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Arthur
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« Reply #48 on: January 28, 2003, 02:51:05 am » |
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I'm thinking it was more of Bill-Hillary relationship. They both tolerated staying together to keep up appearances so that they could obtain what they wanted.
For George,
He got his fame - preaching before an auditorium full of people, traveling around the world as if he was a real missionary, teaching summer school, etc.
He got his power - he was in absolute control of all the assemblies and exercised great control in people's lives (especially the workers)
He got his sex - a sister here, a secretary there. Was that before or after shouting into his pillow and being almost raptured from the glorious "heavenly vision" that God was giving to him? Hard to see how he had time after laboring so much preparing fresh meals for us from the "kitchen of heaven". I guess he had his helpers.
He got his money - continual flow of 10% of hundreds if not thousands of people's pay check as well as special gifts, including people's inheritances, etc.
For Betty,
She got her servants waiting on her hand and foot.
She got her special diets that she so craved. Wha? Was that the demons talking?
She got to be manipulative and influence people's lives, even her husband's and two grown sons. They both in their forties and fifties were getting money from mom! And, they regularly talked with their parents for advice and, at least in David's case, to get them out of jams. Real manly men, they were. She told people to get married or to not get married (demons talking again?), what they could or couldn't wear, how to behave and not to behave.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein. And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
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