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| | Post New Topic | | Seeds Of Greatness Motivational Minute~The Flood | Views: 86 | | Sep 25, 2009 8:36 am | | Seeds Of Greatness Motivational Minute~The Flood | # | 
Richard "The Eagle" Motivator | |
~~~~~The Flood~~~~~
Atlanta, Georgia is having record rainfall.
I've never seen water like today. The street in front of my
subdivision was closed on both ends due to two different
obstructions. The street literally caved in. My son's school
was closed, the first time that I can ever recall a school
being closed due to rain. The lake in my back yard overran the
dock and literally picked up the little paddle boat in my back
yard.
I thought that it was impossible for the lake to overflow.
The cloudburst began in earnest on Saturday. Saturday was the
first day of the New Year. Not our regular calendar year, but
the New Year according to the Bible.
On the first day of the New Year, the windows of heaven opened
in Atlanta, Georgia.
The term "windows of heaven" was used three times in the Bible.
Twice it referred to the rain of the flood. The third reference
refers to blessings that are poured out that the obedient will
not have room enough to receive.
The opening of the windows of heaven brought destruction to the
disobedient and blessings to the obedient.
It's still raining.
Are you in The ARK?
Richard "The Eagle" Motivator
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Private Reply to Richard "The Eagle" Motivator | | Oct 06, 2009 10:08 am | | re: Seeds Of Greatness Motivational Minute ~ The Flood | # | 
Peter Boaz Jones | | Richard you got my brain going with this one, as the Biblical New Year referred to in your post was on Saturday October 3 this year and the seventh month, Tishri, though strictly speaking it is in Hebrew Rosh Hashana or the Head of the year as better translated, as being the beginning of the harvests when the fruit of the land in Israel began to be ripe for the final harvest. Subsequently, because this related to the economy it was also counted as the beginning of a New Year. Yet, the original Biblical New Year was to be counted in the first New Moon in Spring, "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you” (Exodus 12:2).
Of course the reference to the rains in your post, and metaphorically being the ark, leads to the promise, "‘As for Me [God], consider, I establish My covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every animal of the earth with you. Of all that go out of the ark, even every animal of the earth. I will establish my covenant with you; neither will all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither will there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.’" God said, ‘This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth'” (Genesis 9:9-13).
Clearly up until then it only rained at night.
Pete :-) Moderator of: Exploring Belief Systems, God, & Spirituality
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