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Abraham and Melchizedek

link to study Video Priests # God creates Eden in which he places humans to be his royal image - priests. God sets humans up to receive his blessing but humans choose their own way. The promise is for a priest and a sacrifice to come in Jesus. God chooses Abraham and Sarah as the first royal priesthood as they are chosen by God to bless all the nations. Melchizedek # A priestly king of Salem. Melchizedek recognizes Yahweh as the God of gods - Abraham tithes to him and that’s about the end of the story Salem is ancient short name for Jerusalem. Abraham’s tithe to Melchizedek is just like the Israelite call to tithe to the Levites (priests) to support them. Royal Family # Abraham and Sarah are promised their own children but they take amtters into their own hands by scheming with Hagar. Eventually Sarah is given her own son, Issac, who God then calls for his life as a test of Abraham - it represents God challenging Abraham to trust him with his own promise, and to not go his own way with…

❯ find . -name “requirements.in” -print0 | xargs -0 sh -c ‘for arg in “$@”; do echo “awscli” »"$arg"; done’

Tree of Life

Video Eden # Biblical story begins in a garden, which is presented as a type of Temple. The top (center) is the Tree of Life, which represents God’s life and creative power. Humans were supposed to eat from the Tree of Life but there’s another tree, the Tree of Knowledge of “good” and “bad” which represents assuming the authority to define good and bad for one’s own life rather than trusting God’s defintion. Human eat of that tree and are thus exiled from the garden. Burning Bush # Moses meets God at a burning tree, a plant on a mountain radiating with God’s power just like the Tree of Life. Yahweh charges Moses to bring the same choice to the Israelites that Adam and Eve had, which is to trust God or define morality for themselves. Jesus # Jesus announced that God’s eternal life is available through him now - originally in Eden given through the Tree of Life. Jesus invites other people to “eat of him” to be transformed by God’s own life. The invitation is the same to trust Yahweh or n…

Shalom and Peace

study link Peace Note generally means absnese of war In Hebrew the word is (Greek: Eirene). Basic biblical meeting of Shalom is “complete” or “whole”. ie. a stone with no cracks, or stone wall with nogaps or missing grips References a complex situation with nothing missing Shalom can refer to a person’s well-being… Life is complex and when anything is out of alignment our Shalom breaks down and needs to be restored To bring shalom is to make complete or restore In Proverbs, to reconcile a broken relationship is to make shalom Isaiah # Isaiah 9:6-7 6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. 7 There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness From then on and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will…

I use Tmux and Vim for most of my workflow, but I end up with a lot of dangling tmux sessions that dont’ really need to persist… but killing them one at a time is a pain so I wrote a little script-kitty nonsense to pipe multiple choices from fzf into tmux kill-session

I defined a little function in my .zshrc

destroy() { 
    tmux list-sessions -F '#{session_name}' | fzf -m | xargs -d $'\n' sh -c 'echo "killing $0"; tmux kill-session -t "$0"; for arg;do echo "killing $arg";tmux kill-session -t "$arg"; done'
}
bindkey -s '^d' 'destroy \n'

tmux list-sessions -F '#{session_name}' prints all my active tmux sessions to the console with the format of just their name

pype.dev   main   ×1 via   v3.8.11(pype.dev)  on  (us-east-1) proxy
❯ tmux list-sessions -F '#{session_name}'
session-01
session-02
session-03
...

Pipe that to fzf -m to allow multiple choices to be made using tab

Then the nasty bit in xargs… I echo killing @0 and killing $arg because the sh -c passes the first tmux session name to @0 (it’s just what bash does) and then the rest get handled in the for loop.

Basically then I get an fzf list to choose multiple tmux sessions to destroy to clean up some RAM!

078 Silent Years - Essenes

link to presentation Hellenism During the “silent years” Hellenism was on the rise, even among several Jewish circles. Essenes Another Jewish group (like Pharisees, Herodians, etc.) with a lot of debate surrounding them. They were largely men, maybe a few women (which is confusing), that were largely driven by priests. They claim God has abandoned the system the corrupt Pharisees had come to adopt and so they went out into the desert (very sepratist) and basically just prepared for the end times. They condemned the Temple system - because of the corruption - however some Essenes continued to serve in the Temple because they felt they couldn’t abandon God’s calling on their lives Scripture # Quote 16  Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Je 6:16). (2016). Crossway Bibles. Dead Sea Scrolls # Es…
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077 Silent Years - Herodians

Herodians show up twice in the Gospels, Josephus talks about them a bit as well. There is a lot of hsitorical debate that surrounds the Herodians. Like Republicans and Democracts meant one thing in American history, but those positions and words mean something different today - the same is true in history, and with Herodians. They were believed to be the political party, however formal, to be alligned with Kind Herod. We are also, presently, very hellenistic and even herodian. We are into the luxury, we like convenience, we have entertainment/theaters. There’s nothing wrong with luxury, entertainment, plumbing, wealth, etc… The Saducees misused Hellenism to their own detrement - they turned amoral Hellenism into a worldview that pushed Yahweh out of the center and put human and self into the center of the worldview Herodians toed the line between reluctantly becoming hellenistic and corrupting their worship with hellenism Warning I am (hopefully reluctantly) hellenistic as well… Embrac…
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076 Silent Years - Sadducees

Link to presentation Sadducees Often we in the modern time totally conflate Sadducees and Pharisees but they are as Republicans and Democrats today… very much not the same Origin # Back in the Davidic kingdom they are the group that sought to restore the priesthood by way of lineage. A goal was figuring out who the High Priest was. Lots are cast and Zaddok is chosen at some point - his line becomes the Jesus-era Saducees. They are the (Hebrew pronounciation) which when somwhat anglosized becomes. Hasmonean # During Seleucids destruction of the Temple the Maccabeans revolt and expel Selecuis and Ptolemies. The Hasmonean kingdom follows this, which are priests that the Maccabeans turned the kingdom over to in an effort to be ‘people of the text’ Hasmoneans are 7 famlies that have descended from Zaddok. Over the course of 2-3 decades they become entirely Hellenistic. These ones are known in the Gospels as the which is a different group than The Chief Priests are a corrupt religious Mafia…
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075 Silent Years - Welcome to Hellenism

Hellenism For the first time in history, Greeks redefined worldfiew to be cenetered around the individual. Prior to Hellenism, worldviews centered around pleasing the gods had his own gospel (εὐαγγέλιον - euangelion: predates biblical authors. “Good news to share” as an idea is not uniquely biblical) He conqoured the world, not with a huge army but with 4 things: Education Healthcare Entertainment Athletics These 4 things pull on basically all people’s values, Andrew the Great used them to control people… Education - control what people know Healthcare - make people dependent on the state’s provision Entertainment - control what people do with their time (theater was invented in this time) Athletics - similar to entertainment - this becomes a pillar of culture Jewish History Post-Alexander the Great’s death # 4 rulers take over the Greek kingdom Synichus? Seleucis Ptolemy Ptolemy rules the Jewish region # Leadership style - very Hellenistic Some Jews dove in, others remained faithful t…
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