VERY RECENTLY, ABOUT A WEEK AGO, A MINISTER I KNOW IN HIS SERMON, POO-HOOD "GREEN" TECHNOLOGY WHILE CLAIMING GOD TEACHES WE SHOULD USE OIL AND NATURAL GAS FROM DEEP DOWN IN THE EARTH---- HE USED DUET. 32: 13 TO TRY AND PROVE HIS POINT.
VERSE 13 ALSO SAYS--- "....AND HE MADE HIM SUCK HONEY OUT OF THE ROCK AND OIL OUT OF THE FLINTY ROCK."
THE VERSE ALSO TALKS ABOUT MAKING HIM RIDE ON THE HIGH PLACES OF THE EARTH; THAT HE MIGHT EAT THE INCREASE OF THE FIELDS.
THIS IS ALL IN THE CONTEXT OF DOING WELL IN THE LAND ISRAEL WAS TO POSSES---- A LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY.
NO ONE LITERALLY THINKS ANYONE CAN SUCK HONEY OUT OF ROCKS, OR BLACK OIL FROM FLINTY ROCK.
HERE IS THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER FROM THE OLD PROTESTANT BIBLE COMMENTARY BY ADAM CLARKE-----
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"HE MADE HIM TO RIDE...YARKIBEHU....HE WILL CAUSE HIM TO RIDE. ALL THE VERBS HERE ARE IN THE FUTURE TENCE, BECAUSE THIS IS A PROPHECY OF THE PROSPERITY THEY SHOULD POSSES IN THE PROMISED LAND. THE ISRAELITES WERE TO RIDE ---EXULT, ON THE HIGH PLACES, THE MOUNTAINS AND HILLS OF THEIR LAND IN WHICH THEY ARE PROMISED THE HIGHER DEGREE OF PROSPERITY; AS EVEN THE ROCKY PARTS OF THE COUNTRY SHOULD BE RENDERED FERTILE BY THE PECULIAR BENEDICTION OF GOD.
SUCK HONEY OUT OF THE ROCK, AND OIL OUT OF THE FLINTY ROCK.
THIS PROMISE STATES THAT EVEN THE MOST BARREN PLACES IN THE COUNTRY SHOULD YIELD AN ABUNDANCE OF AROMATIC-FLOWERS FROM WHICH THE BEES SHOULD COLLECT HONEY IN ABUNDANCE, AND EVEN THE TOPS OF THE ROCKS AFFORD SUFFICIENT SUPPORT FOR OLIVE TREES, FROM THE FRUIT OF WHICH THEY SHOULD EXTRACT OIL IN ABUNDANCE; AND ALL THIS SHOULD BE OCCASIONED BY THE PECULIAR ACT GOD WOULD BRING UPON THE LAND."
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THIS WAS A PROPHECY FOR ISRAEL WHEN IN THE LAND OF PROMISE---- IT HAD EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE FRUITFUL BOUNTY OF THE LAND ISRAEL WOULD INHERIT.
THE CONTEXT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THOUSANDS OF YEARS LATER AND GETTING OIL FROM DEEP DOWN IN THE EARTH; HENCE, THAT WAS FROM THE MIND OF MAN, AS ALSO WAS HOW HE USED IT, TO EVENTUALLY POLLUTE THE WORLD, CAUSE CLIMATE CHANGE [LIKE CRAZY CRAZY WEATHER IN MANY PARTS OF THE EARTH] AND RISE THE LEVEL OF THE SEAS, TO TAKE LAND, VILLAGES, TOWNS, INTO THE SEA, AS SOME ARE NOW EXPERIENCING.
GOD WAS NOT THE AUTHOR OF TELLING US, ISRAEL NATIONS AND OTHERS, TO GO DOWN INTO THE EARTH FOR OIL AND NATURAL GAS. GOD WAS NOT THE AUTHOR OF AUTOMOBILES, TRAINS, PLANES, ETC. THAT POLLUTE OUR SKIES TO PRODUCE GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE.
GOD IN THIS VERSE WAS LOOKING FOR ISRAEL TO MOVE INTO THE PROMISED LAND, AND TELLING THEM THEY COULD EXPECT TO BE PHYSICALLY BLESSED IN MANY AND ALL WAYS, AS THEY OBEYED HIM---- OBEDIENCE = PROSPERITY IN ALL WAYS; DIS-OBEDIENCE = CURSES IN ALL WAYS AND DEATH. CLEARLY SHOWN IN THE LAST CHAPTERS OF DEUTERONOMY.
VERSE 13 WAS A PROSPERITY BLESSING IN WAYS THAT AT FIRST MIGHT SEEM IMPOSSIBLE; GOD WOULD MAKE IT POSSIBLE!
TO TRY AND APPLY THIS VERSE TO OUR MODERN DAY AND WAYS, IS MAKING THE BIBLE SAY WHAT YOU WANT IT TO SAY! YA SOME ATHEISTS HAVE SAID, "O YOU CAN MAKE THE BIBLE SAY WHAT YOU WANT IT TO SAY"....... AND THIS VERSE USED BY THAT MINISTER SURE PROVES THE ATHEISTS CORRECT.
A FULL ADMITTANCE OF WRONG UNDERSTANDING AND INTERPRETATION, SHOULD COME FORTH FROM THAT MINISTER; BUT HUMBLENESS IS NOT EASY TO FIND ANY MORE; CERTAINLY THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND PROTESTANT CHURCHES HAVE VERY VERY LITTLE OF IT; SADLY IT IS ALSO NOT FOUND VERY MUCH WITHIN GOD'S PEOPLE EITHER----- THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA [LAST CHURCH OF REVELATION 2 AND 3,] IS ALIVE AND WELL.
Keith Hunt
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