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Two things to cover in this blog, so I'll start with the less serious of the two.

To begin with, there is one more unwanted crush going on this summer. (Oh the drama.) Fortunately, like all crushes, it is harmless and will not go anywhere. Unless, of course, this guy turns into some freaky stalker type and refuses to let me be all summer. (Oh yeah, and he's working at camp. 0_0 )

But I'm not too worried, because he recently graduated from South [Kitsap High] and, well, they're not too bright. That probably means he's not catching on to my not quite so subtle hints that I'm not interested in being crush material, but it also probably means that he doesn't have it in him to concoct an elaborate stalking scheme.



Second bit of news: I was reading in Numbers this morning before my shower, and I noticed a most interesting passage. I present it to you, dear readers, to take from it what you will, and then I shall expound on how I perceived this passage:

"So Moses went out and reported the Lord's words to the people. He gathered the seventy elders and stationed them around the Tabernacle. And the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses. Then he gave the seventy elders the same Spirit that was upon Moses. And when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But this never happened again.

"Two men, Eldad and Medad, had stayed behind in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but they had not gone out to the Tabernacle. Yet the Spirit rested upon them as well, so they prophesied there in the camp. A young man ran and reported to Moses, 'Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!'

"Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses' assistant since his youth, protested, 'Moses, my master, make them stop!'

"But Moses replied, 'Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the Lord's people were prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them all!' Then Moses returned to the camp with the elders of Israel."

Numbers 11: 24-30 (NLT)



So, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this appear to be baptism in the Holy Spirit? Of course, it's not quite like its occurrence in Acts, but then again, God doesn't act in the same ways all the time. This made me think about the New Testament where Paul is saying he wishes all people could experience this.

Interesting to me, any thoughts?