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The new Aculeo & Amunet – why not post a preview?

I am juggling ten thousand different projects – a 15.000-words story I have to deliver in ten days, a 70.000/130.000 words novel I need to to start and finish by Christmas, two ebooks to go as stretch goals for my (very successful! Yeah!) crowdfunding, the next Buscafusco, the new Corsair, and then I need to start planning my online courses…
Whew… my mother was right when she said that as a shop clerk I’d have an easier life.

Anyway, as it usually happens, as soon as I am buried in work, something different comes to my mind.
Like, the start of the next Aculeo & Amunet story, that goes more or less like this…

“Are you ready?”
The Roman blinked in the glare. A black silhouette stood in the burning frame of the door. A short man in a cloak, his head misshapen, or wrapped in a turban, or both. “What if I am not?”
The man in the door snickered. “It is not like you have any choice, my friend.”
The Roman lifted his hand. The chain on his wrist rattled on the floor. “We are not friends.”
“Because you are a fool,” the man said, rubbing his hands together. His parchment like skin made a sound like crickets. “A man in the pits of the arena needs all the friends he can find.”
He stepped aside and two men entered. Wearing pale tunics, they smelled of sweat and grease. One of the guards opened the Roman’s chains as the other kept a spear leveled at his chest.
“That’s not a good idea,” the Roman said, massaging his wrist.
“What?” the shadow in the door asked.
“A spear in a confined space.”
In a flash of motion, with his left arm the Roman slammed the closest man against the wall. He then lunged and grabbed the spear, kicked the guard in the gut, and disarmed him.
The man in the door gasped and took a step back.
The Roman whirled the weapon around, and the sperarhead traced a line of sparks on the ceiling. He snapped the shaft in half on his knee. Moving lightly on his feet, he used one half to hit the first guard on the head, and with the sharp end slashed the second guard’s heel tendon. The man screamed in pain and rolled on the ground, holding his leg.
The Roman was through the door already, the bloody spearhead pushing against the neck of the man in the turban.
“No!” the man shouted.
But it was not a plea for pity. The four guards surrounding the Roman froze, their swords high in the air.
“This will cost, you, Roman,” the man in the turban smirked.
A single drop of blood ran down his scrawny neck, and the Roman grinned, before he dropped his weapon. “We’ll see,” he said.

What do you say, guys?

Author: Davide Mana

Paleontologist. By day, researcher, teacher and ecological statistics guru. By night, pulp fantasy author-publisher, translator and blogger. In the spare time, Orientalist Anonymous, guerilla cook.

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SEO usually isn’t the first thing to come up when people are waxing poetic about Squarespace. Is it any good, or is something users tolerate because its modern, professional design and easy-to-use features are so strong? There are a lot of misconceptions and misinformation out there about Squarespace and its SEO capabilities.

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  • I believe we can change with a little encouragement, and having an accountability partner can make a huge difference.
  • I believe that we are all each away from one decision that can change our lives completely for the better.
  • I believe it doesn’t really take a year, a month or a week or 30 days truly to change your life. It takes a committed decision.
  • This challenge offers an environment that supports you to make that committed decision to experience the change that you so secretly desire nothing more nothing less.

How it works

There are only 2 daily exercises required, we are going to set some  daily routines to aid your success in this program.

  1. The Gratitude moment: How you act is a function of your state of mind. Here we are intentional about creating a positive state of mind. Hence you record a 1 min of video of what you are grateful for every morning. (This is to be recorded each morning and to be shared on the closed Facebook group).
  2. The Reflection moment: They say “Evaluated experience is the best teacher.” Hence before you retire to bed daily, you record a 1 min video to share what went well for you that day and what could have gone better (This will also be shared on the closed Facebook group).

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5 Benefits of Coffee Enemas

Many people have recently begun utilizing enemas to improve their overall health. Over a period of many years, excess waste that hasn’t been eliminated can build up inside of your colon. In fact, anecdotal reports say that as much as 10 pounds of waste may accumulate in your body at one time. That’s a lot of excess baggage you don’t want to be carrying around.

When you perform a cleanse with an enema, it helps to remove toxic build-up, which will in turn provide immediate health benefits and relief from certain conditions.

There are many different ways to perform an enema, but today we will be focusing on one of the more ‘taboo methods’—the coffee enema.

If you are new to the idea of enemas, the use of coffee may shock you. However, it can indeed help detoxify your body and remove the excess waste that could be accumulating within your body.

5 Benefits of Coffee Enemas

Coffee enemas can prevent the overgrowth of Candida.

Overgrowth of the Candida albicans fungus inside your intestines can cause a wide range of unpleasant symptoms, from fatigue, to brain fog, to a weakened immune system.

However, you should be happy to note that a coffee enema may help prevent the overgrowth of Candida, along with other bad bacteria. (1)

Coffee enemas can help detoxify your liver and bloodstream.

A coffee enema is a great way to detoxify your liver and bloodstream. Symptoms such as bloating, stomach aches, and intestinal disturbances can usually be traced back to an overworked liver.

When performing a coffee enema, the coffee is absorbed into the liver through the intestinal wall where it helps to take on some of that toxic load that the liver is unable to process on it’s own. (2)

Exposure to environmental toxins cannot be avoided, but there are ways to mitigate the potential damages that result from excessive exposure. Detoxes help tremendously with this, as do proper nutrition and regular exercise.

Coffee enemas can promote better digestion and regularity.

A coffee enema can help to improve the flow of bile. (3) This helps to alkalinize your small intestines, which promotes better overall digestion.

When food that you consume is not properly digested, it can generate toxic chemicals within your intestines. These toxins are then absorbed by your liver. Utilizing a coffee enema not only helps your liver with this load, but it also will improve your digestion to make it so your liver doesn’t have to work so hard in the first place.

Coffee enemas may help relieve anxiety and provide mental clarity.

Coffee is well known for its antioxidant properties. Many people who perform a coffee enema report a feeling of increased wellbeing and mental clarity, which also helps to provide relief for anxiety. The colon and liver are both parasympathetic organs, which have been shown play a role in anxiety disorders (4), meaning the cleanse from the enema helps to promote overall relaxation within your nervous system which helps ease anxiety symptoms.

Coffee enemas can help regulate hormones and restore balance to your endocrine system.

Your liver actually plays a very important role in the metabolism of hormones within your body. (5) Estrogen toxicity can actually develop from too much of the wrong type of estrogen accumulating within the liver. This can lead into a wide range of health issues for women, not least of all being a decreased ability to detoxify carcinogens. (6)

When you use a coffee enema with the intent of detoxifying your liver, an added benefit is the removal of these “bad” estrogen hormones that get flushed out as well. This helps to maintain proper hormonal balance for women.

Hormonal imbalances can also cause a wide range of symptoms such as fatigue, depression, low energy levels, and infertility.

Potential Side Effects

Coffee enemas can provide several great benefits for your health, with little to no side effects. Most of the unpleasant side effects can be negated by drinking plenty of fluids and staying properly hydrated. Once you have performed the enema, you expel a multitude of toxins and some water and electrolytes along with it.

Is A Coffee Enema Right for You?

If you’re looking for a natural way to detoxify your body, a coffee enema is a good place to start. Other measures to consider include evaluation of your gut bacteria and incorporating some physical activity in your routine.

The Final Word

You don’t have to wait until you exhibit symptoms of illness before performing a coffee enema. Preventive measures are always better than having to find a cure, so be proactive in protecting your health and wellbeing. Your body will thank you.

Always check with your doctor if you’re unsure about the effects of a coffee enema on your body, and whether or not it is right for you.

Are Heavy Metals Causing Your Chronic Fatigue?

Fatigue is incredibly common. Almost every single one of my clients complains about low energy to some degree. And for others fatigue is chronic. There is a good reason why Starbucks is a multi-billion dollar company; it’s feeding our number one addiction, coffee, which, at least temporarily, alleviates symptoms of fatigue.

Fatigue is a very important sign that something is not working right your the body. Anything that interferes with your body’s ability to produce energy can leave you exhausted and worn out. Heavy metals, which are prevalent in society, are very good at disrupting the cell’s ability to generate energy.

Within our cells we have tiny organelles called mitochondria. The mitochondria are little powerhouses that basically function as a command center for the cell. Through a series of chemical reactions, including the Kreb’s cycle, the mitochondria generate ATP, the energy molecule that powers your cells and your entire body.

Anything that can interfere with mitochondrial function can also limit your body’s ability to make ATP. With a lack of ATP, you feel fatigued, burnout and total drained, no matter what you do.

According to WWF, between 1930 and 2000 global production of man-made chemicals increased from 1 million to 400 million tonnes each year. That’s a TON of chemicals. Many of these chemicals include heavy metals.

Heavy metals naturally occur in the environmental in small amounts. But with the ever growing industrialized complex, they are being  released more regularly into the environment.

Heavy metals attacks the mitochondria in two ways; 1) they down regulate or stop ATP production and 2) They negatively affect antioxidant systems.

Most people have heard of free radicals. They are considered a villain in the whole health game since they have the ability to break down cells, cause per-mature aging and have been associated with degenerative illness. Damage from free radicals is also known as oxidative stress.

The reason why smokers age so quickly has to do with oxidative stress. Each cigarette releases significant amounts of free radicals into the body and overwhelms the antioxidant system. These free radicals destroy cells and speed up the aging process.

But looking at free radicals as “bad guys” is short sighted. What many people don’t know is that the mitochondria are a major source of free radical production. We actually need free radicals to have efficient cell function. When the body is healthy, we can generate enough antioxidants which neutralize free radicals and prevent them destroying the mitochondria.

Heavy metals not only prevent the proper functioning of mitochondria, which affect energy levels, but they produce significant amounts of oxidative stress which overwhelms the antioxidant system and seriously drains your resources.

The health of your mitochondria effectively determine whether you are an active person who can easily exercise or are someone who is sluggish and struggles to move regularly.

How Do You Know if You Have Heavy Metals?

According to many detox experts, we are all full of metals. It is really just a matter of how many we have. In modern life, heavy metal exposure is unavoidable. They are in our air, water, soil, vaccines and virtually everything around us.

Additionally, nutrient and mineral deficiencies make it more likely that your body will hold onto toxic metals rather than detox them. Since metals have similar structures to minerals, your body can actually use certain metals instead of the mineral you are deficient in.

Let’s use Thallium as an example. Thallium is an extremely toxic metal. In fact, it is ten times more toxic than mercury. Thallium was the metal added to unleaded gasoline after lead was removed. It stops gas from knocking in the engine, allowing a car to last longer.

Thallium has similarities to potassium so a deficiency in potassium makes it far more likely that you will hold on to Thallium rather than detox it.

To help you understand, let’s look at my test results. Earlier this year I ran a Hair Mineral Analysis on myself along with a stool and urine metals test.

Below is my hair test, as you can see I am very low in potassium.

Now look at my urine and stool metals test. See where my Thallium is? It’s totally through the roof.

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How Do You Detox Metals?

This is tricky business. You want to make sure that you have the help of an experienced practitioner. This is not something to take on by yourself. Promise me this!

Many practitioners use chelation therapy. While chelation is very effective at removing metals, especially when there has been an acute poisoning, it’s not great at dealing with long term metal exposure.

Chelators basically act like a binding agent and pull metals out of the body. They are quickly expelled from the body so they only grab what is quickly available. In order for chelation to be effective, they need to be taken every 4-5 hours over a period of time. The risk of chelation is in the way that it may “stir up” heavy metals but not actually fully remove them from the body.

Additionally, if you have been paying attention, I mentioned that sometimes the body uses metals to replace deficient minerals. If you strip the body of metals,  then you may leave the body depleted if it was using that metal to perform an important function.

I believe this is a huge reason why chelation therapy often leaves people fatigued and worn out. I have heard many people tell me that their health completely crashed after chelation therapy.

An extremely important component of heavy metal detox is re-mineralizing the body. When the body has the proper minerals it needs to perform daily functions, it can easy let go of metals and allow them to be detoxed out of the body.

Heavy metal detox is not a race. Slower is better and makes it more likely that you will keep the body balanced while simultaneously improving your health and energy levels.

How Do You Re-mineralize the Body?

Start with a Hair Mineral Analysis. I believe this is one of the most effective tools for not only detoxing toxic metals but increasing the energy efficiency of the body. It is an inexpensive test that offers significant information.

It’s important that you find someone who is experienced in interpreting these panels. HTMA is not straight forward and is easily misinterpreted.

If you are interested in detoxing your body from metals, please sign up for a free 30 minute call with me. We can discuss your challenges and see if my program is a fit for you. You can do that here.

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3 Reasons Why You are Chronically Fatigued

“I’m just so tired!”

“I am so sick of feeling tired”

“It doesn’t matter how much sleep I get, I wake up feeling totally exhausted.”

Sound familiar? Fatigue is the most common complaint I hear from my clients. In fact, it is rare that I work with a person who claims to have high energy levels and feels like they are totally rocking it.

There is a fatigue epidemic these days. Everyone seems to be lacking the energy they need to fully enjoy their lives.

So what’s going in with this low energy epidemic?

In order to have proper energy levels, you need to have a well functioning body machine. Unfortunately, with a deficient food supply, increased exposure to environmental toxins and chronic stress, our machines are taking a serious beating.

If you are feeling exhausted, no doubt you are wondering why.

Here are three reasons why you are exhausted, fatigued and straight up drained.

1. Hormone Imbalance

Hormones play a massive role in energy production. Specifically, cortisol, is incredibly important when it comes to having high energy. Many of us know cortisol as a stress hormone but it is also needed in certain amounts every single day.

In fact, without cortisol you wouldn’t even be able to get of bed in the morning.

It mainly operates to not only make us feel energized but to stabilize our blood sugar. We all know how low blood sugar makes us feel; hangry, dizzy, anxious and low energy. Stable blood sugar = stable energy levels.

Fluctuating cortisol throughout the days almost always go along with fluctuating energy levels. Imbalanced cortisol always lead to imbalanced energy.

When a run a hormone panel on a client I can use their cortisol rhythm to predict how their energy feels through the day. If you are finding yourself with dipping energy levels, consider your cortisol production.

Additionally estrogen dysregulation, low testosterone and low DHEA are often implicated in poor energy production.

2. Poor Digestion

There is a saying that goes, “You are what you eat,” but really you are only what you digest, absorb and assimilate. How many of you out there are eating this amazing whole foods diet, rich in protein and healthy vegetables but you still wake up every single day feeling wiped out?

If this sounds like you, poor digestion might be your issue. Unfortunately, many of the things that we do in everyday life destroy our digestion. Some of the worst digestion destroyers are alcohol, gluten, stress and lack of sleep.

And how many of us do those things on a regular basis, right?!

Digestion is huge. So if you have tightened up your diet but you still feel fatigued, consider your digestion.

3. Exposure to Environmetal Toxins

It doesn’t matter where you live. All of us are exposed to environmental toxins and heavy metals on a regular basis. This is an unfortunate reality of our increasingly toxic world. Thousands of chemicals are being added to our environment on a yearly basis with no regard for how they might be affecting human health.

Our detox organs are overwhelmed by toxins and are unable to process them effectively. The result is that toxins and metals are stored in our body; in our bone, brain, organs and cells.

These interfere with our cellular function, our mitochondria and the result is that we can’t produce energy at the level that we need to. No wonder we are so damn tired

Poor energy levels almost always means you have some level of toxicity in your body. Detoxification is key!

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Black Eggs, Cockroaches and Hakone

Black Eggs, Cockroaches and Hakone January 3, 2015 · 8 min. readThis article may contain affiliate links.

Our baggage is being shipped once again, this time for Tokyo. With my laptop bag full of clothes, we headed to the train station at 6 in the morning. We rode it, switched trains, and within a few hours we had arrived in Hakone.

Hakone is a small mountain town, which is a big difference from larger cities like Kyoto and Hiroshima. We stopped for lunch before boarding the boat to cross Lake Ashi, the nearby lake. I wasn't hungry, so I waited in the meeting spot, enjoying the long awaited nice weather, especially after the mess that yesterday was. The lake was full of large and small boats alike, and we were going to take one of the largest ones they had -- one that looked very much like a pirate ship.

Bridge Bridge Carriage

To get there, we had a bit of a walk ahead of us. After lunch we headed into the nearby woods and walked a very short, but very old road. This, our tour guide said, was the old highway connecting Kyoto and Tokyo. At a time, it was over 100 kilometers long and was used by Samurai either on pilgrimages or reporting for duty to the old shogun temples.

Highway Highway

We arrived at the docks and boarded the ship. A quick 20 minute ride got us across the lake and to the bus station. On this side of the lake, the sky was overcast and what would be a gorgeous picture of Mt. Fuji was nothing but cloud. We were warned she was a shy mountain, and pictures weren't always guaranteed.

Boat Afar Boat Close Torii

We took the bus 45 minutes to the tram station, and then headed up the mountain. When we arrived at the top, our guide walked us a bit on the path, stopped, and told us from there on we were on our own. Up the path, and upwind, was the sulfur mine and sulfur pools. The scent can be overwhelming and she's smelt it enough times that she didn't want to smell it again. Once you enter the path you can smell it, and it only gets stronger as you walk towards the pools. In case you have never smelt sulfur, it smells like rotting eggs. Now imagine being surrounded by pools and pools of it. Yuck is right!

It is causious of a bee Tram

While what we smelt was gross, what we saw was very interesting. All the pools of water had milky, smokey water in it instead of your normal clear water. Although the ground was highly acidic, unique plants were able to grow and flourish here. The view from the top was also breathtaking, with rolling lush hills in every direction. On our way to the pools we saw a carriage overhead carrying eggs, and we watched them get dipped into the pools and placed back into the carriage and returned back to where Siako was waiting for us.

Sulfur Pools Sulfur Pools Sulfur Pools The View The View Mountain Mountain

When we arrived, she surprised us with black eggs! These were the same eggs we saw in the carriage earlier, and the eggs shell had turned black due to a chemical reaction with the sulfur. They were perfectly boiled, delicious and were supposed to add 7 years to our life.

Egg Egg

We took the bus straight back to Hakone, and Siako asked us to go shopping while she checks up on our hotel. She never did this before so we should have known something was wrong. She arrived back in about an hour and, in her broken English, told us something was wrong with the hotel. There had been several complaints regarding it (we thought at first there were complaints again us!), and while the hotel was usable, it was under construction. We decided that was fine, and chose to stay there anyway.

"Under construction" was lost in translation. The hotel was severely damaged and needed repair. It probably should have been condemned. The carpets had dark, mysterious stains all over them, the plaster walls were cracking, and the rice walls of our rooms had holes and tears in them.

We sat down for a feast prepared by the hotel staff. It had several dished, all unique and interesting, including a raw fish speared from it's head and tail that we could cook over individual fires, if we so wanted. I got up then, and went to the end of the table to take a picture of all the food. At that same time, Steve and Alison were sneaking sips from a bottle of Saki at the end of table I had just arrived at. Once I sat down, Alison made a slight gasp and Steve whispered something to her. He then leaned over to me and whispered something to me: "Don't say anything, but a cockroach about an inch long just crawled under the table over there." and he tiled his head toward the far end of the table were several girls, wearing skirts, were sitting cross-legged on the ground. I nodded, went back to my seat, tucked my pants into my socks and waited. Sure enough, within a couple of minutes there was a scream, a bang and the girls scattered, terrifying the insect and sending it running towards more people, which of course set off a chain reaction.

The insect was removed by hotel staff, as was the second one we saw about 10 minutes later... and the third one. By this time nobody felt comfortable eating their supper and we retired for the night. Our tour guide was embarrassed, but did warn us that this place needed some T.L.C..

The rooms we much like the ones in Koyasan, only the washroom and shower room were different rooms. This hotel, not only needing repair and should probably not be open to the public, also had dizzying winding hallways and outdoor passageways which were disorienting in the night. This, with the carpet stains, the cracked walls, the bugs, and the lack of wi-fi finally made me feel like I was living in the rugged mountains on a tropical island in the Pacific Ocean -- instead of a Japanese Manhattan.

I'm off to bed now. Tomorrow we leave early for Tokyo, the last stop on our tour. After tomorrow, I'm on my own in Hong Kong.

Goodnight! Let's hope the bedbugs don't bite!

And, as always, a big thank you to my sweetheart Jessica Nuttall for proof reading a countless number of my articles. I couldn't do any of this without you. I love you.

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The following are the licensing and permit procedures for the city of Kerrville, Texas:

The City of Kerrville requires a contractor who holds himself out for hire to the general public to be licensed with the City of Kerrville and to apply for and be issued a building permit. To obtain a General Contractor License one must:
  1. Provide a bond in the amount of $5000.00 on a form provided by the Building Center. This bond must be in force at any time the General Contractor is issued a permit.
  2. Pay the license fee of $500.00 for the first year and $100.00 each year thereafter. Licenses expire December 31st of each year.
  3. Provide information on forms available for this purpose to the Building Inspection Division which includes name, business name, address, telephone number, etc.
  4. A one-time general contractors License is available for a fee of $100.00 per project. Once The permit gets approved through the permit Process you would pay for the one-time general contractors license. This license is only good for the project that was approved. Once the Project is complete the license is no longer valid.

The General Contractor must provide a full set of plans, to scale, for any construction for which a permit is to be issued. A complete set of plans must have (five sets are needed):

  1. A site plan with all dimensions shown (is changing the "foot print" of an existing building or adding a separate building on a property). This must meet the requirements of the zoning ordinance regarding set-backs, zoning district, etc.
  2. A floor plan showing the location of all doors, windows, architectural components, electrical, plumbing and mechanical equipment.
  3. A set of elevations of the structure is needed showing the exterior of the building and its finish.
  4. Foundation plans and specifications. This includes beam details and placement of beams in the slab (Depending on type of construction)
  5. Pier and beam layout and dimensions of lumber and framing materials. Sufficient details to conduct a complete plan review will be required. (Depending on type of construction)
  6. Any framing details or other building details required by the Building Inspection Division. these requirements will be made known to you following a preliminary plan review.
  7. A full set of specifications (if provided with the project) must accompany plans.
  8. Drainage plans showing drainage onto and away from the lot as well as the elevation above the curb, street or existing drainage structure. the complexity of this study will be determined by the City Staff.

The complexity of the plan process depends on the complexity of the project. The permit process involves the following:
  1. Plans are received by the Building Inspection Division and a permit application is completed. This includes the name of the contractor the owner of the property, lot block, and the name of subdivision, the use of the building or structure, the dollar value of work being done, and other information as required by the Building Inspection Division.
  2. A complete plan review is conducted. We have 10 business days to review the plans and either they will issue a permit or send comments back with revisions that will need to be made. When revision are resubmitted we will have 10 business days from the time you send us the revisions.
  3. Fees are established and recorded on the permit application along with any discrepancies noted during the plan review process. The Building Inspection Division staff will either accept the plans as provided, request the plans be corrected and submitted for a second review, or have small changes to the plans made in the office and initialized by the General Contractor. Once notified that the review has been completed and the plan are acceptable, the General contractor can pay all the applicable fee and be issued the permit. The plans submitted to the Building Inspection Division are to remain on file at the City Offices.
  4. The General Contractor will be responsible to see all required inspections are made and approved prior to concealing any portion of the building. The required inspections are on the back of the permit card, which must be posted on the project along with a street address sign visible from the street.

The Building Inspection Division is available for your assistance and would rather deal with problems in the planning stage than in the field. Please contact any of the persons below for information during regular business hours:
  • Drew Paxton

    , Executive Director of Development Services (830) 258-1514
  • Brian Hunt

    , Chief Building Official (830) 258-1514
  • Rebecca Pancini

    , Chief Planning Officer (830) 258-1514
  • Jason Lackey

    , Fire Marshal (830) 258-1205
  • Daryle Poe

    , Health Specialist (830) 258-1173
  • Kyle Burow

    , Director of Engineering  (830) 258-1410
  • Stuart Barron

    , Public Works Director (830) 258-1220

Contractors should be aware of the linked site reached by clicking here that provides information to the homeowner. Your homeowner clients may have questions regarding this information ranging from permit to inspection to fees.


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What We Believe and Why We Believe It* Leviticus: In the book of Leviticus, the law of the priests, God describes the sacrifices He requires of the priests and the Israelites. In this study Bob Enyart looks at the meanings of the burnt offerings and the lamb without spot or blemish. We learn of offerings of birds and of bread, and peace offerings of bull and calf, cow, ox, and goat, and trespass offerings for sin.

God here commands integrity toward our neighbors, diligence in religious service, and the consecration of the Aaron and his sons as priests. Sadly, though they were chosen to be teachers of the people and serve the Lord as priests forever, God kills two of Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, for their rebellion against Him. God gave to Israel symbolic ordinances both to teach the world eternal truths and to provide a cultural fabric that would bind Israel together keeping them through the millennia as a cohesive ethnic group through whom the Messiah would come and for whom future End Times prophecies will one day be fulfilled.

This 3,500-year-old book presents applications of what, thousands of years later, became modern medical practices. In some contexts an unclean person may have an infectious disease, is diagnosed from bodily discharges, and God instructs isolation, observation, and cleansing, with clothing and personal objects either washed, discarded, or even burned. God even warns that one unclean person or object can make another unclean, revealing all this thousands of years before biblical creationists discovered for the word the germ theory of diseases. God imbues blood with an intensity of symbolic meaning because without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness and because penultimately, Jesus would incense His hearers saying, If you want eternal life, drink My blood. God chose this book also to explicitly condemned all forms of sexual immorality including adultery, incest, and homosexuality. Yet, for those who obey Him, He also filled their lives with the blessings of the annual Feasts of Israel, and the eternal relief symbolized in the very real Sabbatical Years and the once-in-a-life Year of Jubilee! Finally, God’s insistence on treating the poor well was anything but a foundation for a socialist or welfare state. And by the way He created us and the world, with the laws of cause and effect, no man can escape the curses that are all around him, for every act of disobedience, nor can men out give God, with the blessings that He has assured for every act of obedience. For what God expects of men in vows and tithing, He has committed Himself to give infinitely above what we ever could.
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