Be still, and know I am God

 🕊️🤍  I strongly believe in the benefit of times every day of stopping what we’re doing.. And seeking Him, Yahweh.. Sounds like a breath some say. He is Life. (We, humanity went astray, not him. Never him. If in creation there was no possible option to stray? That would be?)

     To stop, breathe, clear our mind and quiet our heart. “Be still, and know, I am God” (am life, perfection, all affection ..pure affection, fountain of life, peace and joy. Source of every good thing.)

     It’s come to my mind a number of times that there shall be a time.. a moment or so of universal stunned silence in awe of what God has done (created).. a universal moment of silent stillness.. “slain in the Spirit” every last being and creature..

     And we can have a prelude of that every day.

Is there unrest? It’s not in him. Here’s a bit of prophecy..? The mystical value of triple 6 .. carbon based humanity, man. With it’s atomic number of 6 because it has 6 protons. It also has 6 neutrons and 6 electrons. What might that riddle suggest? Suggests to me, what with the riddle showing up at the culmination of history, it suggests apocalypse and all before it - that it’s all man. All mankind’s doings. If I dared to, I would swear on a stack of bibles, that God’s “wrath” is cause and effect. Uh oh, a fav rabbit hole, prophecy..🤓 So many intriguing riddles..

 PART 2 

     So talking about the “wrath of God” how it’s cause and effect.. You know - it’s that he created a cause and effect universe, and it’s why he can claim it all, all judgment, as His. A part of the biG riddle. He is (surely?) first and foremost Life. And second, love. True and honest, and pure, love and affection. ..The more we want others to be happy, the closer to him we are being.

     What might this lead us to think about the bowls in the revelation vision? They would be the final results the vision calls God’s wrath, the consequences of whatever it is mankind has been up to, which led to it.. and actually, pretty much since humanity began. Which is the Armageddon battle? Yes? (Straying/imperfection can never work, and it’s an abyss of potential.) For what is written, is that Jesus returns “lest there be no survivors”.

     The wrath and some of the trumpets.. what does it all sound like? I also get the impression the bowls, “poured out quickly” are pretty much simultaneous..? What could it possibly be? A fiery lake at fiery armageddon.🤷🏼‍♀️ There’s three mentions of fiery lake/lake of fire.. Do you know “fat man and little boy” are in the vision? Rev.13:13, but it pinpointed an office, not yet(?) an individual. But the biggest part of this thread if the vision, we can’t see without understanding the vision’s told three times - 6:1-2 to 11:19; ch.12 w/mt.23:39; and 13:1 to 19:11, the three tellings meeting back up at the seventh trumpet.

     And, without knowing how the seals - being described at the beginning of the vision as their full and entire effects, first to very last - veils what they are, and skews the entire vision - everyone squeezing the vision into “7yrs only”. (Clue, seal 2 is Ps.2.) Considering this about the seals, now what jumps out if we read seal 6 - notorious number 6, man’s # - ch.6:12-17. And then read 7:1,3?

     There’s also this! Rev.16:13-16 is the gathering to Armageddon. Mt.13:30, the gathering of the tares (still wild weeds, not yet saved and submitted/enlightened) iS the gathering to Armageddon (12:17).. What? You thought it was God throwing living beings into fire to be burned up forever and ever? (Or for a while.) Whose fantasy might thAt be!? ..Sounds to me like he just might bring it about, but earthly of course (aionion - pertaining to the age). The two other mentions of “lake of fire” is at the adversary’s fiery, finaL defeat, Rev.20:7-10, and then some time later, at “the regeneration” - note: Jesus spoke the phrase “at the regeneration” - the greek word is “palin/again-genesis”. Third mention is at the fiery, universal palingenesis/ReGenesis, Rev.21:1-5, 2Pet.3:12-13.

     At the risk of boring you, 2Pet.3:10 and 12-13 - fiery bookends of the Lord’s long second advent?

     One more (important) very brief post (Dn.12:11-12 - Lk.19:41,44; 1Cor.3:16).

Zechariah 14

Condensed/Snipped & Paraphrased

     Behold, a day of Yahweh is coming ..spoil taken  ..2 Gathered will be all the nations against Jerusalem.. The city taken, houses plundered, women.. Half the people into exile.. 3 Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations.. 4 On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives ..and it will be split in two east to west into a wide valley, half the mountain moving northward, the other half southward. 5 And you will flee to the valley of mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.

     6 On that day there’ll be no light, no cold, or frost. 7 It will be a unique day known to the Lord, not day or night, but at evening there will be light. 8 ..living waters will flow out from Jerusalem, half to the east.. half to the west.. in summer as in winter. 9 And Yahweh will be king over all the earth. In that day.. his name will be renown.. 10 The whole land south of Jerusalem will be turned into a plain ..but Jerusalem will remain ..on its site from Gate of Benjamin to the former and the Corner Gate.. 11 And it shall be inhabited, for there shall never again be any curse of destruction. Jerusalem will dwell in security. 12 And this will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the people that wage war against Jerusalem (he claims what occurs because it was he who created a cause and effect universe) they will dissolve while they are still standing..  13 And on that day a great panic from Yahweh ..the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other. (Is.24:20?) 14 Even Judah will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, garments in great abundance. 15 And a plague like this plague shall fall on whatever beasts may be in those camps.

     16 Then everyone who SURVIVES (mortally) of all those nations will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts (Yahweh) and to keep the Feast of Booths/Tabernacles. 17 And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on their land. ..as a plague with which the Lord afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths. ..20 And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “Holy to Yahweh.” And the pots in the house of the LORD shall be as the bowls before the altar. 21 And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be sacred (everything sacred?) so all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the meat of the sacrifice in them. And there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the LORD of hosts on that day.

     (The lion not yet eating straw like the ox.. etc.)

PROPHETS - Isaiah Parts 1- 4

Part 4 — 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.”)

     2:1 This 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 in the highest mountains and exalted above the hills, and all nations will flow to it. 3 Many people will come and say, “Come! Let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh to the house of the God of Jacob, and 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 (or 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 (the V plows that are pulled by horses) and their spears into gardening tools. [This is repeated in Micah 4:3.] 5 House of Jacob [Yaaqob - a son of Isaac, from “aqeb - heel, footprint” (named because Jacob during birth grabbed his twin brother Esau’s ankle)]. Come let us walk in the light of Yahweh.

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     6 ..They are full of superstition from the East, they practice divination like the Philistines. They strike a bargain with foreigners. 7 Their land is full of silver and gold, with no end to their treasures. The land is full of horses ..and chariots. 8 The land is full of idols, they bow to the work of their own hands. 9 So man will be brought low and humbled. [From] 10-22 Go into the rocks, hide underground, from fear of Yahweh and the splendor of his majesty.  ..arrogance..pride.. brought low.  For the day of Yahweh comes upon all that is proud, lofty and lifted up, and it will brought low..  All the high hills, every lofty tower, every fortified wall, every trading ship, every stately vessel. The arrogance of man will be brought low, and the pride of man humbled. The LORD alone will be exalted.. the idols will disappear. Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground from fear and dread of the glory of his majesty when he arises to shake mightily the Earth. (When things go terribly bad. GOD created a cause and effect universe.) …Cease to trust in man who’s breath is in his nostrils..

Part 3

1:21 - How the faithful city has become a prostitute. Her streets used to be full of righteousness and justice, but now murderers lodge in her. (So tell me history doesn’t repeat, thus prophecy. Story of every city.)  [Think of prophecy as prophecy. Not a curse being proclaimed.]  22 The value of your silver/money has fallen away.. 25 But I will turn my hand upon you and purge away your dross. 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. (Cross reference - 2Pet.3:10, 2Thes.1:7-8, a first mention of a lake of fire. 🤔Order, crash, fiery event, a seal six event, but what the seal is, is veiled by its description as its entire effects, first to very last.) 30 You will be like an oak tree whose leaves have faded, like a garden with no water.. [In the prophets, usually the order is, the path of destruction pointed out, that the city, the people are on, and what will occur if the way isn’t changed - prophecy, cause and effect, not a curse - followed by verses about restoration, reconciliation and blessing. Rescue! Through a Messiah, and “savior of the world”.] (God’s other option? To avoid such calamity? A robotic ant farm?)

Part 2

1:3 The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger/trough, but Israel (and humanity) does not know, my people do not understand.” (And any nation, especially its leaders, though separated (“set apart”) to birth the Messiah/Savior would have also rejected him when he showed up humble, homeless, and threatening of their worldly status.) 4 ..They have forsaken ..turned their backs.. and (thus?) sinful they are. 5 ..The whole head is sick and the whole heart is faint. 6 From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness/battered from head to foot— only bruises, wounds, and sores, not cleansed, bandaged or soothed with olive oil. 7 Your country lies in ruins, and your towns are burned. Foreigners plunder your fields before your eyes as overthrown by strangers. 8 Beautiful Jerusalem stands 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 sacred meeting.. 14 the new moon feasts, the holy day festivals.. a burden to me.. 15 Your hands are full of blood, I do not 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. And accordingly has spoken the LORD. 

Part 1

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 verse.) 2 The LORD (God) has said, "Listen, oh heaven and earth! The children I raised have turned against me. (Israel is the micro, global is the macro.)

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(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

10-26 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Lk-21 1Cor-2

     𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

          Luke 21:20-24

20 “When you see Jerusalem encircled by armies [stratopedon - military camps, armies] know her desolation is imminent. 21 Then those who are in Judea, flee to the mountains, and those in the city, let them depart out, and those in the countryside, do not go into the city. 22 For it is a day of judgment, the things written must occur. 23 Woe to those with child or nursing little ones, for there will be great force and wrath upon the people of this land. 24 Condemned by mouth and sword, they will be led captive into all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the nations, until the time of the gentiles/nations is completed [pleroo].

The Question of Israel

     Ezekiel 28:25,26 - This is what the Sovereign LORD God says: The people of Israel will again live in their own land, the land I gave my servant Jacob. For I will gather them from the distant lands where I have scattered them and I will show myself holy in them in the sight of the nations. I will execute judgments upon those around them who despise them. Then they will remain securely, and they will know that I am Yahweh their God.                 

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From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

     ~ 1 Corinthians 2:7-16 ~

7 The wisdom we are talking about is God’s mystery—his hidden plan (of rescue and sealing) (for eden, within thus without) which was pre-ordained [proorízō - root - horízō, pro/before - pre horizon - predetermined, foreordained, designed beforehand (in the blueprint)] before the ages, for our glory/value [doksa - inherent, intrinsic worth]. 8 Which the rulers and leaders of this age did not understand, or they would not have crucified (roman executed) the Lord of all glory. (If they’d known it would build up the people, more than if they’d left Jesus alone.) 9 But as it is written, “no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no heart can comprehend what God has prepared/made ready for those who love him!” 10 To us however it has been revealed! Revealed by God, Spirit to spirit(?) for (it’s) the spirit (that) searches all things, even the very depths of God. 11 Who knows the things of a person but the spirit of their self that is in them. And so it is with God, no one knows the things of God, but his own spirit. 12 We believers (followers) no longer have the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we may know what God has given abundantly/freely to us. 13 And so we do not speak in the words of human, wisdom teachings (like so popular with Greek philosophies) but that which is taught by the Spirit/Presence of God - spiritual things by spiritual means of communication. (The quiet voice of the heart? Day to day instruction/learning, consistently *building upon* what he teaches/uncovers.) 14 The natural man/anthropos however does not accept the things of the Spirit (of God) for they are not understood, because they are discerned by the (born again) spirit. 15 Whoever is spiritual [pneumatikos - spiritual, root (so whoever is of) pneuma - wind, breath, spirit] is able to judge/discern all things. But no one can judge them. 16 Who recognizes the mind of the LORD [Kýrios – properly, a person exercising absolute ownership rights, lord] that they could instruct Him!? We however, have the mind of Christ. (Jesus should be the biggest influence upon us / in us.)

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🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

Mark 13:19-23

1 Corinthians 3:1-6

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𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 14:1-28 ✔️

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 15:1-8 ✔️

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Isaiah part 1, 2, 3 ✔️

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I Was A Rebel Today

Didn't have morning quiet time, for reading, prayer and praise. Went straight to the television and watched an episode and a half of a series about time travel back into history.

I love history, found myself praying for folks in history, and present.. For their challenges, their sufferings.. Felt like the Lord was sweeping me some tiny bit through history. Which is my vision (imagination) of 'Day' of Judgment. What a panorama that will be! And no, I don't think Yahweh Lord God will be quite as impotent as we have been led to think.

I think perhaps the Lord is pouring forth a spirit of rebellion. Rebellion against all things not truth!

Peace! And God bless! hagd!