JESUS CHRIST IS LORD!

JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONE & ONLY WAY TO SALVATION AND ETERNAL LIFE.

JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONE & ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF THE ONE & ONLY TRUE GOD.

JESUS CHRIST WAS CONCEIVED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD AND BORN FROM A VIRGIN WOMAN.

JESUS CHRIST COMMITTED NO SIN AND FULFILLED THE LAW OF GOD GIVEN THROUGH MOSES.

JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR THE SINS OF ALL MANKIND ON CALVARY'S CROSS.

JESUS CHRIST WAS RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD AND ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN AND NOW SITS NEXT TO GOD ALMIGHTY UPON THE THRONE IN HEAVEN.

JESUS CHRIST SHALL RETURN TO EARTH AND RULE ALL NATIONS WITH AN IRON SCEPTER FOR ALL ETERNITY!

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Thursday, August 29, 2019

Woe to David's City

       Woe to you, Ariel, Ariel,
          the city where David settled!
       Add year to year
          and let your cycle of festivals go on.
       Yet I will besiege Ariel;
          she will mourn and lament,
          she will be to me like an altar hearth.
       I will encamp against you all around;
          I will encircle you with towers
          and set up my siege works against you.
       Brought low, you will speak from the ground;
          your speech will mumble out of the dust.
       Your voice will come ghostlike from the earth;
          out of the dust your speech will whisper.

       But your many enemies will become like fine dust,
          the ruthless hordes like blown chaff.
       Suddenly, in an instant,
          THE LORD ALMIGHTY will come
       with thunder and earthquake and great noise,
          with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.
       Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Ariel,
          that attack her and her fortress and besiege her,
       will be as it is with a dream,
          with a vision in the night--
       as when a hungry man dreams that he is eating,
          but he awakens, and his hunger remains;
       as when a thirsty man dreams that he is drinking,
          but he awakens faint, with his thirst unquenched.
       So will it be with the hordes of all the nations
          that fight against Mount Zion.
       Be stunned and amazed,
          blind yourselves and be sightless;
       be drunk, but not from wine,
          stagger, but not from beer,
       THE LORD has brought over you a deep sleep:
          HE has sealed your eyes (the prophets);
          HE has covered your heads (the seers).

       For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say to him, "Read this, please," he will answer, "I can't; it is sealed." Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, "Read this, please," he will answer, "I don't know how to read."

       THE LORD says:

       "These people come near to ME with their mouth
          and honor ME with their lips,
          but their hearts are far from ME.
       Their worship of ME
          is made up only of rules taught by men.
       Therefore once more I will astound these people
          with wonder upon wonder;
       the wisdom of the wise will perish,
          the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."
       Woe to those who go to great depths
          to hide their plans from THE LORD,
       who do their work in darkness and think,
          "Who sees us? Who will know?"
       You turn things upside down,
          as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!
       Shall what is formed say to him who formed it,
          "He did not make me"?
       Can the pot say of the potter,
          "He knows nothing"?

       In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field
          and the fertile field seem like a forest?
       In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll,
          and out of gloom and darkness
          the eyes of the blind will see.
       Once more the humble will rejoice in THE LORD;
          the needy will rejoice in THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL.
       The ruthless will vanish,
          the mockers will disappear,
          and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down--
       those who with a word make a man out to be guilty,
          who ensnare the defender in court
          and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.

       Therefore this is what THE LORD, who redeemed Abraham, says to the house of Jacob:

       "No longer will Jacob be ashamed;
          no longer will their faces grow pale.
       When they see among them their children,
          the work of MY hands,
       they will keep MY name holy;
          they will acknowledge the holiness of THE HOLY ONE OF JACOB,
          and will stand in awe of THE GOD OF ISRAEL.
       Those who are wayward in spirit will gain understanding;
          those who complain will accept instruction."


The Book of Isaiah: chapter 29

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