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Login SignupThe book of Hosea is the first time that we can see the beautiful metaphor of relationship between G-d and his people , as the love of a man to his wife. In the third chapter there is a description of two situations in this relationship: The first was in the days of the prophet, the days of treason, the days when the people of Israel looked for other gods and G-d; The second are the days in the future when there is going to be love in the air as written in Hosea 3:1-5-
One of the beautiful sentences that I have learned is that G-d gave us one mouth and two ears. One mouth to speak less and two ears to hear more. This is a Greek sentence that shows the element of tolerance and being attentive are good qualities for us.
In Exodus 24 there is a covenant between G-d and the people of Israel. After the Ten Commandments and the first laws they received from G-d, this is the time to say – we are obligated to you G-d, as we can see in the next verse:
The influence of G-d on the nature can be seen a lot of time in the Bible. If G-d wants to create an earthquake, it is not a problem to him. He controls all the nature. When the people of Israel needed to cross the red sea, G-d divided it by two, as written in Exodus 14:21-
” וַיֵּט מֹשֶׁה אֶת-יָדוֹ, עַל-הַיָּם, וַיּוֹלֶךְ יְהוָה אֶת-הַיָּם בְּרוּחַ קָדִים עַזָּה כָּל-הַלַּיְלָה, וַיָּשֶׂם אֶת-הַיָּם לֶחָרָבָה; וַיִּבָּקְעוּ, הַמָּיִם”
“Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD swept the sea back by a strong east wind all night and turned the sea into dry land, so the waters were divided”
The end of Micah is one of my favorite endings in a book that appears in the Old Testament. When I read it the first time, I understood that the water has more functions in the Bible than we know. Usually when we think about water, we can imagine the summer, the ocean, the sun. However, in the Bible water is a sign for belief, a symbol for the power of G-d when he is angry (flood or drought) and also has the significance of knowledge as we can see in Isaiah 11:9.
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