But while their friends were well off financially and appeared successful, it also was apparent that they had unhappy marriages and empty lives. Then he led away into exile all Jerusalem and all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. P It was raised up on one side. The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture Quotations are from the New American Standard Bible, Updated Edition The Lockman Foundation, Related Topics: Children, Christian Home, Christian Life, Parenting, Steve served as the pastor of Flagstaff Christian Fellowship from May, 1992 through his retirement in December, 2018. His point is: To raise up godly generations, love God fervently, teach your children diligently, and live in the world carefully. At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege. Inez Andrews, Raise Up A Nation.wmv - YouTube 0:00 / 7:30 Inez Andrews, Raise Up A Nation.wmv 3,294 views Jan 27, 2012 45 Dislike Share Save Reneesaskia 774 subscribers From "Raise Up A. The phone invariably rings when were reading the Bible. What we are to hear is, Yahweh is our God; Yahweh is one. It can also be translated, Yahweh is our God; Yahweh alone. It means that Yahweh and only Yahweh is the true and living God, and He alone is to be the object of our worship. S B Z. Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. Jim Elliff (When Ball Becomes Baal) argues that many Christian families have made sports the household god. Binding Gods commands on your hand (v. 8) means that you should teach your children Gods ways by your actions. Teach them how to start the day off right with the Lord. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. Obedience can be legalistic when people obey out of pride to look good before others, while their hearts are far from God. They took pride in wearing these verses in little boxes strapped to their hands and foreheads, and putting them in boxes by their doors and on their gateposts. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. When things go well, you worship Him. Isaiah 60:12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted. Joel 2 (quoted in Acts 2) predicts that God will one day pour out His _____ on all His people. Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God. So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and harmful and painful sores came upon the people who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders. They can see that you really walk with God and are seeking to be more conformed to Jesus Christ. Norfolk Jazz & Jubilee Quartette. 2 Kings 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. The Plenitude Of Gospel Grace: A Pardon Written With His Blood, The Favour And The Peace Of God; The Seeing Eye, The Feeling Sense, The Mystic Joys Of Penitence; The Godly Grief, The Pleasing Smart, The Meltings Of A Broken Heart, The Tears That Tell Your Sins Forgiven, The Sighs That Waft Your Souls To Heaven; Let every creature praise his holy name for ever and ever.". Again, your example teaches a lot. As they get older, you can venture into more didactic portions, like Romans. 17 But if they will not obey, then I will uproot that nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the LORD." All these are but the beginning of the birth pains. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. If you only teach them to obey you, then what happens when youre not around? And looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt. He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore; For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth. The nation must turn to God The greatest problem our country is facing today is not political; it is spiritual. Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress. Am). The priests the Levites . Psalm 145:21 - "My mouth will speak in praise of the LORD. 3 Nathan replied to the king, "Whatever you have in mind, go ahead and do it, for the Lord . Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians, and they will fight, each against another and each against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom; He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. But God views success in terms of godly, loving family relationships. These people weren't perfect, but when God called them, he qualified them, enabled them, equipped them, and provided for them. And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. I guess because I live here in America, I see America first, but I know that Evil is Everywhere, and these are the days . Acts 3:22 - AMP - Moses said, ' The Lord God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your countrymen; you shall listen to Him and obey everything He tells you. They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. 22:41-45; Isa.6:8; 9:6; 42:1.) What are some of the idols of the peoples who surround us? J The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood. For example, in Isaiah 48:16, Messiah says, And now the Lord God has sent Me, and His Spirit. There are three divine persons there. As mentioned, the Hebrews came to take verses 8 and 9 literally. He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world (this took place in the days of Claudius). When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance. D We don't know exactly how this happened. Were Christians! If youve been negligent, thankfully the Lord allows U-turns! The Lord will Raise up a Standard!! Andrews, Inez - Raise Up a Nation - Amazon.com Music CDs & Vinyl Holiday & Wedding Christmas Have one to sell? When you rise up implies that mornings are another opportunity to teach your children. Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. How can a man who feels spiritually inadequate learn to lead his family and train his children in the things of God. 14 But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath . This is the central tenet of Judaism, recited daily by devout Jews. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. The sons of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they did not depart from them until the Lord removed Israel from His sight, as He spoke through all His servants the prophets. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, OT Prophets: Amos 6:14 For behold I will raise up against (Amo. Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not, Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural, Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular, Article | Pronoun - third person masculine singular, A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts, Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Infinitive absolute, LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel. If your kids are grumpy in the morning, show them and tell them how to begin the day with a cheerful heart, focused on Gods blessings. Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk. And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. Someone once accused me of being legalistic. When I asked why he said that, he replied, Because you preach obedience. If preaching obedience is legalism, then Jesus and the entire New Testament is legalistic! The most important requirement for raising godly generations is for you to have personal reality with God. Labs In faithfulness he will bring forth justice; 4 Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword. Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land, But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. You wont seek the things they spend their lives going after. So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. Ezekiel 47:15-17 And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad; , Interjection | first person common singular, Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular, A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts, Preposition | second person masculine plural, Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc, LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel, gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative, A mass of persons, reg, organized for, war, a campaign, Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural, Direct object marker | second person masculine plural, Untranslatable mark of the accusative case, Preposition-m, Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct, A stream, a winter torrent, a, valley, a shaft, Arabah -- a steppe or desert plain, also a desert valley running south from the Sea of Galilee. 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