Tag: faith

Prayer for Saturday, February 8, 2020

in their own vainglorious imaginations: they may not only vainly boast, but also verily believe that they have destroyed the foundations.

Psalms 11:3

Quando fundamenta disperdat Dominus universa labia dolosa?

If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

The foundations can never totally and finally, yet may they partially be destroyed.

If they destroy not the foundations, it is no thanks to them, seeing all the world will bear them witness they have done their best (that is, their worst), what their might and malice could perform. Secondly, in their own vainglorious imaginations: they may not only vainly boast, but also verily believe that they have destroyed the foundations.

Archangel Uriel

In the Bible, Uriel is believed to be the angel that came to Noah to warn him about the coming flood.

Archangel Uriel is the archangel of wisdom and philosophical illumination. The name Uriel is pronounced YUR-ee-el and is translated “God is Light” or “Light of God.”

Being the embodiment of the Light of God can mean many things, so throughout history, Uriel’s angelic functions have been diverse and varied.

Uriel belongs to a group of angels known as the illuminated seraphim.

Archangel Uriel is one of the most powerful of all of the archangels, with the special ability of being able to reflect the Light of God.

God’s light is unimaginable to humans, so the closest that humans can get to being in the actual presence of God is to have His light reflected upon us by Archangel Uriel. For this reason, Uriel is also known as the ‘Angel of the Presence.’

Though angels do not have actual genders, Uriel has been most often portrayed throughout history with masculine features. He is associated with power, lightning, thunder, fire, and electricity.

Generally, Archangel Uriel is depicted as a guide, carrying a scroll on which you will find answers to all of your questions concerning your life path, and a staff or a bright lamp which he uses to guide you on your life path.

In the Bible, Uriel is believed to be the angel that came to Noah to warn him about the coming flood.

He is in the same category of historically important archangels as Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel. Like these high energy archangels, Uriel is also referred to as St. Uriel.

Uriel is a high energy spiritual being who acts as a special conduit of God’s great wisdom and illumination, working selflessly to illuminate all of humanity.

Archangel Uriel offers unconditional service to all of humanity, sharing the light of wisdom that illuminates all human souls.

Uriel isn’t mentioned in canonical religious texts from the world’s major religions, but he is mentioned significantly in major religious apocryphal texts. Apocryphal texts are religious works that were included in some early versions of the Bible but today are considered to be secondary in importance to the scripture of the Old and New Testaments.

The Book of Enoch (part of the Jewish and Christian Apocrypha) describes Uriel as one of seven archangels who preside over the world. Uriel warns the prophet Noah about the upcoming flood in Enoch chapter 10. In Enoch chapters 19 and 21, Uriel reveals that the fallen angels who rebelled against God will be judged and shows Enoch a vision of where they are “bound until the infinite number of the days of their crimes be completed.” (Enoch 21:3)

Say now Shibboleth

“Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right.”

A Shibboleth is any custom or tradition, usually a choice of phrasing or even a single word, that distinguishes one group of people from another. Shibboleths have been used throughout history in many societies as passwords, simple ways of self-identification, signaling loyalty and affinity, maintaining traditional segregation, or protecting from real or perceived threats.

The term originates from the Hebrew word shibbólet (שִׁבֹּלֶת), which literally means the part of a plant containing grain, such as the head of a stalk of wheat or rye; or less commonly “flood, torrent or ford” (possibly a head of grain by a water ford).

The modern use derives from an account in the Hebrew Bible, in which pronunciation of this word was used to distinguish Ephraimites, whose dialect used a differently sounding first consonant. The difference concerns the Hebrew letter shin, which is now pronounced as “S” (as in shoe).

“Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.” -Judges 12:6 KJV

A “furtive shibboleth” is a type of a shibboleth that identifies individuals as being part of a group, not based on their ability to pronounce one or more words, but on their ability to recognize a seemingly-innocuous phrase as a secret message.

Which brings the question; “Are you a traveling man?”