08-31 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Mk-9 3Jn-1

    𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

         Mark 9:33-50

33 Then they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” 34 But they didn’t answer because they had been arguing about which of them was the greatest. 35 Jesus sat down, called the twelve disciples, and said to them, "Whoever wants to be first must place himself last of all and be a servant of all." 36 He took a little child to stand among them, put his arm around him and said, 37 “Anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf welcomes me, and when you welcome me, you welcome the one who sent me." 38 “Teacher,” said John, “we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.” 39 Jesus said to his disciples, “Don't stop him. No one who works miracles in my name will soon turn and say something bad about me. 40 For whoever is not against us is for us. 41 Truly I tell you, if anyone gives you even a cup of water because you belong to the Messiah, I tell you the truth, that person will surely be rewarded. 42 “But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts in me to stumble [skandalizó - to put a snare or impediment in the way, give offense, cause to stumble/err] it would be better for you to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone hung around your neck. 43 And if your hand should cause you to do wrong, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled, than having two hands to go away into Gehenna, into the unquenchable [asbestos - unquenched, not extinguished — from a (as a negative particle) and sbestos] fire. (The city dump of Jerusalem in Gehenna Valley where even criminal’s bodies were thrown to be consumed rather than honorably buried. Also Gehenna can mean deep misery “that sets the tongue on fire” James 3:6.)

     Verse 44 is omitted in many scripture versions. This verse is a quote of Isaiah 66:24, which is about the consummation of history and the ages — “And they (vs.23 mankind) shall see the corpses of man who rebelled, the worm not dies, a fire not quenched will be an abhorrence to all mankind.” — (This straying/imperfection.. this all important contrast — a ‘parable’ of the decomposing ‘apple’ and the worm/decomposing that does not quit..) 45 And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into the gehenna fire. [Verse 46, same as 44 is omitted in many translation versions.] 47 And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into gehenna 48 ‘where their worm of them does not die and the fire is not quenched.’ 49 For all [pas - every, all] shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. 50 [“You (believers/followers) are the salt of the earth” Mt.5:13] Salt is good for seasoning. But if it loses its flavor, how do you make it salty again? You must have the qualities of salt among yourselves and live in peace with each other.” (Not arguing about who is greatest.. who is best.. who is right..)                 

       🌙☀️🌲🪐🕊️💫

From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

          ~ 3 John 1:9-14 ~

9 I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not welcome us. 10 So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church. (Wow.) 11 Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. (The dude probably thinks he’s right.) The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God. 12 Everyone speaks well of Demetrius, and so does the true message that he teaches. I also speak well of him, and you know what I say is true. 13 I had many things to write, but I do not want to do it with pen and ink. 14 I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face. Peace to you. The friends here send their greetings. Greet each of the friends there by name.

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓀 10:1-9

𝒥𝒶𝓂𝑒𝓈 1:1-8

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 9:21-43

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 12:7-12

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

            🗞️📜

08-30 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Lk-9 3Jn-1

     𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

          Luke 9:46-50

46 An argument started among the disciples as to which of them would be the greatest. 47 Jesus, knowing their thoughts, brought a little child to his side. 48 And said to them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. For it is the one who is (considers their self) least among you, who is the greatest.” 49 John said to Jesus, “Lord, we saw someone using your name to cast out demons, but we told him to stop because he isn’t one of us. 50 “Don’t stop him,” Jesus said, “for whoever is not against you is for you.”                   

        🌙☀️🌲🪐🕊️💫

From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

           ~ 3 John 1:1-8 ~

1 - From the elder (John) to my dear friend Gaius, whom I love in the truth. 2 Our beloved, I pray for you that you will prosper in all things and be well, just as your soul prospers. 3 Some of the traveling teachers recently returned and made me very happy by telling me about your faithfulness and that you are walking in the truth. 4 I have no greater joy than this! To hear that my children (in the faith) are walking in the truth. 5 And dear friend, you are being faithful to God when you care for the traveling teachers who pass through, even though they are strangers to you. 6 They have told the church here of your loving friendship. Please continue providing for such teachers in that manner, for it pleases God. 7 When they left to tell others about the Lord, they decided not to accept help from anyone who wasn't a follower. (To be blameless?) 8 We must support people like them, so we can be fellow workers in what they are doing to spread the truth. 

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓀 9:33-50

3 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 1:9-14

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 9:21-43

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 12:7-12

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

            🗞️📜

08-29 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Mk-9 2Jn-1

     𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

          Mark 9:25-32

25 When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the impure spirit. “You deaf and mute spirit,” he said, “I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.” 26 Then the spirit shrieked, threw the boy into another violent convulsion, then left him. And a murmur ran through the crowd as people said, “He’s dead.” 27 But Jesus took him by the hand and helped him to his feet. 28 Afterward, when Jesus was alone in the house with his disciples, they asked him, “Why couldn’t we drive out that evil spirit?” 29 He answered them, “This kind by none is able to go out except by prayer”. (Because the people involved hadn’t had the faith to believe the disciples could do it?)

     30 Leaving that region, they traveled through Galilee, but Jesus didn’t want anyone to know he was there, 31 for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.” 32 The disciples didn’t understand what Jesus meant, and they were shy to ask.                   

       🌙☀️🌲🪐🕊️💫

From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

           ~ 2 John 1:4-13 ~

4 I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father has commanded us. 5 I am writing to remind you, dear friends, that we should love one another. This is not a new commandment, but one we have had from the beginning. 6 Love means doing what God has commanded us, and he has commanded us to love one another, just as you heard from the beginning. 7 I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as having come in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is a deceiver and antichrist. 8 Watch out that you do not lose what we have worked so hard to achieve. Be diligent so that you receive your full reward. 9 Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to your meeting together and does not bring this teaching, don’t take them into the house or welcome them. 11 For anyone who encourages them becomes a partner in their deception. 12 I have much to write to you, but I don’t want to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to visit you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete. 13 The children of your elect sister (group) send you their greeting as well.

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝐿𝓊𝓀𝑒 9:46-50

3 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 1:1-8

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 9:21-43

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 12:7-12

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

            🗞️📜

Wine Bags

In our christian life and studying, if we are by “letter” only, we will become a dry and old wine bag that is not very useful.

     If it is by Spirit only, we will become a bag that has sprouted leaks and it too is not very useful.

🍞+🍷=🕊️

08-28 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Mk-9 2Jn-1

     𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

          Mark 9:14-24

14 When they returned to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd surrounding them, and some teachers of religious law were arguing with them. 15 When the crowd saw Jesus, they were very excited and ran to greet him. 16 Jesus asked the scribes, "What are you arguing about with them?" 17 And someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a spirit that makes him mute. 18 Whenever the demon attacks my son, it throws him to the ground and makes him foam at the mouth and grit his teeth in pain. Then he becomes stiff. I asked your disciples to force out the demon, but they couldn't do it." 19 “Oh unbelieving generation,” Jesus replied. “How long will I remain with you? How long to bear with/hold up you? Bring the boy to Me.” 20 So they brought the boy. But when the evil spirit saw Jesus, it threw the child into a violent convulsion, and he fell to the ground, writhing and foaming at the mouth. 21 Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has this been happening?” The man answered, "Ever since he was a child. 22 The spirit often throws him into the fire or into water, trying to kill him. Take pity on us! And help us if you can!”

      23 “If you can?” echoed Jesus. “All things are possible to him who believes!” 24 The father instantly cried out, “I do believe, but help me to overcome my unbelief!”                 

         🌙☀️🌲🪐🕊️💫

From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

           ~ 2 John 1:1-3 ~

1 - This letter is from John, the elder. I am writing to the chosen lady and to her children (likely “to the church/believers; Rev.12, a stand alone insert, 1-17, 17 w/ Mt.23:39) whom I love in the truth, as does everyone else who knows the truth, 2 because the truth lives in us and will be with us forever. 3 Grace, mercy, and peace, which come from God the Father and from Jesus Christ—the Son of the Father—will continue to be with us in truth and love.

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓀 9:25-32

2 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 1:4-13

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 9:21-43

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 12:7-12

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

            🗞️📜

08-27 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Lk-9 1Jn-5

    𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

          Luke 9:37-45

37 The next day, when they came down from the mountain, Jesus was met by a large crowd. 38 A man in the crowd called out, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, my only child. 39 A demon often attacks him and makes him scream. It shakes him until he foams at the mouth, and it won't leave him until it has completely worn the boy out. 40 I asked your disciples to force out the demon, but they couldn't do it." 41 And Jesus answering said, "Oh unbelieving and distorted generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.” (Likely the man could not believe mere disciples could do it.)

     42 Then, as the boy came forward, the demon knocked him to the ground and threw him into a violent convulsion. But Jesus rebuked the evil spirit and healed the boy. Then he gave him back to his father. 43 And they were all astonished at the greatness of God. While everyone was marveling at all that Jesus was doing, He said to His disciples, 44 “Listen to me and remember what I say. The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of his enemies.” 45 But the disciples didn’t know what he meant. The meaning was hidden from them. They couldn’t understand it, and they were afraid to ask.                   

        🌙☀️🌲🪐🕊️💫

From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

         ~ 1John 5:14-21 ~

14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God - that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And since we know he hears us when we make our request, we know that we already possess what we have asked of Him. (Because his will is supreme.) 16 If you see a fellow believer sinning in a way that does not lead to death, you should pray, and God will give that person life. But there is a sin that leads to death, and I am not saying you should pray for those who commit it. (🤷🏼‍♀️) 17 All wrongdoing is sin [hamartia - missing the mark] but there is sin [hamartia] that does not lead to death [thánatos - death, literal or spiritual]. 18 We know that God’s children do not make a practice of sinning, for God’s Son holds them securely, and the evil one cannot touch them. 19 We know that we are children of God and that the world around us is under the control of the evil one. [Another version - “..the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.”] 20 And we know that the Son of God has come, and he has given us understanding so that we can know the true God. And now we live in fellowship with the true God because we live in fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the only true God, and he is eternal life. 21 Dear children, keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your hearts (called idols).

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓀 9:14-24

2 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 1:1-3

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 9:21-43

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 12:7-12

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

            🗞️📜

08-26 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Lk-9 1Jn-5

𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

        Luke 9:28-36

28 About eight days later Jesus took Peter, John, and James with him and went up on a mountain to pray. 29 As he was praying, the appearance of his face was transformed, and his clothes became dazzling white. 30 And behold, two men began talking with Him, who were Moses and Elijah. (Representatives of what is written [Moses] and the Spirit [Elijah]. I believe they visited from the future, though perhaps they are of the 24 elders at God’s throne in the revelation vision? Whom God has elected to resurrect ahead of the two collective resurrections? 🤔 I have the, so far, unanswered question of who the 24 elders are.)]

     31 They spoke about his departure, which he was about to bring to fulfillment at Jerusalem. 32 Meanwhile Peter, James and John were overcome by sleep, but when they woke up, they saw Jesus’ radiance and the two men standing with Him. 33 Moses and Elijah were about to leave, when Peter said to Jesus, "Lord it is good for us to be here! Let us make three shelters, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." But Peter didn’t really know what he was saying. 34 And even as he was saying this, a cloud overshadowed them, and fear overcame them as the cloud covered them. 35 A voice came from the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, whom I have chosen, listen to him.” 36 After the voice had spoken, Peter, John, and James saw only Jesus. For some time they kept quiet and did not say anything about what they had seen.                   

       🌙☀️🌲🪐🕊️💫

From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

         ~ 1 John 5:6-13 ~

6 And Jesus Christ was revealed as God’s Son by his baptism in water and by the shedding of his blood on the cross—not by water only, but by water and blood. And the Spirit, who is truth, confirms it with his testimony. 7 So we have these three witnesses (confirmations?) 8 the Spirit, the water, and the blood—and all three agree. 9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, the testimony which he has given about his Son. 10 The one believing in the Son of God has the testimony in their own self, but to not believe God is to make Him a tale bearer, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning His Son. 11 And this is the testimony, God has given us life, and this life is in his Son. 12 And so, if we have God's Son, we have this life. But if we don't have the Son, we don't have this life. 13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have lasting life.

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝐿𝓊𝓀𝑒 9:37-45

1𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 5:14-21

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 9:1-20

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 12:1-6

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

            🗞️📜

W𝕖𝕖𝕜𝕝𝕪 B𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕠𝕗 A𝕔𝕥𝕤 9 1-20

1 - Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. 3 As Saul was coming near the city of Damascus, suddenly a light from the sky flashed around him. 4 He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” 5 “Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied. 6 “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” 7 The men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one. 8 Saul picked himself up off the ground, but when he opened his eyes he was blind. So his companions led him by the hand to Damascus. 9 For three days he was without sight, and he did not eat or drink anything. 10 In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord called to him in a vision, “Ananias!” “Yes, Lord,” he answered. 11 The Lord said, “Go over to Straight Street, to the house of Judas. When you get there, ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul. He is praying 12 and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come and place his hands on him to restore his sight.” 13 “But Lord,” exclaimed Ananias, “I’ve heard many people talk about the terrible things this man has done to the believers in Jerusalem! 14 And he has come here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on your name.” 15 But the Lord said, “Go, for Saul is my chosen instrument to take my message to the Gentiles and to kings, as well as to the people of Israel. 16 For I will show him how many things he must suffer for My name’s sake.” 17 Then Ananias went to the house and entered it. Placing his hands on Saul, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord—Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here—has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” 18 Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again. Then he got up and was baptized. 19 Afterward he ate some food and regained his strength. Saul stayed with the believers in Damascus for several days. 20 Soon he went to the synagogues and started proclaiming that Jesus is the Son of God. 

                         ~*~

     Very Brief Outline of Acts:

Jesus returns to where he was with the Father before his advent/visit (his brief first one).

The Holy Spirit/Presence of God is poured out on the believers who were in Jerusalem on the late Spring holy day of Pentecost. Peter speaks, there are 3000 new believers that day.

The good news message spreads, Peter is invited and goes to a Roman’s house and all believe. The first record of non Hebrew believers (besides likely some on Pentecost).

     Persecution breaks out.. jail. stoning. Pharisee Saul leads the persecution, but on his way to Damascus with papers for arrests, Jesus makes himself seen but is so bright Paul falls to the ground and is blinded. After two days he is healed and is a believer, and soon is called Paul. He wrote many (to most) of the New Testament letters, but spent a few years (it seems to me) exclusively listening to the Lord. He established many ‘churches’ in what’s called three missionary journeys, and met and worked with Mark and Luke, and quite a few others. (Luke wrote this Book of Acts.) His fourth journey is to Rome to trial as a prisoner. There’s a shipwreck on the way.. He wrote many of his letters while in prison and under ‘house’ arrest.

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08-25 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Mk-9 1Jn-5

𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

           Mark 9:1-13

1 - And Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.” 2 Six days later he took Peter, James, and John with him and went up on a high mountain, where they could be alone. There, Jesus’ appearance was transformed before them. 3 and his clothes became dazzling white, far whiter than any earthly launderer could ever make them. 4 And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses (from another dimension called the future?) and they were talking with Jesus. 5 Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters (for Tabernacles)—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” 6 For he didn’t know what to say, for they were afraid. 7 Then a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my dearly loved Son. Listen to him.” 8 Suddenly, as they looked around, they saw no one with them but Jesus only (the kingdom!) 9 As Jesus and his disciples were coming down the mountain, he told them not to say a word about what they had seen, until the Son of Man had been raised from death. 10 So they kept it to themselves, but they often asked each other what this rising from the dead might mean. (Like today..? Wondering if something is merely metaphor? And heaven forbid literal? ..Those terrible literalists, lol.) 11 Then they asked him, “Why do the scribes say Elijah must return before Messiah comes?” 12 Jesus answered: Elijah certainly will come to get everything ready. But don't the Scriptures also say that the Son of Man must suffer terribly and be rejected? 13 I can assure you that Elijah has already come. And people treated him just as they wanted to, as the Scriptures say they would. (The baptist of course, and spirit of Elijah - “Make ready!! The way of the LORD!”)                   

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From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

           ~ 1 John 5:1-5 ~

1 - Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has become a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, also. 2 If we love and obey God, we know we will love his children. [Mk.12:30,31 - “Love the LORD your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. And love others as much as you love yourself..”] (If we genuinely love GOD, who “is love” we will love our fellow person.) 3 In fact, this is love for God, to keep his commands [entolḗ - from en - in, which intensifies télos - reach the end, consummation – properly, "in the end" focusing on the end-result (objective) from entellomai - an authoritative prescription, instructions]. (Prescription for the virulent disease of imperfection/straying from God who is Life and “is perfect” Mt.5:48.) And his commands are not burdensome. 4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And our faith is what gives us this victory. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world? The one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝐿𝓊𝓀𝑒 9:28-36

1 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 5:6-13

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 9:1-20

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 12:1-6

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

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08-24 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Mk-8 1Jn-4

𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

          Mark 8:34-9:1

34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me. 35 If you want to save your life, you will ruin it. (To grasp our life as is, and refuse to learn and grow, will not work.) But if you give up your life for me, and for the good news, you will save it. 36 For what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? [Psyxḗ - from psyxō, "to breathe, blow" which is the root of the English words "psyche," "psychology" – soul (psyche) a person's distinct identity (unique personhood), i.e. individual personality.] 37 For what can a person give in return for their soul? 38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my message in these adulterous and sinful days, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he returns in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” 9:1- And he said to them, “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.”                  

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From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

           ~ 1 John 4:19-21 ~

19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother or sister, they are a liar, for whoever does not love their brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓀 9:1-13

1 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 5:1-5

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 9:1-20

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 12:1-6

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

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W𝕖𝕖𝕜𝕝𝕪 B𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕠𝕗 R𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 12 1-6

W𝕖𝕖𝕜𝕝𝕪 B𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕠𝕗 R𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 12 1-6

[Possibly there is two applications of this chapter: as in line with the rest of Revelation, or as a stand alone insert. My understanding is as a stand alone insert.]

1 - And a great sign, seen in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. (A great sign, a virgin conceived.) 2 She (Israel/the faith/preserved by strict law) was with child and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 And another sign appeared in heaven, behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns. 4 His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. [Rev.1:20 “..the stars are angels..”] And the dragon (via Herod the Great) stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born. 5 And she brought forth a male son, who is about to shepherd all the nations with a (measuring) rod of iron (unbreakable Truth) and her child (instead of devoured) was caught up to God, and to His throne. 6 And the woman fled (70 A.D.) into the wilderness, where she has a place having been prepared there by God, so that they should nourish her there one thousand two hundred sixty days (likely - in THIS case - years). (70 A.D. more or less +1,260 = 1,330, rise of humanism?)

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🌽💫𝒲𝒽𝑜𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓈.. 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒮𝓅𝒾𝓇𝒾𝓉/𝒫𝓇𝑒𝓈𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒢𝑜𝒹 𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝒶𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔..

Rev/Apoc Cast of Characters & Events ~ is pinned📌 in the side column.

08-23 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Lk-9 1Jn-4

𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

         Luke 9:18-27

18 One day when Jesus was praying alone, the disciples with him, he asked them, "Who do the crowds say I am?" 19 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and still others, that one of the prophets of long ago has come back to life.” 20 Then he asked them, “But who do you say I am?” Peter replied, “You are the Messiah sent from God!” 21 Then Jesus gave them strict orders not to tell this to anyone. (Why? Because) 22 “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.”

     23 Then Jesus said to all the people: If any of you want to be my followers, you must forget about yourself. You must take up your cross every day and follow me. 24 If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it. 25 And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose or forfeit your very self? 26 If anyone is ashamed of me and my message, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he returns in his glory and in the glory of the Father and the holy angels. 27 Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see [horaó - to see, perceive, properly, see, often with metaphorical meaning: "to see with the mind" i.e. spiritually see - perceive with inward spiritual perception] the kingdom of God.”                

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From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

           ~ 1 John 4:17-18 ~

17 And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence, because as he is, so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears punishment has not been perfected in love.

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓀 8:34-9:1

1 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 4:19-21

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 9:1-20

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 12:1-6

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

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08-22 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Mk-8 1Jn-4

𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

          Mark 8:27-33

27 Jesus and his disciples went to the villages near the town of Caesarea Philippi. As they were walking along, he asked them, “Who do people say I am?” 28 The disciples answered, "Some say you are John the Baptist or maybe Elijah. Others say you are one of the prophets." 29 Then he asked them, “But who do you say I am?” Peter replied, “You are the Messiah.” 30 Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about Him. 31 And he began telling his disciples what would happen to him. He said, "The nation's leaders, the chief priests, and the teachers of the Law of Moses will make the Son of Man suffer terribly. He will be rejected and killed, but three days later he will rise to life." 32 As he talked about this openly with his disciples, Peter took him aside and began to reprimand him for saying such things. 33 But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Go away from me adversary” he said. “You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God’s.”                   

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From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

        ~ 1 John 4:12-16 ~

12 No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us. 13 And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝐿𝓊𝓀𝑒 9:18-27

1 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 4:17-18

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 9:1-20

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 12:1-6

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

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08-21 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Mk-8 1Jn-4

𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

       Mark 8:22-26

22 When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man to Jesus, that he might touch the man and heal him. 23 He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man’s eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, “Do you see anything?” (The lengths He will go to convince one of their healing!) 24 And he looked up and said, “I see men like trees, walking around.” 25 Once more Jesus put his hands on the man’s eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. 26 And he sent him to his home, saying, “Do not even enter the village.” (More and more news of his works met with leaders and Pharisee wrath and plot to execute him, and restricted his works.)                 

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From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

           ~ 1 John 4:7-11 ~

7 Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have  life through him. (“The wages/result of sin — hamartia - missing the mark - imperfection as opposed to God’s perfection, Mt.5:48, who iS life — is death” opposite of Life.) 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to propitiate for our sins. (Appeasing an angry god? Surely not. But to appease every delicate psyche and guilty conscience, even of the very, very worst.) 11 And so dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓀 8:27-33

1 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 4:12-16

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 9:1-20

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 12:1-6

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

            🗞️📜

08-20 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Mk-8 1Jn-4

𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

          Mark 8:11-21

11 - When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had arrived, they came and started to argue with him. Testing him, they demanded that he show them a miraculous sign from heaven to prove his authority. 12 And sighing deeply in spirit, he said, “Why does this generation seek for a sign? Truly I say to you, if to this generation a sign shall be given.” [Originally no “not” in the verse, but “forasmuch/if”]. 13 And he left them, got into the boat again, and went to the other side.

     14 The disciples had forgotten to bring bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat. 15 As they were crossing the lake, Jesus warned them, “Beware the yeast of the Pharisees and of Herod.” (So called ‘self righteousness’.. and power? Seats/positions of power.) 16 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we brought no bread. 17 Jesus knew what they were saying, so he said, “Why are you arguing about having no bread? Don’t you understand yet? Or are your hearts too hard and unreceptive? 18 Are your eyes unseeing and your ears unhearing? Don't you remember 19 When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?” “Twelve,” they replied. 20 “And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?” They answered, “Seven.” (Hearts unreceptive - can’t comprehend the miracles of feeding all..) 21 And He said to them, "Do you not yet understand?"                  

         🌙☀️🌲🪐🕊️💫

From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

           ~ 1 John 4:4-6 ~

4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5 If they belong to this world, they speak from the world’s viewpoint, and the world listens to them. 6 But we belong to God, and those who know God listen to us. If they do not (yet)  belong to God, they do not listen to us. That is how we know if someone has the Spirit of truth or the spirit of deception.

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓀 8:22-26

1 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 4:7-11

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 9:1-20

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 12:1-6

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

            🗞️📜

W𝕖𝕖𝕜𝕝𝕪 B𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕠𝕗 R𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 11 15-19

15 The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign for ever and ever.” 16 And the twenty-four elders sitting on their thrones before God fell upon their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying, “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and have begun to reign. 18 The nations were angry (Ps.2) and your wrath (cause and effect, imo) has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your people who revere your name, both great and small (stretched out over the next two millenniums!) — and for bringing to ruin those who are ruining the earth.” 19 Then - God’s temple in heaven was opened (this always brings to mind, mine anyway, the word split) and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant (? this reverberates with me..). And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm. (The faster and higher moisture rises, the greater the hail.)

                         ~*~

🌽💫𝒲𝒽𝑜𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓈.. 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒮𝓅𝒾𝓇𝒾𝓉/𝒫𝓇𝑒𝓈𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒢𝑜𝒹 𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝒶𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔..

Rev/Apoc Cast of Characters & Events ~ is pinned📌 in the side column.

08-19 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Mk-8 1Jn-4

 ✭🍃📬🎚️📖♱📃🕊️🩶🍃✭ 𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

           Mark 8:1-10

1 - About this time another large crowd had gathered, and the people ran out of food again. Jesus called his disciples and told them, 2 “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. 3 If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. For some of them have come a long distance.” 4 His disciples answered, “But where in this remote place can anyone get enough bread to feed them?” 5 Jesus asked, “How much bread do you have?” “Seven loaves,” they replied. 6 After Jesus told the crowd to sit down, he took the seven loaves and gave thanks. He then broke the loaves and handed them to his disciples, who passed them out to the crowd. 7 They also had a few little fish, and after Jesus had blessed these, he told the disciples to pass them around as well. 8 The people ate as much as they wanted. Afterward the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. 9 There were about 4,000 that day, and Jesus sent them home after they had eaten. 10 Then he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the region of Dalmanutha.                  

        🌙☀️🌲🪐🕊️💫

From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

           ~ 1 John 4:1-3 ~

1 - Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit (of teaching) that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world. (In John, the author’s day, an opposing teaching from a group who had gone out from the churches/home and town groups.. taking the gospel and running with it in another direction claimed matter was the problem, the evil, so Jesus could not have actually come as a person and in a human body.) 4 But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world.

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓀 8:11-21

1 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 4:4-6

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 8:25-40

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 11:1-14

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

            🗞️📜

08-18 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Mk-7 Jn-3

𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

         Mark 7:31-37

31 Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis. 32 There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged Jesus to place his hand on him. 33 After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man’s ears. Then he spit and touched the man’s tongue. 34 He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh (what does it take for people to believe?) said to him, “Ephphatha!” (which means “Be opened!”). 35 At this, the man’s ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly. 36 Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone. But the more he did so, the more they kept talking about it. 37 People were overwhelmed with amazement. “He has done everything well,” they said. “He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”                    

        🌙☀️🌲🪐🕊️💫

From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

           ~ 1 John 3:23-24 ~

23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. 24 Those who obey God’s commandments remain in fellowship with him, and he with them. And we know he lives in us because the Spirit he gave us lives in us.

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓀 8:1-10

1 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 4:1-3

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 8:25-40

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 11:1-14

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

            🗞️📜

08-17 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Mk-7 1Jn-3

𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

           Mark 7:14-30

14 Once again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “All of you, listen to me and understand. 15 It’s not what goes into your body (food) that corrupts you, you are corrupted by what comes from your heart. 16 Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear!” 17 When he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. 18 So He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? You surely know that the food you eat cannot make you unclean. 19 It doesn't go into your heart, but into your stomach, and then out of your body." By saying this, Jesus meant that all foods were fit to eat. 20 “It’s what comes from inside that defiles a person. 21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 unfaithfulness in marriage, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from within, and corrupt/contaminate a person.” 24 Then Jesus left Galilee and went north to the region of Tyre. He didn’t want anyone to know which house he was staying in, but he couldn’t keep it secret. 25 Right away a woman who had heard about him came and fell at his feet. Her little girl was possessed by an evil spirit. 26 The woman was a Greek (and gentile/not Hebrew/not exclusively in the covenant - gentiles messaged later) born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter. 27 Jesus told her, “First I should feed the children—my own family, the Jews. It isn’t right to take bread from the children and throw it to the little dogs.” 28 “Lord,” she replied, “even the puppies under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” 29 “Wise answer!” he said. “Go on home, the demon has left your daughter.” 30 And when she arrived home, she found her little girl lying quietly in bed. The demon was gone.                 

       🌙☀️🌲🪐🕊️💫

From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

           ~ 1 John 3:18-22 ~

18 Children, you show love for others by truly helping them, and not merely by talking about it. 19 When we love others, we know we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God. (🗝️🥳🕊️) 20 Even if we feel guilty, God is greater than our feelings, and he knows everything. 21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God, 22 and receive from him what we ask, because we obey him and do what pleases him. (🤔Love! To be a blessing/helpful.)

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓀 7:31-37

1 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 3:23-24

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 8:25-40

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 11:1-14

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

            🗞️📜

08-16 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Mk-7 1Jn-3

𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

          Mark 7:1-13

1 - Some Pharisees and several teachers of the Law of Moses from Jerusalem came and gathered around Jesus. 2 They noticed that some of his disciples ate without first washing their hands. 3 The Jews [Hebrews] especially the Pharisees, do not eat until they have poured water over their cupped hands, as required by their ancient traditions. 4 When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash, and there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups, pots, vessels, utensils and the dining couches. 5 So the Pharisees and teachers of religious law asked him, “Why don’t your disciples follow our age-old tradition? They eat without first performing the hand-washing!” 6 Jesus replied, “You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote, ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 7 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ 8 For you ignore God’s law and substitute your own tradition!” (🤔These days it’s like an un-written rule to “say grace” over our food, rebel that I am, I seldom do. But! “the prayer of thanks WILL wash the food” of any contaminations.. So maybe it’s not  a bad idea to send up a prayer of “thank you Lord”?)

     9 You are good at rejecting God's commands/instructions so that you can follow your own teachings! 10 For Moses said: Honor thy father and thy mother; and He that shall curse father or mother, dying let him die. 11 But you say it is all right for people to say to their parents, ‘Sorry, I can’t help you. For I have vowed to give to God (the temple, the priests) what I would have given to you.’ 12 In this way, you let them disregard their parents what they may need. 13 And so you cancel the word of God in order to hand down your own tradition. And this is only one example among many others.”                   

        🌙☀️🌲🪐🕊️💫

From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

           ~ 1 John 3:15-17 ~

15 Anyone who hates another is really a murderer at heart. And you know that murderers don’t have eternal life within them. 16 This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. We too, then, ought to give our lives for others! 17 If someone has enough money to live well and sees the brother or sister of them in need but shows no compassion—how can God’s love be in that person?

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓀 7:14-30

1 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 3:18-22

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 8:25-40

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 11:1-14

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

            🗞️📜

W𝕖𝕖𝕜𝕝𝕪 B𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕠𝕗 A𝕔𝕥𝕤 8 25-40

25  After Peter and John had testified fully and spoken the word of the Lord (to the new believers, now baptized in the Holy Spirit) they turned back to Jerusalem, and on their way they told the good news in many of the villages of Samaria.

     26 An angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying "Go south along the desert road that leads from Jerusalem to Gaza." 27 So he started out, and he met the treasurer of Ethiopia, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship, 28 and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah the prophet. 29 The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.” 30 Philip ran up close and heard the man reading aloud from the book of Isaiah. Philip asked him, "Do you understand what you are reading?" 31 “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. 32 The passage of Scripture he had been reading was this: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter. And as a lamb is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth. 33 He was humiliated and received no justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.” 34 The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?” 35 Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus. 36 And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?” 37 “Nothing prevents it if you truly believe!” Philip said. And the man answered, “I believe Jesus is the Messiah, Son of God!” 38 So he ordered the chariot to stop. Then they both went down into the water, and Philip baptized him. 39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away. The eunuch never saw him again but went on his way rejoicing. 40 Meanwhile, Philip found himself farther north at the town of Azotus. He preached the Good News there and in every town along the way until he came to Caesarea.

                         ~*~

     Very Brief Outline of Acts:

Jesus returns to where he was with the Father before his advent/visit (his brief first one).

The Holy Spirit/Presence of God is poured out on the believers who were in Jerusalem on the late Spring holy day of Pentecost. Peter speaks, there are 3000 new believers that day.

The good news message spreads, Peter is invited and goes to a Roman’s house and all believe. The first record of non Hebrew believers (besides likely some on Pentecost).

     Persecution breaks out.. jail. stoning. Pharisee Saul leads the persecution, but on his way to Damascus with papers for arrests, Jesus makes himself seen but is so bright Paul falls to the ground and is blinded. After two days he is healed and is a believer, and soon is called Paul. He wrote many (to most) of the New Testament letters, but spent a few years (it seems to me) exclusively listening to the Lord. He established many ‘churches’ in what’s called three missionary journeys, and met and worked with Mark and Luke, and quite a few others. (Luke wrote this Book of Acts.) His fourth journey is to Rome to trial as a prisoner. There’s a shipwreck on the way.. He wrote many of his letters while in prison and under ‘house’ arrest.

                            🍃

08-15 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Mk-6 1Jn-3

𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

         Mark 6:46-56

46 After sending them home, he went up into the hills by himself to pray. 47 Later in the evening he was still there by himself, and the boat was somewhere in the middle of the lake. 48 Then he saw them struggling at rowing, for the wind was against them. At about the fourth watch of the night, He came to them, walking on the sea, and he intended to pass by them. 49 But when they saw him walking on the water, they thought he was a ghost, and cried out! 50 They were terrified. But Jesus said to them, “Don’t be afraid, It is I”. 51 Then he climbed into the boat with them, and the wind died down. They were totally amazed, 52 for they still didn’t understand the significance of the miracle of the loaves. For their hearts were hardened/unreceptive [póroó - to petrify, harden, from pōros - a kind of marble – properly, made of stone, (figuratively) insensible, calloused, dull, unperceptive as a rock] (the human condition). 53 And when they had passed over, they came into the land of Gennesaret, and drew to shore. 54 As soon as they got out of the boat, the people recognized Jesus at once, 55 and they ran throughout the whole area, carrying their sick people on mats to wherever they heard he was. 56 And wherever he came, in villages, cities, countryside, and marketplaces, they brought the sick and implored him that they might touch even the border/fringe of his garment. And as many as touched were made well.                   

         🌙☀️🌲🪐🕊️💫

From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

           ~ 1 John 3:10-14 ~

10 You can tell God's children from the devil’s (from those still led by the adversary). Anyone not doing right is not God’s child (led now of Him). Not is anyone who does not love their fellow person. 11 For this is the message which we heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because Cain had been doing what was evil, and his brother had been doing what was righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our fellow person, they who love not abide (still) in death.

     Death - The prognosis of the disease imperfection/corruption/missing the mark, translated merely as sin. Which we need herd immunity to!

     1Cor.15:22 - For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. Jn.12:32 - Jesus said, “And I, if I am lifted up from the earth (on the cross) will draw all to myself." Greek word “pas” - “all”. If translators could’ve added the word “things” - all things - they would have!

     (“Who is my brother?” the parable.)

     Jesus said, “All those in the tombs/graves will hear God’s voice and will come forth” (from the graves/tombs) “some into the resurrection of life (into THE millennium). And some into the resurrection of judgment” (Jn.5:28-29) which elsewhere He calls agelasting-correction [“kolasin aionion” or “correction eonian” Mt.25:46]. Same process/correction we (a swathe of humanity) are going through during this brief lifetime — See illustrations below.

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓀 7:1-13

1 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 3:15-17

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 8:25-40

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 11:1-14

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

08-14 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Mk-6 2Jn-3

𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

         Mark 6:30-45

30 The disciples returned, gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. 31 Then Jesus said, “Let’s go off by ourselves to a quiet place and rest awhile.” He said this because there were so many people coming and going that Jesus and his apostles didn’t even have time to eat. 32 So they left by boat for a quiet place, where they could be alone. 33 But many people recognized them and saw them leaving, and people from many towns ran ahead along the shore and got there ahead of them. 34 When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things. 35 Late in the afternoon his disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. 36 Send the crowds away so they can go to the nearby farms and villages and buy something to eat.” 37 Jesus replied, "You give them something to eat." But they said to him, “It would take almost a year's wages to buy all of these people something to eat!" 38 “How many loaves do you have?” he asked. “Go and see.” When they found out, they said, “Five—and two fish.” 39 Then Jesus told the disciples to have the people sit down in groups on the green grass. 40 So they sat down in groups of fifty or a hundred. 41 Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up toward heaven, and blessed them. Then, breaking the loaves into pieces, he kept giving the bread to the disciples so they could distribute it to the people. He also divided the fish for everyone to share. 42 They all ate and were satisfied, 43 and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish. 44 A total of 5,000 men and their families were fed. 45 Jesus had his disciples get into the boat and start back across to Bethsaida. But he stayed until he had sent the crowds away.                   

        🌙☀️🌲🪐🕊️💫

From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

           ~ 1 John 3:3-9 ~

3 And all who have this hope [elpis - expectation] in Him purify their self, just as He is pure [hagnos - free of contamination]. [VERSE 2, the hope - “..when Christ appears, we shall be like him”.] 4 Everyone who sins is breaking God’s law, for all sin is contrary to the law of God. 5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin [hamartia - missing the mark]. 6 Anyone who continues to live in him will not sin. But anyone who keeps on sinning does not know him or understand who he is. 7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 But if someone makes a practice of sinning, it shows that they are still led by the adversary, who has been sinning since the beginning. But the Son of God came to destroy the works of the devil. 9 Those who have been born of God, and into his family, do not make a practice of sinning, because God’s life is in them. So they can’t keep on sinning, because they are children of (and in union with) God.

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓀 6:46-56

1 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 3:10-14

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 8:25-40

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 11:1-14

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

            🗞️📜

08-13 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Lk-9 1Jn-3

𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

          Luke 9:10-17

10 When the apostles returned, they told Jesus everything they had done.  [Verse 9:6 - They went from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing people everywhere.] He then took them with him to the village of Bethsaida, where they could be alone. 11 But the crowds learned of it and followed. He welcomed them and spoke about God's kingdom and healed everyone who was sick. 12 As the day neared its end, the Twelve came to Jesus and said, “Send the crowds away to the nearby villages and farms, so they can find food and lodging for the night. For there is nothing to eat here in this remote place.” 13 But Jesus said, “You feed them.” “But we have only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered, “unless we are to go and buy food for all these people?” 14 For there were about five thousand men, and women and children. And he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty.” 15 So the people all sat down. 16 And Jesus took the five loaves and the two fish. He looked up toward heaven and gave thanks. Then he broke the bread and fish and handed them to his disciples to give to the people. 17 They all ate as much as they wanted, and afterward, the disciples picked up twelve baskets of leftovers! (Now I’m firmly convinced God loves a good riddle, including number riddles. ..A way of hiding things in plain sight? — No leftovers left on the ground, instead it’s collected into 12 full baskets.)

        🌙☀️🌲🪐🕊️💫

From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

           ~ 1John 3:1-2 ~

1 - See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been known [phaneroó - to make visible, make clear, make manifest, in open view]. But we know that when Christ appears [phaneroó - to make visible, make clear, make manifest, in open view] (that’s when) we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓀 6:30-45

1 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 3:3-9

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 8:25-40

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 11:15-19

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

            🗞️📜

W𝕖𝕖𝕜𝕝𝕪 B𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕠𝕗 R𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 11 1-14

1 - Then I was given a measuring stick/rod, and I was told, “Go and measure the Temple of God and the altar, and count the number of worshipers. 2 But do not measure the outer courtyard, for it has been turned over to the nations. They will trample the holy city for 42 months. (And Truth will be trampled?) 3 And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” (In pressing difficulty.) 4 They are “the two olive trees” and the two lampstands, and “they stand before the Lord of the earth.” (Yet they are upon earth. Rev.7:9 and 4?) 5 Any enemy who tries to harm them will be destroyed/ruined by the fire that comes out of their mouths. (Truth?) 6 These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish. (😮) 7 Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will declare war against them, and he will conquer and kill them. 8 Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also crucified. (Some think Jesus was executed in Jerusalem but he wasn’t, “..so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore” - Heb.13:12-13.)

     9 For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. 10 The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth. 11 But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. 12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on. 13 At that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. 14 The second woe has passed (same point that’s after troops and what look like lions which shoot fire from their mouth, and a great war after the Euphrates has dried up) the third woe is coming soon.

                         ~*~

🌽💫𝒲𝒽𝑜𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓈.. 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒮𝓅𝒾𝓇𝒾𝓉/𝒫𝓇𝑒𝓈𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒢𝑜𝒹 𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝒶𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔..

Rev/Apoc Cast of Characters & Events ~ is pinned📌 in the side column.

08-12 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Lk-9 1Jn-2

𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

          Luke 9:1-9

1 - Jesus called the Twelve together, and gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases. 2 Then he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. 3 “Take nothing for your journey,” he instructed them. “Don’t take a walking stick, a traveler’s bag, food, money, or even a change of clothes. 4 Wherever you go, stay in the same house until you leave town. 5 And if a town refuses to welcome you, shake its dust from your feet as you leave to show that you have abandoned those people to their fate [martyrion - testimony, witness, proof] (role they play in this drama, this life, this all important contrast). 6 So they set out and went from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing people everywhere. 7 Herod the ruler heard about all that was happening, and he was worried. Some people were saying John the Baptist had come back to life. 8 Other people were saying Elijah had come, or one of the prophets from long ago had come back to life! 9 But Herod said, “I beheaded John. Who, then, is this I hear such things about?” And he tried to see him.                   

           🌙☀️🌲🪐🕊️💫

From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

         ~ 1 John 2:23-29 ~

23 Someone denying the Son doesn’t have the Father. The one acknowledging [homologeó - to speak the same, to agree with] the Son has the Father also. 24 As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you, for if that which you have heard from the first remains with you, you are remaining in the Father and in the Son. 25 And this is what he promised us - life. 26 I am writing these things to warn you about those who want to lead you astray. 27 And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught. 28 Children, stay one in your hearts with Christ. Then when he returns, we will have confidence and won't be hiding from him. 29 If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that those who practice righteousness have been born of him.

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝐿𝓊𝓀𝑒 9:10-17

1𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 3:1-2

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 8:1-24

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 11:1-14

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

            🗞️📜

08-11 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Mk-6 1Jn-2

𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

      Mark 6:14-29

(I’m just going to copy-paste - from a modern translation - you’ll see why I dislike these verses. Does such evil still exist? You bet it does.)

     The king, Herod Antipas [Son of Herod the Great who killed all the young boy children of Bethlehem, trying to destroy the prophesied “king”] soon heard about Jesus, because everyone was talking about him. Some were saying, “This must be John the Baptist raised from the dead. That is why he can do such miracles.” Others said, “He’s the prophet Elijah.” Still others said, “He’s a prophet like the other great prophets of the past.” When Herod heard about Jesus, he said, “John, the man I beheaded, has come back from the dead.” For Herod had sent soldiers to arrest and imprison John as a favor to Herodias. She had been his brother Philip’s wife, but Herod had married her. John had been telling Herod, “It is against God’s law for you to marry your brother’s wife.” [The Herods were Hebrew/Israeli]. So Herodias bore a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But without Herod’s approval she was powerless, for Herod respected John; and knowing that he was a good and holy man, he protected him. Herod was greatly disturbed whenever he talked with John, but even so, he liked to listen to him. But Herodias’s chance finally came on Herod’s birthday. He gave a party for his high government officials, army officers, and the leading citizens of Galilee. Then his daughter, also named Herodias, came in and performed a dance that greatly pleased Herod and his guests. “Ask me for anything you like,” the king said to the girl, “and I will give it to you.” He even vowed, “I will give you whatever you ask, up to half my kingdom!”

     She went out and asked her mother, “What should I ask for?”

Her mother told her, “Ask for the head of John the Baptist!” So the girl hurried back to the king and told him, “I want the head of John the Baptist, right now, on a tray!”

     Then the king deeply regretted what he had said, but because of the vows he had made in front of his guests, he couldn’t refuse her. So he immediately sent an executioner to the prison to cut off John’s head and bring it to him. The soldier beheaded John in the prison, brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl, who took it to her mother. When John’s disciples heard what had happened, they came to get his body and buried it in a tomb. [New Living Translation (NLT) included at biblegateway dot com.]                   

           🌙☀️🌲🪐🕊️💫

From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

        ~ 1 John 2:18-22 ~

18 Little children, it is the last hour [hṓra – a time or period, properly, an hour; (figuratively) a finite season] and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. (The modern lawlessness/“strong delusion” of “seating man [anthropos] as though in the temple as god”/highest power began in Greece. Not only spiritually, “man as divinity” but the ‘scientific’ thought was a growing “man from rock/earth” philosophy. Anti-Christ is any sentiment that is - against Christ, or opposes Christ. Or both. There’s been many. But comes to be an organized and structured anti?)

     19 (Now in John’s day) - They went out from us, but they did not really belong with us. For if they had belonged, they would have remained with us. This was proven when they left. 20 You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth. 21 I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you know the truth, and because no lie comes from the truth. 22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? [Christos - the anointed one, messiah.] This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝐿𝓊𝓀𝑒 9:1-9

1 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 2:23-29

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 8:1-24

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 11:1-14

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

            🗞️📜

W𝕖𝕖𝕜𝕝𝕪 B𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕠𝕗 A𝕔𝕥𝕤 8 1-24

1 - And Saul (later Paul) approved of the murder of Stephen. That very day the church in Jerusalem began to suffer cruel persecution. All the believers, except the apostles, were scattered throughout the provinces of Judea and Samaria. 2 Some God-fearing men came and buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him. 3 Saul kept working to destroy the church, going from house to house, arresting men and women and putting them in jail. 4 But the believers who were scattered preached the Good News about Jesus wherever they went. 5 Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah there. 6 When the crowds heard Philip and saw the signs he performed, they all paid close attention to what he said. 7 With loud shrieks, unclean spirits came out of many, and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed. 8 So there was much joy in that city.

    9 For some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great. 10 Everyone, rich and poor, listened to him. They said, "This man is the power of God called 'The Great Power.'" 11 They listened to him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic. 12 But now the people believed Philip’s message of Good News concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ. As a result, many men and women were baptized. 13 Simon himself believed and was baptized. And he followed Philip everywhere, astonished by the great signs and miracles he saw. 14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word/message [logos - reasoning expressed by words] of God, they sent Peter and John to Samaria. 15 As soon as they arrived, they prayed for these new believers to receive the Holy Spirit. 16 For the Holy Spirit(/Presence of God) had not yet fallen upon any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Peter and John then placed their hands on everyone who had faith in the Lord, and they were given the Holy Spirit. 18 When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money 19 “Give me this power too!” he said. “So that when I lay my hands on people, they will receive this Holy Spirit.” 20 But Peter replied, “Your silver is ruin to you! Because you think to obtain God's free gift with money. 21 You can have no part in this work, for your heart is not right with God. 22 Repent, therefore, and pray to God for forgiveness of this wickedness. 23 For I can see that you are bitter with jealousy and trapped in evil ways." 24 Simon said to Peter and John, "Please pray to the Lord for me, so that none of these things you spoke of will happen to me."

                         ~*~

     Very Brief Outline of Acts:

Jesus returns to where he was with the Father before his advent/visit (his brief first one).

The Holy Spirit/Presence of God is poured out on the believers who were in Jerusalem on the late Spring holy day of Pentecost. Peter speaks, there are 3000 new believers that day.

The good news message spreads, Peter is invited and goes to a Roman’s house and all believe. The first record of non Hebrew believers (besides likely some on Pentecost).

     Persecution breaks out.. jail. stoning. Pharisee Saul leads the persecution, but on his way to Damascus with papers for arrests, Jesus makes himself seen but is so bright Paul falls to the ground and is blinded. After two days he is healed and is a believer, and soon is called Paul. He wrote many (to most) of the New Testament letters, but spent a few years (it seems to me) exclusively listening to the Lord. He established many ‘churches’ in what’s called three missionary journeys, and met and worked with Mark and Luke, and quite a few others. (Luke wrote this Book of Acts.) His fourth journey is to Rome to trial as a prisoner. There’s a shipwreck on the way.. He wrote many of his letters while in prison and under ‘house’ arrest.

                            🍃

08-10 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Mk-6 1Jn-2

𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

             Mark 6:1-13

1 - Jesus left that part of the country and returned with his disciples to Nazareth, his hometown. 2 The next Sabbath he began teaching in the synagogue, and many who heard him were bewildered. They asked, “Where did he get all this wisdom and the power to perform such miracles? 3 Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Jude and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. 4 But Jesus said, "Prophets are honored by everyone, but the people of their hometown and relatives and their own family." 5 And because of their unbelief, he couldn’t do any miracles among them except to place his hands on a few sick folk and heal them. 6 He was amazed at their lack of faith. Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village.

     7 And he called the twelve to him and began to send them out two by two. And he gave them authority over the unclean spirits. 8 He said, "You may take along a walking stick. But don't carry food or a traveling bag or any money. 9 Wear sandals but not an extra shirt. 10 Wherever you go, stay in the same house until you leave town. 11 And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, leave that place and shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.” 12 So they went out and proclaimed that people should repent [metanoeó - to change one's mind or purpose, particularly with reference to acceptance of the will of God, from metá - changed after being with, and noiéō, "think"]. 13 And they forced out many demons and healed many sick people, anointing them with olive oil.                   

           🌙☀️🌲🪐🕊️💫

From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

           ~ 1 John 2:15-17 ~

15 Do not love the world nor what it offers, for if we love the world, we do not have the love of the Father in us. 16 Our foolish pride comes from this world, and so do our selfish desires and our wanting to have everything we see. None of this comes from the Father. 17 The world is passing away and all its desires (and ambitions) but whoever does the will of God lives forever.

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓀 6:14-29

1 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 2:18-22

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 8:1-24

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 11:1-14

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

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08-09 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Lk-8 1Jn-2

𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

       Luke 8:49-56

49 While Jesus was still talking with her, someone came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” he said. “Don’t bother the teacher any further.” 50 But Jesus on hearing this answered him, “Don’t fear, only believe, and she will be well.” 51 When they arrived at the house Jesus wouldn’t let anyone go in with him except Peter, John, James, and the little girl’s father and mother. 52 And all were weeping and mourning for her, but he said, “Don’t weep, she is not dead, but sleeping.” 53 And they laughed at him because they all knew she had died. 54 But he took her by the hand and said, “My child, get up!” 55 And at that moment her life [pneuma - wind, breath, spirit] returned, and she immediately stood up! Then Jesus told them to give her something to eat. 56 Her parents were surprised, but Jesus told them to tell no one what had happened.                    

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From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

         ~ 1 John 2:11-14 ~

11 But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness, and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going. Because the darkness has blinded them. 12 I am writing to you, dear children, because your sins (wrongdoings) have been forgiven on account of his name. 13 I am writing to you who are mature in the faith because you know he, who has existed from the beginning. I am writing to you who are young in the faith because you have won your battle with the evil one. 14 I write to you, dear children, because you know the Father. I write to you, mature, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young believers, because you are strong, the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome [nikaó - conquered, prevailed over] the evil one. 

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓀 6:1-13

1 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 2:15-17

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 8:1-24

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 11:1-14

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

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08-08 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Lk-8 1Jn-2

𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

          Luke 8:40-48

40 When Jesus returned to the other side of the lake, the people welcomed him, because they had all been waiting for him. 41 Then a man named Jairus, a synagogue leader, came and fell at Jesus’ feet, pleading with him to come to his house 42 because his only daughter, who was about twelve, was dying. As Jesus went with him, the crowds pressed around Him. 43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her money on physicians, and could not be healed by any, 44 coming up behind Jesus, touched the fringe of his robe and immediately, she was made well. 45 “Who touched me?” Jesus asked. Every one said it wasn’t them, and Peter said, “Master, this whole crowd is pressing up against you.” 46 Jesus said, “I felt power go out of me is how I know someone touched me.” 47 Then the woman, seeing that she could not slip away unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed. 48 “Daughter,” he said to her, “your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”                   

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From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

         ~ 1 John 2:6-10 ~

6 Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did. 7 Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment for you, rather it is an old one you have had from the very beginning. This old commandment—to love one another—is the same message you heard before. 8 Yet it is also new. Jesus lived the truth of this commandment, and you also are living it. For the darkness is disappearing, and the true light is already shining. (In the world.. though not fully, and there was prophesied a later “falling away”.) 9 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his fellow person is still in darkness. 10 But if we love others, we are in the light, and we don't cause problems for them. (Instead we try to be a blessing, which impulse is the natural out-raying of God’s Spirit/Presence. We are part of God’s letter to the world.)

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝐿𝓊𝓀𝑒 8:49-56

1 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 2:11-14

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 8:1-24

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 11:1-14

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

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08-07 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Mk-5 1Jn-2

𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

          Mark 5:21-43

21 When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, even while he was still at the shore, a large crowd gathered around him. 22 Then a leader of the local synagogue, whose name was Jairus, arrived. When he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet, 23 and earnestly implored him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her that she will be healed and live.” 24 Jesus went with him, and all the people followed, crowding around him. 25 A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with a constant bleeding. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she only grew worse. 27 She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his clothing. 28 “If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed,” she thought. 29 Immediately the bleeding stopped, and she could feel in her body that she had been healed of her condition. 30 Jesus realized at once that healing power had gone out from him, so he turned around to the crowd, “Who touched me?” He asked. 31 His disciples said, “So many are crowding around you, how can you ask ‘who touched me?’” 32 But Jesus kept looking to see who it was. 33 The woman knew what had happened to her. So she came trembling with fear and knelt down in front of him and told him the whole story. 34 “Daughter,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you. Go in peace, and be free of your affliction.”

     35 While he was still speaking to her, messengers arrived from the home of Jairus, the leader of the synagogue. They told him, “Your daughter has died. So there’s no use in troubling the teacher now.” 36 But Jesus overheard them and said to Jairus, “Don’t be afraid. Have faith.” 37 And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter, James and John, brother of James. 38 When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw the commotion, of people crying and wailing loudly. 39 So he went in and said to them, “Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but sleeping.” (From God and Jesus’ perspective. This life, and the sleep of death is not all that long. And is not, of course, the lasting reality.) 40 But they laughed at him. He ushered them all outside, and took the girl’s father and mother and his three disciples into the room where the girl was lying. 41 Then he took her hand and said to her, “Talitha koum,” which means “Little girl, get up!” 42 She got up at once and started walking around - as she was twelve years old. And her mother and father were utterly astounded. 43 He gave them strict orders that no one should know about this (the Pharisees were sure to be after him!) And he said she should be given something to eat.                    

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From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

          ~ 1 John 2:1-5 ~

1 - John, brother of James, now elderly, writes - My dear children, I am writing this to you so that you will not sin [hamartanó - to miss the mark, do wrong, sin]. 2 But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate (defender) with the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the one who is truly righteous. 3 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world [kosmos - order, world, universe]. We know that we have come to know him if we keep his instructions [entolé - an injunction, ordinance, order, command, from en - in, which intensifies télos - end-aim, focusing on the objective of an order, instruction]. 4 But if we claim to know him and don't obey him, we are lying and the truth is not in us and in our heart. 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is being perfected in them. And by this we know we are living in him.

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝐿𝓊𝓀𝑒 8:40-48

1 𝒥𝑜𝒽𝓃 2:6-10

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 8:1-24

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 11:1-14

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

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