#manoah

"Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered it on a rock as a sacrifice to the LORD. And as Manoah and his wife watched, the LORD did an amazing thing." (Judges 13:19, NLT)

Judges 13:12 (NKJV) - Manoah said, “Now let Your words come to pass! What will be the boy’s rule of life, and his work?”

If the Lord were pleased to kill us, He would not have given irrevocable spiritual gifts inorder to receive them which offer up in service to Him; ie. Service to His flock whether currently found or those to be, that would rather be saved from the evil they could have otherwise done and its eternal repercussion. Neither would He have shewed us all the spontaneous and timeous revelations (visions, angelic encounters etc.), nor would He as at this time have told us such things as these.

- Eustache Le Sueur

Phillip Medhurst presents 201/402 "The angel ascends toward heaven" (Judges 13:20) drawing by James Tissot at the John Rylands Library; gouache on board by James Tissot Jewish Museum New York.

Phillip Medhurst presents 202/788 James Tissot Bible c 1899 The angel ascends toward heaven Judges 13:20 Jewish Museum New York. By a follower of (James) Jacques-Joseph Tissot, French, 1836-1902. Gouache on board.