ENTER THE STORY - A NEW TESTAMENT READING SCHEDULE

   ⛲️☀️ Father is the fountain of Life.

   No option to stray in Eden = Ant Farm

BiG banG — > universe — > then set in motion

for “8 days”/millennia. Lev.23 is the advents.

    “In the beginning God..” and the only straight out from God one, the Son, “forever first”/proto. Father & Son being so close both administer God’s Spirit/Presence.

   The being worked out blueprint - Father’s Presence will saturate, thus “seal” all creation, all mankind - Jesus is the prototype - all angelkind, animalkind, singing bird kind, &tc. “The cow will graze with the bear, their young will pasture and lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox” Isaiah 11:7. [Summed up in 1Timothy 4:10 and Luke 1:37.] Mt.13:30 is Rev.16:14-15-16 & Mt.25:1-13; Rev.20 tells crests only; seal description veils the seals & vision; vision is told 3 times; 13:13 is the seal6 1st event showing an office; 1Cor.15:22-28 w/ Mt.13:33, key word 3! (1Pet.3:19 -> 2Pet.2:5); it’s Dan.12:11-12 w/ Lk.19:41,44 and 1Cor.3:16! W/ last “10 days” escalation, Rev.2:10.

Is.24:20/Rev.10:4.

All, in translation, was changed to all things.

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Division is a siren call, Is.24:20/Rev.10:4.

Verses on this blog are paraphrased.

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12-07 - Luke 24 30-35

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☀️ 30 - (A little later, in Emmaus) when they had sat down for supper, he took bread, blessed it and broke it, and gave it to them. 31 And their eyes were opened! And they recognized him, and then he vanished from their sight.

     32 They said to each other, “Didn’t our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road! And when he explained to us the Scriptures?” 33 And they rose that very hour and returned to Jerusalem to find the eleven and those who were with them. 34 And when they found them, they were greeted with, “The Lord has risen! And Simon Peter saw him!” 35 And then they told them what had happened on the road to Emmaus, and how they saw who he was in the breaking of the bread.

Tomorrows verses - Luke 24:36-48

12-07 - 1 Corinthians 15 9-17

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☀️ 9 -  For I (Paul) am the least of the apostles. Actually unworthy to be called an apostle! Because I persecuted the church/believers of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than anyone, though it wasn’t I, but the grace of God that is with me. 11 So whether then it was I or they, so we preach [kérussó - proclaim, preach, herald] and so you believed.

     12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 And if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is useless and your faith is empty. 15 And so we are even found to be lying about God, because we testified about him, that he raised Christ, when if the dead are not raised [egeiró - raised, awakened, aroused] then Christ did not rise. 16 For if the dead [nekros - dead, death, deceased, literally - lacking life {the not living/the not alive}] aren’t raised, not even Christ has been raised.

     17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is without value! And you are still in your sins [hamartia - missing the mark/imperfection] {entropy is ruling and will rule. The worm that doesn’t quit - life as we presently know it as a ‘parable’ of the decomposing ‘apple’ and its worm, the decomposing, that does not quit. Entropy, this slow burning gehenna crucible {the onLy crucible} and sieve that separates the chaff from off the wheat, which continues until one of TWO vivifications - 1Thes.4:16-17, oR Rev.21:5, 1Cor.15:24-28. The dis-ease as - part - of the cure, and immunity!?}

Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 15:18-26

Start the day with a Psalm (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150)

have a great day! ☀️🕊️

12- 06 - Luke 24 13-29

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🌙 [It is Firstfruits, which is the third holy day of Spring holy week. Firstfruits always follows the regular weekly Sabbath of the week. Jesus died on Passover, was put in the grave as First Day of Unleavened Bread was beginning, and rose three days later as Firstfruits was beginning. The days - Leviticus 23.]

     13 - On the very same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, which was about seven miles from Jerusalem. 14 And they were talking with one another about all that had happened. 15 And while they were talking, Jesus himself drew near and walked with them. 16 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. 17 And he said to them, “What is it that you’re talking about as you walk along?” And they stopped, and looking sad, 18 the one named Cleopas said, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn’t know what has happened there?!”

     19 And Jesus said, “What things?” And they answered, “Concerning Jesus of Nazareth! Who was a prophet before God and all the people, mighty in deed and word. 20 And the leaders, our chief priests, delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified! 21 But we had hoped that he was the one chosen to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it’s now the third day since, 22 and some women of our company amazed us by saying they were at the tomb early this morning 23 and found it empty! And that they saw a vision of angels who said he’s alive! 24 Then some others of us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said.”

     25 Then Jesus said, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart, do you not believe all which the prophets spoke? 26 Wasn’t it necessary the Christ should suffer these things? And then enter his glory?” [1Pet.1:11 - Moses and the prophets predicted the sufferings of Messiah and the glories that would result.] 27 And beginning with Moses, he explained the Scriptures written about him.

     28 When they were drawing near to the village, he seemed as though he would keep walking, 29 but they urged him, saying, “Stay with us! For it’s toward evening and the day is about over.” So he went with them.

Tomorrows verses - Luke 24:30-35

12-06 - 1 Corinthians 15 1-8

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☀️ 1 - Now I (Paul) would remind you of the good news I passed on to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you’re saved, if you hold fast to it. God forbid your belief be vain and not genuine! 3 For I proclaimed and delivered to you, as of first importance, what I, also, received: that Christ died for our sins [hamartia - missing the mark] as told in the Scriptures.  {And Jesus said, “I go to prepare a place for you” (be crucified) “so you may be where I am”. ..And it is strong enough to appease every conscience.}

     4 That he was buried, and then raised on the third day, as the Scriptures say. 5 That he appeared to Peter, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred at one time, most of who are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James (Jesus’ natural/birth brother, Gal.1:19) then again to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.

Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 15:9-17

12-05 - Matthew 28 11-15

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☀️ 11 - While the women were going, some of the guard went into the city and told the leaders, the chief priests, all that had happened. 12 And when they had a meeting with the rest of the leaders, they decided to give a sum of money to the soldiers 13 and said to them, “Tell the people, ‘his disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep’. 14 And if it reaches the governor's ear, we’ll smooth it over and keep you out of trouble.”

     15 And so the guards took the money and did as the leaders said. And this story is believed among the nation to this day. {About thirty-five or forty years later?}

Tomorrows verses - Luke 24:13-29

12-05 - 1 Corinthians 14 29-40

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☀️ 29 - So in meeting, let two or three prophets/teachers speak, and let the others consider with discernment what is said. 30 And if then a revelation is given to another, the first should let that one speak. 31 So that all may prophesy one by one, and all may learn together and be encouraged. 32 One who prophecies is in control of their own spirit. {It’s not like being ‘possessed’ as would occur in pagan observances and rites.} 33 For God is a God of peace, not confusion [akatastasia -disorder, confusion, instability, tumult, chaos; from - a - not, and katastasis - order, stability]. As in all the meetings of believers, 34 the women in church should not be talking [laleó - conversing, speaking, talking, from lalos - talkative] but should be orderly, as the Law also says. 35 If they have questions, they can ask their husbands at home. For it’s not proper to be talkative in church.

     36 Is it from you the word of God came? Or are you the only ones it has come to? 37 If anyone thinks they are a prophet, or spiritual, they should acknowledge that the things I’m writing to you are instructions of the Lord. 38 If anyone doesn’t recognize this, ignore them. 39 So, my brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking in tongues. 40 But let all things be done decently and in order.

Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 15:1-8

REVELATION - 13 1-8

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BOOK OF REVELATION

{Chapter 13 begins the third and last version of the vision. But from a modern geopolitical perspective. The three versions rejoin at the sounding of the seventh trumpet.

When we left off last week (or so) the dragon was raging. And he was turning his attention more fully upon “the faith’s other children who have the commandments of God and” - by then - “the testimony of Jesus” - Mt.23:39, Rev.7:9. (Which testimony was always their’s ..and then also the nations’.)

So, end of Revelation chapter 12, being also the end of one of three tellings of the vision, surely(?) delivers us to Revelation 16’s gathering to Armageddon battle (Mt.13:30). The chapter concluding with — “..And the dragon stood on the sand of the sea shore”.. HOW he turns his rage upon Israel and takes the world to Armageddon, is chapter 13.

     13:1 - And I (John) saw a {many headed geopolitical} beast {entity, institution} rising up out of the sea [of humanity]. It had ten horns and seven different heads. It had ten crowns upon the ten horns. And upon the heads of it, were inscribed names of blasphemy [blasphémia - slander]. {The spiritual and psychological energy, roar of the dragon, is slander, accusation, rage, hatred which is, of course, madness..} 2 And the beast that I saw was like a leopard {quick?}. But it had feet like a bear's {totalitarian?}. And its mouth was like a lion's mouth {a roman/graeco institution?} {All predator beasts.} But it was the dragon that gave to it, his power, throne and great authority. {Political, societal, ‘global’ king like rule.}

     3 One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound {expired} but the fatal wound was healed {after the 13:13 event, and it comes about that} the whole world admires and follows after the beast. 4 And (so) they revered the dragon, who had given the authority to the beast, and they revered the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? And who can make war against it?” [Polemeó - wage war, fight, to engage in battle, quarrel; proskuneó - worship, bow down; exousia - authority, power, right, jurisdiction.]

    5 And was given to the beast, a mouth uttering haughty, slanderous and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise {all} authority for forty-two months. {This is the second 42 months/3.5 years of the lauded peace [covenant, treaty, league] that alas, will only last seven years, and will be broken in the middle against Israel - Rev.12:1;, Dan.12:11 with Lk.19:41,44.}

     6 It {the many headed geopolitical beast which rose out of the sea of humanity} opened its mouth to utter slanders against God, blaspheming his name and his tabernacle, and those tabernacling in heaven. [Angels… cherubim; Father and Son (proto) only straight out from God one, so close both pour out God’s Spirit/Presence.] 7 Also it was allowed to make war against the saints [believers/followers] and to conquer them. And authority was given to it over every tribe, people, language and nation. 8 And all who dwell upon earth will revere it, everyone whose name has not {yet} been written in the book of life of the lamb who was slain from the founding [katabolé - laying down] of the world [kosmos - order, the world, a properly ordered system, universe, creation].

Next - 13:9-13

Full study: bibleprophecy4today at blogspot dot com oR - Bible Prophecy For Today

12-04 - Mark 16 1-11 or Luke 24 1-12

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🌙 {Days begin at sunset rather than midnight. Jesus was sentenced and died on Passover, was put in the tomb as 1st Day of Unleavened Bread was beginning (at the sun’s setting) and rose 3 days later on the 3rd holy day of Spring holy week. This third sacred day is Firstfruits, which always follows the regular weekly (Saturday) Sabbath of the week. So Firstfruits begins ‘saturday’ at sunset as the weekly Sabbath is ending. There are three Sabbaths - no work days - of Spring holy [qodesh - set apart] week, the first and last/7th day of Unleavened Bread, and the regular, weekly ‘saturday’ Sabbath - which is from sunset friday to sunset saturday. Jesus said he would be “in the grave for three days and three nights”. Therefore Passover that year fell upon a Tuesday, Jesus was put into the grave as the sun was setting, which begins ‘Wednesday’ as we call it. First Day of Unleavened Bread is the day after Passover. And Passover meal is not eaten on Passover, but after sunset.}

     Mk.16:1 - When the Sabbath (of 1st Unleavened Bread day) was past, Salome, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, bought spices and prepared them (during friday) for his tomb. {Then they rested during regular weekly Sabbath.} 2 And very early on the first day of the week (sunday/Firstfruits) when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. 3 And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?” 4 But when they got there, they saw the stone had been rolled away. 5 And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right, dressed in a white robe, and they were frightened. 6 And he said, “Don’t be afraid. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, and is not here. See the place where they laid him. 7 Go and tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee. There you’ll see him, just as he told you.” 8 And they hurried out, not knowing what to think, and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

     [Some of the earliest manuscripts don’t include 16:9–20, an older ending to Mark’s account.] 9 Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. 10 She went to the others who had been with him and told them as they were mourning and grieving. 11 But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they didn’t believe it.

     LUKE 24:1-12

1 - Then on the first day of the week, at dawn, the women went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in the body of the Lord Jesus wasn’t there. 4 While they were puzzled and wondering about it, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. 5 The women were frightened and shied away. But the men said, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, when he was in Galilee 7 how the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and rise on the third day.” 8 And so they remembered his words, 9 and going back from the tomb they told all of this to the eleven and the others. 10 Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told it to the apostles, 11 but it seemed to them like an idle tale, and they didn’t pay any attention. 12 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. And stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths off to the side. And he went away wondering.

Tomorrows verses - Matthew 28:11-15

12-04 - 1 Corinthians 14 25-28

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☀️ 25 - And so they will be convinced of the presence of God, and will perceive him with the eyes of their heart.

     26 But, why is it when you come together, each one {all at once} has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for encouragement and building up. 27 If any speaks in tongues, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret. 28 But if there is no one to interpret, let each speak silently to their self and to God.

Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 14:29-40

12-03 - Matthew 27 62-66

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🌙 62 - It was now the next day, that is, after the day of Preparation (Passover is a prep day for the feast during Spring holy week, which days begin at sunset, not midnight, so “Passover Supper, being after sunset, is actually on 1st U.B. day - the days, Passover and U.B. were each called by both names, as was the entire week). The leaders, the chief priests and Pharisees, requested a meeting with Pilate 63 and they said, “Sir, we remember how that impostor said that after three days he would rise. 64 Therefore if you will, order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away and tell the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last fraud will be worse than the first!” 65 Pilate said, “You have a guard of soldiers. Go, make it as secure as you can.” 66 So they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone, and then setting a guard over it.

Tomorrows verses - Luke 24:1-12 or Mark 16:1-11

ISAIAH

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Book of Isaiah - a try at briefly summarizing - though this is only Part 1, it’s all the Isaiah study for this year, and it gives a good picture of the entire book.

Next: Micah

1:1 These are the visions that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem during the years of four kings. (Listed in the verses.) 2 The LORD (God) has said, "Listen, oh heaven and earth! The children I raised have turned against me. {Surely(?) Israel is the micro, global is the macro.}

Isaiah saw God’s throne in the temple.. his radiant train of light fills the temple as well as smoke from the glory.. Seraphim call “holy, holy, holy” to one another and the sound causes the foundations of the earthly temple to shake..

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Isaiah’s message was a calling to Judah to turn back to God, and then to declare the coming Messiah.

      CHAPTERS 1-39, Isaiah points out the errors of both North and South Kingdoms of Israel, and declares consequences to them and the neighboring nations.. “Cease to do evil” (1:16). “The Lord Himself will give you a sign! LOOK! A virgin will be with child (Rev.12:1-2) and will birth a son. She will call His name Immanuel” [shem - name, renown (“God with us”) 7:14, Mt:1:22-24].

     CHAPTERS 40-55 - the return and restoration after the exile from Babylon. “There is no God besides Me” (44:6,8; 45:5,6,14,18,21). Messiah will come and bring new life through His death, “He was oppressed and afflicted, yet didn’t speak in defense. He was like a lamb going to slaughter. And like a sheep, silent before its shearer..” (53:7).

     CHAPTERS 56-66 - The new Heavens and Earth, great reward for trusting and obeying God.. hope for the suffering and judgment for the evil - “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things {waywardness} will not come up in the heart nor come to mind” (65:17).     

ISAIAH 1:3 The ox knows its owner. The donkey its master’s manger/trough/supply, but Israel {and humanity} don’t know ..don’t understand.” 4 ..They’ve forsaken ..turned their backs.. and (thus?) they err. {Translated sin.} 5 ..The whole head/reality is sick ..the whole heart faint. 6 From sole of foot to top of head there is no soundness/battered— only bruises, wounds, sores, not cleansed, bandaged nor soothed with olive oil. 7 Your country lies in ruins, your towns are burned. Foreigners plunder your fields as you watch like overthrown by strangers. 8 City abandoned.. 9 Unless the LORD Almighty had left us some survivors.. 11 ..I take no pleasure in your sacrifices.. 12 who asked you to trample my courts? 13 ..wickedness in the councils.. 14 the new moon feasts, the holy day festivals.. a burden to me.. 15 {For} Your hands are full of blood, I don’t hear your prayers though they become many. 16 ..Stop doing wrong.. 17 Learn to do right. Seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow. 18 “Come now, let’s settle this,” says the LORD. “Though your sins [chet - wrongs, from chata - to miss, go wrong, wrongs] are like scarlet - I - will make them as white as snow.. as white as wool. 19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land! 1:20 But if you turn away and refuse to listen, the sword devours {entropy, is wrath kindled lightly, imo, whereas fiery conflagrations of war and armageddon, is wrath/cause and effect, greatly kindled}. 

And thus, has spoken the LORD..

1:21 - The city.. a prostitute, streets used to be of righteousness and justice, but now murderers lodge.. 22 The value of your silver/money has fallen away.. 25 I will turn my hand upon you and purge away your dross. {N.T. “chaff off the kernel of wheat”.} 28 The crashing [sheber - breaking, fracturing, breaching, crushing (or) crashing] of the rebels and sinners [chatta - from chata - to miss, go wrong] will be together. Those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed {earthly, via entropy or fiery flames of war and destruction; nowhere does it say afterlife.}. 30 ..Like an oak tree whose leaves have faded, like a garden with no water.

1:31 - The mighty will be as tinder and their works a spark. Which no person can put out. (Verse 15 - Even if you offer prayers, I will not listen, your hands are full of blood. Micah 3:6,7 - “The day will go dark for them, they will cover their faces because there is no answer from elohim {the gods? they served?}

     2:1 This {great vision} is what Isaiah, son of Amoz has seen concerning Jerusalem and Judah. 2 It shall come to pass, in latter days [acharith - the after-part, end] the mountain, of the house of Yahweh, will be established and exalted. All nations will flow to it, 3 and many will say, “Come! Let us go up to the mountain of Yhvh! To the house of the God of Jacob! He will teach us his way! And we’ll walk in his paths! ..For out of Zion will go forth his law [torah - direction, instruction, law, from yara/yarah) - to throw, shoot (at a target)] and will go forth the word [dabar - speech, word] of Yahweh from Jerusalem. 4 He will judge between nations, and settle disputes. They will beat their swords into plowshares {into V plows} and their spears into gardening tools. 5 Come! Let us walk in the light of Yahweh!

 The ‘great ones’ sowed, now reap. 

  Disclaimer - The Prophets May Not Be For The Timid

    2:6 LORD, you have abandoned your people.. ..They are full of superstitions from the east, and practice divination ..they embrace pagan customs. 7,8 The land is full of silver and gold, full of chariots and idols ..no end to their treasures.. [but poor toward God]. 9 So people are brought low ..everyone humbled.. 10 Go into the rocks {Rev.6’s sixth seal, though veiled by its description. For the description is of its fuLL effects - first to last - but is given at the very beginning of the vision. Also confusing much of the revelation vision, for things that occur at the very ‘end’ are described at the beginning and intro to the vision} hide in the ground from the fearful presence of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty! {Code for fiery capabilities of war, fiery judgments. All were earthly, not afterlife. Is there anything that truly humbles? Other than ones own consequences? ..Both individual and collective.} 11 The great arrogant will be humbled, human pride brought low, the Lord alone will be exalted. 12 The LORD Almighty has a day in store for the proud and lofty, and all who are exalted ..every lofty tower and every fortified wall, 16 for every trading ship and every stately vessel. {Trade. In Revelation, the $ity and Tower Babble “on seven hills”/continents.} 17 The arrogance of man will be brought low and pride humbled 18 ..the idols will pass away. 19 People will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the earth ..when he rises to shake the earth. 20 In that day people will throw away their idols of silver and gold, they made to worship. 21  They will flee to caves {and shelters} and to the high cliffs.. 22 Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nose. Why look to them?

3:9 they parade their sin {the ‘great ones’ setting the trends?} 9 .. They have brought disaster upon themselves. 10 Tell the righteous - it will be well with them - for they will enjoy the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe to the wicked, for disaster is upon them. They will be paid back for what theiR hands have done. 12 Youths oppress the people, women rule them. My people, your guides lead you astray, they turn you from the path. 4:5 Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion, and over those who gather there, a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of fiery flames by night, over everything, the glory will be a covering.  {In prophecy Mt. Zion is often a spiritual ‘place’. Whereas Mt. of Olives, the literal Earthly place.} 6 The covering will be a shelter and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge and hiding place from the {fiery?} storm and {acid?} rain {Is.24:20/Rev.10:4} [Rev.7:16, “..no scorching heat shall fall upon them.”]

5:8 Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until you live alone in {and own all} the land. 9 Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left empty. 17 Sheep will graze there, as in their own pasture. Lambs will feed among the ruins of the rich. 20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil ..23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent ..30 if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and distress, even the sun will be overshadowed by clouds. {Prophet Joel’s smoky day? Revelation’s sun covered, red moon/moon reflecting red? In shorthand? The mighty of Earth will indeed ignite Armageddon battle. Which will turn out to be their, and the world’s, and the wrong way’s judgment/reaping what you sow. Other bible speak, drinking a cup.. Rev.16:13-16, Mt.13:30, Is.24:20.)              

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Prophecy Studies

(The Order is w/ Largest For Winter)

4 - SPRING -- after restoration / 536-400 -- Haggai Zechariah Malachi

1 - SUMMER -- pre-assyria / 9-800 BC -- (Elijah Elisha) Jonah Joel Amos Hosea

2 - FALL --assyria / 900-625 -- Isaiah Micah Nahum Zephaniah

3 - WINTER -- babylon / 625-536 --  Jeremiah Habakkuk Ezekiel Obadiah Daniel

12-03 - 1 Corinthians 14 16-24

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☀️ (“Speaking in tongues” continued.) 16 - Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can someone new coming in from outside say “Amen” to your thanksgiving when they don’t know what you’re saying? 17 For you may be giving thanks well, but the other person is not being built up and encouraged.18 I’m happy that I speak in tongues more than all of you. 19 But in meeting, I would rather speak five words that would instruct others, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue!

     20 Don’t be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil! And in your thinking be mature. 21 In the Law {here meaning Old Testament account} it’s written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners I will speak, and even then they won’t hear me, says the LORD” [Isaiah 28:11]. 22 Thus tongues {orderly, here and there?} are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.

     23 But if the whole church (group/ecclesia) comes together and everyone is speaking/praying in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers come in, won’t they say you’re out of your minds? And are babbling? 24 But if all prophesy [prophéteuó - speak under inspiration] and an unbeliever or outsider comes in, they’ll become interested and ask questions and will look into the matter (the testimony).

Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 14:25-28

Why Crucifixion?

 🍃 I was in the mountains, on a beautiful day. I’d been reading up on some world faiths and astrology (what a science!) On that day, it seemed like a thought drifted across the very blue sky, and hit me in the head. (It was 1979.) Here’s what it said, “You’ve been learning about forces at work in the universe, what about the force that created the universe? And what if that force has consciousness?”

     It was like a light was turned on, I said “God!” And felt a presence it seemed like I had always known. A warm, wonderful presence.

     But why the sufferings of Jesus? “There’s no forgiveness/remission of sin (imperfection) without blood.” Why? I think on the deepest level - even past appeasing the human conscience - “the life is in the blood” ..God iS life. Itself. And he “is perfect” or he too would fade away. Imperfect is washed away by that Life force. God himself. So it reaches all levels. Heals all things. Everywhere. ..It’s an issue of the dis-ease running its course, versus Ant Farm. How do you create thinking beings, aNd, keep paradise/perfection intact? Immunity. Total Herd Immunity. There can only be Life, aka perfection.. oR this contrast, this entropy. THE crucible. Only crucible. Being Life, he suffers everything.

12-02 - Mark 15 33-47 or Luke 23 44-56

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🌙 33 - And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

     35 And some of the bystanders nearby, hearing it said, “Look! He’s calling to Elijah.” 36 Someone ran and filled a sponge with strong wine, and putting it on a reed, gave it to him to drink, saying, “Will Elijah come to take him down?”

     37 But then Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last breath. 38 And the (large, metal weaved in?) curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.

     39 When the Roman centurion who was on guard duty there, saw how he died, he said, “Truly this was the Son of God!”

     40 There were women looking on from a distance, among them was Salome, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger (of the twelve disciples) and of Joses. 41 When he was in Galilee, they had helped him with meals and with support. There were also many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem.

     42 And then, when evening was coming [hurriedly] (the new day beginning at sunset, which day would be a Sabbath, a no work day) since it was (still) before Unleavened Bread Sabbath, 43 Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

     44 Pilate was surprised to hear that Jesus had already died. And summoning the centurion, he asked whether he was already dead. 45 And when he learned that he was, he granted the body to Joseph.

     46 So Joseph bought a linen shroud {believed “shroud of Turin” with like a negative image on it, perhaps from the Light of resurrection?} and taking him down, wrapped him in it, and laid him in a tomb that had been cut out of rock. And he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. 47 And Mary the mother of Joses and Mary Magdalene saw where he was laid.

      LUKE 23:44-56 [Accounts always differ in details, especially after some time has passed.] 44 -  It was now about the sixth hour [about noon] and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour [3 pm]. 45 Then the curtain of the temple was torn in two. [Matthew 27:52 - The earth shook, the rocks split.] 46 And Jesus, calling out with a loud voice said, “Father into your hands I commit my spirit!”  [Commit, entrust - paratithémi- to place beside, to set before, to entrust, to commit, from serve a meal, to commit, entrust; from para - beside or alongside, and tithémi - to place or to set.. entrust, commit, serve — “into your hands my spirit”.] And having said this he breathed his last.

     47 Now when the centurion on duty saw what had taken place, he praised God, and said, “Surely this man was innocent!”

     48 And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts. 49 And all his acquaintances and the women who had followed him from Galilee stood at a distance watching it all.

     50 Now there was a man named Joseph, from the Jewish town of Arimathea. He was a member of the council, a good and righteous man, 51 who had not consented to their duplicity {conspiracy} and he was waiting for the kingdom of God.

     52 This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 53 Then he took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud and laid him in a tomb cut in stone, where no one had ever yet been laid. 54 It was the day of Preparation, and the (Unleavened Bread) Sabbath was beginning. [First Day of Unleavened Bread is a Sabbath/no work day. It is the day after Passover, which Passover is the “preparation day” for it.] 55 The women who had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid. 56 Then they left and prepared spices and ointments. And on the (Unleavened Bread) Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

     [Remember, days began at sunset, not at midnight. They would have prepared spices on the day after the Sabbath of First Day of Unleavened Bread, so did the work of preparing them on 2nd day of Unleavened Bread, then rested/no work on the regular weekly Sabbath (7th day, Saturday) ..and went to the tomb as the sun was rising on the day following the weekly (Saturday) Sabbath. — Passover and 1st Day of U.B. are moveable holy days. But the third holy day, Firstfruits, isn’t moveable but is always on the same day of the week, the day after the weekly (Saturday) Sabbath.

     Jesus died on Passover - was in the grave as 1st Day of U.B. day was beginning - and rose on Firstfruits. (As weekly Sabbath has ended, same time of day, as 3 days earlier when he was laid in the tomb) - Thus the three holy days of Spring holy week were fulfilled — The Spring and Fall holy days are listed in Leviticus chapter 23.]

Tomorrows verses - Matthew 27:62-66

12-02 - 1 Corinthians 14 9-15

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☀️ 9 - So it is with you, if what you say isn’t intelligible, how will anyone know what’s being said? For you’ll be just speaking into the air. 10 There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none are without meaning. 11 But if I don’t know the meaning of the language, I’ll be a foreigner to the speaker, and the speaker a foreigner to me. 12 So it is with you, since you’re eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church (the believers).

     13 Therefore, one who speaks in an unknown tongue should pray to interpret. 14 For if I (Paul) pray ‘in tongues’ my spirit prays, but my mind isn’t being useful. 15 What am I to do? I’ll pray with my spirit, but I’ll pray with my mind also. I’ll sing praise with my spirit, but I’ll sing with my mind as well. {We should be able to understand what we’re praying? Uttering in tongues, frees the mind.. to hear what the Spirit is praying/inspiring in prayer?}

Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 14:16-24

12-01 - Luke 23 32-43

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🌙 32 - Two others, who were criminals, were put to death with him. 33 And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. 34 And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they do.” And some cast lots to divide his garments. 35 And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers mocked him, saying, “He saved others! Let him save himself if he’s the Christ! The Chosen One of God!” 36 The soldiers also mocked him and offered him sour wine, 37 saying “If you’re the King of the Jews, save yourself!” 38 There was also an inscription over him, “This is the King of the Jews.” {King of the people, always from micro to macro. Smaller scope to full scope. Prophecy and his advents.}

     39 One of the criminals hanging there railed at him, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!” 40 But the other said, “Don’t you fear God! Since you are under the same sentence? 41 And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the consequence of our action, but this man has done nothing wrong.”

     42 And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” 43 And Jesus said to him, “Truly. I tell you today. YOU will be with me in paradise.” [Jn.6:40, 1Thes.4:16]

Tomorrows verses - Mark 15:33-47 or Luke 23:44-56

ACTS 10 34-48

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     Book of the Acts of the First Believers

(Peter had been summoned by a Roman centurion, Cornelius, and Peter was now with him, and his family and friends.) 34 - So Peter began, “Truly I see that God shows no partiality and favorites. 35 But in every nation anyone who reveres him and does what is right is acceptable to him. 36 As for the word that he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace through Jesus Christ - he is Lord of all - 37 you yourselves know what happened throughout all Judea.

     It began from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed, 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit(/Presence of God) and with his power. How he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. 39 And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews/Hebrews and in Jerusalem.

     Then he was put to death by being hung on a tree, 40 but God raised him up on the third day. And made him appear, 41 not to all the people, but to us who had been chosen by God to be witnesses. We ate and drank WITH him after he rose from the dead. 42 And he instructed us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and of the dead. 43 It was he all the prophets spoke about, and bore witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.” {Declared innocent. God “is Perfect” and is Life, so only perfect endures.. On the other hand, an Ant Farm is no paradise/perfection.}

     44 While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit{/Presence of God} fell upon all who were listening. 45 And the men from among the Hebrew believers who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out upon Gentiles. 46 For they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. Then Peter said, 47 “Can anyone disagree with baptizing these people now, in water? For they’ve received the Holy Spirit just as we have.” 48 And he instructed that they be baptized in the name of Jesus. And they asked him to stay with them for some days.

Next - 11:1-30

12-01 - 1 Corinthians 14 1-8

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☀️ 1 - Earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy, but - be sure to pursue love! 2 One who speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not to others but to God. And no one understands what they might be saying. They are uttering mysteries in the Spirit{/Presence of God}.

     3 But the one who prophesies is speaking to people for their encouragement, for building up, for comfort, even for consolation. 4 The one who speaks in a tongue builds up their self, but the one who prophesies builds up the church/believers.

     5 Now I (Paul) want you all to pray and speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy! Prophesying is greater than speaking in tongues, unless someone interprets. So the listeners may be built up!

     6 Now if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching? 7 If musical instruments, such as the flute or the harp, don’t give a distinct note, how will anyone know what’s played? 8 And if the bugle doesn’t give a distinct [diastolé - distinction, (its own) different] sound, who will get ready for battle?

Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 14:9-15

Start the day with a Psalm (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150)

have a great day! ☀️🕊️

11-30 - Luke 23 24-31

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☀️ 24 - So Pilate gave up and went along with their demand. 25 He released the man who was in prison for violent insurrection and murder, for whom they asked for (on Passover) and gave Jesus over to their will.

     26 And as they led him away, they made one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, to carry the cross behind Jesus. {Remember, he had been beat and severely flogged.} 27 And there were following him a great number of the people, and women who were mourning and lamenting. 28 But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me. Weep for yourselves and for children’s children. 29 For behold, the days are coming when they’ll say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore, the breasts that never nursed!’ 30 And then soon they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ 31 For if they do these things {crucify me} in a green leaf, what will they do in a dry leaf?” {Rev.12:15?}

Tomorrows verses - Luke 23:32-43

REVELATION - 12 13-17

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BOOK OF REVELATION 

[After the woman, the faith, fled (Jerusalem in 70CE) and time had passed.. and after “war in heaven”] 13 - the dragon, when he saw that he was now limited to Earth, pursued {persecuted, inquisitioned} the woman/the faith, which had given birth to the manchild (Son of man/Christ). 14 But the woman/the faith {now Christianity} was given the two wings of an eagle, that she might fly (sail) to the wilderness to a place of her to be nourished and to grow [in a widest sense] for a time, times and half (a division of) time, safe from the face [prosópon - presence, face, advantage] of the serpent [thus dragon, ancient serpent, called the devil and Satan ..deceiver of the whole world” vs.9].

     15 Then (after the 1, plus 2 and ½ divisions of time) the serpent spewed water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, the faith. In order to wash her away with a flood, from off the face of the Earth.

     16 But (in the vision John was seeing) the earth helped the woman. It opens its mouth and swallows the flood, the dragon had poured from his mouth after her. {A spiritual flood, a strong delusion? One declaring man to be most high and “seated in the temple as god”/highest power. ..And widespread drought just before Armageddon/next verse?}

     17 And the dragon was furious with the woman, the faith, and went off to make war upon the rest of her {the faith’s} offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God. And {by then, Mt.23:39} hold to the testimony of Jesus. {“Jerusalem, Jerusalem ..you shall not SEE me again, until you say “Blessed is He who comes in the name if the LORD!” Mt.23:39.}

     And the dragon stood on the sand of the sea. {Chapter 13 begins the third and last telling of the vision, but from a modern geopolitical perspective.}

                         ~*~

Review: Chapter twelve is the second telling of the revelation vision. It is between the other two tellings - 6:1-2 to 11:19, but a trick with the seals keeps the vision veiled. They, the elements of the vision {and age} are described at the very beginning of the vision, as a sort of swirl of their full and entire effects, first to very last. Especially pronounced in the 6th seal and the following 7:1,3 (9,4) where we presently still are.

Next - 13:1-8

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11-30 - 1 Corinthians 12 31 - 13 13

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☀️ 31 - And of course, the higher gifts are the more desirable. But I’ll tell you the most excellent way! 13 For if I should speak with a tongue of angels, but I don’t love, then I am just a noisy gong, or a clanging cymbal.

     2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and have all knowledge, or if I have all faith, so as to move mountains, but have not love, I’m nothing! 3 If I give away all I have, if I die for the cause, but have not love, I gain nothing.

     4 Love is patient and kind. Love doesn’t envy or boast. It’s not arrogant 5 or rude. It doesn’t insist on its own way. It’s not irritable or resentful. 6 It doesn’t rejoice at wrongdoings, but rejoices over the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

     8 Love never fails or passes away. As for prophecies, they pass away. As for tongues, they will cease. As for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial and incomplete will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. {My mind wandered down many hallways.} When I became an adult, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see as through a glass dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, then I shall know in full, even as I have been fully known.

     13 So now faith, expectation [elpis - expectation, trust, confidence, hope?] {Usually/always translated, hope a lesser degree of “expectation”/trust} and love abide. And of the three, the greatest of is love. {Faith, Trust, Love. — God is Love. Love hAs to rule, there’s no other option. Because God is Life. Some get all tangled up in the strictness of God. But life cannot be contaminated and remain life. And so, this entropy. The world persuaded us to toss out the scripture, thinking like a child. This life is but a moment. In crises, he carries. In formation ages he had to take out, like transplanting into an untilled garden, awaiting being resurrected into an “age of correction” (aionion kolasin / eonian korrection, Mt.25:46) the GWT judgment ‘day’ SEE the Autumn holy days of Lev.23, the names and pattern. And preflood society, was highly cannibaalistic perhaps? Learned it from animals, which some animals turned predator quickly? Their “covering” angels having joined the “covering angel over Eden” when he revolted? As God of course knew he would, indeed the way engineered, this Truth journey is a one and done for heaven and earth.. Perhaps I’m imaginative, but did God say after the flood that man should be carnivore, so they would not be prey instead? — No option to stray in Eden would be an Ant Farm? Instead the dis-ease as part of the cure? And immunity.. And the original blueprint still stands! Love, genuine affection, is going to - totally - rule. We can trust God’s 100% pure Goodness. “The lion will eat straw like the ox, and the bear will graze with the cow” Isaiah 11:7.}

     4 Love is patient and kind. Love doesn’t envy or boast. It’s not arrogant 5 or rude. It doesn’t insist on its own way. It’s not irritable or resentful. 6 It doesn’t rejoice at wrongdoings, but rejoices over the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. [“God is Love” 1Jn.4:8.] 8 (And) Love never fails..

Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 14:1-8

11-29 - Mark 15 16-32

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🌙 16 - The soldiers led Jesus out to the court of the governor’s palace and called together the rest of their battalion. 17 Then they clothed him in a purple robe, and twisted together a crown of thorns for him to wear. 18 And putting it on his head, they saluted him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 19 And they spit on him, striking his head with reeds and knelt down before him. 20 When they were done mocking him, they stripped him of the purple robe and put his own outer clothes back on him and led him out to be crucified/executed.

     21 On the way, they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. [Jesus had been severely flogged, remember, and then was beaten more.] 22 And they led him to the place called Golgotha, which means Place of the Skull. {Place of the skull - he went to death, the end of entropy/imperfection, for all, a ‘ransom’ and ultimately, an appeasing of even the guiltiest of consciences.}

     23 And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he didn’t take any. 24 And they crucified him. Some were dividing his garments, casting lots to see what each should take. [Fulfilling scripture, Ps.22:18.] 25 And it was the third hour. {Hour of the daily evening, or that is, the between the evening (shadows) sacrifice? Sentenced at the hour of daily morning one.} 26 And the inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.” [Ioudaios - from loudas - Judah or the region of Judea {yet the 12 tribes were there - via the census of Nehemiah after Cyrus king of Babylonia - which at the time once again included Assyria - said, “Let all Israel go home”. Ten northern tribes had been carried away to Assyria - their shield from the Holy Ghost/Spirit and Presence of YHVH/life having dissipated. This was in the early 700’s BCE. And then later, the southern tribes, called Judah, were carried to Babylon, in the late 500’s BCE. These were called “captivities” the Assyrian Captivity and the Babylonian captivity. One to a kingdom of war, the other to a kingdom of gold. Judah became another name for all Israel. But previously, due to civil war, the ten northern tribes were Israel, and the Southern were Judah. Each had a line of kings.}

     27 And with him, one on his left and one on his right, were two robbers also being crucified. {🤔Two robbers, two lines of kings.. Israel is the ‘micro’ prophecy and fulfillment, all humanity and last hours, the macro.}

     29 And those who passed by ridiculed him, shaking their heads and saying, “WhAt?! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days! 30 Save yourself, and come down from there!” {Just a pleasant late afternoon stroll out to the “Place of the Skull”?} 31 Also the leaders, the chief priests and scribes mocked him among theirselves, saying, “He saved others! But he can’t save himself!” 32 And, “Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down from the cross that we may see it, and believe!” And those who were crucified with him also threw insults at him.

Tomorrows verses - Luke 23:24-31

11-29 - 1 Corinthians 12 21-30

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☀️ 21 - The eye of a body can’t say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor the head to the feet say, “I have no need of you.” 22 Instead, the weaker members are indispensable! 23 And the members we think of as less honorable we bestow the greater honor upon, and our less noble parts we treat with greater modesty, 24 which our more presentable parts don’t need. In the same way, God has composed the body of Christ, giving greater value {grace needed?} to parts deficient, 25 that there may be no-division in-the-body, but that the members may have genuine concern for one another. 26 If one member suffers, all suffer together. If a member is honored, all rejoice!

     27 For all together, we are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 28 And God has appointed in the church apostles, prophets, teachers, then miracles, gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30 Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13

11-28 - Luke 23 11-23

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☀️ (The gospels as two six month readings means there is some repetitiveness.) 11 - Herod and his soldiers mocked Jesus, and were treating him with contempt. Then they arrayed him in kingly clothing and Herod sent him back to Pilate. 12 Herod and Pilate became friends that very day, when before this they had been hostile with one another. {The spirit of Jesus prevailing even then, in this strange historic example.}

     13 Then Pilate called together the people and the rulers {the} leading priests {the political rulers were priests, so called religious wars were usually not religious but political} 14 and said to them, “You brought me this man as one who is misleading the people. And after interrogating him, I haven’t found him to be guilty of any of your charges. 15 Neither did Herod, for he sent him back here. Look, nothing deserving death has been done by him! 16 Therefor I’ll punish him and release him.” 18 But they all cried out, “Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!” 19 This was a man who was in prison for murder during an insurrection. 20 Pilate addressed them once more, wanting to release Jesus (it was a Rome granted favor each Passover, to release someone to them). 21 But they kept shouting, “Crucify! Crucify him!” 22 A third time he said, “Why? What has he done? I have found in him nothing deserving of death. I will therefore punish and release him.” 23 But they were vehement, demanding with loud cries that he should be crucified/executed. And their voices {of incited hysteria and hatred} prevailed.

Tomorrows verses - Mark 15:16-32

11-28 - 1 Corinthians 12 14-20

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☀️ 14 - For the body doesn’t consist of one part or member, but many. 15 If the foot should say, “Because I’m not a hand, I don’t belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I’m not an eye, I don’t belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, how would we hear? If the whole body were an ear, how would we smell? 18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. 19 So it is with the body of Christ. 20 There are many members, yet one body.

Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 12:21-30

11-27 - Luke 23 1-10

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🌙 (The gospels as two six month readings means there is some repetitiveness.)

1 - So the council of leaders rose up and brought Jesus before Pilate, the governor.. 2 And they accused him, saying, “We found this man misleading the nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar! Saying he himself is Christ {Messiah} a king!” 3 And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered, “You have said it, not I.” [Such was punishable by death.] 4 Then Pilate said to the chief leaders and the crowd, “I find no guilt in this man.” 5 But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee even to this place.”

     6 When Pilate heard this, he asked whether he was a Galilean. 7 And when he learned that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who was in Jerusalem at the time. 8 And when Herod saw Jesus, he was happy, for he had wanted to see him for some time, having heard a lot about him. And he was hoping to see him work a miracle. 9 So he questioned him at some length, but Jesus stayed silent. 10 While the leaders, the chief priests and scribes, stood by, angrily accusing him.

     [This Herod, called Herod Antipas was a son of Herod the Great. Herod Antipas is the one who unwillingly put John the Baptist to death. Herod the Great is the one who killed all the very young boys and babies of Bethlehem, trying to kill Jesus after his birth, as the birth had made quite a stir. As in Rev.12:4, bible prophecy often takes no account of time - like in this verse, Rev.12:14 - “the dragon” - original gone rogue one - “drags with his tail one third of the stars..” - I.e. one third of the angels joined the “covering angel over Eden” in his revolt. Then as in the next breath it seems, he then turned to devour the “manchild”/Son of man who had been born from the woman.. “a great sign..”

     But we know there’s a great gap of time between Eden and the birth of Christ.

     Herod the Great, the father, is the one of Rev.12:14 and Matthew 2, who tried to kill Jesus when born. And his son, Herod Antipas is the one who had executed John the Baptist. Jesus and this John {the baptist were ‘cousins’? Would that be first, I don’t know. Elizabeth was “a kinswoman” a relative, Lk.1:36. Why I came to think of them as cousins - for some time now - I’m not sure.🤷🏼‍♀️}

Tomorrows verses - Luke 23:11-23

11- 27 - 1 Corinthians 12 8-13

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☀️ 8 - To one person is given, through the Spirit, the speaking of wisdom, to another the speaking of knowledge, 9 or great faith, or the gift of healing, 10 the working of miracles, prophecy, the ability to discern between spirits, various kinds of tongues/languages, or the interpretation of tongues. 11 All these are gifts empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.

     12 For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, Jew and Greek, bond slave and free, and all were made to drink of the one Spirit. {God’s Spirit.}

Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 12:14-20

11-26 - Matthew 27 1-10

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☀️ 1 - When morning came, all the chief priests and leaders of the people took counsel together, against Jesus, to have him put to death. 2 And they bound him and led him away to Pilate the governor.

     3 Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief leaders, 4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” They said, “What is that to us?” 5 And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, Judas departed, and went out and hung himself.

     6 The chief priests said, “It’s not lawful to put the silver into the treasury, since it’s blood money.” 7 So they talked it over and with it bought the potter's field as a burial place for strangers. {A field of a potter’s throwaway broken pottery pieces. Metaphor - all us broken vessels/pottery, bought with 30 pieces of silver.} 8 And so that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day. 9 Then was fulfilled what was spoken [long ago] by the prophet Jeremiah - “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of he, on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel, 10 and they gave it for the potter's field, as the LORD directed.” [“God is savior..” 1Tim.4:10.]

Tomorrows verses - Luke 23:1-10

11-26 - 1 Corinthians 12 1-7

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☀️ 1 - Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I don’t want you to be uninformed. {After scolding on important matters, he still of course addresses them as brothers and sisters in the Lord. Corinth was a huge metropolis and was very pagan in its attitudes and practices.} 2 You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols and followed however you were led. 3 Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in, and by, the Holy Spirit.

     4 Now there’s a variety of gifts, but it’s the same Spirit {of God, his Presence with us}. 5 And there are varieties of service, but it’s the same Lord {leading, enabling, doing the work}. 6 And there are varieties of activities, but it’s the same God who empowers all in everyone. {“All - pas” - Ultimately all gifts in all believers? During the Lord’s long second advent, for no one is ‘perfect’/perfected until “putting on perfection” (and thus immortality) at the wheat harvest of humanity (Mt.13:33, key word 3) (also 1Cor.15:22-28, 52-55; Mt.13:30b, a is Rev.16:14-15-16 and b is Mt.25:1-13 to serve called reigning during long 2nd advent, full scope version of his 1st so brief one (surely?) ..consider the trauma of all those who rise “into the aionion-kolasis” / eonian-korrection / age of correction — outlined in Lev.23, the wheel within a wheel (outline within the “8 days”/millennia outline/framework which is ‘the week plus one’). The 2nd resurrection is “into” the GWT judgment/review/closure for all (surely?) ‘Day’, which is the last quarter of the long second advent of TWO millennia.}

     7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. {“Aionion-kolasis” / eonian correction has been translated into “forever punishment” (Mt.25:46).  “God is Love” all genuine affection - that’s him. Christ Crucified appeases the delicate human conscience and psyche, not his anger/wrath, Ro.11:32, which wrath is (surely?) usually cause and effect. Cause and effect universe versus Ant Farm? Not an issue of what God hAs created, but what he iS creating. How do you create genuinely able to think and reason beings (both anthropos and angelos) aNd keep paradise/perfection intact? One more thing! As Life, the force, source, and breath of Life, he suffers all that eveR occurs. And endowed thinking ability anyway.}

     Spoken biG bang into the universe as is, then set in motion. Wheel within Wheel Outline:

    I. Wk + 1 millennia (“8 days”)

         a. Lev.23 Spring and Fall holy days

            Portray 1st and 2nd advents

   II. The “palin/again-genesis” (fiery, and is 3rd mention of LOF at huge fiery, earthly events). “God will now tabernacle with mankind” Rev.21:3(1-5).

Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 12:8-13

11-25 - Mark 15 1-15

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☀️ 1 - As soon as morning came, the leaders held a council, the chief priests with the elders and scribes and the whole council. And they decided to take Jesus bound to the Roman governor Pilate.

     2 Pilate questioned him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And Jesus answered, “You have said so, not me.” [Under Rome, declaring himself king would mean execution.] 3 The leading priests were accusing him of many things, 4 and Pilate said, “Have you no answer?” 5 But Jesus remained silent, and Pilate was amazed.

     6 Now at the feast each year [of Passover week] Pilate would release a prisoner being held, whomever they asked for. 7 And among the rebels in prison was one, Barabbas who had committed murder in an insurrection. 8 And a crowd which had gathered began to ask Pilate for the year’s Passover release. 9 And he answered them, “Do you want me to release the King of the Jews?” 10 For he knew it was out of envy that the leading priests {the leaders of the nation, Israel, under Roman occupation} had apprehended him. 11 But the leaders had been working the crowd, and successfully stirred them up to ask for Barabbas.

     12 “Then what shall I do with the man you call the King of the Jews?” Pilate asked. 13 And they cried out, “Crucify him!”

     14 “But why? What has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Crucify him!” 15 So Pilate, wanting to satisfy the crowd, released to them Barabbas, and having Jesus flogged, he delivered him over to be executed.

     {Sentenced at morning sacrifice on Passover, one of three “preparation days” of the week, which of course are preparation days for the three Sabbaths of Spring holy week. For a few reasons, it is not at first easy to see how exact it was that Jesus’ first so brief advent fulfilled the Spring holy days. But after understanding that, might we wonder about the parallel between the stretched out Fall holy days and His long second advent? Leviticus chapter 23. The days being Trumpets, 10days later {1000 yrs later} — ‘Day’ of Atonement, and 5days later — Tabernacles.

     “Behold! I make all new! …God will now tabernacle with man.. And the lion will eat straw like the ox, the bear will graze with the cow.. For there will be no more death. And no mourning, nor sorrow.” A (fieRy) “palin/again- genesis” having occurred, Rev.21:1-5, Is.11:7, translated “the regeneration”.

     Note - “the” millennium is a Sabbath millennium, so logically, the next millennium is an “8th day” the “last great day” (Lev.23:36, Jn.7:37) when 1. The adversary, original gone rogue one, is released and he gathers, once again, a multitude - these are people descended from mortal survivors of the apocalypse. They are gathered to another fieRy armageddon, Rev.20:7-10. And, after all that concludes, 2. the GWT judgment ‘day’. Which in Matthew 25:46, Jesus calls agelasting correction [“kolasin aionion” oR “korrection eonian”] the completing of drawing all, Jn.12:32! [JN.5:28-29.] And surely(?) it’s a same process of refinement/correction for all. The crucible being life as we presently know it - this unavoidable, all important contrast - which continues until vivification either at 1Cor.15:52,53 oR later, at Rev.21:5, 1Cor.15:24-28.}

Tomorrows verses - Matthew 27:1-10

ACTS 10 21-33

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     Book of the Acts of the First Believers

21 - So Peter went down from the roof, and greeted the men saying, “I’m who you’re looking for. Why have you come?” 22 And they said, “Cornelius, a centurion (Roman soldier or general) an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you and have you come to his house in order to hear what you have to say.”

     23 So he invited them in to be his guests, and the next day he, and some brothers from Joppa, went with them. 24 And then on the following day they arrived at Caesarea.

     Cornelius was expecting them and he had called together his relatives and close friends. 25 When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet so as to worship him. 26 But Peter lifting him back up, said, “Stand up, I am but a man like yourself!”

     27 And as he talked with him, he went in and found those Cornelius had gathered. 28 And said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew (Hebrew) to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation” (separated for the sake of birthing Messiah, the “savior of the world” from death and its cause). “But God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any person common or unclean. 29 So when I was sent for, I came without objection. So then, I ask why you’ve sent for me.”

     30 And Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was praying in my house at the ninth hour, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing! 3 And he said, ‘Cornelius, your prayers have been heard and your gifts and charity have been remembered before God. 32 Send therefore to Joppa and ask for Simon who’s called Peter. He’s lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, who lives by the sea.’ 33 So I sent for you at once, and you’ve been kind enough to come. Now therefore we’re all here in the presence of God to hear everything the LORD has instructed.”

Next - 10:34-48

11/25 -1 Corinthians 11 30-34

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☀️ 30 - This is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have even died. 31 But if we judge ourselves truly, we would fare better. 32 And if we’re judged by the Lord, we’re disciplined so we may not be judged along with the world.

     33 So then, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. 34 If someone is famished, let them eat at home, so when you come together it won’t earn judgment. {Result in failure.} About the other questions you have I’ll address them when I get there.

Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 12:1-7

11-24 - Mk 14 54-72 or Lk 22 55-71

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🌙 [Mark and Luke were not of Jesus’ twelve disciples.] 54 - And Peter had followed them at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. He was sitting with the guards and warming himself at the fire. 55 The leaders - the chief priests and the whole council - were seeking testimony against Jesus in order to have him sentenced to death, but they couldn’t find any. 56 For many did bear false witness against him, but their testimonies didn’t agree. 57 Some stood up saying, 58 “We heard him say, ‘I’ll destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.’” 59 Yet even then their testimony didn’t agree. 60 So the high priest stood up in the council and demanded of Jesus, “Have you no answer to make?! What is it that these testify against you?”

     61 But Jesus remained silent and gave no answer. Again the high priest said, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?” 62 And Jesus said, “I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.” 63 And the high priest tore his garments and said, “What further witness do we need? 64 You have heard his blasphemy! What is your decision?”

     And they all condemned him as deserving death. 65 And some began to spit on him and slap his face and strike him, saying to him, “Prophesy!” And the guards as well delivered blows.

     66 And as Peter was outside in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest 67 saw Peter warming himself. She looked at him and said, “You also were with the Nazarene.” 68 But he denied it,  “I don’t know what you mean,” he said. And he went out into the gateway and the rooster crowed. 69 And the servant girl saw him again and said to those standing there, “This man is one of them.” 70 But again he denied it. And after a little while they said to him again, “Certainly you’re one of them. For you’re a Galilean.” 71 But he began to swear and said, “I don’t know the man you’re talking about!” 72 And then the rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and broke down and wept.

     LUKE 22:55-71 - And when they had built a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down, Peter sat down with them. 56 Then a servant girl, saw him as he sat in the light of the fire, and looking closely at him, said, “This man also was with him.” 57 But he denied it, saying, “Woman, I don’t know him.” 58 And a little later someone else saw him and said, “You’re one of them.” But Peter said, “No, I’m not.” 59 And after an interval of about an hour still another insisted, saying, “Certainly this man was also with him, for he too is a Galilean.” 60 But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you’re talking about!” And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed. 61 And from within, the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the saying of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.” 62 And he went out and wept bitterly.

     (Eye witness accounts always differ, and these were written a few years later, perhaps by interviewing witnesses, as neither Mark nor Luke were there that day as witnesses.)

Tomorrows verses - Mark 25:1-15

11-24 - 1 Corinthians 11 23-29

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☀️ 23 - For I’ve passed on to you what I (Paul) have received from the Lord. That the Lord Jesus during the night he was betrayed took bread, 24 gave thanks, broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” {Broken for you.}

     25 In the same way, he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, when you eat and drink in remembrance of me.” {Human delicate psyche appeased and Father’s sincerity sealed/proven.}

     26 For as often as you do this, you proclaim the Lord's death until he returns. 27 So whoever should eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord unworthily will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. 28 Let a person examine their self, and then eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. 29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discernment eats and drinks to judgment {fruit, results} upon their own self. {Now there’s an important metaphor. And it’s best not to pollute the body of Christ - any believer/anybody - with bad teachings. As ultimately, all humanity, as his body.. Filled up! God then, “all, in all” 1Cor.15:28. And the three “all things” in verse 27 should also read “all”. As all five are the greek word “pas” - “all, every, the whole, every part of”. Humanity (in Christ and Christ fully digested in us) & all creation “sealed”/in union with/saturated with God’s Spirit/Presence.. Thus all with character clear as crystal. Which character proceeds from, and is sustained by God. He iS Life. 1Cor.15:22-28 w/ Mt.13:33, key word 3.}

Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 11:40-34

11-23 - Mk 14 43-53 or Lk 22 47-54

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🌙 43 - And then while Jesus was still speaking, Judas came, who was one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with torches, swords and clubs. They came from the leaders, the chief priests, the scribes and elders. 44 Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “He who I greet with a kiss is the one.” 45 And when he came, he went up to him at once and said, “Rabbi!” And kissed him. 46 And so they seized Jesus to lead him away under guard. 47 But one of those who stood by drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his ear. 48 And Jesus said, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? 49 Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me. But the Scripture will be fulfilled.” 50 And the disciples all left him and fled. 51 And a young man had come there, with nothing but a linen cloth about his body. {Likely awoken from somewhere by the light and tumult.} And they tried to seize him, 52 but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked.

     53 And they led Jesus to the high priest. And all the chief priests, the elders and the scribes were gathered there.

     LUKE 22:47 - And while he was still talking, a crowd came, and Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He drew near to Jesus to greet him with a kiss, 48 but Jesus said to him, “Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?” 49 And when those who were around him saw what would follow, they said, “Lord, shall we strike with the sword?” 50 And one of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear. 51 But Jesus said, “No, there is no need for that.” And he touched his ear and healed it.

     52 Then he said to those who had come out against him, “Have you come out now with swords and clubs? 53 When I was with you every day in the temple? And no one laid hands on me. But this is your hour, and the hour of the power of darkness.” {Imperfect is an abyss (of potential). There’s bound to be oppressions, the stronger will rule the not as strong and vulnerable. Just as God prophesied in Eden. It took a long time for some of humanity to crawl out from under kingly POWER. Rome for a time was a republic of city-states, a check on power, by dividing the power(s). God is the only fit ruling force and over-rule.}

     54 Then they led him away, and brought him to the high priest's house, and Peter was following at a distance.

Tomorrows verses - Mark 14:54-72 or Luke 22:55-71

REVELATION - 12 7-12

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BOOK OF REVELATION

     {After the manchild(/Son of man) was taken up to God’s throne where he will rule with the unbreakable measuring rod of Truth, and the faith had fled, migrated} 7 - War arose in heaven, Michael and his angels warred against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels warred against Michael and his angels. 8 But the dragon hadn’t the strength, and no longer was a place for them found in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent (oR “cherubim” from Ezek.28:12-  “Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre {god of this world}.. you were in Eden, the garden of God.. an anointed covering cherub [kerub - an order of angelic beings, cherub, cheribim].

     I appointed you on the holy mountain.. You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till unrighteousness [evel or avel or avlah or olah - unrighteousness, injustice] was found in you..”

     (Like David is used as a representation of Christ in prophecy, so too are despotic kings used as a representation of Satan the adversary.)

     9 And the great dragon was thrown out, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown to the earth, and his angels were thrown with him. 10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come {to the heavens}! For “the accuser” of our brethren has been thrown out {of heaven, not yet Earth} who accused them day and night {right} before our God.

     11 And the brethren overcome him because of the blood of the lamb, and because of [dia - by, because of, for the sake of, by reason of, through] the word of their testimony, and (word for word) (they) not loved the life of them unto death”. {I think may also read? — didn’t love their life that leads to death? Perhaps, in this verse anyway, in Rev.20 is different?🤷🏼‍♀️} 12 “Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell therein! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come to you in great wrath, because he knows his time is short.” {And total world domination is still the goal. Which has  nothing to do with ‘afterlife’ or that is, between life, i.e. between death and resurrection, and, or later, as it’s resurrection into 2nd advent to serve called reigning, or, towards end of 2nd advent into GWT judgment/“korrection” ‘Day’}.

Next - 12:13-17

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11-23 - 1 Corinthians 11 17-22

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☀️ 17 - But in the following, I (Paul) cannot commend you, because when you come together it’s not for the better but for the worse. 18 First thing being, when you come together as a church, I hear there are divisions among you. 19,20 And when you come together, it’s not the Lord's {peaceful, togetherness} supper you eat. If there must be splits and factions among you, perhaps it will at least reveal the genuine from the not so genuine.

    21 Then I hear as well, that in eating, one piles their plate while another goes hungry. And still another gets drunk.

     22 What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or is it that you despise the church of God and humiliate those who haven’t as much as you? Should I praise you in this!? Certainly not! What can I even say?

Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 11:23-29

11-22 - Mk 14 26-42 or Lk 22 39-46

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🌙 26 - And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. 27 And Jesus said, “You shall all fall away, just as it’s written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’ 28 But after I’m raised up, I’ll go before you to Galilee.”

     29 Peter said, “Even though all fall away, I never will.” 30 But Jesus said, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you’ll deny me three times.” 31 But Peter repeated, “If I must die with you, I’ll not deny you.” And they all said the same. (This was true later, after Pentecost, the coming of God’s Spirit/Presence with them.)

       32 And they went to a garden/park called Gethsemane. And he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” 33 And with him he took Peter, James and John, and he became very troubled. 34 And said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch.” (Be sober, be vigilant.) 35 And going a little further, he fell down upon the earth and prayed if it were possible, the hour might pass from him, 36 saying, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. But not my will, but your will be done.” 37 And he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour? 38 Watch and pray, the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” 39 And again he went a little distance and prayed, saying the same words. 40 And he returned and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy, and they didn’t know what to say to him in answer. 41 And he came the third time and said, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It’s enough. The hour is come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 42 Rise, let us be going, my betrayer is at hand.”

     [Sin/Hamartia - “missing the mark” {of Perfection, thus this entropy, this crucible/slow gehenna, imperfection. Because God iS Life, and “is Perfect” Mt.5:48. And therefore the ‘end’ result of all this, can only be the best one possible. And imperfect can never work.}]

     LUKE 22:39 (Luke was a Greek physician, not one of the twelve.) - And Jesus went as was his habit, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples were with him. 40 And when he came to the place, he said, “Pray that you not enter into temptation.” 41 And he went about a stone's throw away, and knelt down and prayed, 42 “Father, if you’re willing, take this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours.” 43 And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. 44 And being in torment he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling to the ground. 45 And when he rose from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping for they were very tired. 46 And he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Wake up and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

Tomorrows verses - Mark 14:43-53 or Luke 22:47-54

11-22 - 1 Corinthians 11 11-16

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☀️ [Answering questions sent in a letter continues.] 11 - Nevertheless, woman is not independent of man nor man of woman, including in the Lord! 12 As woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman! And all are from God. [Translators changed “all” to “all things” whenever it would work, in this verse and many more.] 13 Judge for yourselves - is it proper for a wife to pray to God with her head uncovered? 14 Does not nature {culture of the day?} itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him? {But we don’t know what was considered long or short.} 15 But if a woman has long hair, it is her glory. For her hair is given to her for a covering. 16 If anyone is inclined to be - contentious - we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God.

Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 11:17-22

Start the day with a Psalm (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150)

have a great day! ☀️🕊️