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Agenda

Today we celebrate no less than 3 archangels:

• Gabriel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel

In the Hebrew Bible, Gabriel appears to the prophet Daniel to explain his visions (Daniel 8:15–26, 9:21–27). The archangel also appears in the Book of Enoch and other ancient Jewish writings. Alongside the archangel Michael, Gabriel is described as the guardian angel of Israel, defending its people against the angels of the other nations. Gabriel is also translated as "strength of God" in some languages. The Gospel of Luke relates the stories of the Annunciation, in which the angel Gabriel appears to Zechariah and the Virgin Mary, foretelling the births of John the Baptist and Jesus, respectively (Luke 1:11–38). Many Christian traditions—including Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Roman Catholicism—revere Gabriel as a saint. Islam regards Gabriel as an archangel sent by God to various prophets, including Muhammad. The first five verses of the Al-Alaq, the 96th chapter of the Quran, is believed by Muslims to have been the first verses revealed by Gabriel to Muhammad. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hold that the angel Gabriel is the same individual as the prophet Noah. According to one ancient Gnostic manuscript, the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, Gabriel is a divine being and inhabitant of the Pleroma who existed prior to the Demiurge.[11] Yazidis consider Gabriel one of the Seven Mysteries, the heptad to which God entrusted the world, and sometimes identified with the archangel Melek Taus.

• Michael: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_(archangel)

Michael is an archangel in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Baha'i faith. The earliest surviving mentions of his name are in 3rd- and 2nd-century BC Jewish works, often but not always apocalyptic, where he is the chief of the angels and archangels and responsible for the care of Israel. Christianity adopted nearly all the Jewish traditions concerning him, and he is mentioned explicitly in Revelation 12:7–12, where he does battle with Satan, and in the Epistle of Jude, where the author denounces heretics by contrasting them with Michael.

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• Raphael: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_(archangel)

Raphael (/ˈræfiəl/, "God has healed") is an archangel first mentioned in the Book of Tobit and in 1 Enoch, both dating from the last few centuries before Christ. In later Jewish tradition, he became identified as one of the three heavenly visitors entertained by Abraham at the Oak of Mamre. He is not named in either the New Testament or the Quran, but later Christian tradition identified him with healing and as the angel who stirred waters in the Pool of Bethesda in John 5:2-4, and in Islam, where his name is Israfil, he is understood to be the unnamed angel of Quran 6:73, standing eternally with a trumpet to his lips, ready to announce the Day of Judgment. In Gnostic tradition, Raphael is represented on the Ophite Diagram.

PROPERTIES OF 696:

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/600_(number)#690s :

• 696 = 2^3 × 3 × 29
• sum of eight consecutive primes (71 + 73 + 79 + 83 + 89 + 97 + 101 + 103)
• totient sum for first 47 integers
• trails of length 9 on honeycomb lattice

NETBIBLE ENTRY FOR INDEX #696:

• arguros: (1) silver (1a) 1Co 3:12 refers to the silver with which the columns of noble buildings were covered and the rafters adorned (1b) things made of silver (1b1) vessels (1b2) images of gods

Matching Bible verses:

• Mat 10:9: Do not take gold, silver, or copper in your belts,
• Act 17:29: So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.
• Jam 5:3: Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure!
• Rev 18:12: cargo such as gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all sorts of things made of citron wood, all sorts of objects made of ivory, all sorts of things made of expensive wood, bronze, iron and marble

BIBLE VERSES MATCHING 24:29 OR 29:24:

• Proverbs 29:24: The partner of a thief hates his own life; he hears the curse, but discloses nothing.
• Isaiah 29:24: And those who go astray in spirit will come to understanding, and those who murmur will accept instruction.”
• Job 29:24: I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and the light of my face they did not cast down.
• Luke 24:29: but they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent.” So he went in to stay with them.
• Matthew 24:29: Immediately after the anguish of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will give no light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.
• Proverbs 24:29: …And don’t say, “Now I can pay them back for what they’ve done to me! I’ll get even with them!”
• 1 Chronicles 29:24: All the leaders and the mighty men, and also all the sons of King David, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.
• 2 Chronicles 29:24: The priests then killed the goats as a sin offering and sprinkled their blood on the altar to make atonement for the sins of all Israel. The king had specifically commanded that this burnt offering and sin offering should be made for all Israel.
• Deuteronomy 29:24: (The Covenant in Moab) […All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.] So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’ [And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.]…

Q DROP #696: https://qalerts.app/?q=%23696

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See you tomorrow, Frens!🤓