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One other thought: Friday nite - as a remembrance to the crucifixion, which was prior to the great Shabbat - Shabbat Hagadol, the Shabbat before Passover, and being Christian, it is a time to reflect any way and then to attend mass on Sunday. What a great three day weekend to spend this time in prayer and reflection, and to light the Shabbat candle. Even to reflect on the birth of Christ. You know I reflect on a part of scripture that reads, “41As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it 42and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace (ushering in peace) — but now it is hidden from your eyes.” -
You know, when we pray and ask God for help - we ask to be taken out of something or to help us…whatever you prayer for, believe. As to equivalate this, would be to read Nehemiah 9, by asking God to come to assist us - “God has sent many saviors to His people”, but if our eyes are not open to his saviors it could be by passed,as we should ask God to open our eye to the salvation, his savior. The only way that I know to associate this, was to read the 2 Maccabees 3 May he give you all a heart to worship him and to do his will with a generous mind and a willing spirit.4 May he open your hearts to his Law and his precepts, and give you peace. 5 May he hear your prayers and be reconciled with you, and not abandon you in time of evil." - meaning may he open your hearts (plural) to his Law and his precepts - mind and heart (to the understandings of the Law - as well as to his redemption) and reading from, Deuteronomy 29 “Your eyes have seen all that the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials and to all his land. 3 With your own eyes you saw those great trials, those signs and great wonders. 4 But to this day the LORD has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear.”
As these verses can apply to any individual who goes to God for help - or to assist them, as He can open our own eyes to His time of our salvation and redemption, we can as blind as bats to it. Remember, in Genesis, Beer Lahai Roi - “You are the God who sees me,”
You know, when we pray and ask God for help - we ask to be taken out of something or to help us…whatever you prayer for, believe. As to equivalate this, would be to read Nehemiah 9, by asking God to come to assist us - “God has sent many saviors to His people”, but if our eyes are not open to his saviors it could be by passed,as we should ask God to open our eye to the salvation, his savior. The only way that I know to associate this, was to read the 2 Maccabees 3 May he give you all a heart to worship him and to do his will with a generous mind and a willing spirit.4 May he open your hearts to his Law and his precepts, and give you peace. 5 May he hear your prayers and be reconciled with you, and not abandon you in time of evil." - meaning may he open your hearts (plural) to his Law and his precepts - mind and heart (to the understandings of the Law - as well as to his redemption) and reading from, Deuteronomy 29 “Your eyes have seen all that the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials and to all his land. 3 With your own eyes you saw those great trials, those signs and great wonders. 4 But to this day the LORD has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear.”
As these verses can apply to any individual who goes to God for help - or to assist them, as He can open our own eyes to His time of our salvation and redemption, we can as blind as bats to it. Remember, in Genesis, Beer Lahai Roi - “You are the God who sees me,”