The Glory of God

inIsaiah 1-26

‘Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are as scarlet, they will be as white as snow. Isaiah 1:18

Hear, O heavens, and earth: for the Lord says, I have nourished and brought up children, but they have rebelled against me.Isaiah 1:2

‘You are gods; and all of you are children of the Most High.’ Psalm 82:6

The greatest honor in the universe, made in the image of the Almighty Creator, Maker of heaven and earth.

The majesty and splendor of creation is His lavish invitation for all to seek Him

and receive His gifts of love.

‘They have forsaken the Lord,

the fountain of living waters.’ Jeremiah 17:3

‘I will purely cleanse away what is worthless in you

and restore as you were at first

(made in the image of God.’ Genesis 1:27)

‘Now you are clean through the word which

I have spoken to you.’ John 15:3

‘The words I speak to you, they are spirit,

and they are life.’ John 6:63

‘In the last days the mountain of the Lord's house

will be established in the top of the mountains

and all nations will flow unto it.

Many people will say, Come, and let’s go up the mountain to the house of God,

and He will teach His ways,

and we will walk in His paths.

He will judge among the nations

and rebuke many people:

and they will beat their swords into plowshares,

and their spears into pruninghooks

and won’t learn war anymore.

Enter into the rock and hide in the dust,

for fear of the Lord,

and for the Glory of His majesty.

Mankind will be humbled

whose doings are against the Lord,

who rebel against ‘seeing His Glory.’

Isaiah 3:8

‘The Lord alone will be exalted in that day.’

Isaiah 2:10, 11

‘The Lord will be beautiful and glorious,

and the fruit of the earth will be excellent and beautiful.

The Lord will create ‘on every dwelling a cloud by day, and the brightness of fire by night:

for on all the Glory will be a defense.’

Isaiah 4:5

‘I will be a wall of fire surrounding her

and will be the Glory in the midst of her.’

Zechariah 2:5

My well Beloved has a vineyard

in a very fruitful hill: He fenced it, and cleared it,

and planted it with the choicest vine,

He built a tower and made a winepress.

He watched for it to bring forth grapes,

and it brought forth poison berries.

My people are gone into captivity

because they have no knowledge:

The eyes of the mighty and lofty will be humbled.

But the Lord of hosts will be exalted in judgment,

and God that is holy will be sanctified in righteousness. Isaiah 5:15,16

The One who never did one wrong thing, ever.

But made everything beautiful and wonderful,

and is restoring it perfectly,

never to be ruined again.

Those that call evil good, and good evil,

and dark light, and bitter, sweet, and pain pleasure,

bring on themselves cries of grief.

The flame consumes the chaff,

for they despised the word

of the Holy One of Israel.

In the year that king Uzziah died

I saw also the Lord sitting on a throne,

high and exalted,

and the hem of His robe filled the temple.

Seraphims (awesome six-winged angels of light)

hover above His throne, saying,

Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts:

the whole earth is full of His glory.

Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself;

and let him be your fear, let him be your dread.

And He will be a sanctuary;

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:

and the government will be on His shoulder:

and His name will be called Wonderful,

Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Of the increase of His government and peace

there will be no end,

to establish it with judgment and justice

from now on to ages without end.

Isaiah 9:6, 7

Disasters come so people will set their hearts on the Lord, the Holy One in truth.

A rod will come out of the stem of Jesse (David),

and a Branch will grow out of his roots (Jesus):

The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him,

the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,

the Spirit of counsel and might,

the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.

He will reign in righteousness and faithfulness.

The wolf will dwell with the lamb,

and the calf with the young lion,

and a little child will lead them.

Nothing will hurt or destroy

in all my holy mountain:

for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord,

as the waters cover the sea.

The nations will seek Him

and His rest will be glorious.

The Lord is our strength, our song;

with joy we will draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Show how exalted He is

in His excellent doings.

I will punish the world for their evil

and lay low their pride.

The Lord will give us rest from our sorrow,

and hard bondage.

The whole earth is at rest and is quiet:

they break forth into singing.

From the farthest part of the earth we hear songs:

glory to the righteous.

O Lord, You are my God;

I will exalt You

I will praise Your name;

for You have done wonderful things;

Your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

Isaiah 25:1

And in this mountain the Lord will make

to all people a feast of fat things,

of wines well refined.

He will swallow up death in victory

and will wipe away tears from all faces.

You will keep him in perfect peace,

whose mind is stayed on You

because he trusts in You.

In the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.

Lord, You will ordain peace for us

You also have worked all our works in us.

Your dead men will live,

together with my dead body they will rise.

Awake and sing, for the earth will cast out her dead. Isaiah 26:19

‘The hour is coming, and now is,

when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God:

and they that hear will live.’ John 5:25

Not our earthly life, but His heavenly one.

‘Who forgives all our sins; who heals all our diseases;

who crowns us with His love:’

Psalm 103:2-5

A love so deep that He sent

His infinitely precious Son to ‘die in our place

for our every sin, on the cross,

making us holy as He is.,’

Holy, harmless undefiled, separate from sinners,

higher than the heavens,

giving us that perfect life in place of our sinful one.

‘I in them and You in Me

that they become One in us.’ John 17:23

Filled with all the fullness of God.’ Ephesians 3:19

The Glory of God

in Isaiah ii 27-

In that day sing to her, A vineyard of red wine. I, the Lord guard it; I water it every moment: so none hurt it, I will guard it night and day.

All against Me in battle, I will burn them together: or let them take hold of My strength and make peace with Me. I will cause them to blossom and bud and fill the world with fruit.

In that day many outcasts from the nations will come worship the Lord in the holy mountain.

The crown of pride will be cast down and trampled. And the Lord will be our crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty. I lay in Zion a foundation a stone, a precious corner Stone, a sure foundation: he that believes will not hurry.

Hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overflow their hiding places.

This people draw near Me with their words, but their heart far from Me, and teach about Me by the precept of men(not My words).

Behold, I will do a marvelous work among this people, and a wonder.

Then the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of darkness.

The humble will increase their joy in the Lord and rejoice in the Holy One.

For the ones who terrorize with be brought to nothing.

When My people see their children, the work of My hands, they will sanctify My name.

Those that erred in spirit will come to understanding, and they that murmured will learn doctrine.

Cries of grief to the rebellious children that take counsel but not from Me,

that cover with a covering, but not of My spirit, that add sin to sin. The ones they lean on will become their shame because they can’t profit them.

Their strength is to sit still.

Those that trust in other things will be shattered quickly like a broken pot.

For the Holy Lord says,

In returning and rest you will be saved;

in quietness and in confidence will be your strength.

So, the Lord wait that He may be gracious to you, and be exalted, to have mercy on you:

For the Lord is a God of justice: blessed are all they that wait for him.

You will weep no more: He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry, and He will answer.

You will destroy your idols and He will give rain and abundant crops. Your livestock will feed in large pastures.

On every high mountain and hill, will be rivers and streams.

He is sifting the nations with the sieve of vanity (emptiness).

The Lord will cause His glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of His arm with His anger: a devouring fire, tempest, and hailstones.

Hell is ordained of old, prepared for evil.

The breath of the Lord like a stream of brimstone kindles it. Other helpers are men and not God. Turn back to Him.

Behold, a King will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in judgment.

The palaces will be abandoned and the cities emptied until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high.

Then the wilderness will be a fruitful field. Judgment will dwell in the wilderness,

and righteousness in the fruitful field.

And the work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever.

My people will dwell safely in quiet resting places.

Your eyes will see the king in His beauty: The glorious Lord will be to us a place of broad rivers and streams. The Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; He will save us.

The desert will rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

They will see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.

The king of Assyria came with vast armies terrorizing. Hezekiah took his threats before the Lord who said to that king, Didn’t you hear heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have planned for you to conquer these cities because they turned away from Me?

I know all you are doing. I will turn you back the way you came. I know your dwelling, and comings and goings, and your rage against me.

The Lord told Hezekiah, I will defend this city and save it for My own sake.

Then the angel of the Lord struck in the camp of the Assyrians 185,000. When they rose in the morning, they were all dead corpses.

Comfort all My people, says your God. Your battles are over.

Every valley will be raised, and every mountain and hill made low: the crooked will be made straight, and the rough places made smooth.

And the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all flesh will see it together.

The grass withers, the flower fades but the word of our God will stand for ever.

Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand and rule.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd and gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.

Who measured the waters in the hollow of His hand and measured the heaven with the span of His hand.

He that sits on the circle of the earth and stretches out the heavens as a curtain.

Lift up your eyes and tell Me who created these and calls them all by names. By His great strength, not one fails.

Don’t you know that the everlasting God, the Lord, doesn’t get tired. There is no searching of His understanding.

He gives power to the faint;

young men get weary and fall:

but they that wait on the Lord

will renew their strength.

They will mount up with wings as eagles;

they will run and not be weary;

they will walk, and not faint.

Keep silence before me, O islands;

and let the people renew their strength:

let them come near;

Who has called forth the generations

from the beginning?

I the Lord, the first, and with the last;

I am He.

Don’t be afraid; I’m with you:

I will strengthen and help you.

Isaiah iii

All that fight against you will perish.

You will scatter them as the whirlwind and rejoice

and glory in the Holy One.

Behold My servant, whom I uphold,

in whom My soul delights.

I have put my spirit on him: He will bring

justice to the nations.

He won’t fail or be discouraged; He will set

justice in the earth:

the islands will wait for His law.

The Lord who created the heavens, and stretched them out, He that spread forth the earth, and what comes out of it, and gives breath to the people on it,

I, the Lord have called you in righteousness,

and will hold your hand, and guard You,

and give you for a covenant of the people,

for a light of the nations;

To open the blind eyes, to bring out those unjustly imprisoned, and those that sit in darkness.

I am the Lord: that is My name:

and I will not give My glory to another

or praise carved images.

You are precious in My sight,

you have been honorable,

and I have loved you.

Every one that is called by My name

I have created for my glory.

I am the Lord;

and beside Me there is no Savior.

None that can deliver out of my hand, says the Lord,

your Redeemer.

I am the Lord, your Holy One, your Creator, your King who makes a way in the sea, and a path

in the mighty waters

I formed you from the womb

and will help you.

I am the first, and I am the last;

and beside me there is no God.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud,

your transgressions, and sins:

return unto me; for I have redeemed you.

Sing, O heavens; for the Lord has done it. Sing, O mountains, forest, and every tree: for the Lord has redeemed and glorified Himself in us.

He that formed you from the womb,

I am the Lord that makes all things,

Who reveals liars and makes them foolish.

I will go before you

and make the crooked places straight.

I will give you the hidden treasures

riches in secret places

that you may know that I am the Lord.

That they may know from the rising of the sun,

and from the west,

I am the Lord, and there is no other.

I form the light, and create darkness:

I make peace, and create evil:

I the Lord do all these things.

Let the skies pour down righteousness:

let the earth bring salvation.

I, the Lord, have created it.

Grief to him that strives with his Maker!

Shall the clay say to the potter, What are you making?

I have made the earth,

and created man on it:

My hands, have stretched out the heavens,

and all their host.

You will be saved in the Lord

with an everlasting salvation.

You will not be ashamed or confused

world without end.

I declare things that are right.

Look to me, and be saved,

all the ends of the earth: for I am God,

and there is no other.

Isaiah 45:22

In the Lord we have righteousness and strength.

They exhaust their animals

carrying their worthless idols.

But I carry you from the womb to the grave.

All that are incensed against Him

will be ashamed.

In the Lord all are justified

and will glory.

Isaiah 45:24

My hand laid the foundation of the earth

and spanned the heavens.

I call and they stand up together.

I teach you to profit

and lead you the way you should go.

If you listen to Me

your peace will be like a river

and your righteousness as the waves of the sea.

Your seed also will be as many as the sand.

The Lord caused water to flow for them out of the rock.

He split the rock and waters gushed out.

Kings will see and arise,

princes will worship

because of the Lord

who is faithful, the Holy One:

and He will choose you.

You will not hunger or thirst

or be struck by the sun for

He will guide you by springs of water.

I will not forget you.

Behold, for your iniquities you sold yourselves.

Why did no one answer when I called?

Don’t I have enough power to deliver?

The Lord God gave Me

to speak a word in season to him that is weary:

He awakens Me to hear.

For the Lord God will help me;

I know that I shall not be ashamed.

Isaiah 50:7

He is near that justifies me;

whoever walks in darkness,

let him trust the Lord,

and lean on God.

The Lord will comfort the wasted places

and make her wilderness like Eden:

joy, thanksgiving, and melody.

Heaven and earth will vanish,

but My salvation will be forever.

The redeemed of the Lord will return with singing

and everlasting joy will be on their head.

Sorrow and mourning will flee away.

I am He that comforts you.

Don’t fear man who withers like the grass

and forget the Lord your Maker,

who stretched out the heavens,

and laid the foundations of the earth.

I have put My words in your mouth,

and I covered you

in the shadow of My hand.

How beautiful on the mountains

are the feet of him that brings good news

of peace and salvation,

saying, Your God reigns!

All the ends of the earth will see

the salvation of our God.

Our God Reigns

The Glory of God

in Isaiah iv

The Lord will go before you and be your rear guard. Isaiah 52:12

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My servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted

and extolled, and be very high,

who will cleanse the nations.

He is despised and rejected of men;

a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;

and we didn’t honor Him.

Surely, He has borne our griefs/pains

and carried our sorrows/sicknesses.

He was wounded for our transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities.

The punishment for our peace was on Him

and with His wounds we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray;

we have turned everyone to his own way;

and the Lord has laid on Him

the iniquity of us all.

His soul was an offering for our sin;

the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.

My righteous servant will justify many

for He will bear their iniquities,

make intercession for the transgressors.

Isaiah 53

You will forget your shame

for your Maker is your husband,

the Holy One,

the God of the whole earth.

For a small moment have I forsaken you;

but with great mercies I will gather you.

In a little wrath I hid My face

but with everlasting kindness I will

have mercy on you,

says the Lord your Redeemer.

As I have sworn that the waters of Noah

will never go over the earth again;

so have I sworn that

I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.

For the mountains will depart,

and the hills be removed;

but My grace/faithful love

will not depart from you.

I will lay your stones with beautiful colors

and your foundations with sapphires.

And all your children will be taught by the Lord

and their peace will be great.

You will be established in righteousness

and you will be far from oppression and fear.

No weapon that is formed against you will prosper

and you will condemn any that rise against you.

This is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord,

and their righteousness is from Me.

Everyone thirsty come to the waters,

and those with no money,

Come! buy and eat;

buy wine and milk without money and without cost.

Why spend money for that which is not food?

Hear Me diligently and you will eat what is good,

and soul delight in abundance of best things.

Hear Me and live;

and I will make an everlasting covenant with you.

Nations will run to you

for the Holy One has glorified you.

Seek the Lord;

call on Him while He is near,

for He will abundantly pardon.

For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

and My ways are not your ways.

As the heavens are higher than the earth,

so are My ways higher than your ways,

and My thoughts than your thoughts.

As the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,

and waters the earth, to make food,

so My word does not return to Me empty,

but does what I please.

You will go out with joy and be led with peace:

the mountains and the hills shall break into singing,

and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

Instead thorns the fir tree will grow.

Instead of briers will be the myrtle tree

for a sign of the everlasting covenant.

Blessed is the man that keeps his hand

from doing any evil.

And foreigners that join themselves to the Lord.

I will bring them to My holy mountain,

and make them joyful in My house of prayer

for My house will be a house of prayer

for all people.

He that puts his trust in Me

will possess the land

and inherit My holy mountain.

For the high and lofty One

that inhabits eternity,

whose name is Holy, says,

I dwell in the high and holy place,

with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit,

to revive them.

I create the fruit of the lips;

Peace, peace to him that is far off,

and to him that is near, says the Lord;

and I will heal him. Isaiah 57

The Lord will guide you continually

and satisfy your soul

and you will be like a watered garden.

You will delight in the Lord;

and I will make you ride

on the high places of the earth.

Your iniquities have separated

between you and your God.

Arise, shine; for your light has come,

and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.

I will glorify the house of My glory.

Your gates will be open continually.

The nation and kingdom

that will not serve you will perish.

I will make the place of My feet glorious.

I will make you an eternal excellency,

a joy of many generations.

There will be no more violence

or destruction within your borders.

The sun and moon will no longer be your light,

but the Lord will be to you an everlasting light,

and your God your glory.

Your people will all be righteous.

They will inherit the land forever,

the branch of My planting,

the work of My hands,

that I may be glorified.

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me;

because the Lord has anointed Me

to preach this astounding news to the humble.

He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,

to set the captives free.

To comfort all that mourn.

Everlasting joy will be to them.

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord.

My soul will be joyful in my God.

He has covered me with the robe of righteousness

as a bridegroom adorns himself with ornaments,

and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

You will be a crown of glory

in the hand of the Lord,

and a royal diadem in the hand of your God:

for the Lord delights in you,

and your land will be married.

As the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,

so your God will rejoice over you.

In all their affliction He was afflicted,

and the angel of His presence saved them:

in His love and passion He redeemed them

and carried them all the days of old.

But now, O Lord, You are our father;

we are the clay, and You our potter;

we all are the work of Your hand.

For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth:

and the former will not be remembered,

or come into mind.

You will joy and rejoice forever in what I create.

Before they call, I will answer;

and while they are still speaking, I will hear.

The wolf and the lamb will feed together,

the lion will eat straw like the ox.

They won’t hurt or destroy

in all My holy mountain, says the Lord.

The heaven is My throne,

and the earth is My footstool:

where is the house that you build for Me?

Where is the place of my rest?

For all these things My hand has made.

He will appear to your joy.

For I will extend peace like a river,

and glory like a flowing stream,

for I comfort you.

The Lord will come with fire,

and with His chariots like a whirlwind:

His rebuke with flames of fire.

By fire and His sword

the Lord will plead with all flesh.

After that, they will come and see My glory.

The new heavens and the new earth I create

will remain before Me.

All flesh will come to worship before Me,

says the Lord.

O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness:

fear before Him, all the earth.

Psalm 96:9

The whole earth is full

of His glory

The Glory of God

in Jeremiah

I set you over nations

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Before I formed you, I knew you; and sanctified you, and I ordained you a prophet to the nations.

I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, to pull down, to destroy,

to build, and to plant.

O Lord, I am still a child. I can’t speak.

Then the Lord touched my mouth and said to me,

Behold, I have put My words in mouth.

Don’t be afraid of their faces: for I am with you

to deliver you, says the Lord.

I will raise up against Babylon a destroying wind

to utterly destroy all her army.

Since the fall, our Almighty heavenly Father

has been at war against evil.

For Israel is not forsaken by his God,

the Lord of hosts (countless mighty angels of heaven) though their land was filled with sin

against the Holy One.

They weren’t valiant for the truth in the earth.

They proceed from evil to evil

and they do not know Me, says the Lord.

They exalted themselves against the Lord.

If you aren’t for Me you are against Me,

Jesus said in Matthew 12:30.

All who are against Him

should submit to Him and live forever.

Kiss the Son, so He won’t be angry,

and you perish from the way,

when His wrath is kindled just a little.

Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him.

Psalm 2:12

But still, I will return the captives in the latter days.

Flee, save your life, don’t be cut off in her iniquity

for this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance

(stopping their evil) after many years of His ‘longsuffering, not willing that any perish. 2 Peter 3:9

His warnings are from His fierce and mighty love,

sent out for all to turn back to Him,

so His justice doesn’t have to bring on their heads

‘the fruit of their own doings,’

Those who continue to choose violence as their solution instead of peace will,

after repeated warnings

receive back fair and right violence on themselves.

What you have done will be done to you,

This is from His fierce and mighty love

for it stops all the suffering caused by heir evil.

Be astonished, O heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid; for My people have committed two evils;

they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters,

and carved them out cisterns, broken cisterns,

that can’t hold water.

Your own wickedness will correct you.

Know and see that it is an evil and bitter thing

that you have forsaken the Lord your God,

and that you don’t fear Me, says the Lord God of hosts.

Turn, O backsliding children, says the Lord;

for I am married to you: Jer 3:14

Won’t you tremble at My Presence,

Who have placed the sand for the boundary of the sea: though the waves toss themselves,

they can’t prevail;

though they roar, they can’t pass over it? Jeremiah 5:22

Let him that boasts glory in this,

, that I am the Lord who is lovingkindness, justice,

and righteousness, in the earth:

for in these things I delight, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:24

O Lord of countless armies of beautiful angels of light

in heaven, You judge rightly,

You test the emotions and the heart.

Jeremiah 11:20

Cursed be the man that trusts in man,

and makes flesh his arm,

whose heart departs from the Lord.

He will be like a dry bush in the desert,

and won’t see when good comes;

but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,

in a salt land and that can’t be lived in.

Blessed is the man that trusts in the Lord,

and whose hope the Lord is:

he will be as a tree planted by the waters,

and that spreads out her roots by the river,

and will not see when heat comes,

but her leaf will be green

and will flourish during drought.

The heart is deceitful above all things,

and desperately wicked: who can know it?

I, the Lord, search the heart,

I test the innermost being,

give every man according to his ways,

and according to the fruit of his doings.

I heal all who are willing.

But evil receives judgment that reaches to heaven:

the vengeance for My temple.

You that dwell by many waters,

abundant in treasures, your time has come.

He made the earth by His power;

He established the world by His wisdom;

and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

He brings the wind out of His treasury.

Idols are lies.

There is no breath in them.

But the Lord is the Maker of all things.

To those who mistreat His people He says,

If you have done it to one of the least of these, My brothers, you have done it to me.’

Matthew 25:40

From His Love, He is destroying the evil that destroys the infinitely precious and beautiful life

He created for all to live forever

‘My word will surely stand.’

Jeremiah 44:29

‘Heaven and earth will pass away

but My word will not pass away.’ Matthew 24:35

Eternal

The Glory of God

in Jeremiah ii, Lamentations

Blessed is the man

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Blessed, gloriously happy, is the one that trusts in the Lord. He/she will be as a tree planted by the waters

whose leaf will stay green and always yield fruit.

Jeremiah 17:7,8

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:

who can know it?

I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the inner person

to give each one the fruit of their doings.

A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. Jeremiah 17:12

All that forsake You have forsaken the fountain of living waters. Jeremiah 2:13

‘Whoever drinks of the water that I give will never thirst; but the water that I give will be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.’ John 4:14

Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand.

What I say against a nation, if they return to Me,

I will turn from what I thought to do to them.

Because My people have forgotten Me,

I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy.

Jeremiah 18:17

When people plotted against Jeremiah he said,

But the Lord is with me as a mighty awesome One:

therefore, my persecutors will stumble;

they won’t prevail. They will be greatly ashamed.

Sing to the Lord, praise the Lord:

for He has delivered the soul of the poor

from the hand of evildoers.

I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

Do justice in the morning

and deliver him that is plundered

out of the hand of the oppressor,

so My fury won’t and burn

with unquenchable fire

because of the evil of your doings.

Cries of grief to the pastors that destroy a

and scatter the sheep of My pasture! says

says the Lord. I will set up shepherds over My flock

who will feed them:

and they won’t be afraid or lacking anymore.

I will raise a King who reigns justly in the earth.

He will be called, The Lord Our Righteousness.

Jeremiah 23:4, 6

A whirlwind of the Lord is gone out

that will fall on the wicked.

Can any hide from Me:

Do not I fill heaven and earth?

Then I will give them a heart to know Me,

I am the Lord.

I will discipline you justly.

I will not leave you empty, impure.

I will restore health to you. Jeremiah 30:17

I will be the God of all the families of Israel,

and they will be My people.

The people who were left of the sword

found grace in the wilderness

when I went to cause him to rest.

I have loved you with an everlasting love.

Jeremiah 31:3

I will build you

and you will go dancing and celebrating.

They will flow together to the goodness of the Lord,

for wheat, and for wine, and for oil,

and for the young of the flock and of the herd:

and their soul will be as a watered garden;

and they won’t sorrow any more at all.

I will turn their mourning into joy,

and will comfort them,

and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

All will know me, I will forgive their iniquity,

and I will remember their sin no more,

says the Lord who gives the sun for a light by day,

and the moon and stars for a light by night,

who divides the sea when its waves roar.

I will make an everlasting covenant with them,

that I will not turn away from them,

to do them good;

I will put my fear in their hearts,

so they won’t depart from Me.

I will rejoice over them to do them good,

and I will plant them in this land

with My whole heart and with My whole soul.

The Book of Lamentations

The city sits alone that was full of people!

She has become as a widow! She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces is forced into labor!

She weeps sore in the night,

and her tears are on her cheeks:

among all her lovers she hats none to comfort her:

all her friends have dealt treacherously with her,

they are become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:1, 2

The Lord has afflicted her

for the multitude of her transgressions.

The Lord has pushed aside His altar.

He has rejected His sanctuary,

Lamentations 2:7

What can I compare you to

so that I may comfort you?

For your breach is great like the sea:

who can heal you?

Your prophets have seen vain and foolish things for you:

They haven’t revealed your iniquity,

to turn back your captivity to the Perfection of Beauty,

the Joy of the whole earth.

Lamentations 2:13-15

The Lord will not cast off forever:

For whom the Lord loves He corrects.

Hebrews 12:6

Though He causes grief He will still have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.

He doesn’t afflict or willingly grieve the children of men. Lamentations 3:31-33

Let us search our ways and turn again to the Lord.

Let us lift our heart to God in the heavens.

Lamentations 3:39-41

The Lord is righteous;

for I have rebelled against

His commandment.

Lamentations 1:18

My soul remembers and is humbled.

This I recall to my mind, therefore I have I hope.

It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed,

because his compassions don’t fail.

They are new every morning:

great is Your faithfulness.

Jeremiah prophesied for over 40 years,

through the reign of five kings,

faithfully telling the nations what God said,

His glory, and love,

and warnings so they might be saved

and sit with Him on His throne ages without end.

Joy of the whole earth

The Glory of God

in Ezekiel

I saw visions of God

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In the 39th year of Israel’s exile

as I was among the captives

by the river of Chebar, the heavens opened,

and I saw visions of God.

I saw four cherubs, awesome four-winged beings of light,

and above the expanse over their heads

was a sapphire throne.

And on it sat a man of fiery amber

flashing forth rainbows.

This was the glory of the Lord.

His Spirit entered me when He spoke,

I am sending you to My rebellious nation,

Receive all the words that I speak in your heart.

Take a tile and draw Jerusalem on it

and set a battle with battering rams surrounding it

as a sign of judgment coming,

if they don’t turn back to Me.

Say, I have set you the center of nations,

but you changed My judgments to wickedness.

I will destroy your altars

and images because you are leading everyone

to eternal death.

I am broken with their whorish heart,

which departed from me.

In the 6th year, in the 6th month

the Spirit lifted me up and brought me Jerusalem.

He said, See what great abominations they are doing here?

70 elders were burning incense to every creeping thing,

another 25 facing east worshipping the sun.

‘And they have filled the land with violence.’

He called His heavenly ones

in charge of the city to come near.

Six men came with weapons and one among them

with a writer's inkhorn by his side.

They stood beside the bronze altar.

The glory of the God of Israel

said to the man with the inkhorn,

Go and mark the foreheads of the men that sigh

and that cry for all the abominations that are done here.

The rest of you go after him and slay with no pity.

But don’t come near any with the mark.

Then He said to me,

Their iniquity is exceeding great.

The land is full of blood and perverseness:

I only put their way back on their own heads.

I looked and saw the court fill with

the brightness of the Lord's glory.

‘After I have scattered them among the countries,

I will be to them a little sanctuary where they are.

Then ‘I will gather you from the people

and return you to the land of Israel.’

And they will come and take away all the detestable things.

I will give them one heart,

and I will put a new Spirit within you

so you will walk in my ways and be My people.

Then certain of the elders came to me.

The Lord said, These men have set up idols in their heart,

I won’t answer them.

They are estranged from Me through their idols.

I am against them. ‘

Turn away from these abominations

or I will cut you off;

and you will know that I am the Lord. I am God.’

I control everything, not them.

Don’t stray from Me and be polluted

by transgressions or I will send my four terrible judgments:

the sword, famine, and devouring animals, and disease,

but I will leave a few there

and you will see their doings, and be comforted,

and know that I had just cause to bring these things on them. Ezekiel 14:21

To His beloved the Lord says,

You were born of the least noble on earth (us since the fall)

and cast out to die when born,

your cord not even being cut.

I passed by and saw you trampled in your own blood,

I said to Live! Yes! Live!

I raised you and you became very beautiful.

When I saw it was your time for love,

I entered a covenant with you, and you became Mine.

I clothed you with fine linen

and silk and beautiful jewels.

But you trusted in your own beauty

and played the harlot

and gave yourself to everyone that passed by.

You became worse than the worst harlot.

But I will remember My covenant with you.

I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

You will remember your ways and be ashamed,

and never turn away from Me again.

Turn from wickedness and live.

I brought them from slavery in Egypt

to the glory of all lands,

(and ‘to sit with Him on His throne to ages without end.)

I will purge out from among you the rebels,

Cries of grief to the shepherds that feed themselves

and not My flock.

You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with their wool

but don’t feed them or strengthen the diseased

or heal the sick or bind up the broken.

You drive them away and don’t seek the lost

rule them with force and cruelty.

I will deliver my flock from their mouth,

that they may not be food for them.

I will feed them on the mountains of Israel by the rivers.

in a good pasture, bind up what is broken,

and strengthen the sick.

Those cruel to My people will be desolate.

In the visions of God He brought me into the land of Israel, and set me on a very high mountain,

by which was the frame of a city on the south.

A man who appeared like bronze

and had a line of flax in his hand and a measuring reed.

He stood in the gate said,

Tell the house of Israel, show them a great

beautiful city with a glorious temple for the Lord.

I will dwell in the midst of them forever.

Living waters came from under the threshold of the house

toward the east.

And everywhere the waters flow, everything lived.

Ezekiel (God strengthens) spoke the Lord’s words, calling beloved mankind back to Him for 88 years from 593-571 BC.

Holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners,

and made higher than the heavens;

Hebrews 7:26

By one offering He has perfected forever

those that believe. Hebrews 10:14

Who forgives all our sins and heals all our diseases,

who crowns us with His love,

and renews our youth like the eagles. Psalm 103:3-5

“I will come again and receive you to Myself

that where I am there you will be.

John 14:3

The throne of the universe

The Glory of God

in Daniel

That you may know

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That the living may know that the Most High rules

in the kingdom of men and gives it to whoever He will.

Daniel 4:17

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and besieged it.

The Lord gave into his hand the people and temple treasures,

that He put in the house of his god in Shinar.

He took the best of their children.

Among these were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael,

and Azariah who they renamed Belteshazzar, Shadrach,

Meshach and Abednego.

Daniel set in his heart not to pollute himself

with the king’s food or wine,

and with these 3 friends asked to only eat only vegetables.

God gave Daniel favor with the prince over the eunuchs

who tested them on this food for ten days,

and found them brighter and healthier than the others.

God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning

and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding

in all visions and dreams.

And when the king tested them

he found them ten times better

than all the magicians and astrologers

that were in all his realm.

In the 2nd year of His reign Nebuchadnezzar

dreamed dreams that troubled his spirit keeping him awake.

He called the magicians, and the astrologers,

and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans,

to show the king his dreams.

He didn’t remember the dream and said,

If you don’t make known to me the dream,

with its meaning you will be cut in pieces,

and your houses made a dunghill.

When they came to kill Daniel and his friends

Daniel asked for time

to ask mercies of the God of heaven about this.

God revealed the secret to Daniel in a night vision,

and he blessed the God of heaven saying,

Blessed be the name of God forever and ever:

wisdom and strength are His.

He changes the times and the seasons:

He removes kings,

and sets up kings:

He gives wisdom to the wise,

and knowledge to them that know understanding:

He reveals the deep and secret things:

He knows what is in the darkness,

and the light dwells with Him.

When taken before the king he said,

There is a God in heaven that reveals secrets,

and makes known to the king Nebuchadnezzar

what will happen in the latter days.

You saw a great image of awesome excellent brightness

with a head of gold, breast and arms of silver,

belly and thighs of brass, legs of iron,

and feet part iron and part clay.

You watched and saw a stone

was cut out without hands

that struck the image on the feet

so it all became broken

and blew away like chaff on the summer threshing floors.

You king are a king of kings

for the God of heaven has you a kingdom, power,

and strength, and glory.

Everything is under your power.

You are the head of gold.

After you will rise a lesser kingdom

and a 3rd of brass which will rule the earth.

The 4th world ruling kingdom will be strong as iron

and breaks and subdues all others.

The iron mixed with clay is part strong and part broken.

In the days of these kings the God of heaven

will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed,

but will consume all other kingdoms

and will be forever.

Then the king made Daniel a great man,

and gave him many gifts,

and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon,

and chief of the governors

over all the wise men of Babylon.

Then King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold

90 feet tall and 9 feet wide.

He set it up in the plain in Babylon,

demanding all bow to it

or be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego said,

Our God is able to deliver us

from the burning fiery furnace,

and you.

The furious king had the furnace heated so hot

that it killed the guards who threw in

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

Then the king, astounded, said,

I see four men loose, walking

in the midst of the fire,

with no hurt;

and the fourth is like the Son of God.

The king promoted the three

and forbid anything be said against the Lord.

He said, How great are His signs!

How mighty are His wonders!

His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,

and His dominion is from generation to generation.

Years later, the king said,

I was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace

and saw a vision that troubled me

and none could tell me the meaning.

I called Daniel in whom is

the Spirit of the Living God, and told him,

I saw a tree of great height.

The tree grew, and was strong and beautiful,

and the reached to heaven, and the ends the earth:

It was beautiful with food for all.

the beasts of the field had shadow under it,

and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in its branches,

and all flesh ate of it.

A watcher and a holy one came down from heaven

and called loudly, Cut down the tree, and scatter his fruit:

but leave the stump of his roots in the earth,

give it a beast's heart for 7 years.

So that all living may know

that the most High rules in the kingdom of men,

and gives it to whoever He will.

Daniel said, My lord, let the dream be

for those who hate you.

The tree that you saw, It is you.

You have become very great.

You will be driven from men,

and live with animals the field,

eating grass as oxen,

until you know that the most High rules

in the kingdom of men,

and gives it to whoever He will.

Stop your sins by righteousness,

show mercy to the poor;

it may lengthen your tranquility.

12 months later the king was walking around his palace roof

bragging about how great he and his kingdom he made were.

He was driven from men

and his hair grew into feathers

and his nails like claws

and he ate grass with the oxen.

At the end of the days, ‘

I lifted My eyes to heaven,

and my understanding returned to me,

and I blessed the Most High,

and I praised and honored Him that lives forever,

whose dominion is an everlasting dominion,

and His kingdom is from generation to generation.

He does His will in the army of heaven,

and among the those on earth:

and none can stop His hand.

The glory of my kingdom

and my honor returned unto me;

and excellent majesty was added to me.

Now I praise and extol the King of heaven,

all whose works are truth,

and His ways judgment:

and those that walk in pride he is able to humble.

After Nebuchadnezzar, his son, Belshazzar,

was made king.

After long years of his reign,

he made a great feast to a thousand of his lords,

and drank wine in golden goblets

taken out of the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem

and praised the gods of gold, and of silver,

of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

Right then fingers of a man's hand

appeared and wrote on the wall, terrifying the king.

None of his wise men could interpret the writing.

The queen came and said,

There is a man in your kingdom,

in whom is the Spirit of the holy gods;

and in the days of your father,

light and understanding and wisdom,

like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him;

Call Daniel. He will show the meaning.

Daniel was brought and said,

The Most High God gave your father a kingdom,

and majesty, and glory, and honor

so that all people, nations, and languages, trembled before him.

But when his heart was lifted up

and his mind hardened in pride,

he was deposed and ate grass like oxen

until he knew that the Most High God

rules in the kingdom of men

and sets over it whoever he will.

You knew all this but have lifted up yourself

against the Lord of heaven.

You praised the gods of silver, and gold,

that don’t see or hear or know.

And the God in whose hand is your breath

and all your ways you haven’t glorified.

This writing was sent from Him.

Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin.

Mene means God has numbered your days

and finished your kingdom.

Tekel, you are weighed in the balances

and found lacking.

Upharsin, Your kingdom is divided

and given to the Medes and Persians.

The king promoted Daniel and gave him many gifts

and was slain that night

as Darius the Mede took the kingdom.

Darius sneaked his forces in

by stopping the water in the aqueduct and entering the city.

Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness,

and the first begotten of the dead,

and the Prince over the kings of the earth.

To Him that loves us,

and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

and made us kings and priests to God, His Father;

to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever.

Revelation 1:5,6

Glory Forever

The Glory of God

in Daniel ii

After Nebuchadnezzar, his son, Belshazzar, was made king. After 13 years of his reign, he made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in golden goblets

taken out of the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem

and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

Right then fingers of a man's hand appeared and wrote on the wall, terrifying the king. None of his wise men could interpret the writing.

The queen came and said, There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the Spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the gods,

was found in him; Call Daniel. He will show the meaning. Daniel was 83 when brought before Belshazzar. He listened to the king and then answered,

The Most High God gave your father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor so that all people, nations, and languages, trembled before him.

But when his heart was lifted up and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed and ate grass like oxen until he knew that the Most High

God rules in the kingdom of men and sets over it whoever he will. You knew all this but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. You praised the gods of silver,

and gold, that don’t see or hear or know.

And the God in whose hand is your breath and all your ways you haven’t glorified. This writing was sent from Him.

Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. Mene means God has numbered your days

and finished your kingdom.

Tekel, you are weighed in the balances and found lacking.

Upharsin, Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.

The king promoted Daniel and gave him many gifts. Belshazzar was killed that night as Darius the Mede

took the kingdom by stopping the water in the aqueduct and slipping his forces through there into the city.

It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 120 princes. Daniel was first because an excellent Spirit was in him.

But the princes, being envious ,and finding no fault in Daniel, sneaked an edict into law saying no one could pray

to any besides Darius for 30 days. Then they accused Daniel and he was thrown into the den of starving lions. The king said, Your God will deliver. The king couldn’t sleep and hurried in the morning

to the den calling out,

Daniel, servant of the Living God,

was as your God able to deliver you?

Daniel said, My God sent His angel

and shut the lions' mouths.

The king brought Daniel out with joy

and had his accusers thrown in.

The lions broke all their bones before they fell

to the bottom of the pit.

They dug a pit for me

but have fallen into it themselves.

Psalm 57:6

Then king Darius wrote to all people, nations,

and languages, that dwell in all the earth;

Peace be multiplied to you. I decree that all men tremble before the God of Daniel.

He is the Living God and steadfast forever, and His kingdom will have no end. He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth.

Daniel 6:26

‘Many, O Lord my God, are Your wonderful works that You have done, and Your thoughts toward us are more than can be counted.’ Psalm 40:5

How shall we escape, if we neglect so a great salvation? Hebrews 2:3 From a Love so great that He that spared not His own Son,

but delivered Him up for us all.

Romans 8:32

Holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, higher than the heavens.

Who by one offering has perfected forever those being sanctified. Hebrews 7:24-27

Hebrews 10:14

Making us holy as

He is holy

The Glory of God

in Daniel iii

Visions of Kingdoms

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In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions in his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream and what it meant.

I saw the four winds of the heaven striving on the great sea (nations fighting each other to rule the world). And four great beasts came up from the sea.

The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand

on a man’s feet and a man's heart was given to it. (This king believed in God and became part of His eternal royal family.)

And a second beast like a bear (rulers that devour God’s flock instead of feeding them, He calls beasts).

After this I saw another, like a leopard, which had 4 wings of a bird and 4 heads. The 4th beast was dreadful and exceedingly strong with great iron teeth that devoured

and stomped the remainder with its feet. It had 10 horns, sub-rulers. I saw another little horn come among them with eyes like a man, and a mouth speaking great things.

I watched until the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days sat, whose clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the purest wool: His throne was like the fiery flame, and its wheels as burning fire. A stream of fire came from before Him,

Countless thousands ministered to Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set, and the books were opened. The little horn was killed and given to the burning flame(hell). The rest had their rulership taken away: yet their lives were prolonged

a little while.

Then I saw one like the Son of man come with the clouds of heaven to the Ancient of days, and He was given rulership, and glory,

and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, would serve Him.

His dominion is an everlasting dominion,

that won’t pass away or be destroyed.

I asked one that stood beside me the truth of all this.

He told me the meaning: These great beasts, are four kings that will rise up to rule over the whole earth.

But the saints of the Most High will take

and possess the kingdom through endless ages.

Then I asked about the 4th beast

and he said, The 4th beast will be the 4th kingdom on earth, that will devour the whole earth and trample it to pieces.

He will speak great words against the Most High, change the law

and will wear down His saints for 3 ½ years.

But the judgment will sit,

and they will take away his dominion.

And the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven

will be given to the people of the Most High,

whose kingdom is everlasting,

and all dominions will serve Him.

The people that know their God will be strong

and do exploits.

Those that turn many to their Maker

will shine as the stars forever.

Daniel 12:3

The Lord of hosts will reign

before His people gloriously. Isaiah 24:23

When the Son of man comes in His glory,

and all the holy angels with Him,

He will sit on the throne of His glory a

nd all nations will be gathered before Him.

He will separate them as a shepherd divides

his sheep from the goats:

the King will say to those that did right,

Come, you blessed of My Father,

inherit the kingdom prepared for you

from the foundation of the world.

Matthew 25:31-34

These human rulers throughout history display forever

that only God is able rule rightly:

only He knows everything, has all the power,

and shepherds with love.

Daniel prayed, O Lord, the great and awesome God,

who keeps covenant and mercy to those that love Him.

We have sinned, departing from You and your ways. We haven’t listened to Your words. You are right

in all You’ve done to us.

To You belong mercies and forgiveness.

Daniel 9:4-9

While I was speaking in prayer,

Gabriel flew swiftly to me, touched me ,and gave me to understand that the vision was for the end times:

Seventy weeks are determined on your people

and your holy city

1. to finish the transgression.

2. to make an end of sins.

3. to make reconciliation for iniquity.

4. to bring in everlasting righteousness.

5. to seal up the vision.

6. and finish the prophecy,

7.and to anoint the Most Holy.

Daniel 9:24

Recall God’s original plan,

Let us make man in our image;

and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,

and over the fowl of the air,

and over everything on the earth. Genesis 1

Jesus, telling his disciples their future, will say to the faithful, Well done, good and faithful servant: you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things:

enter into the joy of your Lord.

Matthew 25:21

Behold, a king will reign in righteousness,

and princes will rule in justice. Isaiah 32:1

The wolf will dwell with the lamb,

and the calf with the young lion,

and a little child will lead them.

He ends all violence. Isaiah 11:6

Every man will sit under his vine

and under his fig tree and none will make them afraid. Micah 4:4

Jesus Christ, the firstborn of the dead,

and the Prince of the kings of the earth who loves us,

and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

has made us kings and priests to God.

Revelation1 :5, 6

He restored mankind to oneness with their Maker,

who alone is life,

and He rules with them on His throne through wondrous ages without end.

I am persuaded, that not death, or life, or angels, or powers, anything, can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:38, 39

We praise and honor Him

who lives forever.

The Glory of God

in Hosea

I will love them freely

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The word of the Lord that came to Hosea through the reign of 4 kings between 753-722 years before Christ.

Man does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

Matthew 4:4

The Lord told Hosea, Go, take a wife who is a whore and have children with her because the nation has committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord.

This is a living reflection of God calling out to all those made in His image to return to Him because He the Source and Sustainer of life.

So, Hosea went and took Gomer who conceived and bare him a son. The Lord said to him, Call his name Jezreel;

for in a little while and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel. Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord. Romans 12:19

God had made Jehu king and sent him to destroy the deep wickedness of Ahab and Jezebel’s reign. Jehu did this rightly and God gave him the reign over Israel

for 4 generations.

But Jehu went overboard slaughtering too many in Jezreel. He also turned to idolatry.

So his reign was cut off.

Whereas,

He that overcomes will set with Me on My throne, forever. Revelation 3:21

Gomer conceived again and bare a daughter.

And God said to him, Call her name Loruhamah (no mercy): for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.

But I will have mercy on the house of Judah

and will save them by the Lord their God.

I will not save them by bow, or by sword,

or by battle, or by horses, or by horsemen.

Not by might or by power

but by My Spirit, says the Lord.

Zechariah 4:6

The battle is the Lord’s.

1 Samuel 17:47

Stand still and see the deliverance of the Lord.

Exodus 14:13

Gomer conceived again and bare a son.

Then God said, Call his name Loammi

(not My people) for you are not My people,

and I will not be your God.

Yet the number of the children of Israel

will be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.

And where you are not My people,

you will be called the sons of the Living God.

Gomer ‘played the harlot’ and had children not Hosea’s, reflecting God’s unfaithful people.

The Lord said, I will hedge up your way

with thorns and make a wall so you can’t find the path.

She didn’t know that I gave her the grain,

and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold.

(All our blessings are from God.)

I will take away the blessings and allure

(powerfully and mysteriously attracting and fascinating) her, and bring her into the wilderness,

and speak comfortably to her.

And I will betroth you to Me forever;

I will betroth you to Me in righteousness, in justice,

love, in mercies, and in faithfulness:

and you will know the Lord.

Gomer had left Hosea for others

and ended up in the slave market.

The Lord said, Go take her back

and love her as I take back and love the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love pitchers of wine.

So, I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a 6 ½ bushels of barley. You will be only with me and no other and I only for you.

The Lord had a lawsuit against Israel because there is no truth, or mercy, or knowledge of God in the land

but much stealing, killing, and adultery.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:

because you rejected knowledge,

I will also reject you from being priest to Me .

You will no longer be priests to me.

Come, and let us return to the Lord:

for He has torn, and He will heal us.

I desire mercy and not sacrifice

and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

O Israel, you have destroyed yourself;

but in Me is your help.

I will ransom them from the power of the grave;

I will redeem them from death.

Turn to the Lord and say to Him,

Take away all our iniquity, and receive us graciously:

so, we will render offerings of our lips to You.

I will heal their back sliding.

I will love them freely.

He will grow as the lily (tall, elegant, and beautiful.)

And his beauty will be as the olive tree,

and his smell as Lebanon.

The ways of the Lord are right,

and the just will walk in them:

but the transgressors will fall there.

You will worship no other god:

for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. Exodus 34:14

Where there is no love, there is no jealousy.

Set me as a seal upon your heart

for love is as strong as death;

jealousy is cruel as the grave:

its coals are coals of fire

that have the Lord's flame.

Song of Solomon 8:6

One thing have I desired of the Lord,

that will I seek after;

that I may dwell in the house of the Lord

all the days of my life,

to behold the beauty of the Lord,

and to enquire in his temple. Psalm 27:4

I am My beloved's, and My beloved is mine.

Song of Solomon 6:3

We are His by creation,

for He made all mankind in His image.

Genesis 1:27

The highest honor in the universe.

And we are His by redemption.

We were bought back to God from the ‘slave market of sin’ at the highest price ever paid for anything.

By Him who is ‘holy, harmless, undefiled,

separate from sinners,

and higher than the heavens.’ Hebrews 7:26

By one offering He has perfected forever those that believe

The Glory of God

in Joel

I love you with an everlasting love, says the Lord.’ Jeremiah 31:3

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The word of the Lord that came to Joel, Hear this and tell it to your children, and their children, down through the generations. What the palmerworm has left the locust has eaten and the cankerworm ate what the locust left.

Wake up and weep you drunkards for the wine is cut off.

A nation has come upon My land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth great lion. The fig trees are stripped down to the white bark.

Mourn in sackcloth like a virgin for the husband of her youth for the grain is wasted: the new wine is dried up,

the oil gone.

Howl for the wheat and for the barley because the harvest of the field has perished. The palm tree and apple tree are withered because joy is withered away from the sons of men.

In His Presence is fullness of joy,’Psalm 16:11 They have not sought the Presence of the Lord.

Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly to the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord, for destruction is coming from the Almighty.

The animals groan, the herds are perplexed because they have no pasture. The flocks of sheep are desolate.

Flame has burned all the trees of the field.

The rivers of waters are dried up.

Sound an alarm in My holy mountain:

let all the inhabitants of the land tremble:

for the day of the Lord comes, for it is near.

As the morning spreads across the mountains

a great and mighty people like no other,

are coming.

A fire devours:

the land is as the garden of Eden before them,

and behind them a desolate wilderness.

Nothing will escape them

and when they fall upon the sword,

they shall not be wounded.

The earth quakes before them; the heavens tremble.

The Lord utters His voice before His army.

His camp is very great: for He is strong that executes His word.

Now, says the Lord,

turn to Me with all your heart,

turn to the Lord your God:

for He is gracious and merciful,

slow to anger, and of great kindness.

Perhaps He will turn from judgment and bless.

Gather to Him and say,

Spare Your people.

The Lord will answer and say,

I will send you grain, and wine, and oil to satisfy you .

I will remove dangerous armies

and violence far from you.

Fear not, rejoice: for the Lord will do great things.

The pastures of the wilderness will spring,

the trees bear fruit, the fig tree and the vines

provide abundance.

Rejoice in the Lord in the Lord your God:

for He will give abundant rain,

and the grain floors will be full

and vats will overflow with wine and oil.

And I will restore to you

the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm,

and the cater piller and the palmerworm,

my great army that I sent among you.

The Lord your God, will do wondrously with you

and you will never be ashamed or lacking.

And you will know that I am in your midst

and there is no other.

And afterward,

I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh;

and your sons and your daughters

will speak My words,

your old men will dream dreams,

your young men will see visions:

And I will show wonders in the heavens

and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

The sun will be turned into darkness,

and the moon into blood,

before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.

And whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be delivered.

I will also gather all nations, and will bring

them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat

and will judge them there for My people they have scattered among the nations

and took My land as plunder.

And gave the boys for harlots and sold the girls for wine.

Swiftly I will return your doings on your own head. You have taken My silver, gold, and treasures.

I will raise them out of the place where you sold them and will return payment on your own head.

And I will sell your sons and your daughters, for the Lord has spoken it.

Tell the nations, Prepare for war.

Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning

hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

Gather the nations to the valley of Jehoshaphat:

for there I will sit to judge for their wickedness is great.

The sun and the moon will be darkened, and the stars will withdraw their shining.

The Lord will roar, and the heavens

and the earth will shake:

but the Lord will be the hope

and strength of His people.

In that day the mountains will drop down new wine,

and the hills will flow with milk,

and all the rivers of Judah will flow with waters,

and a fountain will come out of the house of the Lord,

for the Lord dwells in Zion.

Lord, you have been our dwelling place

in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth or you had formed the earth and the world,

from eternal ages You are God.

Psalm 90:1, 2

To Jesus Christ, the faithful witness,

and the first born from the dead, a

nd the prince of the kings of the earth.

Him that loved us and washed us from our sins

in His own blood,

has made us kings and priests to God, His Father;

to Him be glory and dominion forever.

Revelation 1:4, 5

Holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from

sinners, higher than the heavens

Who gives us eternal life, says,

Hebrews 7:26

Don’t let your heart be troubled.

In My Father's house are many mansions.

I will come again, and receive you to Myself

that where I am you may be also,

the throne of the universe,

with Him who is infinite love.

With Him who is

Infinite Love