Job 19:21-27 ~ my Redeemer lives

"My Redeemer Lives" Nicole C. Mullen live in Cincinnati. Beautiful, such praise brings tears to my eyes.

 

Job 19:21-27  ~  (New International Version)

 

 ²¹ "Have pity on me, my friends, have pity,
       for the hand of God has struck me.

 ²² Why do you pursue me as God does?
       Will you never get enough of my flesh?

 ²³ "Oh, that my words were recorded,
       that they were written on a scroll,

 ²⁴ that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead,
       or engraved in rock forever! 

 ²⁵ I know that my Redeemer lives,
       and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. 

 

 ²⁶ And after my skin has been destroyed,
       yet in  my flesh I will see God;

 ²⁷ I myself will see him
       with my own eyes—I, and not another.
       How my heart yearns within me!

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2 Corinthians 13:8-14 

8 For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth. 9 For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for. 10 For this reason I write these things while I am away from you, that when I come I may not have to be severe in my use of the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.

 

11 Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another,  agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. 12 Greet one another with a holy kiss. 13 All the saints greet you. 

14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

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Prayer Request

My neighbor, Charlotte, has requested prayers (from every person she knows) for her good friend who came every day to help Charlotte during her recovery from breast cancer 12 years ago. 

Her friend discovered this year she has severely metastasized breast cancer at the same time her husband was discovered to have colon cancer. As the two parents, in their late 50s, were admitted to the hospital, their son was admitted to the same hospital having been in a motorcycle accident - losing both legs.  Charlotte is asking all Christians to pray for this family.  

(I'm sorry I've forgotten one name. Cindy and Lester, but God does know & I will post it when I see my neighbor again.) We are asked specifically to pray for the strength of all the family members as well as healing.

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Psalm 119:121-144 ~ keep steady my steps according to your promise

 March 25, 2010

Psalm 119:121-144

Ayin

121 I have done what is just and right;
do not leave me to my oppressors.
122 Give your servant a pledge of good;
let not the insolent oppress me.
123 My eyes long for your salvation
and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.
124 Deal with your servant according to your steadfast love,
and teach me your statutes.
125 I am your servant; give me understanding,
that I may know your testimonies!
126 It is time for the Lord to act,
for your law has been broken.
127 Therefore I love your commandments
above gold, above fine gold.
128 Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right;
I hate every false way.

Pe

129 Your testimonies are wonderful;
therefore my soul keeps them.
130 The unfolding of your words gives light;
it imparts understanding to the simple.
131 I open my mouth and pant,
because I long for your commandments.
132 Turn to me and be gracious to me,
as is your way with those who love your name.
133 Keep steady my steps according to your promise,
and let no iniquity get dominion over me.
134 Redeem me from man's oppression,
that I may keep your precepts.
135 Make your face shine upon your servant,
and teach me your statutes.
136 My eyes shed streams of tears,
because people do not keep your law.

Tsadhe

137 Righteous are you, O Lord,
and right are your rules.
138 You have appointed your testimonies in righteousness
and in all faithfulness.
139 My zeal consumes me,
because my foes forget your words.
140 Your promise is well tried,
and your servant loves it.
141 I am small and despised,
yet I do not forget your precepts.
142 Your righteousness is righteous forever,
and your law is true.
143 Trouble and anguish have found me out,
but your commandments are my delight.
144 Your testimonies are righteous forever;
give me understanding that I may live.

Psalm 119 is divided into 22 sections of 8 verses each. Each section has a title, such as "Aleph," "Beth," "Gimel," "Daleth," and so on. These titles are actually not words; they are the letters that make up the Hebrew alphabet which has 22 letters, so Psalm 119 has 22 sections. A Puritan Preacher, Rev. Thomas Manton wrote 130 Sermons on Psalm 119. The information in this one Psalm with 176 verses is vast.

This section has trouble finding the Psalmist & he cries out he has not done anything to deserve this trouble. A lot of life is looking for a solution to a tangled problem. This Psalm has the solution to all troubles. Patiently wait upon the Lord. Paul looked at trouble, with contentment, to see what Father God would make of tragedy, inconvenience, dire straits and weakness; he had curiosity to seek how God would use the situation to His Glory.

Psalm 107 is a great comfort when the wild winds of life howl. There is an analogy of men tossed on a ship in a ferocious storm having great fear. With Jesus Christ's name and faith in God, the ship is brought to a desired haven of peace.

Romans 13:11,12

¹¹And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. ¹²The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

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Song of Solomon 5 ~ radiant

Song of Solomon 5

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1 I came to my garden, my sister, my bride,

I gathered my myrrh with my spice,

I ate my honeycomb with my honey,

I drank my wine with my milk.

Eat, friends, drink,

and be drunk with love!

2 I slept, but my heart was awake.

A sound! My beloved is knocking.

“Open to me, my sister, my love,

my dove, my perfect one,

for my head is wet with dew,

my locks with the drops of the night.”

3 I had put off my garment;

how could I put it on?

I had bathed my feet;

how could I soil them?

4 My beloved put his hand to the latch,

and my heart was thrilled within me.

5 I arose to open to my beloved,

and my hands dripped with myrrh,

my fingers with liquid myrrh,

on the handles of the bolt.

6 I opened to my beloved,

but my beloved had turned and gone.

My soul failed me when he spoke.

I sought him, but found him not;

I called him, but he gave no answer.

7 The watchmen found me

as they went about in the city;

they beat me, they bruised me,

they took away my veil,

those watchmen of the walls.

8 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,

if you find my beloved,

that you tell him

I am sick with love.

9 What is your beloved more than another beloved,

O most beautiful among women?

What is your beloved more than another beloved,

that you thus adjure us?

10 My beloved is radiant and ruddy,

distinguished among ten thousand.

11 His head is the finest gold;

his locks are wavy,

black as a raven.

12 His eyes are like doves

beside streams of water,

bathed in milk,

sitting beside a full pool.

13 His cheeks are like beds of spices,

mounds of sweet-smelling herbs.

His lips are lilies,

dripping liquid myrrh.

14 His arms are rods of gold,

set with jewels.

His body is polished ivory,

bedecked with sapphires.

15 His legs are alabaster columns,

set on bases of gold.

His appearance is like Lebanon,

choice as the cedars.

16 His mouth is most sweet,

and he is altogether desirable.

This is my beloved and this is my friend,

O daughters of Jerusalem.

John 2:5-11

His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

6Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 7Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the jars with water." And they filled them up to the brim. 8And he said to them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast." So they took it. 9When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom 10and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now." 11This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. His disciples believed in him.

A wedding Jesus attended and a celebration of marriage. What would they have in common?

Purification becoming wine. To be drunk with love. A heart that is awake. Radiance. Eyes of a dove. A beloved, a friend. A manifestation of God's glory. A belief in enduring love. 

Okay. How do you feel reading the Song of Solomon?  Pleasure, discomfort, guilt. The usual emotions to read this. Life and sexuality are like a high wind storm at sea.  Solomon wrote this and later said in Ecclesiastes 7 that he hadn't found a good, worthwhile woman. During his 700 marriages. No one can stand firm to say they can write the Bible for our guidelines. Yet, you could safely say Solomon fell into the trap written by the Eagles song: "you can spend your life making money, you can spend your love making time." Solomon was making too much time with too many women. Solomon never spent time "being" the right person. He seems stuck in the physical perfections.  A whole lot of love is about loving what isn't so perfect in the people you love.  When we read Song of Solomon we are reading not just about young love, but the ideals we see in the people we love.


It's almost (tragically) funny how the disciples react when Jesus says God doesn't really want or really approve of divorce:


Matthew 19:10
The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”

And how to react when you are the parent? My good friend from college went home in elementary school to ask her mom about the facts of life - her friends were kidding her on her lack of knowledge. She knew her older sister was illegitimate.  So, her mom, a good Christian who had later married and had huge life in her Church told her this:


"I've thought about what I would say to you about this a long time, I haven't always lived perfectly. Sexuality is an enticing thing, but I can tell you this... it is wonderful with the one you love. Love is a wonderful thing." She went on to tell my friend commitment, marriage and honor is part of real love.

Why did God direct it to be so?

Genesis 1:27

So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God he created him;

male and female he created them.

7then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

When Adam was made both male and female, he was the image of God. Eve is part of God, created from Adam. Adam & Eve together are the image of God. Marriage is about two souls seeking to live life as one soul. To grow up, to care for someone as deeply as ourselves, to lift our concerns up.

Genesis 2:21-25

21So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23Then the man said,

"This at last is bone of my bones

and flesh of my flesh;

she shall be called Woman,

because she was taken out of Man."

24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

Proverbs 5:15-19

15 Drink water from your own cistern,

flowing water from your own well.

16 Should your springs be scattered abroad,

streams of water in the streets?

17 Let them be for yourself alone,

and not for strangers with you.

18 Let your fountain be blessed,

and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe.

Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight;

be intoxicated always in her love.

We have heard for the last 3 decades 1/2 of all marriages end in divorce. More reliable statistics would say 2 in 3 marriages last. Isn't it great news to hear with the economic downturn more marriages are staying together. Statistics say when two people determine to stay married within a rocky relationship, within 5 years, that commitment brings both people to saying the marriage is actually good again. 

1 Timothy 6:10-12

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

11But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

2 Thessalonians 3:5

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

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Ephesians 2 ~ by the blood of Christ

Ephesians 2     ~ (English Standard Version)

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1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body [flesh] and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But [And] God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— 12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, [sojourners] but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by [in] the Spirit.



This passage is the reason we should be able to see the difference in actions, in speech - we are Christians.  I asked a man in our Church how he was reacted to, in the business world, as a Christian. He said just fine, he experiences respect because other see him as giving fairness with kindness.


1 Corinthians 7:23
  You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.

i.e.  

in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—  among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body [flesh] and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath


Psalm 23:6
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord
forever. 


Matthew 5:14

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden."

Psalm 67:1-2

May God be gracious to us and bless us
   and make his face to shine upon us,
                         Selah
that your way may be known on earth,
   your saving power among all nations.


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Psalm 141 ~ make good

Psalm 141 ~ (New American Bible)

1

LORD, I call to you; come quickly to help me; listen to my plea when I call.
2
Let my prayer be incense before you; my uplifted hands an evening sacrifice.
3
Set a guard, LORD, before my mouth, a gatekeeper at my lips.
4
Do not let my heart incline to evil, or yield to any sin. I will never feast upon the fine food of evildoers.
5
3 Let the just strike me; that is kindness; let them rebuke me; that is oil for my head. All this I shall not refuse, but will pray despite these trials.
6
When their leaders are cast over the cliff, all will learn that my prayers were heard.
7
As when a farmer plows a field into broken clods, so their bones will be strewn at the mouth of Sheol.
8
My eyes are upon you, O GOD, my Lord; in you I take refuge; do not strip me of life.
9
Guard me from the trap they have set for me, from the snares of evildoers.
10
Into their own nets let all the wicked fall, while I make good my own escape.


How close is the Lord God, the Almighty, Father God, from our prayers? He dwells within us and He completely understands all of our prayer as a fragrance. He understands all of us as well as we know ourselves.

My Church uses incense on High Holy Days, everyone afterward has a comment either favorable or unfavorable. How does do the Scriptures record incense?


The first mention of incense is almost the beginning of the Scriptures (Exodus 25), so I would have to say God is pro - incense.

Revelation 5:7-9
7 And he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne. 8 And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 9 And they sang a new song, saying,

"Worthy are you to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation


Revelation 8:4
and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel.

Fragrance in prayer is understandable when compared with this verse:

Romans 8:26-27
26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. 27 And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

Prayer is always something Father God comprehends. He is never like, as Elijah taunted the idol Baal - asleep.

Luke 18:1
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.

May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

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MEMORIES worth sharing

 Let's consider a Happier Time. Historically.

Hippies!

They are serious. And they are intent on Significant, Substantial and Big Change. 

The Words spoken are not going to put them in jail or nationally targeted.  Because they don't have Covid Pandemic Medical or Emotionally Challenged Pandemic Brain.

Last week on January 6th, we embarked on a week filled with highly emotional shock, anger, fear, and anguish.

The only scenes bring tears to my face, was the first set of Capital Guards chatting amicably with protesters at the door. It seemed to be working. Like a vastly, overly tall Lego tower. And then an initial rush of people who stood in awe of the Capital Rotunda going with cell phones held high proudly, quietly moving like bird murmuration.

Lambs. Turkeys looking up in the rain. Disaster. So incredibly in trouble. Shoulda woulda shoulda stayed well outside. Oh my God, oh man. Covid Brain. Medical or Emotionally Challenged. 

And then I was so mad at the BBC. This situation is like a triple Onion. There are so many levels of emotions.  And the BBC grabbed up the American anger and put a pretty and easy label of bad this and bad that.

Let's look at some onion layers.

 Anger, Distrust, Civil Liberties, MISTAKE, Horrible, 4 Levels of Police Protection in D.C. who have one job to do - protect and serve in scheduled times of Protest (like the Night of Presidential Nomination), and the failure of police assigned to show up in even representative numbers,  (Why?) Then 85 Million Angry Americans about Funny Business new ways of Covid Voting. No Day in Court to show full examination of the New Funny Business Voting. News bait of the idiots who will say the worst things, without the power to accomplish the worst things and get attention. Severe fear, anger and reprisal of people who had their lives at risk. ANGER. 

Horror, clickbait and puffs of wind.

In fact, take note, the Leaders of Congress are dismissive. 

Creating more horror by clickbaits to see nut jobs are the ones getting bite clips in the news. In reality, their unreasonable rhetoric is not allowing them any more power in the United States Congress. Take note, the leaders of Congress are dismissive. Their comments do not elevate them.  Please stay clear of their pothole.

"Not" Helping.

However, this is inflammatory and unuseful commentary about vengeful anyone is creating more distrust and anger. About what you see after Pandemic. Not helping Covid Brain from medical and emotional distress time to heal. Recognize the people with threats do not have the power to establish their lack of compassion words.

If you don't like Twitter, don't use it.  

Twitter will see profit failure and then Twitter will either fail or change. It's the Business World. Let's not be  overly dramatic about Twitter. Facebook is allowing opinions shared and doesn't want the backlash of Twitter. Boycott and Peaceful decisions keep the whole Life moving.

Technology. The Thing about having massive TV stations and Hollywood.

The times they are a changing. The non-famous and the start-ups are creating alternatives. Edward and I were discussing how we laughed when remote controls came out. Gee, if you can't walk over to the TV and change the 4 stations and adjust the volume - how lazy are you. History. Now you'd have to dial through a million channels.  If you don't want to watch rhetoric. Change the Station, the provider, the truth is all of the media is changing.

Rupert Murdoch has been in business for years and has a Strong clue about American viewpoints. Murdoch knows the political direction.  And will stay in Business. He is Liberal, and he deals with owning Disney and Fox News. He is changing up Fox News back to the viewer Viewpoint. Why? Rupert Murdoch  has an idea how to stay in business. He isn't going to tell 85 Million Viewers - toughskie lucskie.  Smart, smart, smart. Murdoch is like the Secretary of State. He knows how to stay alive in tough times and keep the liberals and the conservatives in the middle and talking. This is called making the American Republic stay alive. Google and YouTube are also keeping the conversation going instead of lockdown.

And if we keep the conversation alive with polite consideration, perhaps the DC Police are going to be assigned to the Presidential Nomination and the January 6th Planned Demonstration at the United States Capital.

So far this year, The White House, The United States Congress, several State Capitals, Storefront Owners and the Police and Police Stations have seen terrible, fearsome, gruesome Historically live wire Pandemic Brain.

Sit down and shut up is not the American Conversation of Protect and Serve The United States of America Republic.

Last week, I was really, really upset with many things and one of them, as I said, was the BBC. Yesterday the BBC decided with significant cooler, rational temperature to find out what this clamor is all about. Not a label of "bad, bad, bad, bad." The BBC did not go with sound bites and did investigative and mature collective reasoning into the Onion of situations in the USA Politically. It was fair and it was reasonable. Not inflammatory. A conversation for all going forth of sincere hope the Republic of the USA continues.

Remember in the Spring of 2020, The BBC did an investigative article on what the brain looks like

with Covid. 

COVID

Not being American, the BBC did not include the lyrics,  "One of these Brains is not like the Other." With the Refrain: "One of these Brains is not like the Other."

What is going to happen with Wild Comments of Power Unobtainable and Threats?

Winners and Wisdom

C 1120 B.C. 

(Counting back from Pharaoh Seti II and his mention in Salt Papyrus 124 with "Mosey" his brother and the Tale of Two Brothers)

During the First Century AD, this Chapter came to be major discussion during the First Century A.D.

This was considered similar to Mary, Virgin Mother of Jesus Christ. For me, I'm reminded of Marie Antoinette gaining the whole world to lose her soul and forfeit her children.

It's important to note The Time of Judges was Chaos. Judges typically didn't last even six years. Jephthah didn't last either.

  

Judges 11

11 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah. 2 And Gilead's wife also bore him sons. And when his wife's sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You shall not have an inheritance in our father's house, for you are the son of another woman.” 3 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob, and worthless fellows collected around Jephthah and went out with him.

4 After a time the Ammonites made war against Israel. 5 And when the Ammonites made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob. 6 And they said to Jephthah, “Come and be our leader, that we may fight against the Ammonites.” 7 But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and drive me out of my father's house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?” 8 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “That is why we have turned to you now, that you may go with us and fight against the Ammonites and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.” 9 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight against the Ammonites, and the Lord gives them over to me, I will be your head.” 10 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The Lord will be witness between us, if we do not do as you say.” 11 So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord at Mizpah.

12 Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, “What do you have against me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?” 13 And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel on coming up from Egypt took away my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably.” 14 Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites 15 and said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites, 16 but when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh. 17 Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let us pass through your land,’ but the king of Edom would not listen. And they sent also to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh.

18 “Then they journeyed through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab. 19 Israel then sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to our country,’ 20 but Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory, so Sihon gathered all his people together and encamped at Jahaz and fought with Israel. 21 And the Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that country. 22 And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan. 23 So then the Lord, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of them? 24 Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And all that the Lord our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess. 25 Now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend against Israel, or did he ever go to war with them? 26 While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, 300 years, why did you not deliver them within that time? 27 I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me. The Lord, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon.” 28 But the king of the Ammonites did not listen to the words of Jephthah that he sent to him.

Jephthah's Tragic Vow

29 Then the Spirit of the Lord was upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites. 30 And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, 31 then whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the Lord's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.” 32 So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the Lord gave them into his hand. 33 And he struck them from Aroer to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a great blow. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel.

34 Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter. 35 And as soon as he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you have become the cause of great trouble to me. For I have opened my mouth to the Lord, and I cannot take back my vow.” 36 And she said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to the Lord; do to me according to what has gone out of your mouth, now that the Lord has avenged you on your enemies, on the Ammonites.” 37 So she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me: leave me alone two months, that I may go up and down on the mountains and weep for my virginity, I and my companions.” 38 So he said, “Go.” Then he sent her away for two months, and she departed, she and her companions, and wept for her virginity on the mountains. 39 And at the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow that he had made. She had never known a man, and it became a custom in Israel 40 that the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year. 

The majority opinion is Jephthah killed his daughter as an act of human sacrifice.  GOD did not favorably look upon this murderous ideal. There is, however, a minority opinion that Jephthah's daughter spent the rest of her life in seclusion. 

You'd have to wonder because it's not "exactly" recorded what conclusion the rash, unwise father "exactly" did.  Hmm. Lean to mercy.

The point being comments are important. Even during Covid.

Jacob Blesses His Sons.  c 1450 B.C.  

(Counting back from Thutmose III recording the Goshen the first time in Egypt's Tax History)

What is going to create more Emotional Upset, terrible Brain waves, than discovering all your children, 11 sons and 1 Daughter of Jacob, concealed Joseph was alive. And, add into this, almost losing his son Benjamin during the process. Scriptures never once record anything remotely looking like an apology. Ruben is the only son who tried to help his father Jacob to maintain Joseph's life. But Ruben has slept with his father's wife. In the middle of what God has called the Righteousness of Israel - this is The Situation.

Jacob decides he is going to Bless the Family and Continue the conversation with all the errant children. The Blessings of the 12 Sons, presumably his daughter had died, includes honesty and forgiveness. Not denial. A clear look at all the Situations of this mess.

Never forget Israel is here today for the Blessing of Forgiveness and the Way forward in the trust required of truthful speech.

1 Corinthians 16

Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. 2 On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come. 

3 And when I arrive, I will send those whom you accredit by letter to carry your gift to Jerusalem. 4 If it seems advisable that I should go also, they will accompany me.

5 I will visit you after passing through Macedonia, for I intend to pass through Macedonia, 6 and perhaps I will stay with you or even spend the winter, so that you may help me on my journey, wherever I go. 7 For I do not want to see you now just in passing. I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits. 8 But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, 9 for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

10 When Timothy comes, see that you put him at ease among you, for he is doing the work of the Lord, as I am. 11 So let no one despise him. Help him on his way in peace, that he may return to me, for I am expecting him with the brothers.

12 Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brothers, but it was not at all his will to come now. He will come when he has opportunity.

13 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 14 Let all that you do be done in love.

15 Now I urge you, brothers—you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints— 16 be subject to such as these, and to every fellow worker and laborer. 17 I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus because they have made up for your absence, 18 for they refreshed my spirit as well as yours. Give recognition to such people.

19 The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord. 20 All the brothers send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

21 I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. 22 If anyone has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!

 23 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. 24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus.  Amen.

Ghandi once said he liked our Christ, but not our Christians. 

Pal, Ghandi didn't know his Christian Bible. 1 Corinthians proves that.  And he didn't see the future, Peace arrived with the help of the Christian UK Empire. Peaceful negotiations. So Christians are likeable. 

Christians are real people and messy.  

Mostly this wouldn't be considered a Corinth to Paul, peace and success story. And we find like Jacob, as Father God, we find Love and Care.

Paraphrased from United States Conference Catholic Bishops.

Paul’s First Letter to the Church of Corinth provides us a fuller insight into the early Christian community life more than any other book of the New Testament.  

Paul, founded the community and continued to look after it as a father

He responds both to questions and situations addressed to him. He reveals much about himself, teaching, and the Way Paul conducted his work of apostleship. 

Some things are puzzling because we have the correspondence only in one direction. For the person studying this letter, it seems to raise as many questions as it answers, but without it our knowledge of church life in the middle of the first century would be much poorer.

Paul established a Christian community in Corinth about the year 51

His second missionary journey. The city, a commercial crossroads, was a melting pot full of devotees of various pagan cults and marked by a measure of moral depravity not unusual in a great seaport. 

The Acts of the Apostles reveals moderate success for Paul’s efforts among the Jews in Corinth at first, but that they soon turned against him (Acts 18:1–8). 

More fruitful, his year and a half spent among the Gentiles (Acts 18:11), which won to the faith many of the city’s poor and underprivileged (1 Cor 1:26). 

After Paul's departure the eloquent Apollos, an Alexandrian Jewish Christian, rendered great service to the community, expounding “from the scriptures that the Messiah is Jesus” (Acts 18:24–28).

The Good Times were in peril, quickly.

While Paul was in Ephesus on his third journey (1 Cor 16:8; Acts 19:1–20), he received disquieting news about Corinth. 

The community was in open factionalism, i.e. bad shape.

Members were identifying themselves exclusively with individual Christian leaders and interpreting Christian teaching as superior wisdom for the initiated few (1 Cor 1:10–4:21). Gnosis. The community lacked decisiveness when one of its members who was living publicly in an incestuous union (1 Cor 5:1–13). Other members engaged in legal conflicts in pagan courts of law (1 Cor 6:1–11); still others may have participated in religious prostitution (1 Cor 6:12–20) or temple sacrifices (1 Cor 10:14–22).

The community’s Ills

In the celebration of the Eucharist, certain members discriminated against others. Drank too freely at the agape, or fellowship meal, and denied Christian social courtesies to the poor among the membership (1 Cor 11:17–22). Charisms such as ecstatic prayer, attributed freely to the impulse of the Holy Spirit, were more highly prized than works of charity (1 Cor 13:1–2, 8), and were used at times in a disorderly way (1 Cor 14:1–40). Women appeared at the assembly without the customary head-covering (1 Cor 11:3–16), and perhaps were quarreling over their right to address the assembly (1 Cor 14:34–35).

Paul had to deal concerned matters of conscience 

The eating of meat sacrificed to idols (1 Cor 8:1–13), the use of sex in marriage (1 Cor 7:1–7), and the attitude to be taken by the unmarried toward marriage *1 Cor 7:25–40). Then calling for Paul’s attention, for some members of the community, despite their belief in the resurrection of Christ, were denying the possibility of general bodily resurrection. Heaven itself was in question.

Paul the Loving, Father.

Paul wrote this letter from Ephesus year 56. 

The majority of the Corinthian Christians may well have been quite faithful. 

Paul writes on their behalf. He writes with confidence in the authority of his apostolic mission. Paul presumes the Corinthians, despite their deficiencies, will Spiritually Triumph in Jesus Christ. Paul does not hesitate to exercise his authority as his judgment in each situation, even going so far as to promise a direct confrontation (1 Cor 4:18–21).

God, Jacob and Paul. Our Call to go forth.

The Bible Well, Soundly and With Love tells the mind and character of Paul. 

Paul recognizes that he is only one servant of God among many and generously acknowledges the labors of Apollos (1 Cor 3:5–8). He provides us in this letter with many valuable examples of his method of theological reflection and exposition. He always treats the questions at issue on the level of the purity of Christian teaching and conduct.

Was this Word of God Successful and Fruitful?

Timothy was a young, young person. And Timothy lived to be old age. In 1945, the full remains of Timothy, were found marked and discovered from year 1239 in Termoli Cathedral, in Termoli, in the province of Campobasso, central Italy.

Civil Unrest in the USA

1783 – Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783, June 20. Anti-government protest by soldiers of the Continental Army against the Congress of the Confederation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1786 – Shays' Rebellion, August 29, 1786 – February 3, 1787, Western Massachusetts
1786 – Paper Money Riot, Sept. 20, Exeter, New Hampshire
1788 – Doctors Mob Riot, New York City
1791–1794 – Whiskey Rebellion, Western Pennsylvania (anti-excise tax on whiskey)
1799 – Fries Rebellion, 1799–1800, Tax revolt by Pennsylvania Dutch farmers Pennsylvania
19th century
1800–1849
1824 – Hard Scrabble and Snow Town Riots, 1824 & 1831 respectively, Providence, RI
1829 – Cincinnati riots of 1829, August 15–22, Cincinnati, Ohio
1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion, August 21–23, Southampton County, Virginia
1834 – Anti-abolitionist riot, New York City
1834 – Attack on Canterbury Female Boarding School, Canterbury, Connecticut
1835 – Baltimore bank riot, August 6–9
1835 – Gentleman's Riot, numerous riots throughout 1835 targeting abolitionists[2], Boston, Massachusetts
1835 – Snow Riot, Washington D.C.
1835 – Destruction of Noyes Academy, Canaan, New Hampshire
1835–1836 – Toledo War, a boundary dispute between states of Michigan and Ohio
1836 – Cincinnati Riots of 1836, Cincinnati, Ohio
1837 – Flour Riots, New York City
1837 – Murder of Elijah Lovejoy
1838 – Burning of Pennsylvania Hall
1839 – Honey War, Iowa-Missouri border
1839 – Anti-Rent War, Hudson Valley, New York
1841 – Dorr Rebellion, Rhode Island
1841 – Cincinnati Riots of 1841, early Sept., Cincinnati, Ohio
1842 – Lombard Street Riot, (a.k.a. the Abolition Riots), August 1, Philadelphia
1842 – Muncy Abolition riot of 1842
1844 – Philadelphia Nativist Riots, May 6–8, July 6–7, Philadelphia (anti-Catholic)
1849 – Astor Place riot, May 10, New York City, (anti-British)
1850–1859
1851 – Christiana Riot, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
1853 – Cincinnati Riot of 1853, Cincinnati, Ohio
1855 – Cincinnati riots of 1855
1855 – Lager Beer Riot, April 21, Chicago, Illinois
1855 – Portland Rum Riot, June 2, Portland, Maine
1855 – Bloody Monday, Know-Nothing Party riot, August 6, Louisville, Kentucky (anti-immigration)
1855 – Detroit brothel riots, 1855–1859, Detroit, Michigan {Source: Detroit Free Press' "The Detroit Almanac", 2001.}
1856 – Pottawatomie massacre, May 24, Franklin County, Kansas
1856 – Know-Nothing Riot of 1856, Baltimore, Maryland
1856 – San Francisco Vigilance Movement, San Francisco, California
1857 – Know-Nothing Riot, June 1, Washington D.C. (anti-immigration)
1857 – New York City Police Riot, June 16, New York City
1857 – Dead Rabbits Riot, July 4–5, New York City
1858 – Know-Nothing Riot 1858, New Orleans, Louisiana
1859 – John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, October 16, Harpers Ferry, Virginia
1860–1869
1861-1865: American Civil War, April 12- April 9, United States
1861 – Baltimore Riot of 1861, April 19, (a.k.a. the Pratt Street Riot), Baltimore, Maryland
1861 – Camp Jackson Affair, May 10, Union forces clash with Confederate sympathizers on the streets of St. Louis, 28 dead, 100 injured., St. Louis, Missouri
1862 – Buffalo riot of 1862, August 12, Buffalo, New York
1863 – Detroit race riot of 1863, March 6
1863 – Southern bread riots, April 2, Riots which broke out in the South during the Civil War due to food shortages throughout the Confederate States of America
1863 – Battle of Fort Fizzle, June, also known as the Holmes County Draft Riots, active resistance to the draft during the Civil War, Holmes County, Ohio
1863 – New York City draft riots, July 13–16, (anti-draft)
1864 – Charleston Riot, March 28, Charleston, Illinois
1866 – Memphis Riots of 1866, May 1–3, Race riot that broke out during Reconstruction, Memphis, Tennessee
1866 – New Orleans riot, July 30, New Orleans, Louisiana
1868 – Pulaski Riot, Pulaski, Tennessee
1870–1879

The New York Orange Riot of 1871, between Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants.
1870 – First New York City Orange riot
1870 – Kirk-Holden war, July–Nov., Caswell and Alamance counties North Carolina
1870 – Mamaroneck Riot, labor riot between Italian and Irish laborers
1871 – Second New York City Orange riot
1871 – Meridian race riot of 1871, March, Meridian, Mississippi
1871 – Los Angeles anti-Chinese riot, Los Angeles, California
1873 – Colfax massacre, April 13, Colfax, Louisiana
1874 – Election Riot of 1874, Barbour County, Alabama
1874 – Tompkins Square Riot, New York City
1874 – Battle of Liberty Place, New Orléans, Louisiana
1876 – South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876, South Carolina
1877 – Widespread rioting occurred across the US as part of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877:
Baltimore railroad strike in Baltimore, Maryland
Chicago railroad strike of 1877, Chicago, IL
Philadelphia Railroad Strike, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Railway Riots, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Reading Railroad massacre, Reading, Pennsylvania
Saint Louis general strike, July, East St. Louis, Illinois
Scranton General Strike, in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Shamokin uprising, Shamokin, Pennsylvania
1877 – San Francisco Riot of 1877
1880–1889
1880 – 1880 Garret Mountain May Day riot, May 1, Paterson, New Jersey
1882 – Greenwood, New York, insurrection of 1882
1884 – Cincinnati riots of 1884, March 28–30, Cincinnati, Ohio
1885 – Rock Springs massacre, September 2, 1885, riot between Chinese miners and white miners; 28 killed, 15 injured, Rock Springs, Wyoming
1886 – Seattle riot of 1886, February 6–9, Seattle, Washington
1886 – Haymarket riot, May 4, Chicago, Illinois
1886 – Bay View Massacre, May 4; 1400 workers march for eight hour work day; 7 killed and several more wounded after confrontation with National Guard. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1887 - Thibodaux Massacre, November 22 - 25; a racial attack mounted by white paramilitary groups in Thibodaux, Louisiana in November 1887 Thibodaux, Louisiana
1888 – Jaybird-Woodpecker War, 1888–90, violent post-Reconstruction political conflict in Texas. Fort Bend County, Texas
1890–1899
1891 – Hennessy Affair, New Orleans, Louisiana
1892 – Homestead strike, July 6, 1892, Homestead, Pennsylvania
1892–1893 – Mitcham War, Clarke County, Alabama
1894 – May Day riots of 1894, May 1, Cleveland, Ohio
1894 – Pullman strike participants burn World's Columbian Exposition buildings, Chicago, Illinois
1894 – Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike, coal mining regions
1895 – New Orleans dockworkers riot, New Orleans, Louisiana
1897 – Lattimer massacre, September 1897, near Hazleton, Pennsylvania
1898 – Battle of Virden, October 12, Coal strike; 11 killed, 35 wounded, Virden, Illinois
1898 – Wilmington insurrection, November 10, Wilmington, North Carolina
1899 – Pana riot, April 10, Coal mine labor conflict; 7 killed, 6 wounded, Pana, Illinois
1899 – Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor confrontation of 1899
20th century
1900–1909
1900 – Akron Riot of 1900, Akron, Ohio
1900 – New Orleans Riot
1901 – Denver Riots, Denver, Colorado[citation needed]
1901 – New York Race Riots[citation needed]
1901 – Pierce City Riots, Pierce City, Missouri
1902 – Liverpool Riots, Denver, Colorado[citation needed]
1903 – Colorado Labor Wars, 1903–1904
1903 – Anthracite Coal Strike, Eastern Pennsylvania
1903 – Evansville Race Riot, Evansville, Indiana[citation needed]
1903 – Motormen's Riot, Richmond, Virginia[citation needed]
1905 – 1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, April 7 - July 19, Conflict between the Teamsters Union and the Employers' Association of Chicago by the end, 21 people killed and 416 injured, mostly workers. Chicago, IL
1906 – Rioting and looting after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 – Atlanta Riots, Atlanta, Georgia
1907 – Bellingham riots, Bellingham, Washington
1908 – Springfield Race Riot, Springfield, Illinois
1909 – Greek Town riot, February 21, South Omaha, Nebraska
1910–1919
1910 – Johnson–Jeffries riots
1910–1919 – Bandit War Southern Texas
1910 – Philadelphia general strike (1910), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1912 – Lawrence textile strike, Lawrence, Massachusetts (January to March)
1912 – Grabow riot (July 7)
1913 – Wheatland Riot, August 3, Wheatland, California
1913 – Paterson silk strike, Feb. 25-July 28 Paterson, New Jersey
1913 – Copper Country Strike of 1913–1914, Calumet, Michigan
1913 - Colorado Coalfield War, Sept. 23-April 29, 1914, Southern Colorado
1913 – Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913, Oct. 30-Nov. 7, Indianapolis, Indiana
1914 – Ludlow massacre, April 20, Ludlow, Colorado
1916 – Preparedness Day bombing, July 22, San Francisco, California
1916 – Everett massacre, November 5, Everett, Washington
1917 – East St. Louis Race Riots, July 2, St. Louis, Missouri & East St. Louis, Illinois
1917 - Chester race riot, July 25-29, Chester, Pennsylvania
1917 – Springfield Vigilante Riot, Springfield, Missouri
1917 – Green Corn Rebellion, Aug. 3, A brief popular uprising advocating for the rural poor and against military conscription, Central Oklahoma
1917 – Houston Race riot, August 23, Houston, Texas
1917 – St. Paul Streetcar Riots, October and December, St. Paul, Minnesota
1918 – Detroit trolley riot, Detroit, Michigan {Source: Detroit Free Press' The Detroit Almanac, 2001.}
1919 – Seattle General Strike, Feb. 6-11, Seattle, Washington
1919 – May Day Riots, May 1, Cleveland, Ohio, Boston, Massachusetts, New York City, New York (state)
1919 – Red Summer, white riots against blacks
Blakeley, Georgia (February 8)
Memphis, Tennessee (March 14)
Morgan County, West Virginia (April 10)
Jenkins County, Georgia (April 13)
Charleston, South Carolina (May 10)
Sylvester, Georgia (May 10)
New London, Connecticut (May 29)
Putnam County, Georgia (May 27–29)
Monticello, Mississippi (May 31)
Memphis, Tennessee (June 13)
New London, Connecticut (June 13)
Annapolis, Maryland (June 27)
Macon, Mississippi (June 27)
Bisbee, Arizona (July 3)
Dublin, Georgia (July 6)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (July 7)
Coatesville, Pennsylvania (July 8)
Tuscaloosa, Alabama (July 9)
Longview, Texas (July 10-12)
Garfield Park riot of 1919 (July 14)
Port Arthur, Texas (July 15)
Washington, D.C. (July 19-24)
Norfolk, Virginia (July 21)
New Orleans, Louisiana (July 23)
Darby, Pennsylvania (July 23)
Hobson City, Alabama (July 26)
Chicago, Illinois (July 27 Aug 3)
Newberry, South Carolina (July 28)
Bloomington, Illinois (July 31)
Syracuse, New York (July 31)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (July 31)
Hattiesburg, Mississippi (August 4)
Texarkana, Texas riot of 1919 (August 6)
New York, New York (August 21)
Knoxville, Tennessee (August 30)
Ellenton, South Carolina (September 15–21)
Omaha, Nebraska (September 28–29)
Elaine, Arkansas (October 1–2)
Baltimore, Maryland (October 1–2)
Corbin, Kentucky (October 31, 1919)
1919 – Annapolis riot of 1919, June 27, Annapolis, Maryland
1919 – Boston Police Strike, September 9 – 11, Boston, Massachusetts
1919 – Steel Strike of 1919, September 22 – January 8 Pennsylvania
1919 – Centralia Massacre, November 11, Centralia, Washington
1920–1929
1920 – Battle of Matewan, May 20, Matewan, West Virginia
1920 – Ocoee massacre, November 2–3, Ocoee, Florida
1921 – Tulsa Race Massacre, May 31 – June 1, Tulsa, Oklahoma
1921 – Battle of Blair Mountain, August–September, Logan County, West Virginia
1922 – Herrin Massacre, June 21–22, Herrin, Illinois
1922 – Straw Hat Riot, September 13–15, New York City, New York
1922 – Perry race riot, December 14–15, Perry, Florida
1923 – Rosewood Massacre, January 1–7, Rosewood, Florida
1925 – Ossian Sweet incident, September, Detroit, Michigan
1927 – Poughkeepsie, New York[further explanation needed] Blacks were targeted, but rioters also attacked Greeks, Puerto Ricans and Chinese in the community where Blacks lived.
1927 – Yakima Valley Anti-Filipino Riot, November 8-11, Yakima Valley
1927 – Columbine Mine Massacre, November 21, Serene, Colorado
1929 – Loray Mill strike, Gastonia, North Carolina
1930–1939
1930 – Watsonville Riots, January 19–23, Watsonville, California
1931 – Battle of Evarts, May 5, Harlan County, Kentucky
1931 – The Housing Protests, August 3, Chicago, Illinois
1931 – Hawaii Riot, Hawaii
1932 – Bonus Army March, Spring/Summer 1932, Washington, D.C.
1932 – Ford Hunger March, March 7, 3,000 unemployed workers march on Ford Motors, five are killed, River Rouge plant, Dearborn, Michigan
1934 – Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1934 – Auto-Lite strike, April 4 – June 3, the "Battle of Toledo" riot, Toledo, Ohio
1934 – 1934 West Coast Longshore Strike, May 9 – October 12, San Francisco Bay Area, California; Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington
1934 – Textile workers strike (1934)
1934 – Detroit World Series riot, Oct. 10, Detroit, Michigan {Source: Detroit Free Press' The Detroit Almanac, 2001.}
1935 – Harlem Riot, March 19–20, New York City
1935 – Southern Tenant Farmers' Union Riot, Arkansas
1935 – Terre Haute General Strike, July 22–23, A labor dispute between an enameling company and a labor union led to a two-day general strike. Indiana National Guard was called out and martial law was declared by the Governor. The city was under a state of martial law for six months. It was the third general strike in U.S. History. Terre Haute, Indiana
1937 – Flint Sit-Down Strike, General Motors' Fisher Body Plant, Flint, Michigan
1937 – Battle of the Overpass, May 26, Dearborn, Michigan {Source: Detroit Free Press' The Detroit Almanac, 2001.}
1937 – Republic Steel Strike, May 30, Chicago, Illinois
1939 – U.S. Nazi Riot, New York City
1940–1949
1942 – Sojourner Truth Homes Riot, February 28, Detroit, Michigan
1943 – Beaumont race riot of 1943, June, Beaumont, Texas
1943 – Zoot Suit Riots, July 3, Los Angeles, California (anti-Hispanic and anti-zoot suit)
1943 – Detroit race riot of 1943, June 20–21, Detroit, Michigan
1943 – Harlem riot of 1943, August 1–3, New York City, New York
1946 – Columbia race riot of 1946, February 25–26, Columbia, Tennessee
1946 – Battle of Athens (1946), August, revolt by citizens against corrupt local government, McMinn County, Tennessee
1946 – Airport Homes race riots, Chicago, Illinois
1947 – Fernwood Park race riot, mid-August, Fernwood, Chicago, IL
1949 – Fairground Park riot, June 21, St. Louis Missouri
1949 – Anacostia Pool Riot, June 29, Anacostia, Washington, D.C.
1949 – Peekskill riots, Peekskill, New York
1949 – Englewood race riot, November 8–12, Englewood, Chicago, IL
1950–1959
1950 – San Juan Nationalist revolt, Utuado Uprising, Jayuya Uprising, Oct. 30, Various uprisings against United States Government rule during the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s in Puerto Rico
1951 – Cicero race riot of 1951, July 12, Cicero, Illinois
1956 – Mansfield School Integration Incident 400 pro-segregationists brandishing weapons and racist signage prevent 12 black children from entering Mansfield High School Mansfield, TX
1958 – Battle of Hayes Pond, January 18, Maxton, North Carolina, Armed confrontation between members of the NC Lumbee tribe and the KKK.
1959 – Harriett-Henderson Cotton Mills Strike Henderson, North Carolina
1960–1969
1960 – HUAC riot, May 13, Students protest House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, 12 injured, 64 arrested, San Francisco, California
1960 – Newport Jazz Festival Riot, July 2, Newport, Rhode Island
1960 – El Cajon Boulevard Riot, August 20, San Diego, California
1960 – Ax Handle Saturday, August 27, Jacksonville, Florida
1962 – Ole Miss riot 1962, September 3–October 1, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi
1963 – Birmingham riot of 1963, May 11, Birmingham, Alabama
1963 – Cambridge riot 1963, June 14, Cambridge, Maryland
1964 - Chester School Protests, April 2-26, Chester, Pennsylvania
1964 – the July 16 killing of James Powell by police in the Yorkville neighborhood just south of East Harlem precipitates a string of race riots in July and August, including:
1964 – Harlem Riot of 1964, July 16–22, New York City
1964 – Rochester 1964 race riot, July 24–25, Rochester, New York
1964 – Jersey City Riot, August 3–5, A disorderly conduct arrest set off accusations of police brutality and were followed by protests and riots[3]. At least two residents were shot and several police and rioters were injured[4], Jersey City, NJ
1964 – Dixmoor race riot, August 15–17, Dixmoor, Illinois
1964 – Philadelphia 1964 race riot, August 28–30, Philadelphia
1965 – Selma to Montgomery marches, March 7–25, Alabama
1965 – Watts riots, August 11–17, Los Angeles, California
1966 – Division Street riots, June 12–14, Humboldt Park, Chicago, Illinois
1966 – Omaha riot of 1966, July 2, Omaha, Nebraska
1966 – 1966 Chicago West-Side riots, July 12–15, Chicago, Illinois
1966 – Hough riots, July 18–24, Cleveland, Ohio
1966 – Marquette Park housing march, August 5, Chicago, Illinois
1966 – Waukegan riot, August 27, Waukegan, Illinois
1966 – Benton Harbor riots, August 30–September 4, Benton Harbor, Michigan
1966 – Summerhill and Vine City Riots, September 6–8 Atlanta, Georgia
1966 – Hunters Point social uprising, September 27–October 1 San Francisco, California
1966 – Sunset Strip curfew riots, November 12, various other flareups, basis for the song "For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield song)", West Hollywood, California
1967 – Long Hot Summer of 1967 refers to a year in which 159 race riots, almost all African-American, erupted across the United States, including:
1967 – Avondale riots, June 12–15, Cincinnati, Ohio
1967 – Buffalo riot of 1967, June 27, Buffalo, New York
1967 – 1967 Newark riots, July 12–17, Newark, New Jersey
1967 – 1967 Plainfield riots, July 14–21, Plainfield, New Jersey
1967 – Cairo riot, July 17, Cairo, Illinois
1967 – 1967 Detroit riot, July 23–29, Detroit, Michigan
1967 – Cambridge riot of 1967, July 24, a.k.a. the H. Rap Brown riot, Cambridge, Maryland
1967 – 1967 Saginaw riot, July 26, Saginaw, Michigan
1967 – Milwaukee riot, July 30, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1968 – Orangeburg Massacre, S.C. State Univ., February 8, Orangeburg, South Carolina
1968 – Memphis Sanitation Strike riot, March 28, Memphis, Tennessee
1968 – Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, Memphis, Tennessee, precipitates all April 4–14 riots, including:
1968 – 1968 Detroit riot, April 4–5, Detroit, Michigan
1968 – 1968 New York City riots, April 4–5, New York City, New York
1968 – 1968 Washington, D.C. riots, April 4–8, Washington, D.C.
1968 – 1968 Chicago riots, West Side Riots, April 5–7, Chicago, Illinois
1968 – 1968 Pittsburgh riots, April 5–11, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1968 – Baltimore riot of 1968, April 6–14, Baltimore, Maryland
1968 – Avondale riot of 1968, April 8, Cincinnati, Ohio
1968 – 1968 Kansas City riot, April 9, Kansas City, Missouri
1968 – Wilmington Riot of 1968, April 9–10, Wilmington, Delaware
1968 – Trenton Riot of 1968, April 9–11, Trenton, New Jersey
1968 – Columbia University protests of 1968, April 23, New York City, New York
1968 – Louisville riots of 1968, May 27, Louisville, Kentucky
1968 – Akron riot, July 17–23, Akron, Ohio
1968 – Glenville Shootout, July 23–28, Cleveland, Ohio
1968 – 1968 Miami riot, August 7–8, Miami, Florida
1968 – 1968 Democratic National Convention protests, including the police riots of August 27–28, Chicago, Illinois
1969 – Zip to Zap riot, May 9–11, Zap, North Dakota
1969 – People's Park Riots, May, Berkeley, California
1969 – 1969 Greensboro uprising, May 21–25, Greensboro, North Carolina
1969 – Cairo disorders, May–December, Cairo, Illinois
1969 – Stonewall riots, June 28–July 2, New York City, New York
1969 – 1969 York Race Riot, July 17–24, York, Pennsylvania
1969 – Days of Rage, October 8–11, Weathermen riot in Chicago, Illinois
1970–1979
1970 – San Francisco Police Department Park Station bombing, February 16, San Francisco, CA
1970 – University of Puerto Rico riot, March 4–11, at least one killed, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
1970 – Student strike of 1970, May 1970
1970 – Kent State riots/shootings, May 1970, four killed, Kent, Ohio
1970 – New Haven Green Disorders, Yale University, May 1970, New Haven, Connecticut
1970 – Augusta Riot, May 11–13, Augusta, Georgia
1970 – Hard Hat Riot, Wall Street, May 8, New York City
1970 – Jackson State killings, May 14–15, two killed, Jackson, Mississippi
1970 – 1970 Asbury Park race riots, July 4-10, Asbury Park, New Jersey
1970 – 1970 Memorial Park riot, August 24–27, Royal Oak, Michigan
1970 – Sterling Hall bombing, Univ. of Wisc., August 24, one killed, Madison, Wisconsin
1970 – Chicano Moratorium riot, August 29, Los Angeles, California
1971 – Wilmington riot 1971, February 9, Wilmington, North Carolina
1971 – May Day protests 1971, May 3, Washington, D.C.
1971 – Camden riots, August 1971, Camden, New Jersey
1971 – Attica Prison uprising, September 9–13, at least 39 killed, Attica, New York
1973 – Wounded Knee incident, February 27–May 8, Wounded Knee, South Dakota
1973 – Shooting of Clifford Glover Riot, April 23, Rioting broke out in South Jamaica, Queens after an undercover NYPD officer shot and killed a ten-year-old African-American youth. New York, New York
1974 – SLA Shootout, May 17, Los Angeles, California
1974 – Baltimore police strike, July, Baltimore, Maryland
1974 – Boston busing race riots anti-busing riots throughout Boston, Massachusetts
1975 – Livernois–Fenkell riot, July 1975, Detroit, Michigan
1976 – Escambia High School riots, February 5, Pensacola, Florida
1976 – Anti-busing riot in downtown Boston, April 5, Boston, Massachusetts
1976 – Marquette Park unrest, June–August, Chicago, Illinois
1977 – Humboldt Park riot, June 5–6, Chicago, Illinois
1977 – New York City Blackout riot 1977, July 13–14, New York City, New York
1978 - Fireman Strike Arson, July 2, 1978, Memphis, TN
1978 – Moody Park riot, May 5, 1978, Houston, Texas
1979 – Herman Hill riot, April 15, Wichita, Kansas
1979 – White Night riots, May 1979, San Francisco, California
1979 – Levittown Gas Riot, June 23 – 24, Thousands rioted in response to increased gasoline prices in the U.S., 198 arrested, 44 police and 200 rioters injured. Gas stations were damaged and cars set on fire, Levittown, Pennsylvania
1979 – Greensboro massacre, November 3, Greensboro, North Carolina
1980–1989
1980 – New Mexico State Penitentiary riot, February 2–3, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1980 – Miami riot 1980, May 17–19, Miami, Florida
1982 – Miami riot 1982, Dec. 28, A Miami policeman shoots a black video game player in an arcade. Riots breakout in the Overtown section of Miami. Miami, Florida
1986 – Marquette Park KKK rally, June 28, Chicago, Illinois
1988 – Tompkins Square Park riot, August 6–7, New York City
1988 – Cedar Grove, Shreveport, Louisiana
1989 – 1989 Miami riot, Jan. 16–18, Miami policeman kills a black motorcycle rider. Riots breakout in the Overtown section of the city. Miami, Florida
1990–1999
1991 – 1991 Washington, DC riot, Mount Pleasant riot, May 5–9, Washington, D.C.
1991 – Crown Heights riot, August 1991, Brooklyn, New York
1992 – L.A. Rodney King riots, April–May 1992, Los Angeles, California
1992 – West Las Vegas riots, April 29, Las Vegas, Nevada
1992 – 1992 Washington Heights riots, July 4–7, Manhattan, New York, Dominican community
1996 – St. Petersburg, Florida Riot 1996, October 1996, St. Petersburg, Florida
1997 – North Hollywood shootout, February 1997, Los Angeles, California
1999 – Michigan State University student riot, April 1999, East Lansing, Michigan
1999 – Woodstock '99 music festival incident, July 1999, Rome, New York
1999 – WTO Meeting of 1999, "The Battle in Seattle", November 1999, Seattle, Washington
21st century
2000–2009
2000 – Elián González affair, Miami, Florida
2000 – Brooks Brothers riot, Miami-Dade county, Florida
2000 – Puerto Rican Day Parade attacks, June 11, Central Park, New York City
2001 – Seattle Mardi Gras riot, February 27, 2001, Seattle, Washington
2001 – 2001 Cincinnati Riots, April 10–12, Cincinnati, Ohio
2003 – Benton Harbor riot, June 2003, Benton Harbor, Michigan
2003 – Miami FTAA Protests, November 2003, Miami, Florida
2004 – 2004 American League Championship Series, October 21, 1 dead, Boston, Massachusetts
2005 – Civil disturbances and military action in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, August – Sept., New Orleans, Louisiana
2005 – 2005 Toledo riot, October 15, Toledo, Ohio
2006 – San Bernardino punk riot, March 4, San Bernardino, California
2007 – The Los Angeles May Day mêlée, May 1, Los Angeles, California
2009 – Riots against BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant, January 7, 120 arrested, Oakland, California
2009 – Akron riots, March 14, 2009, 7 arrested; and July 2009, unknown number arrested, Akron, Ohio
2009 – 2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summit protests, Sept. 24–25, 193 arrested
2010–2019
2010 – Springfest riot, April 10, 200 police disperse crowd of 8,000 using tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and bean bag rounds, near the campus of James Madison University; dozens injured. 30–35 arrested; Harrisonburg, Virginia.
2010 – Santa Cruz May Day riot, May 1, 250 rampage through downtown Santa Cruz attacking 18 businesses, causing an estimated $100,000 in damages. 1 arrested. Santa Cruz, California.
2010 – Oakland protest riot, November 5, Police made more than 150 arrests as a crowd broke windows and knocked down fences, protesting sentence of former BART officer in shooting of Oscar Grant on New Years Day 2009; see BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant. Oakland, California
2011 Madison Occupation. Portestors storm and occupy the Wisconson state capitol building for 18 days.
2011 – Occupy Wall Street (Brooklyn Bridge protests). Demonstrators blocked the bridge and more than 700 people were arrested. New York, New York
2011 – Occupy Oakland Oakland protests riots. October. Protesters shattered windows, set fires, and plastered buildings with graffiti. Riot police fired heavy amounts of tear gas on the protesters.
2012 – NATO 2012 Chicago Summit, May. Conflict between riot police and protesters. Dozens of demonstrators clubbed and arrested.
2012 – Anaheim police shooting and protests, July 28. Violence erupted after multiple shootings in the neighborhood by police that included unarmed Manuel Diaz. 24 people were arrested.
2013 – Flatbush Riots, March 11, Riots in Brooklyn, New York after the death of Kimani Gray who was shot and killed by NYPD.
2014 – Bundy Standoff, April 5–May, an armed confrontation between supporters of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy and law enforcement following a 21-year legal dispute in which the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) obtained court orders directing Bundy to pay over $1 million in withheld grazing fees for Bundy's use of federally-owned land adjacent to Bundy's ranch in southeastern Nevada.
2014 – Ferguson unrest, Ferguson and St. Louis, Missouri, August 10 and November 24. Following the shooting death of Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer, protests erupt in the streets. Police respond with riot gear, tear gas, sound canons, police dogs, concussion grenades, rubber bullets, pepper balls, wooden bullets, beanbag rounds, tasers, pepper spray, and armored vehicles. Unrest occurred continuously for weeks in August, and sporadically through December, with nearly daily protests throughout the period and rioting following the non-indictment announcement on Nov 24. Unrest again occurred on the one year anniversary in August 2015, with dozens of arrests.
2014 – St. Louis, Missouri - October 8, police vehicle windows broken as rage at the killing of Vonderrit Myers Jr. Protests continued for days afterward, during the nearby and ongoing Ferguson Unrest.
2014 – New York, New York, and Berkeley, California – After prosecutors and a grand jury refused to indict a police officer in the death of Eric Garner, protests erupted in New York City and other cities.
2014 Oakland riots, November–December, A series of riots and civil disturbances that took place in Oakland and the surrounding area, in reaction to the events involving the Shooting of Michael Brown and later, the death of Eric Garner, Oakland, California
2014 – Berkeley, Missouri, December 23–24. Antonio Martin is shot to death by police in a St. Louis suburb nearby to Ferguson, leading to violent conflict with police, and looting.
2015 – 2015 Baltimore protests, April 25–28. Days of protests break out following the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. 34 people are arrested and 15 Officers injured after rioting and looting break out. Gray's funeral was held on April 27 and followed by further protests and looting. Governor Hogan had preemptively activated the Maryland National Guard, while the Maryland State Police had activated at least 500 officers.
2015 – St. Louis, Missouri, August 19. Conflict with police following fatal shooting by St. Louis police officers of black teenager Mansur Ball-Bey leads to deployment of tear gas then burned car, buildings, and looting. Protests continue in subsequent days with tensions remaining high.
2016 – Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, January–February 2016. 1 killed and several dozen arrested at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon.
2016 – 2016 Donald Trump Chicago rally protest, March 11. Five people arrested and two police officers injured during a demonstration at the UIC Pavilion.
2016 – Democracy Spring rally in April. March to Washington D.C. and sit-ins lead to arrests.
2016 – 2016 Sacramento riot, June 26, A confrontation between white nationalists and left-wing counter protesters at the California State Capitol. Ten people were hospitalized for stabbing and laceration wounds.
2016 – Widespread protests erupt in response to two deaths at the hands of police, the Shooting of Alton Sterling and shooting of Philando Castile. At least 261 people were arrested in protests in New York City, Chicago, St. Paul, Baton Rouge, and other cities.
2016 – 2016 Milwaukee riots, Sherman Park, August 13–15. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
2016 – 2016 Charlotte riot, September 20–21, Protests and riots break out in response to the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott by a Charlotte police officer.
2016 – Dakota Access Pipeline protests, 411 protesters arrested. Multiple skirmishes with police, with vehicles, hay bales, and tires set on fire.
2016 – Anti-Trump protests, November 9–27. As a result of Donald Trump elected as 45th President of the U.S., thousands protested across twenty-five American cities, and unrest broke out in downtown Oakland, California, and Portland, Oregon. In Oakland, over 40 fires started and police officers were injured.
2017 – Berkeley, California, February 1, civil unrest ensued at UC Berkeley as Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak on the campus.[5][6]
2017 – 2017 Anaheim, California protests, February 21, protesters demonstrate after police officer grabs boy and fires his gun. Protesters damage property and throw bottles and rocks at police.
2017 – May Day, violence breaks out at May Day protests in Olympia, and Portland, as masked anarchists damage property and clash with police.
2017 – 2017 Unite the Right rally, Charlottesville, Virginia, August 11–12. At a Unite the Right rally of white nationalists and white supremacists opposing the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, rally attendees and counter-protesters clashed, sometimes violently. A woman, Heather Heyer, was killed and 19 other injured when a rally attendee drove his car into a crowd of counter-protestors. Two law enforcement officers also died in a helicopter crash while monitoring the event.
2017 – 2017 St. Louis protests, beginning September 15, large protests erupted when police officer Jason Stockley was found not guilty of murder in the shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith on December 20, 2011. Some of the protests turned destructive and the police became violent. Windows were broken at Mayor Lyda Krewson's house and in the Central West End business district on the first night, many windows were broken in the Delmar Loop on Sept 16, a few were broken downtown on Sept 17 after police drove swiftly through a crowd following a peaceful march. Police conducted a kettling mass arrest operation of nonviolent protesters and bystanders, beating and pepper spraying many, including journalists, documentary filmmakers, and an undercover officer. Protests and sporadic unrest continued daily for weeks.
2019 – Memphis riot, June 13, following the fatal shooting of Brandon Webber by U.S. Marshals, Memphis, TN.
2020
2020 – New York City FTP protests, Jan 31, Anti-Transit Police and MTA protest resulting in hundreds of arrests over the three separate days of demonstration. Vandalism and violence on train stations was reported.
2020 - George Floyd protests, started on May 27 in Minneapolis, Minnesota after the killing of George Floyd. He was allegedly killed in Minneapolis by a police officer. The officer was fired four days later and is facing murder charges. The riots nevertheless spread to many cities across the nation. Thus far, thousands have been arrested and many injured. Hundreds of millions of dollars of property have been destroyed or looted. The National Guard has been called out to some cities, as many police stations have been abandoned and burned by the rioters. Currently, riots are still occurring in places. The killing of George Floyd has garnered international condemnation

3 John 1:2

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you 

and you may be in good health,

as it goes well with your soul

John 13:34

Jesus gives His Disciples 

a New Commandment

To Love One Another 

as He has Loved Us.

 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. 

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus.  

Amen.

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