MATTHEW 3 1-10

  🍃🕊️12/29 - GospeL Verses 🍃🕊️

1 - In those days came John the Baptist. He was preaching [the “one crying out”] in the wilderness of Judea [Isaiah 40:3] saying, 2 “Repent! For the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” 3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the LORD, make his highway {in us} straight.’” {The message/word is not hidden, not secret.}

     4 Now John wore a garment of camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist, and he lived on locusts and wild honey. 5 Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region around the Jordan were going out to him 6 to be baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins [hamartia - missing the mark, from hamartanō to miss the mark]. {Imperfection which is entropy because God is Life and “is Perfect”. The slow gehenna that cannot be put out, worm that doesn’t quit.}

     7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned YOU to flee from the wrath to come?! 8 Bear fruit in keeping with repentance! 9 And don’t presume! Don’t say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones in the river! 10 Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees! Every tree therefore that doesn’t bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire! {This is, for some reason, thought to be a reference to ‘hell’ - that spiritual propaganda myth - is that where we pile dead trees and limbs? Into an eternal pit of neverending fire? I think it would be a bonfire.. This slow burn/gehenna flaring up.. Nothing to take lightly! Surely the ‘bonfire’ which (fiery) John the Baptist prophesied, occurred in 70 CE..? ..Prophecy is fulfilled in ‘micro’ and macro versions.. In ‘smaller’ scope, to full scope at the consummation of history and of mankind’s empires. It’s bad empires competing.. warring.. but far worse if they unite into one POWER. js. Two things going on - actually three, three gatherings. One, of all authority, two, to armageddon the siren call is division.. can contribute from afar as the chain reaction is global, Isaiah 24:20, Rev.10:4, over and out.. and number three, to the door in the ten bridesmaid’s parable which goes into “the” millennium” (Mt.25:1-13, Rev.7:9,4). Into serving, called reigning during Jesus’ long second advent, a full scope version of his first so brief one, which the second includes GWT judgment ‘day’. What I mean is, in the parable, the (still) tares are gathered to a bonfire.. the wheat into the barn. Rev.16:14-15-16.} {Another interesting 3 - 1Cor.15:22-28, don’t skim verses 27-28, what does it repeat 5 times? It’s 1Cor.15:22-24,28 with Mt.13:33, key word 3. Three harvests, barley, wheat, and “at the end when he/Christ hands the kingdom to the Father, all subjected”/reconciled.. “Behold! I make aLL new!” Rev.21:5, Great, overflowing grape harvest.}

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Tomorrows verses - Matthew 3:11-17

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1 Corinthians 16 8-14

  12/14 ~ From New Testament Letters

    🕊️ (In the Order Believed Written)

8 - I plan to stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, 9 for a wide door for effective work has opened, but there are many adversaries. 10 When Timothy comes, be sure to put him at ease among you, for he is doing the work of the Lord along with me here. 11 So let no one disregard him {because of his youth}. Help him on his way in peace, that he may return here to Ephesus, for I’m expecting him with the brothers.

     12 Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brothers, but it was not at all his will to come at this time. But he will come when he has opportunity.

     13 Be watchful! Stand firm in the faith! Be men, be strong! 14 And, let all that you do be done in love. {…Love, and we cannot be overly sensitive in this world. Nor concerning history. Which some do, misinterpreting Father God’s actions and ways in the Old Testament. Think! Think how bAd it can get. Imperfect is not only entropy, but it’s an abyss of potential. I have a new word, cannibaalism. I believe those God took out - and transplanted as into an untilled garden awaiting resurrection into GWT judgment and discernment ‘day’ an “aionion kolasin / eonian korrection / age of correction - will thank God for not letting them do more evil. So the flood, the wanted genocide of the Canaanites - who in their rites would beat a drum to drown out the screams of babies, and children? as they burned them alive to Baal-Molech  ..🤔 Is that the original gone rogue one? His dream, his fantasy after all has been that notorious fire.. first told in that so ancient and primordial spiritual propaganda myth.. Do you know there’s a verse that talks about God winning when he is judged during his day in court? ..I’ve felt the moment.. one of universal utter and complete awe struck and profound silence ..then a wave, a crescendo of universal praise..}

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Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 16:15-24

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