Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Food on the table Message-ID: <656@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 13:36:44 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.656 Posted: Fri Jan 11 13:36:44 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 08:17:40 EST References: <507@uwmacc.UUCP> <1105@ut-ngp.UUCP> <534@uwmacc.UUCP> <1162@ut-ngp.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center Lines: 31 > [] > >> Pardon my ignorance, but what are "Malachi"? One-word responses are > >> really not very enlightening... > > > >Sorry. Malachi is one the "the twelve", i.e., one of the minor > >prophets. The reason for submitting his name was that the people of > >Israel were starving (among other things). Malachi delivered the > >message that the reason was due to disobedience to God. > >-- > >Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois > > The original challenge was to show an occurrence of God putting > (more/better) food on the table, not of God preventing any from > being available. I know. The idea is the non-food on the table was due to disobedience to God. The implication is that obedience results in food on the table (and that this situation was the antecedent of that during which the people were starving). Another example would be that of the prosperity enjoyed by Israel during the reign of Solomon, resulting at least in part from the relationship which his father David had with the Lord. Is this any clearer? -- Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois | "And the streets shall be full of boys and girls playing --+-- in the streets thereof..." | Zechariah 8:5 |