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I hope you are doing well. I received a note today about the world being weary. It's from looking around and seeing all that's going on, and sometimes it makes you heartbroken. All the sorrow, sickness, and fear. It can bring any person to hopelessness if you let it.
Then I read my Bible. I remember the promises of JESUS, and all that HE has accomplished. I had been looking a bit lately into Judas and JESUS and all the “doubles” in the Bible. Not because they are the same, but what they represent. Judas is the scapegoat. Its meaning is, “to go quickly”. JESUS says, "What you do, do it quickly." Both go outside the camp and one carries guilt and the other shame. They are brought together in the body of JESUS on the Cross. In The Book of Isaiah it says for your shame and confusion you shall receive double. This is also talked about in The Book of Revelation. “Give her (*Babylon) double for her sins.”
Many would say, “Well, this is ‘give double punishment’!” It's not!
There was a well known practice about writing down debts, and it was called the "Possessing the Double." When someone was found to have debts they were written down and posted/nailed for all to see. Now if by chance someone, like a near kinsman, would come along and maybe pay the debt for that person, they would then take the parchment and fold it in half (double it over), write their name on the outside, and hide the debt within. All anyone could then see was the person's name who took the debt instead. When the debt was paid that deed was torn.
This has so many beautiful connections in the Cross and with us.
This is why you see JESUS bend over and write twice in the dirt. The woman's crime and then HIS name…
You see in the CROSS, “Love GOD and Love your neighbour.” And above the CROSS, HIS NAME, on the outside of that folded debt, hidden in the body of HIS own flesh, and the double-veil then torn in two.
In The Book of Revelation is the deed written on the inside and without, the OUTSIDE. HIS NAME is on the Outside.
I will get into how this can be a Revelation and relate to time, times, and the dividing of time, but that can be for another time, lol!
JESUS is so amazing!
Have a wonderful day and GOD BLESS.
Pamela Way
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