Deuteronomy 11
- They were to love their God and keep His rules and commandments.
- God is speaking to His people (not their children) because they have seen His power and works in Egypt.
- Moses recounts the parting of the Red Sea and how God destroyed the Egyptians who pursued them.
- He also recounts how God provided for them in the wilderness
- How Dathan and Abiram were swallowed up by the earth.
- The Israelites had seen all of these things.
- Because of these things that should keep all of God's commandments.
- Because of these things they should be strong and go take possession of the land.
- They will live long in the land promised to their fathers.
- In Egypt they had to irrigate their crops but in the promised land streams and rains will grow their crops.
- God cares for this land all year long.
- If they obey God's commands and love Him whole heartedly he will provide rain for the land and grass for their livestock.
- Beware or you may be deceived and turn to other gods which will bring about God's anger against them and will stop the rains.
- If they turn to other gods they will perish quickly.
- Because of this they should put God's words in their hearts, on the hands and near their eyes.
- They should teach God's commandments to their children when talking, walking, or lying with them (constantly)
- They shall write God's laws on their doorposts and on their gates which will multiply their days in the land.If they hold fast to God and love Him, He will drive out their enemies who are mightier than they are.
- Their territory shall be from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.
- No one will be able to stand against them and people will fear them as God had promised.
- Moses is setting before them this day a blessing and a curse.
- The blessing = if they obey
- The curse = if they do not obey God's commandments and go after other gods.
- They shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal which are west of the Jordan in the land of the Canaanites.
- They will cross the Jordan and take this land.
- Moses reminds them again that when they arrived in the promised land they should be careful to keep God's statutes and rules that they are receiving this day.
Isaiah 29
- Ariel is a city where David camped
- They will feast year after year but they too will mourn.
- What does it mean that she shall be an Ariel?
- God will camp against them and besiege them.
- Their speech shall be bowed down in the dust.
- Their foreign foes will be like the dust and they will be visited by God.
- He will come with thunder and earthquake and whirlwind and devouring fire.
- Fighting against Ariel will be like a dream when you eat but wake up hungry.
- All the nations shall be against Mount Zion.
- They will be astonished and stagger, not from wine, but from the deep sleep.
- Their eyes (the prophets) will be closed and their heads (the seers) will be covered.
- The visions of things to come has become like a sealed book which cannot be read but either the literate or the illiterate.
- God says they honer Him with their lips but their hearts are far from Him.
- Because of this God will again do great things which will shame the wise
- The people ask "who can see us?" and they turn things upside down.
- The clay cannot tell the potter he didn't make it.
- It would be like a pot saying the potter has no understanding.
- Lebanon shall soon be turned into a fruitful field and the fruitful field regarded as a forest.
- In that day, the deaf shall hear the words of a book, the blind see, and the meek shall get fresh joy in the Lord.
- The poor shall exult the Lord.
- The ruthless, the scoffer, the evil doer shall be cut off.
- Who can turn aside him who is in the right?
- Jacob won't be ashamed and his face grow pale.
- His children will sanctify His name and stand in awe of God.
- Those who go astray in spirit will come to understanding and those who murmur will accept instruction.
2 Corinthians 12
- Paul continues his boasting though he says it gains him nothing.
- He focuses in on visions and revelations about the Lord.
- Paul says he know a guy who 14 years ago was called up tp the 3rd heaven (not sure if it was in body or simply in spirit) (Was he talking about John?)
- What is the 3rd heaven?
- This man was caught up into paradise.
- He heard things which a man cannot utter.
- Paul is boasting in this man and his own weakness.
- If Paul boasts he would be speaking the truth.
- Paul doesn't boast because he doesn't want people thinking too much of him.
- To keep Paul from being to excited over his revelations a thorn was given to his flesh.
- A messenger of Satan (a demon?) was sent to harass him and keep him from being too elated.
- 3 times Paul pleaded with the Lord to remove this "thorn" and the Lord replied, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my powers are made perfect in weakness."
- That is why Paul boasts in his weakness so God's power may rest on him.
- For Christ's sake, Paul can be content with insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities.
- Paul knows that when he is weak, then he is actual strong (in the Lord).
- Paul says the Corinthians made him a fool.
- Paul says he isn't inferior to the "super apostles".
- Signs of true apostles were done among them with patience; signs, wonders, and mighty works.
- Paul says the only thing that made them different from other churches was that he didn't burden them.
- He (sarcastically) asks for their forgiveness on this.
- Paul is ready to come to them a 3rd time.
- He isn't seeking what they have, but simply seeking them.
- He is saving up and spending himself for them like a parent does for his child.
- Why did they feel deceived by Paul?
- Paul didn't take advantage of them himself or by Titus or the brother he sent with Titus.
- Who was "the brother" sent with Titus?
- Paul fears not finding them as he wishes or them thinking less of him when he comes.
- Paul fears that he'll find quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.
- Paul fears having to mourn over those who have not turned from their sin; impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality.
- What would constitute as sensuality?
Revelations 11
- John was given a measuring rob to measure the temple of God, the altar and those who worship there.
- He wasn't to measure the court outside the temple because it will be given over to the nations and trampled for 42 months.
- He will grant authority to His 2 witnesses and they will prophesy for 1,260 days in sackcloth.
- These prophets are the 2 trees and 2 lampstands that stand before God on earth.
- Anyone trying to harm these two will be consumed by fire.
- These 2 prophets have the power to shut the sky so no rain may fall while they prophesy.
- They can turn the water into blood and strike earth with every plague.
- after they finish prophesying the beast will arise from the bottomless pit make war on them and kill them.
- Their dead bodies will lie in the streets symbolically called Sodom and Egypt.
- People from various tribes will look at their dead bodies for 3 1/2 days, but refuse to place their bodies in a tomb.
- Those who dwell on the earth will rejoice because the 2 prophets tormented them.
- But after 3 1/2 days, God breathed on them and they were alive again.
- People who saw them were afraid.
- A voice will call out to them and they will rise to heaven on a cloud.
- When that happened there was great earthquake that destroyed 1/10 of the city.
- 7,000 people were killed in this earthquake, but the rest were terrified and gave glory to God.
- This was the 2nd woe
7) The seventh angel blew the 7th trumpet.
- loud voices in heaven the kingdom of the world has become Christ's kingdom.
- the 24 elders again fell on their faces and worshipped God.
- They said, "we give thanks to you who is and was for Hos great power He has begun to reign. The nations fought but then God's wrath came and it was time to judge the dead and to reward the prophets and saints and those who fear God's name (great and small) and for destroying those who destroy on earth."
- Then God's temple opened and the ark of the covenant could be seen.
- There was lightning, thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
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