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| ANGEL AND DEVIL� ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES {Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted} |
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| [1]������ THE BIBLE, EPHESIANS 6:17 - "God's Word is an indispensable weapon.� In the same way, prayer is essential in this ongoing warfare." | ||||||||||
| [2]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 17:4 - "I glorified you on earth by completing down to the last detail what you assigned me to do." | ||||||||||
| [3]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 17:11-12a - "Holy Father, guard them....As long as I was with them, I guarded them." | ||||||||||
| [4]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 17:13 - "Now I'm returning to you.� I'm saying these things in the world's hearing so my people can experience my joy completed in them." | ||||||||||
| [5]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 17:24 - "Father, I want those you gave me to be with me, right where I am, so they can see my glory, the splendor you gave me, having loved me long before there ever was a world." | ||||||||||
| [6]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 17:26 - "...the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them." | ||||||||||
| [7]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 18:1, LUKE 22:39 - Jesus, having prayed this prayer, left with his disciples and crossed over the brook Kidron at a place where there was a garden.� He and his disciples entered it....Leaving there, he went, as he so often did, to Mount Olives.� The disciples followed him. | ||||||||||
| [8]������ SEE VOLUME IV, FOLK HERO, "Heart Hunger" and VOLUME V, FLOOD GATES, "Eye of the Storm" | ||||||||||
| [9]������ THE BIBLE, HEBREWS 4:15 - We don't have a priest [Jesus] who is out of touch with our reality.� He's been through weakness and testing, experienced it all - all but the sin. | ||||||||||
| [10]����� THE BIBLE, HEBREWS 3:14-15 [NIV] - Jesus the Son of God...has been tempted in every way, just as we are ~ yet was without sin. | ||||||||||
| [11]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 14:32 - They came to an area called Gethsemane.� Jesus told his disciples, "Sit here while I pray."� He took Peter, James, and John with him. | ||||||||||
| [12]����� See VOLUME I, ANGEL SONG, "Sister, Aunt, Forever Friend" and VOLUME II, "The Hand of God" | ||||||||||
| [13]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 4:8-9 - The Devil took him on the peak of a huge mountain.� He gestured expansively, pointing out all the earth's kingdoms, how glorious they all were.� Then he said, "They're yours ~ lock, stock, and barrel.� Just go down on your knees and worship me, and they're yours." | ||||||||||
| [14]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 14:32; MATTHEW 26:37-38 - He plunged into a sinkhole of dreadful agony....."This sorrow is crushing my life out.� Stay here and keep vigil with me." | ||||||||||
| [15]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 22:41; MATTHEW 26:39a - He pulled away from them about a stone's throw, knelt down, and prayed....Going a little ahead, he fell on his face, praying...." | ||||||||||
| [16]����� THE BIBLE, HEBREWS 5:7 [New International Version] - During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death. | ||||||||||
| [17]����� Jesus' prayer is not recorded in the Bible.� What the author has done here is expand on the scriptural statement that Jesus became sin (2 Corinthians 5:21) in the place of every sinner in the world.� They are signified with italics.� | ||||||||||
| [18]����� THE BIBLE, HEBREWS 5:7 - While he lived on earth, anticipating death, Jesus cried out in pain and wept in sorrow as he offered up priestly prayers to God. | ||||||||||
| [19]����� THE BIBLE, ROMANS 6:23; 4 [NIV] - For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord....We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. | ||||||||||
| [20]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 14:35-42 - Going a little ahead, he [Jesus] fell to the ground and prayed for a way out:� "Papa, Father, you can ~ can't you? ~ get me out of this.� Take this cup away from me.� But please, not what I want - what do you want?" | ||||||||||
| [21]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 6:66-69 - After this a lot of his disciples left.� They no longer wanted to be associated with him.� Then Jesus gave the Twelve their chance:� "Do you also want to leave?"Peter replied, "Master, to whom would we go?� You have the words of real life, eternal life.� We've already committed ourselves, confident that you are the Holy One of God." | ||||||||||
| [22]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 14:37-39 - He came back and found them sound asleep.� He said to Peter, "Simon, you went to sleep on me?� Can't you stick it out with me a single hour?� Stay alert, be in prayer, so you don't enter the danger zone without even knowing it.� Don't be naive.� Part of you is eager, ready for anything in God; but another part is lazy as an old dog sleeping by the fire."� He then went back and prayed the same prayer. | ||||||||||
| [23]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 26:53-54 - "Don't you realize that I am able right now to call to my Father, and twelve companies - more, if I want them ~ of fighting angels would be here, battle-ready?� But if I did that, how would the Scriptures come true that say this is the way it has to be?" | ||||||||||
| [24]����� LEVITICUS 18:23 - A man shall have no sexual intercourse with any female animal, thus defiling himself; and a woman must never give herself to a male animal, to mate with it; this is a terrible perversion. | ||||||||||
| [25]���� According to Harvard Medical School and the scientific-based "Does God Exist?", research has traced back the origination of AIDS to a woman having sexual relations with an African Green Monkey. | ||||||||||
| [26]����� THE BIBLE, ROMANS 1:26-27; 1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-11 - Women didn't know how to be women, men didn't know how to be men.� Sexually confused, they abused and defiled one another, women with women, men with men ~ all lust, no love....Those who use and abuse each other, use and abuse sex, use and abuse the earth and everything in it, don't qualify as citizens in God's kingdom....you were on that list.� Since then, you've been cleaned up and given a fresh start by Jesus.... | ||||||||||
| [27]����� "DOES GOD EXIST?", Vol. 19, no. 3, p. 10 - Syphilis (130,000 cases per year) can damage one's heart, eyes and brains, and cause deformed babies.� Gonorrhea (1.4 million/year) can cause fallopian tube damage.� Chlamydia (4 million/year) produces sterility.� PID (420,000 cases/year) can cause danger to mother and child during pregnancy.� Genital herpes (500,000 cases/yr with 30 million infected) can cause brain damage and death in babies.� Genital warts (1 million/yr) related to cancer of penis, vulva and cervix.� Hepatitis B (300,000/yr) can cause liver disorders including cancer. | ||||||||||
| [28]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 22:43 - At once an angel from heaven was at his side, strengthening him. | ||||||||||
| [29]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 22:13, 1 PETER 2:14, 1 TIMOTHY 2:6, REVELATION 19:11-16�� - "'Get him out of here ~ fast.� Tie him up and ship him to hell'"....He [Jesus] used his servant body to carry our sins to the Cross so we could be rid of sin....Jesus, who offered himself in exchange for everyone held captive by sin, to set them all free....Then I saw heaven open wide - And oh! a white horse and its Rider.� The Rider, named Faithful and True....He is dressed in a robe soaked with blood, and he is addressed as "Word of God"....He treads the winepress of the raging wrath of God, the Sovereign-Strong.� On his robe and thigh is written, KING OF KINGS, LORD OF LORDS. | ||||||||||
| [30]����� THE BIBLE, 2 CORINTHIANS� 5:21 - God put on him [Jesus] the wrong who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God. | ||||||||||
| [31]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 14:40 - Returning, he again found them sound asleep.� They simply couldn't keep their eyes open, and they didn't have a plausible excuse. | ||||||||||
| [32]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 22:44 - He [Jesus] prayed on all the harder.� Sweat, wrung from him like drops of blood, poured off his face. | ||||||||||
| [33]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 8:44 - "You're from your father, the Devil, and all you want to do is please him....He couldn't stand the truth because there wasn't a shred of truth in him.� When the Liar speaks, he makes it up out of his lying nature and fills the world with lies." | ||||||||||
| [34]����� THE BIBLE, GALATIANS 5:19-21 - It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time:� repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. | ||||||||||
| [35]����� THE BIBLE, PSALM 15:1-3 - Find refuge [in God]...who refuses to slander others, does not listen to gossip, never harms his neighbor, speaks out against sin....keeps a promise even if it ruins him....refuses...bribes. | ||||||||||
| [36]����� THE BIBLE, Isaiah 29:15-16 - ...."God can't see us," they say to themselves.� "He doesn't know what is going on!" How stupid can they be!� Isn't he, the Potter, greater than you, the jars he makes?� Will you say to him, 'He didn't make us?'� Does a machine call its inventor dumb?" | ||||||||||
| [37]����� THE BIBLE, ROMANS 6:23 - Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death....And it's clear enough, isn't it, that we're sinners, every one of us, in the same sinking boat with everybody else. | ||||||||||