Showing posts with label burn their gods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label burn their gods. Show all posts

Friday, May 8, 2009

You keep your promises


Eze 23:1 The word of the LORD came to me:
Eze 23:2 "Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.
Eze 23:3 They played the whore in Egypt; they played the whore in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled.
Eze 23:4 Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
Eze 23:5 "Oholah played the whore while she was mine, and she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors
Eze 23:6 clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
Eze 23:7 She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted.
Eze 23:8 She did not give up her whoring that she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her.
Eze 23:9 Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted.
Eze 23:10 These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed on her.
Eze 23:11 "Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became more corrupt than her sister in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister.
Eze 23:12 She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
Eze 23:13 And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way.
Eze 23:14 But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,
Eze 23:15 wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea.
Eze 23:16 When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
Eze 23:17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, she turned from them in disgust.
Eze 23:18 When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister.
Eze 23:19 Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt
Eze 23:20 and lusted after her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.
Eze 23:21 Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed your young breasts."
Eze 23:22 Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:
Eze 23:23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and commanders all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.
Eze 23:24 And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
Eze 23:25 And I will direct my jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire.
Eze 23:26 They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.
Eze 23:27 Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your whoring begun in the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.
Eze 23:28 "For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of those from whom you turned in disgust,
Eze 23:29 and they shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring
Eze 23:30 have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
Eze 23:31 You have gone the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.
Eze 23:32 Thus says the Lord GOD: "You shall drink your sister's cup that is deep and large; you shall be laughed at and held in derision, for it contains much;
Eze 23:33 you will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow. A cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria;
Eze 23:34 you shall drink it and drain it out, and gnaw its shards, and tear your breasts; for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.
Eze 23:35 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you yourself must bear the consequences of your lewdness and whoring."
Eze 23:36 The LORD said to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations.
Eze 23:37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.
Eze 23:38 Moreover, this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my Sabbaths.
Eze 23:39 For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, this is what they did in my house.
Eze 23:40 They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.
Eze 23:41 You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.
Eze 23:42 The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and with men of the common sort, drunkards were brought from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of the women, and beautiful crowns on their heads.
Eze 23:43 "Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, Now they will continue to use her for a whore, even her!
Eze 23:44 For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a prostitute. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, lewd women!
Eze 23:45 But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands."
Eze 23:46 For thus says the Lord GOD: "Bring up a vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder.
Eze 23:47 And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.
Eze 23:48 Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.
Eze 23:49 And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD."
Father God, you are Almighty and I praise you. You are my heavenly Father who keeps promises. You made the heavens and the earth and you who created me and loved me unconditionally. Father God, you hate the sin of adultery. You are a jealous God and punished those who does not honor and turn away from you. Father God, thank you that you are merciful and full of grace, thank you that you have chosen me and saved me from the kingdom of darkness. Thank you Jesus and continually transfrom me to a person that you want me to be. Oh Father, use me mightily as your servant and I pray that I will be faithful to you as you are to me, loving as you are to me and gracious as you are to me. Father help me that I may live a Christlike character so I can be blessing to other people and that they may be attracted to my life so I can bring more people to Jesus. This I pray in the Mighty Name of Jesus! AMEN

Monday, April 27, 2009

You created everything


Eze 10:1 Then I looked, and behold, on the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim there appeared above them something like a sapphire, in appearance like a throne.
Eze 10:2 And he said to the man clothed in linen, "Go in among the whirling wheels underneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city." And he went in before my eyes.
Eze 10:3 Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the house, when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.
Eze 10:4 And the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub to the threshold of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD.
Eze 10:5 And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.
Eze 10:6 And when he commanded the man clothed in linen, "Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim," he went in and stood beside a wheel.
Eze 10:7 And a cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took some of it and put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, who took it and went out.
Eze 10:8 The cherubim appeared to have the form of a human hand under their wings.
Eze 10:9 And I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one beside each cherub, and the appearance of the wheels was like sparkling beryl.
Eze 10:10 And as for their appearance, the four had the same likeness, as if a wheel were within a wheel.
Eze 10:11 When they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went, but in whatever direction the front wheel faced, the others followed without turning as they went.
Eze 10:12 And their whole body, their rims, and their spokes, their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes all around--the wheels that the four of them had.
Eze 10:13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing "the whirling wheels."
Eze 10:14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was a human face, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
Eze 10:15 And the cherubim mounted up. These were the living creatures that I saw by the Chebar canal.
Eze 10:16 And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them. And when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels did not turn from beside them.
Eze 10:17 When they stood still, these stood still, and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in them.
Eze 10:18 Then the glory of the LORD went out from the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.
Eze 10:19 And the cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth before my eyes as they went out, with the wheels beside them. And they stood at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.
Eze 10:20 These were the living creatures that I saw underneath the God of Israel by the Chebar canal; and I knew that they were cherubim.
Eze 10:21 Each had four faces, and each four wings, and underneath their wings the likeness of human hands.
Eze 10:22 And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the Chebar canal. Each one of them went straight forward.

Father God, you are awesome and Almighty. You created everything on heaven and earth. There is nothing hard for you and I praise you and thank you this day. Father God, I humble myself before your holy throne, bless me today and comfort me. Embrace me with your love and put the peace and gladness in my heart. Remove any anxiety or worries that is within me that I may live a life pleasing to you. With these weaknesses I am strong with you Oh Lord. You are my fortress and my cornerstone. You are my refuge and you defend me in anything that may harm me. I rebuke and reject any works of evil in my life and I fixed my eyes on Jesus who is the author and perfector of life. All praises and glory to your name and this I pray In Jesus Mighty Name, AMEN!

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Teach me your ways


Jer 52:1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of the Jeremiah who lived in the city of Libnah.
Jer 52:2 King Zedekiah sinned against the LORD, just as King Jehoiakim had done.
Jer 52:3 The LORD became so angry with the people of Jerusalem and Judah that he banished them from his sight. Zedekiah rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia,
Jer 52:4 and so Nebuchadnezzar came with all his army and attacked Jerusalem on the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign. They set up camp outside the city, built siege walls around it,
Jer 52:5 and kept it under siege until Zedekiah's eleventh year.
Jer 52:6 On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,
Jer 52:7 the city walls were broken through. Although the Babylonians were surrounding the city, all the soldiers escaped during the night. They left by way of the royal garden, went through the gateway connecting the two walls, and fled in the direction of the Jordan Valley.
Jer 52:8 But the Babylonian army pursued King Zedekiah, captured him in the plains near Jericho, and all his soldiers deserted him.
Jer 52:9 Zedekiah was taken to King Nebuchadnezzar, who was in the city of Riblah in the territory of Hamath, and there Nebuchadnezzar passed sentence on him.
Jer 52:10 At Riblah he put Zedekiah's sons to death while Zedekiah was looking on and he also had the officials of Judah executed.
Jer 52:11 After that, he had Zedekiah's eyes put out and had him placed in chains and taken to Babylon. Zedekiah remained in prison in Babylon until the day he died.
Jer 52:12 On the tenth day of the fifth month of the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, Nebuzaradan, adviser to the king and commander of his army, entered Jerusalem.
Jer 52:13 He burned down the Temple, the palace, and the houses of all the important people in Jerusalem;
Jer 52:14 and his soldiers tore down the city walls.
Jer 52:15 Then Nebuzaradan took away to Babylonia the people who were left in the city, the remaining skilled workers, and those who had deserted to the Babylonians.
Jer 52:16 But he left in Judah some of the poorest people, who owned no property, and he put them to work in the vineyards and fields.
Jer 52:17 The Babylonians broke in pieces the bronze columns and the carts that were in the Temple, together with the large bronze tank, and they took all the bronze to Babylon.
Jer 52:18 They also took away the shovels and the ash containers used in cleaning the altar, the tools used in tending the lamps, the bowls used for catching the blood from the sacrifices, the bowls used for burning incense, and all the other bronze articles used in the Temple service.
Jer 52:19 They took away everything that was made of gold or silver: the small bowls, the pans used for carrying live coals, the bowls for holding the blood from the sacrifices, the ash containers, the lampstands, the bowls used for incense, and the bowls used for pouring out wine offerings.
Jer 52:20 The bronze objects that King Solomon had made for the Temple---the two columns, the carts, the large tank, and the twelve bulls that supported it---were too heavy to weigh.
Jer 52:21 The two columns were identical: each one was 27 feet high and 18 feet around. They were hollow, and the metal was 3 inches thick. On top of each column was a bronze capital 7 1/2 feet high, and all around it was a grillwork decorated with pomegranates, all of which was also made of bronze.
Jer 52:22 (SEE 52:21)
Jer 52:23 On the grillwork of each column there were a hundred pomegranates in all, and ninety-six of these were visible from the ground.
Jer 52:24 In addition, Nebuzaradan, the commanding officer, took away as prisoners Seraiah the High Priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank, and the three other important Temple officials.
Jer 52:25 From the city he took the officer who had been in command of the troops, seven of the king's personal advisers who were still in the city, the commander's assistant, who was in charge of military records, and sixty other important men.
Jer 52:26 Nebuzaradan took them to the king of Babylonia, who was in the city of Riblah
Jer 52:27 in the territory of Hamath. There the king had them beaten and put to death. So the people of Judah were carried away from their land into exile.
Jer 52:28 This is the record of the people that Nebuchadnezzar took away as prisoners: in his seventh year as king he carried away 3,023;
Jer 52:29 in his eighteenth year, 832 from Jerusalem;
Jer 52:30 and in his twenty-third year, 745---taken away by Nebuzaradan. In all, 4,600 people were taken away.
Jer 52:31 In the year that Evil-merodach became king of Babylonia, he showed kindness to King Jehoiachin of Judah by releasing him from prison. This happened on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin had been taken away as a prisoner.
Jer 52:32 Evil-merodach treated him kindly and gave him a position of greater honor than he gave the other kings who were exiles with him in Babylonia.
Jer 52:33 So Jehoiachin was permitted to change from his prison clothes and to dine at the king's table for the rest of his life.
Jer 52:34 Each day for as long as he lived, he was given a regular allowance for his needs.

Father God, I thank you and I praised you this day for loving me. I thank you for your faithfulness. I thank you that you have given me another life to live on this earth. Oh Lord filled me with Your Holy Spirit that I may do the things above. Help me focus on the things unseen and not on seen. Help me that I can be blessing to my family and other people. Thank you for teaching me day by day. Continue to teach me your way and not my way, I put my trust in you my loving Father who created the universe and the stars. Oh how vast is your knowledge! Your ways is not my ways. The heaven declares your glory! Thank you that I have big God who loves me unconditionally. Father in heaven, this day, I pray that you give me wisdom to do the things that you want me to accomplished and I commit to you everything, guard my eyes, tongue, my thoughts and my heart that I may not sinned against you, In Jesus name AMEN!

Monday, April 20, 2009

There will be consequence


Jer 43:1 I finished telling the people everything that the LORD their God had sent me to tell them.
Jer 43:2 Then Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the other arrogant men said to me, "You are lying. The LORD our God did not send you to tell us not to go and live in Egypt.
Jer 43:3 Baruch son of Neriah has stirred you up against us, so that the Babylonians will gain power over us and can either kill us or take us away to Babylonia."
Jer 43:4 So neither Johanan nor any of the army officers nor any of the people would obey the LORD's command to remain in the land of Judah.
Jer 43:5 Then Johanan and all the army officers took everybody left in Judah away to Egypt, together with all the people who had returned from the nations where they had been scattered:
Jer 43:6 the men, the women, the children, and the king's daughters. They took everyone whom Nebuzaradan the commanding officer had left under the care of Gedaliah, including Baruch and me.
Jer 43:7 They disobeyed the LORD's command and went into Egypt as far as the city of Tahpanhes.
Jer 43:8 There the LORD said to me,
Jer 43:9 "Get some large stones and bury them in the mortar of the pavement in front of the entrance to the government building here in the city, and let some of the Israelites see you do it.
Jer 43:10 Then tell them that I, the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, am going to bring my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia to this place, and he will put his throne over these stones that you buried, and will spread the royal tent over them.
Jer 43:11 Nebuchadnezzar will come and defeat Egypt. Those people who are doomed to die of disease will die of disease, those doomed to be taken away as prisoners will be taken away as prisoners, and those doomed to be killed in war will be killed in war.
Jer 43:12 I will set fire to the temples of Egypt's gods, and the king of Babylonia will either burn their gods or carry them off. As shepherds pick their clothes clean of lice, so the king of Babylonia will pick the land of Egypt clean and then leave victorious.
Jer 43:13 He will destroy the sacred stone monuments at Heliopolis in Egypt and will burn down the temples of the Egyptian gods."

Father in Heaven, I praised you this morning. You are a merciful God and and just. You love me even I am a sinner. Thank you for giving me eternal life and choosing me as your adopted child. Thank you for being a loving and gracious father to me. Help me that I may always obey your commandments and that I may not go astray from your way. Help me Father that I may always focus on your Son Jesus and help me always find your way not my own way. Filled me with your Spirit and help me to live a holy life. Deliver me from evil this day that I may glorify your name. Oh Father you have reminded me tha there is always a consequence if I disobey you. If I do things that is not pleasing to you. If I do it my own way, there will be problem. Lord help me to discern your will that I may follow your ways and live my life to everlasting way, this I pray in Jesus name, AMEN!