Points To Ponder 01/30/2013

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POINTS TO PONDER:
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"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world." - Thomas Jefferson
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BIBLE QUIZ: 
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(Old Testament/Stories of Samuel, Saul and David (I Samuel 2:22-36)

Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting. And he said to them, "Why do you do such things, the evil things that I hear from all these people? "No, my sons; for the report is not good which I hear the LORD'S people circulating. "If one man sins against another, God will mediate for him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?" But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for the LORD desired to put them to death. Then a man of God came to Eli with a message…………………And this will be the sign to you which shall come concerning your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas:………………….

What other sins (besides the one underlined above) were Hophni and Phinehas guilty of?

What was the sign the man of God gave concerning Eli’s sons Hophni and Phinehas?

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