There's a reference to Aaron's rod, also the rod of Jesse which seems to me to be, in the most volatile manner possible, susceptible to gross misinterpretation. And it has been misinterpreted for millennia.
I read this in passing, on the destruction of WW2:
Hitler's bombers rained destruction upon London from the skies. Over 15,000 people lost their lives and many parts of the city were reduced to rubble. Yet when spring came, an amazing thing happened. Beautiful wildflowers, many of them thought extinct, sprang up in the midst of the devastation. Botanists concluded that the seeds had laid dormant under buildings and other structures until the bomb blasts exposed them and gave them the opportunity to germinate.
Decades ago, during my projectionist days, I vaguely recall a Czech movie in Super 8 on the destruction by war but more specifically, the raining down on any dissent, which brings us right into 2022/23 again. In that short film [maybe 10 minutes], every new stomping out of dissent only brought out more poppies, until the entire devastated landscape was covered by them.
There was a series of such films and once word got out that they were being projected, the available chairs were fully occupied.
The Hassidic nature of Isaiah the book can interpret Jesse's rod as a rod of wrath pointed at others, which is very much what Longrider was going on about. No one likes been preached at and lambasted. In the hands of the clumsy, not fully read-up, that can destroy years of seed planting in one year.
Jesse's rod, as far as I can see, is the story which appears in many early cultures about the rod of authority:
"And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots" (King James Version). From the Latin Vulgate Bible used in the Middle Ages: et egredietur virga de radice Iesse et flos de radice eius ascendet (Isaiah 11:1).
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction. [Proverbs 10:14]
The most important of the cities was Laodicea ad Lycum (near modern Denizli, Turkey); its church was one of the seven to which St. John addressed the Revelation. Laodicea ad Mare (modern Latakia, Syria) was a major seaport.What was the wrongdoing of the church there?
Laodicea minted its coins that bore the images of Zeus, Asclepius, Apollo, and later - the Roman emperors, from the 2nd century BC. In the Roman period, the city was famous for its bankers. Even the famous Roman orator and statesman, Cicero, used their services.
"the Americans turn colours the wrong way round": I am told that it wasn't "the Americans", it was introduced by one of their leading TV presenters who was himself Canadian. He did it specifically to avoid referring to the Dems as "red" in case people took the hint that they were tending to socialism.
ReplyDeleteAnyone here know whether that account is right?
Whatever. Interesting. Our American contingent are asleep just now. Maybe in a few hours.
DeleteI've heard variations of that and that CNN began doing that back in the '90's.
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