Dovid Rosenfeld: In fact, the Sages state that we should not stare at a rainbow because it is tantamount to staring at God Himself (Talmud Hagigah 16a).
"I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple" (New International Version, Revelation 21:22 Multilingual).
Mexicano Deliman ignores mi; I follow him...Pinoy: Do you have figs?Mexican Babble.PINOY: ¿TIENES FIGS, SEE OH KKKNOW.Stuttering Mexicano: No
Avner Boskey: Whether the Jewish people are at home in their Promised Land, scattered in the Exile, or "comfortable in the Diaspora" as some would describe it, they are still distinct and different.
Through the distinctive separateness of the Jewish people, mankind would be delivered from sin and rebellion.
This separate identity is ongoing. And this separate and distinctive identity will be honored and respected by the nations who walk in obedience and belief (Zechariah 8:20-23). Here is where the blessing and cursing aspects of Genesis 12:3 come. For those non-Jews who are prepared to gladly receive this teaching and positional reality, there will be blessing and light. But for those Gentiles (even believers) who reject and disdain this teaching (this is the meaning of the first verb in Genesis 12:3 – meqalelecha means "the one who mocks/derides you, or treats you as a light and unimportant matter"), the results involve the withholding of spiritual and physical blessing along with resulting darkening of understanding.
He is sifting the nations based on their treatment of Israel, the apple of His eye. Israel His inheritance is not diluted or diminished by the future love and good fellowship between the reborn nations of Egypt, Assyria (northern Iraq) and Israel. They are still guided by and interpreted by the irrevocable and unchanging plumbline of the Jewish people.
גֹּוג֙ אֶ֣רֶץ הַמָּגֹ֔וג
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible: and ye be a great multitude; of which they boasted, and in which they trusted, being ten tribes to two, and in this army two to one:
נְחַ֣שׁ נְחֹ֔שֶׁת
Timofey Bordachev: In sum, the category of "international order" may soon follow "multipolarity" into conceptual obscurity. It will be talked about, invoked in speeches, and cited in academic papers – but it will no longer describe how the world truly works. We are moving into an age where power is distributed differently, where the mechanisms of control are less formalized, and where legitimacy is negotiated in real time rather than bestowed by inherited institutions.
נַ֥עַר קָטֹ֖ן נֹהֵ֥ג בָּֽם
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The Last Supper's Waiter: "And all Edom [2 Samuel 8:14 Multilingual] and Sedom became Servants of David bearing an Offering" (2 Samuel 8:2 Multilingual).
