Another saint doing battle with the powers of darkness
“Arose.”
Fascinating word. Occurs 173 times in the New American Standard Bible. Nearly always, something interesting, if not transforming, follows.
Jesus uber-arose, as I hope you know. As in, from the dead.
Abraham arose, too, as in from the bed.
Jacob arose, and bugged out of town.
A new king arose in Egypt, and things got ugly for Jacob’s descendents.
Moses arose and went up the mountain.
Balaam arose and got up on his donkey.
Arose is the difference between sleeping and moving. Between sitting and acting.
Arose changes things. [click to continue…]
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