With Jehovah you will find help. May your blessing come upon your people!
Psalm 3:9
Jesus lifted up his hands and blessed them.
Luke 24:50
Blessing and being blessed
Today's Bible verses are about God's blessing. While fleeing from his son Absalom, David wrote this psalm, which ends with the words: “May your blessing come upon your people!” The last thing on David's mind was not his protection and the defeat of his enemies, but that God would bless his people. I think we can learn something from this.
As I understand it, blessing is a unilateral act of the one who blesses. The special thing about it is that you bestow something on a person without any preconditions. So there is nothing manipulative about it. For example, the priest Aaron was to bless the people with the following words: “May Jehovah bless you and keep you; may Jehovah make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; may Jehova lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. (Numbers 6:24-26) This blessing spoke to people regardless of how they were behaving.
When Jesus Christ sent out his disciples, he gave them the following instruction: “When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace be to this house!’ If anyone there is ready to receive the peace you bring, peace will remain on him; but if not, peace will return to you.” (Luk 10:5-6) So blessing goes to all, but it does not remain on all. However, it certainly remained with the disciples after Jesus had blessed them shortly before his ascension. We read something about this in the teaching text. And certainly the blessing that has been or will be pronounced on us also remains on us, if it is worth anything to us.
It is remarkable that we Christians are also called upon to bless. The letter to the Romans says: “Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary: Bless! For to this end God has called you, that you may inherit his blessing.” (1 Peter 3:9) This is certainly not the first reaction when you are insulted. But it is precisely here that it becomes clear that we belong to Jesus Christ. May God help us in this.
"Read up on the "covfefe" issue:
Meaning 1:
Cov(id 19) + twice ferritin. Adrenochrome consumption produces (extremely) excessive amounts of iron in the blood and constant loss of autologous blood - hence the anemic faces. Ferritin is also elevated in cases of inflammation in the body and in certain blood disorders, which are said to occur more frequently in the Mediterranean region. Covid-19 has been manipulated so that it triggers severe symptoms when ferritin levels are high (inflammatory reaction). Children have less ferritin in their blood and therefore remain symptom-free. The simple and inexpensive hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) leads to immediate relief of Covid symptoms in normal people, but is fatal in adrenochrome junkies because of their excessively porous blood vessel walls.
Meaning 2:
CO+V+Fe+Fe = chem. Abbreviation for cobalt, vanadium; iron, ferrous.
As a compound in metal, it creates a magnet that not only renders 5G radiation harmless, for example, but is even said to transform it into a healing (Tesla) system."
"[Wisdom] is a tree of life to those who grasp it." - Prov. 3:18.
Do you cherish the fact that you are alive? Have you ever thought about what a precious commodity life is? Parents pass it on to their children, and the combinations of traits and characteristics that are transmitted are of a tremendous variety because of the possibilities offered by the arrangement of genes. A long chain of circumstances that influenced your ancestors has led to your coming into existence. You should really be grateful for this, because if, for example, your father or mother or grandfather or grandmother had chosen a different spouse, you would never have been born. Or if your mother had conceived at a different time, she would have given birth to a different child, not you.
Jehovah is the source of life and the giver of life. (Ps. 36:9) He gave Adam and Eve, who were directly created by him, the ability to pass on life to their children. According to John 1:13, the apostle John points out that people are born according to the "will of the flesh", according to the will of their parents. Accordingly, they are not brought forth as individuals predestined by God, nor is God directly involved in the conception and birth of children. Time and circumstances determine the combinations of factors in the fertilized egg. Therefore, one should cherish being alive.
Jehovah attaches great importance to life. He is the happy God, and He also wants others to be happy. (1 Tim. 1:11) He rejoices when he sees others enjoying life. He therefore gives life to others for a purpose, and in his eyes it is very important that life is used properly. If people do not waste their lives on meaningless pursuits, but live as God would have them live, He will give them eternal life.
WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR LIFE
To maintain the body, we must constantly breathe, drink and eat. But much more is needed to stay alive. What is it? Well, man is the only earthly creation of God, created in God's image and likeness. (Genesis 1:26, 27) In contrast to the "mindless animals", man possessed the sublime qualities of love, justice, wisdom and other divine attributes. (2 Peter 2:12) He possessed spiritual abilities. He could reflect on why he had been created; he could learn more about his relationship with God, and the more he knew about God, the more the excellent qualities God had given him deepened in him.
Also, man's ability to acquire a knowledge of God in order to progress spiritually and religiously was unlimited, and God would have provided him with these necessary things from the immeasurable abundance of His treasury for all eternity. In this way, man would have been filled more and more with God's Spirit and wisdom. - Rom. 11:33-36.
The way man was made, he constantly needed spiritual strength from Jehovah to stay alive. He needed the spiritual connection with God. Even a perfect man could not live without spiritual food, even if all his material needs were met. When a person takes in spiritual food, God also provides him with material things, just as he provided Adam and Eve with them. - Genesis 1:29; 2:9; Matthew 6:33.
Bible readers know that Adam did not maintain his intimate relationship with God by remaining obedient and continuing to increase in wisdom and further his interest in spiritual things, but that he severed his connection with God and thereby brought sin and death upon mankind. (Rom. 5:12) However, God did not abandon his purpose with mankind. He will do for obedient people what he has set out to do. For this reason he had the Bible written, and for this reason he sent his Son as a sacrifice for the benefit of all who would serve him. - Rom. 5:8.
I ascend to my Father and your Father and my God and your God.
God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying out: Abba, Father!
📖 John 20:17; Galatians 4:6
Jesus Christ dies on the cross, is laid in a tomb and rises from the dead on the third day. When Mary Magdalene, "from whom he had cast out seven demons", comes to the tomb early in the morning, she sees the stone rolled away. She weeps because she thinks that someone has taken her Lord away. Then Jesus appears to her and tells her: "Go to my brothers and say to them: I am ascending to my Father and your Father and my God and your God" (John 20:1-17; Mark 16:9).
The Jews knew God as Father, as Creator and Protector, as the source of everything. But no Jew spoke of Him as "his Father". A Christian who has accepted Jesus Christ and thus acquired the right to become a child of God may address the great Creator God as Father. He may know that the Father of the Lord Jesus is now also his Father and may now say "Abba, Father" through the Holy Spirit.
Such a close relationship between God and man is unique in the world: in Islam, Allah is ultimately an unapproachable, distant God. And in Hinduism and Buddhism, there is not even a personal God.
But only those who have a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ can call Him their Father; those who know that God is not just a Father, but their Father. This heavenly Father loves His children with the same love with which He loves His Son Jesus Christ. Unimaginable - but true! (1 John 1:3; John 16:27; 17:26)
Be "of sound mind" as the new order approaches
"But the end of all things is at hand. Therefore be of sound mind." - 1 Peter 4:7.
Innumerable proofs indicate that a new order is near. An examination of the present world order also reveals that there has never been a time like ours. For the first time in history, all man-made systems are in crisis. No matter which of the many systems of the present order you look at, each shows signs of serious trouble: political systems, religious systems, social systems, police systems, school systems, transportation systems, monetary systems - indeed, the list of systems currently in crisis is almost endless. Even the most important things, such as air, water and food, are now seriously threatened.You could compare the current order to an old building whose foundations are full of cracks and whose beams and girders are brittle and rotten. You can freshen up such a dilapidated building with lots of paint or decorate it artistically and furnish it with new furniture, but nothing can give it the strength it needs to stand for any length of time. No matter how much is done to remove and cover up the serious cracks in the present structure of human society, nothing can prevent what Jesus said from happening: "A house divided against itself will fall down." - Luk 11:17.
The most accurate and convincing proof that a new order is near, however, is provided by the promises and prophecies of the Word of God, the Bible. The biblical prophecies point not only to the present moral decay and disregard for truth and justice that have led to the worldwide crisis in which the present order finds itself, but also to God's express purpose to remove all these present systems within "this generation" in an incomparably "great tribulation" and then to establish His own order, an order with new systems that will be based on justice, on love for God and on love for neighbor. - Matt. 24:21, 33, 34; Rev. 7:14-17.
"There [are] new heavens and a new earth, which we expect according to his promise, and righteousness will dwell in them." (2 Peter 3:13) The "promise" to which the apostle Peter refers here can be found in the Hebrew Scriptures, in Isaiah 65:17. Bible scholars have long recognized that the "heavens" and "earth" mentioned here are to be understood symbolically. For example, a commentary in M'Clintock and Strong's Cyclopædia (vol. IV, pp. 122-127) reads: "By the new heavens and new earth mentioned in Isa. LXV [65], 17, is meant a new government, a new kingdom, a new people ..."
This means a new order. After God's kingdom under his Son will have eliminated all enemies of God's sovereignty, it will ensure that God's will is done on the whole earth according to the request in the well-known Lord's prayer or Our Father. (Matth. 6:1 This "kingdom of heaven" will thus form the "new heavens" through which humanity will then be directed and guided. The new earthly society, which will consist of those who survive into the new order, will not have to suffer from the imperfect, unsatisfactory and profit-hungry systems that cause so much trouble and disappointment and create so many dangers today. It will be built on righteousness, and its new systems will be guided by the heavenly government to which it is subject.