And the measures and matters of The Truth of the "time" we are in ...how "man" ..."thought to change time and times ... War and waters and the rock ... Dearly beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, how that one day is with the Lord, as a thousand year, and a thousand year as one day. The Lord is not slack to fulfil his promise, as some men count slackness: but is patient to us ward, and would have no man lost, but would receive all men to repentance. recorder@godstruthtous.com Behold of a dream in the night season of the season of man ...i was taken and shown ...as it was ...is ...waters of God ...as it was is ...all oceans ...as one ...
Now i was given to look to the land and the earth thereof ...and i was astounded for a rock rose out of the waters ...like a cliff ...and very sharp and very upright ...steep ...and none able to claim ...or climb ...
and closer was i taken to see ...and for why ? the measures of matters thereof ...
and behold afore time ...afore the rock rose straight and steeply out of the waters ...there was like armies of armies ...any and all ...that ever were ...upon the land ...
Yet now soever ...was i shown that there was no more room for any army ...upon the land ...for the face of the rock ...had risen ...of the waters ...and now there was no more room made for the armies of man ...
and i was taken over the land and to look down upon the armies of man ...who were caught tween the waters and the Rock of the cliff ...
and more and more the waters rose ...and more and more the Rock rose ...till there was no place left ...tween the waters and the Rock ...
for the waters and the Rock had become as one ...and nothing that would be ...be ..between them ...existed anymore ...
THE BOOK OF JUDGES 20 When the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were abashed: for they saw that evil approached them. And they turned before the men of Israel into the way that leadeth to the wilderness, the other following them at the hard heels. And beside that they of the city destroyed them in the middle of them. And they compassed Benjamin about, and chased them to Menuah, and overran them before Gabaah on the east side: and there were slain of Benjamin eighteen thousand, and all men of might. And they turned and fled to the wilderness ward and unto the rock of pomegranates. And the other slew by the way of the rest of them, five thousand men, and sticked unto them until they came to Gadaam, and slew two thousand more of them. So that all that were slain that same day of Benjamin were twenty five thousand men that drew swords, and all men of might: only six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness, unto the *Rock of pomegranates and abode there four months. And then the men of Israel turned back again unto the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword in the cities both man and beast and all that came to hand, and moreover set all the cities they could come by on fire. *Rock: exactly as recorded cap R
THE BOOK OF JUDGES 21 And the whole congregation sent and spake with the children of Benjamin that were in the Rock of pomegranates, and called peaceably unto them, and Benjamin came again at that time, and they gave them the women which they had saved alive of the women of Jabes Galaad. But they so sufficed them not. And the people had compassion on Benjamin, because that God had made a gap in the tribes of Israel. And then the elders of the congregation said: what shall we do to the remnant of them, to get them wives seeing all the wives of Benjamin are destroyed? And they said there must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel: how be it we may not give them wives of our daughters. For the children of Israel had made an adjuration saying: acursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.
Then they said: behold, there is a feast of the Lord yearly in Siloh which is on the north side of Bethel, and on the east side of the way that goeth from Bethel to Sichem and south from Libanon. And they commanded the children of Benjamin saying: go and lie in wait in the vineyards. And when ye see that the daughters of Siloh come out to dance in a row, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man a wife of the daughters of Siloh, and get you unto the land of Benjamin. And if their fathers or brethren come to us to complain, we will say unto them, have pity on them, because we reserved not to each man his wife in time of war, and thereto because that ye gave them none in due time, ye were to blame.
And the children of Benjamin did even so: and took them wives according to the number of them of the dancers which they caught. And then they went and returned unto their inheritance, and built there cities and dwelt in them.
And the children of Israel departed thence at that time and went every man to his tribe, and to his kindred, and went out from thence every man to his inheritance. In those days there was no king in Israel: but every man did what seemed him right.
The end of the book of Judges.
THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL 23 And they arose and went to Ziph before Saul. But David and his m in the wilderness of Maon, in the wild field, on the right hand wilderness. For when Saul was gone with his men to seek, it was told David. And therefore he went unto a *Rock and dwelt in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he followed after David into the wilderness of Moan. And Saul and his men went on the one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other. And David as a man amazed, made haste to get from Saul. For Saul and his men had compassed David and his men round to take them. *Rock exactly as recorded
But there came a messenger to Saul saying: Haste thee and come, Philistines are come in and rove the land. Wherefore Saul returned from persecuting David, and went against the Philistines. And therefore the called *Selah Mahelecoth. And then David went thence and dwelt in holds at Engadi. *Selah Mahelecoth: that is the Rock of division.
THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL 24 When Saul was come again from the Philistines, there were that told him saying: behold, David is in the wilderness of Engadi. Then Saul took three thousand men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men in the *Rocks, where no thing haunted but wild goats. And he came to the flocks of sheep by a ways side where was a cave. And Saul went in to *cover his feet. And David and his men sat a long by the sides of the cave. And the of David said unto him: see the day is come, of which the Lord said unto thee: Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, and thou shalt do with him what it pleaseth thee. Then David arose and cut off a lap of Sauls coat privily. And immediately Davids heart smote him, because he had cut off a lap of Sauls coat. And he said unto his men: the Lord keep me from doing that thing unto my master that is the Lords anointed, to lay mine hand upon him, seeing he is the Lords anointed. And so David kept of his servants with words, and suffered them not to go upon Saul. * to cover his feet; is to rest, as Boaz was doing when Ruth came to him, book of Ruth
THE SECOND BOOK OF SAMUEL 21 And Rezphah the daughter of Aiah took Sackcloth and spread it under her upon the Rock, even from the beginning of harvest until rain dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the Air to fall on them by day nor beasts of the field by night. And when it was told David what Rezphah the daughter of Aiah the concubine of Saul had done, he went and took the bones of Saul, and of Jonathas his son, and of the men of Jabes in Galaad, which they had stolen from the street of Bethsan, where the Philistines had hanged them in the days when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gelboe. And he brought thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathas his son, and they fetched away the bones of them that were hanged, and buried them with the bones of Saul and Jonathas his son in the country of Benjamin, in Zela, in the sepulcher of Cis his father. And when they had performed all that the King commanded, God was then at one with the land.
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