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Date Posted: 21:03:10 03/19/11 Sat
Author: George
Subject: Re: daily lenten scripture readings: monday march 21, 2011.
In reply to: john 's message, "daily lenten scripture readings: monday march 21, 2011." on 18:19:32 03/18/11 Fri

>daily lenten scripture readings: monday march 21, 2011.
(to avoid this being interpreted as "spewing scripture," I have come to John's rescue with commentary.
>
>Psalm 128
>
>A song of ascents.

If people are singing happily while (knowingly or unknowingly) digging themselves into a hole, wouldn't that give cause to call their psalmody "a song of descents?">

>1 Blessed are all who fear the LORD,
>who walk in his ways.
>2 You will eat the fruit of your labor;
>blessings and prosperity will be yours.

That is, unless you live in a country run by Christian socialists. Then everyone else will eat the fruit of your labor. The Psalmist didn't know anything about socialism. Because those days were an unenlightened time, he probably would have mistaken socialists for thieves.

>3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
>within your house;
>your sons will be like olive shoots
>around your table.

(Unless, of course, your wife is another man. I hated to say it, but the CofC has made it necessary. The NIV was translated by evangelicals who, even today, are such backward primitives that they don't believe in or support "alternate lifestyles.")

>
>4 Thus is the man blessed
>
>who fears the LORD.
>
>5 May the LORD bless you from Zion

Since the "needs of a growing church" require reinterpretation for modern circumstances, it appears that, for us in modern times, this means that the further you are from "the" earthly Zion in Independence, or SLC, or Rome, the more blessed you are.

all the days of your life;
may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem,
6 and may you live to see your children's children.
Peace be upon Israel.
>
>Psalms 128:1-6 (NIV)
>

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The serpent on the pole --

Mamusz, 22:02:22 03/19/11 Sat

Re: The serpent on the pole -- George, 00:10:03 03/20/11 Sun

Re: The serpent on the pole --

Mamusz, 10:48:38 03/20/11 Sun

Re: The serpent on the pole -- George, 22:14:38 03/20/11 Sun