O Little Tower of Bethlehem Summary: Isaiah and Micah relate the prophecies of the Messiah’s birth to children: the Lamb of God will be born in the Tower of the Flock where the shepherds birth Passover Lambs! This book is based on Scripture and archaeology but is not your westernized version of the Messiah’s birth. Recommendations from the Institute for Hebraic Christian Studies in Houston, Texas.
This book could be ordered through Trilogy Christian Publishing (TBN), Barnes & Nobles, Amazon and other booksellers. My pen name is Granny Vee.
Granny is not young. I am on oxygen temporarily, so that these songs are not up to my par! I take a lot of breaths! However, these songs have been beneficial to me in my faith so I wanted to share them with you. They keep in mind Scripture! (My songs when I was younger can be heard on Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, and other music apps under Carolyn Anne Venable.)
These songs are taken from the book of First John. John was a beloved apostle of Jesus Christ.
1.
This is My commandment that you love one another that your joy may be full. (2x)
That your joy may be full. That your joy may be full.
This is My commandment that you love one another that your joy may be full.
Reference:
1John 1:4 And these things we write to you that your joy may be full.
1John 3:23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.
2.
Behold what manner of love the Father has given unto us,
Behold what manner of love the Father has given unto us,
That we should be called the sons of God!
That we should be called the sons of God!
Reference:
1John 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
3. This is one of my first songs written in 1987. Chorus and third verse. See here for all verses.
O Holy King of Israel Who reigns upon the throne You’re coming for those who’d believe You’re coming for Your own. O Holy King of Israel O Holy King, Immanuel!
When He appears, we shall be like Him For we shall see Him as He is!
4.
Greater is He who is in me, Greater is He who is in me, Greater is He who is in me than he who is in the world.
Reference:
1John 4:4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
Lessons are about 4-6 minutes. Please repeat for practice. 17 lessons are included in this batch. Hopefully, there will be more! Sometimes all the words are not spoken mainly due to the continuity of the script. But most of these have been pronounced at some time, chiefly in the same script.
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What do Granny Vee and Waldo have in common? Search games! Granny Vee calls them “Kooky Quests”!
Have you ever searched for Waldo in a picture book? He can be very hard to find! But I chanced upon him outside the State Capitol of Texas. (Do you know where the Capitol of Texas is? Answer below.)
“Waldo” tells the good news to people! You can read more of this good news here!
Rare photo: There is very little SNOW in southern Texas! This was the SNOWSTORM that crippled southern Texas in February 14-15 of 2021.
The answer to the question: The capitol building is in Austin. But the city of Austin is the capital of Texas. If you are speaking of the building, it is spelt* “capitol”. But the city is spelt “capital”.
Mnemonic: You may remember this as Austin is the capital with an “a”, but the old office building is spelt with an “o”!
mnemonic = something to aid in memory (don’t pronounce the “m” in this crazy word!)
“Spelt” or “spelled”: Either is correct. When I grew up, it was “spelt” and I think it sounds better, so I prefer it! But the more common way is “spelled”.
The “Tower of the Flock”, or Migdal Eder, was the place where Passover lambs were birthed in Bethlehem. This is most significant because the Tower had a manger and swaddling clothes!
A Little Lamb Story
Let’s go back more than 2000 years ago….a different time, a different culture …
It was the very first day of their first month of Israel’s year – a glorious spring! “Lambing season” had begun! Spring is the time for baby lambs to be birthed. So, the shepherds were in the fields of Bethlehem that night – expecting the births of little lambs. But did they expect the Lamb of God to be born that night? This Lamb of God would be their King of Israel, their Messiah, and the Savior of the whole world!
YHWH God, who created the heavens and the earth, uses His own calendar. The first day of the first month is Nisan 1 and, according to many rabbis, it celebrates the dawn of the creation. How wonderful that Yeshua the Messiah may have been birthed on Nisan 1 since the LORD does bring us new life!
“So, you see,” Micah resumes, “the Passover lambs are birthed in this ‘tower of the flock’ and God’s perfect Passover Lamb will be born there, too! The LORD is incredible in His forethought!”
My son’s memory is put into his own poem. I include this here because this is the kind of things that little boys do!
It wasn’t “actually a bug”. We would generally call a slug, a bug or an insect. But that is not the case. Slugs and snails are soft-bodied mollusks or gastropods! Garden slugs and snails are one to three inches long and are usually gray or brown and maybe have an orangish color about them.However, there are Carpathian blue slugs and banana slugs which are yellow.Slugs come in many different colors from white to black and many colors in between. There is even a rainbow slug!But these probably don’t live in your garden!
Poem by David Lee Venable II(when he was a boy.)
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In my yard as a boy,
I found a new toy
And it filled me with joy,
But it wasn’t a toy.
It was actually a bug,
Not just that, but a slug!
I found very many about
As I worked out their route.
Then I bagged them
Then I kept them
I made them my pets
Nothaving any regrets.
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I put them in a bag
Wrote my name as the tag
I had to have a place
A nice little space
To keep them all for me.
So I found a space you see,
At the base of the chimney!
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You might call them “ick”,
And they really were quite thick.
Well, my mom, she found out
About them with an ugh and a shout
She said I had to get them out.
So that was the end
Of having a slimy friend.
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Thankfully, since they were hidden in a fireplace, I’m so glad that the slugs didn’t become char-broiled bugs!
THIS POEM RECOUNTS AN ABSOLUTELY AMAZING INCIDENT DURING THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR (1755) ABOUT WHICH GEORGE WASHINGTON HIMSELF WROTE. MORE DETAILS MAY BE FOUND IN THE BOOK GEORGE WASHINGTON’S SACRED FIRE BY PETER A. LILLBACK. THIS INCIDENT IS ALSO FOUND IN THE BOOK, THE BULLETPROOF GEORGE WASHINGTON, BY DAVID BARTON.
THIS POEM MAY BE SUNG TO THE TUNE OF “YANKEE DOODLE” IN WHICH CASE, IT IS BEST TO PRONOUNCE INDIAN AS “IN-JUN”.
BULLETS THROUGH MY COAT
In seventeen and fifty-five
Against the Yanks and British,
The French* and Indians* took by surprise
Them in a tragic skirmish.
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In Pennsylvania’s woods, they* hid
And then they opened fire
And struck most all, but George he lived
For it was God’s desire.
*(refrain, if sung)
“They shot 4 bullets through my coat”
George Washington, he wrote.
“They shot 4 bullets through my coat”
And that there is a true quote.
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Now what did hold these bullets back
How could they not go through George?
Four holes were made and that’s a fact
Must be that God did save George!
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“Mark yon tall and daring” man
The Indian chief did order
“Quick, let your aim be certain”
But each attempt was thwarted.
*
“They shot 4 bullets through my coat”
George Washington, he wrote.
“They shot 4 bullets through my coat”
And that there is a true quote.
*
Two horses shot while under George
Were hit with mean precision
But bullets fired meant for George
Were stopped by God’s decision.
*
How stands yet still this mortal man?
The Indian chief was awe-struck
“He cannot die” for there’s a plan
“Great Spirit” shields this young buck!
*
“They shot 4 bullets through my coat”
George Washington, he wrote.
“They shot 4 bullets through my coat”
And that there is a true quote.
*
“I now exist”; there’s evidence
Wrote George unto his brother
“by the miraculous care of Providence”
It could be no one other!
*
Many moons, did come and go
The Indian Chief came calling
To visit George, to let him him know
Why he’d been spared from falling.
*
“They shot 4 bullets through my coat”
George Washington, he wrote.
“They shot 4 bullets through my coat”
And that there is a true quote.
*
The wise old Indian understood
This George would lead a nation
His life was kept for mankind’s good
He’d father a great nation!
*(c) 4th of July, 2011 CAVenable*
Providence = a common term in colonial times for God and God’s will
Skirmish = irregular fighting
Thwarted = prevented from happening
Yanks = an informal term for Americans
Yon = poetic for yonder; “that one over there”
Young buck = colorful reference to a young male
Quote by George Washington –
“I now exist and appear in the land of the living by the miraculous care of Providence, that protected me beyond all human expectation; I had 4 Bullets through my Coat, and two horse shot under me, and yet escaped unhurt.”
Granny Vee 