Thanks everybody for the posts. Deedle thanks for posting the study between Noelia and Pat, very enlightening. Gods ways are great, amazing how he rewards us who search Him out. I love it!
I think it interesting how they fished all night and caught nothing. Could this be the many called who are still in darkness trying with all their own might to save souls? Notice they did not see Jesus, until daybreak, and still didn't know who it was. Without Jesus in us we can do nothing. This seems to run very deep. Even that there were 7 disciples present and in two different boats. Seems the numbers 7 and 10, also are important.
Darkness always come before the light, even in Genesis. And in all of our lives. It is incredible how the spiritual things of God come about.
Solomon asked for a man with seven skills but was given one with ten.
2Chr 2:7
'And now, send to me a wise man to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and knowing to grave gravings with the wise men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father prepared;
2Chr 2:14
(son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre), knowing to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stones, and in wood, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, and to grave any graving, and to devise any device that is given to him, with thy wise men, and the wise men of my lord David thy father.
Paul writes 1 list of 7 and another list of 10 things that cannot separate us from Gods love.
Rom 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Rom 8:36
(according as it hath been written-'For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')
Rom 8:37
but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us;
Rom 8:38
for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,
Rom 8:39
nor things about to be, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of god, that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In Hebrews, Paul compares the symbolism of the mountain of God in the old covenant (7 symbols), with the spiritual (symbolic) mountain of God in the new covenant (10 symbols).
Heb 12:18
. For ye came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Heb 12:19
and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of sayings, which those having heard did entreat that a word might not be added to them,
Heb 12:22
But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,
Heb 12:23
to the company and assembly of the first-born in heaven enrolled, and to God the judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men made perfect,
Heb 12:24
and to a mediator of a new covenant-Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!
Hope I have not crossed any bounds here, but the book of John 21st chapter if plumb full of good stuff. :lol:
God bless,
Gary