Was classically biblical, the firstborn. The firstborn is a recuurent theme in the OT, lord knows. It was, as we might suppose, the “Plague to end all plagues”<\/p>\n
I am of the opinion that the Creator is done with plagues, and he expects us to fix our own problems. I expect, like a lot of other preconceptions about the creator, that I am wrong. He tells us himself, Isaiah 55:<\/p>\n
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord. <\/p>\n
For as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my ways exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts”<\/p>\n
Let’s hope so. <\/p>\n
Pascal seems to think the time is right for another plague, and posits that Ebola may be it. I don’t know, he may be right. He’s a lot more likely to know than I am. <\/p>\n
But it dawns on me that we may already be in the midst of the 11th plague; Islam. <\/p>\n
Like the other plagues, it is disagreeable. Like the other plagues, it is relentless. And like the other plagues, the Pharoah considers himself to be more powerful than G-d. <\/p>\n
Like the other plagues, we have to mark ourselves so that we may be passed by; and “Passed by” will not mean what it did for Dathan and the others. <\/p>\n
I keep praying the same prayer. “Lord, make me an instrument of your will”. I know exactly what that means and what it entails. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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