JOTS FROM OLD JAKE
HUMOR:
Friday, Aug. 31, 2007 - 1:40 a.m.
Well does God have a sense of humor? I believe He does. We, being created in His image, also have the capacity to have a sense of humor. Listening to one of my favorite bible scholars on the internet, who also seems to have a sense of humor, stated after reading the following scripture: 1 Samuel 9:3 (KJV) And the asses of Kish Saul�s father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses. �The Israelites were looking for a king, Kish sent his son out to find his asses, and the asses of Israel were looking for him. They would soon get together!� I had to back the program up and listen to that again� that is after I quit laughing.
Some things that seem humorous to us now may not seem so funny during the occurrences.
As Moses was giving the Word of God to the Israelites before they went into the promise land, He told them that if they followed the commandments of God they would be blessed greatly, but if they did not follow his commandments he would curse them. One of the curses was �emerods� or hemorrhoids in today�s vernacular!
The first recording of emerods being placed on a people that I could find was when thePhilistines took the ark of God away from Israel. The Philistines put it next to one of their Idols, Dagon! The idol fell on its face that night. So they set it upright again and that night it fell on its face again but the palms of the hands and head were cut off. There was nothing standing but a stump. Not only was their god a stump but many men died and those who didn�t die got a sever case of emerods! This perplexed the Philies to no end. They started asking their spiritualists what to do. I can just feel their distain toward the God of Israel seeing their hunk of stump there to be worshiped from the magnificent image (in their eyes) they had made up. So of course they suggested that the Ark of God be given back to the Israelites. But not without sending something along with it. They thought of the nastiest thing they could send back with it� Namely images of emerods and images of mice all made of gold! Now I can only imagine in my minds eye just what the golden emerods looked like. The golden mice would not be hard to imagine. I am not quite sure what significance the mice had other than to consider their state of life as being very low.
Now the emerods is another thing. I am sure that they were supposed to be a message to the Israelites that they were a royal (gold) pain in the secret parts (emerods). True it was not funny back then but now we can chuckle about it a little� Or not!
VERSE FOR THIS ENTRY!
Psalms 130:1-4 (KJV) A Song of degrees. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
ULTERIOR WORDS OF WISDOM� OR/NOT!
I believe this entry already has enough humor for today� see above:
May you be filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit!
References from King James Version:
(1 Sam 5:1 KJV) And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.
(2) When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
(3) And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
(4) And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
(5) Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.
(6) But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
