Tuesday, 30 December 2014

Bible Principles: Reciprocity, Redistribution, and Vertical Control

EPISODE THREE.
In Deuteronomy 10 we can meditate in the deepest formation of these principles:
At that time the Lord said to me, "Chisel out TWO STONE TABLETS like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a WOODEN CHEST. I will write on the TABLETS the WORDS that WERE ON the FIRST tablets, which YOU BROKE. Then you are to PUT THEM IN the CHEST.
(The stone tablets are the symbol of strength and power that this God's words have in the spirit of man and the wooden chest symbolize the emotional flesh of the human being. As long as the words of God stay alive inside the human heart then a sincere feeling of belonging to the forces of goodness will increase in power and strength).
So I made the ARK out of acacia wood and chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up on the mountain with the TWO TABLETS in my hands. The Lord wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the TEN COMMANDMENTS he had proclaimed to you on the mountain OUT OF THE FIRE, on the DAY OF THE ASSEMBLY....
Now I  had stayed on the mountain forty days and nights, as I did the first time, and the Lord listened to me at this time also. It was NOT HIS WILL TO DESTROY YOU. "Go," the Lord said to me, "and LEAD the PEOPLE ON THEIR WAY, so that they MAY ENTER AND POSSESS THE LAND THAT I SWORE TO THEIR FATHERS TO GIVE THEM."
And now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but TO FEAR the LORD your GOD, to WALK IN ALL HIS WAYS, to LOVE HIM, to SERVE the LORD your GOD with ALL YOUR HEART and with ALL YOUR SOUL, and to OBSERVE the LORD'S COMMANDS and DECREES that I am giving you today for your own good.
To the LORD your GOD belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.
Yet the Lord set his affection on your forefathers (people who believed in Him) and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants (if you continue with that earnestly Love), above all the nations (fleshy love), as it is today. Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer. For the LORD your GOD is GOD of GODS and LORD of LORDS, the GREAT GOD, MIGHTY and AWESOME, WHO SHOWS NO PARTIALITY and ACCEPTS NO BRIBES.
He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, giving him food and clothing. And you are to love those who are aliens, for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt.
FEAR the LORD your GOD and SERVE HIM. HOLD FAST TO HIM and TAKE your OATHS IN HIS NAME. HE IS YOUR PRAISE; HE IS YOUR GOD ..........

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