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The Navalny drama has points of reference with the Soviet dissident drama
Yesterday, Alexei Navalny was buried in Moscow. While he was still alive and in a labor camp, he wrote messages that were occasionally posted on his Instagram account. I happened to observe how, among many other things, he devoted his thoughts to some Soviet dissidents. A little over a year ago, he wrote about Anatoly…
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“The very least..”
In the thirty-ninth chapter of the book of Jeremiah, we can read about “the very least” or “the poor, those who had nothing”, and who remained in the land, after the great powers Egypt – Jer. chapter 37 – and Babel, had brought their armies back and forth – fighting, exploiting and ravaging. Jer. 39:10…
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“If he set his heart upon himself..”
Job 34: 12 – 15 “Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly,Neither will the Almighty pervert justice. Who gave him a charge over the earth?Or who hath disposed the whole world?If he set his heart upon himself,If he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; All flesh shall perish together,And man shall turn again unto dust” (ASV)
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Dark September
Early morning walk in the fog. Is there any hope? “The Lord said, that he would dwell in the dark cloud” – 1 Kings 8:12 (Geneva Bible)
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Elias’ vision
Elias saw many visions during his life, and one of his friends wrote down several of them a short time before Elias died in 2014. A lot of it is some New Age mixture. I don’t know if it is his own fault or his friend, the author’s. Elias tends to interpret his visions in…