Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Bread » Scarceness of, sent as a punishment
Famine » Expressed by » Taking away the stay of bread, &c
Food » From God
The right course is to abstain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything that is a stumbling-block to your Brother.
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Look at the wild birds--they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns; and yet your heavenly Father feeds them! And are not you more precious than they?
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and they discourage marriage and enjoin abstinence from certain kinds of food; though God created these foods to be enjoyed thankfully by those who hold the Faith and have attained a full knowledge of the Truth. Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully; for it is consecrated by God's blessing and by prayer.
Give us to-day the bread that we shall need;
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Through my union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am persuaded that nothing is 'defiling in itself.' A thing is 'defiling' only to him who holds it to be so.
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Jerusalem » Prophecies against
Jerusalem! Jerusalem! She who slays the Prophets and stones the messengers sent to her--Oh, how often have I wished to gather your children round me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not came!
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For a time is coming upon you when your enemies will surround you with earthworks, and encircle you, and hem you in on all sides;
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They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be taken prisoners to every land, and 'Jerusalem will be under the heel of the Gentiles,' until their day is over--as it shall be.
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