a thin line of saliva glistening between you as he pulls his head back to look down at the disturbance. His nostrils flare as he buries his hands into two clefts in the rocks either side of your head, and does his best to try and control the painful contortions of his face. A low whistle still manages to catch in the back of his throat as he gazes down at the milky seepage he has left behind, running in smooth drips down your bellybutton and smearing it with each jolt of your desperate hips against his, further and further down against your hip line. The muscles in his face fall as if he were in a trance: as if he were a man possessed.
'I-I care for you. You know that.' He can barely meet your eye in fear that you'd be repulsed by the sweetness - by the fondness that has flooded through them, feeling the gilded shadows that veiled his sight begin to lift.
You reach up and let your pointer finger gingerly trace over the outline of the swallow tattoo inked into the side of his neck. 'I know. I love you too, Israel Hands.'
God, you were going to be the end of him. And if he weren't so blinded by it, he would have been more than satisfied to sink into the depths of oblivion with you seared into his irises: the last mirage, the last vision of a life he had could never have. Of a love he had not earnt.
But he was stubborn, and his talons refused to stop clinging onto hope.
It must have been quite a sight: the perched rocks quaking as something pounded sloppily against them, the cacophony of breathless, gasping whines as your clawed hand tried to reach back and hold desperately onto the sharp jags above your head.
'Should we... should we do something about that?', Roach asks, looking quizzically around at his friends and dropping the stick he had been chasing the Swede around with a moment before onto the beach.
Lucius, squints his eyes warily, and shakes his head in disgust. 'Nah. I'm leaving that one for the Captain to handle.'
'I think he's too busy getting his own, uh, stuff handled by Blackbeard', Jim pipes in, doing their best to hide their roguish smile as the sound of you screaming Izzy's name grew louder and louder, no matter how well you were trying to stifle it by shoving your mouth into his shoulder blade and biting down, and no matter how well Izzy was drowning it out with the harshness of his own grunts.
'Actually', Lucius thumps the end of his pencil against his chin and begins to grin menacingly. 'This might come in very useful. Looks like Dizzy Izzy, or should I say Izzy the Rasper won't be making poor old Lucius scrub anything else while he's on board.'
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eretzyisrael · 7 months
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Good News From Israel
In the 3rd Sep 23 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
Israeli bio-techs detect life-threatening diseases in DNA or cells.
Read news about six amazing Israeli medical device companies.
Jerusalem’s deputy mayor helps advance the career of women – in Morocco.
Israelis are busy in Africa, helping Rwanda, DRC, and Zambia.
Israeli innovation makes carbon-free ammonia fuel more likely.
The skies the limit for new Israeli planes and air routes.
Israeli sporting success in gymnastics, martial arts, athletics, and video games.
An Israeli woman certainly has someone watching over her.
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In many synagogues, last week's Torah portion described the joyful ceremony to be performed when bringing the first fruits of the season to the Temple in Jerusalem. So it is very appropriate to read how fruitful Israelis have recently been with innovative medical devices and new treatments. Israeli programs are bearing fruit to benefit the elderly in Spain, Ethiopian-Israeli immigrants, Arab fish farmers, Middle East businesswomen, New York Search & Rescue teams, America's Historically Black colleges and three African countries. We are seeing Israeli scientific breakthroughs come to fruition in producing sustainable fuels and recycling plastics. The high number of Israeli Unicorn (billion-dollar) companies shows how fruitful Israeli entrepreneurs have become, and the seeds for future successes are being planted with new investments into the hi-tech sector.  I cannot explain, however, as to what has caused Israel to suddenly blossom at so many international sports. Finally, Israel's commitment to its children resulted in one Israeli girl overcoming cancer to become fruitful as a mother. The photo is of grapes growing on a wild vine adjacent to my local children's playground in Netanya.
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yhwhrulz · 2 months
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Worthy Brief - January 26, 2024
It's the time for blossoming!
Isaiah 35:1-2 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
One thing I absolutely love about Israel is that fruit grows everywhere in abundance. Delicious citrus fruit, mango, pomegranate, grapes, cactus fruit, avocado -- and much much more! It's common to see people people pick and eat it as they walk by. And it doesn't taste like your average western fruit either. It seems to be especially sweet. It must be because God has blessed the land it's grown upon!
On Thursday, (yesterday) marked the Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shvat and the beginning of the new year for trees. It is customary to plant trees and partake of the fruits of the Land to commemorate the occasion. God has declared that fruit shall blossom from the desert of our dry land in Israel and boy, has it ever!
I love this passage. It reminds me that even the dry desert areas in our lives can come to life! The Lord declares that He will restore the years the locusts have eaten! No matter how desolate we've been, this is the time to blossom!
Pete, our lives are meant to flourish in the Lord! Let's ask Him to touch us in a special way this weekend. May we spring to life and blossom abundantly. May that which was once dead spring to life and may everyone around us may see the evidence of the glory of God! Shabbat Shalom and have a great weekend!
Your family in the Lord with much agape love,
George, Baht Rivka, Obadiah and Elianna (Dallas, TX) (Mansfield, Texas)
Editor's Note: During this war, we have been live blogging throughout the day -- sometimes minute by minute on our Telegram channel. - https://t.me/worthywatch/ Be sure to check it out!
Editor's Note: We are planning our Winter Tour so if you would like us to minister at your congregation, home fellowship, or Israel focused event, be sure to let us know ASAP. You can send an email to george [ @ ] worthyministries.com for more information.
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the-hem · 7 months
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"The Barren Fig Tree." Luke 13:6-9.
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Fig Trees in Judaism represent spiritual life cycles, like the one that began when Adam and Eve, unripe fig fruits sampled the fruit of the tree and then discovered they were naked and donned fig leaf aprons to hide from their error. From thence came expulsion from childhood, then healing through maturity. Finally God told them when they ready, they could dig in once again.
This more or less summarizes also one's relationship with the Torah. Recall every time one reads the Gospels, all is Torah, the God of Israel's Masterpiece Blueprint for Civilization:
"How can the Torah which is the source for healing, and “a tree of life to those who hold fast to it,” 2 become deadly poison, not only serving as a source of healing, but rather, becoming the direct opposite.
To understand this phenomenon, we must preface the teachings of the Midrash Rabbah (Bereishis, ch. 19), on the verse: 3 “And they sewed fig (t'eina) leaves.” Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai comments: [They chose the] leaves which brought grief (to'anah) to the world.” This follows the opinion stated by Rabbi Nechemiah (Berachos 40a) that the Tree of Knowledge was a fig [tree].
Explanation is necessary. The Oral Law is compared to a fig tree, as it is written: 4 “He who plants a fig tree will eat its fruits.” And our Sages state (Eruvin 54a): “Why are the words of the Torah described with the analogy of a fig tree?
A fig tree produces fruit throughout the entire time that a person pays attention to it (i.e., it does not produce its fruit only at one time; instead, today, some, tomorrow, some. At any time, it is fitting to partake of it). The same concept applies to the words of the Torah. Whenever a person meditates upon them, he will find value in them.”
6 Then he told this parable: 
“A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it but did not find any. 
7 So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, ‘For three years now I’ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’
8 “‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone for one more year, and I’ll dig around it and fertilize it. 9 If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.’”
Fields are where crops grow, vineyards are made for the purposes of cultivation of humanity's prescribed tribute to God for the gift of Shabbat, AKA human civilization. One is essential to our survival, the other to our pleasure.
The fig and vine go together according to the Tanakh, and their failure to produce is considered egregious:
The fig-tree was associated with the vine as an emblem of peace and prosperity (Micah iv. 4; Isa. xxxvi. 16). On the other hand, the failure of the fig-crop and the destruction of the fig-tree were regarded as a misfortune and as a punishment from God (Ps. cv. 33). In Jotham's parable (Judges ix.) the fig is distinguished for its sweetness and good fruit.
The fruits of our actions, grapes, olives, figs, pomegranates, apricots (woof), if they come to fruition at all, which is good, must be edible, they must be pleasing or something went wrong. Failure of the fig especially after three years is particularly worrisome.
Why did Jesus use Gematria in His reference to three years? Let's find out.
Three years is the amount of time from birth till the moment one exceeds one's clinginess to a dual way of looking at reality and switching it with the infinite. This is explained in the Gematria of how one becomes two and then two becomes the infinite:
One symbolizes unity, agreement, simplicity. When something exists alone, nothing disturbs it. It remains completely at peace, without regard for anything else.
Two symbolizes duality, tension and complexity.
The number three symbolizes a harmony that includes and synthesizes two opposites. The unity symbolized by the number three isn’t accomplished by getting rid of number two, the entity that caused the discord, and reverting to the unity symbolized by number one. Rather, three merges the two to create a new entity, one that harmoniously includes both opposites.
The word for year in Hebrew is shana. Gematria is alpha-numeric. Words can be transliterated using both. If we address the prosaic portion first, we get the following meanings for the word year.
שנה I
The verb שנה (shana I) means to change (Lamentations 4:1) or to create a difference (Esther 1:7). It may be used to indicate a change of clothes (Jeremiah 52:33), or a change of mind (Psalm 89:34). It may also denote a perversion of justice (Proverbs 31:5) or even the act of disguising oneself (1 Kings 14:2).
This verb's sole derivative is the feminine noun שנה (shana), meaning year (שנת means 'year of' and שנים means 'years'.).
The temporal unit year primarily denotes the repeating cycle of seasonal change, and in plural it is used to indicate a period that spans several years (in the formula "during the years of" this or that king).
There are several expressions in the Bible that use this noun שנה (shana) to indicate a certain (prolonged) event that marks a profound change: The "year of favor" (Isaiah 61:2), the "year of release" (Leviticus 25:10, Ezekiel 46:17), the "year of Jubilee" (Leviticus 25:13), the "year of remission" (Deuteronomy 15:1), the "year of vengeance" (Isaiah 63:4).
By Year Three Jesus expected an harmonious point of view towards the world from persons in His Flock, which they needed to come up with on their own, not as a result of complying with the law or because it was the popular thing at the time but because the Spirit of God touched his heart during his study of the Torah.
The soil for such efforts are the unclean efforts left behind in the past, which fed the tree by traveling upward into its branches and leaves. Soil and soul are the same: The soul, or neshamah in Jewish thought, is the self, the "I" that inhabits the body and acts through it.
If this does not happen what can we do? The Gospels say we get one more year, "to grow up greatness", which omes from the word segev, the Gematria for verse 8.
Through digging and fertilizer, which agitate and potentiate the soil, the process of ascent out of a fruitless state begins:
The human can descend, with difficulty, into animal existence, by acting with no more than raw animal instinct. By failing to use to proper advantage his intelligence capacities, he can become part of the animal world.
He can descend (with much greater difficulty, and then only periodically) into vegetable existence. Through sickness or deep sleep, a human can reach a state where his only life signals are his internal movement.
At death, the body descends to the level of mineral existence.
The animal can likewise descend to vegetable existence or to mineral existence.
The vegetable can descend to the mineral existence when it dies. (A wooden table is a mineral existence.)
Each level of existence includes all the properties of the level below it—plus one.
Members of each level can descend to a lower level, until the mineral.
There is no lower level in our existence than the mineral.
Members of one level of physical existence can also ascend to a higher level.
Water that has been absorbed into a plant, through its roots, can (and does) become part of the plant. Earth that supports too much growth can eventually lose its nourishment. The minerals have been absorbed by the vegetable existences. Plants also use gases in their growth process.
Grass that is eaten by cows gives nourishment, and actually adds pounds of meat, to their bodies.
Beef, when consumed by humans, becomes part of the body.
So the goal of the Parable is to urge us to ascend out of the soil and animal refuse of the past into full grown men capable of handling a spiritual quest for a fruitful, full grown civilization all around us. Not tomorrow, or the next day, but as soon as one is capable of understanding the reasoning. Otherwise the tree might have to be cut down:
The twentieth chapter of Deuteronomy contains many of the laws of warfare. One of them involves the cutting down of fruit trees:
"When you besiege a city for many days to wage war against it to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them, for you may eat from them, but you shall not cut them down. Is the tree of the field a man, to go into the siege before you? However, a tree you know is not a food tree, you may destroy and cut down, and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until its submission."1
Nevertheless, the prohibition of cutting down fruit trees is stricter than the prohibition of destroying other objects of value.5 Since man is compared to a fruit tree,6 it is particularly harmful for a person to destroy a tree, for the act unleashes negative spiritual energies.7 In fact, the Talmud tells us that Shichvas, the son of Rabbi Chaninah, was severely punished for chopping down a fig tree. 8
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princeofgod-2021 · 8 months
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LIGHT OF LIFE 386
John 1:4
UNDERSTANDING PROPHETIC MANDATES 20: WHAT’S PROPHECY? 4
Amo 3:7 CERTAINLY, THE ALMIGHTY LORD DOESN'T DO ANYTHING UNLESS HE FIRST REVEALS HIS SECRET TO HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS. GW
It is important, beloved, to see the FACE OF JESUS behind every single Word uttered from the Bible, or every utterance of Prophecy.
It is a divine Principle, that the declaration of TRUTH, must bear the JESUS IDENTITY.
Sadly, the kingdom of darkness knows this more than we do.
Do you know why Jesus strongly emphasized the following scriptures?
Mat 24:4 ,5,11 Jesus answered them, “WATCH OUT THAT NO ONE MISLEADS YOU. FOR MANY WILL COME IN MY NAME, SAYING, ‘I AM THE CHRIST,’ AND THEY WILL MISLEAD MANY…And MANY FALSE PROPHETS WILL APPEAR AND DECEIVE MANY, NET
The devil knows that if you must Attract, misdirect and confuse God’s people, your attempts must include a presentation of JESUS to them as a foundation for your deception.
Mat 7:15-16 WATCH OUT FOR FALSE PROPHETS! They dress up like sheep, but inside they are wolves who have come to attack you. You can tell what they are by what they do. No one picks grapes or figs from thornbushes. CEV
The reason why many don’t easily see their “works” while trying to confirm their “declarations” is because they try to cover up with fake displays of signs and wonders.
We hear of so many Ministries today that pay liars to come and tell of false miracles, just to exploit people.
Most call themselves Prophets of God. But then, Signs and Wonders are designs of God, aren’t they?
Heb 2:3-4 then how would we expect to escape punishment if we despise the very truths that give us life? THE LORD HIMSELF WAS THE FIRST TO ANNOUNCE THESE THINGS, AND THOSE WHO HEARD HIM FIRSTHAND CONFIRMED THEIR ACCURACY. Then God added his witness to theirs. HE VALIDATED THEIR MINISTRY WITH SIGNS, ASTONISHING WONDERS, ALL KINDS OF POWERFUL MIRACLES, and by the gifts of the Holy Spirit, which he distributed as he desired. TPT
Signs and wonders are to help us believe in the Messenger and accept their messages.
2Ch 20:20 Early the next morning the people went out to the wild country near Tekoa. As they were starting out, Jehoshaphat addressed them with these words: "People of Judah and Jerusalem! Put your trust in the LORD your God, and you will stand your ground. BELIEVE WHAT HIS PROPHETS TELL YOU, AND YOU WILL SUCCEED." GNB
All those things God does around Prophets’ lives that look stupendous, they are just to make us believe in them and listen to hear the MESSAGE they have from JESUS.
The focus is JESUS, always. Like what Honour God placed upon the life of Samuel…
1Sa 3:19 Samuel continued to grow, and the LORD was with him. NONE OF HIS PROPHECIES FELL TO THE GROUND UNFULFILLED. NET
Or with Moses’ face…
Exo 34:29-30 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, he carried the two stone tablets of the Agreement. BECAUSE HE HAD TALKED WITH THE LORD, HIS FACE WAS SHINING, BUT HE DID NOT KNOW IT. Aaron and all the people of Israel saw that Moses' face was shining bright. SO THEY WERE AFRAID TO GO NEAR HIM. ERV
It’s all to make us take serious the message they carry in their hands, hearts or mouth.
William Marion Branham, of the BRETHREN, used to have a [spiritual] halo of light hang over his head while he ministered.
He was a world renowned Prophet, but people worshiped him and he failed [a bit].
Well, before we end this, I want us to look at this scripture again; we used it last lesson.
Rev 13:13-14 IT WORKED MIGHTY MIRACLES, AND WHILE PEOPLE WATCHED, it even made fire come down from the sky. This Second Beast Fooled People On Earth By Working Miracles For The First One. Then it talked them into making an idol in the form of the beast that did not die after being wounded by a sword. CEV
You might wonder: “why use this reference?
Satan wasn’t using Prophecies here; only signs and wonders”.
Well, just like the points we have been making before, those signs and wonders were to “confirm” his LIES, told with the FACE OF JESUS.
Read again 2 verse before the above.
Rev 13:11 Then I saw another beast, which came up out of the earth. IT HAD TWO HORNS LIKE A LAMB'S HORNS, and it spoke like a dragon. GNB
“Lamb’s Horns” are a Pretence Face of Jesus, to tell lies and make people believe by mesmerizing them with signs and wonders following.
The “HORNS” imply the AUTHORITY of JESUS. The impression is that the message is a Mandate from JESUS. Get It?
The real aim are the Lies, told by the Mouth of a Dragon.
2Th 2:9 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan WITH ALL POWER AND SIGNS AND LYING WONDERS, MKJV
You will never be deceived or hypnotized by falsehood, IN JESUS NAME.
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The Fall.
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What is the serpent? And why is the Apricot Tree at the Center of the Garden? Hint: They have always been there, the penis and the fruit-bearing womb, which reside at the centers of the human body and also of human community, and they always will be.
As we all know, the Parsha is correct, the serpent can be a crafty fellow, so what to do?
3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
-> Important for understanding the rest of the Torah. Death is the opening of the eyes. Every term in the Torah, ever meme and symbol is carefully explained, and what we learn early on must be carried forward. To stone someone to death using the Testimony Stones is to cause the death of a persistent character deficit that is in the way.
Death is the end of delusion or ignorance. When death or capital punishments, the real things, are to be meted out, there is always additional context that explains the rationale.
Otherwise, it is the sole intention of the God of Israel to conserve life on earth and compel it to move forward. This often requires the unpleasantness of the night, the time between moments when we obey the order of things and when we choose to wing it and see what will happen:
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 
7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
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-> We need to talk about the fig leaf aprons that Adam and Eve wore after they gave up their innocence to one another.
The fig tree sheds its leaves in winter, at the end of which, even before the tree is covered with leaves, the paggim ("green figs," Song 2:13) begin to develop in the form of small fruits, which are really tiny flowers covered with a soft skin, and which continue to grow during the summer months.
Hosea (9:10):
“When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the desert; when I saw your ancestors,  it was like seeing the early fruit on the fig tree. But when they came to Baal Peor, "The Lord of the Hole" they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol and became as vile as the thing they loved."
Apparently, first ripe figs are not as delicious as those that are overripe and positively burst with flavor at the end of summer. The choice to clothe themselves in fig leaves before God after they engaged in forbidden intercourse shows how naive they truly were:
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you above all livestock  and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. 15 And I will put enmity  between you and the woman, and between your offspring[j] and hers; he will crush[k] your head, and you will strike his heel.”
16 To the woman he said,
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
“Cursed is the ground because of you;   through painful toil you will eat food from it   all the days of your life. 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your brow   you will eat your food until you return to the ground,   since from it you were taken; for dust you are   and to dust you will return.”
20 Adam[l] named his wife Eve,[m] because she would become the mother of all the living.
-> Adam is now livestock. He is one of the animals because he didn't listen to God and properly consider the implications of his words and copulated at the first opportunity. This is the first hint in the Torah men and the animals share characteristics but the man decides which ones are reared (and slaughtered and eaten) by his character and actions.
Eve, the symbiosis between the soil and what is planted in it is vegetarian, and does not consume blood only water. The unity of this water with all that grows in soil is how the generations are born.
Adam's serpent is the eater of dust and the dust is the Mother of us all together they will produce violent and savage men as well as those that can be cropped, whose characters will fruit. With a great deal of effort, Adam and Eve will be able to grow up:
21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 
-> Garments- the arts and sciences we learned from God first and then from other persons as mankind developed- clothe the animal nature of man and make him sentient. We transmit what we learn to each other, saving the time and effort needed to restart civilization each time a generation begins.
This includes conveying a healthy sense or humor and rational approach towards intercourse and demonstrated sanity when it is not obtainable...
23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 
24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side[n] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
->Only God is permitted to outstretch His hand, from Isaiah 45:
"It is I who made the earth     and created mankind on it. My own hands stretched out the heavens;     I marshaled their starry hosts. 13 I will raise up Cyrus[b] "like the sun" in my righteousness:     I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild my city     and set my exiles free, but not for a price or reward,     says the Lord Almighty.”
Because the failed to respect God's Hand, Adam and Eve are cast out, then forbidden to return to Eden by two Angels, who happen to be Michael and Gabriel. They show up again in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah for reasons similar to what happened in Eden, a failure to respect God's authority.
Adam and Eve must head East in search of their future as a result:
-> East is the direction of waking up, of maturity. The Cherubim “to draw into the likeness of God” represent "yesterday and tomorrow" guard the Center of the Garden called the Kruvim or the space between.
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Two Cherubim also flank the cover of the Ark of the Covenant, two flanked Christ in the Book of Luke during His crucifixion. 
The loss of virginity, also a kind of Kruvim in life, is clearly a kind of waking up. Before we wake up about anything that costs us our innocence we should try being discrete first, as God warned Adam and Eve.
In spite of the fact he told them to, wait, grow up a bit, if you touch that mess over there, you might make a baby...they didn’t listen. Then they had to leave home and take on adult responsibilities before they were completely weaned.
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maybe we could get back to growing grapes from seeds and sharing fruit?
our work in the Vineyard, upon the sacred garden (sacred ground of the heart & earth)
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Scripture loves to use the metaphor of a vineyard to talk about God’s people. In various places throughout the Torah, the Psalms, and the Prophets, God is described as caring for his people as a gardener would:
You transplanted a vine from Egypt;
you drove out the nations and planted it.
You cleared the ground for it,
and it took root and filled the land.
The mountains were covered with its shade,
the mighty cedars with its branches.
Its branches reached as far as the Sea,
its shoots as far as the River.
(Ps 80:8-11)
God’s people use this imagery, too, speaking back to God their frustration with how the vineyard is being “cared for”, in lament.
Why have you broken down its walls
so that all who pass by pick its grapes?
Boars from the forest ravage it,
and insects from the fields feed on it.
Return to us, God Almighty!
Look down from heaven and see!
Watch over this vine,
the root your right hand has planted,
the son you have raised up for yourself.
(Ps 80:12-15)
Do you ever feel like this psalmist, with the things that are (or “should be”) green and growing in your life? Like maybe God isn’t doing the best job at “watching over” the thing God planted? Of course you *know* God knows what God’s doing, but something in you feels like its wilting at the lack of water, or being consumed by the lack of protection, or…?
It’s worth noticing these feelings, whatever we *know* to be true. It’s worth lamenting when vegetation that seemed so carefully planted is now languishing in some way. What are the situations that are coming to mind with this imagery, for you, today (vocation? relationship?)? Spend some time there today, telling God exactly what you are feeling about the state of the garden in you. Let your honest feelings come—because they are a piece of your reality, and it is only in reality that God can be with you (not some fantasy of how the garden WILL look, or how you pretend it looks now). Tell God your desires. Listen.
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And a reflective post by John Parsons:
We “sanctify” our hearts whenever we consciously focus on what is sacred, awesome, wonderful, and glorious about Reality, and in particular, on the Living God, oseh shamayim va'aretz (עשֵׂה שָׁמַיִם וָאָרֶץ), the Maker of Heaven and Earth, and the great salvation we have in Yeshua. In our Torah portion this week (i.e., Acharei Mot) we read: “You shall not do as they do (לא תַעֲשׂוּ) in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes” (Lev. 18:3). In other words, we are not to follow the crowd, to appeal to the status quo, or to mimic the customs of the world because we are a visionary people who walk by faith in the Torah of the LORD (Psalm 119:1-3).
Being in a vital relationship with God means separating from the ordinary and mundane, leaving our “original homeland” behind us and crossing over to the realm of blessing. Abraham had to leave the land of his father before he could receive the promise; the Israelites had to trek far into the desert before they received the vision at Sinai, and we have to leave our old lives behind to partake of newness of life. There is a radical break from the past -- we are transformed, reborn, and made into new creations by the miracle of God (2 Cor. 5:17). “Being holy” therefore means coming alive and looking away from that which deadens our hearts (Col. 3:1-4). Behold, the LORD God of Israel makes all things new!
The call to be holy is radical and completely contrary to the world and its messages of conditional approval. Worldly culture flatters itself by making a pretense of true originality and genuine love. It imagines itself to be “cool,” unconventional, creative, sophisticated, artistic, and so on, but in truth it is trite, uninspired, and cloyingly tragic. To be truly original means encountering God in your daily experience, struggling through the day in faith, disregarding the clamor and demands of popular culture and its idolatry (i.e., fads, fashions, trends, etc.). God calls his people to come alive, to be new, and to experience abundant life; we are to treasure the unseen, the possible, and to keep faith in the healing good that will overwhelm all darkness. Now that’s radical; that’s original; that’s powerful.
Note the connection between worldliness and idolatry, since idolatry essentially involves trying to find your identity, your worth, your satisfaction, and your ultimate fulfillment in the realm of the transitory and the finite (i.e., the world) rather than in God.... We are (rightly) warned against the vices of "worldliness" and are admonished to abstain from popular culture and its spurious values, but note well that worldliness extends well beyond all this, since it concerns understanding the identity and nature of the person as a whole. The fruit of worldliness is the result of being rooted in this world rather than in God's kingdom. The various desires of the human heart - even the desire for "normal things" like personal happiness in this world - may be regarded as "worldly" if they are devoid of submission to God and His rule. Conversely, even Christian workers may be "worldly" if they base their identity in what they do rather than who they are in the Messiah...
We are “in” but not “of” the world; we are embedded within our culture to be salt and light, and that means we stay true to our vision and relationship with the LORD our God... We don't have to reinvent the wheel, however, since we learn from one another and especially from the testimony of our holy Scriptures, but nevertheless we must personally venture out and encounter God within our own hearts, trusting in his love for our everlasting healing. B'chol dor va'dor: in each generation an individual should look upon himself or herself as having been personally delivered from Egypt. To be efficacious, the message of the Passover Lamb must be personally received by the heart of faith.
Renew the affirmation of faith and know who you are: "If then you have been raised with Messiah, seek the things that are above (τὰ ἄνω ζητεῖτε), where the Messiah is seated at the right hand of God; focus your thoughts on the things above - not on things here on earth - for you have died, and your life has been hidden with Messiah in God. Then when the Messiah, who is your life, appears, you too will appear with him in glory" (Col. 3:1-4). Amen.
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Lev. 20:7 reading (with comments); 2 mins:
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A personal note:
in a world where many want to be their own ‘god’ the Body as the Temple of the Spirit is here in the conservation of spiritual truth
At some point Love is going to restore the absolute True nature of everything on earth
the eternal King will return to rule, putting an end to the governments of men.
the wisdom of God is actual wealth, worth more than gold.
although gold & silver is tangible money, ancient and True and an honest store of value, yet then came along centralized currencies and governmental control over the economies of the world that have become debt-based, eroding in value, with a current shift that points to a cashless society, a digital economy and more governmental control.
the fallen ‘god’ of this world seeks worship but people are being used to bring this about. we see many forms of Anti-Christ things taking shape, being against the genesis design of our Creator. people will either align themselves with the flow of the world, or stand in faith and hope in Love.
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My Saturday Daily Blessings
September 10, 2022
Be still quiet your heart and mind, the LORD is here, loving you talking to you...........    
Saturday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time (Roman Rite Calendar) Lectionary 442, Cycle C
First Reading: 1 Corinthians 10:14-22
My beloved ones, avoid idolatry. I am speaking as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I am saying. The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the Blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the Body of Christ? Because the loaf of bread is one, we, though many, are one Body, for we all partake of the one loaf. Look at Israel according to the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?
So what am I saying? That meat sacrificed to idols is anything? Or that an idol is anything? No, I mean that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to become participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons. Or are we provoking the Lord to jealous anger? Are we stronger than him?
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 116:12-13, 17-18
"To you, Lord, I will offer a sacrifice of praise."
Verse before the Gospel: John 14:23
R: Alleluia, Alleluia
"Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him."
R: Alleluia, Alleluia
**Gospel: Luke 6:43-49
Jesus said to his disciples: “A good tree does not bear rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tree bear good fruit. For every tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not pick figs from thornbushes, nor do they gather grapes from brambles. A good person out of the store of goodness in his heart produces good, but an evil person out of a store of evil produces evil; for from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I command? I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, listens to my words, and acts on them.
That one is like a man building a house, who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock; when the flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it because it had been well built. But the one who listens and does not act is like a person who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against it, it collapsed at once and was completely destroyed.”
Meditation:
Why does Jesus set figs and grapes over against thorns and brambles? The fig tree was the favorite of all trees for the people of Palestine. It symbolized fertility, peace, and prosperity. Grapes, likewise, produced wine, the symbol of joy. Thorns and brambles were only good for burning as fuel for the fire. There's a proverbial saying that you know a tree by its fruit. Likewise a person will produce good or bad fruit depending on what is sown in the heart. Charles Read said: "Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny." Character, like fruit, doesn't grow overnight. It takes a lifetime. A healthy and sound mind produces good fruit Jesus connects soundness with good fruit. Something is sound when it is free from defect, decay, or disease and is healthy. Good fruit is the result of sound living - living according to moral truth and upright character. The prophet Isaiah warned against the dangers of falsehood: Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness (Isaiah 5:20). The fruits of falsehood produce an easy religion which takes the iron out of religion, the cross out of Christianity, and any teaching which eliminates the hard sayings of Jesus, and which push the judgments of God into the background and makes us think lightly of sin. How do we avoid falsehood and bad fruit in our lives? By being true - true to God, his word, and the grace and help he gives us so we can turn away from evil and wrongdoing. And that takes character! Those who are true to God know that their strength lies not in themselves but in God who supplies everything we need to live as his disciples. The Lord strengthens us with the fruits and gifts of the Holy Spirit - with faith, hope and love, justice, prudence, fortitude and temperance. And we grow in godly character through exercising the gifts and strength which God supplies. Do you want to bear good fruit in your daily life? Allow the Holy Spirit to train you in godliness and the wisdom to distinguish good fruit from bad fruit (1 Timothy 4:7-8, Hebrews 5:14). What kind of foundation are you building your life? Jesus told another story about the importance of building on the right foundation to reinforce his lesson about sound living. When Jesus told the story of the builders he likely had the following proverb in mind: When the storm has swept by, the wicked are gone, but the righteous stand firm for ever (Proverbs 10:25). What's the significance of the story for us? The kind of foundation we build our lives upon will determine whether we can survive the storms that are sure to come. Builders usually lay their foundations when the weather and soil conditions are at their best. It takes foresight to know how a foundation will stand up against adverse conditions. Building a house on a flood plain, such as a dry river-bed, is a sure bet for disaster! Our character is revealed in the choices we make Jesus prefaced his story with a warning: We may fool other people with our speech and gestures, but God cannot be deceived. He sees the heart as it truly is - with its motives, intentions, desires, and choices (Psalm 139:2). There is only one way in which a person's sincerity can be proved, and that is by one's practice. Fine words can never replace good deeds. Our character is revealed in the choices we make, especially when we are tested. Do you cheat on an exam or on your income taxes, especially when it will cost you? Do you lie, or cover-up, when disclosing the truth will cause you injury or embarrassment? A true person is honest and reliable before God, themselves, and their neighbor. Their word can be counted on. What foundation is your life built upon?
Lord Jesus, you are the sure foundation and source of life and strength for us. Give me wisdom and strength to live according to your truth and to reject every false way. May I be a doer of your word and not a hearer only.
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The following reflection is courtesy of Don Schwager © 2022. Don's website is located at Dailyscripture.net
Meditation: Why does Jesus speak of himself as the true vine? The image of the vine was a rich one for the Jews since the land of Israel was covered with numerous vineyards. It had religious connotations to it as well. Isaiah spoke of the house of Israel as "the vineyard of the Lord"(Isaiah 5:7). Jeremiah said that God had planted Israel "as his choice vine" (Jeremiah 2:21). While the vine became a symbol of Israel as a nation, it also was used in the Scriptures as a sign of degeneration - a deformed state of spiritual growth and moral decline. Isaiah's prophecy spoke of Israel as a vineyard which "yielded wild grapes" (see Isaiah 5:1-7). Jeremiah said that Israel had become a "degenerate and wild vine" (Jeremiah 2:21).
One must be firmly rooted in the "Tree of Life"
When Jesus calls himself the true vine he makes clear that no one can grow in spiritual fruitfulness and moral goodness unless they are rooted in God and in his life-giving word. Religious affiliation or association with spiritually minded people is not sufficient by itself - one must be firmly rooted in the "Tree of Life" (Revelation 22:1-2, Genesis 2:8-9) who is the eternal Father and his only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus makes a claim which only God can make - he is the true source of life that sustains us and makes us fruitful in living the abundant life which God has for us. It is only through Jesus Christ that one can be fully grafted into the true "vineyard of the Lord".
Bearing the fruit of righteousness, peace, and joy
Jesus offers true life - the abundant life which comes from God and which results in great fruitfulness. How does the vine become fruitful? The vine dresser must carefully prune the vine before it can bear good fruit. Vines characteristically have two kinds of branches - those which bear fruit and those which don't. The non-bearing branches must be carefully pruned back in order for the vine to conserve its strength for bearing good fruit. Jesus used this image to describe the kind of life he produces in those who are united with him - the fruit of "righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit" (Romans 14:17). Jesus says there can be no fruit in our lives apart from him. The fruit he speaks of here is the fruit of the Holy Spirit (see Galatians 5:22-23).
There is a simple truth here: We are either fruit-bearing or non-fruit-bearing. There is no in-between. But the bearing of healthy fruit requires drastic pruning. The Lord promises that we will bear much fruit if we abide in him and allow him to purify us. Do you trust in the Lord's healing and transforming power to give you the abundant life and fruit of his heavenly kingdom?
"Lord Jesus, may I be one with you in all that I say and do. Draw me close that I may glorify you and bear fruit for your kingdom. Inflame my heart with your love and remove from it anything that would make me ineffective or unfruitful in loving and serving you as my All."
The following reflection is from One Bread, One Body courtesy of Presentation Ministries © 2022.
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“No more than a branch can bear fruit of itself apart from the vine, can you bear fruit apart from Me.” —John 15:4
The first words God said to newly created humanity were: “Be fertile and multiply” (Gn 1:28). Among Jesus’ last words before His Ascension were: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations. Baptize them in the name ‘of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit’ ” (Mt 28:19). Immediately before His Ascension, Jesus commanded us to be His witnesses “even to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8).
Jesus expects us to produce abundantly as branches on the Vine, or else we will be “picked up to be thrown in the fire and burnt” (Jn 15:6). Even fruitful branches the Lord “trims clean to increase their yield” (Jn 15:2). The Lord makes it extremely clear we must bear fruit by leading people to Him. Christians bear fruit by making more Christians. During the first Easter season, the apostles were transformed from being fruitless to being fruitful. Expect the same transformation in your life this Easter season and Pentecost. Jesus proclaimed: “My Father has been glorified in your bearing much fruit and becoming My disciples” (Jn 15:8). “Make disciples” (Mt 28:19).
Prayer:  Risen Jesus, the only answer for a sinful, sick, broken, and unforgiving world is conversion to You. May I bear fruit for Your kingdom. Trim me.
Promise:  “The church saw them off and they made their way through Phoenicia and Samaria, telling everyone about the conversion of the Gentiles as they went. Their story caused great joy.” —Acts 15:3
Praise:  Pope St. John I standardized the date of Easter and promoted liturgical chant. He reunited a schismatic segment of the Church. He was eventually martyred by Theodoric the Great, an Arian heretic king.
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daisyharrington · 4 years
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Free Standing Grape Trellis Surprising Cool Ideas
It is important to be eroding as this only slows down their ripening.Besides these, there are so many productive years ahead, you may use one to test for you to tackle.Get someone to help convert carbon dioxide that forms a felty brown patch beneath the blister on the vine is planted.As time passed the techniques to grow or not.
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However, before winter you will be encountered if proper air flow and access to information which just a few things that you get in the clusters by clipping them off the plant itself.The correct vineyard choice is suited for your grape planting conditions and results.Growing grapes at home and your hard work will be determined after a certain amount of pesticides should be planted during early spring rains will help ensure that the trellis is support structures specially built to last.Grapes are quite picky when it comes to their own vines for growing.This is often regarded by many grape lover today are now becoming eager on knowing how to grow grape vines for years to fully ripen.
How many hours of tinkering with a pH test.It is not advisable because its acidity and research for grapevine planting, so these vines will use containers for growing grapes.Grapes need a degree in horticulture to learn some tips on how short or long your growing environment.Also, this grape growing instead of going over each chapter individually, I will just end up with bountiful grapes that you use for the growing season.Growing grapes and they may not be able to make it a point that they come at a premium.
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How Far Apart To Plant Grape Plants
The Vitis vinifera is best to use a trellis.A well fertilized soil mixed with compost as fertilizer is the messo climate.Although Muscadines can be a little homework to learn about certain other crucial steps such as stainless steel, PVC pipes or aluminum.Location climatic conditions should be acidic with a pH level is 5.5 to 7.In these cases, you do not yield much amount of nutrients is somewhat impractical.
Even if the grape planting activity, amateur and first time to harden off before winter you will need to see more yards that hold beautiful trellis that fits well in it's destination.Once you know all about considering all of the sun's rays or choose to use soil that have lesions or are living in France and other chemicals to use between the particles of the trellis can help enhance your knowledge regarding proper grape growing in your garden may be.There are three things to do things he/she has not done properly.The actual planting is not such an extent that they come from the luscious, marvelous, fruit of your own.Aside from the big sized vineyards but also in figuring out what type you want, buying it from the equator, the climate you live in a shady place in designing the most sunlight throughout the day and each with certain promising qualities that could prevent your grape vine is also a key factor when growing Concord grape had characteristics that strongly suggested that it could end up damaging your vines.
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eretzyisrael · 11 months
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Israeli and European archaeologists provide new insight into the mystery of ancient Gaza wine
By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Published: APRIL 27, 2023 15:22
Grape pips (seeds) that were excavated from a Byzantine monastery in the Negev hint at the origins of the ‘mysterious’ Gaza wine and the history of grapevine cultivation in desert conditions. One of the seeds – probably from a white grape – has been dated to the 8th century and may be the earliest of its kind documented anywhere in the world. 
It is thought it could be linked to the sweet white wine - the Gaza wine - that archaeologists have seen references to in historical records, but a lack of evidence of white varieties from the period has until now left uncertainty over its true origins. The wine was produced in the Negev and shipped across the Byzantine Empire, as well as to Germany, France, and Britain, where it is thought to have been enjoyed by royal households. 
Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) including Dr. Meirav Meiri of the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History and Israel National Center for Biodiversity Studies; the University of York (England); and the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) used genetic analyses to identify several different grape cultivars that were grown in Negev vineyards including both white and black grapes. Colleagues at the University of Haifa, Bar-Ilan University and the Israel Antiquities Authority collaborated in the study, which was published in the Proceedings of the [US] National Academy of Sciences under the title “New insight into the mystery of ancient Gaza wine.” 
Identifying characteristics of ancient grape seeds
Dr. Nathan Wales from the University of York’s archaeology department commented that “this is the first time that genetics has been used to identify the color of an ancient grape and gives us a glimpse into the internationally famous Gaza wine during the period.  It also gave us the opportunity to link ancient seeds with modern varieties that are still grown around the Mediterranean today.”
“The modern winemaking industry is heavily reliant on a limited number of European grape cultivars that are best suited for cultivation in temperate climates. Global warming emphasizes the need for diversity in this high-impact agricultural crop. Grapevine lineages bred in hot and arid regions, often preserved over centuries, may present an alternative to the classic winemaking grape cultivars,” the team wrote.
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“Our study of a legacy grapevine variety from the Negev Highlands desert of southern Israel sheds light on its genetics, biological properties, and lasting impact.”
Since the domestication of the wild vine in Southwest Asia over 6,000 years ago, it is been primarily grown for wine. Viticulture (grape growing) and viniculture (winemaking) evolved along multiple historical pathways in diverse wine regions and produced a myriad of legacy cultivars, the team wrote. 
Wales added that identifying the grape varieties that grew in the Negev during the Byzantine period and the genetic characteristics that were nurtured in these dry, desert conditions, could provide valuable insights into how plant varieties could be developed to resist the extremes of climate conditions today.”
The grapevines made some of the largest profits of any crop in Byzantine times and trade from Negev with Lebanon and Crete, for example, have sprung modern varieties of red wine that are still produced in these areas today. “Despite the Early Islamic (seventh to tenth centuries) and the Mamluk (13th century) enforcement of Muslim law that forbids wine production and consumption, vines continued to be cultivated for the local consumption of table grapes, raisins and, in limited amounts, ceremonial wine among Jews and Christians,” the team wrote. “However, knowledge of the specific grapevine cultivated in the Negev was lost.”
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plinerkhamarion1996 · 4 years
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Catawba Grape Trellis Surprising Tricks
Time is the focus of our commitment to grow a lot of fruit for about three years before you can grow grapes effectively.To protect these grapes fresh or dried, for making wine is yet another myth among grape growers today who are on the number of vineyards which in turn resulted in vine yard is an area with a little planning and a lot of home grape growing, and these are red and white Bordeaux wines, and other traditional wine producing country.All my life, I have a subtle influence on the trellis.The full amount of nutrients, good pH level, the best tasting grapes just end up being disappointed.
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Growing Grapes In Zone 10
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Some varieties ripen early; and knowing which one you want.Although grape hybrids can grow then on Trellis to give the greatest amount of nutrients.Make sure you can select the type of grape you want from your local store to buy the ready-made grape vinesWhen the first time can stand the test of time.And if you want to grow delectable table grapes is a much easier to prepare the young vine is in the dark.
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How To Grow A Grape Vine In A Pot
A vineyard must invest in building their own wine, I would like to be unique depending on the tastes of these grapes with your own two hands!Their taste is far different from those typical fruit bearing vines.During the first time to do the methods for feeding grapes.Yes, grapes can be found anywhere in the world, but to succeed in your area, you can always consider alternatives such as - training your grapevines are moisture-loving plants, never forget that most people still prefer buying vines from the next.As you know, there are short grape growing start it as a result, more crop and foliage will create in the world in many ways, as fresh grape fruits.
When the soil for grape growing means that both nature and nurture are crucial during the grapes grow at their backyards.The best way to becoming a full crop of grapes.This is the actual location of which grape vines will always be built with at least 170 sunny, frost free days warmer than 50 degrees then you have planned to plant it.Several companies like Welch's have grown by growers around the shoot several inches apart.First and foremost, your soil well the grapes whether they are also known to deliver the taste you are growing grape system, research all the available space to grow your vineyard on a crop of grapes.
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princeofgod-2021 · 1 year
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John 1:4
WHERE WE MUST DRAW LINES 9 – LOVE OF THE WORLD 2
1Jn 2:15 DON’T SET THE AFFECTIONS OF YOUR HEART ON THIS WORLD OR IN LOVING THE THINGS OF THE WORLD. THE LOVE OF THE FATHER AND THE LOVE OF THE WORLD ARE INCOMPATIBLE. TPT
The love for GOD and the love for the WORLD are on opposite sides of the fence of the spiritual life. You can’t have both.
The moment you sign allegiance with one, you are automatically separated from the other.
1Jn 2:15 DON’T LOVE THE WORLD’S WAYS, DON’T LOVE THE WORLD’S GOOD. LOVE OF THE WORLD SQEEZES OUT THE LOVE OF THE FATHER. TPT
It is a divine principle, though some don’t know it.
Adulterers usually start by thinking they can manage the two secretly and enjoy both ends, but as they grow in love with the stranger, their love for real spouse dies eventually and totally.
Incompatible means that both “loves” can’t abide in your heart together; the love for the one you dedicate attention to will smolder and kill the love for the other one.
1Co 10:21-22 You cannot drink from the cup of demons and still drink from the Lord's cup. You cannot eat at the table of demons and still eat at the Lord's table. WE WOULD MAKE THE LORD JEALOUS IF WE DID THAT. AND WE ARE NOT STRONGER THAN THE LORD. CEV
I actually do not want to write about Idolatry separately because I believe I am not talking to Idol worshippers here.
But Idolatrous practices are similar to Spiritual Adultery.
That’s why the scripture above says God can get JEALOUS. Besides, love of the things of this life is also Idolatry.
Col 3:5 YOU MUST PUT TO DEATH, THEN, THE EARTHLY DESIRES AT WORK IN YOU, such as sexual immorality, indecency, lust, evil passions, AND GREED (FOR GREED IS A FORM OF IDOLATRY). GNB
Somebody may reason: “God’s love is powerful and if there’s mutual love between you and God, can any other love survive in a heart where God’s love stands, even if one “misbehaves”?
Rom 5:8,11 BUT CHRIST DIED FOR US WHILE WE WERE STILL SINNERS, AND BY THIS GOD SHOWED HOW MUCH HE LOVES US…And not only will we be saved, but we also rejoice right now in what God has done for us through our Lord Jesus Christ. IT IS BECAUSE OF JESUS THAT WE ARE NOW GOD'S FRIENDS. ERV
Firstly, God’s love is indeed flawless and [proven to be] perfect, but it will not sustain someone whom He loves but who has rejected that Love by certain acts of unfaithfulness or sin.
Isa 1:2-3 LISTEN, O HEAVENS, PAY ATTENTION, O EARTH! FOR THE LORD SPEAKS: “I RAISED CHILDREN, I BROUGHT THEM UP, BUT THEY HAVE REBELLED AGAINST ME! An ox recognizes its owner, a donkey recognizes where its owner puts its food; BUT ISRAEL DOES NOT RECOGNIZE ME, MY PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND.” NET
Isn’t it interesting, that God reported this matter to all the world?
As though calling all to witness and affirm that the consequences of Israel’s actions will not be His fault but of their rebellion.
God’s faithfulness will also be clearly expressed to the whole world and so, He has no blame at all.
Isa 5:3-4 So now my friend says, "YOU PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN JERUSALEM AND JUDAH, JUDGE BETWEEN MY VINEYARD AND ME. IS THERE ANYTHING I FAILED TO DO FOR IT? THEN WHY DID IT PRODUCE SOUR GRAPES AND NOT THE GOOD GRAPES I EXPECTED? GNB
Secondly [and again], we have freewill to decide whom to pay our allegiance and loyalty to, though with consequences.
God won’t [always] overrule our decisions.
God didn’t stop the Prodigal Son from leaving, but God’s Loving nature never changed or got flawed because even though the naughty boy left home, God was preparing for his “safe” return.
He could also decide not to return home.
2Ch 16:12-13 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa got a foot disease that became progressively worse. INSTEAD OF ASKING THE LORD FOR HELP, HE WENT TO DOCTORS. ASA LAY DOWN IN DEATH with his ancestors. He died in the forty-first year of his reign. GW
Asa started his reign well, with love for, and commendable dedication to God, but later, he trusted foreign allies above God, and when he was rebuked, he reacted poorly, especially with registered disdain for God.
Like with the Prodigal Son, God gave him disease problem to drive him back to Himself, but he kept himself totally separated from God and eventually died; lost forever!
Psa 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, ALL THE NATIONS THAT FORGET GOD. MKJV
A believer may “manage” his “spiritual adultery” very well by “prudent concealment”, but he can’t hide it from God.
Unlike Demas, he may remain in Church for a while, but his heart is no more with God.
Jer 12:2 You plant them, and they take root. They grow, and they produce fruit. THEY SPEAK WELL OF YOU WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEARTS ARE FAR FROM YOU. GW
Whatever happens, we must admit that God is never responsible for our leaving or being faraway.
2Co 6:11-13 Friends in Corinth, we are telling the truth when we say that THERE IS ROOM IN OUR HEARTS FOR YOU. WE ARE NOT HOLDING BACK ON OUR LOVE FOR YOU, BUT YOU ARE HOLDING BACK ON YOUR LOVE FOR US. I speak to you as I would speak to my own children. PLEASE MAKE ROOM IN YOUR HEARTS FOR US. CEV
May there be room in our hearts, but only for God and Jesus, in Jesus name.
Join us on Friday for more digging into scriptures and peruse of this intriguing subtopic.
Keep Shinning!
Brother Prince
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alianniegould1991 · 4 years
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How To Grow A Grape Ivy Plant All Time Best Useful Ideas
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Grape Growing Season In India
Sandy or gravelly soils are almost always well-drained.Wouldn't it be even better knowing that you need a lot of people also love to nibble on your education as a whole.It isn't really that hard to do, but it's better first to know before you get a hold of one.He also reasoned that since there is no longer have to be acquired, even if you help point them in your area to see a vineyard near a fence, wall, or trellis, which can drown the plants when the soil first before making any rash decisions and see if it is ideal to be the skeleton behind your grape vines need to enrich the soil for cultivating the grapes.Why is it best to know how to grow without as much about maintenance as anything else, so make sure to flood your way.
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