And measures and matters of The Truth of the "time" we are in ...how "man" ..."thought to change time and times ... recruitment and hidden things...
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 nightmare of the dark season ...of the times and time ..of the season of man ...see son of man ...
and i was taken to a place ...where the youth were being ...being taken into war ...
and there were walls and curtains ...and hidden things ...that were not plainly shown ...or told to them ...
nevertheless some went in without regard ...only for a reward ...if they lived ...
and the ones that went sat ...in a row ...unknowing ...
and did only expect and believe that they would be looked after and taken care of ...
and i was shown old men of war ...who had fought the battles afore ...
and the old men of war ...tried to show the youth the truth ...
yet were separated from the youth ...by the walls and curtains ...and cloaks and darkness ...
and by these things ..many thought to made it unpossible ..or possible ...for the youth to know the truth ...
and the old men of war witnessed ...that there was no glory in war ...
and that the rewards promised ...often times were not fullfilled ...
and it came to remembrance ...of the truth of God and Christ ...there the wars fought ...were fought knowingly ...
and that the fearfull or fainty ...need not enter into battle ...
nevertheless ...what a king would do ...
Then Jerobaal otherwise called Gedeon rose early and all the people that were with him, and pitched beside the well of Harad, so that the host of the Madianites were in a valley on the north side of the hill Hamoreh. And the Lord said unto Gedeon, the people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Madianites into their hands, lest Israel make her *vaunt to my dishonor and say, our own hand hath saved us. Now therefore make a proclamation in the Ears of the people and say: if any man dread or be afraid, let him return and get him soon from mount Galaad. And there departed and returned of the people twenty two thousand, and there abode ten thousand.
And the Lord said unto Gedeon: the people are yet too many, bring them down unto the water, and I will try them unto thee there. And of whom I say unto thee, this shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee. And whosoever I say unto thee, this shall not go with thee, the same shall not go. And when he had brought down the people unto the water, the Lord said unto Gedeon: As many as lap the water with their tongues, as dogs do, them put by themselves, and so do them that kneel down upon their knees to drink. And the number of them that put their hands to their mouths and lapped, were three hundred men. And all the remnant of the people knelt down upon their knees to drink water. And the Lord said unto Gedeon, with the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Madianites into thine hand. And all the other people shall go every man unto his own home.
When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel. The name of his eldest son was Joel, and the name of the second Abiath, which were judges in Bersabe. Nevertheless his sons followed not his steps: but turned aside after *lucre and took rewards, and perverted the right. Then all the elders of Israel gathered them together and came to Samuel unto Kamath and said unto him: behold, thou art old and thy sons follow not thy ways. Now therefore make us a king to judge us, as all other nations have. But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the Lord. And the Lord said unto Samuel, hear the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee. For they have not cast thee away, but me: that I should not reign over them. And as they have ever done (since I brought them out of Egypt unto this day, and have forsaken me and served other Gods) even so do they unto thee. Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet, testify unto them and show them the duty of the king that shall reign over them. And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people that asked a king of him, and he said: this shall be the *duty of the king that shall reign over you: he will take your sons and put them to his chariots and make his horsemen of them and they must run before his chariot, and will make him captains of them over thousands and over fifties, and set them to ear his ground, and to gather in his harvest, and to make instruments of war and apparel for his chariots. And he will take your daughters and make them the dressers of his ointments, and his cooks and bakers. And he shall take the best of your fields, and of your vineyards and of your olive trees, and give them to his servants. And he shall take the tenth of your seed and of your vines, and give it to his lords, and to his servants. And he shall take the best of your menservants and maidservants and young men, and of your asses, and do his work with them. And he shall take the tenth of your sheep, and ye shall be his servants. And when ye cry out at that time upon your king which ye shall have chosen you, the Lord will not hear you at that day.
Nevertheless the people would not hear the voice of Samuel, but did say: nay not so: But there shall be a king over us, and we will be like all other nations. And our king shall judge us, and go out before us and fight our battles. And Samuel heard all the words of the people and rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord. And the Lord said to Samuel: hearken unto their voice and make them a king. Then said Samuel unto the men of Israel: go every man to his city.*lucre: unearned profit, shameful gain. *duty: as in burden, tax, what he will require.
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