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It
"came to be"
would be a
better translation. Now "with-
out form and void" is the
English translated from the
Hebrew words 'tohu' and
'bohu,' and that means cha-
otic, in confusion, waste and
empty, a condition of decay.
That is not a newly created
condition at all. A thing
doesn't become decayed when
it is first made, or first created,
or first brought into being. It
comes to be decayed later.
Then you have to go to the
14th chapter of Isaiah,
the
28th of Ezekiel;
and you
have to go into
II Peter 2
and verse 4;
and you have to
go into many other Scriptures
in the Bible to begin to learn
WHY it had become that way
and what had happened. Many
other Scriptures fit in there
before you even get to the next
verse.
Now that's the way the Bible
is. If you are going to under-
stand the Bible, you are going
to have to read it like that. You
have to find a part here, a part
there, and a part somewhere
else that fits into the Bible --
clear into the beginning in
Genesis or any other part of
the Bible.
Now again you must put the
Bible together -- every verse
that modifies it, or describes
it, or goes along with it and fits
in with it like a jigsaw puzzle,
one piece fitting next to
another. You must get every
other Scripture in its context;
and not put a different mean-
ing on it because you can take
a certain part of a Scripture, a
whole sentence or a part of a
sentence, and make it mean
something else.
That is like the old preacher (I
almost called him the Method-
ist preacher, but I'm not sure
he was a Methodist. He might
have been Presbyterian, Bap-
tist, or something else.) back
in the time of our great, great
grandmother's about. In other
words, this probably was back
in the latter part of the 19th
Century, and we are living in
the 20th Century.
There was a new fad in
women's hairdo. (I think
you've heard me tell this
before, but I know it has been
some time.) The younger girls
had a new hairdo. They were
doing their hair up and rolling
it around in a top knot, just
slightly forwards in the middle
of the top of their head.
Now frankly I've seen women's
hair done that way; and I don't
like it very well. I don't think
it's very beautiful; and so you
don't see many women doing
it that way today, because I
think they don't think it is very
beautiful either. And you know
a woman's hair is really her
glory physically, and a woman
can just change her whole
appearance by changing the
way she does her hair.
As I say, usually you don't see
any two women who do their
hair up the same way. Well, I
think every woman should do
it the way that is more becom-
ing for her and it fits her face
better; and I guess that's what
most of them do, and that's
alright.
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Philadelphia Remnant Jul/ Aug/ Sept 2013