And measures and matters of The Truth of the "time" we are in ...how "man" ..."thought to change time and times ... 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.
creteis@yahoo.com Behold in a dread full dream during the whoreable nightmare of the dark season ...of the times and time ..of the season of man ...see son of man ...
and i was wakened in the "day season " to before the night of THE DAY ...TO COME...
and i was taken to a city, a subdivision, a village or town ...
and it was a bright day ...that any could SEE CLEARLY ...
and i was shown a people rushing and running and some walking as if not to know ...OR TO SEE ...
and there were thousands ...maybe millions of large green caterpillars ...everywhere ...crossing the barren street ...
and no living green thing escaped ...though there was very little of anything living or green in the UNGodlie city ...
and AGAIN NOTHING ...NO THING escaped BEING eaten and consumed of the masses of caterpillars ...
and so many were the caterpillars that no one could avoid stepping on them ...as they fled ...the UNGodlie city ...
even going no where ...having no where to go ...
and escaping ...only to be bound ...to escape again ...
and scripture came back to remembrance ...
Chapter 1
This is the word of the Lord, that came to Joel the son of Phatuel: Hear O ye elders: ponder this well, all ye that dwell in the land: if ever there happened such a thing in your days, or in the days of your fathers. Tell your childern of it , and let them show it to their children, and so they to certify their posterity thereof. Look what the caterpillar hath left, that hath the grasshopper eaten up: what the grasshopper left, that hath the locust eaten up: and what the locust hath left, that hath the blasting consumed. Wake up ye drunkards, and weep: mourn all ye wine sippers because of your sweet wine, for it shall be taken away from your mouth. Yee a mighty and an innumerable people shall come up into my land: these have teeth like the teeth of Lyons, and chaftbones like the lioness. They shall make my vineyard waste, they shall pull off the bark of my fig trees, strip them bare, cast them away, and make the branches white.
Make thy moan as a virgin doth that gird herself with sack, because of her bride groom. For the meat and drink offering shall be taken away from the house of the Lord: and the priests the Lords ministers shall mourn. The field shall be waste, the land shall be in a miserable cause: for the corn shall be destroyed, the sweet wine shall come to confusion, and the oil utterly desolate. The husband men and the wine gardeners shall look pitifully and make lamentation, for the wheat, wine and barley, and because the harvest upon the field is so clean destroyed. The grape gathers shall make great moan, when the vineyard and the fig trees be so utterly wasted. Yee all the pomegranates, palm trees, apple trees, and the other trees of the field shall waste away. Thus the merry cheer of the childern of men shall come to confusion.
Gird you , and make your moan, O ye priests: mourn ye ministers of the alter: go your way in, and sleep in sack cloth, O ye officers of my God: for the meat and drink offering shall be taken away from the house of your God. Proclaim a fasting, call the congregation, gather the elders and all the inhabitors of the land together in to the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord: alas, alas for this day. And why? the day of the Lord is at hand, and cometh as a destroyer from the Almighty. Shall not the meats be taken away before our eyes, the mirth also and joy from the house of our God? The seed shall perish in the ground, the gardens shall be laid waste, the floors shall be broken down, for the corn shall be destroyed. O what a fighting make the cattle? the bullocks are very evil liking, because they have no pasture: and the sheep are famished away.
O' Lord, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath consumed the goodly pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burnt up all the trees of the field. Yee the wild beasts cry also unto thee, for the water rivers are dried up, and the fire hath consumed the pastures of the wilderness
Chapter 4
Hear this word, ye fat cows, that be upon the hill of Samaria, yee that do poor men wrong, and oppress the needy, yee that say to your Lords: bring hither, and let us drink. Therefore the Lord hath sworn by his holiness: The days shall come upon you, that ye shall be lift up upon spears, and your posterity carried away in fishers baskets. Ye shall get you out at the gapes one after another, and in Armon shall ye be cast away, saith the Lord.
Ye came to Bethell for to work ungraciousness, and have increased your sins at Galgal: ye brought your sacrifices in the morning, and your tithes unto the third day. Ye made a thank offering of leaven, ye promised free will offerings, and proclaimed them. Such lust had ye, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God. Therefore I have given you idle teeth in all your cities, and scarceness of bread in all your places: yet will ye not turn to me, saith the Lord. When there were but three months unto the harvest, I withheld the rain from you: yee I rained upon one city, and not on another, one piece of ground was moistured with rain, and the ground that I rained not upon, was dry. Wherefore two, yee three cities came unto one, to drink water: but they were not satisfied, yet will ye not turn unto me, saith the Lord.
I have smitten you with drought and a blasting: and look how many orchards, vineyards, fig trees, and your olive trees ye had: the caterpillar hath eaten them up. But yet yee will turn unto me, saith the Lord. Pestilence have I sent among you, as I did in Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and caused your horses to be taken captive: I will make the stinking savor of your tents to come up unto your nostrils: yet will ye not turn unto me, saith the Lord. Some of you I have overthrown as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah: so that ye were as a brand plucked out of the fire. yet will ye not turn unto me, saith the Lord. Therefore thus will I handle thee again, O Israel, ye even thus I will handle thee. Make thee ready to meet thy God, O Israel. For lo, he maketh the mountains, he ordereth the wind, he showeth a man what he is about to do: he maketh the morning and the darkness, he treadeth upon the high places of the earth: the Lord God of hosts is his name.The Chronicles of the Kings of Juda
The 6th Chapter
Then Salomon said: the Lord hath spoken it, how that he will dwell in darkness. And I have built an habitation for thee and a place to dwell in for ever. And the king turned his face and blessed the whole congregation of Israel, and all the congregation of Israel stood. And he said: blessed be the Lord God of Israel which spake with his mouth to my father David and hath fulfilled it with his hands, for God said: since the time I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there, neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel. But now I have chosen Jerusalem to have my name there, and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel: But the Lord said to David my father: for as much as it was in thine heart, to build an house for my name, thou didst well that thou haddest it in thine heart. Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house, but thy son which shall issue out of thy loins, he shall build an house for my name. And the Lord hath made good his saying that he hath spoken. For I arose in the room of David my father, and sat on the seat of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel. And therein I have put the Ark wherein the covenant of the Lord made with the children of Israel, is. And he stepped forth before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and stretched out his hands, now Salomon had made a Brazen pulpit of five cubits long and five cubits broad, and three of height, and had set it in the midst of the great court, upon that he stepped and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel and stretched out his hands to heaven and said: Lord God of Israel there is no God like thee either in heaven or in earth, which keepest covenant and showest mercy unto thy servants that walk before thee with all their hearts. Which hast kept with David my father that thou promisedest him: thou saidest it with thy mouth and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is to see this day.
Now Lord God of Israel keep with thy servant David my father, that thou promisedest him saying: thou shalt not be without one or other in my sight that shall sit upon the seat of Israel. Of this condition yet, if thy children will take heed to their ways to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me. Now Lord God of Israel let thy saying be true, which thou saidest unto thy servant David. How be it in very deed, can God dwell with man on earth? Behold, neither heaven or heaven above all heavens is able to contain thee: how should the house then which I have built for thee do it? But turn to the prayer of thy servant and to his supplication (O' Lord my God) to hearken unto the voice and prayer which thy servant maketh before thee. That thine eyes be open over this house day and night, and over the place of which thou hast said, that thou wouldest put thy name there: to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth at this place: hearken therefore unto the prayers of thy servant and of thy people Israel, which they pray in this place. But hear thou it out of thy dwelling place heaven: and when thou hearest it be merciful. If a man sin against his neighbor, and an *adjuration be laid to his charge, to adjure him withal, and the adjuration come before thine altar in this house: then hear thou from heaven, and work and judge thy servants, that thou reward the evil and bring his way upon his head, and justify the righteous and give him according to his righteousness.
Likewise if thy people Israel be put to the worse before their enemies, because they have sinned against thee: Yet if they turn and confess thy name, and make intercession and pray before thee in this house: then hear thou from heaven and be merciful unto the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.
If heaven be shut up, that there be no rain, because they have sinned against thee: yet if they pray at this place and confess thy name and turn from their sins at thy scourging: then hear thou from heaven and be merciful unto the sin of thy servants and of thy people Israel, that thou show them a good way to walk in, and send rain upon thy land which thou hast given unto thy people, for an inheritance.
If there chance *dearth in the land, pestilence, burning or smiting of corn, grasshoppers or caterpillars, or that their enemies besiege them in the cities of their own land, or whatsoever plague or sickness it be. Then all the supplications and prayers that shall be made of all men among all thy people Israel, which shall know every man his own sore and his own grief, and shall stretch out their hands towards this house: thou shalt hear from heaven thy dwelling place, and shalt be merciful, and give every man according unto all his way, even as thou shalt know every mans heart: for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of Adam: that they may fear thee and walk in thy ways as long as they live upon the earth, which thou gavest to our fathers.
Thereto a stranger which is not of thy people Israel, if he come from a far land for thy great names sake and thy mighty hand and stretched out arm, and therefore come and pray at this house: thou shalt hear him from heaven thy dwelling place, and shalt do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for. That all the nations of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doeth thy people Israel: and that it may be known how that this house which I have built, is called after thy name.
When thy people shall go out to war, against their enemies the way that thou shalt send them. If they pray to thee, the way toward this city which thou hast chosen, and house which I have built for thy name: then hear from heaven, their supplication and prayer, and help them in their right.
If they shall sin against thee (as there is no man, but that he shall sin) and thou be angry with them and deliver them to their enemies, and they lead them away captive unto a land far or near, yet if their hearts come to them again in the land where they be in captivity, and turn and pray unto thee in the land where they be in captivity saying: we have sinned and have done evil and wickedly and turn again to thee, with all their hearts and all their souls, in the land of their captivity where they be kept in bondage, and so pray toward their land which thou gavest unto their fathers, and city which thou hast chosen, and to his house which I have built for thy name: Then hear from heaven thy dwelling place, their supplication and prayers and judge their cause, and be merciful unto thy people, though they have sinned against thee.
So now my God let thine eyes be open and thine ears attent unto the prayers made in this place. And now up Lord God in thy resting place: both thou and the Ark of thy strength, and let thy priests put on victory and thy saints rejoice in goodness. And Lord God turn not away the face of thine anointed: But remember the mercies promised to David thy servant.
*adjuration (earnest appeal) *dearth (famine)
Chapter 5
Ye priests: hear this, take heed, O thou household of Israel: give a ear, O thou kingly house: for this punishment will come upon you, that are become a snare unto Mizphah, and a spread net unto Thabbr. They kill sacrifices by heaps, to beguile the people therewith: therefore I will punish them all. I know Ephraim well enough, and Israell is not hid from me: for Ephraim has become an harlot: and Israel is defiled. They are not minded to turn unto their God, for they have an whorish heart so that they can not know the Lord.
But the pride of Israel will be rewarded him in his face, yee both Israel and Ephraim shall fall for their wickedness, and Judah with them also. They shall come with their sheep and bullocks to seek the Lord, but they shall not find him, for he is gone from them. As for the Lord, they have refused him, and brought up bastard children: a moth therefore shall devour them with their portions. Blow with the *shawmes at Gabea, and with the trumpet in Ramah, cry out at Bethaven upon the farside of Benjamin. In that time of the plague shall Ephraim be laid waste, therefore did I faithfully warn the tribes of Israel. Yet are the princes of Juda become like them, that remove the landmarks, therefore will I pour out my wrath upon them like water. Ephraim is oppressed, and can have no right of law: for why? they follow the doctrines of men. Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Juda as a caterpillar.
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his disease: Ephraim went to Assur, and sent unto king Jareb: yet could he not help you, nor ease you of your pain. For I am unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a lions whelp to the house of Judah. Even I, I will spoil them, and go my way. I will take them with me, and no man shall rescue them. I will go, and return to my place, till they wax faint, and seek me.*shawmes ( cornet )
Chapter 105
O' give thanks unto the Lord, and call upon his name: tell the people what things he hath done. O' let your songs be of him: praise him, and let your talking be of all his wondrous works. Give his holy name a good report, let their hearts rejoice that seek the Lord. Seek the Lord, and his strength, seek his face evermore.
Remember the marvelous works that he hath done, his wonders and the judgments of his mouth. O' ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.
He is the Lord our God, whose punishments are throughout all the world.
He is always mindful of his covenant, and promise that he made to a thousand generations. Yee the covenant he made with Abraham, and the oath that he sware unto Isaac.
And appointed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament. Saying: Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your heritage.
When there was yet but a few them, and the strangers therein.
What time as they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another.
He suffered no man to hurt them, but reproved even kings for their sakes.
Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
Moreover he called for a *darth upon the land, and destroyed all the provision of bread.
But he had sent a man before them, even Joseph which was sold to be a bond servant. They hurt his feet in the stocks *the iron pierced his heart.
Until the time that his word came, and until the word of the Lord had tried him.
Then sent the king and caused him to be delivered, the prince of the people had let him go.
He made him Lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance. That he might enforme his princes after his will, and teach his Senators wisdom.
Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob was a stranger in the land of Ham.
But he increased his people exceedingly, and made them stronger than their enemies. Whose heart turned, so that they hated his people, and dealt untruly with his servants.
Then sent he Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen.
These did his tokens among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
He sent darkness and it was dark, for they were not obedient unto his word.
He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
Their land brought forth frogs, yee even in their kings chambers.
He spake the word, and there came all manner of flies and lice in all their quarters.
He gave them hail stones for rain, and flames of fire in their land.
He smote their vineyards and fig trees, and destroyed the trees that were in their coasts.
He spake the word, and there were grasshoppers and caterpillars innumerable. These ate up all the grass in their land, and devoured the fruits of their ground.
He smote also all the first born in their land, even the chief of all their substance.
He brought them forth with silver and gold, there was not one feeble person among their tribes. Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.
He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light in the night.
The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. He opened the rock of stone, and the waters flowed out: so that rivers ran in the wilderness: For why? He remembered his holy promise which he had made to Abraham his servant. Thus he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness.
And he gave them the lands of the Heathen, where they took the labors of the people in possession.
That they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws.
Praise thee everlasting.*darth (famine) By the iron piercing his heart is signified his great griefs, sorrows, and carefulness of mind, MN ( strong thoughts ) (RN)
The 8th Chapter
Then Salomon gathered the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and ancient Lords of the children of Israel, unto him to Jerusalem, to bring up the Ark of the appointment of the Lord out of the city of David which is Sion. And all the men of Israel assembled unto king Salomon to the feast that falleth in the month Ethanim which is the seventh month. And when all the elders of Israel were come, the priests took up the Ark of the Lord, and brought it and also the tabernacle of witness and all the holy vessels that were therein. And the priests and the Levites brought them up. And king Salomon and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled, and were with him before the Ark, did offer sheep and oxen that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
And so the priests brought the Ark of the appointment of the Lord unto his place: even into the quere of the temple and place most holy, under the wings of the Cherubs. For the Cherubs stretched out their wings over the Ark, and covered both it and also the staves thereof on high upon it. Howbeit the staves were so long that the ends of them appeared out of the holy place before the quere, but were not seen without. And there they be unto this day. And there was nothing in the Ark save the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made an appointment with the children of Israel after they were come out of Egypt.
And when the priests were come out of the Holy place, then a cloud filled the house of the Lord, that the priests could not endure to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord. Then spake Salomon: the Lord said, that he would dwell in darkness. I have built thee an house to dwell in, and an habitation for thee to abide in for ever.
And the king turned his face and blessed all the congregation of Israel, all the congregation standing. And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which hath fulfilled with his hand, that he spake with his mouth unto David my father saying: from the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city among any of the tribes of Israel, to build an house, that my name might be there: But I have chosen David to be ruler over my people Israel.
And it was in the heart of David my father, to build an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel. But the Lord God said unto David my father: in that it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well, that thou wast so minded. Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house, but thy son that shall come out of thy loins, he shall build an house for my name. And the Lord hath made good his word that he spake. For I stood up in the room of David my father, and sat on the seat of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel. And I have prepared therein a place for the Ark wherein the covenant of the Lord is, which he made with our fathers, after he had brought them out of the land of Egypt. And Salomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the sight of all the congregation of Israel and stretched out his hands to heaven and said: Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in heaven above or in the earth beneath, that keepest appointment and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their hearts: which also hast kept with thy servants David my father, that thou promisedest him. Thou spakest with thy mouth and hast fulfilled with thine hand, as it is come to pass this day. And now Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father, that thou promisedest him saying: thou shalt not be without one or other before me, sitting on the seat of Israel: How be it if thy children shall take heed to their ways that they walk before me, as thou hast walked before me. Now then O' Lord God of Israel, let thy word be stable which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
But indeed can God dwell on the earth? Behold neither heaven, nor heaven above all heavens are able to contain thee: how much less then this house that I have built? but look to the prayer of thy servant and his supplication O' Lord my God, to give an ear unto the voice and prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee this day, that thine eyes may be open upon this house night and day, and upon the place, of which thou hast said, my name shall be there: that thou hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall pray in this place. And hearken unto the supplication of thy servant and of thy people Israel which they shall pray in this place: And hear thou up unto heaven thy dwelling place, and when thou hearest have mercy. And if any man trespass against his neighbor, and his neighbor take an *adjuration to adjure him withal, and the adjuration come before thine altar at this house then hearken thou up to heaven, and work and judge thy servants, that thou condemn the wicked to bring his way upon his head, and justify the righteous to give him according to his righteousness. When thy people Israel be put to the worse before their enemies, because they have sinned against thee, and afterward turn again to thee and praise thy name, and pray and make supplication unto thee in this house: Then hear thou up to heaven and be merciful unto the sin of thy people Israel, and bring thee again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.
If heaven be shut up, that there be no rain, because they have sinned against thee: yet if they pray in this place and praise thy name and turn from their sins, through thy scourging of them: then hear thou up to heaven, and be merciful unto the sin of thy servants and of thy people Israel, that thou show them a good way to walk in, and give rain upon thy land that thou hast given unto thy people to inherit.
hy dwelling place, all the prayers and supplications that shall be made of all men throughout all thy peop If there chance *dearth in the land, pestilence, blasting or withering of corn, or that the fruits be devoured of Grasshoppers or Caterpillars, or if their enemies besiege them in the land and in their own cities, or whatsoever plague or sickness chance: then hear thou up to heaven tle Israel, which shall knowledge every man the plague of his own heart, and stretch forth his hands unto this house, and be merciful, and work, and give every man according to his ways (even as thou only knowest every mans heart, for thou knowest the hearts of all the children of Adam) that they may fear thee as long as they live upon the earth which thou gavest unto their fathers. And likewise if a stranger that is not of thy people Israel come out of a far country for thy names sake (for they shall hear of thy great name and of thy mighty hand and stretched out Arm) and therefore if he come and pray at this place, hear thou up to heaven thy dwelling place and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all nations of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee as do thy people Israel, and that it may be known that this house which I have built is called after thy name.
And when they go out to battle against their enemies whither soever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the Lord toward the city which thou hast chosen and toward the house that I have built for thy name: hear thou their prayers and supplications, up to heaven, and judge their cause.
And finally when they shall have sinned against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not) and thou art angry with them and hast delivered them to their enemies, that they be carried away prisoners unto the land of their enemies, whether far or near, yet if they turn again unto their hearts in the land where they be in captivity, and return and pray unto thee in the land of them that hold them captive, saying: we have sinned and have done wickedly and have trespassed, and so turn again unto thee with all their hearts and all their souls in the land of their enemies which hold them captive, and pray unto thee, toward the land which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name: then hear thou their prayer and supplication up to heaven thy dwelling place, and judge their causes, and be merciful unto thy people that have sinned against thee, and unto all their trespass that they have trespassed against thee, and get them favour in the sight of them that hold them captive that they may have compassion on them. For they be thy people and thine inheritance which thou broughtest out of Egypt, from the furnace of iron. And let thine eyes be open unto the prayer of thy servant and unto the prayer of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them, in all that they call unto thee for. For thou didst separate them to be thine inheritance, above all the nations of the earth, as thou saidest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt O' Lord Jehovah.
And when Salomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord and from kneeling on his knees and stretching of his hands up to heaven and stood and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice saying: Blessed be the Lord that hath given rest unto his people Israel according to all that he promised: so that there is not one word escaped of all the good promises which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant. And the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers, and forsake us not neither leave us, but that he bow our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, ordinances and customs which he commanded our fathers. And these my words which I have prayed before the Lord, be nigh unto the Lord our God day and night, that he defend the cause of his servant and of his people Israel evermore, that all nations of the earth may know that the Lord, he is God and none but he. And I pray God that your hearts may be sound with the Lord our God, to walk in his ordinances and to keep his laws as we do this day.
And the king and all Israel with him, offered offerings before the Lord. And the peaceofferings that Salomon offered unto the Lord, were twenty two thousand oxen and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: And so the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord. And the same day the king hallowed the middle of the court that is before the house of the Lord: for there he offered burntofferings and meatofferings and the fat of the peaceofferings, because the brazen altar that was before the Lord, was too little to receive the burntofferings and meatofferings and the fat of the peace offerings.
And Solomon held that same time an high feast and all Israel with him, a mighty congregation, even from the coasts of Hemath unto the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and yet seven days, that is, fourteen days. And the eighth day he sent the people away. And they blessed the king and went unto their tents joyous and glad in heart for all the goodness that the Lord had showed unto David his servant and to Israel his people.*adjuration: appeal to earnestly. *dearth (famine)
Chapter 78
An instruction of *Asaph.
Hear my law, O' my people, incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in parables, and speak of things of old.
Which we have heard and known, and such as our fathers have told us.
That we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come: but to show the honor of the Lord, his might and wonderful works that he hath done. He made a covenant with Jacob, and gave Israel a law, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children. That their posterity might know it, and the children which were yet unborn.
To the intent that when they came up, they might show their children the same.
That they also might put their trust in God, and not to forget what he had done, but keep his commandments.
And not be as their forefathers, a *froward and *overthwart generation, a generation that set not their heart a right, and whose spirit was not true toward God. Like as the children of Ephraim, which being harnessed and carrying bows, turned themselves back in the time of battle.
They kept not the covenant of God, and would not walk in his law.
They forgot what he had done, and the wonderful works that he had showed for them.
Marvelous things did he in the sight of our fathers in the land of Egypt, even in the field of *Zoan. He divided the sea, and let them go through it, and made the waters to stand like a wall. In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night through with a light of fire. He clave the hard rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink thereof, as it had been out of the great depth.
He brought waters out of the stony rock, so that they gushed out like the rivers.
Yet for all this they sinned against him, and provoked the most highest in the wilderness.
They tempted God in their hearts, and required meat for their lust.
For they spake against God, and said: yee, yee God shall prepare a table in the wilderness, shall he? Lo, he smote the stony rock, that the watery streams gushed out, and the streams flowed withal: but how can he give bread and provide flesh for his people?
When the Lord heard this, he was wroth: so the fire was kindled in Jacob, and heavy displeasure against Israel.
Because they believed not in God, and put not their trust in his help.
So he commanded the clouds above, and opened the doors of heaven.
He rained down manna upon them for to eat, and give them bread from heaven.
Then ate they angels food, for he sent them meat enough.
He caused the East wind to blow under heaven, and through his power he brought in the south wind. He made flesh to rain upon them as thick as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: He let it fall among their tents round about their habitations.
So they ate, and were filled, for he gave them their own desire.
And they were not disappointed of their lust.
But while their meat was yet in their mouths: the heavy wrath of God came upon them, slew the wealthiest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
For all this they sinned yet more, and believed not his wondrous works.
Therefore their days were consumed in vanity, and suddenly their years were gone.
When he slew them, they sought him, and turned them early unto God.
They thought then that God was their *succoure, and that the high God was their redeemer.
Nevertheless they did but flatter him with their mouths, and disassembled with him in their tongues. For their heart was not whole with him, neither continued they in his covenant.
But he was so merciful, that he forgave their misdeeds, and destroyed them not.
Yee, Yee, many a time turned he his wrath away, and would not *suffer his whole displeasure to arise. For he considered that they were but flesh: even a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
How many a time have they provoked him in the desert?
They turned back, and tempted God, and moved the holy one in Israel.
They thought not of his hand, in the day when he delivered them from the hand of the enemy. How he had wrought his miracles in Egypt, and his wonders in the land of Zoan. How he turned their waters to blood, so that they might not drink of the rivers.
He sent lice among them, to eat them up, and frogs to destroy them.
He gave their fruits unto the caterpillar, and their labor unto the grasshopper.
How he beat down their vineyards with hail stones, and their mulberry trees with the frost. How he smote their cattle with hail stones, and their flocks with hot thunderbolts.
How he sent upon them the fury of his wrath, anger and displeasure: with trouble and falling in of evil angels. When he made a way to his fearful indignation, and spared not their souls from death, yee and gave their cattle over to the pestilence.
When he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the most principal and mightest in the dwellings of *Ham.
But as for his own people, he led them forth like sheep, and carried them in the wilderness like a flock. He brought them out safely, that they should not fear, and overwhelmed their enemies with the sea. He carried them unto the borders of his Sanctuary: even in to this hill, which he purchased with his right hand.
He did cast out the Heathen before them, caused their land to be divided among them for an heritage, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
For all this they tempted and displeased the most high God, and kept not his covenant. But turned their backs, and fell away like their forefathers, starting aside like a broken bow. And so they grieved him with their high places, and provoked him with images.
When God heard this, he was wroth, and took sore displeasure with Israel.
So that he forsook the Tabernacle in Silo, even his habitation wherein he dwelt among men. He deliver their power into captivity, and their glory into the enemys hand.
He gave his people over to the sword, for he was wroth with his heritage.
The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not given to marriage.
Their priests were slain with the sword, and there were no widows to make lamentation.
So the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, and like a giant refreshed with wine.
He smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetual shame.
He refused the Tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim.
Nevertheless, he chose the tribe of Judah, even the hill of Sion which he loved.
And there he builded his temple on high, and layed the foundation of it like the ground, that it might perpetually endure.
He chose David also his servant, and took him away from the sheepfolds.
As he was following the ewes great with young, he took him, that he might feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
So he fed them with a faithful and true heart, and ruled them with all the diligence of his power.*Asaph = "gatherer" Heb root = ( only God as gatherer )RN
*froward = stubbornly contrary. *overthwart = eager to oppose, ( that is; eager to oppose the loving willof God ) * Zoan = "place of departure" RN
*succoure = security;assistance in time of distress RN *suffer (allow)
*Ham for Egypt: because Mizraim of whom the Egyptians came was the son of Ham. MNTHE GOSPELL OF ST. JOHN Chpt 4
As soon as the Lord had knowledge, how the Pharisees had heard, that Jesus made and baptised more disciples then John (though that Jesus him self baptised not: but his disciples) he left Jewry, and departed again in to Galile. And it was so that he must needs go through Samaria. Then came he to a city of Samaria called Sichar, besides the possession that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. And there was Jacobs well. Jesus then wearied in his journey, sat thus on the well. And it was about the sixth hour: and there came a woman of Samaria to draw water. And Jesus said unto her: give me drink. For his disciples were gone away unto the town to buy meat. Then said the woman of Samaria unto him: how is it, that thou being a Jewe, askest drink of me, which am a Samaritan? for the Jewes meddle not with the Samaritans. Jesus answered and said unto her: if thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that sayeth to thee give me drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee water of life. The woman said unto him. Sir thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that water of life? Art thou greater then our father Jacob which gave us the well, and he himself drank thereof, and his children, and his cattle?
Jesus answered and said unto her: whosoever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again. But whosoever shall drink of the water that I shall give him, shall never be more a thirst: but the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life. The woman said unto him: Sir give me of that water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. Jesus said unto her. Go and call thy husband, and come hither. The woman answered and said to him: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast well said, I have no husband. For thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband. That saidst thou truly.
The woman said unto him: Sir I perceive that thou art a Prophet. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain: and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus said unto her: woman believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the father. Ye worship ye *wot not what: we know what we worship. For salvation cometh of the Jewes. But the hour cometh and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit, and in truth. For verily such the father requireth to worship him. God is a spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him, in spirit and truth.
The woman said unto him: I *wot well Messias shall come, which is called Christ. When he is come, he will tell us all things: Jesus said unto her: I that speak unto thee am he. And even at that point came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said unto him: what meanest thou, or why talkest thou with her? The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and said to the men. Come see a man which told me all things that ever I did. Is not he Christ? Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
And in the mean while his disciples prayed him saying: Master, eat. He said unto them: I have meat to eat, that ye know not of. Then said the disciples between themselves: hath any man brought him meat? Jesus said unto them: my meat is to do the will of him that sent me. And to finish his work. Say not ye: there are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Behold I say unto you, lift up your eyes, and look on the regions: for they are white already unto harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth reward, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth might rejoice together. And herein is the saying true, that one soweth, and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labor. Other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labors.
Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him, for the saying of the woman, which testified: he told me all things that ever I did. Then when the Samaritans were come unto him they besought him, that he would tarry with them. And he abode there two days. And many more believed because of his own words, and said unto the woman: Now we believe not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is even indeed Christ the saviour of the world.
After two days he departed thence, and went away into Galile. And Jesus himself testified, that a Prophet hath none honour in his own country. Then as soon as he was come into Galile, the Galileans received him which had seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast. For they went also unto the feast day. And Jesus came again into Cana of Galile, where he turned water into wine.
THE GOSPELL OF ST. JOHN Chpt 6
And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him: Rabbi, when camest thou hither? Jesus answered them and said: verily, verily I say unto you: ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles: but because ye ate of the loaves, and were filled. Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for the meat that endureth unto everlasting life, which meat the son of man shall give unto you. For him hath God the father sealed.
Then said they unto him: what shall we do that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them. This is the work of God, that ye believe on him, whom he hath sent. They said unto him: what sign showest thou then, that we may see and believe thee? What dost thou work? Our fathers did eat Manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Jesus said unto them: verily, verily I say unto you: Moses gave you not bread from heaven: but my father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world.
Then said they unto him: Lord, evermore give us this bread. And Jesus said unto them: I am that bread of life. He that cometh to me shall not hunger: and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. But I said unto you: that ye have seen me, and yet believe not. All that the father giveth me shall come to me: and him that cometh to me, I cast not away. For I came down from heaven: not to do mine own will, but his will which hath sent me. And this is the fathers will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me, I should lose nothing: but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me: that every man which seeth the son and believeth on him, have everlasting life. And I will raise him up at the last day. The Jewes then murmured at him, because he said: I am that bread which is come down from heaven. And they said: Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that he sayeth, I came down from heaven? Jesus answered and said unto them. Murmur not between yourselves. No man can come to me except the father which hath sent me, draw him. And I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the Prophets, that they shall all be taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard and hath learned of the father cometh unto me. Not that any man hath seen the father, save he which is of God, the same hath seen the father.
Verily, verily I say unto you, he that believeth on me, hath everlasting life. I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat Manna in the wilderness and are dead? This is that bread which cometh from heaven that he which eateth of it, should also not die. I am that living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever. And the bread that I will give, is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
And the Jewes strove among themselves saying: How can this fellow give us his flesh to eat? Then Jesus said unto them: Verily, verily I say unto you, except ye eat the flesh of the son of man, and drink his blood, ye shall not have life in you. Whosoever eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me and I in him. As the living father hath sent me, even so live I by my father: and he that eateth me shall live by me. This is the bread which came from heaven: not as your fathers have eaten Manna and are dead. He that eateth of this bread, shall live ever.
These things said he in the synagogue as he taught in Capernaum. Many therefore of his disciples: when they had heard this, said: this is an hard saying: who can abide the hearing of it? Jesus knew in himself, that his disciples murmured at it, and said unto them: Doth this offend you? What and if ye shall see the son of man ascend up where he was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak unto you, are spirit and life. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning, which they were that believed not, and who should betray him. And he said: Therefore said I unto you: that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my father.
From that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him. Then said Jesus to the twelve: will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered: Master to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life, and we believe and know that thou art Christ the son of the living God. Jesus answered them: Have not I chosen you twelve, and yet one of you is the devil? He spake it of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon. For he it was that should betray him, and was one of the twelveFor he is our peace, which hath made of both one, and hath broken down the wall that was a stop between us, and hath also put away through his flesh, the cause of hatred, that is to say, the law of commandments contained in the law written, for to make of *twain one new man in himself, so making peace: and to reconcile both unto God in one body through his cross, and slew hatred thereby: and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have an open way in, in one spirit unto the father.
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners: but citizens with the saints, and of the household of God: and are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ being the head corner stone, in whom every building coupled together, groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord, in whom ye also are built together, and made an habitation for God in the spiritWherefore we ought to give the more heed to the things we have heard lest we perish. For if the word which was spoken by angels was steadfast: so that every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense to reward how shall we escape, if we despise so great salvation, which at the first began to be preached of the Lord himself, and afterward was confirmed unto us ward, by them that heard it, God bearing witness thereto, both with signs and wonders also, and with diverse miracles, and gifts of the holy ghost according to his own will.
He hath not unto the angels put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. But one in a certain place witnessed, saying. What is man, that thou art mindful of him? After thou hadst for a season made him lower than the angels: thou crownedst him with honour and glory, and hast set him above the works of thy hands. Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. In that he put all things under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. Nevertheless we yet see not all things subdued but him that was made less than the angels we see that it was Jesus, which is crowned with glory and honour for the suffering of death: that he by the grace of God, should taste of death for all men.
For it became him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, after that he had brought many sons unto glory, that he should make the Lord of their salvation perfect through suffering. For he that sanctifieth, and they which are sanctified, are all of one. For which causes sake he is not ashamed to call them brethren saying: I will declare thy name unto my brethren, and in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. And again: I will put my trust in him. And again: behold here am I and the children which God hath given me.
For as much then as the children were partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part with them, for to put down through death, him that had lordship over death, that is to say the devil, and that he might deliver them which through fear of death were all their lifetime in danger of bondage. For he in no place taketh on him the angels: but the seed of Abraham taketh he on him. Wherefore in all things it became him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be merciful, and a faithful high Priest in things concerning God, for to purge the peoples sins. For in that he himself suffered and was tempted, he is able to succour them that are temptedTHE REVELATION OF ST JOHN Chpt 18
And the kings of the earth shall beweep her and wail over her, which have committed fornication with her, and have lived wantonly with her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, and shall stand afar off, for fear of her punishment, saying . Alas, Alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city: for at one hour is her judgment come. And the merchants of the earth shall weep and wail in themselves, for no man will buy their ware any more, the ware of gold and silver, and precious stones, neither of pearl, and raynes and purple, and scarlet, and all thine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass and of iron, and cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and bodies and souls of men.
The Lord hateth as well him that justifieth the ungodly, as him that condemeth the innocent.
and others of a similitude ..
"of food and famine and the stranger..."
"wheat rocks gravel and famine..."
"windows and walls of communication...of war...and famine..."
"manufacturing and food fails..."
"Do Not let others steal the food from your house..."
"the UNGodlie LEFT throwing maggots in the food..."
"food a fence and a place prepared."
"Do not eat foreign food. Period "
"empty tents and food lines at the border..."
"food storage silos and sleeping people..."
"the child in the world and the food and the going home..."
"of food and famine and the stranger..."
"a 1000 hands prepare your processed food..."
" factory food ...and not for the future... "
"european ...price of food ...peanuts ...then gone ..."
"children of the eagle ...eating army food "
"million dollar car...and food on credit ..."
"worthy food ...even for a dog ..."
"city ...no power ...no food ..."
"the storehouse and the food ...spiritual and carnal ..."
"the stranger ...the food ...and the man.."
Mac Donalds food factory...and plastic within
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