Title: Famine

Topic: Salvation

Summary: We look at passages on famine—a force that often seems to move the scriptural story along—and ponder their meaning for our lives.

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Genesis 12:9-10; 26:1; 41:25, 29, 38, 53-57; 47:3
Ruth 1:1
2 Samuel 21:1, 3; 24:13
1 Kings 8:37-39
2 Kings 8:1
Job 5:15, 17, 20, 24
Psalms 33:18-19; 105:16-17
Isaiah 29:7-8; 58:3, 10, 12
Jeremiah 52:5-6
Ezekiel 36:26, Ezekiel 36:31-39
Amos 8:11
Matthew 24:3, 6, 12
Luke 4:24, 26-28; 15:11, 13
Acts of the Apostles 7:11; 11:27-30
Romans 8:35-39
Revelation 6:8
Matthew 5:6
John 6:27, 31-32, 35

1470. 'Behold now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look upon' means that truth from a celestial origin is delightful. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'a woman beautiful to look upon'. Every truth that is celestial, that is, which is brought forth from what is celestial, is a source of happiness in the internal man and of delight in the external; and among celestial angels truth is not perceived in any other way. It is altogether different however when it does not have a celestial origin. There are two kinds of happiness in the internal man to which two kinds of delight in the external man correspond. One belongs to good, the other to truth. Celestial happiness and delight go with good, spiritual happiness and delight with truth. Furthermore it is well known that truth holds happiness and delight within it, though these are essentially such only when the truth flows from what is celestial, and therefore when the truth itself becomes celestial and is called celestial truth. This truth may also be compared to the light of the sun in spring, which light carries within it the warmth which causes everything on earth to start to grow and so to speak to come alive. This celestial truth is beauty or beautifulness itself, and is the kind of truth meant here by the words 'a beautiful woman to look upon'. What further arcana are embodied in these words will become evident from what follows