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The best definition of insanity is doing the same thing This idea fits the Biblical definition of insanity
over and over again hoping for a different result. The perfectly. Ever learning, but never coming to the
biblical definition of insanity is ever learning, but never knowledge of the truth.
coming to the knowledge of truth. This insanity is not
caused by an inability to learn, but by an unwillingness After questioning the midwives about the failure of
to learn. It is an acquired insanity. this latest attack, he was told, “The Hebrew women are
not like the Egyptian women; For they are lively, and
Jeremiah proclaimed in Jeremiah 5:31; The prophets are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.”
prophesy falsely because the people love to have it so.
This wicked monarch of Egypt goes even deeper into
Generation after generation of power-hungry, his scheme and commands that all Hebrew boy babies
deranged leaders have unsuccessfully tried to produce —the ones that escaped murder at birth—be thrown
a Godless work by removing Christ and His teachings into the Nile river.
from the people. One after another has failed. Time
after time, they have watched as their efforts produced Yet, God used his own daughter to foil this plan when
the opposite effect as Christianity has spread into larger she brought a Hebrew baby named Moses home with
areas than before. The book of Acts relates how the her to her father’s house where he was fed, clothed,
church that was originally confined to Jerusalem spread and educated. While seeking to destroy God’s people,
through the known world because of persecution. Pharaoh unwittingly helped in their deliverance.
These evil ones, learning from the failures of those
before them, change their methods of attack believing Eliminating the man of faith will never
that their failure was of a tactical nature. They never eliminate the faith of the man.
seem to understand they are fighting against Almighty
God, the giver and taker of life. When Elijah is taken out of this world, his mantle
is left behind for another. The Elisha that picked up
Ever learning new ways to attack, they fail to learn Elijah’s mantle was blessed with a double portion of
that the removal of a man, a group of people, or a Elijah’s power. God’s spirit stays behind and continues
whole religious body will never achieve their goal. As to part the water of Jordan.
smart as they are in their ability to wage this war, they
are forever ignorant of what Gamaliel knew in Acts The High Priest did not know that the stoning of
5:39 when he told the counsel in Jerusalem if a thing Stephen could have such an effect on one of their
be of God man cannot overthrow it. While thinking young men, Saul of Tarsus.
they are at war with certain people of a certain culture,
they are in reality waring against the One in whom A deacon was replaced by an apostle.
they live, move, and have their being. It seems that in the first century, Nero could not find
enough lions to keep up with the increasing number of
nKevilelrinsgucacnededreimn orevminogvtihneg pthheysSicpairliwtuialll. Christians in Rome.
It is estimated that as much as fifty percent of today’s
Pharaoh made this same miscalculation in the first Russian population is Christian. This is a powerful
chapter of Exodus. The enslaved Israelites were a threat testimony of the enduring power of Christianity
to His kingdom and power, but increasing Israel’s labor considering the untold numbers of Christians killed
and burden strengthened them. So, Pharaoh changed and the amount of churches closed under the iron
his approach. He commanded the midwives to hands of Lenin, Stalin, and others.
perform an unholy and ungodly act that amounted to More than sixty years after Mao-Tse-Tung expelled
what is called partial-birth abortion in America today. the last Christian missionary from China, that nation is
These midwives were ordered to murder every Hebrew on the verge of becoming the world’s largest Christian
baby boy as soon as it was born. Pharaoh reasoned that nation. Some say, this could happen as soon as the year
murder would prevail where affliction had failed. 2030. The church in China is thriving having survived
Mao’s cultural revolution.
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