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What went wrong in the garden of Eden? Part 3, Genesis Chapter 3
GENESIS 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
The serpent was the most subtle and intelligent of the animals. As such the serpent was above the monkey and chimpanzee which are the most intelligent animals around today. The serpent could talk, argue and reason. Thus the serpent was the "missing link" between man and animal. Then God cursed the serpent, turning it into a snake. Thus there are no bones of the original serpent for scientists to discover. Since Darwin's "On the Origin of the Species" (which ironically tells us nothing about the origin of the species) was published around 1859, scientists have hunted high and low to find evidence of the "missing link". After spending millions on expensive expeditions, the only fact about the missing link that the scientists are definitely sure of is the fact that it is missing.
The serpent started with a "Yea" when he actually meant "Nay". This is deception.
Do not say "Yes" if you intend to prove the statement false.
JAMES 5:12 but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay;
"hath God said" The intention of the serpent was to cast doubt on the Word of God. All error comes from this basic source: disagreeing with the Bible.
People claim there are mistakes and contradictions in the Bible. People change the words in the Bible.
The one thing people struggle to do is to believe the Bible just the way it is written.
GENESIS 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
The woman replied that they could eat of all the natural fruit trees.
Eating some physical fruit like an apple would not condemn the world to death and suffering.
Nor would it explain why animal blood had to be shed to atone for sin.
Nor would it explain why God never told Adam and the woman to repent. This is the most striking oversight of all.
For the rest of the Bible God keeps telling sinners to repent. Why did He not do the same in Eden?
It implies that the woman had committed a sin which could not be forgiven.
GENESIS 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
"But there is one tree in the middle of the garden that we must not touch", said the woman.
The Devil spotted the woman's ignorance.
She thought there was only one tree in the middle of the garden.
Let us look at the spiritual significance of these symbols.
GENESIS 3:22... lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
The tree of life could make Adam live for ever.
Only Jesus Christ can give eternal life. Thus the tree of life was the Spirit of Christ.
I JOHN 5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
GENESIS 2:9... the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
If the tree of life was also in the middle of the garden, then another tree was in the middle as well. This is only possible if the two were completely entangled, and thus looked like one tree.
The other tree was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which is the spirit of Satan.
"Carnal knowledge" is the legal definition of the sex act.
GENESIS 4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Strange fact: Eve does not say that she got Cain from Adam. God alone can give life so it is God who gives all life. Thus she is correct as every baby comes from God. No woman can form a baby in her womb. Only God can produce this miracle.
Sex is both good and evil. Sex is good within marriage but evil outside of marriage.
The day before getting married it is evil for a couple to have sex. The day they get married, it is good for a couple to have sex.
What does a garden mean?
SONG OF SOLOMON 4:12 A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
A woman is symbolised by a garden with a protective wall around her. Her womb is a spring of life like a fountain from which life, in the form of a baby, can come forth.
But this fountain is sealed by a veil of virginity. The womb is sealed or shut up by the tissue of skin called the hymen.
God wanted to use the virgin womb of the woman to produce the Son of God, the baby Jesus. That way Eternal Life would be conceived in a Child behind a sealed womb, behind the veil of virginity. Then her womb would be the tree of Life. Jesus would grow up and call all His saints up from the dust of the earth.
Thus Jesus Christ would be the Seed of Eternal Life. The one Child who could give everyone Eternal Life.
Satan wanted to break the veil of virginity of the woman, and thus by sex produce a baby behind her broken veil. That baby would have a temporary life that could only last so long before dying. Then her womb would be the tree of knowledge of good and evil because some people born of sex would accept Jesus Christ, which is good, and some people would reject Jesus Christ, which is evil.
Two spirits, Christ and Satan, competed in the mind of the woman for the use of her womb.
The tree of life and the tree of knowledge in the midst of the garden. The garden represents a woman. Then the midst of this garden would be a symbol for being in the middle of her body. That is where her womb is.
So God had to give Eve her sex organs and she could choose how they were to be used. God gave mankind free will.
Then God had to give Adam sex organs as well. Otherwise the woman, and Adam, could never make the wrong choice. Free will implies that they must be able to make the wrong choice if they want to.
GENESIS 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
This was a complete denial of what God had said.
Every error has a plausible smattering of Scripture to justify it but will always end up contradicting Scripture in some other place.
Listening to a contradiction of Scripture sealed the fate of the woman.
The Bible is our testing ground. We have to believe every word in the Bible. As soon as we believe that there is a mistake in the Bible then we are guilty of unbelief. In our souls there is only room for faith alone. As soon as we allow doubt to enter, faith leaves and our soul is taken over by unbelief. At this stage the Holy Spirit could no longer stay in the woman. The Holy Spirit only deals in faith.
God said they would die. The serpent said they would not die.
The serpent's answer was along these lines. How can you die if you have sex? You have to multiply and fill the earth. God just means you will die to your ignorance. If you have sex and die within twenty four hours, how does the earth get filled?
GENESIS 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
PROVERBS 30:20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
Eating is a symbol of the sex act. Eating puts food in a woman's belly which swells up as she puts on weight. The sex act produces a baby which causes a woman's belly to swell up.
Interesting that this Scripture refers to the act of adultery which is illegitimate.
The woman indulged in sex and produced Cain and denied that she had done anything wrong by claiming that Cain's life had come from God. That was true as all life comes from God.
GENESIS 4: 1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Strange that she never said that Cain came from Adam.
II PETER 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
The woman did not realize that all life born of sex would be dead within 1 000 years, which is one day with God.
Anyone who contradicts the Bible breaks their relationship with the Holy Spirit, as the Spirit is unable to teach them the truth on that issue. That doctrine will always be wrong in the person's mind because truth cannot be different to Scripture. Eve was now making a critical mistake that was going to plunge the whole human race over the abyss.
This issue was too serious. Would humanity multiply as a result of sex that produced a human life of limited duration followed by death, or would her womb be used for the virgin born Son of God who would then speak all His saints from the dust of the earth with eternal life in them?
Born of sex our bodies are covered in skin but have a nasty scar, the belly button or navel.
This is the mark of the beast on our bodies. It means we are born without eternal life.
We are like the navel orange that has a large navel that looks like a belly button which is a sign that the orange has no seeds of life within it.
Born of sex, we are doomed to die within a 1 000 years.
The long umbilical cord is a symbol of the pipeline of God's permissive will. He never meant us to be born this way. The umbilical cord connects us to our mother and connected her to her mother, all the way back to Eve, the mother of all living. After the woman made her decision, God permitted sex, but only within marriage. So it is symbolic of good ( within marriage) and evil (outside marriage). But the consequences of her choice remain: both the legitimate and the illegitimate have to die. Only two men escaped death, Enoch and Elijah. These represent the living Bride that will be changed and caught up to meet Jesus in the air at His Coming.
When Eve chose death then the Holy Spirit, Who is Life, could not remain in her. She chose to disbelieve God's Word ( which is spiritual death ) and to bring forth life by sex ( which introduces physical death ).
The Holy Spirit that was in her could not condone either of those actions.
So the Holy Spirit which had filled her veins would have to leave, and God would have no option but to revert to His permissive will which was to fill her veins with blood, which could sustain a temporary human life in her. She would then be a very different person with a death sentence hanging over her because her life could not last longer than 1 000 years. And, sadly, she was ignorant of the fact that there are many different ways of dying.
GENESIS 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Look how Satan fooled her, cunning Devil that he is. He attacked her weakest point, her vanity. Self obsession is the major human weakness. Everything that Satan says is pointing to herself.
Your eyes will be opened. Eyes are a symbol of intelligence. In other words Satan tells her that she will be extremely clever with a great insight into what goes on.
Now comes the clincher.
She will be like a god, a creator and an object of worship.
As a god she can create life in her womb and bring forth a baby. She will be the mother of all living. Everyone will have to look up to her. She will be the object of their hero worship. Without you, they will say, we would not be here.
Only a woman's womb can bring forth life. Only gods can create. So she will be a god. Divine. Vanity can't get much higher than that.
She will know good and evil just like God does. God had thus far kept her ignorant of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Now she had a chance to find out for herself. Now she would be on an equal footing with God Himself.
Thus far she had relied on Adam to teach her. Adam was her teacher. God had created and taught Adam before Eve was formed in a separate body. Thus in God's plan the man was the teacher of the woman. Adam had told her not to touch that tree of knowledge. Now was her moment as her knowledge of this forbidden subject would soar up to the level of God's own knowledge and then it would be her chance to teach Adam. What a dizzying prospect. Her ego just kept inflating.
The woman would teach the man.
A woman symbolizes a church. The man symbolizes the husband of the church, Jesus Christ the Word.
Jesus, through His Bible, is supposed to teach the church. Today the church thinks that she is clever enough and has the chance to change the Bible and correct all the imagined mistakes in the Word. Thus the Word stands outside the Laodicean church. This seals the fate of the church as she scrambles around with her own plans and agendas and heads for the great Tribulation.
Jesus told a parable of a king who invited all the good guests ( the saved Christians ) to the wedding of his son but they were all too involved with their own ambitions and agendas. So the king rejected them. We need to heed this warning.
GENESIS 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
The tree was good for food. Not natural food. They already had all the fruit from the natural trees that they could eat.
This tree of knowledge offered her food for thought.
"Look", explained the serpent, "God told you to multiply. That is what He told all the physical animals to do as well. And they all multiply by sex. Now God has put you into a physical human body and the only way physical beings can multiply is by sex. So the sooner you get started, the sooner you can obey God's commandment to multiply".
This made the woman feel very religious. By going through this act she was actually obeying what God had said she must do.
This is the biggest curse of religion. When a person interprets Scripture in terms of their own narrow world view and makes a complete mess of things. She knew nothing of the virgin birth as an alternative option.
And she was prepared to accept a contradiction of God's Word : Ye shall not surely die.
"Look," says the serpent "if you have sex and then God kills you straight away, how is He going to get the human race to multiply. In order to multiply by sex you have to have many children, both sons and daughters. This process is going to take a long time. Then your sons and daughters have to intermarry and produce many more sons and daughters".
"There is no way that you can die physically before you have produced enough sons and daughters. Thus God does not mean that you will die physically. God really means that you will die to your ignorance of the tree of knowledge. You will then know all about it. You will know both good and evil and then you can focus on the good and avoid the evil and you will be able to teach your children how to avoid evil as well. Think what an asset you will be to the human race".
When the woman decided in her mind to follow this line of reasoning that contradicted the Word of God, then the Holy Spirit left her. Then God had to fill her veins with blood to sustain a temporary human life with all its sexual hormones.
Then she looked at her naked body and realized that she was very attractive as well as being sexually desirable.
Wisdom enables one to bring another person under your influence. As a woman she then realized that by offering her body to a man she could easily bring that man under her influence. The concept of prostitution was born, often described as the world's oldest profession.
"She took of the fruit". This was her introduction to sin.
Now we notice an interesting fact. It took about six verses for the serpent to fool the woman. Yet Adam fell into sin virtually instantaneously. The woman did not have to argue with him or say anything. Why did that happen?
Adam was extremely wise as God had spent time teaching him.
When the woman came back to Adam, after being with the serpent, Adam could see that she had changed. If he gently squeezed her fingertips he could see them go red. Her body now had blood in it. That disqualified her from the garden of Eden.
I CORINTHIANS 15:50 ... that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God
Somehow the woman had sinned. She had learned how to bring forth life through sex. Consequently she was going to die.
Sin brings death.
So when the woman offered herself to Adam, he loved her so much that he chose to sin in order to stay with her. Adam then had sex with his wife which was technically legal as he was allowed to do that, but it destroyed the concept of a virgin womb through which the Son of God was to be born.
The moment Adam decided to listen to his wife, he was disobeying God as he was condemning mankind to multiply by sex. Thus God's Spirit that had filled his veins left Adam and God had to fill his veins with blood that can only sustain a temporary human life. So Adam was also in a doomed body. God's original plan was wrecked. The human race was on a downward path that would cause much sorrow and suffering.
ROMANS 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
GENESIS 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Original sin taught them that they were naked. So original sin was producing children by sex. Eternal life cannot go through the sex act. So children would be born in bodies that had to die sometime. God set human life's limit at 1000 years.
The sex act broke the veil of the woman's virginity and this act shed blood.
This was symbolic of man's behaviour which tends towards violence and bloodshed.
But man's behaviour before the Flood got so bad that God wiped them all out before two days or 2000 years had passed.
The combination of sex, free will, and evil was toxic.
Then God started again with the eight members of Noah's family.
He also took steps to cut man's lifetime down to seventy years. Thanks to that limitation we have managed to survive for four days (another 4 000 years) and now overpopulation and the rising flood tide of evil and people who do not believe in the God of the Bible are sweeping us to Armageddon. Laws are now enforced that contradict the Scripture. Murder is justified in the name of religion and free choice. Newspapers offer us a daily diet of sexual abuse and violence that has spread like an epidemic around the world. Jesus compared our day to Sodom and Gommorah.
Adam and the woman had their eyes opened to a short term solution for populating the world that would lead to horrific death statistics and much suffering. Sex could never offer an eternal solution, free from pain and suffering.
Adam and the woman sewed fig leaves to cover their nakedness. This is symbolic of man-made religion. Religion is some kind of good works to make people look more respectable. But it completely ignored the concept of original sin. An animal had caused sin and blood had been shed. There was no virgin womb for the birth of the Son of God.
So all religions, offering various good works on earth (which is fine), are totally irrelevant in the spiritual realm where the battle between good and evil, God and Satan, is taking place.
Religion is man making up some kind of religious procedure that suits man, and offering this up to God in the hopes that man's sincerity will make it acceptable.
God replies to man's religious efforts by expelling them out of Eden.
Salvation is a plan that comes down to man from God, which is called the Bible. Man must be very careful to obey God's Biblical plan because God is not in the least interested in man's opinions or efforts.
Man needs to become interested in God's opinion and God's efforts.
Adam and the woman hid from God. God went seeking for them. It is the same today. Jesus stands outside the door of the church in the Laodicean age. He is seeking for individuals who are prepared to listen to the voice of His Bible while the rest of the church does not welcome the Bible into their midst.
The parable of the ten virgins (good women who represent churches) has all the virgins fast asleep just before the Bridegroom comes. A cry was needed to awaken them.
What was that cry? Have you heard it? If not you are still asleep.
LUKE 18:8 Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
This verse makes it very clear that we are still hiding away from God's Word, because faith only comes by hearing God's Word.
"Churchianity" - Belonging to our church, attending our church regularly, calling ourselves by the name of our denomination (Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, New Age etc.), and playing follow-my-leader with the pre-eminent pastor of the church is how we create an illusion of security, after we are saved. But the great Tribulation approaches to trap us. Our church security will be as effective as an apron of fig leaves, and saved Christians will find that denominational religion is little better than smoke and mirrors because it hid so many of the real truths of Scripture from them.
GENESIS 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Sin makes human beings hide from God. That is why we read the Bible so little. We know we will come across Scriptures that contradict our beliefs and lifestyle. So we hide ourselves from God's Word by living busy lives and then using up our spare time in pursuits that are trivial and time consuming. Then we have an excuse for neglecting the Bible, we just did not have enough time. We tend to feel safe by hiding our real selves amongst other people and thereby justify ourselves for doing what others are also doing. We really do not want the Bible to remind us of what we should be doing or believing. We are losing the ability to repent because we do not want to admit that we are wrong. We prefer to hide our motives behind excuses and illusions of self-righteousness. If the Bible contradicts us, we prefer not to repent. We prefer rather to change the Scripture or find a new version of the Bible that says it differently, so that we can wiggle out of the situation. Wiggling is the way snakes move.
The Bible can still speak to our conscience, which is why we avoid the Bible. Our conscience can still be beaten down if we do not like what it says to us. Our traditions and the oft repeated doctrines of our church can smother the niggling of that still small voice. So we seek safety hidden away in numbers. We fool ourselves by thinking that because everyone believes this, or everyone is doing that, so it cannot be wrong.
Then we can simply ignore anyone who raises awkward questions.
GENESIS 3:9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
God knew where Adam was physically. What He was asking was where Adam was spiritually. Adam had been created as a spirit-man and had been instructed by God. Then he had been placed in a human body that would never have to die because his veins were filled with the Holy Spirit that gave him life. Adam had been given a home in the ideal Garden of Eden. But that was not good enough for him. We humans do not seem to remain content with what God has given us. We keep looking for something else, which opens the door to the Devil. Adam had chosen to fall in sin.
Physically Adam had lived in a four dimensional world, because he was outside of time and thus not bound by the limitations of time. But spiritually he was in deep contact with the higher spiritual sixth dimension that we call Heaven.
( The fifth dimension is the spiritual regions of the lost which God had created for the fallen angels who became demons. This is our future home if we do not accept Jesus as our personal Saviour )
When Adam decided to sin, the Holy Spirit left him.
Adam then fell from God's perfect will into God's permissive will.
To keep him alive, God filled his veins with blood. The spirit of human life is in the blood, but it cannot keep us alive for longer than 969 years, which was the longest age reached by Methuselah.
So Adam fell from the higher spiritual sixth dimension as he lost that deep contact with Heaven. He also fell from the fourth dimension as he, like us, became a prisoner of time and subject to its ageing process. He could not move around freely in time as he could in the three dimensions of space. Trapped in the pipeline of time, he could only move from the past to the future. So physically, he fell a dimension and could only live and move freely in our three physical dimensions of space, which are length, breadth and height. Because time is a higher dimension, we do not not know what time is.
When God asked Adam where he was now, He was reminding Adam of where he had once been and thus emphasizing how far Adam had fallen, both physically and spiritually.
As long as Adam had blood in his body he could never get back into the deep contact that he once had with the spiritual realm of heaven.
GENESIS 3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
This is the nature of all sinners. We hide ourselves from the voice of God. We do not want to listen to what He says in the Bible. The Bible exposes us and strips off the tatters of man-made religion whereby we try to justify ourselves. If we took the Bible seriously it would leave us naked in the glare of our own consciences. And in God's Presence we cannot lie or deny or blame others. All we can do is run. But when God comes looking for us, then we cannot hide.
GENESIS 3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
Without blood in his veins, man had no awareness of his nakedness. Sex organs rely on blood and hormones. Small babies have little hormonal development and thus are unaware of their nakedness.
God wants to know how Adam knows that he is naked. This can only be possible if his body has changed and become full of blood.
For this to happen, Adam must have rejected the Holy Ghost that once filled his veins. This is the power of free will. Man can reject God. Man cannot have free will unless he has the power to destroy himself if he wants to.
So God is actually asking Adam why he had rejected faith in God.
God had given Adam everything and Adam had rejected it all for something far worse.
God wants to know why.
Instead of making a confession of guilt, Adam makes the default human response. Excuses and blaming others, including God.
Today people are still full of excuses to justify their sins and mistakes. People can endlessly blame others for their shortcomings. Every day you still hear people blaming God for the bad things that happen.
Human nature has not changed in 6000 years.
So God kicked Adam out of Eden, and if we are not very careful, He will kick us into the great Tribulation to give us a long overdue wake-up call.
GENESIS 3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
This is typical of us sinful human beings. We have to blame someone else for our wrong doing.
Adam first blamed the woman, it was her fault. He took none of the blame himself. He did not regard himself as being responsible for his own actions.
Then he blamed God because God had given him the woman. In Adam's mind, God was at fault. To this day men and women keep blaming God for everything that goes wrong.
Adam's big fault was that he could not admit that he had sinned. Just like people today, they wiggle around with ingenious and self-serving answers to proclaim their self-righteousness.
Excuses and blaming others will get us nowhere.
Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners.
The best man who ever lived once said, "No one is good but God alone."
GENESIS 3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
The woman adopted typical defiant human behaviour. Do not blame me, blame the serpent. The serpent fooled me.
This has however left a trauma in the feminine mind. Call a man a bull or a dog and he smiles happily. A bull is a compliment. He must be a tough guy. Sailors often call themselves sea dogs.
Call a woman a cow or a she dog and she is insulted. Way back in time an animal fooled the first woman, and women have never recovered from that traumatic experience.
GENESIS 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
God explained to the serpent what it had done.
Then God cursed the serpent and turned it into a snake.
The serpent said to the woman,"Your eyes shall be opened". So God took away the eyelids of the snake so that the snake cannot close its eyes. The snake's eyes are covered by a thin membrane that protects the eyes. But a snake looks spooky because it never blinks. It cannot be very comfortable for a snake to sleep when it cannot close its eyes.
The serpent pretended to tell the truth by saying "Yea" but was actually lieing "Hath God said?"
When the Americans broke all the treaties that they made with the Red Indians, the Red Indians said "White man speaks with a forked tongue". So because the serpent mixed up truth and lies, God gave the snake a forked tongue.
The story that came out of the mouth of the serpent sold the human race down the river of death. So God put poison under the tongue of the snake.
Animals knew about multiplying by sex. The serpent could thus introduce the woman to the concept of sex which requires the male to lie on his belly on top of the woman.
So God now makes the snake lie permanently on its belly as it crawls around. Its mouth is easily and uncomfortably filled with dust.
"Dust shalt thou eat". This has a deeper spiritual sense. Snakes do not eat natural dust. They swallow dust that enters their mouths but they eat things like frogs and mice. But the long body of a snake is symbolic of the pit of hell. Mankind is made from the dust. If we die unsaved then the snake of hell will swallow us. The snake of hell is the final end of the flesh and those who live by the flesh.
But if we are born again of the Spirit, then the snake of hell cannot swallow us as it feeds only on dust, the flesh.
GENESIS 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
A prophecy. Satan was in the serpent in order to use the serpent to wreck God's plan. Satan is happy to live in animals as the demons proved when they went into the pigs at Gedara.
God only wants to live in human beings.
The seed of the woman is Jesus, a Man who had no human father as He was conceived behind the veil of virginity in Mary.
A woman does not have a seed. She has a womb to receive a seed. God had to give the woman a seed by creating a holy Seed within her womb. Because this Seed had no human father, it can be called the woman's seed since it came from no man.
The seed of the serpent is the male sperm cell. This is the seed that produces sex-life.
A male sperm with its head and long tail looks just like a snake. Conceived by sex behind a broken veil of virginity, we are all "serpent seed" when we are born.
Our belly button is the mark of this subtle beast on our bodies.
The belly button is caused by the umbilical cord that joined the developing baby to its mother.The mother in turn was connected to her mother, and so the connection goes all the way back to Eve.
This cord symbolises the pipeline of God's permissive will, bringing forth life through sex inside marriage. But this life of ours is trapped in the "pipeline of time" where we flow helplessly from birth to death. It is not a pipeline of eternal life.
This pipeline of time and our umbilical cords also reminds one of a snake.
The cobra snake is most dangerous when partly upright. In this body of flesh we all do some good which make sinners think that they are saints. But we also do evil and we have no way of erasing that evil. So the serpent was told to eat dust. Our flesh is made from the dust.This symbolises the fate of people born of a woman, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Humans live in the flesh and when they die, they get swallowed by the "serpent" whose snakelike body symbolises the pit of hell.
The belly button is the mark of the beast in our bodies which takes our bodies to the grave because they came from sex. This is the first death. If we disbelieve the Bible then we take the mark of the beast in our foreheads because we take unscriptural beliefs into our minds and our thinking. This influences our actions and is the mark of the beast on our hands. Then we go to the second death, the Lake of Fire.
Only if we become born again can we escape the clutches of the "serpent". Saints know that they are sinners so they repent. By faith, the perfect Blood of Jesus then washes us from all our sins. Being born again of the Spirit of God gives us a new spirit body that will take us to Heaven when we die because the "serpent" has no permission to eat spirit.
At Calvary Jesus kicked the head of Satan. A blow to the head can break a blood vessel. The pool of blood grows until it touches the brain, then the creature dies.
The Blood of Jesus grew over the church ages and at the end it will touch the brain, the cleverness of our scientific age, and then our Laodicean age will perish in the Tribulation which ends up at Armageddon.
Jesus hurt His heel in that colossal conflict on the cross. Thus he could not walk and was not seen for a while. But His heel recovered and He rose triumphant on the third day. Since then He has walked through the two thousand years of church history.
GENESIS 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
God never said "because" to the woman. Why not? She was so totally fooled that God could not have persuaded her that she was wrong.
She knew of no other way to have a child except by sex, so she was convinced that she had obeyed God's command to multiply. It was also legal for a wife to have sex with her husband, so as far as she was concerned she had done nothing wrong. In terms of the Big Picture, she knew nothing about the virgin birth. She never grasped that once her womb was used for sex, God had no use for her in terms of His plan. God would have to wait 4000 years until Mary obeyed Him.
Worse still, she had taken advice from an animal. Animals live by polygamy. One male and many females. So God decided that if the woman wanted to multiply like the animals did, then the women could live like animals in polygamy. Each woman would be one of many wives for a man. This was demeaning to the woman and gave them an inferior status to the men.
Now comes a strange sentence. "I will greatly multiply thy conception (singular)". This has two implications.
God is speaking to the woman about her sin and He refers to pregnancy, not eating apples.
Thus original sin involves the sex act.
The woman is already pregnant and God is not happy with this pregnancy. She will bring forth children in sorrow. To this day childbirth remains a painful and difficult process. No one knows how many women have died in childbirth during the 6000 years of human history. Pregnancy can be a very difficult time. God thus makes it plain that this is His permissive will - it is certainly not His perfect will.
If sex was God's original plan for mankind to multiply, He could not punish the woman for being pregnant.
If God intended her to have sex, why did having sex make her feel embarrassed about her nakedness so that she covered herself with fig leaves? Animals breed by sex and are not embarrassed by their nakedness.
Now for a strange statement. "I will greatly multiply thy conception". God is saying that He is going to allow her to have many more conceptions. But she could not multiply until she had many children, both sons and daughters who would then have to inter marry. If she only had one conception, the human race would end.
So God is punishing her by giving her many conceptions and painful child births. If this is a punishment, then this was not God's original plan for mankind.
So what is God meaning?
The woman was supposed to have one conception, the virgin born Son of God, Jesus. He would grow up to be an adult and then speak all His saints from the dust of the earth. Just the right number to fill the earth. No extras to burn in hell.
Now she has messed up that plan because she is no longer a virgin. Thus all the people are going to have to be born through sex.
"Your husband will rule over thee".
The woman now has to accept that the husband is the head of the home.
Satan counteracts this by encouraging women to dominate their husbands.
"thy desire shall be to thy husband".
This is a strange punishment. A woman who loves her husband will have a natural desire towards him. But sexual desire can attract her to many other men but she is not allowed to respond to that attraction. She may only love her husband. But thanks to the polygamy of animals, since she listened to an animal, she also has to live like animals in polygamy. So her one husband is allowed to choose many wives but she has to remain faithful only to him. This is not a happy relationship for the woman.
GENESIS 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
In Chapter 2 Adam was a spirit-man when God explained to him about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The attributes of the woman were inside the man but totally unaware of what was happening. Thus the woman had to rely on what Adam explained to her about what God had said. Thus sin entered when the roles were reversed and the woman was now telling the man what to believe. This was the first example of a woman preacher, and it brought death. That was Adam's big mistake - listening to his wife. He knew the truth, she did not. We are not allowed to compromise truth just to keep our families happy.
Fortunately God did not curse Adam, He cursed the ground that Adam came from. From now on the soil that had easily yielded an abundance of food to Adam would now reluctantly yield crops, which required a lot of hard work to produce. Back breaking toil would be the fate of millions as they wrestled their food from the soil. Drought, floods, hail, locusts, fungus, scorching heat, black frosts, and numerous pests would cause endless sorrow to farmers. Then rats and mould would consume and spoil much of the stored grain after the harvest. Part of the world's population would always be hungry, and this would cause much sorrow. Greedy profiteers would dump food into the oceans in order to keep the prices high. Farm land would stop producing food to eat, and use it for biofuel because that was more profitable. The poor who need food, the endless hungry refugees, would not be considered. Famine and starvation would establish communist control in Russia and China.
GENESIS 3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
God now makes life difficult for man. God took man from the dust of the earth and gave him an easy life in a magnificent human body. But we humans lack appreciation for the blessings that we have, and successful and wealthy people still seek out the forbidden fruits of sin to fill their lives, just like Adam did.
We depend upon the soil for our food. But it is hard work to raise these crops. Now the same soil will produce thorns and thistles. We cannot eat these and they make our lives uncomfortable.
Our churches, where we go to find salvation and deeper truth, will also produce lies, politics, traditions, philosophy and errors. So truth and error will get so entangled in the churches that few individuals will be able to find truth any more. God will then have to cut the time short before error completely eliminates truth
God realized that sinful man does not need ease and luxury, as that will only make him worse. Hard work and obstacles that have to be overcome is a far more suitable environment for us humans.
GENESIS 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Man's face includes his forehead which symbolizes his intelligence and brain power. The surface of the earth is also called the face of the earth. God formed Adam from the dust of the earth. Yet for all of mankind's intelligence, he cannot escape the simple cycle that he has to die and he will return to a grave in the dust of the earth, leaving everything behind. Each grave is a scar in the face of the earth that was not part of God's original plan.
A person's belly button is a scar on his body, the mark of the original serpent beast in our flesh. We are born with a navel, and are just like a navel orange which has no seed (Scripture Life) inside the fruit (or baby). Born of sex in this scarred body we are doomed to die, and whatever we build up and accumulate on the face of the earth, with the sweat of our faces, we leave behind as we return to the face of the earth in a scar called a grave. It is an empty cycle. The body will only go down six feet but our souls will be dragged down into the pit of hell. We need a Saviour. One Who suffered and can show us the scars on His Body as evidence of His atonement for our sin.
GENESIS 3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
A woman represents the church. The church is called the bride of Jesus Christ. The woman only took on her name after she had fallen into sin. Churches only take on their denominational names like Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal etc. after they have fallen into sin and unbelief.
All the children were born of Eve.
A strange omission: why does the Bible not say that Adam was the father of all living?
Why is Cain not mentioned as the important firstborn of Adam in the Book of Chronicles?
Are we missing something? Is there a deeper mystery here?
The less that is said in the Bible, the deeper the mystery that is involved.
GENESIS 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Now that Adam and Eve had blood in their bodies they no longer were covered with a holy veil of innocence. In a human being, free will and sexual impulses were a dangerous combination. So God introduced two rules to limit the damage that humans could do to themselves. God wanted no human nakedness. Nakedness is an attribute of animals, and it was an animal that caused Eve to fall, so God separated man from animals by covering the nakedness of man. Then God decreed that He would only condone sex between a man and his wife after they were married.
When Joseph was espoused (engaged) to Mary she was still a virgin. God permits no sex outside of marriage.
It was an animal that caused sin to enter mankind. Thus God killed an animal to use its skin to cover the sin of their naked bodies that were now filled with blood. God could not kill the serpent because He had cursed it and turned it into a snake. A snake, with poison in its mouth, would be a symbol of the Devil. God did not want to cover their sin by using the skin of the sin-causing serpent, which had now become a snake. God wanted to cover His children with the skins of an innocent animal. God would use the death of the most innocent animal to atone for the sin caused by the most subtle and devious animal. So God chose a lamb.
Religion is a covering for our human sin, but it does not get rid of the sin.
God could have used the wool of the lamb or sheep to cover Adam and Eve. That would have been a suitable religion or covering but it would have had nothing to do with the original sin. So God killed the lamb. It was not the wool that covered sin, it was the shed blood of the lamb.
When Adam and Eve used sex to produce a child they ensured that God no longer had a virgin womb to bring forth His virgin born Son, Jesus. Eve's hymen or veil of virginity had to break during the act of sex or carnal knowledge, and in the process blood would be shed. So if the shedding of blood was the cause of sin, the shedding of blood would atone for the sin.
This is the revelation that Cain missed. He brought fruit and flowers to build a beautiful altar that represented his own good works whereby he honoured God. God rejected that altar. What did that have to do with original sin?
Abel built a messy altar covered in the blood of a lamb. His revelation was on track. God was pleased with him.
But eternal life cannot be found behind a broken veil. That is why all people, born of sex in the womb, have to die.
When Messiah was crucified, God tore the veil of the Holy of Holies in the Temple to show that He had left the Temple and eternal Life was no longer behind that Temple veil.
Only one virgin womb ever produced Emmanuel, the fruit of the womb, who was the Seed of Abraham, the fulness of the Word incarnate or manifest in a human Body. No sex was involved. No torn veil of virginity. No sin.
This Jesus grew up as the sinless Lamb of God and His innocent Blood was shed at Calvary as the final atonement for sin.
Only this sacrifice could wash away sin completely. Then the Life in His Blood which is the Holy Spirit could come into the heart of the repentant sinner, and enable that person to live above sin.
GENESIS 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
Knowing good and evil is too big a responsibility for man to handle. We simply lack the brain power to cope with all the problems that arise. It brings us face to face with Death, and we stand helpless in the face of Death as it is too big an issue for us to grasp. Explosives carve out tunnels, roads and harbours for us which are essential, but explosives also destroy millions in war.
Because mankind unlocked the door to evil, he is now facing problems that he cannot solve. In the face of evil, many people stop believing that God exists. Especially when bad things happen to good people.
The problem of evil is the most serious problem in the world. It is probably the most serious objection in the minds of people to the existence of God. Trying to cope with the reality of evil has thus led so many people to stop believing in God.
So evil is a concept that we humans simply do not have the insight or intellect to deal with.
Evil is the hand maiden of sin. Sin is far more perverted and corrupt than what we realize, so God wants no dealings with sin. But sinful Adam could gain eternal life from the tree of life and become "a sinner that lives forever".
Sin going on forever, what a ghastly prospect. So God decided to do some housecleaning. First he kicks Adam out of the garden of Eden. That stops the corruption in Eden but does not solve the problem of sin.
But there is only one source of eternal life - Jesus Christ. So this is further evidence that the Spirit of Christ is the tree of life. The tree of eternal Life.
GENESIS 3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
God does not want sinful human beings in His presence. Man must now work hard to wrestle a living from a reluctant earth. The most vital industry on earth is agriculture as that provides us all with food. Agriculture is an on-going struggle against weeds and pests and droughts. Farming is hard work, especially when crops are grown in marginal soils that lack nutrients and water.
So the best situation for sinful mankind is one of hard work. Hard work limits the time we have to indulge in sinful activities. Hard work enables us to build up something useful. Hard work makes our time and footprint on planet earth more useful. The Devil responds by encouraging laziness, especially amongst the youth.
GENESIS 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Sinful man was no longer welcome in the garden of Eden. Adam went east and God then established a barrier at the east border of the garden of Eden to make sure that man did not return to the garden of Eden and pollute it with his sins.
Demonology seems to flourish in the east, especially along the Euphrates river where Babylon was to be built.
Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. Two hundred million horsemen.
And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
These are not natural horsemen. John is trying to describe spiritual demons.
To keep the "way" of the tree of life.
A natural tree has no way of moving. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
The scene has now moved to the east of the garden of Eden. Natural trees do not move around. The tree of life is the Spirit of Christ who was the centre of God's plan in Eden and now He has moved to the eastern border in order to be the way back into Eden for Adam and Eve.
But man can only come back into fellowship with God if we do it God's way.
"turned every way". There are four ways to turn: north, south, east and west.
So four Cherubims stood around the tree of life which is the Spirit of Christ.
PSALM 99:1 The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
God dwells between the Cherubims. In Revelation Chapter 4 there are four beasts (or powers) that are around God's throne in Heaven. The four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John stand as guards around the Book of Acts which describe the Acts of the Holy Spirit in the early church when the disciples were full of the Holy Ghost.
A flaming sword would kill anyone who approached God the wrong way.
Thus the Old Testament proceeded to lay out strict guidelines on the way to approach God. Men died if they approached God their own way. Approaching God is a serious issue, not a casual pastime. It must be done according to the guidelines of the Bible. Nothing else is acceptable.


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The combination of national and regional vascular access initiatives supported by new medical technologies has successfully increased national AV fistula prevalence from 26% in December 1998 to 33% in December 2002 and 42.9% in June 2006. Regionally, AV fistula rates range from 37.1% in Virginia and Maryland (ESRD network 5) to 59.5% in the Pacific Northwest (ESRD network 16) [11, 17]. During the same period, catheter use has increase from 19% in December 1998 to 27% in December 2002 and remained at 27% in December 2004 [17]. Although programs to increase fistula prevalence do not necessarily increase catheter use, they can unless combined with concerted catheter reduction efforts. Currently, there is no routine coverage for chronic kidney disease (CKD) care and few CKD programs. These programs increase permanent access placement and decrease catheter use surrounding dialysis initiation. In the US, most patients require placement of a central venous catheter for dialysis initiation. Even in regions that have high AV fistula placement rates it often takes a prolonged period of time before the fistula is placed after dialysis initiation. Patients are frequently discharged with plans for referral to a surgeon for AV fistula placement at a later date. Once patients en ter an outpatient dialysis unit they are often reluctant to proceed with AV fistula or AV graft placement. Fear of needles, disfigurement, body image, increased length of time for post-dialysis hemostasis, illusions about the availability of transplant and depression, all present potential obstacles to fistula placement. In addition, the advent of ESRD and dialysis initiation frequently places patients and families under severe financial stress. Co-pay requirements may present a significant barrier to further procedures or hospitalization, especially in patients with commercial coverage. Payment restrictions can be a disincentive for providers. In some Medicaid programs, additional payment for access placement is unavailable during the initial admission for dialysis initiation [22]. Following fistula placement, approximately one third of patients will need a secondary procedure to allow proper maturation [15]. During this time patients are dialyzed with cuffed catheters with the attendant increased risk of infection, sepsis and potential death. Changing medical technology may also present new opportunities and challenges. If catheter flush solutions, exit site treatments or new impregnated catheters that prevent bacteremia are proven and become available; catheters may become a more viable alternative. Similarly, medications that prevent thrombosis and the development of pseudo-intimal hyperplasia could lead to a resurgence of PTFE grafts. These rapid technologic changes are difficult to predict and assimilate in guidelines, regulations, payment systems and quality improvement programs.
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I grew up in Hawaii, on the Waianae coast. I went to the Seattle area for college. In my first year of college, I had a relationship I would have preferred to forget. On the flight home for the summer, I decided I wasn't going to date anyone for a long time.
My father is a pastor of a small church. On the way home from the airport, he needed to stop at the church office to check on some things. I waited in the car, because I was tired from the flight. I heard a very handsome sounding laugh come from a truck parked nearby. I thought, that guy sounds fun and cute, but I had sworn off dating, so I didn't go meet him. But the sound of his laugh lingered in my mind, and mingled with the humidly intoxicating and romantic hawaiian air. Soon I was considering the thought of dating again.
It turns out, the guy with the handsome laugh was a friend of our youth pastor. Both of us had been recruited to chaperone a youth group overnight lock-in at the church. I got to meet the man with the mysterious laugh at the birthday of a mutual friend. His name was Brandon, and he was from the Seattle area, and was working in Hawaii for a while. What a coincidence! I thought, "hmm, i could actually marry this guy." I wasn't dating, but wouldn't a summer romance in Hawaii be fun?
At the youth group lock in, we took all the youth to pizza hut, and the kids could see there was a certain attraction between Brandon and I. One of the girls told us we should go on a date. So we said, "why not!" The spell of Hawaii had been cast!
Our first date was a trip to Waikiki to have lunch at Denny's and see Jurassic Park 2 (which we didn't pay much attention to). On that day, we walked like newlyweds along the streets of Waikiki. A week later we were talking about marriage. One year later, we were married in Waianae in the 100 year old Waianae Protestant Church, which is made of Koa wood and smells like beautiful old memories. My dad performed the ceremony, and my grandpa walked me down the aisle. I guess swearing off dating sometimes brings your true love, especially if you are in romantic Hawaii!
Not long after, Brandon and I had our first child. She was born in Honolulu. Jobs became scarce, and we had to move to Washington. We have since added 2 more children, and are expecting our fourth. My parents still live in Hawaii, but we rarely get there because of the cost of airfare. A trip back to the land of our dreams would be a fairy tale come true!


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Now that I've seen Alice in Wonderland in both 3D and 2D, I'll say this:
It was a good movie. Very fun if you're familiar with Lewis Carroll's works, especially the poem Jabberwocky, despite the fact that they BUTCHER it for the sake of the movie--replacing the word "Jub-Jub bird" with "Jabberwock" even though the Jub-Jub bird is IN the freaking movie. I digress. But really, I couldn't have seen enough of the Red Queen's castle. That heart-shaped arch in the front just blows me away every time I see it! Amazing stuff. And so funny!
So yes, I'd recommend that you go see it before it is out of theaters. But the hard question remains: 2D, or 3D?
Well, I found the 3D to be completely distracting at times. It was well done, and the movie seemed to be made with 3D in mind, what with the action coming at the screen more often than not. There were several times I was ducking or leaning. And the color! Oh, the color was so amazing! But I feel like I missed seeing a lot of stuff because I was distracted by what was #d and what was not.
The boy and I saw it in 2D last night, and I seemed to catch more of the movie than I did when we saw it in 3D. It may have been the theater in which we saw it, but the color wasn't nearly as impressive as it was in the 3D showing. And again...it just could have been the quality of the film or the theater's machine or whatever...it just seemed sort of washed out.
So, my analysis? In 3D, I didn't see as much as in 2D, but what I did see was far more impressive. And in 2D, I saw everything, but it wasn't nearly as pretty.
So...there. I guess I'd recommend seeing it in 3D over the 2D, and that's hard for me to say, since I'm sort of against the whole 3D movement.
But that, dear friends, is another post.
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President Trump and Attorney General Sessions have launched a full-fledged attack on families arriving at our southern border, prosecuting them as criminals and locking them up in immigration prisons. First, they were tearing children from the arms of their parents, and now they are moving to incarcerate them together indefinitely while their cases move through our backlogged immigration court system. Many are fleeing life-threatening violence and persecution in Central America and seeking asylum (refugee protection) in the United States. Sessions recently issued an alarming decision in a domestic violence case called Matter of A-B- in a shameful attempt to bar many of these women, children, and families from relief.
Below we have outlined a few ways that you can take action to support immigrant and asylum seeking families who belong together and free:
- Sign this petition from Kids in Need of Defense demanding an end to family detention and separation.
- Help spread the word about critical resources available to families impacted by this Administration's cruel immigration enforcement efforts. The Immigrant Connection Project (ICON) is a newly launched partnership between the Vera Institute of Justice and New America to help immigrant parents who have been separated from their children. REUNITE is a new resource from Freedom for Immigrants to assist families in finding loved ones in the immigration detention system.
- Use CGRS's toolkit and raise your voice in support of refugee protections for women, children, and families fleeing gender- and gang-related violence.
As of June 28, 2018, OneJustice's Immigration Pro Bono Network has identified the following urgent volunteer needs at the southern border:
- Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project is seeking pro bono representation for multiple asylum cases. You do not need to be an immigration attorney to assist with these cases, and Esperanza will provide a mentor attorney to help advise attorneys taking these cases! Email Kimberley Plotnik to learn more.
- Al Otro Lado needs immigration attorneys, paralegals, doctors, nurses, EMTs, social workers, mental health professionals, art therapists, and nice people who want to help out! Volunteer opportunities will be emailed out to their listserv as they arise in Los Angeles, Tijuana, and remotely.
- Bet Tzedek Legal Services is seeking volunteer attorneys to place Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) cases. Training will be provided. Contact Molly Meltzer or fill out this form to get connected!
- RAICES is looking for volunteer attorneys to help separated families. You can respond to their survey to indicate your interests and ability to volunteer.
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Starting With Thank YouPosted: November 28, 2016 Filed under: Leading Across Organizations, Museum, museum staff, Nonprofit Leadership, Organizational Values, Work Habits | Tags: Leadership, museums, Nonprofit Leadership, soft skills, workplace culture Leave a comment
It seems fitting that a few days after Thanksgiving 2016, we should say thank you. So to all of you from 129 countries, who are responsible for Leadership Matters' almost 85,000 views, we're grateful, humbled, and inspired. It's been an awe-inspiring ride, and we wouldn't be here without you.
But if you're a leader, you understand that thank you's shouldn't be reserved for once or twice a year. Good leaders, whether in a museum, heritage organization or other non-profit know the power of an authentic thank you. Here's a story: As many of you know I am a curator serving in a large organization whose primary focus is education. As a former boy's school, there is a long shadow of testosterone that imbues our organizational DNA. A while ago a male colleague approached me. He has distinctive handwriting and he wanted me to write handwritten thank you notes for him addressed to some of our administrative staff. Why? He felt they were rarely thanked, and he wanted the praise to stay with them, not bounce back to him. I wrote about 20 notes. Each was accompanied by a fresh flower. Did we unlock the key to American education that week? No. Was there a lot of smiling in the hallway? Yes. That was a thank you that took planning. Most don't. They are genuine often spontaneous compliments for jobs well done.
You know that old phrase "You attract more flies with honey than vinegar"? Well, it's true. Gratitude is a trait, an emotion and a mood. Genuine gratitude is a response for good work, for a strong team, for an innovative program or exhibit or out-of-the box thinking. So, as we do for so many topics, here are some thoughts about gratitude for individuals, leaders and organizations.
- When something goes well, when it's a pleasure working with your team or department members, thank them. Gratitude doesn't just come from the director; you can thank your colleagues as well.
- When someone compliments you, own it. And say thank you.
- Make a thank you matter. Don't diminish its meaning through overuse.
- Understand what your staff is doing so you can thank them appropriately, and so you know the difference between a daily job done well and a challenge met with new and inventive thinking.
- Be clear about whether you're thanking an individual, a group or both, and don't hesitate to call out an individual's or a team's exemplary service.
- Remember that 4 out of 5 employees say they would stay in a job longer if their boss showed appreciation for their work. This is not the moment to play Scrooge. Check out this link for more details on how employees feel about being appreciated: Glassdoor Survey.
- Be equitable in your thank yous. Don't favor one demographic–new employees vs. experienced, young vs. old–over another.
- Be creative in how you thank folks. Can you offer an exemplary employee a chance at a juicy, creative project or a new parent the chance to telecommute?
- Respect your staff. Your behavior is an ongoing thank you.
- Appreciation–the act of saying thank you is a great motivator. Museums and heritage organizations thank donors all the time. Don't forget to thank staff as well.
- As with leaders, thank you's come in many forms. Raises are the most obvious and reflect gratitude for dedication and achievement at work. If that's not possible, how about career development opportunities, time off or an unexpected gift? (My colleague's notes and flowers, for example.)
- And speaking of time off, if you can't close the museum or heritage site, can you offer half the staff four or eight hours off while the other half covers, and then reverse the procedure? Everyone gets paid time off and it may prove eye-0pening to experience the museum while covering someone else's job.
- Make sure your board (or the the board's compensation committee) understands what your museum staff values when it comes to employee appreciation and what they don't, and make sure the leadership and staff are comfortable communicating that information.
So for those of you on a break from work this long weekend, we hope it was a happy one. Write and let us know how you say thank you as employees, leaders or as an organization.
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Are you a chocolate Lover?? then you will definitely love this recipe
This Brownie Recipe is made with Nutella , very simple ingredients and you will love it
Got the idea from Tastemade
Moving on with the recipe
Nutella Brownies
Recipe Idea: Tastemade
Time Taken: 50 mins Including Baking
- Nutella- 14 tbsp
- Butter Melted- 7 tbsp
- Eggs-2
- Flour-3/4 cup
- Sugar-1/2 cup
- Butter for greasing pan
- Flour- 1/2 tsp for flouring tin
- Preheat your oven at 170 deg c .
- Prepare your baking tins by greasing and flouring
- In a bowl transfer 12 spoon of Nutella , Place it above a double boiler and stir well
- Once soft add in your melted butter , mix well
- Remove bowl from flame and Keep it aside
- In another bowl add egg s and beat well
- Add sugar to the eggs and cream both very well
- Now slowly add the chocolate mix to the egg and mix slowly
- Now add Flour to this mixture and Mix well
- Transfer the Mixture in to your prepared tin
- Spoon remaining Nutella on top of it, put like small dollops
- Now keep it in the oven and Bake for 40 mins or until the brownie cracks a little bit and inside is still firm
Serve your brownie hot with your favorite ice cream
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Following the example of the successful and traditional international handball festival -"EUROFEST", which takes place every year in the beginning of July, we decided to organize a similar event. We chose "Easter holidays" because during this time the capacity of schools and hotels are available and there are many clubs, which attend tournaments only during the competitive season.
The seventh INTERNATIONAL EASTER HANDBALL CUP will be held in Koper - Capodistria from Friday, 10th of April till Sunday, 12th of April 2020. We expect the participation of around 100 teams!
FRIDAY, 10th of April 2019
Arrival and accommodation of the teams
Opening ceremony
SATURDAY, 11th of April 2019
Competition in groups
Disco pary and Karaoke at Planet Tuš Koper
SUNDAY, 12th of April 2019
Competition in groups
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There is something miraculous when exceptional talent emerges in a child. There is even a special word for it — prodigy — which some comes with as much expectations, as much as it does wonderment.
At nine, Alma Deutscher has an impressive career ahead of her. Not only is she an accomplished violinist, but she is also a talented composer. This video show's Deutscher performing the third movement (Allegro vivace e scherzando) of her own concerto for violin and orchestra. If that doesn't impress you, she'd also premiered her first opera, Cinderella, with conductor Zubin Mehta. Yeah.. wow, right.
Sujari Britt, who was just in Toronto this past April, has been performing publically since she was eight years old. Before taking up the cello, she played the piano, violin, and guitar. But after seeing Yo-Yo Ma, she knew this was the instrument she was mean to play. Today, at age 14, she is finishing her second year at the Manhattan School of Music. Here she plays Elgar's Concerto in E Minor in recital.
Six-year-old Joshua Han was born in Sydney and was introduced to the piano to accompany his violinist mother. This same year that this video was filmed of him performing Chopin's knuckle–busting Etudes, he won first prize in Piano at the Sydney Eisteddfod. Joshua is presently a full music scholarship student of The King's School. Inspiring!
Russian-born harpist Alisa Sadikova is a jaw-dropping sight. The "harp genius" made her Carnegie Hall debut at just seven, and a few years later was accepted to study at the legendary St Petersburg's State Conservatory. This video shows her dazzling virtuosity though The Fountain, by Marcel L. Grandjany.
Tsung Tsung is five-years-old and hails from Hong Hong. He has been studying with his piano teacher Yau Sai-kit, for just two years. The video shows him performing (with an infection and playful grin) a rapid-fire version of Bach Partita No.6 in E minor, BWV 830. The video has since gone viral, and made this little guy an internet star! Watch-out Valentina Lisitsa, there's a new YouTuber in town.
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text: Jim Wilson - January 03, 2011 Ruger's New 22/45 Makes Plinking Fun Plinking is a fun way to get youngsters involved in the shooting sports, and it's a fun way for grownups to stay active, too! By Sheriff Jim Wilson For my money, you just can't have any more fun than spending a day out plinking with your favorite shooting iron. And one new pistol that makes plinking fun is Ruger's new-for-2007 4.5-inch-barreled 22/45 Mark III Hunter.When I was a kid, every old farm and ranch had some gulley or low place where they dumped their refuse--cans, worn-out fence wire, even used-up appliances. Or if one of the farm critters died under suspicious circumstances, such that it was no longer suitable fare for the dinner table, it went there, too. To a young boy the local dump was a mysterious and exotic place populated with all sorts of inanimate targets as well as some highly animated ones--mice, rats, and various and sundry snakes. I suspect a lot of you folks reading this know exactly what I'm talking about because you learned most of your shooting skills at the local dump, too. I think this is one of the things that makes plinking so interesting. We can do our shooting at the local dump with whatever targets of opportunity we might find. Or we can find a safe place to shoot and haul out a bunch of fun targets to try our marksmanship on. Plinking can be a way to get the kids interested in learning to shoot. And it can be a way to keep older kids--like maybe you and me--interested in our sport. Plinking can include shooting at a variety of targets adorned with various types of critters.Regardless of how informal our plinking session is, or how much fun we are having, it's always important to put gun safety first. And a plinking session is the perfect place to start teaching the kids the importance of gun safety--and it doesn't hurt to remind the more experienced shooters of the basics.Four Simple Rules Here are four simple rules that cover the subject.All guns are always loaded. If you need to pick up a gun, or want to examine it, start with the assumption that the gun is loaded and act accordingly. Never let the muzzle cover anything or anyone you are not willing to shoot. That just about says it all. Loaded or unloaded, always keep the gun's muzzle pointed in a safe direction.Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target. Most negligent discharges (what some people try to claim are accidents) happen because the gun handler presses the trigger without intending to.Be sure of your target and what is beyond it. You will be held responsible for every shot you fire. It is up to you, and no one else, to be sure of the target you are shooting at and what lies behind it.Beyond a concern for safety, plinkers are not limited to any particular kind of target. Some companies, like Caldwell Shooting Supplies and Champion Traps & Targets, have printed up various stick-up targets with different kinds of critters and fun bullseyes. Birchwood Casey also markets a number of different spinning targets that will add a lot of fun to an informal plinking session. The 22/45's polymer grip simulates the grip angle of the Model 1911, and the magazine release, slide stop, and thumb safety are located in virtually the same places as on the Model 1911.My favorite thing is to gather an assortment of objects and put them to use as plinking targets. Early on I found that charcoal briquettes make excellent targets and provide a satisfying puff of "smoke" when you center them. Empty shotgun shells also become challenging targets, as do the clay pigeons that are used in the shotgun shooting sports. You can just set them against the backstop or, better still, hang them by a string and let the breeze supply you with moving targets. Golf balls are also challenging targets. When you hit a golf ball with a .22 bullet it really takes off. While "golfing" with your favorite .22 repeater, just be sure to remember safety rule No. 4 and be aware of what's behind the target.Some of my favorite plinking targets come from raiding the refrigerator just prior to heading to the range. Now, I don't advocate shooting up perfectly good food, but sometimes stuff lingers a little too long in my 'fridge, and I'd a whole lot rather use it as targets than to just throw it in the trash. This includes tomatoes, apples, peaches, eggs, and heads of lettuce and cabbage. The possibilities are mind-boggling.Some pretty basic rules go hand in hand with each and every plinking session. The first is that you never shoot at anything made of glass. Nobody wants broken glass all over their range, creek bank, or other informal shooting location. Also be very careful about shooting at metal or any other hard surface that might result in a ricochet. And, finally, clean up the mess when you're finished shooting. Fired cartridge cases, cans, shotgun shells, golf balls, and all that other shooting detritus needs to be policed up, put in a trash container, or hauled off. The possible exception to this would be the charcoal briquettes and food products that are biodegradable.The front sight is a HiViz fiber-optic unitThe .22 Is Plinking KingOf course, we plinkers are free to enjoy our sport with just about whatever firearm happens to appeal to us. Bring along your shotgun, .45-70 carbine, matched pair of engraved Colt Peacemakers, or any other guns that melt your butter. I don't think I'm speaking out of turn when I say that the .22 rimfire cartridge is still the most popular plinker of them all. And being as how I make my living, I trust you'll understand when I say that my favorite plinking partner is some sort of .22 handgun.In fact, I recently had the chance to try out the latest version of Ruger's 22/45 Mark III pistol. I'm talking about the Mark III Hunter with the 4.5-inch barrel. Ruger's 22/45 series of .22 auto pistols is built around a polymer frame that simulates the same grip angle as the classic 1911 pistol. And just as on the Model 1911, Ruger's 22/45 has its magazine release mounted on the left side of the frame just behind the trigger. The new 22/45 also features a slide stop and thumb safety in virtually the same location as on the Model 1911.rear sight is adjustable and features a V-notch blade.Topside, the Ruger 22/45 Mark III Hunter is crafted from stainless steel and has a target-crowned, fluted, bull barrel. Again, barrel length is 4.5 inches on this new-for-2007 version. The front sight is a HiViz fiber-optic unit. Except for a subsonic Aguila 38-grain hollowpoint loading, the Ruger 22/45 ate up a variety of .22 factory loads without a bobble.The rear adjustable sight is standard Ruger fare with the addition of a V-notch rear sight blade. The combination of this V-notch rear blade and the fiber-optic front sight make for fast target acquisition. The pistol also comes with a Weaver-style scope base adapter for mounting a scope, electronic sight, or other sighting apparatus.The new 4.5-inch-barreled Ruger 22/45 Mark III Hunter was an accurate and reliable plinking partner.Magazine capacity of the Ruger 22/45 is 10 rounds. The pistol's overall length is 8.5 inches, and it weighs in at approximately 29 ounces.I gathered an assortment of popular .22 LR ammo and took the new Ruger 22/45 Mark III Hunter to the range. I set up bullseye targets at 25 yards and did my shooting from a sandbag rest. This Ruger 22/45 handled its shooting chores without a bobble--with one exception--and I suspect that I'll be able to tighten up these group sizes once I get a little more used to the fiber-optic front sight.RUGER 22/45 MARK IIIManufacturer:Sturm, Ruger & Co.Model:22/45 Mark IIIOperation:Blowback autoloaderCaliber:.22 Long RifleBarrel Length:4.5 inchesOverall Length:8.5 inchesWeight, empty29 ouncesSafety:Manual sear lock; magazine disconnect; loaded chamber indicator; internal key lockSights:Adjustable rear; fiber-optic frontStock:Integral polymerMagazine Capacity:10 roundsFinish: Black Zytel polymer frame; stainless-steel barrel, slide, and upper assembly Price:$487Here's the information on that exception. On my way out the door to the range, I grabbed a box of Aguila .22 ammo. I've got an assortment of Aguila ammunition, and it has always performed pretty darn well, so I was a bit surprised when this Ruger pistol wouldn't eject it. Being the trained investigator that I am, I finally looked at the box and discovered that I had picked up some of Aguila's subsonic .22 ammo. The low velocity combined with the 38-grain bullet just wasn't enough to cycle the pistol's action.Of course, once the requisite accuracy testing was out of the way, I loaded up the little Ruger and engaged in some "serious" plinking. I was able to bounce golf balls and empty shotgun shells all around the range. I just couldn't get enough of turning those charcoal briquettes into little puffs of smoke as they disintegrated. And splattering some big, brown hens' eggs, much too long in the 'fridge, all over the place was much too easy. If I wasn't a dedicated gun writer immersed in a serious gun test and evaluation you might have thought I was having a ball.I appreciate Ruger and Editor Joel Hutchcroft for giving me this opportunity to have some rimfire plinking fun. It's good mental health for a shooter. Sometimes we get so caught up in the serious stuff--handgun hunting and defensive training and competitive shooting--that we forget how much fun shooting can be.Shooting Ruger's 22/45 Mark III HunterFactory LoadVelocity (fps)Standard Deviation (fps)Extreme Spread (fps)25-yard Accuracy (inches)Remington 36-gr. HP98230732.50Winchester 37-gr. Super-X HP103222612.00Aguila 38-gr. Subsonic HP93711261.75CCI 40-gr. LRN86016441.75Winchester 40-gr. Match93613331.80NOTES: Accuracy is the average of five five-shot groups fired from a sandbag benchrest at 25 yards. Velocity is the average of 25 rounds measured 15 feet from the gun's muzzle.So, as your duly authorized Handgun Editor it is my duty to prescribe some relaxation for you. Remind yourself of the safety rules, round up some suitable targets, and spend the afternoon plinking. It'll make you smile. Oh, and while you're at it, try out this new Ruger 22/45 Mark III Hunter with the 4.5-inch barrel. It's a plinker's companion if ever I saw one. 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Play Therapy: Candice Kundert LISW
"Play Therapy is an approach used to communicate therapeutically with clients using toys, art materials, games and other play media, giving clients a safe and nurturing relationship in which they can explore and express feelings, gain insight into their own motivation and into their interactions with others, and learn and practice socially appropriate behaviors. The counseling in play therapy uses the natural language of children-play as the basis for the therapeutic interaction. In the play, much of what the child does and says takes the form of symbolic, metaphoric communication about her relationships and situations in the child's world." Eliana Gill
"According to the National Association for Play Therapy (1997), play therapy is the 'systematic use of a theoretical model to establish the interpersonal process in which trained play therapists use the therapeutic powers of play to help clients prevent or resolve psychological difficulties and achieve optimal growth and development'. Play therapy is usually used as an intervention approach for working with young children who lack the abstract verbal abilities to articulate their difficulties clearly enough to receive support and assistance from counselors. This strategy seems to work with children experiencing a broad range of difficulties. The Alderian play therapist uses the play therapy process to help children gain a better understanding of how they view themselves, others, and the world and learn new attitudes to replace self-defeating attitudes." By Dr. Terry Kottman, in "Partners in Play: An Alderian Approach to Play Therapy, 2003, second edition, published by the American Counseling Association.


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Millicent Arlene Smith was born in Key West, Florida but moved at the age of 4 years to be raised in Pittsburgh, PA. While managing a bookstore, Millicent met her friend psychic Ruth Lee, and shared her dream which Ruth interpreted that started Millicent writing the book The Next Step. Millicent Arlene Smith is a retired legal secretary. She is also has been seen in several movies as an extra. Her religious and spiritual background has made the foundation for allowing God to be present in her everyday life.


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Trimming back a fiddler lead fig
I have a fiddler leaf fig. It has grown to over 6' tall in my sun porch. I want to trim it down and hopefully have to branch out. I just don't know when I should do this. I would also like to root the cuttings and save them as new plants. Any ideas on how to do this would be helpful. Thanks
The best time to prune your fiddle leaf fig is in the spring when there will be plenty of light to fuel recovery and new growth. Try to prune in the spring or early summer.
Make each cut about half an inch from any leaves or the trunk. This allows your plant to properly heal without risk of infection to the main trunk or any remaining leaves. Remove and dispose of any dropped leaves or debris to keep germs and infections from spreading.
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Two locals graduate Tree Commission Academy
COSHOCTON - A graduation ceremony for Jim Marcentile and Connie Miller for the Tree Commission Academy will be from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Aug. 29 at Central Ohio Technical College, 200 N. Whitewoman St.
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