Hello, this is pastor gary from first baptist church of laplata. Today’s “Familiar Friday” is from Saturday, October 31, 2020. Do you like Oreo cookies? I do. I like the originals, and I like the newer golden ones. I don’t care for all of the extra-flavored Oreos: carrot cake, peanut butter, mint, lemon, etc. Thankfully, in the event of a genuine apocalypse, there will be Oreos available in Norway just down the street from the Global Seed Vault. The Global Seed vault contains over a million different types of seeds in order to provide a restart to agriculture in the cataclysmic event of global vegetational destruction. The Oreo division of Nabisco actually built a vault which now contains the Oreo cookie recipe and a mylar-wrapped stockpile of the delicious cookies guaranteeing their survival. If I survive an apocalypse, I’m not sure that eating Oreos is going to be among my first priorities; further, I don’t know how I would get to Norway after the apocalypse; I assume international flights and cruises will be canceled. So what does “Oreo” mean? Why are there 90 hash marks around the edge of each cookie and 12 clovers or crosses around the inside? Why are there 12 lines between the hash marks and clovers in the same position as the numbers on an analog clock? The answers vary from the design is meaningless to the design is part of a Freemason plot to take over the world. How can we all be so familiar with something and yet know so little about it? That’s how it is with God: we know and love Him, but we really know very little about Him; that’s why eternity is so long—it will take at least that long to mine the depths and details of our Amazing Creator and Savior! Hear Paul in Romans 11:33, “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!”
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