Speech for the Tainted

The Numbers 3:16

2010-01-24T15:27:00.000-08:00

16 So Moses counted them, as he was commanded by the word of the LORD.

So in Leviticus God says to sacrifice animals in order to make up for sin and remeber God, but who was going to run the operation. Well, God said that every firstborn son should dedicated to him and serve him. But logistically, that's a little tough to coordinate, so God declares that the clan of the Levites can take the place of the firstborns. But are there enough Levites to take the place of all of the firstborns? Thus we have the need for a census and a count of all the people (hence "Numbers").

What was the result? Well it turns out that there were about 270 more firstborns then Levites and there were sacrifices offed to make up for the difference. While in Levitcus you see alot of the qualitative detail given to his following, here in numbers you see much of the quantitative precision. A ton of care was given to following God to the letter back then.

Leviticus 3:16: Here Come the Sacrifices

2010-01-15T12:16:00.001-08:00

16 The priest shall burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the LORD's.

Its interesting to see the progression of the 3:16's so far. First in Genisis, there was that initial sin that caused the generational reprecussions. Then in Exodus, peple mess up and land in Egypt, but God never lets go of them and rescues them as they turn back to him, even though he dosen't have to. But that's not the last of sin, and the funny thing is people keep forgetting the past. They don't realize that weight God pulls for them and how different God wants his people to be.

So in Leviticus he lays down rules. Rules that remind people of their sin nature and in the long run demonstrate the continual inadequacy of humans to manage their own actions and live up to Gods standard. Some of the instructions make lots of sense for the time and some are downright crazy (we used to keep a list of the most humorous... perhaps another post)

I guess in the big scheme of things, these rules show us that we can only be good enough for God if he provides a way for us rather then us trying to sacrifice our way out of sin. The point is (and later 3:16's emphasize this) that Jesus was that final sacrifice and made ritual sacrifices unneeded.

Exodus 3:16 -- Mr. Moses

2010-01-11T10:00:00.000-08:00

16 "Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt."

Hmm, well it looks like alot has passed since those Genesis days. Here's a couple things that have transpired

1. More then 2 people are on earth now (like lots of people)
2. The world starts ignoring God again and God floods the world exept this dude named Noah and his family who build a boat.
3. Abrahmam is chosen out of all people to start this nation of people known as the Isrealites.
4. One of the decendents inherits the blessing of God and has 12 sons who become the 12 tribes of Isreal later.
5. Now the drama starts (as if it hadn't already). One of Jacob's sons isn't liked y the others, is sold into slavery in Egypt, but though Gods helps become a powerful leader and since there's no email nobody in Isreal knows about it. But there's a famine and it turns out the only place that has food is Egypt and the Isrealites go there. Joseph feeds them and the Isrealites stay there only to become slaves generations later to the dominating Egyptians (Sounds like Alladin to me).

Ok, so fast forward to Egypt during the time of the pharaohs. This Moses guy is born to the enslaved Isrealites and grows up with the Egyptians, but makes some mistakes and hides in the desert. Then after some years in isolation, God shows up and tells him Exodus 3:16 and that now Moses has to go back to Egypt and lead people out of there (with God's direction of course).

So What are we supposed to get from this? Well, I guess we see a pretty big contrast from Genisis 3:16 where people lost their direct contact and blessing from God. And here we have a reassurance that God never left completely, and he still has plans for his people. He still see the good and the bad. Not that he doesn't let the bad happen. Sometimes we need the bad to teach us whats up and build some character. In fact for the Isrealites this was a 500 year lesson (meaning some people could have built lots of character in their lives!) Sometimes we just need a longer term perspective.

Genisis 3:16 -- Oh Women...

2010-01-10T13:40:00.000-08:00

16 To the woman he said,
"I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing;
with pain you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you."

Sad day. Heres the story:

1. God makes Earth, Man, Woman, Komodo Dragons, ect.
2. Devil Tempts man into doing something God forbid.
3. Humans have consequences that suck.
4. (later) God gives us a future hope.

Among the woman's woes, include Serpents having to crawl in the dust and men having to work hard for their survival. Plus the paradise garden that people lived in was now closed off. Sad way to start the world.

On a side note, I've always wondered why God even chose to create the world in the first place. I like to think its for the same reason that I play Sim City 2000 (best game ever).

The 3:16s of the Bible

2010-01-10T13:36:00.000-08:00

So I was reading the verse 1 Tim 3:16 from the Bible and realized there's alot of interesting verses in the 3:16 locations in the Bible. I figured that would be a typical "thesis" point on a book, you know far enough in so that you have the point of the book but not so far that you just have boring details. So IO decided to look into the 3:16 verses one by one and found some interesting stuff. So for the next few weeks I'll try to be serious and inform my readers of these passages.

Grant

2009-08-10T21:18:00.001-07:00

Today I read Grant Blhombdhal's blog.

Cube Conversations

2007-06-05T12:40:00.000-07:00

So I had a request to start blogging about life at Intel in a Cubicle. I may start this for two reasons:

1. So that all of the old (and worthless) blogs I made will be pushed into the archive stack

2. So that the 3 other people who read my blog will know what happenes in my cube.

So today the cube safety people came by. I had to hide my ninja stars and prented like I was working for a few minutes. I've also got a pretty fany mail system set up with my cube neighbor. We have this slot in our cube wall where we can slide sinlge leafs of paper. Come in handy on occasion. I realized if you rearange the letters in cubical, you can make "Cub Lice."
I realized this secret at 12:48:17. pm.

Serbia 2006

2006-10-16T16:35:00.000-07:00

So I feel at time I maybe haven't made great use of the lessons and stories I have learned from the trip, and to prvent the loss of these lesson from my brain I have decided to start blogging about the mission trip I took to Serbia this summer. Keep watching for more stories as the weeks go by and I may just move this to a seperate blog.

Cool Enough

Excuses

2006-09-19T22:41:00.000-07:00

So I was planning on finishing the true story of what happened to me last saturday, but I am late for work and I accidently smashed one of my typing fingers (I only use four) in a machine. I'm ok though, don't worry. I just told you all so I could get the attention.

You Got Me

2006-09-18T22:26:00.000-07:00

Superbone Meets the Badman

2006-08-29T22:53:00.000-07:00

So, Maynard Ferguson died a couple days ago. But I guess we all will.

So, I think I'm allergic to bee stings

2006-08-15T17:19:00.000-07:00

So as some of you know, I enjoy running and try to train and push myself during the week. Well, on Sunday, I have started a tradition of going out to a new place for a nice leisurely run alone after church. So this past sunday, I decided to check out the springwater trail starting in Boring. I was running for about 30 minutes and was about a mile or so from my car when out from the depths of an overgrown blackberry bush a bee flies out. For a split second we see each other and try to save ourselves from the inevitable. I swerved to the left and he to the right, but it was in vain. The bee landed on my upper lip and did what bees do best; sting.

So as some of you know, I get bit all the time by nearly every insect that can bite. Sure the bite itches and hurt for a while but, it's normally more of an inconveinence then anything else. Not so with this bite. Within seconds of the attack, my lip started swelling. After about a minute, my lip was so swelled I was having trouble seperating the top and bottom lips (not to mention that it hurt). It was about at this moment I realized I was in a slight predicament and ran back to my car as fast as I could. By the time I got to my car, my whole body was covered in hives and rashes. Needless to say I was booking it to my car so fast I accidently left my running shirt and sunglasses. I didn't really care much at that point though.

So as some of you know, I don't normally go over the speed limit, but like to be a resopnsible driver. Well, this day was the exception as I was flying up to about 20 over the limit from Boring to the nearest hospital I knew of, the Sunnyside Keizer. As time passed I could feel my ability to drive well diminish and felt slightly dehydrated. I attempted at nearly every stoplight ( it seemed like I hit almost of them) to drink some water, but for every cup I got down my thought about half of it fell into my lap. I had my cell phone ready in case I got the point where I couldn't drive and had to pull over to call 911. Evnetually I got to Keizer and things weren't all that great. My hives and rashes were worse, I couldn't move half my mouth, my eyes were starting to swell shut and I was starting to have chest pains. I couldn't find the ER, so I just ran into the nearest building I could which luckily happened to be normal medical clinics with an urgent care place.

I don't exactly understand what urgent care is for, because it seems like if something was bad then you go to the ER and if it isn't you solve the problem on your own. But anyway I was glad it was there this time and upon coming in a secratary person pulled me over to a char in the corner of the waiting room, gave me a shot of epinerferin and hooked me up to an IV (after a few tries because my veins were all constricted). This was only after they made me show them my keizer card though. They then called parametics and I got an ambulance ride from the front of keizer to the back side to the ER. I spent three more hours in the ER unitl they declared me stable enough to leave. During that time I got another shot of epinerferin, one or two shots of steroids and a whopper shot of liquid benedryl. It was an experince. Now I'm out on meds for a week and taking antihistmines every four hours until the swelling and hives are all gone out of my system. The doctor also gave me an emergencey epineferin injector for whenever I go outside: we'll see about that. So God, thanks for keeping me alive another day.

On a side note, I did count myself luckier then the ER paitient in the room next to me. Apparently they needed to take a urine sample from him, but he was unable to urinate. So they had to fetch it from his bladder. I think you get the picture.

Hang on Little Tomato

2006-06-18T21:47:00.000-07:00

Um, it would be in your best interest to check out Oregon state University at RateMyProfessors.com . Look for Dr. Crowder. Feel free to add your thoughts. (BTW, it seems Dr. Boucher is still up too).

Is low fat yogurt healthier then light? (I'm assuming fat free is the healthiest)

Don't read this, it will waste your time

2006-06-17T23:16:00.000-07:00

Has matter always existed for all time? Does time have a begenning? I don't mean from a human standpoint but from a universe as a whole standpoint. I used to think the fact that matter couldn't exist for all time proved there was a creator. But what if it did. Would that mean that God didn't create eveything. Well....

I think I'm looking at the universe from a distinctly human perspective. I don't think it is possible to accept there is a creator without accepting something existed without being created. We humans will only belive something can exist if it was created, not because that's how it is, but because that's all we can see. The more I think about it, the more foreign the concept of universal creation sounds. I say foreign, though because it could be possible, but not farmilier. Where as a total random creation of matter (postulated by famous scientists) seems to still at least reqire a set of physical laws to govern it becasue I cannot belive that you can get matter without a physical framework. But that relies on my limited human understanding of creation. Thus I can't prove anything.

I have realized tonight that not only do I not make sense, but about 50% of what I though I understood about the universe has been turned upside down. Umm... I have to think somemore...

Find April Ryan

2006-06-09T14:57:00.000-07:00

Ok Ok, so I haven't updated for a while and my fan base is getting restless. I've been spending all my time trying to add links to this blog and edit my profie... but I guess I need to spend more time on it.

So Here it is; My 2006 World Cup Prediction: Spain.

That's right, I perdict Spain will not only win this years world cup, but they will also restart the spanish inquisition in an attempt to divert attention from the fact that Portugul still exists and continues to block much of their veiw of the Atlantic (Sorry Alex Yokochi).

Aaron Harada

2006-05-29T10:33:00.000-07:00

Ok so I have desperatly been thinking of something to blog about and have come up empty. So I decided to write about some things Aaron Harada said in the past 10 minutes

"I'm going to put on a show for them" --- Aaron Harada

"I'm Going to Punch You in the Face" --- Aaron Harada

"I think Coffee is evil" -- Aaron Harada

"The Funny thing about quotes are it's spelled with a Q,
the funny thing about quotes are, they always come true" --- Aaron Harada

"It's all lies" --- Aaron Harada

Aaron: Are you getting on your computer today?
JonG: Yeah I think so...
Aaron: Ohhh don't crush it!

First-Post

2006-05-26T23:50:00.000-07:00

This Blog is multifaceted in nature and desgned for those who want a glimpse into my life to get it and for those who want a life to glimpse one. I plan on ranting about topics society should care about and pondering topics the world seems to forget. Perhaps, even pulling back the facade of life and exposing my soul to the generation of onlookers who are alone, watching a computer screen and wondering where their life went.

Please feel free to critice, argue, comment, laugh, cry, and admonish. I am not yet all that I should be and I strive to reach a point where I never cease to learn from everyone I meet and care about people like they need to be...

Question I'm podering at the moment: Would society be convinced of a Creator if another unrelated source of life was found in the universe? Because I would be without a doubt convinced, but would anyone else? Would a God who demands faith be cheating his followers by proving his existance?