tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71936077912421079602024-03-24T16:33:25.518-07:00Welcome to Dawn's Christian Blog!Be a Generation of Young People who Stand for What's Right.
TAKE THE HIGHER ROAD!Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.comBlogger435125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-81453954285863566212023-12-30T07:17:00.000-08:002023-12-30T07:18:21.805-08:00Advice from my heart for the new year<p>Go for the genuine article. There are many deceivers in this world. Believe in God’s Word with your critical thinking cap on. Do not use blind faith when it comes to Jesus and the Word of God. You don’t need it! He has proven Himself to us. Look around! Open your eyes and open the Bible and think. </p><p>Many deceivers are out there. The Holy Spirit will not glorify Himself but will point out your sin so you can repent and come to Jesus. Jesus does not glorify Himself but points us to the Father and redeemed us so we can be reconciled with God(Jehovah). </p><p>When the sun is just starting to come up is my favorite time to pray to my Abba Father. Have you experienced that precious time with Him? Ask Him to reveal truth to you. Put on the whole armor of God daily; I don’t DARE start my day without it. We are in a spiritual battle for the souls of mankind. </p><p>Are you ready to lunge forward into 2024 as a soldier of Jesus Christ? Let’s encourage and edify one another. Often our marching orders are to stand firm. Ephesians 6:13: “Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”</p><p>Love righteousness because Jesus does. Love truth because Jesus does. John 14:6: “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”</p><p>A great devotional for your kids is I Will Stand. It goes through 20 main points on how your children can apply scripture personally to their lives and have a closer personal relationship with their Heavenly Father. May God bless you as you stand strong for Him.</p><p>I Will Stand: A Book of Commitment To Do What is Right. <a href="https://a.co/d/6ZvtlB2" target="_blank">Check it out for yourself on Amazon!</a></p>Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-52791323536436835782023-12-03T17:18:00.000-08:002023-12-03T17:18:11.189-08:00Reprimanded by an Angel<p> At church this morning we were reviewing the characters from the nativity account in Scripture. What caught my attention in Luke 1:11-22 was that Zacharias, the husband of Elizabeth (who was barren and later bore John the Baptist), questioned the angel as to how his barren wife could bare a son in their old age. Remember that this happened once before with Abraham and Sarah in the Old Testament. The passage about Zacharias is as follows:</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-11/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:11 KJV verse detail">And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-12/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:12 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="14" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">12</span>And when Zacharias saw <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">him</em>, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-13/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:13 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="15" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">13</span>But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-14/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:14 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="16" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">14</span>And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-15/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:15 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="17" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">15</span>For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-16/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:16 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="18" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">16</span>And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-17/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:17 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="19" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">17</span>And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-18/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:18 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="20" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">18</span>And Zacharias said unto the angel, <b>Whereby shall I know this?</b> for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-19/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:19 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="21" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">19</span>And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-20/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:20 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="22" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">20</span>And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-21/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:21 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="23" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">21</span>And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-22/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:22 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="24" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">22</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-22/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:22 KJV verse detail">And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>My first thought is that Zacharias asked a reasonable question. They were old and his wife was barren. But we have learned that God can do things that in our eyes seem impossible, including opening a barren womb (as in Sarah's case). The response of Zacharias was distrust. "Whereby shall I know this?" It was like he wanted a sign that this was true. What greater sign do you need than an angel of God? And this was in answer to HIS prayer! He was in the presence of one of God's messenger angels, Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God Almighty, and the angel seems surprised at his doubting. This was good news he was bringing! Zacharias was a priest and his wife of the daughters of Aaron. Shouldn't he have more faith?</p><p>Contrast this with a lowly teenage girl, Mary. That same messenger angel, Gabriel, who had spoken with Zacharias now came to Mary. The passage is as follows in Luke 1:26-38:</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-26/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:26 KJV verse detail">And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-27/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:27 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="29" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">27</span>To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">was</em> Mary.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-28/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:28 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="30" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">28</span>And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">thou that art</em> highly favoured, the Lord <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">is</em> with thee: blessed <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">art</em> thou among women.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-29/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:29 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="31" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">29</span>And when she saw <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">him</em>, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-30/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:30 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="32" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">30</span>And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-31/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:31 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="33" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">31</span>And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-32/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:32 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="34" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">32</span>He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-33/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:33 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="35" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">33</span>And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-34/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:34 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="36" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">34</span>Then said Mary unto the angel, <b>How shall this be</b>, seeing I know not a man?</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-35/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:35 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="37" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">35</span>And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-36/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:36 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="38" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">36</span>And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-37/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:37 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="39" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">37</span>For with God nothing shall be impossible.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-38/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:38 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="40" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">38</span>And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;">How was Mary's response? Well, she also asked how could this be since she is a virgin (knows not a man). God didn't come in a usual way to this earth. The Holy Ghost fertilized Mary's egg and Jesus was born of a woman, but his father was God our Heavenly Father. Joseph was more like a stepfather because while he was Jesus' earthly father, he was not his biological father. </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;">Mary didn't ask a question because she doubted this could happen as the angel said. She just didn't know how it could happen. The angel told her, and she said, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word." The angel departed from her and did not punish her for asking her question. What was the difference? The heart. The trust. The response. <a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-18/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:18 KJV verse detail"><b>Whereby shall I know this?</b></a> vs. <a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-1-34/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luke 1:34 KJV verse detail"><b>How shall this be?</b></a> How do I know I can trust you, vs. how can this happen? Do you see the difference?</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;">How will you react when the Lord asks you to do something that you don't have all the answers to? Will you doubt God, or quit because you don't understand everything? Or will you trust in God and let it be according to God's will?</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;">This Christmas let's not be like doubting Zacharias, who by the way did have his voice restored after the baby was born. The angel said to name him John, and when the family and friends put pressure on these parents to name their baby from their family line, Elizabeth said they would name him John. The loved ones were in an uproar, questioning the validity of Elizabeth's statement, and demanded that Zacharias straighten this whole thing out. Because he couldn't speak, he asked for paper and he wrote, "His name is John." Then immediately he could speak. Now he had the faith and the obedience to do what the angel said, and the punishment was lifted.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;">Let's not be doubters. Let's be obedience to God and His holy Word this Christmas season and always. What is God's will? Read the Bible, pray, go to church, repent of your sins, trust in Jesus as your Savior, tell others about Christ, and obey what He has said in His Word for us to do, such as love one another, be kind, forgive others, give to the Lord, take care of the temple of God (our bodies), teach our children about God, rejoice in the Lord always, look for His second coming, etc. Once we are doing the known will of God, then He can reveal specifics that He wants us to do. Follow Jesus and trust in the One who can do mighty things!</p>Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-69914794770219188842023-01-15T13:43:00.069-08:002023-09-02T07:27:18.176-07:00How Do I Discover the World Around Me?<p>Science is observable, measurable and repeatable. It is asking questions and exploring the world around you. It is the seeking of knowledge. Science changes as we learn more and more about our world. Science itself is not an authority as if it’s a god; it is a method to find truth. Our five senses are great resources, as is our ability to reason and come to logical conclusions. The scientific method starts with a hypothesis, an idea, in which you have a theory, and then tests are done and observations made to study the world and see if the hypothesis is correct. You keep adjusting based on what you find, allowing the truth to present itself. Truth seeking encourages questions.</p><p>For instance, if we came from monkeys, why do we still have monkeys and humans and nothing in between? If things could jump from kind to kind like a canine to a bird, why do we not observe this? If our earth is spinning, why do we not see this when we are in a plane? If we are on a sphere, why doesn’t the nose of the plane dip every 5 minutes as the math would demand? If we are spinning, why does a cannon shot straight up come straight down from where it was shot? Why is the water, which always finds its level, from the Nile River and Suez Canal which are many miles long not running downhill? Why do the satellites not take any pictures of people in Australia or Argentina driving on roads or swimming upside down? Why is it when you go higher and higher that the horizon stays at eye level rather than moving downward like it would on a ball? Why does the sun have rays that can be measured in triangular math rather than parallel like it would if millions of miles away? Why are boats that go out of sight like you would expect if going over a curve able to be zoomed in with the new technology cameras you can buy yourself?</p><p>There are many experiments you can find online and even do yourself that are observable, measurable and repeatable that will answer your questions to find actual truth. Don’t rely on computer generated images to teach you truth, or Hollywood films. Pilots and military staff will attest to a flat, non spinning earth, and so do their technical books. The next time you are in a pool with a wet ball, throw it with a spin and see if the water clings to it, or flies off the ball. The next time you are landing in a plane, look at the ground and observe if it is a moving target. The next time you practice shooting, see if you have to calculate your shot with the earth spinning thousands of miles an hour in order to get that flying bullet to its target. The next time you fly on a plane, bring a level and see if the plane is having to dip its nose to follow the curvature of the earth and maintain its height. If the earth were spinning thousands of miles an hour as they claim, why couldn't you just hover and allow the next state to appear? If flying the same direction of the earth spinning 1,000 miles at the equator, as they claim, and 16,000 miles per hour at the poles (and everything in between would be between 1,000 and 16,000 mph), a plane going 500 miles an hour would have a very hard time arriving at its destination. How do we not feel that? If gravity were that strong to keep bodies of water and skyscrapers still and in their places even when upside down, how does a butterfly gently move through the air?</p><p>Start looking, <i>really </i>looking at God’s beautiful world around you that He made for you to enjoy. You matter to Him. You are not a speck of dust on a spinning rock flying around the sun, zipping through space in an infinite universe. God made the earth with the sun, moon and stars in the firmament, on sure foundations, with water above the firmament, an ice wall around the edges of the earth holding the water in, as water must be contained, a magnetic North Pole in the center of the circle of the earth, with a sun running its race along the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer. The moon gives off its own cool light (test it! It is warmer in the shadows), which is the lesser light to rule the night, and has its course for times and seasons. What we know as planets are wandering stars. What people think of as life from other planets are demons. What we actually see as stars and planets appear as lights; the rest is all computer graphics, not photos. The globe earth is also a graphic because we have never gotten high enough to see the whole earth. NASA attests to the Van Allen radiation belts that we can’t cross yet. Satellites and weather satellites go up on helium balloons. Satellites occasionally fall and have been videoed and photographed with a balloon attached to them. It’s all in the open to see for yourself…if you will humble yourself and look.</p><p>The moon landing was a Hollywood film, and think about it: do you think the President could really talk to the astronauts on a land line? The same mountains in the background that the scientists are saying is Mars is in Egypt with a red filter on it. </p><p>See for yourself. Look to my prior blogs with verses and videos to explore. Here are a few others you can see. Rob Skiba, Mark Sargeant, and Eric Dubay have great resources. </p><p>Please excuse some of the swears by some of the speakers in the videos below. I wish they could just leave those out!</p><p><a href="https://rumble.com/v24eaiq-why-do-they-lie-about-the-shape-of-the-earth-living-under-the-firmament.html" target="_blank">Why would the world system lie to us?</a><br /></p><p><a href="https://rumble.com/v230a2c-flat-earth-cgi-vs-reality.html" target="_blank">CGI vs. Reality </a><br /></p><p><a href="https://rumble.com/v24n99c-flat-earth-the-air-up-there-sunlight-vs-daylight-let-there-be-light.html" target="_blank">Sunlight vs. Daylight</a><br /></p><p><a href="https://rumble.com/v23k766-hibbeler-productions-level-2021-flat-earth.html" target="_blank">Level documentary with words from pilots as well</a><br /></p><p><a href="https://rumble.com/v22ij3a-proving-the-sun-rotates-over-a-flat-earth-corey-kell.html" target="_blank">Interesting facts about the sun</a><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ax_YpQsy88" target="_blank">200 Proofs Earth is Not a Spinning Ball</a><br /></p>Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-83842007529919847052022-12-29T05:51:00.002-08:002022-12-29T06:03:26.600-08:00When a Loved One is in a Sinful Lifestyle: What Do You Do?<p>What do you do when someone you love reveals that they are living in a sinful lifestyle? It could be homosexuality, adultery, fornication, alcoholism, drugs, or even something like cheating in business. Our first reaction is often judgment, even anger, disappointment, confusion, sadness, etc. Then with talking and time, people often loosen their standards, and decide that instead they will choose to love. Love conquers all. I am not perfect either, so why should I cast the first stone? God is their judge. They will answer to Him, not me. My job is to just love them, accept them, and ultimately endorse their sin, right? Screech!!! Back the car up! </p><p>How are you helping and loving someone by endorsing their sin? This is where people take it too far. Yes, always love them. Yes, always be humble and realize we are all sinners in need of forgiveness and prone to sin. No, we are not their judges, God is. However, we are to make judgments when it comes to sin, and watch for danger, and to protect ourselves and our families from it. If someone appears as a shady character, you will make a judgment call and not go near that person until you know more about them. That is good and right and even wise. </p><p>If someone you love is blinded by their sin, embracing that sin will not ultimately help them because sin has chains of darkness with it. It leads to bondage, rebellion against God, which leads to their own harm and harm to others ultimately. Sin deceives, and Satan’s final goal is separation between us and God.</p><p>Jesus wrote something in the sand to the men wanting to stone the adulterous woman and said he who is without sin, throw the first stone. They all walked away. Then Jesus said, neither do I condemn thee. GO AND SIN NO MORE. She must have had a repentant heart. Jesus knew her heart as He does ours. He did not embrace her sin or endorse it. He forgave her. He admonished her to have a second chance and stop sinning in adultery. She would break off that sinful relationship. </p><p>Psalm 34:14-16: “Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.”</p><p>If you really love someone, lovingly help them out of their sin if they are willing, pray for them, love them, but yes, hate the sin that will destroy their soul and separate them from God. </p><p>Isaiah 59:1,2: “Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:</p><p>But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.”</p><p>Read that whole chapter! Judgment is not being used. Truth fails and is fallen in the street! Judgement is turned away backward and justice standeth afar off (vs. 14). Loved ones will not be saved from their sinful lifestyle by turning your back on sound judgment. Help them back into the fold. Leave the 99 and put your energy into that one lost sheep. That is true love and true caring for their soul. Sin brings with it shackles. </p><p>James 1:15: “Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”</p><p>To be honest, I feel heartbroken and disappointed when I see parents cave and give up the fight for righteousness and holy living and endorse their children’s sin because they don’t want the riff in the relationship. The child in sin caused that, not you. You need to protect your other children from sin. Endorsing one child’s sin sends a very strong message to the other children. Do they get a free pass? Sin breaks up families. But sticking to what you know is right may cause the prodigal child to come to repentance and return home, free of the shackles of sin that had a grip on them. They will remember there is a peaceful home they left that is a light in their darkness. They will crave that! </p><p>At the beginning of your knowledge of their sin, you can make sure they know why it is sin by sharing God’s word with them. Don’t be sinfully angry and lashing out, but lovingly show them why it’s a sin against God. They can know you are there to help them through this. But if they continue in their sin, the separation in relationship is on them, not you. When they finally see their sin for what it is (the Holy Spirit will enlighten them when they stop quenching Him), they will make the first move toward restoration. Pray for them and be there with open arms of love when they return home in repentance of their sin.</p><p>Romans 12:9: “Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.”</p><p>In 2023, let’s not be enablers, but help others live their best life for God to live an abundant life of joy and purpose as they serve Jesus Christ and His kingdom. </p><p>Jesus said, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” John 10:10</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPynn2w6NRESkL-pNMLaUnDKqRxGYgz3MxNOh2cBQ6TDwY2O844nC0b5Xwg-Y6OO3bb_oNcL2fm8UVSyTEYQcLf0dXoBOH8W_xP9cdqJMPn7Gl-HQczVQbDUYnfc9qC8O2hy9k3o2HyRX9vJbPyN0IDjAkRdRDMwcV5mtyS2hL_xCm_SyELJUB7bo5/s4032/43AE8B9F-73BB-44BA-8242-B829331F39EF.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPynn2w6NRESkL-pNMLaUnDKqRxGYgz3MxNOh2cBQ6TDwY2O844nC0b5Xwg-Y6OO3bb_oNcL2fm8UVSyTEYQcLf0dXoBOH8W_xP9cdqJMPn7Gl-HQczVQbDUYnfc9qC8O2hy9k3o2HyRX9vJbPyN0IDjAkRdRDMwcV5mtyS2hL_xCm_SyELJUB7bo5/s320/43AE8B9F-73BB-44BA-8242-B829331F39EF.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-22592456809948547952022-10-17T15:28:00.012-07:002022-11-07T08:29:22.299-08:00What Does My World Look Like, and Why Does it Matter? Part 3<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I would like to complete my argument about our earth's appearance with the most important part: what God has to say about it. I have to confess that I have overlooked these verses as more symbolism than anything, but in light of what we are actually seeing in science (REAL science) and math, and thinking more clearly and logically about the earth around me, I believe that we should take what God says about our world seriously. After all, He WAS there! He created it! I have typed out all the verses for your convenience, so you don't have to look them up on your own, unless you want to. Some are repeated as they include more than one point. I used the King James Translation of the Bible. I have included more links as well. They explain things, but there is nothing like seeing the Word of God for yourself.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There are many critics of course. Things I have known to be true usually have a following of critics who try to belittle it and cast doubt. More research and experiments need to be done to answer all our questions, but one thing we can rely on is the Word of Truth, by the One who created this world in the first place!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This is a good run down in video format of what the Bible
says about this, and the arguments theologians make against the flat earth
theory. Are they right, or are they ignoring the plain truths of the Word of
God? <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abA922nN7_U">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abA922nN7_U</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpLzsaUGO_7GMJIOuDoECx4ND4rQuZdyPwtKrkch-lNwkpSwuXksoV2HH81APvAmPZ2oC0gGB1P2Y7WHp65xrZNvGHkcxv-y3d0r6oQTUcNfitEcgbD2Rf2OTYVdg-MOu4gHygnp9OGBO31_jQOUcX_EBq9Z6Oz9HNvhuwBi0nLgbyHJmlF9-UZgIK/s300/flatearthmodel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="240" height="473" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpLzsaUGO_7GMJIOuDoECx4ND4rQuZdyPwtKrkch-lNwkpSwuXksoV2HH81APvAmPZ2oC0gGB1P2Y7WHp65xrZNvGHkcxv-y3d0r6oQTUcNfitEcgbD2Rf2OTYVdg-MOu4gHygnp9OGBO31_jQOUcX_EBq9Z6Oz9HNvhuwBi0nLgbyHJmlF9-UZgIK/w378-h473/flatearthmodel.jpg" width="378" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Firmament:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFnbDa85Qwo&t=1702s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFnbDa85Qwo&t=1702s</a></span> – About the Firmament<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH4MnXI0sxQ&t=1s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH4MnXI0sxQ&t=1s</a> - The significance of the Firmament from a biblical perspective</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">What does the Bible say about the earth? Taken from some
slides from Rob Skiba’s presentation:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“From Genesis to Revelation, the earth is consistently
described (by Holy Spirit inspired authors) as:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Fixed and not moving (spinning, orbiting, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Circular, with
edges/corners/pillars/foundations, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Under a dome, within which the sun, moon and
stars were placed on Day 4.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here are some verses to look at and consider what it has to
say about our earth. Remember that when heaven is "up" it can't be down or sideways. If we are on a flat plane (not speaking of earth's landscape of mountains and valleys, but that these are set on a flat plane), then everyone looks up, and everyone will see Jesus when He returns. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">We live in a
self-contained, three tiered system: (Heaven, Earth, Underworld)</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></b></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Job 1:7-8: <span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And the </span></span><span class="small-caps"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"> said unto Satan,
Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the </span></span><span class="small-caps"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">, and said, From going to
and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And the </span></span><span class="small-caps"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"> said
unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in
the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth
evil?</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Job 37:12: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">And it is turned round about by his counsels:
that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in
the earth. [think about the "face" of a clock]</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Job 38:30-34: <span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">The waters are hid as
with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">31 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Canst
thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">32 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Canst
thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his
sons?</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">33 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Knowest
thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the
earth?</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">34 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Canst
thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Gen. 28:12-17: <span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And he
dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to
heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">13 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And,
behold, the </span></span><span class="small-caps"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"> stood
above it, and said, I am the </span></span><span class="small-caps"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"> God
of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to
thee will I give it, and to thy seed;</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">14 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And thy
seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the
west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in
thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">15 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And,
behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest,
and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I
have done that which I have spoken to thee of.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">16 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the </span></span><span class="small-caps"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"> is in this place;
and I knew it not.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">17 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And he
was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the
house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ex. 20:4: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image,
or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth
beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Numbers 16:31-33: <span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And it came to pass, as
he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder
that was under them:</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">32 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And the
earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the
men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">33 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">They,
and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth
closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Deuteronomy 5:8: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any
likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the waters beneath the earth:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">1 Samuel 28:13-14: <span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And the
king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said
unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">14 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And he
said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he
is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped
with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">1 Chronicles 29:11: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Thine, O <span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span> is the greatness, and
the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in
the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O <span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span>, and
thou art exalted as head above all.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">2 Chronicles 6:4: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">And he said, Blessed be the <span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span> God
of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth
to my father David, saying,</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Psalm 46:8-10: <span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Come, behold the works of
the </span></span><span class="small-caps"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">, what desolations he
hath made in the earth.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">9 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">He
maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and
cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">10 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Be
still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be
exalted in the earth.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Psalm 113:6:<span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;"> Who humbleth himself to behold the things that
are in heaven, and in the earth!</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Psalm 119:19: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy
commandments from me.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Isaiah 14:9-11: <span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Hell from beneath is
moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee,
even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all
the kings of the nations.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">10 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">All they
shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become
like unto us?</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">11 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Thy pomp
is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread
under thee, and the worms cover thee.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Isaiah 51:13-14: <span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And forgettest the </span></span><span class="small-caps"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"> thy maker, that
hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and
hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if
he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">14 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">The
captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in
the pit, nor that his bread should fail.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Joel 2:30: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the
earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Amos 9:2: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand
take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Luke 10:15: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven,
shalt be thrust down to hell.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Luke 16:19-31: <span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">There
was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared
sumptuously every day:</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">20 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of
sores,</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">21 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table:
moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">22 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And it
came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into
Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">23 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And in
hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and
Lazarus in his bosom.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">24 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And he
cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may
dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in
this flame.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">25 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">But
Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good
things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art
tormented.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">26 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they
which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that
would come from thence.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">27 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Then he
said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's
house:</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">28 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">For I
have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into
this place of torment.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">29 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Abraham
saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">30 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And he
said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will
repent.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">31 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And he
said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be
persuaded, though one rose from the dead.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Acts 2:19: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and
signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Philippians 2:10: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">1 Peter 3:18-20: <span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">For Christ also hath once
suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God,
being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">19 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">By which
also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">20 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Which
sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the
days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls
were saved by water.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">2 Peter 2:4-5: <span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">For if God spared not the
angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains
of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">5 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of
righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Jude 6: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">And the angels which kept not their first estate,
but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under
darkness unto the judgment of the great day.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Rev. 5:3,13: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under
the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And every
creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as
are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour,
and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the
Lamb for ever and ever.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Rev. 9:1-11: <span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And the fifth angel
sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given
the key of the bottomless pit.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">2 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And he
opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke
of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the
smoke of the pit.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">3 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given
power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">4 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And it
was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither
any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal
of God in their foreheads.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">5 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And to
them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be
tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when
he striketh a man.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">6 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And in
those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to
die, and death shall flee from them.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">7 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And the
shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their
heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of
men.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">8 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And they
had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">9 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And they
had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings
was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">10 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And they
had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their
power was to hurt men five months.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">11 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And they
had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in
the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Rev. 20:14: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">And death and hell were cast into the lake of
fire. This is the second death.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is a solid
firmament (dome/vault) over us:</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Job 22:14: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth
not; and he walketh in the circuit </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial;">[from Hebrew </span><span style="background: rgb(242, 233, 222); color: #050505; font-family: arial;">חוּג chuwg, or circle)</span><span style="background: white; font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">of heaven.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Job 37:18: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is
strong, and as a molten looking glass?</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Gen. 1:6-8, 20: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">And God called the firmament Heaven. And the
evening and the morning were the second day...</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ex. 24:10: </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Psalm 104:2: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Who coverest thyself with light as with a
garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Prov. 8:27-28: </span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">When he prepared the
heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="text" style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">When he
established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:</span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Isaiah 40:21-22: <span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Have ye not known? have
ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not
understood from the foundations of the earth?</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">22 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">It is he
that sitteth upon the <b>circle </b>of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as
grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them
out as a tent to dwell in: </span></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">[a tent is spread over a flat plane. Isaiah used the word "ball" (not referring to the earth) in another part of the book, so he knew the difference between a ball and a circle. These were two separate words. see Isaiah 22:18: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a <b>ball</b> into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Isaiah 45:12: <b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;"> </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">I have made the earth, and
created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all
their host have I commanded.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Isaiah 66:1: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Thus saith the <span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span>, The heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and
where is the place of my rest?</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Jer. 10:12: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">He hath made the earth by his power, he hath
established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his
discretion.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Jer. 51:15: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">He hath made the earth by his power, he hath
established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his
understanding.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ezek. 1:22-26: <span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And the likeness of the
firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the
terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">23 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every
one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on
that side, their bodies.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">24 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And when
they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as
the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when
they stood, they let down their wings.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">25 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they
stood, and had let down their wings.</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">26 </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as
the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the
likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. </span></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">[This is why some think the throne of God is in heaven above the center of the firmament, over the North Star (the northern lights are a reflection).]</span></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg97rCARl8rFPUDQ3wdwEOBXIBKopNNYGHfMWtE1jR7Skb6no6lJZfTeDkdPT_r8cpDRlIxBPq12dPN7r3pp3XjVeKp67rx_y02Xncwevl9pqqbmG5BwXq_vuVca0ILhqclDjmAqHoB1ig5sd-ABJU0bSBzCeTMFpTe2lUWKmgspCAk2_eLIHVbAey4/s7238/green-northern-lights-above-a-mountain-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4830" data-original-width="7238" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg97rCARl8rFPUDQ3wdwEOBXIBKopNNYGHfMWtE1jR7Skb6no6lJZfTeDkdPT_r8cpDRlIxBPq12dPN7r3pp3XjVeKp67rx_y02Xncwevl9pqqbmG5BwXq_vuVca0ILhqclDjmAqHoB1ig5sd-ABJU0bSBzCeTMFpTe2lUWKmgspCAk2_eLIHVbAey4/s320/green-northern-lights-above-a-mountain-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="text"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC0OhhFTKinFYi2UcBuKbifGA17aq_Hbr-XVqNGrcGPwuy14wIM9PY6XjjK3KUqRPxed0qcSihkYPP8IulyWUepdnsN7lCvEH_7HKHK2muKJssHDmMNnhVmn0ns0bXOI-VEvxCs4ff_Bh9oaSFkQBMdnKRqXbLiAuqvPiLCLlGktd7_diDy0T65SMD/s3938/northern-lights.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2827" data-original-width="3938" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC0OhhFTKinFYi2UcBuKbifGA17aq_Hbr-XVqNGrcGPwuy14wIM9PY6XjjK3KUqRPxed0qcSihkYPP8IulyWUepdnsN7lCvEH_7HKHK2muKJssHDmMNnhVmn0ns0bXOI-VEvxCs4ff_Bh9oaSFkQBMdnKRqXbLiAuqvPiLCLlGktd7_diDy0T65SMD/s320/northern-lights.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibHHjEWpnFzEZna9TiwiYPzOnfar5jg-2zQkd1ksrW0g9THR7j78Kxz3b33w2HpqbM-2rJxYj7MEg3CWcmiDYdnHBHJNuG8bPxf9Enm_Y14AxdUlehS2r__H2xILDahfBLnaAJWoMffASka5B1SgxYuWcjikXxD6bXR0G1vM4V2Tf9K2bR5e8pe_07/s2000/tromsoadventure-vinter-06811.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1336" data-original-width="2000" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibHHjEWpnFzEZna9TiwiYPzOnfar5jg-2zQkd1ksrW0g9THR7j78Kxz3b33w2HpqbM-2rJxYj7MEg3CWcmiDYdnHBHJNuG8bPxf9Enm_Y14AxdUlehS2r__H2xILDahfBLnaAJWoMffASka5B1SgxYuWcjikXxD6bXR0G1vM4V2Tf9K2bR5e8pe_07/s320/tromsoadventure-vinter-06811.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Amos 9:6: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven,
and hath founded his troop [Hebrew </span><span style="background: rgb(242, 233, 222); color: #050505;">אֲגֻדָּה 'aguddah, meaning arch]</span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;"> in the
earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the
face of the earth: The <span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span> is his name.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">God’s throne sits
above the heavens (waters):</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Job 9:8: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and
treadeth upon the waves of the sea.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Job 22:14: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth
not; and he walketh in the circuit </span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">of heaven.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Job 37:18: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is
strong, and as a molten looking glass?</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Deut. 26:15: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven,
and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou
swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Psalm 11:4: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">The <span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span> is in his holy temple,
the <span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span>'s
throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Psalm 29:3,10: T<span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">he voice of the <span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span> is upon the waters: the
God of glory thundereth: the <span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span> is upon many
waters…The <span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span> sitteth
upon the flood; yea, the <span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span> sitteth King for ever.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Psalm 33:13: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">The <span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span> looketh from heaven; he
beholdeth all the sons of men.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Psalm 103:19: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">The <span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span> hath prepared his
throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Psalm 104:2-3: <span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Who coverest thyself with
light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="text" style="font-family: arial;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="text" style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Who
layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his
chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Psalm 148:4: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters
that be above the heavens.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Isaiah 40:21-22: <span class="text"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Have ye
not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning?
have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?</span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="text" style="font-family: arial;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="text" style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">It is he
that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as
grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them
out as a tent to dwell in:</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Isaiah 66:1: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Thus saith the <span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span>, The heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and
where is the place of my rest?</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Jer. 10:12-13:<b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"> </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">He hath made the earth by
his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out
the heavens by his discretion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">13 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">When
he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he
causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings
with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.</span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ezek. 1:22-28: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And the likeness of the
firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the
terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">23 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every
one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered
on that side, their bodies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">24 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great
waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an
host: when they stood, they let down their wings.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">25 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they
stood, and had let down their wings.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">26 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as
the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the
likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">27 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it,
from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins
even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness
round about.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">28 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">As
the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the
appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness
of the glory of the <span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>. And
when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ezek. 28:2: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus
saith the Lord </span><span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">God</span></span>; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast
said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou
art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Amos 9:6: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven,
and hath founded his troop [Hebrew </span><span style="background: rgb(242, 233, 222); color: #050505;">אֲגֻדָּה 'aguddah, meaning arch] </span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">in the
earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the
face of the earth: The </span><span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span> is his name.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Earth is
inscribed in a circular (flat) fashion into something with 4 corners and
surrounded by water:</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Job 11:9: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and
broader than the sea.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Job 26:10-11: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">He hath compassed the
waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"> </span></sup></b><span style="font-family: arial;">The
pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Job 37:3: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his
lightning unto the ends of the earth.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Job 38:12-18: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Hast thou commanded the
morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">13 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">That
it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken
out of it?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">14 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">It
is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment. [This is why some believe that the earth is like a stamp with edges around it to hold the water in, like clay is to a seal; it has the imprint in the center and the edges of the stamped 3D image come up like a wall around it.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">15 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">16 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Hast
thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of
the depth?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">17 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Have
the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the
shadow of death?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">18 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Hast
thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Gen. 1:1-9: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">In the beginning God created the heaven and
the earth.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">2 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the
deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. [Remember that a face is usually a flat plane, like the face of the clock, a surface.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">3 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
God said, Let there be light: and there was light.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">4 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the
darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">5 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and
the morning were the first day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">6 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it
divide the waters from the waters. [The belief here is that the firmament is a solid dome, like a tent over the earth.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">7 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament
from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">8 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the
second day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">9 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place,
and let the dry land appear: and it was so.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Gen. 49:25: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Even by the God of thy father, who shall help
thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the
womb: </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">[We have assumed "under" is going down toward the center of a ball, and above being outside the ball, but this can just as easily be thought of as up above the flat plane, and down below the flat plane.]</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Psalm 24:1-2: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">The earth is the <span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>'s, and the fulness thereof; the
world, and they that dwell therein.</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"> </span></sup></b><span style="font-family: arial;">For
he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Psalm 72:8: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and
from the river unto the ends of the earth. [Ends of the earth suggests an end point, not a ball.]</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Psalm 136:6: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">To him that stretched out the earth above the
waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Prov. 8:27-29: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass
upon the face of the depth:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">28 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">When
he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the
deep:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">29 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">When
he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment:
when he appointed the foundations of the earth:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Isaiah 11:12: <b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;"> </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and
shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of
Judah from the four corners of the earth. [Corners are not usually assigned to a ball.]</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Isaiah 13:5: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">They come from a far country, from the end of
heaven, even the </span><span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span>, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy
the whole land.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Isaiah 40:22: <b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;"> </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the
earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the
heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Isaiah 41:8-9: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the
seed of Abraham my friend.</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"> </span></sup></b><span style="font-family: arial;">Thou
whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief
men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and
not cast thee away.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Isaiah 44:24: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Thus saith the </span><span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span>, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the
womb, I am the <span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span> that maketh all things; that stretcheth
forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ezek. 7:2: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord </span><span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">God</span></span> unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is
come upon the four corners of the land.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Daniel 4:10-11: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a
tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"> </span></sup></b><span style="font-family: arial;">The
tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the
sight thereof to the end of all the earth:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Zech. 9:10: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and
the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall
speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea,
and from the river even to the ends of the earth.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Matt. 4:8: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding
high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of
them;</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Matt. 24:31: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">And he shall send his angels with a great sound
of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds,
from one end of heaven to the other.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Rev. 7:1: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">And after these things I saw four angels standing
on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the
wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Rev. 20:8: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">And shall go out to deceive the nations which are
in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to
battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The sun, moon and
stars are in the firmament: (and the stars shall fall to Earth):</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Gen. 1:14-18: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And God said, Let there
be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and
let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">15 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the
earth: and it was so.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">16 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser
light to rule the night: he made the stars also.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">17 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">18 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And
to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the
darkness: and God saw that it was good.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Psalm 19:4-6: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Their line is gone out
through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he
set a tabernacle for the sun,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">5 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Which
is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to
run a race.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">6 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">His
going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it:
and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Isaiah 34:4: <b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;"> </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and
the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall
down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig
tree.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Daniel 8:10: A<span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">nd it waxed great, even to the host of heaven;
and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped
upon them.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Matt. 24:29: <b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;"> </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Immediately after the tribulation of those days
shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars
shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">[this again states that the moon has her own light and could mean it is not reflecting the sun.]</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mark 13:25: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the
powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">2 Peter 3:10: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in
the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the
elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are
therein shall be burned up.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Rev. 6:13-14: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">And the stars of heaven
fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is
shaken of a mighty wind.</span></span><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif"> </span></sup></b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">And
the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain
and island were moved out of their places. </span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">[It seems more logical that stars in the firmament above the earth are falling onto this land that is on a flat plane, rather than a ball in space in which the stars would have to fall onto places all over the spinning ball, under it, on the side of it, above it, etc.]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Rev. 9:1: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star
fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless
pit.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Rev. 12:4: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">And his tail drew the third part of the stars of
heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman
which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are
“floodgates” (windows) in the firmament:</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Gen. 7:11: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the
second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the
fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">[This suggests, as it says in Genesis 1, that the firmament has water above it and below it, and the water below it divided into seas and allowed room for dry land. The water above the solid firmament is not divided, and it can be released onto the earth by God through windows.]</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Gen. 8:2: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">The fountains also of the deep and the windows of
heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">2 Kings 7:2,19: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God,
and said, Behold, if the <span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> would
make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt
see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><b>..</b></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">And
that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the <span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> should make windows in heaven,
might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes,
but shalt not eat thereof.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mal. 3:10: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that
there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the </span><span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span> of hosts, if I will not open you the windows
of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to
receive it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Earth is a
geocentric, stationary world set on pillars:</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Job 26:11: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished
at his reproof.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Job 38:4-6: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare,
if thou hast understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">5 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Who
hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line
upon it?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">6 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Whereupon
are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Josh. 10:13: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed,
until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written
in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and
hasted not to go down about a whole day.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">[Notice it does not say the earth stopped; the sun and moon, that circle around the disc on their track, likely the various Tropics like Cancer and Capricorn, which by the way play a role in the seasons, within the firmament stopped.]</span></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Psalm 19:4-6: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Their line is gone out
through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he
set a tabernacle for the sun,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">5 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">Which
is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to
run a race.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">6 </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">His
going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it:
and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif">[This suggests a sun that is moving, running a race.]</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Psalm 75:3: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are
dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Psalm 104:5: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it
should not be removed for ever.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Proverbs 8:29: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">When he gave to the sea his decree, that the
waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of
the earth:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ecc. 1:5: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and
hasteth to his place where he arose.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">1 Samuel 2:8: <b><sup><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;"> </span></sup></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and
lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make
them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the <span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span>'s, and he hath set the world upon them.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">2 Samuel 22:8: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">Then the earth shook and trembled; the
foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Joel 2:10: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall
tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their
shining:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Zech. 12:1: <span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">The burden of the word of the </span><span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span> for Israel, saith the <span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span>, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth
the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Thinking of all these verses along the lines of a flat earth with a dome over it and the sun, moon and stars above the earth INSIDE the firmament makes sense, but it does not with a globe model. <b>The burden of proof lies with those who argue that we live on a sphere,</b> as common sense and our senses, God's Holy Word, and real science that is repeatable, measurable, and observable, have pointed to a flat earth with a firmament (dome) over it. Forget the fake pictures you have seen and look around you. Wake up and open your eyes and see for yourself. Do your own experiments. Remember who it is that has been trying to convince you of a globe - NASA. In the videos in part 2, you will learn more about NASA and its heritage. They are liars. They are the same people preaching to you that you came from monkeys, or a parasite, and that the world came forth from an explosion and not by intelligent design by a loving Creator.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I'm sure not everything they say is a hoax, but because we have to rethink things now from a new perspective, there is still much to discover in our world around us from a vantage point of truth. But I can tell you this: we are not moving and we are on a flat plane. The sun, moon and stars are closer than you think, and they are moving, not us. I am sending this to you as a warning to take heed and eschew evil and cling to that which is good and right and truthful. Choose for yourself, the world's system of lies run by Satan, or God's truth as revealed in His Word and what we can see and discover in the world around us. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. We will cherish truth because it DOES matter. And the glorious truth is that because God exists and has created this beautiful world we are in with meaning and purpose, YOU MATTER TOO. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You are on a solid foundation. Psalm 19:1: "</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork." I look around me now with so much hope and appreciation for the care God gives me. Christian, don't be a practical atheist. Look around you and know God has you! He is looking down at His footstool at us, and when we look up, we are looking toward His throne. He is near to us. He cares for us. He is powerful, and we can depend on Him. You can trust every single word in the Bible because while Satan wants to say, "Hath God said?" We now declare, "Yes He has!" What He desires, I will do. What He does not desire, I will not do. Keep it simple and bring all honor and glory to Him forever! Amen!</span></p>Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-33495960047210719232022-10-17T15:21:00.013-07:002024-03-24T11:29:23.554-07:00What Does My World Look Like, and Why Does it Matter? Part 2<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I would like for you to be sure you are sitting down comfortably, without distraction so you can think clearly. I want you to think about logic. What do we know about water?</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy_U4kHObUviL7aT16cHsfQY7gMaOuf3Fex56Znv0DFbvtrWoyLXZ60Q2YfgSwYUt5auqlu_F0cJAwd0OkeyyQyjBjE4umkJzA3BuTwr1ml66CZMx_weTxodrfV_VcPhJy5oD3tr9uH2BbntcCaQw6ZoRvZ2L_wlURcfqxgc1QXpINk_rSSAOKb3y2/s320/IMG_0644.jpg" width="320" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJfgB52QVB8WGiITAKtJGN8i9DWFJYn7mERo8J7rMmVJKBrBMm-0chZJ8xJMjiLiCLZ-TO7N5jSLlcj1JRPqWyTMc05SUFuAI0bmq-yGzvbY2BKgnH3Cy3KnkKURjdAFrzFOntSSW1naiWbSVzxZP3r-KumaU3LcbGl8yV9gdy79SPRzaRZxoBZDa9/s320/IMG_0649.jpg" width="320" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8r8vmlEf4PlZwFG_3c9ZlJAAdazGDPqWarx-wkkEZ7tCAEXVfQIUgAezUFkrSGo1N8jAkmh-x428Wj-FArn8fF1wz2WAU1hwUnWqsGWxZc4j3kYIhmYWj0Fm0z9cH9x2xeng9fYxLnnaf-ExaGwV3xMINwrz0EMhCPJUDSwkz0bGSq4Vw_5SqZYK1/s320/IMG_0650.jpg" width="320" /></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Water finds its level!</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Right? When water comes to a rest, it will always be level. That suggests a flat plane. You can splash water easily. It is not being sucked down by so much gravity pull that you can't move it around, right? </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Scientists suggest we are spinning 1,000 miles an hour in order for our earth to make one rotation in 24 hrs., or one day. Think about this. If the earth were spinning at 1,000 miles per hour, a helicopter could hover above the earth for a half hour and the next state would show up!</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When an experiment was done that shot a canon straight up, it came straight down. If we were moving, it would fall at a significant distance from where it shot up. Military leaders admit that they do not put this into the equation when they aim at something with a missle. They shoot at it and hit their target. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We often think that there is a curvature to the earth that can be seen when at the beach and the ships seem to sail off the curve in the distance. Did you know that we now have powerful zoom in cameras that average, ordinary citizens can buy, and they have zoomed in when it looked like the ship went over the curve, and it was actually still there, on a flat body of water, just too far to see with the naked eye?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Did you know that when applying mathematical equation for the curvature of the earth, that it has been disproved? No curve has been found! Multiple experiments have been done proving this. I have linked them below. There are many more; I have provided a sampling of videos you can watch to get more information. Here is an earth curvature calculator so you can do your own experiments: <span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://earthcurvature.com/">https://earthcurvature.com/</a></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;">),</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The horizon is another proof, that it stays at the same level, and does not change like it would if on a sphere. Weather balloons have shown a flat plane. We can see that even when up in a plane. The cameras that show a curvature of the earth are fish lens cameras. If turned a certain way it will also show a "U-shape". A regular lens camera does not show any curve. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you look at some of the flight patterns on a flat earth map, where planes make their stops, it often makes sense where they stop because it is actually right along the path to the other side of the disc. On a globe some of these stops make no sense, and seem very out of the way. Some emergency stops have been made at where it seems far away, like to Alaska when traveling from the Philippines to Los Angeles, rather than turning around or moving forward to California. On a flat earth map it makes sense.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The beautiful "marble" we see of the earth from outer space is a graphical composite (CGI), and they admit that! Graphics have become so amazing that we think we see planets and stars and our own earth, but we cannot get high enough above the earth to see the entire planet. They have been caught with using photoshop images, and duplicating clouds. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Did you know we have never gotten out of earth's atmosphere? NASA has lied about going to the moon. Men have said on their dying beds, who were there, or their dads were there, when they videotaped the whole thing from SW United States. I'm so sad to have to say that, but it was orchestrated. They still don't know how to get through the Van Allen radiation belts safely. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Did you know the coriolis effect is not real as presented by modern science, that water goes clockwise in one hemisphere and counterclockwise in the other? The direction of the water going down has to do with the balance or shape of the sink or water system the water is going down. It can go either way in either hemisphere.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Did you know that if you took a tennis ball that was soaked in water and threw it, the water would fly off it? They say we have to be spinning because that keeps the water down. I thought that was true because of a washing machine or the Rotor ride at the amusement park (the ride where you stick to the sides of the wall as it spins). Think about that; it's the inside, not the outside that has that sticking power. And if we were spinning and had such powerful suction to keep millions of pounds of water in the oceans, and all the animals, people, buildings straight up without falling out of place, even those who are on the sides of the globe and underneath, then how does a gentle little butterfly float through the air with little effort? How do you blow on a flower and the soft petals gently pass through the air? Think logically about this.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I'm not even bringing the Bible into this yet. These are just observable things. Think about where you are sitting. Are you moving? You can feel an earthquake. But even if we were moving 1,000 miles per hour smoothly, I feel like we would know we were moving. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When in a plane going 500 mph, they would have to compensate for the earth moving 1,000 mph under them. They would also have to dip the nose of the plane frequently, like every few seconds according to the math they give for the curvature of the earth. No, the plane moves straight unless it is landing or taking off. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The theory that the earth is on a flat plane has been believed by ancient cultures for many years. It has been in more modern times that this concept came to be, especially when we thought we saw photos. We have seen globes all around us since we were children, in libraries, schools, etc. This is what "globalists" want you to believe. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Have you seen the United Nations emblem?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitUSMMs6I6DIaVfBkFjNfRVvHRTVaa7yzOZSr4lZhZAL_qCW6-aubhfBDGT-3H_F92gpAY_irH3JdgL99tnPmZ_rJmLMiWJ3EDV-Gu2GiSxdCzebH-oS5yBbAyP7eygNShfYW_w0Kqb6MaGTaNwBsx4nU2BE8IBpkdzIkjovHsc3XNJCW4JfXN_KPj/s5000/United_Nations_logo.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4241" data-original-width="5000" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitUSMMs6I6DIaVfBkFjNfRVvHRTVaa7yzOZSr4lZhZAL_qCW6-aubhfBDGT-3H_F92gpAY_irH3JdgL99tnPmZ_rJmLMiWJ3EDV-Gu2GiSxdCzebH-oS5yBbAyP7eygNShfYW_w0Kqb6MaGTaNwBsx4nU2BE8IBpkdzIkjovHsc3XNJCW4JfXN_KPj/s320/United_Nations_logo.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />It is a picture of a flat earth model, hiding in plain sight. They're telling you it's a globe, and yet their symbol is of a flat earth.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Civilizations are not getting smarter and brighter, but the opposite. Ancient people have proven to know more about architecture, for example, than we do in modern days. They were wiser in many ways than people today. We are not evolving and progressing; we are becoming more debased.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Think about the constellations. Why do we always see the same constellations all year round?
If we were rotating around the sun, wouldn’t we see different stars when we
were on the other side of the sun?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The stars move (except the north star), and the sun and the moon move...inside our dome, our firmament, and the sun and moon are not as big or as far away as we have been told. Think about how you can see such detail with the naked eye on the moon. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Did you know that the moon is not a reflection of the sun (it doesn't always line up that way if you observe nature), but like the Bible says, it is a lesser light (stars are rocks that have their own light too) that rules the night, and the sun rules the day (as far as being a light source). Did you know that the moon light gives off a cool temperature, and it is actually warmer in the shade of the moon than in the moonlight? You can test this at home!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ships use spherical trigonometry, but it has nothing to do
with a globe, but rather a circle, and the north star never moves. They use a
sextant.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Is there really a south pole? Does a compass ever point
south, or only north? I don’t know this for sure, but would be interesting to
learn more about that. I know the compasses I have only point north. If you
live in Chile, would it point south? Is there only one magnetic pole (north)? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The model for a flat earth is a disc with the north star, which doesn't move, and the north pole in the center. Some believe the throne of God sits above the firmament, which is a solid dome, and the green northern lights come from there, but I don't know that for sure. I do know the Bible says that the earth is His footstool. The waters have an end, and the theory is that Antarctica goes around the border of the earth as an ice wall that surrounds it.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A study of Antarctica is amazing. There were some fishy things that occurred around the time of Admiral Byrd. The Encyclopedia Americana from 1958 shows that pilots flew around Antarctica and found the edge of the dome, and that it was about 13,000 ft. high. I have included the video of someone showing that encyclopedia page. It has been taken out of the subsequent encyclopedias. The world leaders made a treaty that limits people from being able to go there. America and others started sending up bombs straight up after going to Antarctica, which seemed that they were trying to find the top of the dome, which was estimated to be about 385,500 ft. This is not a definitive height, but it appears we may be in a terrarium. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I'm probably losing you now! Just please hear me out. More and more people are believing this information based on science, which is reproducible and consistent. They are also realizing the potential for corruption in people in high level positions, as we have seen that in many other areas of society and our blind faith in them is wavering.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">People who are believing the earth is on a flat plane are not all Christians! Many are not Christians. And yet Christians should be the most skeptical of the spherical shape of the earth based on Scripture. Part 3 will dive into what the Bible has to say.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You might think this is absurd, but many things we place our faith and belief in, including the Bible, and including outer space and a round earth, can sound absurd. It's all about what you are used to believing, and what others around you (peer pressure sometimes) believe. Rob Skiba talks at length at a conference in Amsterdam about the absurdity of belief. Anything can sound crazy if you think hard enough about it. What we have to do is explore the information presented and what we can discover through our own research, and make the best choice. God said, "Let us reason together" (Isaiah 1:18). </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Some have criticized that this doesn't matter. All that matters is salvation. Well, I'm saved. I want to dig deeper. Just as I don't want others to believe in evolution, a theory that teaches there is no God, I don't want others to believe a lie that our earth is round and we are a small insignificant part of a large universe, and there are other planets with potential living beings on them (aliens are demons, by the way). God cares about truth and doesn't want truth to lie in the streets, being trampled on. He cares about truth and so should we. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Isaiah 59:4: <span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white;">None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bolder;">truth</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white;">: they trust in vanity, and speak </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bolder;">lies</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white;">; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white;">Jeremiah 9:3: </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white;">And they bend their tongues like their bow for </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bolder;">lies</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white;">: but they are not valiant for the </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bolder;">truth</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white;"> upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the </span><span class="small-caps" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white;">Jeremiah 9:5: </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white;">And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bolder;">truth</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white;">: they have taught their tongue to speak </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bolder;">lies</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white;">, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Noto Sans, sans-serif, Arial"><span style="background-color: white;">Isaiah 59:14: </span></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white;">And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We need to care about truth because God does...especially truth that has to do with His existence, and the validity of the Word of God!</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Please see links below. I have organized them into sections. Part 3 will show the verses about what God has to say about this earth we live on.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Information about the moon landing: - </b>decide for yourself.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdQHKf48Mfw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdQHKf48Mfw</a></span> A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu5Z75ji3aU&t=169s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu5Z75ji3aU&t=169s</a>. A confession</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://odysee.com/@BartSibrel:2/Mike-Adams-MM:a7">https://odysee.com/@BartSibrel:2/Mike-Adams-MM:a7</a> Excellent interview</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://radiation.news/2022-07-06-sibrel-tells-adams-nasa-faked-moon-landing.html">https://radiation.news/2022-07-06-sibrel-tells-adams-nasa-faked-moon-landing.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhTqrSX5N4M" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhTqrSX5N4M</a> - Astronauts Gone Wild<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqRvSQ3_CjM&t=205s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqRvSQ3_CjM&t=205s</a></span>
– Debunking the Globe model – This one has a lot of scientific data, and is a
condensed version.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: left;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Here is the video of the Encyclopedia Americana from 1958 and what it
showed about Antarctica before it was deleted out.</b> <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4ay3PNzO0w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4ay3PNzO0w</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Aliens are demons</b>: <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuDLW9ovpNk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuDLW9ovpNk</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>This is long, but is a more thorough presentation if you
desire a little more detail.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG_-BYKaehI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG_-BYKaehI</a></span>
– Part 1 conference in Amsterdam (includes the absurdity of belief; let's be honest and choose to put our faith in whom we trust the most: God or man.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5pusPMlYSE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5pusPMlYSE</a></span>
– Part 2 conference in Amsterdam<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gHbwT_R9t0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gHbwT_R9t0</a></span>
– ABC news report on the Flat Earth conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This is a great summary: Top Ten Proofs: <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://flatearth101.com/top-ten-proofs">http://flatearth101.com/top-ten-proofs</a></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="line-height: 19.26px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ordinary people, scientists and photographers are doing their own experiments. Here is a convention they had, that gives a little glimpse into this. What you need to do is check it out for yourself, and prove all things – if you believe it is a globe that you live on, then try to prove that scientifically. But I challenge you to get to the truth because TRUTH matters.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="line-height: 19.26px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="line-height: 19.26px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SlRsbQ3nfM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SlRsbQ3nfM</a></span> – Flat Earth Clues by Mark Sargeant.<br /></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="line-height: 19.26px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gS6yZwUWjs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gS6yZwUWjs</a></span> – a weather balloon goes up to the edge of space and you can see a flat horizon.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 19.26px;">A great video addressing the critics: </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; line-height: 19.26px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JIXtYj8aT4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JIXtYj8aT4</a></span></span><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This is a video showing someone jumping out from space and
unwittingly proving that the earth is flat and is not spinning. <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL_wplBDrGc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL_wplBDrGc</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Scientific experiments:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 107%;">7.53 Mile flashlight Lake
Test: </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3HqZhNHLQE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3HqZhNHLQE</a></span></span><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 107%;">Flat Earth College #4 - 5
facts about the globe Earth model that you didn’t learn in school: </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCWALsAIDIk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCWALsAIDIk</a></span></span><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 107%;">Debunking # 8 of the
"Top Ten Reasons Why We (allegedly) Know the Earth is Flat: The Coriolis
Effect: </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucB6EOHoSbc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucB6EOHoSbc</a></span></span><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">This is interesting to
hear if the military has to take the spin of the earth into account when firing
projectiles. Think about planes trying to land on a surface that is moving at
1000 miles per hour.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Debunking Flat Earth 101:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcYhsePjuqc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcYhsePjuqc</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 107%;">The Number One Flat Earth
PROOF! An argument using the Sextant: </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpejz9Q9nz0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpejz9Q9nz0</a></span></span><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 107%;">The sun and the moon and
their rotation: </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efbOgUJRkA0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efbOgUJRkA0</a></span></span><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 107%;">Flat Earth Luminaries -
The Sun, Moon and Stars EXPLAINED: </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_zVtsx3wD0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_zVtsx3wD0</a></span></span><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 107%;">A website with a lot of
resources: </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://flatearth101.com/">http://flatearth101.com/</a></span></span><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 107%;">Why I'm a Flat Earther -
37 Must See Flat Earth Experiments: (this is a great video with many clips of
experiments in one video) </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="background-color: white; background: white; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiqMcW54uds">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiqMcW54uds</a></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="MsoHyperlink">Proofs from pilots and Navy officers; a thoughtful documentary from technical officers: </span></span></span><a href="https://youtu.be/TFsAh8DR-34">https://youtu.be/TFsAh8DR-34</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Testimony from a flight instructor that what he sees is a flat earth. <a href="https://youtu.be/8TL30VW5hJY?si=VAY6t1sJx6q7-fBV" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/8TL30VW5hJY?si=VAY6t1sJx6q7-fBV</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Video of the horizon as compared with a simulator of what it should look like if we were on a globe. <a href="https://youtu.be/8jyURPh1gIM?si=r500NZ-JRU1qiG-O" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/8jyURPh1gIM?si=r500NZ-JRU1qiG-O</a></span></p>
<div style="text-align: left;"><p></p></div>Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-15586091902274750702022-10-17T13:24:00.008-07:002022-10-19T18:24:51.706-07:00What Does My World Look Like, and Why Does it Matter? Part 1<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5aRzEjlzSHUrQ73nRXG7QnYoBuNpKFiq90H_4MDiRUlq0KMM_6TR7Na2kyYp4Xe9xBoLnfmaIBMLBNNWqECMwYE6wxGH3cbDQSzGKSkmoioKZGQoHdKmDGk-WqbuoOnsJ_L45j86Gf7eKcsopKfMOM8C36lBoqrYdyyTFtvEhfcHSF8BmQLom6Il5/s640/IMG_0657.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5aRzEjlzSHUrQ73nRXG7QnYoBuNpKFiq90H_4MDiRUlq0KMM_6TR7Na2kyYp4Xe9xBoLnfmaIBMLBNNWqECMwYE6wxGH3cbDQSzGKSkmoioKZGQoHdKmDGk-WqbuoOnsJ_L45j86Gf7eKcsopKfMOM8C36lBoqrYdyyTFtvEhfcHSF8BmQLom6Il5/s320/IMG_0657.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">I invite you to take a journey with me. I want to introduce a concept to you that will stun you at first. There has been a deception, a big lie that has been told to us for several decades. MK Ultra mind control is a very interesting topic in and of itself, but I'm not going to go down that rabbit trail. I do, however, believe that mind control has been a tactic the world's elite have used to manipulate the way we see our world. I am starting to see that over the past 5-10 years God has been doing a lot to expose lies and reveal truth. Sadly, wickedness has been increasingly more bold, but our eyes are opening to realize that things are not all what they have seemed, mostly due to corruption at high levels of our society all around the world who are hiding truth. We have been told things by the elite that many of us have swallowed with very little questioning. We didn't know we were being deceived, so why would we question it?</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We as Christians understand that certain events in the world are taking place in preparation for the one world government, one world currency, one world religion, etc. We are not surprised, although we are saddened, that America likely has to be taken down in order for the antichrist to be able to come on the scene in full power. We continue to pray for our nation and its leaders, and for many to be saved (all who will come). Perhaps God will put a pause on events and allow us to have freedom for a little while longer. If we repent of our sins and turn to Him, we have a chance. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Isaiah 1 starts out <b>showing how wicked Israel had become, and can be applied to America today</b>:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white;">Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span class="small-caps" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white;">hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-3" id="en-KJV-17658" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-4" id="en-KJV-17659" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-5" id="en-KJV-17660" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-6" id="en-KJV-17661" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-7" id="en-KJV-17662" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-8" id="en-KJV-17663" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-9" id="en-KJV-17664" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Except the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-10" id="en-KJV-17665" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>Hear the word of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">He goes on to say that their thoughtless religious traditions and works mean nothing to Him. The problem is with the heart. </span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-12" id="en-KJV-17667" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-13" id="en-KJV-17668" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-14" id="en-KJV-17669" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">He lays out the solution to the problem as repentance from our sin: </span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-16" id="en-KJV-17671" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-17" id="en-KJV-17672" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-18" id="en-KJV-17673" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>Come now, and let us reason together, saith the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">God is the solution to this world's problems, and to our blinded eyes. But we have a choice to make.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-19" id="en-KJV-17674" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-20" id="en-KJV-17675" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> hath spoken it.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-21" id="en-KJV-17676" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">The chapter ends with judgment. Will you eat of the good of the land with a repentant heart from your wicked sin, or face God's judgment in the land? Choose carefully.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-22" id="en-KJV-17677" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-23" id="en-KJV-17678" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-24" id="en-KJV-17679" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>Therefore saith the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-25" id="en-KJV-17680" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-26" id="en-KJV-17681" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-27" id="en-KJV-17682" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-28" id="en-KJV-17683" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> shall be consumed.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-29" id="en-KJV-17684" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-30" id="en-KJV-17685" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-1-31" id="en-KJV-17686" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="text Isa-1-31">This Part 1 of my series starts out where I believe we need to start: repentance of our sin, a humble heart, and asking the Holy Spirit to reveal truth to us. Romans 3:4: "</span><span style="font-weight: bolder;">let</span> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">God</span> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">be</span> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">true</span>, <b>but every man a liar;</b> as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged." We tend to value the words of man, particularly scientists, above what the Bible has to say. This journey for me started 3-4 months ago, and I was right where you are now. I found that I believed deceitful men, and rationalized the Word of God to fit to what modern scientists taught me about my world. I trusted the same scientists who teach the theory of evolution. What is their ultimate goal? To teach the religion of atheism (yes, that is a religion of humanism, that there is no God in heaven, but man himself are gods), and promote three little words that have changed history for the worse: <b>"HATH GOD SAID?"</b> Sound familiar? Remember the serpent in the garden of Eden? That still goes on today. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I had to actually repent of my sin of doubt in God's ability to properly write Scripture. Oh, I never actually said that out loud, but I thought some verses in the Bible were written from man's perspective, but that he was wrong, as when the sun and moon stood still. I figured that meant from their perspective here on earth. Oh, those poor uninformed writers of the Bible from ancient times! They didn't know much. They didn't have the advantage of modern science and cameras from outer space! WHAT??? Do you know where my doubt was really placed? My doubt was that GOD didn't have the ability to tell his writers what to say ACCURATELY about His OWN WORLD! God in essence allowed falsehoods, lies, to be written in His Word and He preserved it that way! He didn't mind that they were in error. He never bothered to correct them! If we will doubt some of God's Word, where does it stop? </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Think about this, because if you can get a hold of this and really take God at His Word, it will change your life! So many things in Scripture are made fun of, and are discounted, and who are we believing instead? Atheists!!! Men and women who hate God and worship man. They lie to us, and they use mind control so that when you hear the actual truth, you immediately get angry, and you get defensive, and may even swear at the person telling you this, or mock them greatly. You have been programmed to do this. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The scales have been coming off our eyes over the past few years, especially since recent events. I believe that God has allowed this judgment upon us to get our attention and to wake us up to the truth. For what purpose would He do this? To draw all men unto Himself. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This is a relatively easy task for me thanks to others who have already done a lot of work. I'm only presenting it out there so you can check it out for yourself. Having learned what I have learned, I feel a duty to share it. Each person has to decide for themselves what they will believe. For me, it has brought revival into my heart and greater worship to God than ever before. I realized I did harbor a few doubts about the universe, and at times felt we are insignificant. There is a huge universe out there and we are specks. There is so much talk about aliens, and people are starting to wonder if there is life on other planets. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Well, the good news is that the truth is actually much simpler. The good news is God's Word can be relied upon 100% with full confidence. The good news is what I'm about to share has REAL science and math behind it. The good news is common, rational sense is in line with this information. The good news is that you individually are loved by God, and you matter to Him. You can trust God who IS REAL. Also, I am happy to tell you, the good news is I am NOT crazy. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Romans 1 says that the wrath of God comes upon those who hide truth! What truth? The existence of GOD!!! <span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-1-18" id="en-KJV-27949" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span><b>For the wrath of God is revealed </b>from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, <b>who hold the truth in unrighteousness</b>;</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-1-19" id="en-KJV-27950" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19</span><b><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span>Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. </b> [God is not hiding!!]</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-1-20" id="en-KJV-27951" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world <b>are clearly seen</b>, being <b>understood </b>by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that <b>they are without excuse: </b>[Agnostics, you are wrong - we CAN know God!]</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-1-21" id="en-KJV-27952" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-1-22" id="en-KJV-27953" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-1-23" id="en-KJV-27954" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-1-24" id="en-KJV-27955" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-1-25" id="en-KJV-27956" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span><b>Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator,</b> who is blessed for ever. Amen.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-1-25" style="font-family: arial;">Are you ready to humble yourself to hear what I am about to share with you, repent of any sin, pray, and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal truth to you, as well as uncover any lies? Will you take this journey with me? If so, move on to Part 2. </span></p><p></p>Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-50672744679839704082021-07-29T17:29:00.000-07:002021-07-29T17:29:00.191-07:00Seeking the Will of God<p>I have started going through a Bible study book called <i>Experiencing God</i>, by Henry & Richard Blackaby and Claude King. I'm going through it with my step daughter who is 11 yrs. old. I want to show her how there is a difference between religion and relationship when it comes to knowing Jesus. The book has as a mission the goal of helping you to grow spiritually and develop a lasting relationship with God, not to just plow through the book from cover to cover. </p><p>I have been a Christian for 43 years. I got saved at Bible camp as a child. I have built a relationship with God, but I have to admit in some ways I had a deeper relationship with Him when I was younger. As an adult, tho, I have a greater knowledge of the Bible, and a stronger passion for doing the will of God. I've never lost that desire to know Him more, and that desire to have a deeper relationship with Him is actually growing more and more inside of me, especially as the days of His return are getting closer and closer. I want to have such spiritual intimacy with my Heavenly Father that when He asks me to do something, I will hear Him and be ready to obey.</p><p>This is what I learned this week that really touched my heart. Sometimes we have to ask the right question to get the right answer. We often want to ask, "What is the will of God for my life?" That is the wrong question. The right question is, "What is the will of God?" What is God doing around me that I need to seek, and jump on HIS bandwagon and follow HIM? It seems like such a small difference, but think about it. I will plan my life and get to a crossroads and ask God which way I should go...on MY path! I will seek Him, but I'm the one driving the ship. Rather, I should be seeking God to see if I am on HIS path, or on HIS ship; what is HE doing in my community, in the world around me, that I should be adjusting to and getting involved in to accomplish a task that He has in mind? </p><p>God is always at work around me. I need to look around, not just in myself, or in my own little world. It really broadens things to see where I fit in HIS plan, not where He fits in mine. Do you see the difference?</p><p>Matthew 6:33: "<strong class="highlight" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 218); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."</strong></p><p><strong class="highlight" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 218); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">John 14:6: </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: center;">“Jesus saith unto him, </span><span class="jesus georgia" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #be1718; font-family: Georgia, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 28px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: center;">”</span></p>Then it is important to be moldable in His hand. I need to allow Him to do a work in me personally as His servant. Just as the potter molds the clay, so will He mold me into His masterpiece when I submit to Him like a soft piece of clay. Once the clay gets brittle, it cannot be shaped.<div><br /></div><div>As far as following God the Father, Jesus Himself set the example in John 5:19: <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: center;">“Then answered Jesus and said unto them, </span><span class="jesus georgia" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #be1718; font-family: Georgia, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 28px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: center;">”</span></div><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><div>Just as Jesus was dependent on the Father, so are we dependent on Jesus. John 15:5: <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: center;">“</span><span class="jesus georgia" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #be1718; font-family: Georgia, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 28px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">I am the vine, ye <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">are</em> the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: center;">”</span></div><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><div>When Jesus called His disciples, He said, "Follow me." He didn't give all the details. When God told Abraham to leave his own country to go to a new place, He didn't give details. He said, "leave...and go to the land that I will show you." He would show him where to go but Abraham had to first step out in faith. He is the expert; we can trust Him to show us where to go and how to live our lives as we go one step at a time. It's like when you are going to someone's house; he can write down detailed instructions, but if you have your friend in the car with you, he can get there five different ways. You won't get lost because your friend knows the town and how to get to his house. When we are experiencing a close walk with Jesus, He will lead us as we go. He knows all things, including the future. No need to feel overwhelmed or confused or even fearful. Just follow the master. Be in the center of God's will, not just for your life, but the center of God's will, period. That is the safest and most blessed place to be.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigz2mRJCsDSR4gAgynexeiSZb4kM2dlmmzcZhV3GPatYtvEMqGQGl-ASCZIlviS1_dnj1wCk6I8rBB1gXBagJmlquFeCqI_jvFs2tnRHpzMiY7XjLxGu21Vaa2UX117Dpsu4Oy4TAQUbQ/s4032/IMG_3923.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigz2mRJCsDSR4gAgynexeiSZb4kM2dlmmzcZhV3GPatYtvEMqGQGl-ASCZIlviS1_dnj1wCk6I8rBB1gXBagJmlquFeCqI_jvFs2tnRHpzMiY7XjLxGu21Vaa2UX117Dpsu4Oy4TAQUbQ/s320/IMG_3923.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-77842578930479724972021-02-15T15:29:00.001-08:002021-02-15T15:29:33.652-08:00Songs, Scripture & Prayer with Dawn<p> <a href="https://fb.watch/3GKMdFT8Kw/" target="_blank">Link to Songs, Scripture & Prayer with Dawn from 2-15-21</a> (This is my first one)</p><p><br /></p><p>I have started a series, in which we sing together, read Scripture together and pray together. This world is becoming increasingly a darker place, and it is my desire to shine a light and focus it on Jesus. </p><p>John 3:14 says, "<span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:" and in John 12:32: "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">men</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> unto me." When Moses lifted up the serpent, those who looked at it were healed. Likewise, when we turn to Jesus, we can be healed spiritually. He came to set the captives free!</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">John 14:6: "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." Jesus is the one to lift up and bring to our attention because He is the way to the Father, and he is the truth and the life. He is the healer of our souls, and our salvation. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">I hope this very casual and candid video will comfort and encourage you. Praise to Jesus, reading the Bible, and praying are three things Satan hates and God loves, and it will grow our faith. Please join me, and I look forward to doing more of these so we can connect together for the glory of God.</span></p>Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-91474729520662890072021-02-10T12:45:00.001-08:002021-02-10T12:45:35.949-08:00Building Champions of Character podcast<p> My first podcast! Please listen to learn more about my writing ministry. I hope it will be a blessing to you and your family. </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/DKy2OGB0XTk" target="_blank">Building Champions of Character podcast with Dawn</a><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPDNg9V8O41z1qc-YY7MY2u0GodxHMS3qLQ8qOxekFjRD0C-lbO59Wp56AItyaPMGzn3Uag3FiRfeO5rGPhe8lCtPYEZHYSrhWozOPZZw4pTiRtAmGKCfjQpPm8xB1Rsb-S-asBb29qug/s210/I+Will+Stand+cover+picture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="210" data-original-width="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPDNg9V8O41z1qc-YY7MY2u0GodxHMS3qLQ8qOxekFjRD0C-lbO59Wp56AItyaPMGzn3Uag3FiRfeO5rGPhe8lCtPYEZHYSrhWozOPZZw4pTiRtAmGKCfjQpPm8xB1Rsb-S-asBb29qug/s0/I+Will+Stand+cover+picture.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-21107146776673257972020-12-23T11:30:00.003-08:002020-12-23T12:02:50.558-08:00How to Fight Evil Fortresses<p> <a href="https://youtu.be/ZwC2GfuTyyY" target="_blank">Telling the Truth in a Post-Truth World part B</a></p><p>This message by Dr. John MacArthur is so good that I want to share this on my blog. There is a part A on You Tube as well. This message makes so much sense. Unfortunately we are already under the judgment of God, and Dr. MacArthur outlines how we know that. This is spiritual warfare, and we cannot fight with human weapons. How do we fight against evil fortresses? With truth. We need to know truth, and we need to be courageous and bold enough to proclaim it to this world. </p><p>Why are we dealing with lies? Because we are dealing with the Great Liar - Satan himself. John 8:44 says Satan is the father of lies, and a murderer from the beginning. He is the ring leader you and I are ultimately dealing with as our enemy of the truth. John 8:32: "<span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." </span>If the truth will make you free, what does a lie do? Yes, lies put you in bondage. </p><p>Are you a warrior God can count on? Are you a warrior your nation can count on, whether you are from America or some place else? Are we going to go down cowardly or fight the way God says to fight? Are you on your knees praying actively? Let's get it together. It's like we are standing at the gates of hell and warning people to not go in. Are there any blocking the entrance or are we sleeping, or moving out of the way so they can go to their spiritual deaths? </p><p>A book by Rebecca Brown, MD called <i>Prepare for War</i> is an excellent resource on how to prepare yourself for spiritual battle. This is real. This is now. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Prepare-War-Rebecca-Brown/dp/0883683245/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=prepare+for+war&qid=1608751738&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Check out Prepare for War on amazon.com</a></p><p>One last thought: my prayer is that people would be free so they can do what? Come to salvation so they can have the opportunity to love the Lord. We love Him because He first loved us it says in 1 John 4:19. He is worthy of our worship and our adoration. He is so wonderful; to know Him is to love Him. Those who are in bondage will never know the great love of our Lord Jesus Christ, and they will have eternal punishment in darkness as their future rather than eternal security and love. That chance is worth fighting for.</p><p><a href="https://www.lovinggodministry.com/" target="_blank">See my website for more info, and how to know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. www.lovinggodministry.com</a><br /></p>Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-15359119843032172962020-10-12T05:34:00.008-07:002020-10-12T06:19:18.258-07:00HOW TO CLOSE THE DOORS TO DEMONIC INFLUENCE AND CONTROL<p>In my last post, I talked about regaining ground for our nation. It has to begin with us as individuals. I am amazed as I am reading Rebecca Brown's book, <i>He Came to Set the Captives Free</i>, what Satan's kingdom is all about, and the amount of influence that he and his demons have on us. Things that we dismiss as "bad influence" or even good things like "biofeedback" can actually be a portal, or a door for demons to get in, even for the Christian. We are naive to think that as a Christian these things can't touch us. Some examples are obvious, some not as much. Examples are <u>magic, yoga, martial arts, witchcraft, psychics, fortune tellers, seances, ouiji boards, trying out ESP, drugs, alcohol, rock music, biofeedback, yoga, cartoons and games using occult symbols and drawing in mind control LIKE DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS and POKEMON, accupuncture, sexual fornication, etc.</u> These things can be passed on from generation to generation also (Nehemiah 9:1-2, 2 Chronicles 29:1-11, and 2 Chronicles 34:19-21 for some examples).</p><p>We have to actually pray to God for help. Fortunately for the Christian, all of what we need to do is in the Word of God. For the non-Christian, these influences could prevent them from ever coming to a knowledge and acceptance of Jesus Christ as their Savior. </p><p>Rock music has incantations in there, sometimes in the lyrics, sometimes as back messages, but they can send demons and gain control of the listener and even afflict others with demonic attacks such as illness, accidents, etc. These things are dangerous. Rock musicians make a deal with the devil to serve him in return for fame and fortune, and get more than they bargained for. They often have ceremonies at recording studios in which a high priest or priestess in the cult of Satan come and put "satanic blessings" on each song, and this is when they put backmasking in the songs, some by the satanists and demons themselves, which can't be heard over the loud noise of the music, but are there nevertheless. Music that is repetitive over and over, such as with the Charismatic movement, also open up doorways for demons. </p><p>Anyway, those are just a couple examples. I wrote a book called <i>Choosing Music Wisely</i>, which gives good, practical advice about choosing music that is pleasing to God. When I wrote the book, I didn't even have this much perspective, but I knew that rock music was dangerous, and now I know even more why this is the case.</p><p>But you may ask the question, "What do I do since I have been involved in some of these things?" The answer is <b>1 John 1:9: "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."</b></p><p>Rebecca Brown advises on pg. 147 of her book (mentioned above) that if you have participated in something that you think had demonic influence, simply close the door by saying a prayer something like this:</p><p><b>"Father, I confess to you my involvement in ____________. I recognize that such a thing(s) is an abomination to you and detestable in your sight. I humbly ask your forgiveness for my sin in this area(s). I ask you to lift out any demonic entrance as the result of my actions and to cleanse me from my sins and close the doorway(s) forever with the precious blood of Jesus. I ask for this and thank you for it, in Jesus' name."</b></p><p>Then she also recommends that you address Satan and his demons out loud in a manner similar to the following (they can't read minds):</p><p><b>"Satan and you demons, I have asked my heavenly Father for forgiveness for participating in ______ and have received it. I now by faith close the doorway of that area of my life to you forever through the blood of Jesus Christ shed on the cross for me. In the name of Jesus I command you to go away!"</b></p><p>She warns that cases of infestation with the stronger demons will often need help from others for deliverance, so seek it out! She states, "If you pray earnestly and desire deliverance regardless of the cost, the Lord will instruct you as to what you need to do, and He <b><i>will </i></b>set the captive free." (pg. 147)</p><p>Amen and praise the Lord! <i>Thank you, dear Jesus, for your work on the cross to truly set us all free! I love you so much!!</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-48973025435549738132020-10-11T19:36:00.035-07:002020-11-27T07:20:32.686-08:00How To Save America<p>Do you feel desperate to do something to save our nation? Are you a patriot, a Christian, and/or a traditional American? Are you in culture shock like I am as you look around at what is happening to our nation that we love so much? I had never thought the things going on in 2020 would have ever been taken seriously, ideas such as socialism, Green New Deal, defunding police, evil allowed to run rampant and allowing cities to be burnt, glorifying criminal actions and criminals themselves while demonizing the good guys, housing illegal immigrants, some of them criminals, in sanctuary cities, and closing the economy over a virus. And yet it is quickly becoming a real, permanent threat to our way of life.</p><p>America has never been perfect, but it works well. That is why so many try to come here. Our nation is founded on biblical principles that have proven successful. Freedom of choice, whether for our career paths, our healthcare or even choosing not to have healthcare, freedom to take opportunities to make something of ourselves (which yes, includes working hard but feeling good about our accomplishments), are things we hold precious. America is not a "what's in it for me" nation, but <br />"what can I do for my country?" Law and order keep the nation civil as we live and work together.</p><p>But let me cut to the chase. Most of us have been watching the news so we know the problems going on, and we want to do something to stop it. We worry about our one vote, for fear there will be dishonestly in the election, people who should not be voting will vote, such as dead people, noncitizens, some will vote twice, etc. Will our vote even make it in the number?</p><p>This made me feel powerless. However, I want to appeal to those who are Christians. There is something we can do, because let's face it, this is a <b>spiritual war</b> and we know it. Ephesians 6:12 says, <u>"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."</u> Satan knows his time is short, and he has pulled all the stops. He is controlling the narrative, including the media, Hollywood and many of our governmental officials. There is a lot of money behind him as well. He is the prince of the power of the air, after all. The world system? It's his.</p><p>I have been reading Rebecca Brown's book, <i>He Came to Set the Captives Free</i> and it's very illuminating as to what goes on in the spiritual world, that is present here in the physical world, right here, right now, not only in the occult, but in our churches. Read her book for a <b>wake up call.</b> Anyway, I went on her Facebook page. She sadly died on June 23, 2020, but a lot of her journal entries are on there. There is an article of hers that was written in 2017, but is the answer I have been waiting for! Read it for more detail - https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1592862654088272&id=131827026858516, but here is the bottom line.</p><p><b>What is going to save our nation is repentance, revival, and <i>tearing down the high places!</i></b> We need to <b>RECLAIM OUR GROUND</b> in the USA for God. Rebecca Brown notes that "on April 29, 1607, Pastor Robert Hunt led the English settlers that landed at Cape Henry in prayer to make a covenant for our nation with God. They knelt in the sand by a wooden cross they had erected and prayed:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"We do hereby Dedicate this Land, and ourselves, to reach the people within these shores with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to raise up Godly generations after us, and with these generations to take the kingdom of God to all the earth. May this Covenant of Dedication remain to all generations as long as this earth remains...May all who see this Cross remember what we have done here, and may those who come here to inhabit this land join us in this Covenant and in this noble work that the Holy Scriptures may be fulfilled."</p></blockquote><p><b>The United States has a covenant with God</b>!!! That's huge! God will honor this if we do. I fear that this election may result in evil people ruling this nation that belongs to GOD! We don't have time between now and the election to plan another revival service, but we can all do something that is bigger: rededicate our lives to the Lord and stay true to this covenant! Here's how:</p><p>1. Search our hearts and confess our sins, <b>repenting </b>before the Lord and making right anything we have ought against another or with God.</p><p>2. Go through our homes and <b>burn anything that is occultic</b>, books, magazines, games, movies, pictures, trinkets, anything that is of an evil origin. BURN IT! Clean house.</p><p>3. Put <b>oil </b>over your doors and windows of your home and <b>pray</b> that God will <u>keep evil out,</u> will <u>stop any demonic power </u>from entering your home and will <u>seal it with His protection</u>. God tells us in the Lord's model prayer to pray to be "delivered from evil." Evil is all around us. How often should we <b>put on the whole armour of God </b>in Eph. 6? <i>Daily</i>, just as we are to take up our cross <i>daily</i>.</p><p>4. Satan's workers love high places, and they claim the ground and curse it as far as they can see. Remember in the Old Testament that the Israelites were supposed to tear down the high places? This is how we do it. <b>Find the highest spot</b> in your city or town and claim it back, sprinkling oil as you pray for God<u> to bind up and get rid of all evil spirits on the land</u>. Ask God to <u>break all evil curses off of the land.</u></p><p>5. <b>Pray</b> for God to <u>close all portals</u> placed on the land by Satan's servants, allowing them to come up onto ground that has already been claimed for God's kingdom. Believe it or not, these portals are especially placed on <i>church properties</i> so pray there as well.</p><p>6. <b>Remove and destroy all things used in the service of demon spirits</b>. If you find occultic items in the grass of public parks or the high places, get rid of them. If it is in your power to remove occultic items from schools or universities, get rid of them. Owners of gift shops should remove any idols or witchcraft relics. All New Age stuff needs to go. Churches need to get rid of idols as well, and remove any music that has occultic symbolism in it, including videos and other media. </p><p><b>Stay away</b> from <u>magic, yoga, martial arts, witchcraft, psychics, fortune tellers, seances, ouiji boards, trying out ESP, drugs, alcohol, rock music, biofeedback, yoga, cartoons and games using occult symbols and drawing in mind control LIKE DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS and POKEMON, accupuncture, sexual fornication</u>, etc. - these are all <b>doorways </b>to demonic influence and power in your life that will keep you from being able to witness effectively to the unsaved, grow spiritually, or if dealing with these things before saved, they can keep you from getting saved. They can have power and influence on you for the rest of your life. STAY FAR AWAY from these things! Reject them from your life, your home, and your family. If you have been involved in any of these things, see my separate post about how to close these doors.</p><p>As far as occultic stores, you can put oil on your shoes and walk in and pray quietly, claiming Jeremiah 48:26, praying that God will shut them down. You can also sprinkle oil on the ground in front of occultic stores while praying for God to cleanse the area of demons and shut down these stores. Areas where riots are taking place are likely filled with demonic activity and need heavy prayer and warring angels. Be wise, go in at least by two's, and pray quietly but out loud for protection and for God to break any curses put upon you before getting in your car or going home. Demons have sharp ears and will not be happy with what you are doing, but this needs to be done. See the Facebook article I referenced above for details on how to do this in your town. </p><p>7. Ask God to <b>place powerful warring angels</b> on the land to prevent any of Satan's servants from coming back onto the land to re-claim it for Satan and use it for evil purposes. </p><p>8. Work to <b>sever demonic influences, bondages and curses</b> from the lives of unbelievers so they can come to Jesus. </p><p>I am taking all this from her article. I have great respect for her. She was a physician who worked her adult life with people in the occult, bringing them out of slavery. </p><p>She says the way we claim ground is to WALK it. We have to walk the land, not drive it (see Malachi 4:3). Our feet have to touch the ground. </p><p>From the high hills or mountains (high places) Satan's people can send out curses onto all the land that they can see from there. While up there, claim Jeremiah 48:26. Ask the Lord to fulfill it. It says, "<span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Make ye him drunken: for he magnified </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">himself</i><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.</span>" It's difficult to do anything when violently vomiting. She has seen God work in this way over and over as she and her husband have claimed and cleansed the high places, and meeting places that witches have used. </p><p>Honestly, if I read something like this a year ago I would have disregarded it as crazy. However, after the studies I have been doing the past few months, and seeing what is going on in our cities, and who is coming up for election, I am not disregarding it anymore. I have been awakened, my eyes are now open, at least to some extent, enough to know we as Christians need to WAKE UP and reclaim our nation for the Lord OR WE WILL LOSE IT to Satan's army. It's nothing to laugh at. Are you PREPARED FOR WAR? Some (probably many!) people we see on TV openly proclaim they are demon possessed or in the occult (like Illuminati), including Beyonce, and at least two of the three leaders of Black Lives Matter. And yet many Christians follow these people or organizations, and many businesses support them. </p><p>Let's do this thing. You as a believer have the power to do it through the authority of Jesus Christ. If we all reclaim our areas, Satan will become less powerful as he will have to get off illegal ground, and the warring angels can do their thing. <b>But we need to repent, clean house and PRAY in the <u>authority and name of Jesus Christ</u></b>. That is what unleashes the power, because it is NOT US. We have to be a pure vessel, humble and alert, so that GOD CAN DO HIS THING. Jesus' blood not only covers our sins, but Jesus has the power to restrain evil and protect us from it. Use Jesus' name and Scripture as much as possible. Songs of praise to Jesus is also a powerful weapon, but nothing like the Word of God. FIGHT WITH THE WORD OF GOD AND PRAYER! That is God's direction to us. Wear that armour!</p><p>Ephesians 6:10-18:</p><p class="reg" style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span class="reftext" style="color: #aa4400; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 2px; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="https://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-10.htm" style="color: #008ae6; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>10</b></a></span>Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. <span class="reftext" style="color: #aa4400; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 2px; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="https://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-11.htm" style="color: #008ae6; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>11</b></a></span>Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. <span class="reftext" style="color: #aa4400; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 2px; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="https://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-12.htm" style="color: #008ae6; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>12</b></a></span>For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high <i>places</i>. <span class="reftext" style="color: #aa4400; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 2px; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="https://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-13.htm" style="color: #008ae6; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>13</b></a></span>Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. <span class="reftext" style="color: #aa4400; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 2px; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="https://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-14.htm" style="color: #008ae6; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>14</b></a></span>Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; <span class="reftext" style="color: #aa4400; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 2px; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="https://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-15.htm" style="color: #008ae6; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>15</b></a></span>And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; <span class="reftext" style="color: #aa4400; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 2px; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="https://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-16.htm" style="color: #008ae6; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>16</b></a></span>Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. <span class="reftext" style="color: #aa4400; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 2px; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="https://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-17.htm" style="color: #008ae6; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>17</b></a></span>And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:</p><p class="hdg" style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify;">Pray Continually</p><p class="reg" style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span class="reftext" style="color: #aa4400; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 2px; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="https://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-18.htm" style="color: #008ae6; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>18</b></a></span>Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;</p>Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-71554468123800028292020-06-23T21:29:00.002-07:002020-06-23T21:29:26.510-07:00Fearing AuthorityI am outraged by what I am seeing happening to my country. I just canceled a trip to see my soon to be 2 yr. old granddaughter because I do not want to travel to any cities for fear I may come across rioters, or find myself in a situation where there is a crime occurring and there are no police to come to my aid.<br />
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I see on the news older boys holding big guns, stating that they have to defend themselves and their brothers because the police may come and hurt them.<br />
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I see vandalism of property that does not belong to them, and that has historical and cultural significance. How selfish that they do not consider what others think, only themselves. Are they so tender that they cannot accept that life is not perfect, and that others are going to disagree with them? Do they have to kill and destroy and vandalize rather than deal with their emotions, and with their disappointment in their nation's past? Where are their parents? I suspect this is a generation that has not learned to "play nice in the sandbox" but cries until they get their own way, and have no moral compass to know what direction is right and what direction is pure evil.<br />
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Public schools have not been teaching history like they once did because the kids are not tested on that, and in order to look good, their schools have to perform well in reading comprehension, science and math. Spelling, vocabulary, grammar, history, and other subjects are being left behind. I know because my husband is a teacher, and I have seen the decline in the education system first hand in the children I know. Where is the teaching about government and flag etiquette, patriotism, and world history? Are they familiar with the world wars? Do they truly know what communism and socialism mean? Maybe some schools are doing a good job, but by the look at this next generation, the snowflake generation, they do not appear to respect history, nor desire to learn from it. They are following the same playbook that destroyed Venezuela, and there are similarities between them and communism in their ideals.<br />
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History is important because we can learn from it and avoid making the same mistakes as our ancestors. God had the Israelites make memorials to remember certain events in history. And God instructed parents to teach, teach, teach their children, every day, throughout the day. Proverbs 6:20-23: "<span style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;">My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:</span><span class="versenum" style="background-color: white; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;">Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.</span><span class="versenum" style="background-color: white; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;">When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.</span><span class="versenum" style="background-color: white; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;">For the commandment is <b>a lamp</b>; and the law is <b>light</b>; and reproofs of instruction are the <b>way of life</b>." <span style="color: blue;">Rules and law and order give us guidance and vision and safety.</span></span><br />
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<span class="text Deut-11-16" id="en-KJV-5225">Deuteronomy 11:16-28: "Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; </span>And then the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>'s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> giveth you. <b>Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.<span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span>And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:<span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span></b>That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.<span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span>For if ye shall <b>diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;<span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span></b>Then will the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.<span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span>Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.<span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span>There shall no man be able to stand before you: <b>for the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.<span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span>Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;<span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span>A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> your God, which I command you this day:<span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span>And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> your God,</b> but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known." There you have it. How is America going to respond? Who is America? You and I. This passage in context is speaking about the nation of Israel, but there are some applications to America today. Are we going to let our nation be taken over by hostile men and women who hate our country, its ideals, and disrespect the brave men and women who gave their lives for it? Are we going to be strong Christians and heed the commandments and even principles laid out in God's Word?</div>
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The point that I want to really focus on in this article, however, is this: <b>fearing authority</b>. Should we fear authority? Is there something wrong with the person of authority if people are afraid of them?<br />
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Take a child. Should a child fear his father? Well, there is a difference between fearing the man and fearing, or <i>respecting and reverencing</i> the position of authority and that person's ability to enforce law and order. In other words,<b> if you do wrong and you get caught, you are going to fear the consequences. </b>They will be uncomfortable, whether it is a spanking, loss of privileges, hard work to restore what was damaged, having to humble oneself and apologize, or whatever the consequence would be. Does the child really fear his father if he is a good father? No, he fears the consequences of his actions. Will he be punished if he does wrong? Yes. Should that be the expectation? Again, absolutely yes! Is that something to fear? OF COURSE!<br />
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Will a child fear his teacher if he does not fear his father? No. Will a child fear the police if he does not fear his father or his teacher? No. Will a child fear God if he does not fear his father, his teacher, or his law enforcement? No. The Bible says in Proverbs 9:10: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding." Should it surprise you then that when people do not reverence the Lord, they act foolishly?<br />
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If you do what is right, you have no need to fear the police. If you do something wrong, and especially if you run from the police or take a weapon from the police, yes, you need to fear! You have done wrong! You are not in a position to make demands when you are in the wrong. When there is someone in your presence who has authority over you, and like it or not, there are many who hold authority over others including employers, they deserve your respect and obedience. You might not like the person in that uniform personally, but you need to respect their role and position. That goes for anyone in authority over you, including parents and bosses. And respect pastors, who watch out for your souls.<br />
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Here is what the Bible has to say about this.<br />
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Romans 13:1-7 says, <span style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;">Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.</span><br />
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<span class="text Rom-13-4" id="en-KJV-28271"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>For he is the<b> minister of God</b> to thee for good. <b>But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid;</b> for <b>he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.</b></span></div>
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<span class="text Rom-13-7">Bottom line: It is good and right to fear authority, as this will keep you doing what is right. Expect to be punished if you are doing wrong. How do you fix that? Do what is right. Use the Bible as your ultimate authority because it does not change. Follow the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Respect your fellow man, their property, and their children and animals. And don't forget the Ten Commandments.</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5a646e;">You shall have no other gods before Me.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5a646e;">You shall make no idols.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5a646e;">You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #5a646e;">Keep the </span><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.bibleinfo.com/node/4216" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;">Sabbath</a> </span><span style="color: #5a646e;">day holy.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5a646e;">Honor your father and your mother.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5a646e;">You shall not murder.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5a646e;">You shall not commit adultery.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5a646e;">You shall not steal.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5a646e;">You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5a646e;">You shall not covet.</li>
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Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-15751307626249294832020-04-19T17:58:00.000-07:002020-04-19T17:58:02.622-07:00Refuge Missionary Baptist Church 4-19-20This is a link to Refuge Missionary Baptist Church's website with last week's and this week's Sunday morning service. I hope you are encouraged by it!<br />
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<a href="https://refugebaptistmurph.wixsite.com/refuge" target="_blank">Refuge Missionary Baptist Church</a><br />
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<br />Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-6689641194272056122020-04-12T16:10:00.002-07:002020-04-12T16:10:38.896-07:00Refuge Missionary Baptist Church Easter Service 4-12-20Our church posted an online service which was a blessing to me. I’d like to share it with you! There are two parts. God bless you!<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQLvd0knDkM&feature=share" target="_blank">Part 1 of the service </a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5pIBQqwi7s&feature=share" target="_blank">Part 2 of the service </a>Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-8602967436834397542019-12-13T13:41:00.001-08:002019-12-13T13:41:33.899-08:00December Vlog - Family Strife<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VaFboD0ky28" width="459"></iframe>Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-76778208746128176442019-10-13T14:27:00.001-07:002019-10-13T14:27:46.517-07:0010-13-19 Warning Those in Open Sin<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iibn_MHAqW8" width="480"></iframe>Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-31425748428968832242019-09-04T05:46:00.003-07:002019-09-04T05:46:33.732-07:00My newsletter is announcing something new - check it out!My September newsletter is here, which announces something new that I am very excited about: my new VLOG! A Vlog is a video journal. I'm going to post things on it that I hope will be a blessing. It's geared toward women and teen girls, and I would love your input. It's hard to find or get to ladies Bible studies these days, so maybe we can at least share some thoughts over the world wide web. While I agree that the internet can be used for evil purposes, it can also be used for godly purposes, so that is why I have chosen this venue. Time and money is not allowing me right now to attend vendor fairs or speaking engagements, but this I can do easily.<br />
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For a direct link to my Vlog, click on this: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSPYryty7jK9Kqe9bYxxPy0uzhgVOnJ1i" target="_blank">Dawn's Vlog on You Tube</a><br />
For my September 2019 quarterly newsletter, click on my website link and then push the button: "See Dawn's Newsletter." <a href="http://www.dawnfoss.com/" target="_blank">www.dawnfoss.com</a><br />
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If there is a topic you would love to discuss, then please let me know. We are in this thing together, trying to make the world a better place, and the best way to do that is to share God's love with others and grow spiritually ourselves in a closer walk with Jesus. Part of that love is His justice, but thank God for his mercy and grace as well. He is a holy God and deserves our undivided attention and holy living, because He said, "Be ye holy; for I am holy" (1 Peter 1:16).<br />
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God bless you on your exciting journey of life, and may you keep God first in everything that you do. That is the only way to experience true fulfillment and joy.<br />
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Dawn ElliottDawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-3699572546744653622019-07-10T14:18:00.000-07:002019-07-10T14:18:06.556-07:00What’s the Secret to Defeating Anxiety?<div class="MsoNormal">
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anxiety, and there was a theme I noticed that rang throughout the entire
lesson: FOCUS. If I were to think about the answer to anxiety, focus would not
have been my first thought. I probably would have thought, “stop worrying.” Or
I would have thought “trust in the Lord.” Perhaps “think positive things” would
have been my answer. Other thoughts: “don’t fret.” “Have good friends to talk
to.” And if nothing else was helping, perhaps a good anti-anxiety pill! LOL!
These can all be helpful, and are part of the solution, but I like the simple
word “Focus.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When you think about what anxiety really is, it is fear.
This fear can become irrational if we dwell on it. It can change our outlook
and shade everything we look at in a negative way. It’s like putting on
sunglasses and changing our what? Our focus. Our clarity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What is it that we should focus on? Or shall I say,
“Who?” The object of our faith and trust is the key, because if we are relying
on something that can let us down, then fear has some rational place. Placing
our faith, trust and focus on Jesus Christ is a reliable place because He is
incapable of error, He loves each and every one of us, and He has the power to
either change our circumstances, or change us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There is a song my family is working on singing together
that says, “Sometimes He calms the storm, other times He calms His child.”
Isn’t that true? Sometimes we have to go through the storms of life, but God
can calm us and empower us to deal with what we have to deal with, and that
makes all the difference. Free will of individuals around us sometimes causes
us pain that is inavoidable. The best thing we can do for ourselves, and even
teach to our children, is to have the tools to endure suffering. A key is how
to stay focused…on Christ, on the goal, on our purpose, on our mission in life,
on the rewards that come from living a faithful life for Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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loved the example our teacher gave from Daniel 3:15-18: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">“<span class="text"><span style="color: black;">Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of
the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of
musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye
worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery
furnace; and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">who is that God that shall
deliver you out of my hands?</b></span></span></span><span class="text"><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are
not careful to answer thee in this matter.</span></span><span class="text"><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">If it be
so, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">our</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God whom we serve is able to deliver us</b> from the burning fiery
furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.</span></span><span class="text"><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">But if not</span></b></span><span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">, be it known unto thee, O king, that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">we will not serve thy gods</b>, nor worship the golden image which thou
hast set up.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Do you see the resolve these young men had?
They never lost focus on God. The king challenged the ability of God to save
them, but whether He chose to save them or not, they were fully persuaded in
their minds to do what was right, and to not do what they knew was wrong. And
I’m happy to report that while they had to be thrown into the fiery furnace,
they didn’t die, they didn’t get burned, and their clothes didn’t even smell
like smoke! If you think maybe the fire wasn’t that hot, the men who threw them
in died from being so close to the flame!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Another set of verses out of our lesson that
stood out to me was Hebrews 2:9-13: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">“But we
see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of
death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste
death for every man.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"> <span class="text">For it became him, for whom
are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory,
to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.</span> <span class="text">For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of
one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,</span> s<span class="text">aying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the
church will I sing praise unto thee.</span> <span class="text">And again, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold
I and the children which God hath given me</b>.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">My husband and I have determined to bring up
our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. One way we can do this
is by setting the example of how we trust in Him through our trials. Trials
give us opportunity to let the glory of the Lord shine upon us. We know the end
if we’re saved! We are made perfect, or mature, through suffering. We should
protect our children the best we can from suffering, but when it does
ultimately come in some way, which is inevitable in our world, we need to teach
them to use it for gaining knowledge and wisdom to strengthen their resolve and
determination to do what is right no matter the cost. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">This is a good argument against strong drink
or drugs. If our minds cannot focus, then we have lost our ability to fight
anxiety. Some people drink to dull their senses so they can relax, but dulling
their ability to think clearly can get them into trouble and cause them to lose
focus on Christ and doing what is right. They can make choices they will
regret, and not even remember what they said to someone to damage a
relationship. We should stay away from any substance that will envelope our
minds, even TV or video games or electronic devices if it becomes an addiction,
which can cause chaos in our minds rather than keeping sound minds that can
think clearly through troubles. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Think about how damaging the words of our
mouths can be, with sometimes irreversible damage. James 3:5-6: “Even so the
tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a
matter a little fire kindleth! </span></span><span class="text"><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">And the
tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that
it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is
set on fire of hell.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">” Powerful analogy!<span class="text"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">We are not immune to trouble. Job 14:1: “</span></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Man that
is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.” </span><span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">How will
we deal with trouble? God puts people in our lives to talk to and we shouldn’t
be ashamed of needing to talk to some godly people who can give us wisdom and
feedback. I am convinced that some of our friends and people we meet through
life are meant to be in certain chapters of our lives to help us through those
stages. Are you sensitive to help those around you? You may be that person God
is going to use to help a coworker through a dark valley they are in right now.
Peter lost his focus on the Lord while walking on water, and as soon as he
looked at the waves and the storm, he began to sink. He looked to the Lord for
help, and that outstretched hand saved him. Yes, he messed up by taking his
focus off Christ, but he redirected it back on Him and didn’t allow pride to
cause him to drown.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">It’s interesting how Noah preached for 120
years, and only 8 people on the entire planet made it on the ark, and those
were members of Noah’s family. Just because an idea is popular doesn’t mean it
isn’t a bad idea. Noah was in the minority but he had the answer for the
survival of mankind. The people mocked him. It seemed strange for him to build
an ark for a massive storm that was coming when it had never rained. We can get
discouraged when people do not accept the Gospel, especially when we see the
state of our world and the reprobate minds that have developed. The Lord has to
show people the error of their ways. It is best for us not to flip flop, but to
know what we believe in and why so we can not only be fully persuaded and
focused, but so we can give a reason to others for the hope that is in us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">We will lose focus if we look around at the
mockers, and feel ashamed for our conduct in Christ. Romans 10:11: “</span></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">For the
scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.” We will lose
focus if we allow our minds to be affected by trying times. Look to godly
brothers and sisters in Christ for encouragement and examples, but remember we
are all human and all fail. Jesus is the only One who will never let us down.
Show others we have a different spirit from the world. Keep the chains off your
mind! Be fundamentally grounded in what you believe, and you will find peace in
the midst of your storms. Pray and be honest with God with your feelings,
fears, and anxieties, and keep the big picture in mind. The world needs a
Saviour, His return is imminent, and He loves each and every one of us, and
yes, that includes YOU personally. Take comfort in that. Read His word and
pray, and stay clear and focused on what He wants you to do and the kind of
person He wants you to be.</span><span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-43635057883815848582019-06-10T21:31:00.002-07:002019-06-10T21:31:54.861-07:00JUNE declared WORSHIP GOD MONTH!<div style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
Christian, do you ever feel discouraged because of the spiritual darkness all around us? Do you wonder what you can do to make a difference? Don't forget that darkness is the absence of light. It doesn't take much light to overcome the darkness. When we are too passive, we are not being salt and light.</div>
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We can all post how much we love the Lord, praise His name, tell others about His love and provisions and His saving grace. We can flood Facebook and Twitter with testimonies of how He saved us and how much we love HIM with all our hearts, souls and minds. What do you say? Want to take a stand for righteousness with me and spread some light? He IS the hope of the world don't forget! They need HIM.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'll start. I was saved when I was 8 yrs. old at Bible camp. I knew I needed a Savior and didn't want to go to hell. I believed what I heard preached at church and then at camp. I walked alone along a dirt path thinking about it, and then decided t</span></span><span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">hat I wanted to be a Christian. I praise God I did, because 41 yrs. later I have never looked back. I thank the Lord for His saving grace which has made such a HUGE difference in my life along this journey of ups and downs. He is my very best friend! Thank you Jesus! I love you!!!<span class="_5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t2/1/16/1f60d.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">😍</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-37429131952848500852019-06-08T15:28:00.004-07:002019-06-08T15:28:38.997-07:00June 2019 Newsletter for Loving God MinistryMy quarterly June 2019 Newsletter for my Loving God Ministry is up! I was a little behind after needing to take some time off. If you would like to check it out, please click on the link. Thanks for reading!<br />
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<a href="https://lovinggodministry.wordpress.com/newsletters/" target="_blank">https://lovinggodministry.wordpress.com/newsletters/</a>Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-39292192718464283872019-05-31T08:15:00.001-07:002019-05-31T08:19:12.409-07:00Disney boycotting Georgia because it wants to save lives?<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was appalled yesterday when I heard on the news that Disney may be boycotting Georgia because of their stand against abortion. Netflix and others are jumping on this bandwagon. Here are a couple sites to learn more:</span><br />
<a href="https://www.pressconnects.com/story/money/2019/05/30/ceo-bob-iger-disney-georgia-abortion-law/1283840001/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.pressconnects.com/story/money/2019/05/30/ceo-bob-iger-disney-georgia-abortion-law/1283840001/</span></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/disney-netflix-georgia-abortion-boycott-ban-restriction-money-1439436"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.newsweek.com/disney-netflix-georgia-abortion-boycott-ban-restriction-money-1439436</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What is this stand against abortion that Georgia is taking? It's called the "Heartbeat Bill" and makes abortion illegal once a fetal heartbeat is detected, or at 8 weeks of pregnancy. The new law would take effect January 1, 2020. Other states have also brought forth bills that will protect innocent life from death where it should be safest: in his or her mother's womb. Mothers have looked to abortion as birth control, after a life has already been formed in her womb. If you play out the logic, it truly is murder because a life that would have been born and grown up into a child or an adult has been intentionally stopped short. The sanctity of life is something to value and cherish, and is not a commodity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We all have as a moral, basic, human responsibility and duty to protect life, at whatever stage it is, including elderly and handicapped people. I would extend that to take our responsibility even to animals, as responsible stewards of what God has placed under man. Plant life is also a duty to work the ground and take care of our planet. But like it or not, the top of this chain is human beings because that is how God designed it. And we don't have the luxury of being irresponsible, because it's up to us to protect life and the well being of others. Criminals take what is not theirs. Life does not belong to us, but to God, even our own lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Genesis 1:27-31: "So God created man in his <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">own</em> image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Genesis-1-28/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" title="Genesis 1:28 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="30" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-weight: bold; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">28</span></a>And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Proverbs 6:16-19: "<span style="background-color: white;">These six</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">things</em><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">doth the LORD <b>hate</b>: yea, seven</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">are</em><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">an <b>abomination </b>unto him:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I believe that Walt Disney would be very much against this proclamation of Disney today. His movies were designed to promote morals and traditional family values. Disney was a name you could trust for quality shows and movies that were family friendly. They were funny but not crass. Today they are as liberal minded in their themes as one can get. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The article from the second link (Newsweek) above states, "<span style="color: #222222;">Iger said Disney would have to reconsider its productions in the state on the behalf of its thousands of workers who would likely be displeased with the ban, should it become law. 'I rather doubt we will [continue filming in Georgia],' he said. 'I think many people who work for us will not want to work there, and we will have to heed their wishes in that regard. Right now we are watching it very carefully.'"</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They are trying to please their employees rather than taking a stand for what is right. How could anyone be against protecting the lives of innocent children? One might say, "Well, what about the mother?" The mother is old enough to reproduce, so responsibility becomes her mandate. God will take care of her if she seeks Him for help. God hates the shedding of innocent blood. When did Americans become so selfish? Why are my rights better than anyone else's? Yes, a mother has other responsibilities as well, but those do not override her first priority in doing what is right: not killing another human life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I first remember the selfish tones of our culture in Burger King's "Have it your way." That was fine, they wanted to show their customers that they were there to serve you, and make your burger the way you like it. But that mindset stuck. I want it my way! I want everything I want, and you better give it to me! One would hope that wouldn't be the conclusion drawn by that, but look around you. Don't you think that has become a prominent attitude in our culture today? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I was in high school, the kids used to say to someone being demanding: "Gimmes don't get!" In other words, if you are going to say "give me" this or that, you won't get it. You have to show respect and politeness and common courtesy first, and then your wishes may be accommodated. Don't you think that makes sense? It sure does to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I moved to Georgia last year. I love coming to the south because there certainly is a larger pull for moral values down here. But the battle is very hot down here. There is evil warring against the good, and as a democratic candidate Stacy Abrams who was running for Georgia Governor recently said (as heard in an ad commerical), "If we can change Georgia, we can change the South. And if we change the South, we will change the nation." Scary, isn't it? Evil has an agenda and it's working hard. We can't be passive, we the people who believe in moral values and the saving and valuing of innocent human life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No, we don't know if that aborted baby might have been a criminal one day. But that's not our responsibility. No, we don't know if he or she might have been handicapped or a burden to society. Again, not our fault or our ability to know. It's simple: we are to protect life. That same aborted baby may have become someone who saved lives or changed the world for good. And whether we do good or we do evil, we are eternal beings with a precious soul, and life does not belong to us and is not ours to take.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why is Georgia of all places targeted by movie producers? Because Atlanta, GA is the Los Angeles/Hollywood of the east. I didn't know that until a year or so ago. Atlanta is the center stage for a lot of filming. My daughter had considered moving there when she graduated with her cinematic arts degree. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Dozens of Netflix series have filmed in the state over the years. Projects including </span><em style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px;">Christmas on the Square, Holidate, The Liberator</em><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, the second season of </span><em style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px;">Insatiable</em><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and the third season of </span><em style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px;">Ozark</em><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> are currently filming in Georgia, according to the Georgia Film Office. Disney similarly has a longstanding history of working in the state. The company’s Marvel division has filmed four comic book series in Georgia and 2018 blockbuster </span><em style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px;">Black Panther </em><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was produced there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Meanwhile, <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px;">Lovecraft Country</em> producers J.J. Abrams and Jordan Peele said their companies, Bad Robot Productions and Monkeypaw Productions respectively, would continue film their show in the state for now but planned to donate their production fees to Georgia’s ACLU branch and Fair Fight Georgia.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We are at a crossroads in our nation. We each have to pick a side. The battle of good and evil is upon us heavier than I've seen in my lifetime. The question comes to each of us: will I stand? or will I cave into pressures, into evil, if the pressure gets too heavy and too hot? How much does money mean to me? Will it wipe out my existence? Will I be willing to give up my life or my wealth to serve God and protect life? There is more than this life. There is the eternal life, or eternal death, to come after we leave this planet. When our focus is on the eternal, the temporal in this life loses its pull. I'm all for wealth and comforts, but if it becomes my guiding force, then I have lost my way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I made a choice recently. I moved here from Connecticut and found a job, but it was a difficult one. The hours and the job were a struggle for me. I had a wonderful boss who found another job within the company, but it would be working at a casino. I would not be an employee of the casino, but would have to have a badge that would identify me with them. I also considered my reputation as I drove into this establishment. My job was to work in the health clinic, so I was not doing anything wrong. People everywhere need healthcare, and the casino was good to their employees to provide a clinic for them. But my conscience was not clear. I am a Christian, and I felt like my being there showed a conflict of interest with my values, like I was endorsing the things that go on in a casino. It could tarnish my reputation as a Christian writer, and I couldn't take that chance. I am against gambling, and of course that is a gambling establishment. One could try to justify it, but for my conscience, I could not do it. It was a difficult decision as the time was coming close to us starting, but as soon as I found out I would have to wear a casino badge, the decision became clear to me. I had to turn it down. I had to disappoint those who were counting on me. But the strong feeling in my heart that it was the right thing to do won out, and I decided to stay in my current position until God brought something else my way that would better meet the needs of my family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So what happened? My boss was understanding, she called me the next day to reassure me that everything was fine on her end and asked if we were OK, which we were, and she reminded me of something she learned recently: just because an opportunity comes doesn't mean we are meant to take it. We still have to pray for God's will and follow His lead in all our decisions. A coworker took the job, and this was something that met her needs well. I pursued other external opportunities, but nothing else worked out, so I remained faithful where God had placed me. Then an opportunity came that is even better than I could have dreamed within my same company. The timing was now right for a change, and it did not cost me money or compromise my conscience. The hours worked out even better, and all in all, the pay worked out in my favor as well. I was patient and God blessed. He is real, He is alive, and He will work in our lives when we allow Him to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matthew 6:33: "<span style="background-color: white;">But</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><mark style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">seek</mark><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">ye</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><mark style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">first</mark><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><mark style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">the</mark><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><mark style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">kingdom</mark><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">of</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><mark style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God</mark><span style="background-color: white;">, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">So it comes down to this, dear friend, dear Georgia, dear movie producer: </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white;">Joshua 24:15: "</span><span style="background-color: white;">And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but </span><mark style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">as for me and my house</mark><span style="background-color: white;">, we will serve the LORD."</span></b></span>Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-86632327814628304912019-03-27T03:24:00.001-07:002019-03-27T03:24:59.359-07:00I Will Stand devotional<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">“I Will Stand” is working so well as we have been using it for family devotions. What it does is builds character and gets discussion going. That’s the key right there, is getting your kids to open up and talk, because then they are thinking and applying the concepts to their lives. There is a commitment section, scripture section, self assessment and challenge. We get through in 10-15 minutes. There are about 20 chapters, so you’ll get done in less than a month. It’s a workbook so if the kids want, they can personalize it and write their own commitment to the Lord at the end. I’m not tooting my own horn because I’m the author; God laid on my heart to write this and publish it in 2013 because we all need these truths from the Word of God. This is over 40 years of pearls of wisdom I’ve learned as well in this little book. I’ve lowered the price of this and all my books on amazon. Please check it out for yourself! I Will Stand: A Book of Commitment To Do What is Right <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692865411/ref=cm_nsw_r_cp_api_i_6S0MCbAB7D5B8" target="_blank">I Will Stand link to amazon.com</a></span><br />
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Dawn's bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919335112803533156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193607791242107960.post-19884273993297509782019-02-21T11:59:00.001-08:002019-02-21T11:59:29.119-08:00The Beautiful Role of Older Women<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Titus 2:1-15 reveals something beautiful that we can sometimes forget as we go along in our busy lives. As older women, some of us have become accomplished, educated, experienced, etc., and there is much we have to offer others. A barrier is there is a cloud of deception in the air, and not only is truth being harder to discern, but humility is something foreign to many of us in the "me first" culture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It seems like "everyone wants to be a rock star." Have you heard anyone say that? Any of us can fall into that trap. What is beautiful for a woman is maturity, kindness, a quiet spirit, and a gentle heart. Meekness does not mean weakness; women can be full of grace and yet wise and smart. Those who are wise and smart, as a matter of fact, will know how to conduct themselves appropriately. They will mentor the younger women, not looking for praise but doing their part to pass on wisdom to the next generation. This is something that is beautiful. We women need to be INVOLVED. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Remember Uncle Sam's campaign that he was looking for a few good men? He wanted YOU? Well, God has called us women to be a few good women, to change the course of this culture toward godliness, purity, discretion, thoughtfulness, and wisdom. Wouldn't your world be a better place surrounded by people who are trying to be Christ-like? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When we are all doing our best to grow in our character, we all get along better. We will be more tolerant of each other, knowing we are all trying our best to improve and none of us are perfect. We will have a strong work ethic. We will keep our priorities in line: God first, family second, ourselves last. We will encourage one another in the Lord, and build each other up rather than tearing each other down as unfortunately we women tend to do. Ever hear women referred to as fighting like cats? When we are humble, we don't mind that other women appear better than us. We can't control others' opinions; we can only focus on our duty: living a pure and dedicated life for our Heavenly Father who loves us and made each of us special and unique in HIS eyes, the eyes that matter the most. His love is unfailing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Below is Titus 2:1-15. Please read this and then pray about how God can use you to make a difference in the lives of those around you. It's a very beautiful role that will bring you peace, fulfillment and contentment, and meaning and purpose to your life like you have never known before. Anyone in your periphery who could use a mentor? It starts with you setting the example, and then reaching out and touching others' lives, one at a time, in simple yet loving ways.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Titus-2-6/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Titus 2:6 KJV verse detail"><span class="versehover" id="8" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a23021; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; left: -2.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute;">6</span></a>Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.</div>
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