Today, when mankind does stupid or evil stuff we tend to blame the Father for allowing us too. We see the Father reveal a plan and when He doesn’t act fast enough in their minds, they decide they must take matters into their own hands. Understanding comes when we turn that around and realize that just because a human did something, does not mean YHWH sanctioned it – even in the Bible.Īs I’ve said, the Bible does not whitewash our spiritual forefathers. The world teaches us to blame YHWH for things that we do, assuming that He was okay with what happened simply by the nature of it happening. One of the things I’ve noticed is that it can be natural for us, in the early stages of getting into the Word after being in the world, to question YHWH for allowing things to happen. Rabbit TrailsĪ note: Our group is very large and we are just now getting into the Word but have covered so much already. I appreciate y’all pointing this out and I have made a note on that post so future readers will know how I made my calculations.
Therefore, if you use a 365 day year in the formula instead, there would most assuredly be a ten day difference. I did my math based on a full Hebrew year, which would have been 355 days rather than 365. The difference here is in the formula used and I should have clarified that I was not using expected numbers. Bravo for testing it! A few folks noticed that my math was ten days off of their figures. Click here to read today’s passages on BibleGateway.Īddendum to notes: From this past week’s notes on Genesis 8-11, some eagle-eyed group members followed along with me and did the math on how long Noah and his family were in the ark.