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Wednesday, June 07, 2017

Genesis 1:5, 8, 13  And God called the light Day,^H3117 and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.^H3117 … And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.^H3117 … And the evening and the morning were the third day.^H3117 . . . Psalm 118:24 This is the day^H3117 which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. . . . Malachi 4:3, 5  And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day^H3117 that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. … Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day^H3117 of the LORD …….

  After a few years of Public Elementary School, my only granddaughter and her brother pleaded to be homeschooled. I was privileged to be their word teacher.  Spelling, reading, writing, critiquing, grammar, editing et al were my enjoyable responsibility. Their parents, Ann and others taught the other subjects. And as the students will still tell you, “There is no out-of-school time with homeschooling. If you’re with a teacher you’re in a classroom.”

  In teaching we encouraged questions, for questions stimulate. We believe it is Biblical to discuss using questions whether presented by teacher or student; Job and company being representative.

  This morning I ran across the following:

Shandree Sullivan

June 2, 2014

The Six Days of Creation

I bet you didn’t know that the word “day” is used 2,301 times throughout the whole bible, and yet most people only question it in the book of Genesis. Why do you think that is?

  It is an insightful thought provoking question.

  Please do think about its significance for on our answer hinges much pertainingg to the days of our lives.

EBB4

PS. I again thank friend and brother in Christ Fred Gilmour for teaching me that all basic theology is anchored in the first chapters of the Book of Genesis.