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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chron 7:14 #KJB
This verse was quoted daily throughout 2016. I can’t help but notice that it was very rarely quoted in 2020.
This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Mt 15:8 #KJB
And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the Lord smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies. So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again… And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen… And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
I Sam. 4:3-5, 10, 11 KJB
The people of Israel rallied around the Ark of the Covenant, believing that God was with them in their fight against the Philistines. However, they were presumptuous.
They followed God with their mouths, but not with their hearts.
Immorality had crept into their hearts and was reflected in their religious leaders who were either blind like Eli (1 Sam 4:14), or immoral and stealing from the people like Hophni and Phinehas (1 Sam 2:12-17,22).
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
John 17:16-17 KJB
And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do – Gen 11:6
Missionaries know well about this scripture. You keep speaking it over the person who is bleeding and it will stop the it.
And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
Ezekiel 16:6
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Ephesians 4:17-19
past feeling = desensitized, hardened of heart
And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
Luke 9:23
In an 1882 edition of “Zion’s Watchtower”, Charles Taze Russell tells about how he was reading the Revised Version, and he thought, Oh, the scholars say that 1 John 5:7 doesn’t belong. See, I always thought that Jesus Christ wasn’t God. This led to the creation of the Jehovah Witnesses.
We are to be united by a common authority, not by compromise. By God’s words not by vain philosophies, traditions of men and doctrines of devils.
Believers are one body united under One Head, the Lord Jesus Christ
The left-right paradigm is a distraction meant to keep us divided and busy while the same agenda to destroy order and instigate a mass die off marches forward