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  9. The lion and honey Judges 15:16 『 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heels, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men. 』 Samson posed a riddle to the Philistines who were present at his wedding, and the Philistines, who could not find the answer, eventually succeeded in finding the answer by threatening Samson's wife. Accordingly, Samson gave the Philistines 30 linen clothes and 30 outer garments stolen from the residents of Ashkelon, as he had promised. Samson was so angry at this situation that he returned to his father's house, and his wife became the wife of Samson's friend who had come as a bridesmaid at Samson's wedding. The text takes place some time after that incident. Samson goes to his wife with a baby goat during the wheat harvest season and asks his father-in-law to let him into his wife's bedroom. Howe...

  God's work and man's work   God's work is to make people believe in the one sent from God (Christ). Peter confessed to Jesus, “ You are the Son of God, ” but suddenly rebelled against what Jesus said. In other words, you should not die. In Matthew 16:21-23, “ From that time began to Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised. ” again the third day. Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offense unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. 』 Because Peter did something like denying the work of God for a moment, Satan (the prosecutor) tried to indict Peter. At that moment, Jesus Christ defeats Satan to protect Peter. And Jesus rebuked Peter because he was thinki...

  8. Quail and manna   Exodus 16:13-14. And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. Quail symbolizes evening. Birds are unclean animals, meaning sin and death. However, Sherav has the meaning of mortal change. It signifies the change that comes to life when one dies to sin. In Romans 6:5 it says, “ For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: ” and in 6:7 it says, “ For he that is dead is freed from sin. ” Do it. So Sherav means that when the Word is fulfilled in the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit comes to them. The Holy Spirit covers Et Mahaneh (their camp). In the morning, there is dew around Mahane, and when the dew goes up to the sky, a small, round f...

  7.  Five of them were wise, and five were foolish   (Matthew 25:1-13) Then shall the   kingdom   of   heaven   be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the   marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward ...

Spiritual warfare   Spiritual warfare is an invisible war. Many people living in the world live with their own religion, and there may also be people who do not have a religion. However, among them, a significant portion of people have Christianity as their religion. If you ask these people about spiritual warfare, they will almost always say that it is Satan or an evil spirit.   Spiritual war, like physical war, is a state in which you will not be able to fight if you do not know how to identify enemies. If you do not know who you are in a spiritual war and who you are fighting against, you will lose the war.   When a person is born, passes through infancy and enters adolescence, he or she begins to develop self-consciousness. So, people come into contact with their identity. If you do not know your identity, you cannot engage in spiritual warfare. The self that everyone appears at birth is the physical self. This physical self is a collection of approximately se...

  A Nazarite and Jesus of Nazareth   Judges 13:1-5 『 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not. And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing: For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines. 』 In Numbers 6:5, if a man wanted to live as a Nazarite for a certain period of time, he could not cut his hair during that period. However, when he returned to normal life, he was able...