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ဒံယေလ 9:16

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16 အိုဘုရားရှင်၊ ဖြောင့်မတ်တော်မူခြင်း တရား တော်ရှိသမျှတို့နှင့်အညီ၊ သန့်ရှင်းသော တောင်တော် တည်းဟူသော ကိုယ်တော်၏ ယေရုရှလင်မြို့မှ ပြင်းစွာ သော ဒေါသမျက်တော်ကို လွှဲတော်မူပါဟု အကျွန်ုပ် တောင်းပန်ပါ၏။ အကြောင်းမူကား၊ အကျွန်ုပ်တို့ အပြစ် များမှစ၍ ဘိုးဘေးတို့၏ အပြစ်များကြောင့်၊ ယေရုရှလင် မြို့နှင့် ကိုယ်တော်၏လူစုသည် ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်၌ရှိသော သူတို့တွင် ကဲ့ရဲ့စရာအကြောင်း ဖြစ်ပါ၏။

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Divine Providence # 133

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133. However, the effect of miracles on good people is different from their effect on evil people. Good people have no desire for miracles, but they believe the miracles in the Word. If they do hear anything about a miracle, they think of it only as a minor argument that strengthens their faith, because they base their thinking on the Word and therefore on the Lord and not on the miracle.

It is different for evil people. They can actually be constrained and compelled to faith and even to worship and devotion by miracles. This lasts only a short while, though, because their evils are pent up inside, and the compulsions and gratifications of those evils are constantly working away inside their outward worship and devotion. In the effort to let them break free of this confinement, these people think about the miracle and wind up calling it a sham, a trick, or a natural event, which enables them to return to their evil ways. People who go back to their evil ways after being worshipful profane what is good and true in worship, and the fate after death of people who profane what is holy is the worst of all. These are the people referred to in the Lord's discourse in Matthew 12:43-44, 45, the people whose last state is worse than the first.

Besides, if miracles did happen for people who do not believe in the miracles in the Word, they would be happening constantly where everyone like this could see them. This shows why miracles do not happen nowadays.

  
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Fall

  
Dempsey and Firpo, by Bellows.

Most of the time, falling means a lowering in spiritual state, from one closer to the Lord to one further. But, as with other common verbs, the meaning of "fall" is highly dependent on context in regular language, and in the spiritual sense as well. People fall on their faces in prayer, fall in battle, fall on others to attack them and fall on each other's necks in greeting. Stars fall from the sky, mountains fall on people, cities fall, and even faces fall. There's a lot of falling, in very different circumstances. When people fall on their faces in prayer -- it shows humility, and an acknowledgement of their own low state and need for the Lord's help. When they fall on each other's necks, it means a communication between the two spiritual states. At the other end of the scale, it illustrates complete spiritual destruction in the fall of a city.