KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

Entrust These Commands & Regulations.  It is The Word Which Judges Justly.
(If Serving The Holy Author of Our Religeon Seems Undesirable to You,
Then Choose for Yourselves, This Day Whom you Will Serve.)
“For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.  He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.  For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.“
–  Ephesians 2  (“overseer.“)

Strengthening the Regime of Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.  The Verification Regime.  To Actually Explore the Space.
Of Faith and Deeds.  What’s at Stake is Madness or Sanity.
A Prayer & Petition To The United States Military

“Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Test and prove what pleases the Lord… Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.”
–  Ephesians 5 (BSB)  (“overseer“)
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 “the end, limit, goal, fulfillment, completion”  “the reason for which all our actions aim.” 

“end” “purpose” “goal” “revolve, move round; sojourn, dwell”   “turning point”   “ultimate object or aim”

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A Prophetic Oracle

Messages From God/Universe/Higher Intelligence
Expressed by Divine Inspiration Through a Messenger, Prophet, Priest or Priestess.
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Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus

by: Theodor de Bry

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“Such will be the old age of the world: irreverence, disorder, disregard for everything good. When all this comes to pass, Asclepius, then the master and father, the god whose power is primary, governor of the first god, will look on this conduct and these willful crimes, and in an act of will – which is god’s benevolence – he will take his stand against the vices and the perversion in everything, righting wrongs, washing away malice in a flood or consuming it in fire or ending it by spreading pestilential disease everywhere. Then he will restore the world to its beauty of old so that the world itself will again seem deserving of worship and wonder, and with constant benedictions and proclamations of praise the people of that time will honor the god who makes and restores so great a work. And this will be the geniture of the world: a reformation of all good things and a restitution, most holy and most reverent, of nature itself, reordered in the course of time 〈but through an act of will,〉 which is and was everlasting and without beginning. For god’s will has no beginning; it remains the same, everlasting in its present state. God’s nature is deliberation; will is the supreme goodness.””

(Citation Source)
HERMETICA
The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin
Asclepius in a new English translation, with
notes and introduction
BRIAN P. COPENHAVER
Pg. 165

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Nature’s Loyal Servant.

Truth.  Wisdom.  Moderation.  Courage.  Justice.  Money.

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“To Better Ourselves.”  Star Trek Inspirational Tribute  “Explorers“

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jph2qWXJ-Tk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vu5TsBwG9w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNu1cdISsvY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxyp7oHm2F0
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“ It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand,
more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.  This coolness arisespartly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.”
                                                                ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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Isaiah 42
“salvation of the Lord” “salvation, deliverance“
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Here Is My Servant

“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold,

My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights.

I will put My Spirit on Him,

and He will bring justice to the nations.

He will not cry out or raise His voice,

nor make His voice heard in the streets.

A bruised reed He will not break

and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish;

He will faithfully bring forth justice.

He will not grow weak or discouraged

before He has established justice on the earth.

In His law the islands will put their hope.”

This is what God the LORD says—

He who created the heavens

and stretched them out,

who spread out the earth and its offspring,

who gives breath to the people on it

and life to those who walk in it:

“I, the LORD, have called you

for a righteous purpose,

and I will take hold of your hand.

I will keep you and appoint you

to be a covenant for the people

and a light to the nations,

to open the eyes of the blind,

to bring prisoners out of the dungeon

and those sitting in darkness

out from the prison house.

I am the LORD;

that is My name!

I will not yield My glory to another

or My praise to idols.

Behold, the former things have happened,

and now I declare new things.

Before they spring forth

I proclaim them to you.”

A New Song of Praise

Sing to the LORD a new song—

His praise from the ends of the earth—

you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it,

you islands, and all who dwell in them.

Let the desert and its cities raise their voices;

let the villages of Kedar cry aloud.

Let the people of Sela sing for joy;

let them cry out from the mountaintops.

Let them give glory to the LORD

and declare His praise in the islands.

The LORD goes forth like a mighty one;

He stirs up His zeal like a warrior.

He shouts; yes, He roars

in triumph over His enemies:

“I have kept silent from ages past;

I have remained quiet and restrained.

But now I will groan like a woman in labor;

I will at once gasp and pant.

I will lay waste the mountains and hills

and dry up all their vegetation.

I will turn the rivers into dry land

and drain the marshes.

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know;

I will guide them on unfamiliar paths.

I will turn darkness into light before them

and rough places into level ground.

These things I will do for them,

and I will not forsake them.

But those who trust in idols

and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’

will be turned back in utter shame.

Israel Is Deaf and Blind

Listen, you deaf ones;

look, you blind ones, that you may see!

Who is blind but My servant,

or deaf like the messenger I am sending?

Who is blind like My covenant partner,

or blind like the servant of the LORD?

Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch.

Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”

The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness,

to magnify His law and make it glorious.

But this is a people plundered and looted,

all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons.

They have become plunder with no one to rescue them,

and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”

Who among you will pay attention to this?

Who will listen and obey hereafter?

Who gave Jacob up for spoil,

and Israel to the plunderers?

Was it not the LORD,

against whom we have sinned?

They were unwilling to walk in His ways,

and they would not obey His law.

So He poured out on them His furious anger

and the fierceness of battle.

It enveloped them in flames,

but they did not understand;

it consumed them,

but they did not take it to heart.

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As Above, So Below.

A Special Civil Operation :  Pragmatic Idealism

On Earth as it is In Heaven.  A Biblical Renewal of All Things.

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“Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.  Without speech or language,
without a sound to be heard, their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.“
–  Psalm 19

Mr.  President,

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God’s Silence is Louder than Man’s Speach Yes?

Hello, My name is Mark Rich and I am a true son of David.
I have been sent to give you this weighty testimony for the churches because the times have reached their fulfillment.
For Your Consideration, a Millennial Vision of the gospel of the kingdom as “It is Written.”  The object of which is to usher forth the creation of a political move so sweeping as to immortalize the reign and legacy of all involved.  The Super Bowl of politicking.  A cosmic tidal wave. Shall we finish the remaining bit together?  Call it “The Rose Bowl?”  Your servant is listening. I Am Your “Freeman.”  “Free” as in “The Absence of restraint.”  Free in all the ways you are not.  A People’s grand reset to change the game.

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“As it is Written.“
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  I have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us in The Bible.  (“The Books“).  I have studied the Scriptures diligently, calling the past to account.  Of what was promised by our ancestors long ago.  Of what God said through his holy prophets (Isaiah).  In the spirit of prophecy, I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, (In the Beginning Was the Word.)  adding one thing to another to discover the general scheme of things.  Thus I present this orderly account for you so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.  I only ask you to look at what is obvious.  The word which was ordained for a thousand generations has been proved right.  

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Not of the Letter but of the Spirit
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As the “Archivist” and “Compiler” of These Collections of Books, I am not allowed to take credit for these words.  Only the arrangement.  I have pondered, searched out, and arranged many accurate words of truth.  Words of Wisdom that None of Your Adversaries Will be Able to Resist or Contradict.  This is Sound learning, worthy of full acceptance.  “Anthologies of the Masters.”   If you were to Accept This Coming Pattern of Teaching Which has Now Claimed your Allegiance.  As if “He” is making His Appeal through me (as “He” is working through all of us.)  Great truths common to all mankind.

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Building a Mystery.
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Taking it from an Eleveated Perspective.
There is something that has been trying to complete itself through human beings.
To use human beings as its vehicle.  Again and again, a fire is being built.  Some kind of wholeness trying to assemble itself.
The process is for serving some further end and I am the beginning of this transformation.  How is your curiosity?  Your Sense of adventure.

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Provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
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As I have sown much and harvested little.  I pray the word does not come back to me void.
That once my time of service is completed, that this hard working farmer, will be able to take part in the harvest.  As One cannot serve both God and money at the same time.

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Penance
A Call to Maturity and Endurance.
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May those who seek You not be dishonored through me.  As Obviously you are aware of my humble circumstances.  I have remained in seclusion for obvious reasons.  As no doubt I will be subjected to public humiliation from those who get a kick out of criticising others.  Merciless and destructive criticism in undermining much that has already been generally accepted.  Those who seem to threaten the very foundations of truth.  I will endure the scorn and the chastisement for the sake of the elect.  Perhaps your favor will be enough to take away my disgrace among the people.  Neverthless, my hypocrisy only goes so far.  It is the work upon which I stand.

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Leave Out All the Rest.
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Knock Knock, Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.

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The Roots – The Seed (2.0) ft. Cody ChesnuTT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojC0mg2hJCc

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Theurgic Secssio Plebis  –  A Dispositive Motion  –  Pre-Healing Circle.

Brave New World.  A Mechanism for Influencing Behavior.  Roses & Guns.  The People’s Fountain of Life.
“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil… You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.”    –  Psalms 23

Emotions.  Memories.  Human Rituals and Tradition.
Miracle , Mystery, Authority.  Optimism, Joy and Adventure.
What Are You Supposed to do?  Survive….  Speak No Evil, Hear No Evil.
Pick the Parts You Like – Faithful Envoys to Bring Healing.  For the Victims of Conformity.  The Casualties of Society.
The People are Sanctified by the Word of God and Prayer.  A Credit To Righteousmess.
Deliverence Through the Nourishing Words of Faith and Sound Instruction.

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Heilung – Buslas Bann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av6RP9s7ao8
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“Rivers of Living Water Will Flow from Within Them“
–  John 7  (“Jehovah has favored”  “Jah is gracious”  “he was gracious“)

Anything But Ordinary

–  Truth, Wisdom, Moderation. Courage.   –

Tradition & Convention.

Addressing the Negative Spirit of Our Age.
Ridding Ourselves, of all The Malice, Deceit, Hypocrisy, Envy, and Slander.
The Discord, Jealousy, Fits of Rage, Selfish Ambition, Slander, Gossip, Arrogance & Disorder.
The People Request a Meeting of People at a Certain Place, at a Certain Time and Under Certain Circumstances.
It is The People’s Right & Responsibility.  To See You Personally With Our Own Eyes.  For Governments Comprehensible to the Citizenry.

A Day of Names.|
To Establish a Testimony in Jacob.
Dedicated to Those Holders of Power and Responsibility.
At This Point of Mutually Assured Destruction.  (Nuclear Brinksmanship.)
The Monumental Issues of Our Time.  Why are We Endangering Ourselves Every Hour?
Regarding How Humanity Survives this Technological Adolescence Without Us Destroying Ourselves.
Wisdom Calls for a Hearing.  Creating An Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation.
Concerning the Governance of a Country or People Pertaining to the State and its Administration; Pertaining to Public Life.
The Introduction of a More “Earthier Element.”  To Keep Ourselves “On Our Mettle.”  As Rational Beings.  “As Is Appropriate for Each Case.“
A System of Measures or Line of Conduct Which a Ruler, Minister, Government, or Party Adopts as Best for the Interests of the Country in Domestic or Foreign Affairs.

John Williams – Duel of the Fates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_2bluVPsb0
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In Exchange For the Honor of Your Presence, 

          “The People” Bestow Unto You This Gift of Education Which is In Accordance with the Holy Author of Our Religion.  A Presentation Offering as The Proper Interpretation of Our Times.  The “Big Picture” of the International Political, Military and Economic Situation.  These Words are Trustworthy and True.  We Live in a Time that is Not of Peace but of Division.  A Time of Political, Social, and Environmental Upheaval. The We are in Schism and Making the Vision of Hades More Vivid.  We Need Some Air.  We “The People“, Ask you to Please Leave the City and Camp in the Open Fields for a Rendezvous with History.  Shuttle Diplomacy to Change the Game.  A Skillful Maneuver to Rescue Ourselves From the Present Evil Age.  We Seek to Bring Together Governments, Banks, Corporations, Academia, Civil Society & Prominent Men of The Cities for a Summit of the Future. A Cooperative Effort to Change the World for the Better.  A Divine Intervention for “The Culmination of the Ages.”  A Movement so Sweeping as to Immortalize the Reign and Legacy of all Involved.   A Place for The Ascended Kings of the Earth, The Princes, The Generals, The Rich & The Mighty.  A Place of Healing In Order to Make this Life Less of a Burden and More of a Joy.  A Special Civil Operation to Alchemize All this Trauma.  Appointed Festivals of Life of Rich & Plenty.  Ceremonies of Freedom With an Abundance of Fire and Wood.  12 Crops of Fruit,  A Tree of Life, And a River of the Water of Life.  A Fountain of Living Water. 

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Healing the Nations

International Resource Management & The Lack of Surplus.

The Verification Regime of the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Addressing These Prolonged Disputes Over Fundamental Issues.  The Constant Agitations.

The Case of The Breach of Friendly Relations.  The Admission of Ships into Neutral Ports of Entry.

A Season of Discovery Between Civilian and Military Affairs.  During Volatile Times & Mutually Assured Destruction.  

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We “The People,” Appeal to Military Commanders, “The Powers That Be.”  Specifically, Those Who Have Been Given Power to Take Peace From the Earth and to Make People Kill Each Other.  We Ask for a Leap of Faith.  To Avoid a Pyrrhic Victory.  To Take One Step Closer to “The People”  A “Requiem and Crucible.“

Where Important Political, Diplomatic and Military Moves are to Take Shape.  Regarding the Main Drama of Recognizing and Authorizing a Selected Power to Administer and Develop a Territory for a Specified Purpose. The Renunciation and the Rendering Over an Estate, Land Grant, Conveyance or Interest in a Property or Trust Which Serves the Interest of One or More Political Orientations.  Lines of Demarcation. Also, The Allocation of Benefits in Various Policy Fields in Such a Way as to Provide Groups, Persons, and Places with at Least a Minimum Level of Benefits so as to Satisfy Basic Needs.  Equalities of Commercial Privileges. A Judicious Use of Resources.

With Your Permission,  We “The People” Request an Audience with High-Ranking Military Officers and their Counterparts With Capability.  A Meeting of the High Ranking Military Officers and Chiefs of Staff of the Nations.  Ministers of Foreign Affairs.  Chiefs of Municipal Offices.  We ask you to Please Prepare your Plans and Maps for “Big Work Projects“ for the Future for The Organization of the Lives of Citizens & The Preparation of Public Opinion.  “Opportunities for Making a Living.”  Creating Fundamentally Self-Sufficient Cities and The Specific Ways and Means & the Governance Thereof.  Whole Cities Delivered.  Composite Material Plentitudes.

The Notion of Each Thing in its Proper Sphere and Serving its Proper Purpose.  “A Great Human Continuum.”  Characterized by Precision.  To Hone, Refine or Perfect a “Chains of Events” Over a Period of Time. That Which has the Correct Dimensions Without Interval, Deviation, or Variation.   Seeking to be “Exactly that, in that Very Way.“

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      Regarding The Culture of Leadership and the Behavior and Conduct of Interactions of Leaders with Foreign Nations.   Where Currently, Leaders Who Demand from Others, Sacrifices Which they Would Never Be Called Upon to Make Themselves.  In Order to Drive Out an Unclean Spirit, Sometimes the Old Ways are Best.  Fighting the Good Fight.  To Test and Prove Matters of the Heart.  A Call to Maturity.  A Call of Endurance. A Test of Sincerity.  To Know the “Why” of Things.  For Moments of Shared Understandings.  Civilian Mechanisms of Enforcement to Refine the Character, Disposition and the Identity of Our Appointed World Leaders. To Expose Fruitless Deeds of Darkness.  To be More Equitable, Fair and Impartial in Our Dealings.  As is Right & Fitting.

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Scheduling Reconstruction in a Production Environment.

Sequence Alignment  :  Optimizing Resource Allocations  :  Facility Locations  :  Logistics  :  Network Design.  :  Industrial Control Repairs.

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For a Renewed State of Mental Resolution and Peace of Mind.  We Provide this Vision and Concept of the Future to Restore Ourselves to a Healthy Faith which Corresponds with the Fulfillment of Scriptures.  Strange Coincidences by Way of Theophoric Name In Hopes That we have the Courage to Turn from Evil and Do Good.

The People’s “Manifest Destiny 2.0” in Hopes for Better Days.   A Fresh Perspective and New Approach to that of “Secessio Plebis”  (“withdrawal of the commoners“).
A “Universal Interface Override System” and an “Irrevocable Living Trust Agreement.”  For the Purposes of Healing and Restoration of the Conscience.

 

Best Regards,
Mark David Rich

 

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The Killers – When You Were Young (Jacques LuCont ReMix)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xulfWutG9Zg
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“To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?”

A View of the Constitutionoff Boston by Isiah Whyte 
( public domain image from Art Institute of Chicago )

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James Horner – Titanic- Hymn to the sea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wz1xA5kxVI

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Toots & The Maytals – Funky Kingston

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U79o7qwul48
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Appropriate and Good for the Community at this Moment in Time.  What is Socially Useful and Fitting.
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“ He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.”
–  Isaiah  2   “salvation of the Lord” “salvation, deliverance“

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Τ Ε Λ Ο Σ

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Metallica – Fuel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvF9PAxe5Ng
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1 Peter 5
“stone, rock“
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(New International Version)

To the Elders and the Flock

To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings who also will share in the glory to be revealed:  Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, watching over them—not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not pursuing dishonest gain, but eager to serve; not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.  And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away.

In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because,

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.  Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.  Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.

And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.  To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.

Final Greetings

With the help of Silas, whom I regard as a faithful brother, I have written to you briefly, encouraging you and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand fast in it.

She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, sends you her greetings, and so does my son Mark.  Greet one another with a kiss of love.

Peace to all of you who are in Christ.

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 Revelation 20
“Disclosure of information or knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency.”
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The Thousand Years

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain.  He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.  He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.

I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.  (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.  Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.

The Judgment of Satan

When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore.  They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them.  And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

The Judgment of the Dead

Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them.  And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.  The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done.  Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.  Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

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2 Timothy 3
(“honor, respect”  “Honoring God“)
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(Berean Standard Bible)

Evil in the Last Days

But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!

They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions, who are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and disqualified from the faith. But they will not advance much further. For just like Jannes and Jambres, their folly will be plain to everyone.

All Scripture Is God-Breathed

You, however, have observed my teaching, my conduct, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my perseverance, my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

But as for you, continue in the things you have learned and firmly believed, since you know from whom you have learned them.  From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.  All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,  so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.

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Psalm 16
“sacred poem or song“
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Rescue Me from Evil Men

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

 Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men.

Protect me from men of violence,

who devise evil in their hearts

and stir up war all day long.

They sharpen their tongues like snakes;

the venom of vipers is on their lips.

Selah

Guard me, O LORD,

from the hands of the wicked.

Keep me safe from men of violence

who scheme to make me stumble.

The proud hide a snare for me;

the cords of their net are spread along the path,

and lures are set out for me.

Selah

I say to the LORD, “You are my God.”

Hear, O LORD, my cry for help.

O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation,

You shield my head in the day of battle.

Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked;

do not promote their evil plans,

lest they be exalted.

Selah

May the heads of those who surround me

be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.

May burning coals fall on them;

may they be thrown into the fire,

into the miry pits, never to rise again.

May no slanderer be established in the land;

may calamity hunt down the man of violence.

I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor

and defends the cause of the needy.

Surely the righteous will praise Your name;

the upright will dwell in Your presence.

A Meeting of People.  Even Enemies.  Transgressors.

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“The Last Judgement”

By :  Michelangelo
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Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

Ilya Repin
Year 1880–1891
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Enoch

(“dedicated, consecrated”  “he dedicated”  “the act of inaugurating, training, or dedicating something or someone” )
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” By “faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death:
“He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. 
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
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Lithograph by William Blake  (1803 – 1807)

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Enoch  is a person in the Book of Genesis.   He is described as a son of Cain, and father of Irad and Methuselah

Enoch is the subject of many Jewish and Christian traditions. He was considered the author of the Book of Enoch and also called the scribe of judgment.  In the New Testament, Enoch is referenced in the Gospel of Luke, the Epistle to the Hebrews, and in the Epistle of Jude, the last of which also quotes from it.  In the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Oriental Orthodoxy, he is venerated as a saint. In Islam, Enoch is identified with Idris (Arabic: إدريس, romanized: ʾIdrīs) and is considered a prophet.

There are few details about Enoch. We learn that he lived 365 years, and then Enoch “walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away” (Genesis 5:24)    Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_(son_of_Cain)

After the birth of Enoch, the Hebrew text of Genesis 4:17 is unclear. Either Cain built a city and named it after the mighty Enoch, or else Enoch built a city.[1] In the King James Bible, the text makes it clear that Cain built the city and named it after his son.

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James 2
“one that takes by the heel; a supplanter“
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Favoritism Forbidden

My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism.  Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in.  If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,”  have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?  But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court?  Are they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble name of him to whom you belong?

If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,”  you are doing right.  But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.  For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.  For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,”   also said, “You shall not murder.”  If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom,  because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Faith and Deeds

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them?  Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food.  If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?  In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”

Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.  You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.

You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless ?   Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?  You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did.  And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,”  and he was called God’s friend.  You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.

In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction?  As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

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Job 12
(“hated, persecuted”   “enmity”  ” the penitent one.”  “he was hostile to“)
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Job Presents His Case

Then Job answered:

“Truly then you are the people

with whom wisdom itself will die!

But I also have a mind;

I am not inferior to you.

Who does not know such things as these?

I am a laughingstock to my friends,

though I called on God, and He answered.

The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.

The one at ease scorns misfortune

as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

The tents of robbers are safe,

and those who provoke God are secure—

those who carry their god in their hands.

But ask the animals, and they will instruct you;

ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.

Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you;

let the fish of the sea inform you.

Which of all these does not know

that the hand of the LORD has done this?

The life of every living thing is in His hand,

as well as the breath of all mankind.

Does not the ear test words

as the tongue tastes its food?

Wisdom is found with the elderly,

and understanding comes with long life.

Wisdom and strength belong to God;

counsel and understanding are His.

What He tears down cannot be rebuilt;

the man He imprisons cannot be released.

If He holds back the waters, they dry up,

and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.

True wisdom and power belong to Him.

The deceived and the deceiver are His.

He leads counselors away barefoot

and makes fools of judges.

He loosens the bonds placed by kings

and fastens a belt around their waists.

He leads priests away barefoot

and overthrows the established.

He deprives the trusted of speech

and takes away the discernment of elders.

He pours out contempt on nobles

and disarms the mighty.

He reveals the deep things of darkness

and brings deep shadows into light.

He makes nations great and destroys them;

He enlarges nations, then disperses them.

He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason

and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

They grope in the darkness without light;

He makes them stagger like drunkards.

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Hebrews 10
(“a biblical Jew Israelite” “one from the other side“)
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Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All

The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.  Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.  But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins.  It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:

First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law.  Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second.  And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.  But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,  and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool.  For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:

Then he adds:

And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.

A Call to Persevere in Faith

Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.  Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.  And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.  Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.  How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?  For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”  It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering.  Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated.  You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.  So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.

You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.  For,

And,

But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.

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Hebrews 4
(“a biblical Jew Israelite” “one from the other side“)
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A Call to Endurance

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.  Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.  Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

God Disciplines His Sons

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.  And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons:

“My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord,

and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.

For the Lord disciplines the one He loves,

and He chastises every son He receives.”

Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?  If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.  Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.  No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.

Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.  Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.

A Call to Holiness

Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.  See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.  See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.  For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He could find no ground for repentance, though he sought the blessing with tears.

An Unshakable Kingdom

For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm; to a trumpet blast or to a voice that made its hearers beg that no further word be spoken.  For they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”  The sight was so terrifying that even Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”

 Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels  in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,  to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?  At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth, but heaven as well.”   The words “Once more” signify the removal of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that the unshakable may remain.

Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.  “For our God is a consuming fire.”