Shalom All:

The link Mark Rouleau posted (9 Aug 2005)
"The tragedy of Tisha B'av has its roots literally in the oldest mistake in the book."
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/aug2005/markr89-2.htm
... is very Jewish, with no understanding of Yeshua, BUT it does have some very interesting points that believers in Yeshua should consider.

---clips---
It isn't just the media that begins with preconceived notions and only afterward finds evidence to confirm prior convictions; we all do the same thing. There is a human tendency toward prejudice that clouds our judgment and enables us to process visual and other perceptions in a way that merely confirms what we already think and say.

The letter peh means "mouth" in Hebrew, and the letter ayin means "eye." The sages explain that the deepest of hints is woven into the poetic verses of Lamentations: the entire tragedy resulted from putting the peh, the mouth, before the ayin, the eye. The mouth talks of expectations and existing beliefs, and the eye then sees what the mouth predicted it would see -- even if an objective interpretation of the same visual input would have yielded a different result.

... The Jewish people accepted the false reality of the spies. ...

... It was only after the snake's spin that Eve saw the fruit was good to eat. ...

First came the peh, the mouth of the snake, concocting a reality from a preconceived notion, and then the ayin, the eye of Eve, who saw the fruit as desirable.

The root of the spies' sin was their denial of the good that God was prepared to bestow on the Jewish people and their ignoring the good He had done thus far. ...
---end clips---

Maybe we sabotage The Father's efforts to bless us ... even more than the enemy!  Something to keep in mind as we use our "mouths"!!

Dianne
<*}}}><

Request a flow chart of Revelation Seals at:
talsmawi@centurytel.net