I only am escaped..
Job 1:12-21 And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy hand; only upon himself put not forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah. And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn. And there came a messenger to Job and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them; and they of Sheba fell upon them and took them, and the servants have they smitten with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels and took them, and the servants have they smitten with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn; and behold, there came a great wind from over the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they died; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee. And Job rose up, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshipped; and he said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah!
Note that “I only am escaped” is indicative of having escape performed upon you; while “I alone escaped” is the pretense one performed escape oneself by supposedly using the supposed ‘free’ will properly.
There is a very great difference. The first is Truth. The second doesn’t exist.
Excerpted from: Top News Article | Reuters.com
TALLMANSVILLE, West Virginia (Reuters) - Only one man survived after an explosion in a West Virginia coal mine, a mine official said on Wednesday, transforming joy into grief and anger just hours after a mistaken report emerged that 12 of 13 missing miners were still alive 40 hours after the blast.
Ben Hatfield, president of mine owner International Coal Group Inc., blamed the earlier report on “miscommunication” and said that the company had then waited until it could determine which of the miners were dead or alive to tell the families their fate.
Anne Meredith, whose father died in the incident, said, “I feel that we were lied to all along,” adding that she planned to sue ICG.
Virginia Dean, whose uncle was in the Sago mine in central West Virginia, reacted by saying: “Only one lived. They lied.”
Hatfield said, “The initial report from the rescue team to the command center indicated multiple survivors, but that information proved to be a miscommunication.”
He denied the company had confirmed the initial report, and said he did not want to assign blame to the rescue team.
Several newspapers splashed headlines such as “Miracle in the Mine” on their frontpages which went to press before the truth emerged. “Alive! Miners beat odds” was USA Today’s headline with a picture of two smiling family members.
Late on Tuesday night rescue workers located the 12, who had been trapped some 13,000 feet inside the mine since 6:30 a.m. (1130 GMT) on Monday when the explosion had spread lethal gases in the mine.
The sole survivor, Randal McCloy, was taken to a nearby hospital where staff physician Dr. Susan Long said he arrived unconscious and in critical condition. He was stabilized with a breathing tube and sent to a bigger hospital, she said.
A doctor at West Virginia Univeristy Hospital later told a news conference McCloy was being treated for dehydration and a collapsed lung and was being kept sedated. “I think youth always helps,” the doctor told a news conference, commenting on possible reasons why the 27-year-old McCloy survived while the others perished.
“A dark importance saddens every day”.. William Cowper
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Ecclesiates 9:11,12 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to the intelligent, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are taken with the snare, like them are the children of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen
Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it. 2 Kings 18:25
Anti-Christ tried the lie that God had sent him to conqueor Jerusalem through the Assyrians. But God says to the worshipers of demons who hate Jesus Christ and Israel: "But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, And thy raging against me." 2 Kings 19:27