by Anne Hamilton | Apr 5, 2022 | Covenant, False Refuges, guardians, Testing, Thresholds
Psalm 91 is a great proclamation of faith in God’s covenantal protection for those who take refuge in Him. But as mentioned in the last session, for many believers across the millennia, even up to the present day, there has been a temptation to turn it into a magic...
by Anne Hamilton | Mar 11, 2022 | False Refuges, guardians, Testing, Thresholds
The consistency of symbolism surrounding the spirit of Python is remarkable. There are few concepts that can cross cultural divides virtually intact. However, the common experience of the ancient world—whether it was Greek or Jew—was such that Python was associated...
by Anne Hamilton | Apr 30, 2021 | Passover, Thresholds
There are two main words for threshold in Hebrew. One relates to an ordinary entrance: good, blessed and essentially holy. The other describes a doorway that is defiled, unholy and treacherous. The first word, ‘kaph’, is the ordinary threshold. I introduced ‘kaph’ in...
by Anne Hamilton | Apr 16, 2021 | Thresholds
Welsh legend tells the story of the semi-divine hero, Lleu Llaw Gyffes, who cannot be killed during the day or the night, neither indoors nor outdoors, neither riding nor walking, neither clothed nor naked, nor by any weapon lawfully made. A lot like Samson, whose...
by Anne Hamilton | Apr 10, 2021 | Thresholds
In the last episode of Grace Drops, I spoke on the importance of threshold stones as altars. If you’d like to read more on this topic, please download the free book by Henry Clay Trumbull right here. At the end of the nineteenth century, just as the sacrificial rites...
