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Thank you Lord Jesus for your loving patience and for waiting for each of us till we came home

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I (Pastor Adrian) am working on my new book "The Kingdom of Heaven". I am currently studying the story of Ai and the consequences of killing the people of Jericho.

I put this table together showing how a breach was created and a curse followed in several stories

I found a great automatic audio editing website - auphonic.com!
It really fixed this presentation I did in Indonesia for Passover.

Originally, Alvin's voice was much softer than mine as he was further from the mic. But auphonic's free software leveled the voices, removed the hiss, and his voice is now as loud and clear as mine. Absolutely amazing.

They give 2 hours free a month, and I suggest everyone try it.

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I have been working on my latest book on Joshua and Judges and wanted to test my thought process on the use of Hebrew verbs and the commands or predictions of God. I had a very comprehensive conversation with Google Gemini about the question and while at first it was firm that the statements about killing the Canaanites are commands of God, it came to see that what I was saying was much more logically consistent than the underpinnings of Western Christianity. I put the conversation together in this booklet. It is an important conversation to keep in mind when discussing these questions.

Love this quote:

But in heaven, service is not rendered in the spirit of legality. When Satan rebelled against the law of Jehovah, the thought that there was a law came to the angels almost as an awakening to something unthought of. In their ministry the angels are not as servants, but as sons. There is perfect unity between them and their Creator. Obedience is to them no drudgery. Love for God makes their service a joy. So in every soul wherein Christ, the hope of glory, dwells, His words are re-echoed, “I delight to do Thy will, O My God: yea, Thy law is within My heart.” Psalm 40:8. MB 109.2

Some blessed thoughts this Sabbath day.

John 15:25 KJV
But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, "They hated me without a cause."

What verse was Jesus quoting here?

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
(Psalm 69:4)

What was it that Jesus restored that he took not away? Isn't the traditional view that humans sinned and thus God took away their eternal life? And that Jesus has to die to get it back for us?

But here it says He was not the one who took it away.

Also, it says those that would destroy Him are His enemies that hate Him. If God needed Jesus to die to be appeased, that would mean God is trying to destroy Jesus (because He needs Him to die to not be full of wrath), but that is not what the verse is saying.

We are His enemies wrongfully, it says. We are angry with God for taking away our eternal life, not realizing it is we have actually cut ourselves off through our choices. So we have misplaced anger; we are His enemies "wrongfully". And this Jesus paid the sacrifice that we desired, that we needed, and He "restored that which He did not take away".