Tuesday, August 19, 2014

"Then came to him his mother and his brethren" - A Miracle of Reverberation




A Miracle of the Evening Sun on a River around Tokyo



A Miracle of Reverberation

This evening I spotted two bright circles, one large and another small, on the surface of a river running through a city.

It must be reflection of the sun light, but I wondered how the rays came and fell on the surface of the river.  While I was watching them, they gradually came to lose their intensity to vanish finally.

Then I remembered the episode that Moses met God through fire in a bush.
And then a wonderful thing occurred. One day as Moses was watching the sheep, his attention was attracted to a bush which seemed to be on fire. He went closer to the bush, and noticed that while flames were leaping up from it, the bush itself was not being destroyed by the fire. Moses saw at once that this was no ordinary fire. Then he heard a voice speaking to him, telling him to take off his shoes because he was standing on holy ground. You see God was there with him, only he didn't know it then.
But soon he realized who was speaking to him. It was the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob. This was no stranger, then, who spoke to Moses from the burning bush. Moses' mother, as we have learned, had told him about this wonderful God who had made promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It was the God of the Hebrews, and therefore Moses' God, who was speaking to him.
God said to Moses that the time had come for the Israelites, Moses' people, who were also God's people, to be delivered from their slavery in Egypt. He also told Moses that he was the one to lead the people out of Egypt. Forty years before this Moses was very brave when he killed that Egyptian. But now it was different. He now told God that he didn't think he would be able to do such a great work.
Of course, Moses could not do it by himself. That is just what God wanted him to learn; so God told Moses that he would give him all the help he needed. He told him that he would arrange for his brother Aaron to go with him when he appeared before Pharaoh, and that Aaron, who was a good talker, would speak for Moses.

http://www.heraldmag.org/promises/moses.htm
But, for what did God sent such a message of reverberation to me today?

For example, major incidents of today in history are as follow:
43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul. 
1934 – The creation of the position Führer is approved by the German electorate with 89.9% of the popular vote. 
1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine. 
2003 – A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children, in the Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing. 
2009 – A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others. 
2010 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_19

Maybe incidents in Ukraine, Gaza, Northern Iraq, and Ferguson, Missouri, might be related to this miracle as many people are dying and suffering today in those areas.




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Luk 8:19 Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press.
Luk 8:20 And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.
Luk 8:21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.