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Votive
A votive deposit or votive offering is one or more objects displayed or deposited, without the intention of recovery or use, in a sacred place for broadly religious purposes.
Votive is also defined as "offered, given, dedicated, etc., in accordance with a vow." There are two uses of the word vow in the Bible.
The Torah makes provision for "freewill offerings" which may be made by any individual. These are different from votive offerings which are linked to a vow or prayer cf Leviticus where the Hebrew root letters for a freewill offering are נדב (nadab)[1] from the verb nadab[2], but for a votive offering are נדר (neder)[3] from the root word nadar[4].
"Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer [for] a freewill offering[1]; but for a vow[3] it shall not be accepted." Leviticus 22:23
In this verse a clear differentiation is made between the two.
Is voting bad
People are already in a political system that is a direct or indirect democracy certainly have motivation to vote.
Democracies are not always a good form of government and for centuries in America they were not considered to good. In fact, until World War II democracy was considered “A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic - negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard for consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.”[5]
If you live in a democracy and you have a right to vote you certainly may feel a need to vote in self defense in order to protect yourself and your neighbor from the covetous practices of the welfare state and those who desire to rule over and even rob their neighbor.
John Adams: “Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
We have only a few things to do:
- Repent which means to think a different way.
- Seek righteousness in everything we do where ever we are at or what ever status we are in.
- While we do that we should do that together in small intimate groups networked together.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 05071 ^הבדנ^ nᵉdabah \@ned-aw-baw’\@ NunDaletBeitHey from 05068 NunDaletBeit offer willingly; n f; {See TWOT on 1299 @@ "1299a"} AV-freewill offering 15, offerings 9, free offering 2, freely 2, willing offering 1, voluntary offering 1, plentiful 1, voluntarily 1, voluntary 1, willing 1, willingly 1; 26
- 1) voluntariness, free-will offering
- 1a) voluntariness
- 1b) freewill, voluntary, offering
- 1) voluntariness, free-will offering
- ↑ 05068 ^בדנ^ nadab \@naw-dab’\@ a primitive root BeitDaletNun; v; {See TWOT on 1299} AV-offered willingly 6, willingly offered 5, willing 2, offered 1, willing 1, offered freely 1, give willingly 1; 17
- 1) to incite, impel, make willing
- 1a) (Qal) to incite, impel
- 1b) (Hithpael)
- 1b1) to volunteer
- 1b2) to offer free-will offerings
- See also 05069 בדנ nᵉdab translated AV-freely offered, freewill offering, offering willingly, minded of their own freewill; defined
- 1) to incite, impel, make willing
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 05088 ^רדנ^ neder \@neh’- der\@ or ^רדנ^ neder \@nay’- der\@ from the verb nadar 05087; n m; {See TWOT on 1308 @@ "1308a"} AV-vow 58, vowed 2; 60
- 1) vow, votive offering
- ↑ 05087 ^רדנ^ nadar \@naw-dar’\@ a primitive root; v; {See TWOT on 1308} AV-vow 30, made 1; 31
- 1) to vow, make a vow
- 1a) (Qal) to vow a vow
- 1) to vow, make a vow
- ↑ 1928 U.S. Army Training Manual