Isaiah 46:9-10 ~ God's counsel shall stand, and He will accomplish all His purpose +

Isaiah 46:9-10 

Remember the former things of old;
for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,
declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done,
saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose."

The Exodus is everyone's story. Father God interested in the quality of life. The slaves end up leaving with pay. Gold of the captors.  Funding the Temple.  1000 B.C. The Temple is built. 700 B.C. Hezekiah refuses to dismantle the Temple as safety money from the Assyrian Empire - God saves the Temple and Israel.

Why is it any more spectacular to know God sent the Children of Israel out with Egyptian financial sacrifices.

The History Channel did a Documentary on the Exodus and says some of the Plagues we can see from the air took place. 

Ipuwer – explains the world has been turned upside-down. A slave who had not a single box now has furniture, a girl who looked at her face in the water now owns a mirror, while the once-rich slave owner is now in rags. This continues until a huge storm of unseen before proportion - Hurricanes and tornadoes - take out the Pharaoh's Army. The women of Egypt will take to boats to look for the Army in the Red Sea. The Plagues are listed one by one.


The Ipuwer Papyrus has been dated no earlier than the Nineteenth Dynasty, around 1250 BC.


Seti II (or Sethos II), was the fifth ruler of the Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt and reigned during 1200 BC. Seti II's reign at Thebes was interrupted by the rise of a rival: King Amenmesse. Amenmesse is possibly a half-brother.

Attested by various documents and papyri - Papyrus Salt 124 - reigns of Amenmesse and Seti II must have partly overlapped with one another and suggests that both rulers were rivals who were fighting each another for the throne of Egypt. Seti ll's Successor is his consort, not a son. Two important papyri date from the reign of Seti II. The first of these is the Tale of Two Brothers, a fabulous story of troubles within a family on the death of their father, which may have been intended in part as political satire on the situation of the two half-brothers. Many crimes were alleged by Amennakhte in a violently worded indictment preserved in papyrus now in the British Museum.

This trouble-maker had then brought a complaint before 'Mose' (i.e., 'Msy'),
who then acted to remove Pra'emhab from his office. Evidently, this 'Mose' must have been a person of the highest importance, perhaps the king Amenmesse himself or a senior ally of the king.


Do we have a discrepancy with the Bible?

No, I don't believe so. The Pharaohs did all the work they could to pull down statues, papyrus and re-do history. We have found Moses in the history of Egypt, I believe. And Moses might have had an additional Egyptian name. Pharoahs record different spellings, even the little known Seti II.  The other confusion is Seti II lived, as all Pharoahs do,  in fear of being over thrown. Seti II probably saw all of Moses demands as a plot to take his reign from him.









1500 B.C. Thutmose II - might be when Joseph becomes the Vizier of Pharaoh. 

The Tax Records today read that Joseph is here during the reign of Thutmose III, the 18th Dynasty. The New Kingdom.  This is the Zenith of Egypt. As believers are we surprised, when Joseph spoke with God?

Thutmose III is the Pharaoh with great wisdom who created all the magnificent funding Egypt had. He is the one who creates the glamor of Egypt.

Thutmose III

In the New Kingdom -  The Glorious Years of Egypt - Monotheistic God Worship.

Akhenaten is 4 Pharaohs after Thutmose III and the 5th Pharaoh is one God alone, too. They change the Egyptian culture to Monotheistic God of the Sun. Like Joseph. Perhaps they have seen the Power of the God of Gods in the Exodus as part of their childhoods and recent history.



1200 B.C.  SETI II - Records in many Papyrus a protagonist challenger. Recorded as Mose.

Seti II and Moses

Troubles are documented and various accusations occur during the short reign of Seti II. Clearly Thebes was going through very troubled times. There are references elsewhere to 'war' occurred during these years and is obscure to what.

Seti II dies suddenly. His Tomb is not finished. His consort, instead of a child, inherits.

The Temple built by Seti II was abandoned in the late Bronze Age collapse (1200 BC). A part of the temple seems to have been used by Midianite nomads, linked to the worship of a bronze serpent discovered in the area.

Numbers 21:8
The LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live."




 

1000 B.C.  500 years later the glories end - The New Kingdom is ushered out with Ramses III. The Third Intermediate Period (1000 or 1100 BC) marked the end of the New Kingdom after the collapse of the Egyptian Empire. Ramses III fought an unidentified people and the treasury of Egypt is Gone. The Sea People. This Ramses III is viewed today as a mummy. Ramses III, had red hair, I've seen his mummy on display, and no teeth in old age. This is also today's history available to see after being in the ground for 3,000 years.

This is the time Solomon marries into Egypt. Solomon marries the Pharaoh's Daughter. The Treasury is raided. And Israel is gloriously expanded.

Ramses III

Ramses loses the treasury and fights with an unknown adversary. The Sea People are unidentified but speculated in some history around Canaan.   The treasury is Broken. Solomon with his request for Great Wisdom from our God - marries Pharaoh's Daughter and is to spend his life apart from Father God - asking God to speak to him. The stories of the two lives - appear to have commonality. 








 

Now, this is interesting, of course, but how will we relate to this?

Are we part of the 500 years struggle, the cultural struggles? We have seen a lot of cultural changes from our grandparents to our children.


This timeline fits and yet crashes us into David's Reign at 1000 B.C..  In exact parallel to Egypt.  And the Temple is Built. And finally, the area around Bethlehem becomes for the First Time - really allotted to the Tribe of Judah. 

Genesis 22:18 to Abraham

17 indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies. 18 "In your seed, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."


Abraham's sons are covered by the Blessing of Abraham. 

"Foreigners go no further."


Thank you. Please be courteous. Now, that is a Joke.

Even when the Children of Israel had revisionist History in Jeremiah 23,

God was making plans for the Blessing of Abraham to pull them up again.

And when after they killed God,  Jesus said the Temple would be pulled down and we can see the massive stones display Jesus is correct today. God holds up His Promises. 70 A.D.

And unusually there are several intact signs saying "No Foreign Visitors." For good reason. The Temple was entirely covered in thousands of tons of Gold. Billions of dollars. 

I Chronicle 29 and

II Kings 10:23

So King Solomon exceeded
all the kings of the earth
in riches and wisdom

 

This Gold is the unforgotten payment of the 500 years of Jewish Slavery in Egypt. And unparalleled and recorded in Babylonian Chronicles as well - the return of the gold.

Ezra 1:5-10
The list of returned items included 1000 basins of gold, 1000 basins of silver, 29 censers, 30 bowls of gold, 2410 bowls of silver, and other vessels of gold and silver totaling 5,469 in number. 

How could the Temple even exist in safety?

The Temple is established. Upheld by the Word of God. Otherwise, Pharaoh and other Empires would have melted the Temple instead of the Biblical witness to the end. 

Banks hold treasure and values. Empires rise and fall, quickly. This is enduring even today.

What supported the Temple and the return of the Temple things?


Numbers 23:19

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Hebrews 1:3

The Son is the radiance of God's glory
and the exact representation of his being,
sustaining all things by His Powerful Word.


 

Jesus declared what is of value to His Father, our God. Our Father.

Father God sees us as His Treasure.


John 6:40

For it is My Father's will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.



1 Corinthians 3

16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.






Egypt  - where Jesus spent his early years. How we live today is still important to God our Father. The Nations all around the world are important to our God.

Abba,

We ask for Your Blessing today. And know the Blessing to ask:

No other generation has seen the Wonders of God, other than the Generation of Jesus Christ, to the extent of the Exodus.

And as we are apt to do and see in

Mark 9
All things are possible for one who believes.

24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
We need the Blessing of our Father in our daily faith. If the fires of the day look like flaming hail, we pray the comfort of Your God heart. To be held in Your Pinions and held in the Comfort of the Holy Spirit.

If the day sinks to the depths of the ocean, we pray to see the Wonders of God's provision. Knowing ahead in You, Our Father, is secure. The dance and song of rescue.

Cover us in the Name of Jesus. Cover those we Love. Knowing all our cares are covered. To the Nation. And beyond all borders - covering the prayers of the faithful all over this creation You call Good.

Yesterday, today and tomorrow we are Your's in Jesus, Father God. Our Alleluia in being part of the New Covenant covers us each day. Give us this day, the difficulties and the blessings. In Jesus become Blessings because all things are possible. And work together for good for those Loving You and working to Your Good Purpose. Amen in Jesus' Love.

 ♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †

Psalm 78:1-39 ~ His works and the wonders

The Ipuwer was displayed for many years in Holland in the Leden Museum in these frames.

Today:

Psalm 78:1-39

1 Give ear, O my people, to my teaching;
incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
2 I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter dark sayings from of old,
3 things that we have heard and known,
that our fathers have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their children,
but tell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might,
and the wonders that he has done.

5 He established a testimony in Jacob
and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our fathers
to teach to their children,
6 that the next generation might know them,
the children yet unborn,
and arise and tell them to their children,

7 so that they should set their hope in God
and not forget the works of God,
but keep his commandments;
8 and that they should not be like their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation whose heart was not steadfast,
whose spirit was not faithful to God.

9 The Ephraimites, armed with the bow,
turned back on the day of battle.
10 They did not keep God's covenant,
but refused to walk according to his law.
11 They forgot his works
and the wonders that he had shown them.
12 In the sight of their fathers he performed wonders
in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.
13 He divided the sea and let them pass through it,
and made the waters stand like a heap.
14 In the daytime he led them with a cloud,
and all the night with a fiery light.
15 He split rocks in the wilderness
and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
16 He made streams come out of the rock
and caused waters to flow down like rivers.

17 Yet they sinned still more against him,
rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
18 They tested God in their heart
by demanding the food they craved.
19 They spoke against God, saying,
“Can God spread a table in the wilderness?
20 He struck the rock so that water gushed out
and streams overflowed.
Can he also give bread
or provide meat for his people?”

21 Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of wrath;
a fire was kindled against Jacob;
his anger rose against Israel,
22 because they did not believe in God
and did not trust his saving power.
23 Yet he commanded the skies above
and opened the doors of heaven,
24 and he rained down on them manna to eat
and gave them the grain of heaven.
25 Man ate of the bread of the angels;
he sent them food in abundance.
26 He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens,
and by his power he led out the south wind;
27 he rained meat on them like dust,
winged birds like the sand of the seas;
28 he let them fall in the midst of their camp,
all around their dwellings.
29 And they ate and were well filled,
for he gave them what they craved.
30 But before they had satisfied their craving,
while the food was still in their mouths,
31 the anger of God rose against them,
and he killed the strongest of them
and laid low the young men of Israel.

32 In spite of all this, they still sinned;
despite his wonders, they did not believe.
33 So he made their days vanish like a breath,
and their years in terror.


34 When he killed them, they sought him;
they repented and sought God earnestly.
35 They remembered that God was their rock,
the Most High God their redeemer.
36 But they flattered him with their mouths;
they lied to him with their tongues.
37 Their heart was not steadfast toward him;
they were not faithful to his covenant.

38 Yet he, being compassionate,
atoned for their iniquity
and did not destroy them;

he restrained his anger often
and did not stir up all his wrath.
39 He remembered that they were but flesh,
a wind that passes and comes not again.

James Tissot - The Egyptians were left to care for their wounded.

 Numbers 1:46 How many people in the Exodus
all those listed were 603,550.







Jeremiah 33:3
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and will show thee great things, and difficult, which thou knowest not.

Genesis 15:6
Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

Galatians 3:6,7
Consider Abraham: "He believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham.

 


~ 11 They forgot his works and the wonders that he had shown them.



According to the Exodus, the people of faith grumbled during the 10 plagues and doubted Moses, but believed much sooner than the Pharaoh. The Ipuwer Papyrus, the papyrus in the Leiden Museum in Holland, an eyewitness Egyptian angrily saw the 10 plagues as a human failure of government to control the environment.

The Egyptian writing Ipuwer was angry enough to catalog the disasters, perhaps to insure future disasters should be better regulated, and the response more sure. In typical dynastic empowerment, the Pharaoh’s name is obliterated in the Ipuwer, but the events were terrible enough to keep the reminder. Egyptians wanted to remember.

The children of Israel forgot Father God’s power every time trouble came to them. But God tells them He has not forgotten them, many future generations will hear of His help and His love

The Ipuwer Papyrus in Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, Netherlands was written by someone very upset when the government couldn’t control or maintain Egypt during a set of tragedies. The writer of the papyrus (it is dated from 1850 BC to 1300 BC depending on the source of age determiner) doesn’t see God of the Universe, but unbelievable change, social upheaval, loss of the Pharaoh as never before, loss of livestock & food, then former slaves were given gold from their former masters. And another plague is also identified, convincing many of the validity of this document as an Egyptian eyewitness account of the Exodus. The water of the Nile became blood.

History of the Exodus isn’t readily acknowledged, leaving people of faith confused. But just as statistics can be quoted to prove any point, people of faith should understand what evidence is available the Exodus did occur.

EXODUS 7:21 ... there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt

PAPYRUS 2:5-6 Plague is throughout the land. Blood is everywhere.

~
EXODUS 7:20 ... all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.

PAPYRUS 2:10 The river is blood.
~
EXODUS 7:24 And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.

PAPYRUS 2:10 Men shrink from tasting -- human beings, and thirst after water.
~
EXODUS 7:21 ... and the river stank.

PAPYRUS 3:10-13 That is our water! That is our happiness! What shall we do in respect thereof? All is ruin!

For more of the comparisons to the 10 plagues, here is the translation of the Ipuwer Papyrus:

http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/Ipuwer.html











The name of the city Jacob-El was recorded for the first time in Thutmose’s III era.

Thutmose III actually created Egypt’s wealth. Thutmose III possessed the archetypal qualities of a great ruler. A brilliant general who never lost a battle, he also excelled as an administrator and statesman. 1479 – 1425 BC

 
Yahweh was also recorded for the first time during Thutmose III.
Ramses II spent Egypt’s wealth on massive building projects where as Thutmose III actually created Egypt’s wealth.
During this time period, according to Egyptian historical documentation, Israel was not a recorded as a name, the people were recorded as hyksos.
On a statue of Amenhotep III (monotheistic Pharoah) at Kom el Hetan is Amenhotep’s funeral statue and on the base of the statue is Joseph-el.












God wants to save the world.

Our Living God - Jesus Christ
Archaeology reveals  

Daniel 2:22

He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him.

Mark 16:15
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation."


Father God, You said more blessed are the eyes seeing with faith. 

Father God, we lift up Your Good News. Jesus Christ wants to save the world. Equip us and the ones we Love with everything good to do Your Will, working in us to be pleasing in Your sight, through Jesus Christ, Father God to You be glory forever and ever.

Bless those in all circumstances to be led by You. Give us Your help, we look to You for healing and mercy.

Father God, we thank You for cooler temperatures and breezes. We ask You all of Texas and the South needing rain - will be soaked generously and again - in Mercy for our needs.  For Puerto Rico and power returned. Mud slides cease in California. Thank You, Father. 

 Amen in Jesus Christ. Thank You, Jesus Christ Our LORD!

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Psalm 47 ~ God has gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of the Trumpet

There are clouds in Heaven.

Matthew 26:64
Jesus said to him, “You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

Psalm 47

1 Clap your hands, all peoples!

Shout to God with loud songs of joy!

2 For the LORD, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth.

3 He subdued peoples under us, and nations under our feet.

4 He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah

5 God has gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

6 Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
7 For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!

God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.

The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham.

For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted!

Nahum 1:3
The clouds are the dust of his feet.

Exodus 24:15-18
Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. The glory of the Lord dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day, he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel. Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Daniel 7:13
I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him.

Revelation 14:14-20
Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head

We are all so familiar with shields of the earth. The Shields belonging to God are far different.

God wouldn't just be a physical shield. God is a mental shield. Father God is a seed planter and physical shield of the future. God is a shield provider over the past. God brings wisdom allowing us compassion. God is a Mercy giver when He provides His Shield. God's Shield is a provision of His Good Will. His Hope and His Future. His Way, Truth and Life.

And why would God do this? Jesus works to be our mediator between God and man. This is His Love.

God has Loud Songs of Joy. This is Father work!!! He heralds and Trumpets His Good News.





Abba,

Bless us today as we remember Your Joy as our Father.

When the trumpet sounds a long blast, we shall come up to the mountain!

Jesus climbed a mountain after feeding the Multitude at the Sea of Galilee. We hope to climb mountains with Jesus and the people You have given us. Jesus could see the willingness of His Father to allow Him to walk upon the waters. And Jesus came down from the mountain at the Sea of Galilee to walk upon the waters. We would go with Him, with His help. The Father's Work is marvelous. The Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes!!!

And we shall all be changed by God's Love for us. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.

Abba,
You told Jesus we could expect to see more Heaven on earth. New headlines would not suggest this, but perhaps in our homes and families. Where we carry the Holy Spirit in us each day, we will see Your Good News. And as we pray faithfully. We will indeed see more Heaven on Earth.

In ourselves, in the ones we Love. The way we carry our cares. Our hope in You. In the people You have given us. And we shall pray in expectation - living in all good hope. To our nation and like Jesus, beyond all borders. Our Jesus. Amen.

 ♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †

Matthew 6:1-4 ~ Trumpet

Matthew 6:1-4

1 "Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

2 "Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others.

Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you." 

God has always Loved a Good Announcement.

Let there be Light. True God of True God. True Light of True Light.

And Jesus Christ is God's Son and Word made Manifest.



And in God's Temple meticulously planned, God placed the Court of Women where Jesus would be welcomed. Simeon and Anna were here as Jesus is Presented in His Father's Temple. And here God has placed the Menorah to Light up the Temple. And here, among the Lamp Stands, John recognized God's Home in Revelation 1. This is where God feels at home.

And in this announcement area. The horns were copied and mounted, next the Gate Leaving the Court of Women, to make a noise to show a gift to God. Unfortunately, this theft-proof-giving made an announcement noise. The more coins, the more noise. God's house sounded a little like Vegas. And the Pharisees and Sadducees did not plan for the noise to stay in Vegas.

Josephus records the gates of the Court of Woman opened by the Hand of God during the sack of Nebuchadnezzar II and of Titus in 70 A.D. The Pharisees and Sadducees hid behind these gates and they were locked and opened by themselves. God might have felt their reward, they had proclaimed for so long, had ended.

At this same spot. God declared, as Jesus was presented, we received our Reward who Believe in Jesus Christ. With the Lights of Moses and of Solomon, built to be pleasing to God. Returned by Nebuchadnezzar II. And found today in the Arch of Titus in Rome today.

This is very cleaned up to see the detail.

The horns are seen,  to the back right side, might have been used for Matthew 6. The gold horns Jesus pointed to as He explained Matthew 6. The Menorah was definitely in the sight of Jesus as Matthew 6 unfolded.

Temple of Jerusalem. The Place of Trumpeting.



Abba,

We ask Your Blessing, knowing this of Your Love. Holy to our LORD. Jesus told us His Joy in His Given Life. John 14,15 and 16. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

For the Lord himself
will descend from heaven with a cry of command,
with the voice of an archangel,
and with the sound of the trumpet of God.

And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

Revelation 11
Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever."

Abba, Jesus told us to pray for more Heaven on earth. And we will. The Trumpet Call of the Holy Spirit of God's Goodness to dwell in us. Knowing every thought, mind, soul and body - our heart. Our Love.

This Trumpet of God's Love for our Loved ones. The people You give us. And our Joy.

God Bless us. Amen in Jesus.

 ♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †

Peace among those whom He is Pleased

How are we going to take the every day and make "Glory to God in the Highest and on earth peace among those whom He is Pleased"?

An Exercise of Daily Faith and God in All Events.

How to make sure we see Father God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Jesus saw the willingness of Father God ' every day'. We live more of a social media more apparent life of Frank Zappa and the Mothers, fast-paced find-the-time life. And yet - God is where everything happens that matters.

When you 'Really' look at the events of life - and you put your faith as part of your perpetual conversation with God Who Loves You Most - (we do Faith to drive down the highway) - we can find God is in every particle.

So, we are going to do this Faith where we realize Life goes far beyond and do this to a regular song.

"Smoke on the Water" - Fire in the Sky.

Man, you see - Smoke on the Water is The Holy Spirit in Genesis 1. Fire in the sky - definitely - Acts 2. (What I saw, reading today is this tidbit of Acts 2 - the violent Wind of the Holy Spirit - was in the house.) No matter what we get out of this - we know - we will never forget.

Deep Purple - the Majesty of God. His Son - King of Kings.

The sound is Strong. The Chords Majestic. The Urgency to be part of God. The Almighty God of All.

Salvation is happening in Smoke on the Water. Even the kids are being saved. We will never be in the old place again.

We all came out of the town, like traveling to find Jesus in our personal wilderness. On the Shore of Lake of Galilee.

To make mobile. Records of our lives - recorded monuments of touchstone meaning - a truly meaningful life. The Mission of Loving Christ is to be mobile with God's love into the every day. The Message of the Bible tells us time is fleeting. Day is short. Make the Best of God for God for one another.

Now we are Gambling, here, when we take up the Faith. We assuredly know taking up the Faith of God - is not comfortable. And the song continues - isn't the real gamble - to put the Way, the Truth and the Life on the way back. The back, back non-burner. Wouldn't we really all like to see useless and senseless pain - die. Sadness and sorrow - flee away. Let what is wretched die with an awful sound - acknowledging - the end of what is misery.

(Remembering the beginning of God's Mission is to Pray and Rejoice in One Accord - One Voice. A Joyous Noise Before the Lord.)

Funky Claud was running in and out - yes. Emperor Claudius was indeed running back and forth panicked to find True God of True God. We want the young to have Good, Strong Meaningful Lives and Salvation. The Best Swiss Time of their lives. A New Path to Good Life. Out with the old.

The Old Grand Life - what we saw as the Marble Epics is empty and cold as hell. The Adventure of God - having us roll forth - with Fire. With a real life of Gusto.

No matter what we get out of this - we know - we will never forget.

And The Joy of Faith. Of Hope. And definitely Love.



The flair gun? We might see this:
If we had to take this to the young level - where true faith is - we would find the "Where's Waldo" of Faith. Even the expectancy of the chords.







Oh, and, we surely can take this to the Best Level:

The Heavenly side of the Multitude of the Heavenly Host Praising God

Luke 2:13-15

13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,

14 "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!"

15 When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us."

And the Shepherd side of the Heavenly Host

How will we place the Story of Father God and His Son? In every page of the Bible, the Bible supports the Bible. The epic adventure of seeing Jesus Christ's Story as Continual. Like seeing God in "Smoke on the Water".

What is an Angel? Yes, definitely a Messenger of God who will only carry a Jesus centered message the Bible supports.

Psalm 104

3 He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters; He makes the clouds His chariot; He walks upon the wings of the wind;
4 He makes the winds His messengers, Flaming fire His ministers.

We can see the Heavenly Host.

Winds of the Holy Spirit in Genesis 1.

Fire at the Birth of Jesus Christ, King of Kings, True God of True God.

Wind of the Angelic Messengers.

Acts 2 - Wind and Fire of the Holy Spirit - Messenger of God the Most High. The Holy Spirit announcing Life for those in Christ Jesus believing the Salvation of God and His Promises for you.

And ... we will begin completing the picture...

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom He is pleased

To please the God of All of Creation. All of the Heavenly Host and Glory. The Author of Salvation. God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ - to please them - we have sought God with faith. With belief. With Hope of His Glory. And then - we have pleased Father God to look longingly for His Love.

And now to complete this Word of God - let us go to see life - what He has told us of. To see life from God's viewpoint.

Abraham believed God and was considered righteous. Abraham was called Friend of God.

Our Abba,

We ask Your Blessing of Grace and Peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


Blessed is our the God and our Father.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, has presented the Father with a New Heaven and a new earth.

Because we know our Father.
The Father of mercies
and God of all comfort.

This is Our Father and Jesus, who comforts us in all our affliction,
enabling us, strengthening us,
that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction,
with the comfort all the Blessings of Grace and Peace,
with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

In Christ’s one offering of His life, and in His sufferings,
we share abundantly in comfort.

We trust You God in our difficulties and troubles,
We believe in Your Good Will and Good plan - affliction is raised up to
comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, God will work all things for Good. Trusting in Him.

In Jesus Christ, God, wonderful Jesus, our hope for ourselves and our loved ones is unshaken,
for we know that in life sufferings,
Jesus will find us sharing our comforts.

Father God, we pray impossibly for the Love of God to continually flow in our prayer life.
That when we are silent - Your Wonderful Love is pouring forth without ceasing.
We pray the impossible of more Heaven on earth and for the believers of God and the
ones they pray for - to Know Your Love and see the weary world rejoicing in Christ Jesus.

Our Alleluia Chorus will come from Jesus. Amen.

 ♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †

Psalm 31 ~ Be gracious to me, O Lord

Psalm 31

1 In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me!


2 Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily!

Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me! 3 For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your name's sake you lead me and guide me; 4 you take me out of the net they have hidden for me, for you are my refuge.


5 Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.

6 I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the LORD. 7 I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul, 8 and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.

9 Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.

10 For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. 11 Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me. 12 I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel. 13 For I hear the whispering of many-- terror on every side!-- as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.

14 But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God." 15 My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors! 16 Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your steadfast love! 17 O LORD, let me not be put to shame, for I call upon you; let the wicked be put to shame; let them go silently to Sheol.

18 Let the lying lips be mute, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

19 Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind! 2

0 In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men;
you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.

21 Blessed be the LORD, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was in a besieged city. 22 I had said in my alarm, "I am cut off from your sight." But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cried to you for help.

23 Love the LORD, all you his saints!
The LORD preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.

24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD!




To be part of the New Covenant is a Jesus bless you always Blessing.


In the Old Testament, a man is sent with a message from God. He is told do not get off the path. Just give the message. And he has a problem or two and he overcomes - delivers the message and is on his way home - when a 'man of God' stops him to have a visit in his home and the man goes because the message is delivered and the 'man of God' is helping.  It was nothing of the sort. The man returns home to find he has ruined the message and voided the instructions of God. The man is condemned. We are so Very Fortunate to be part of the New Covenant of Jesus Christ.

God in the New Covenant - is never going to leave us. We are not ever left or forsaken of God for all who call on Jesus as God.

Ephesians 6 addresses the reality we learned in the Vietnam War, the torturers knew you can tear people down with continual harm. It was the goal actually. And because God is Jesus - and Jesus is the exact image of the Merciful Father - we have Refuge with Jesus  -who makes all things work for good for those who love the Lord and want to work according to His Purpose.

God tells us He instinctively places the Holy Spirit in those who believe. I once was new to an area and made friends with two women more wealthy than I was. We all had very young children. It was fine until ski clothes were to be handed down. An object to be divided. I was frankly the only one in need. And now there were only two friends, not me. I knew from non-verbal communication some lie had been told. I decided because the problem was told to me as non-existent - it was to be exactly that. I left this up to God. Eventually the lie based friendship ended. And one woman came and told me the lie told against me. The truth is in this neighborhood, as time went by - she could tell this lying woman was going to tell things that were not true. She was not a very stable person who manipulated the truth to appear as if she was telling the Truth. The Truth comes out and in her speech you could tell - this woman was apt to use a particle of the Truth to tell a Lie. And because this is evident over a few years, all the neighborhood knew this. All things were manipulated for any benefit of that individual. As the time came to make changes, the woman with the manipulations - left. Others went on, because being seen - is to be understood.

Being in the New Covenant - we all 3 survived and know each other about completely now.




We know. When we are shown another's character we will make allowances. I made friends with a new neighbor in settling a dispute. Eventually the new friend wanted the old 20 year friend and not me. Eventually the new friend wanted my family's attention and not mine. Eventually the dispute I'd settled, came back to being my dispute. We make allowances for each other and find the shoe fits. Is this bad? Not really.  Without allowances, we have no mercy. And Mercy gives Life Meaning. We take the problems life will give us, Jesus promises life gives problems. And we make sure we don't hand out the problems too often. We make sure we don't let the root of bitterness get us. We work at being the Light that Shines of Jesus Christ.




Win Win
Win Lose.

Sometimes situations are not going to be Win Win. You can't win. However you can win. We have a part of us we all - according to Research, we do inherently know - we have part of us we know are continuing to God. I've seen parts of my life I felt were tragic. And in my 5th Decade, I see God was making me stronger to get to the Truth. The Truth wins. It can be now, later or in Heaven, but the Truth wins.

When we support the Truth - in actions, words and deeds. We make a place for ourselves no one can take. We make self esteem to God. Pleasing God gives us backbone. Bravery. Endurance. Kindness. Ability to bound over the rough places. When we please God - we know we have all the help we need.

No one really makes another less. When we know we stand before God and have His Love. We are Strong. No doubt, we all fail, but when we know we have God's true empathy and Love - we will stand again.





What Joy is Going to Arrive?

God knows definitely. We have to produce the fruit within us to have the Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Hope, Faith and Love. When our house is to God - when our soul is to Father God. We will have the joy within us to have reached the knowledge we are Loved and Held and Appreciated and Esteemed by All That Matters. And when you reach the place where your heart has Joy with God - then you want others to know this place too.


Jesus sent out His Disciples two by two. It wouldn't be like Jesus not to go two by two when He sends two by two. Jesus is paired from Luke 1 with John the Baptist. At times they have harmony and other times John the Baptist is afraid in prison. Jesus acknowledges John the Baptist has flaws saying the least saint in Heaven is greater than John the Baptist. But Jesus is shown to want to feed the multitudes the days after John is beheaded. Jesus spends time in prayer. Jesus sees the willingness of God to allow Jesus to walk on the water. Jesus is not going alone. Peter wants to travel with Jesus. Jesus might have had a good joke and a laugh at Peter's failure. Instead Jesus shows us about moving on in life. Jesus is going to reach down and help Peter. Peter is going to safely journey with Jesus Christ. Jesus does not let the soul happy to God exist in glorious aloneness with God. Jesus does not get the giggles the newbie fails. Jesus does not make a joke so Peter knows who is God. Jesus does not look at the sky and say, "Really God, this one, Really?" Jesus does not let the root of bitterness happen. Jesus does not act like Lucy and press Peter's head a little bit down in the water so we know who is Boss. Jesus immediately helps Peter. This is our God. This is the God we want.

Our God helps people in honest ways. Our God allows us to get to the place where we want to talk to Him. Our God understands heart to heart is heart to heart. Our God immediately helps us back on the path. Our God comes to get us when we are off the path and makes breakfast. Our God makes us so comfortable we ask Him - why John? Our God sees squabbles and still spends time with us.

Our Father God is so good - Peter will risk another few water adventures.

Having faith the trees are in God's Plan. Tending the Orchard year around.

What Joy is Going to Arrive?

How much work are you willing to put into your Orchard with God. Fruit is cultivated.




Abba,

We ask the Blessing of peace to those on whom Your favor rests. We ask our souls continue to fill
with Joy, Peace, Faith, Hope and Love.

Jesus Christ is our God. Jesus, the radiance of God's glory. Jesus the exact representation of Your Being.

Father, increase us of the assurance of things hoped for. With conviction. We want, Father God, the
commendation of You, Yourself. This Blessing of God.

We believe the universe was created by the Word of God. You are sustaining all things by Your powerful Word. Jesus God.

We believe You reward those who seek You. We want to please You, we want to draw near to You in faith, Father God. And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek God.

We want Your Heavenly Homeland in our souls today. Making our homecoming entirely Home. We want our joys to be the joys pleasing to You.

And in our souls today - we want Jesus. We know You give faith conquering kingdoms, enforcing justice, obtaining promises, stopping the mouths of lions, quenching the power of fire, escaping the edge of the sword, making strength out of weakness, making mighty in war, putting armies hostile to God to flight. We know this faith receives back their dead by resurrection.

We ask more Heaven on earth for ourselves, the ones we Love, the people You have given. We reach for the fruit of faith telling us we can make more perfect Heaven on earth every day with the Hope, Faith and Love You give daily.

We ask with all our Heart in Jesus, the Glory of God dwells, where we see You, Father God covering us in Jesus.

Amen.

 ♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †