Oh puleeease... defend yourselves ... yes we have heard the "existential" threat a million times, the world is not buying it anymore.
Those groups are a the result of destroying what was once a fairly stable area.
The US along with its vassal state (or vice versa cause no one really knows who owns who) has spent years destabilizating the middle east due to its strategic location and resources..
This goes back to the British Empire at the turn of the last century.
Of course, then after WW II the US and Standard Oil companies needed to ensure a study supply since the US was well on its way to becoming a leading gasoline consumer.
No one here is happy the US has taken a bad path, quite the opposite, you guys need to wake up this is not the end times.
Yep -- Burial robes of a worm
Song of Songs 4:1c thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
This is the other half of the verse and they are separated by a colon. This means the translator equates her hair to her eyes.
Most young men are clueless when they see a beautiful woman. You need to discern her character. The hair is a great reveal. How do I know if her eyes are dove’s eyes behind the veil? That is very hard to discern, what is easy to discern is her hair. Her hair is a glory to her and it is also her head covering. According to the Bible a woman should be under the authority of a man, first her father and later her husband. But this is not one of the ten commandments, it is not a law. Neither is it a law for a woman to have long hair. According to the New Testament if she doesn’t want to be under authority that is her choice, likewise she can shave her head, that is also her choice.
This chapter is revealing a very beautiful woman, one who has remained a standard of beauty for thousands of years. I never saw a woman enter a beauty contest with a shaved head. Granted this may happen in the future, so what we are looking at here is an old world view of beauty prized by the ancients. Imagine God coming to a beauty contest in which the women have shaved heads. He would probably say “Adam, where are you?” Why teach women to rebel against their covering if that freedom is an ugly freedom?
So then when you see women rebelling against their father’s authority realize it is the same thing as a woman who has shaved her head.
The woman’s hair is a gift from God, it beautifies them and protects them. Your father is also a gift from God who desires to beautify you and protect you. The same with your husband. Now sadly this woman’s father is a “goat”. Many women complaining about their husband or father would say “goat is too good a word for them”. This is what
@HeIsHere and
@ChristRoseFromTheDead would say about Trump. They lament that God gave them “goat’s hair”. Life would be so much better if so and so were their father or prince charming were their husband or Trudeau or Khameni were president. No one wants goats hair, the shampoo commercials all advertise “silky” hair. Have you ever seen a commercial for “Goat essence shampoo – gives your hair the look, feel and smell of real goat’s hair”? The point here is that it is a rare beauty for a woman to take her father or husband as her glory and protection. It is especially rare if her husband is a goat. But this is quite specific, not just any goats but goats on the side of mount Gilead. This refers to Laban and Jacob making a deal about Laban’s daughters and Jacob’s wives. Laban gave Jacob all authority over his daughters at Mount Gilead. These men were real goats, world class goats. For these women to take Laban and then Jacob as their covering, that is a rare beauty. That is what any man seeking a wife should be praying for. By any man, that includes the Lord Jesus seeking His bride.
So much logic, reason and empathy.
