3:97, #591: Three and Thirty

Well, here it is, the end of another year on my particular calendar...this time 3 years that I've been Self Indulging and 30 that I've been tracking part of God's work in my prayer journals. Providentially as I start this entry, 'Child of God' is playing on my computer...one of my favorite anthems from days gone by in my walk along the Narrow Road. Well, here at this maybe mystical conjunction of 3s when I finished reading the Old Testament for the 23rd time and began Matthew at the time of the Christmas Season are some thoughts generated this morning:

If you doze off for a brief nap while reading the Bible, are you truly 'resting in the Lord?'

If Peter had a wife, deduced from the fact that Jesus healed his mother-in-law in Mark 1:30-34...howcome the Popes are supposed to be celibate bachelors? Oh, and what ever happened to Mrs. Saint Pete and her Mom? Did they become part of the Early Church's 'woman's auxiliary' who helped support Jesus in his three year walkabout?

When Jesus sent out the Twelve in Luke 9:1-10, how did he match them up? For years, I figured it would be Simon the Zealot with Matthew the Tax Collector just to teach them how to get along, given their opposite political views. So, I thought it through a bit this morning and came up with these combos: Simon Peter 'the stone'/Judas Iscariot 'the heart of stone,' John the Beloved/Thomas the Doubter, James son of Thunder who wanted to blast folks/Andrew Go Get Them who told people of Christ, Philip the Thick (who didn't realize Jesus and the Father are one in John 14)/Bartholomew (who is always pared up in the lists of the Apostles with Phil), & James son of Alphaeus/Thaddeus a.k.a. Judas son of James...basically because they are who are left.

This process made me wonder just who the 70 Sent Out were in Luke 10, but I don't think 70 others are mentioned by name, so I was not going to hurt my brain over this one. I guess we can find out in Heaven, if it's necessary.

Now, since it's The Noting of Jesus' Birth Season, it is significant that He was born 'on the wrong side of the tracks' in Israel....the only problem is that He was born long before the invention of railroads, so would that phrase have been valid, considering that Roman roads were full of chariot tracks? Just wondering...

When Satan took Jesus to the Temple pinnacle and to a high mountain in Matthew 4 to tempt Him, did they walk/climb or did His Infernal Majesty use some occult levitation powers to impress the One who made him in the first place? Oh, the point of that chapter, by the way, is not to answer my question, but to show Jesus' Divinity and sinlessness!!

Well, I think this is a long enough entry for the end of year #3 of Self Indulgent B.S....talk to you in Year #4!
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