Subject: 10 Commandments/Pentecost
From: Linda Miller
To: <heb_roots_chr@hebroots.org>

U.S. SUPREME COURT BRINGS DOWN TEN COMMANDMENTS

By James Vicini WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on
Tuesday allowed the removal of a granite monument of the Ten
Commandments from the front of an Indiana city hall... More at
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010529/ts/court_commandments_dc_2.html

This happened on Tuesday, May 29, 2001, which happens to be Sivan
7, or the second day of Shavuot on the modern Jewish calendar.

Ironically, Shavuot celebrates the GIVING of the Ten Commandments
by God to Moses, "the ministration of death, written and engraven
in stones" (2 Corinthans 3:7), when 3,000 died (Exodus 32:28).

It is also the same as the Day of Pentecost, when 3,000 people were
given life (Acts 2:41).

On Shavout, God giveth, and on the same day, the U.S. Supreme Court
taketh away.

This unusual timing of the Supreme Court action seems strangely
ominous to me, with much symbolism. Along with urging Israel to
surrender her God-given land, this is another blemish in America's
record before God on this spiritually significant day.

Jim

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