Dawn 02 May 2007 wanted to share Ezekiel 37 _an exchange of letters between a brother and his sister
Joseph- means added
Ephraim- means doubly fruitful
Judah- means praised
Israel- means God will rule with strength; also the name used and given to the northern kingdom consisting of the 10 tribes under Jeroboam- Jeroboam = “the people will contend” Jeroboam-the first king of the northern kingdom of Israel when the kingdom split at the death of Solomon and the 10 tribes split off from Judah and Benjamin and the kingdom under Solomon’s son Rehoboam-“a people has enlarged”
David- means Beloved
Jacob- means supplanted
4- God’s People’s Time; The four stream land (God's New Spirit (upon the land) is taken or gathered during the wind. The wind, like the trumpet, is Bible Symbolism for the Voice of God, the manifestation of His Spirit by fire, by wind of change through His angels, messengers, today yet, corruptible men and women of God, but uncorrupted _on this score in an uncompromising stance standing their ground in Jesus, Lord of all. In faith and hope of His glory and His honour.
Ezek 37:1 THE HAND of the Lord was upon me, and He brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.
Ezek 37:2 And He caused me to pass round about among them, and behold, there were very many [human bones] in the open valley {or} plain, and behold, they were very dry.
Ezek 37:3 And He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, You know!
Ezek 37:4 Again He said to me, Prophesy to these bones and say to them, O you dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
Ezek 37:5 Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath {and} spirit to enter you, and you shall live;
Ezek 37:6 And I will lay sinews upon you and bring up flesh upon you and cover you with skin, and I will put breath {and} spirit in you, and you [dry bones] shall live; and you shall know, understand, {and} realize that I am the Lord [the Sovereign Ruler, Who calls forth loyalty and obedient service].
Ezek 37:7 So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a [thundering] noise and behold, a shaking {and} trembling {and} a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
Ezek 37:8 And I looked and behold, there were sinews upon [the bones] and flesh came upon them and skin covered them over, but there was no breath {or} spirit in them.
Ezek 37:9 Then said He to me, Prophesy to the breath {and} spirit, son of man, and say to the breath {and} spirit, Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath {and} spirit, and breathe upon these slain that they may live.
Ezek 37:10 So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath {and} spirit came into [the bones], and they lived and stood up upon their feet, an exceedingly great host.
Ezek 37:11 Then He said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel . Behold, they say, Our bones are dried up and our hope is lost; we are completely cut off.
Ezek 37:12 Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, O My people; and I will bring you [back home] to the land of Israel.
Ezek 37:13 And you shall know that I am the Lord [your Sovereign Ruler], when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, O My people.
Ezek 37:14 And I shall put My Spirit in you and you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land. Then you shall know, understand, {and} realize that I the Lord have spoken it and performed it, says the Lord.
Ezek 37:15 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying,
Ezek 37:16 Son of man, take a stick and write on it, For Judah (praised) and the children of Israel (God Prevails) his companions; then take another stick and write upon it, For Joseph (added), the stick of Ephraim(doubly fruitful), and all the house of Israel (God will rule with strength) his companions;
Ezek 37:17 And join them together into one stick that they may become one in your hand.
Ezek 37:18 And when your people say to you, Will you not show us what you mean by these?
Ezek 37:19 Say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph (added)--which is in the hand of Ephraim (doubly fruitful)--and the tribes of Israel (God will rule with strength) his associates, and will join with it the stick of Judah (Praised) and make them one stick, and they shall be one in My hand.
Ezek 37:20 When the sticks on which you write shall be in your hand before their eyes,
Ezek 37:21 Then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations to which they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land.
Ezek 37:22 And I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains (High places) of Israel, and one King shall be King over them all; and they shall be no longer two nations, neither be divided into two kingdoms any more.
Ezek 37:23 They shall not defile themselves any more with their idols and their detestable things or with any of their transgressions, but I will save them out of all their dwelling places {and} from all their backslidings in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse them. So shall they be My people, and I will be their God.
Ezek 37:24 And David (Beloved) My Servant shall be King over them, and they all shall have one Shepherd. They shall also walk in My ordinances and heed My statutes and do them.
Ezek 37:25 They shall dwell in the land in which your fathers dwelt, that I gave to My servant Jacob (Supplanted-Take the place or move into the position of), and they shall dwell there, they and their children and their children's children, forever; and My Servant David (Beloved) shall be their Prince forever.
Ezek 37:26 I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will give blessings to them and multiply them and will set My sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.
Ezek 37:27 My tabernacle {or} dwelling place also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
Ezek 37:28 Then the nations shall know, understand, {and} realize that I the Lord do set apart {and} consecrate Israel for holy use, when My sanctuary shall be in their midst forevermore.
Harry de Boom <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Harry de Boom <[email protected]>
To: ..... @yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, 1 May, 2007 1:32:54 PM
Subject: blessing
New American Bible Copyright © 1991, 1986, 1970
John 13
1 2 3 Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end.
You call me 'teacher' and 'master,' and rightly so, for indeed I am.
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If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another's feet.
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I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do.
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From now on I am telling you before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I AM.
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Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me."
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Peter said to him, "Master, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you." [And so said all Jesus’ pupils]
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Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for me? Amen, amen, I say to you, the cock will not crow before you deny me three times."
Comment from NAB
12 [34] I give you a new commandment: this puts Jesus on a par with Yahweh. The commandment itself is not new; cf Lev 19:18 and the note there.
9 [26] Morsel: probably the bitter herb dipped in salt water.
John 14
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1 2 "Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. [in the work I have done _IT IS FINISHED]
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In my Father's house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?
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3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be.
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Where (I) am going you know the way." 4
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Thomas said to him, "Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?"
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Jesus said to him, "I am the way and the truth 5 and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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If you know me, then you will also know my Father. 6 From now on you do know him and have seen him."
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Philip said to him, "Master, show us the Father, 7 and that will be enough for us."
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Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?
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Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works.
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Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else, believe because of the works themselves.
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Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father.
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And whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
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If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it.
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"If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
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And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate 8 to be with you always,
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the Spirit of truth, 9 which the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows it. But you know it, because it remains with you, and will be in you.
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I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. 10
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In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me, because I live and you will live.
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On that day you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you.
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Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him."
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Judas, not the Iscariot, 11 said to him, "Master, (then) what happened that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?" ***
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Jesus answered and said to him, "Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him. Blood and Fire [The fire at belly level _ Ezekiel, Isaiah, Revelation: the Cherubs]
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Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; yet the word you hear is not mine but that of the Father who sent me.
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"I have told you this while I am with you.
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The Advocate, the Holy Spirit that the Father will send in my name--he will teach you everything and remind you of all that (I) told you.
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Peace 12 I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.
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13 You heard me tell you, 'I am going away and I will come back to you.' If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.
From the book you sent me online Dawn Let it be a blessing to us all, but more than any book His Word which He speaks into and over our lives, and shall His Word return empty to Him? [Water 1 John 5: 8 ***]
We realize that the theologians will allow for the working out of the plan of God in the Last Adam somewhere in a certain kingdom, or perhaps after a certain rapture;
but the plain teaching of the Scripture is that as we are born into the family of Adam, so are we born into the family of Christ; that we inherit the power of grace from the Lord Jesus, as we inherit the curse of sin from Adam; that we have God's righteousness in Christ by imputation, just as we have Adam's sin and death by imputation; and that as we grow up into Adam's sin unto its horrible climax by reason of natural generation, by the same token WE GROW UP UNTO CHRIST IN ALL THINGS by reason of spiritual generation.
Our problem seems to be simply this. We believe in the horrible manifestation of sin and death in Adam because it is a matter of history in the past, and of fact in the present. Whereas we reject the glorious manifestation of the Law of Life in Christ because it is not too manifest in history, nor scarcely visible in present day fact. ***[?] Men will not believe until they see. But the generation of Christ, though scarcely visible as yet, is even now believing what they cannot see; so that in the day of their manifestation they will be seen of those who cannot now believe.
Lov3 in Christ Jesus,
From NKJV my paper edition of it; 2 Thessalonici 1:
We are bound to thank God always for you, ... so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God, for your patience (passionate patience The Message Rom. 5) and faith ... 5. which is manifest evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you also suffer; 6. since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those which trouble you, 7. and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, 8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God [now how would He do that, I ask you?!] and to those who do not obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ
Also Hebrews 9: 28 So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him, He will appear a second time. apart from sin. for salvation [now I ask you when does He do that?] [where is the Tree of Life, Eden the Place of God's Delight situated?]
10:5 Therefore when He came into the world, He said: _Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me. 7, 9 Then I said: _Behold I have come to do Your will O God. He takes away the first (sin and religious sacrifice from the first Adam), that He may establish the second
Love in Christ Jesus Alleluiah ! like when I am alive in this earth, and my God is speaking to my heart, to my soul, He loves this soul body I am, He has more care for this physical body of mine than I can have, He loves my family more than I can indeed love them. Now Lord be a blessing to them. I am determined, I shall not draw back form the battle, for in him who draws back from the battle, you take no pleasure. I know you love me, more than I deserve. Go for it Lord God. Give them as good as You have. Go for it Lord GO GO GO!!
in the Way of the Spirit
Harry
