Psalm 15
This Psalm starts with asking who may live in the house of God and live on his holy mountain - in other words who are God's neighbours?
The description of these people is actually rather nice - it would be a whole lot nicer if I saw myself in this description a bit more clearly!
The one whose walk is blameless, who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from the heart,
Whose tongue utters no slander who do no wrong to a neighbour and casts no slur on others.
Who despises an evil person, but honours those who fear the LORD.
Who keep an oath even when it hurts, and does not change their mind.
Who lends money to the poor at no interest, who does not accept a bribe against the innocent
Whoever does these things will never be shaken (and can live next door to God)
My thoughts now - or observations
When the law was given to Moses at Mount Sinai the Israelites were strictly ordered not to so much as set foot on the mountain, even an animal that strayed was to be killed.
People did live in the house of God - the temple and tabernacle before it - the priests on duty would stay there day and night.
The prophet Samuel was recorded as living in the tent of God
Sorry for the very poor quality of the upcoming joke - that I'm explaining it is probably going to kill it futher, but in the book of Revelation there is a beast whose number is 666 (the famous number of the beast) - is 668 the neighbour of the beast?
(note for non British people who may be reading this - in the UK a lot of streets have odd number houses on one side and even numbers on the other side - hence 668 rather than 667.)
You know I wish I hadn't bothered with that last bit ...........
This Psalm starts with asking who may live in the house of God and live on his holy mountain - in other words who are God's neighbours?
The description of these people is actually rather nice - it would be a whole lot nicer if I saw myself in this description a bit more clearly!
The one whose walk is blameless, who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from the heart,
Whose tongue utters no slander who do no wrong to a neighbour and casts no slur on others.
Who despises an evil person, but honours those who fear the LORD.
Who keep an oath even when it hurts, and does not change their mind.
Who lends money to the poor at no interest, who does not accept a bribe against the innocent
Whoever does these things will never be shaken (and can live next door to God)
My thoughts now - or observations
When the law was given to Moses at Mount Sinai the Israelites were strictly ordered not to so much as set foot on the mountain, even an animal that strayed was to be killed.
People did live in the house of God - the temple and tabernacle before it - the priests on duty would stay there day and night.
The prophet Samuel was recorded as living in the tent of God
Sorry for the very poor quality of the upcoming joke - that I'm explaining it is probably going to kill it futher, but in the book of Revelation there is a beast whose number is 666 (the famous number of the beast) - is 668 the neighbour of the beast?
(note for non British people who may be reading this - in the UK a lot of streets have odd number houses on one side and even numbers on the other side - hence 668 rather than 667.)
You know I wish I hadn't bothered with that last bit ...........
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