Psalm 81
1 Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
2 Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp. 3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
4 For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob.
5 He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt.
I hear a language I had not known: 6 “I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
7 In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah 8 Hear, O my people, while I admonish you!
O Israel, if you would but listen to me! 9 There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
10 I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 “But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me. 12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
13 Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! 14 I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.
15 Those who hate the Lord would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever.
16 But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
When we compare Psalm 81 to John 17, we remember Jesus telling us about His Joy in life. When we look at God's emotions, He doesn't put forth all of His Hopes and Plans, The Lord the Almighty's ways reveal His Words are Beautiful and then Wondrous. And matter of fact, so we'd have to say tender, yet authoritative.
Psalm 81 is very similar to Jesus telling us of His compassion for us, the sheep of His Pasture. Tender and shepherding. If we thought about God's emotions as the Exodus unfolded, we would have to see Pleasure. Gladness. Steadfast Love. God wants His Glory to be seen. Why? The Gospels tell us God wanted His Son in Egypt. Out of Egypt, He calls His Son. The Exodus of Egypt, God is brilliantly clear and majestic. Perhaps, the works of Egypt is something He wants to awaken them to shift their lives to more joy.
This is a Christian Rock Concert and the Light in the center, isn't there. This is a messenger of fire and wind, an angel.
Revelation 4
From the Throne
came flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder.
Before the Throne burned seven torches of fire.
These are the seven Spirits of God.
6 And before the Throne was something like a sea of glass,
as clear as crystal.
In the Center,
around the Throne,
were four living creatures,
covered with eyes in front and back
Psalm 97
The Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice;
let the many coastlands be glad!
2 Clouds and thick darkness are all around Him;
righteousness and justice
are the foundation of His Throne.
Fire goes before him
and burns up His adversaries all around.
His lightnings light up the world;
the earth sees and trembles.
The mountains melt like wax before the Lord,
before the Lord
of all the earth.
The heavens proclaim His righteousness,
and all the peoples
see His Glory.
When we read God's Throne has shining water, Angels of various shapes and sizes fly. A Heavenly Choir. Darkness, Thunderous Light. Aren't you reminded of a modern, yet Holy and Beautiful Rock Concert? God of the Ages. Why couldn't God love to remember the beauty of thousands of years and cultures. Jesus is with us until the end of the age, and including the modern era!
The Joy of the Lord
The People had heard a band of musicians
but not a jet
or modern war
nor the power of gunpowder
The Noise of Acts 1?
Exodus 19:1-20
On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 They set out from Rephidim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, and they encamped in the wilderness.
There Israel encamped before the mountain, 3 while Moses went up to God.
The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: 4 ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself. 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; 6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”
7 So Moses came and called the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him.
8 All the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do.”
And Moses reported the words of the people to the Lord.
9 And the Lord said to Moses,
“Behold, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.”
When Moses told the words of the people to the Lord, 10 the Lord said to Moses,
“Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments 11 and be ready for the third day. For on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. 12 And you shall set limits for the people all around, saying, ‘Take care not to go up into the mountain or touch the edge of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall be put to death. 13 No hand shall touch him, but he shall be stoned or shot; whether beast or man, he shall not live.’
When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain.” 14 So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and consecrated the people; and they washed their garments. 15 And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not go near a woman.”
16 On the morning of the third day
there were thunders and lightnings
and a thick cloud on the mountain
and a very loud trumpet blast,
so that all the people in the camp trembled.
17 Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God,
and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain.
18 Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke
because the Lord had descended on it in fire.
The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln,
and the whole mountain trembled greatly.
19 And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder,
Moses spoke,
and God answered him in thunder.
20 The Lord came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain.
And the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain,
and Moses went up.
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9 I, John, your brother and partner
in the tribulation and the kingdom
and the patient endurance
that are in Jesus
Was on the island called Patmos
on account of the word of God
and the testimony of Jesus.
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day,
and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet 11 saying,
“Write what you see in a book
and send it to the seven churches,
to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum
and to Thyatira and to Sardis
and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”
12 Then I turned to see the Voice that was speaking to me,
and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands,
13 and in the midst of the lampstands
One like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around His chest.
14 The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow.
His eyes were like a flame of fire, 1
5 his feet were like burnished bronze,
refined in a furnace,
and His voice was like the roar of many waters.
16 In His right hand
He held seven stars,
from His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword,
and His Face
was like the sun shining
in full strength.
17 When I saw Him,
I fell at his feet as though dead.
But He laid His Right Hand on me, saying,
“Fear not,
I am the First and the Last,
and the Living One.
I died,
and
Behold
I am alive forevermore,
and
I have the keys of Death and Hades.
19 Write therefore the things that you have seen,
those that are
and those that are to take place
after this.
As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw
in My Right Hand,
and the seven golden lampstands,
the seven stars
are the angels
of the seven churches,
and the seven lampstands
are the seven churches."
Abba, Father,
Clothe us in Your Name
Dwell in us, Father,
we ask in the Name of Jesus.
Cloth us in today and always
in Your Kingdom,
Your Power and Glory.
Dwell in the ones we Love
Cover them in the Love and Name
of Jesus Christ.
Help us to seek You first.
And, in Jesus Christ, we will finish well.
Clothe us in Jesus Christ, please, Father.
Finally, be strong in the Lord
and
in the strength
of His Might.
Put on the whole Of God's Word,
that you may be able to stand!
To Know the Scriptures is
to know
the Power of God
Stand firm
Stand therefore,
having fastened on
The Belt of Truth,
and having put on
The Breastplate of Righteousness,
and,
as shoes for your feet,
having put on the readiness given by
The Gospel of Peace.
In
All
circumstances
Take up the Shield of Faith,
with which you can extinguish
all
the flaming darts of the evil one
And take the Helmet of Salvation,
and
The Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God,
Praying at all times in the Spirit,
with all prayer and supplication.
To that end, keep alert with all perseverance,
making supplication for
all
the saints,
and also for me,
and with health and healing for our families
that Words may be given to me
in opening my mouth boldly
to proclaim the mystery of the gospel,
for which We are Ambassadors.
Thanksgiving
for hearing (please)
and health!
We ask You, Father, in the Name of Jesus.
And in Jesus - this Hope,
Faith and Love - we will rise up believing Jesus.
Amen.
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