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Below are
just a few passages from the Gospel Message......passages that we
can safely put our foot upon in our homeward journey. The
Bible is rich with information, and we are encouraged to study it,
always asking the Holy Spirit to clarify our understanding.
The Bible has been edited by man, but the truth is there...... kept
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John 10: (14-18)
"I m the good
shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. As
the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My
life for the sheep. And other sheep I have which are not of this
fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there
will be one flock and one shepherd.
Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may
take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of
Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it
again. This command I have received from My Father."
If you can hear the
Shepherd's voice, than He is speaking to you and you are one of His
sheep. Follow Him.
John 10: (27-30)
"My sheep hear
My voice, and I know them, and they
follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never
perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father,
who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to
snatch them out of My Father's hand. I and My Father are one."
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Accept Christ's love,
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1st John 4: (7-19)
"Beloved, let us love one another,
for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and
knows God. He who does not
love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of
God was manifested toward us, that God has sent
His only begotten Son into the world,
that we might live through Him. In this is love, not
that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be
the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we
also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any
time. If we love one another, God abides in us and His love has
been perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in Him, and
He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. And we have
seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as
Yeshua (Savior) of the world. Whoever
confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and
he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God has
for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God,
and God in him. Love has been perfected among us in this: that
we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is,
so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect
love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who
fears has not been made perfect in love. We love Him because He
first loved us."
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Yeshua
made provision for us by being a forever sacrifice for those who
believe upon Him, that they might be redeemed to eternal life
within the Father.
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When
God gave us the 10 Commandments,
and The Lord's
Prayer, the Word of Salvation via the
Gospel Message, through Jesus Christ, and the Gift
of the Holy Spirit when we accept Christ as our Head....Our
Lord......He pretty much gave us all we need to live our temporary
lives here on earth. Of added value, as warnings, we were given the
prophets in the Old Testament which were given prophecy that covered
our time and beyond. Mankind..... throughout the ages since God revealed
Himself to them....has strived for personal power and gain, making
something complicated out of that which is simple and pure....faith in
Jesus Christ....the only door to eternity because He was worthy to pay
the price. There is no church on
earth today which has a door that can offer what Christ
did....alone....on the cross. Man is constantly trying to take his
piece of glory for himself....put himself as something important in
the midst of the door to salvation.
That mankind believes
that they can define God is the pinnacle of arrogance....and the
antithesis of meek and humble. It is enough for me that
God has defined who I am (a lost dead sinner), and has provided a
Sacrificial Lamb (Jesus Christ) to provide the means and the focus for
my eternal life and personal homeward journey of redemption and
self discovery within God. All glory belongs to God.
The first Believers
did not even have the Bible....they had the words of the prophets
as recorded and placed in their gathering places, and as heard via
family memorizations....and the words of Jesus Christ as heard in
person, and as recorded by His Apostles, and spread by word of mouth.
After Christ was sacrificed they also had direct access to the Holy
Spirit and the words the Apostles wrote down, inspired of God. In time
many of these words were put together in the Bible.....not all the
words written were included....but enough.....because we truly have
The Holy Spirit within us as our teacher.
In hard times to
come.....if I am unable to gather together with others (church)....I
will still have my Bible. If I lose my Bible....I will still have the
Holy Spirit....and that wonderful Gift....I will never lose!!!! It
is my Leader, my Teacher, and my Guide. It will bring me back home,
an eternity in harmony, enjoyment and service to my Father. In the
mean time....wherever I am, the presence of the Holy Spirit will be
there also, I can worship, I can learn of, I can serve, and I can love
YHWH, thanks to my faith in Jesus Christ. There is no higher
authority here on earth than the Holy Spirit. All who have that Holy
Spirit have that authority and can be used by God to accomplish
anything that God needs to be done....if they have submitted their
will entirely to be under His.
Humans will continue to try to define God, argue amongst themselves
which earthly made church saves, try to place themselves between us
and our Lord.....right up to and through the trumpet period as
revealed in Revelations. Put your trust in no man, as only the
Lord, Jesus Christ can keep us from temptation and deliver us from
Evil.
Psalms 118:8 It is better to trust in
the LORD than to put confidence in man.
2 Corinthians 1:9 But we had the
sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves,
but in God which raiseth the dead.
Psalms 37:3 Trust in the LORD, and
do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be
fed.
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So many christians read the books of man's understandings on
what they ought to believe, and based on those readings they
condemn and are critical of other Christians. It is really
very, very simple...so simple a child could understand it at age
5. "IT"as used, below, being
the doctrine that is being condemned with negative words or
thoughts of one christian to another.....just as the Pharisees
condemned Jesus...because His Truth contrasted with their
traditional leaning upon man's understandings of "perfect"
faith.
1.
Does it point to any
other Way to Salvation and Life Eternal other than through
belief in Jesus Christ's Payment on the Cross?
Romans 5:21=That as
sin hath reigned
unto death, even so might grace reign through
righteousness unto
eternal life by
Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 5:17=For if by one man's offence death reigned
by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and
of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one,
Jesus Christ.)
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2.
Does it go against
the 10 Commandments?
Psalm 84:11=For the LORD God is a sun and
shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing
will he withhold from them
that walk
uprightly.
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3.
Does it express any
other desire than what is in the
Lord's Prayer, or is contrary
to the Lord's Prayer?
Matthew, Chapter 6:The words of The Lord's Prayer perfectly
positions where mankind should be in relation to God, and
what he should be praying for within his heart.
Psalms 37:3
Trust in the LORD, and
do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily
thou shalt be
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All three of the above were given by GOD.....not man. Solid
Foundations to stand upon, and to build upon...but not all the
houses built must be identical, if they are built upon these
foundations, in order to be accepted by God! Does the
house you live in look exactly like your neighbors?
It is not worth discussing and it demeans the one doing the
discussing if what you are criticizing does not violate any of
the above. That condemning discussion, in fact, violates
the rule of "Grace". Should we cast down what God
approves?
God has a pattern for the growth of a tree, for example....to
bring it to it's glory. Do all trees look alike? Are we to
condemn those who do not look the same as ours? Should we step
in with our pruning shears and such and try to make all trees
conform to one image (as is the custom of man)? If they are
God's trees, growing according to the pattern that God gave us
(the three things mentioned above) they are in God's Will and
will do just fine. Look around....did God create only one type
of animal, one type of tree, one type of anything? If they are
not part of that 3 step Pattern mentioned above, they are tares,
planted by the dragon....and God will deal with them...and we
should separate ourselves from them.
As Christians, on the other hand, we are commanded to stand
up and witness to those who do fall outside of the three things
mentioned above.....unto death if necessary. How many
Christians grasp that aspect of their faith.....the really
serious side of their faith? But do not hesitate to spend their
time finding shortcomings (according to man's understandings)
with other trees in God's Garden?
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ACCEPTING SALVATION
THROUGH JESUS CHRIST--The Gospel
1st Corinthians 15:1-4 We are
saved by the gospel, that word which is: ...that
Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
and that He was buried, and that He rose again the
third day according to the Scriptures.
John 3:15-16 That whoever
believes in Him should not perish but have eternal
life. For God so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should
not perish but have everlasting life.
In John 14: 12-17 Jesus said in
relationship to those who believed in Him; "And I
will pray the Father, and He will give you another
Helper, that He may abide with you forever." The
Spirit of truth, The Helper, The Holy Spirit.
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said to
them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in
the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins;
and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
(Any Christian can baptize a new Believer...does
not have to be the Pope, or an ordained minister.
In Christ's day other Christians baptized new
Believers. Baptism is a public statement that
one has accepted Christ, it is symbolic of a new birth
in Christ. I would suspect that one could
baptize themselves in a pinch. The thief on the
cross that Jesus spoke to before dying was told by
Jesus that he would be with Jesus in paradise because
the thief expressed to Jesus that he believed.
The thief was never baptized....of course he did not
have the opportunity because he was dying on a cross
next to Jesus at about the same time. Baptism
should not be a work of salvation, but something we do
to honor Christ's gift to us on the cross. It is
not the baptism that saves us.....it is our true
belief in Jesus Christ, and wanting Him to be our Lord
and Savior....wanting His will over and above
ours.....and loving Him enough to desire these
things.)
Romans 10: 9-10 ...if you
confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in
your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you
will be saved.
RESULTS OF SALVATION
1st Corinthians 16-17 Do you
not know that you are the temple of God and that the
Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the
temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple
of God is holy, which temple you are.
Romans 9:32-33 Israel pursued
the law of righteousness but did not attain it because
they pursued it by works, not by faith.
Galatians 5: 22 ....
the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no
law.
Ephesians 4: 30-32
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you
were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all
bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be
put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to
one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another,
just as God in Christ also forgave you.
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These fruits and evidence of the work of The Holy
Spirit within us do not all come at once. It can take
a lifetime and we may not be able to manifest them
perfectly. It is our desire to be these ways, our
hope, and our striving to be such. We all fail…and
that is what Christ's sacrifice was about. We repent
for our failure and we try to do better. The process
is endless, but we do grow, some faster and some
slower than others. As long as we are running the
race towards the goal, going forward, not standing
stagnant we will win the race. If we are running the
race when the time of our passing or the time of
transfiguration occurs, our lack of perfection will
not prevent us from receiving the gifts of God…..as
long as we are truly sorry when we measure short, and
are continuing over and over to try to be as God wills
us….not as we will ourselves. God sees our
hearts….what we desire…and if we desire Him with our
hearts, He will make us His.
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Psalms:
139:23-Search me O God, and know my heart; test my
thoughts. Point out anything you find in me that makes
you sad, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
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Matthew 3:16
Then Jesus, when
He had been baptized, came up immediately from the water;
and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the
Spirit of
God
descending in bodily form
like a dove
and alighting upon Him. And suddenly a voice came from
heaven, saying, "You are My
beloved
Son; in You I am well pleased."
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Acts 1:
(4-11)
And being
assembled together with them, He
(Jesus, after being resurrected)
commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the
Promise of the Father, "which," He said, "you have heard from Me;
"for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with
the Holy Spirit
not many days from now." Therefore, when they had come together
they asked Him, saying, "Lord, will You at this time restore the
kingdom to Israel?" And He said to them, "It is not for you to know
times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. But
you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and
you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and
Samaria, and to the end of the earth."
(As we are all supposed to witness of Him
til the end of earth.) Now
when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken
up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And while they
looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men
stood by them in white apparel, who also said, "Men of Galilee, why
do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken
up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him
go into heaven."
1st Peter:
16-21
For we did
not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the
power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye witnesses of
His majesty. For He received from God the Father honor and glory
when such a voice came to Him from the "Excellent Glory: "This is My
beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." And we heard this voice
which came from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain.
We also have the prophetic word made more sure, which you do well to
heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and
the morning star rises in your hearts; knowing this first, that no
prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy
never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they
were moved by the Holy Spirit.
1st John: 3:24, 4: (1-6)
3:24 Now he
who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by
this we know that He abides in us, by the
Spirit
who He has given us. 4: (1-6) Beloved, do not believe every spirit,
but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false
prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the
Spirit of God:
Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the
flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that
Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the
spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is
now already in the world. You are of God, little children, and have
overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in
the world. They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the
world, and the world hears them. We are of God. He who knows God
hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know
the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
1
Corinthians: 2: (6-10)
However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature,
yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who
are coming to nothing. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery,
the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory,
which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they
would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. But as it is written:
"Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of
man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him." But
God has revealed them to us through
His Spirit.
For the Spirit
searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
(The Shepard, Our
Savior, the Lamb, Our Redeemer, Our Lord, Our King)
Psalm 23: (1-6)
The Lord is my
shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green
pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul;
He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Yea,
though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear
no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort
me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over. Surely goodness and
mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in
the house of the Lord Forever.
Isaiah 40: (10-14)
Behold, the Lord God shall come with a
strong hand, and His arm shall rule for Him; Behold, His reward is
with Him, and His work before him. He will feed His flock like a
shepherd; He will gather the lambs
with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and gently lead those who
are with young. Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his
hand, measured heaven with a span and calculated the dust of the
earth in a measure? Weighed the mountains in scales and the hills
in a balance? Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or as His
counselor, has taught Him? With whom did He take counsel, and who
instructed Him, and taught Him in the path of justice? Who taught
Him knowledge, and showed Him the way of understanding?
Isaiah 40: 4
"Who has performed and done it,
calling the generations from the
beginning? 'I, the Lord, am the first; and with the last I am He.'
" (Alpha and Omega)
John 10: (7-11)
Then Jesus said to them again, "Most
assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of
the sheep. All who ever came before me are thieves and
robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door. If anyone
enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find
pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and
to destroy. (If a church authorizes
killing, destruction and theft,..especially of Believers, perhaps
one would wonder if this church was headed by satan.) I
have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more
abundantly. I am the good shepherd.
The good shepherd gives His life for
the sheep.
John 10: (14-18)
"I m the good
shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. As
the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My
life for the sheep. And other sheep I have which are not of this
fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there
will be one flock and one shepherd.
Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may
take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of
Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it
again. This command I have received from My Father."
Revelation 7: (9-17)
After these things I looked, and
behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations,
tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before
the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their
hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation belongs
to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!" And all the
angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living
creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped
God, saying; "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom, thanksgiving and
honor and power and might, be to our God forever and ever. Amen."
Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, "Who are these
arrayed in white robes, and where did they come from?" And I said
to him, "Sir, you know." So he said to me, "These are the ones who
come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made
them white in the blood of the lamb. Therefore they are before the
throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple. And He
who sits on the throne will dwell among them. They shall neither
hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them,
nor any heat; for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will
shepherd them and lead them to
living fountains of waters. And God will wipe away every tear from
their eyes."
Ephesians 2: (14-22)
For He Himself is our peace, who has
made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of division
between us, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the
law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in
Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He
might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross,
thereby putting to death the enmity. And He came and preached peace
to you who were afar off and to those who were near. For through
Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. Now,
therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow
citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having
been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus
Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole
building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the
Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a habitation of
God in the Spirit.
John 10: (27-30)
"My sheep hear
My voice, and I know them, and they
follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never
perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father,
who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to
snatch them out of My Father's hand. I and My Father are one."
Ephesians 3: (3-7), ….how that
by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I wrote before in
a few words, by which, when you read, you may understand my
knowledge in the mystery of Christ), which in other ages was not
made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the
Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets; that the Gentiles should
be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in
Christ through the gospel, of which I became a minister according to
the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of
His power. (9-12) …and to make all people see what is the
fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has
been hidden in God who created all things
through Jesus Christ; to the intent that now the manifold
wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the
principalities and powers in the heavenly places, according to the
eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord in
whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in
Him.
Ephesians 3: (14-21)
For this reason I bow my knees to the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in
heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the
riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His
Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts
through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be
able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length
and depth and height…to know the love of Christ which passes
knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now
to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we
ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be
glory in the church by Christ Jesus
throughout all ages, world without end. Amen
1st John 4: (7-19)
Beloved, let us love one another, for
love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows
God. He who does not love does
not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was
manifested toward us, that God has sent His
only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent
His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so
loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at
any time. If we love one another, God abides in us and His love has
been perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in Him, and He
in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. And we have seen and
testify that the Father has sent the Son as
Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son
of God, God abides in him, and he in God. And we have known and
believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who
abides in love abides in God, and God in him. Love has been
perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of
judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no
fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves
torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. We
love Him because He first loved us.
1st John: 5: (7- 8), (10-13)
For there are three who bear witness in
heaven: the Father, the Word, and
the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. And there are three that
bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and
these three agree as one. (10-13) He who believes in the
Son of God has the witness in
himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he
has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son. And
this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this
life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not
have the Son of God does not have life. These things I have written
to you who believe in the name of the son of God, that you may know
that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in
the name of the Son of God.
Revelation 5: (5-6)
But one of the elders said to me, "Do
not weep. Behold, the Lion of the
tribe of Judah, the root of David,
has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals." And
I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four
living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a
Lamb as though it had been slain,
having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of
God sent out into all the earth.
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HOSEA 2:18=And in that day will I make a
covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with
the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the
ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle
out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
19=And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will
betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in
lovingkindness, and in mercies. 20=I will even betroth thee
unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD. 21=And
it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the
LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
22=And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the
oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
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