the threshingfloor

 

LUKE 13 : THE NARROW GATE (Matthew 7:13-14)

22And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23Then said one to him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said to them, 24Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. 

 

22And THE KEY OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID  will I lay on hisshoulder^[H7926]; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut; and, and none shall open.

 

 

1 SAMUEL 17 : DAVID SLAYS GOLIATH

 43And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that youCOME TO ME WITH STAVES? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field

 

• David fought Goliath in “The Valley of The Oak”
• Jacob buried the strange gods that were with him here under the “Oak at Shechem”
• There was an angel sitting under an oak while Gideon was threshing wheat by the winepress.

 

• My Grandfather’s middle name happened to be “Huey”, which I always thought was a funny name. 
• I then found out that Gideon’s name happens to mean “Hewer”. 

Revelation 3 :  Message to the Church in Philadelphia

7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things said he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens, and no man shuts; and shuts, and no man opens; 8I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it: for you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name. 9Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. 10Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come on all the world, to try them that dwell on the earth. 11Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which you have, that no man take your crown.12Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God: and I will write on him my new name. 13He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the churches.

 

33For thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor^[h1637], it is time to thresh ^[h1758]her:yet a little while, and the time of her harvest^[h7105] shall come. 

 

 

Matthew 25 :  The Sheep and the Goats

31When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory: 32And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats: 33And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 

 

 

Sanctification involves learning what is fruitful and profitable in God’s Eyes vs what is useless and vain in His Eyes.

 

Mark 4 : The Seed Growing Secretly

26And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; 27And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knows not how. 28For the earth brings forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. 29But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

 

MATTHEW 13 : THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER (Mark 4:1-9; Luke 8:4-15) 

1The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. 2And great multitudes were gathered together to him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.   3And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;  And when he sowed, 

 

some seeds fell by the way side, 

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and the fowls came and devoured them up:  

This is he which received seed by the way side:

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When any one hears the word of the kingdom, 
and understands it not, then comes the wicked one, and catches away that which was sown in his heart. (Luke: lest they should believe and be saved. )

 

some fell on stony places,

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where they had not much earth:  and immediately they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:   and when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. 

 

he that received the seed into stony places,

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the same is he that hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it; yet has he not root in himself, but endures for a while:   for when tribulation or persecution rises because of the word,  by and by he is offended. 

  (Luke: in time of temptation fall away. )

and some fell among thorns;

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        and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:

He that received seed among the thorns

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 is he that hears the word; and the care of this world,  and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word,  and he becomes unfruitful. 

   (Luke: bring no fruit to perfection.) 

but other fell into good ground, 

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          and brought forth fruit, some an hundred times, some sixty times, some thirty times. 

he that received seed into the good ground

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 is he that hears the word, and understands it;  which also bears fruit, and brings forth,  some an hundred times, some sixty, some thirty.

(Luke : which in an honest and good heart,  having heard the word, keep it,   and bring forth fruit with patience.)   

 

 

The Purpose of Jesus’ Parables (Mark 4:10-12)

10And the disciples came, and said to him, Why speak you to them in parables? 11He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.12For whoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whoever has not, from him shall be taken away even that he has. 13Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

 

Mark 4 : parable of sower explained

13And he said to them, Know you not this parable?

and how then will you know all parables?  14The sower sows the word.

 

The Sower Sows The Seed  

 

   which is The Word

A seed 

is the flowering plant’s unit of reproduction,

capable of developing into another such plant

 

 

 

 

 

     

   Fertile soil contains

all the nutrients for basic plant nutrition 

.

 

 

 

   The soil in which the word

is planted is the Heart   

 

 

A seed contains instructions, 

detailed information

telling how something

should be done,

operated, or assembled.  

 

 

 

Seed Germination

THE RADICLE 

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The first thing that emerges from the seed during germination.   It is the embryonic root that grows downward into the soil.    It allows the seed to suck up the water and send out leaves so it can start photosynthesizing  which is the process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be released to fuel the organisms activities.

 

 

 

 

Grace

 

mercy

 

Truth 

     

The Root

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The part of a plant, generally underground, 

that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients,

and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.

It is the part of a plant that attaches it to the ground

or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant

via numerous branches and fibers.

 

Jesus

 

the Root of David & JEsse 

 

A root is the basic cause, source, or origin of something. The Foundation.      

The STEM

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A stem consists of 2 parts:

 

Hypocotyl :

The part of the stem that grows below the cotyledon and into the roots. The basis of the plant stem. The part of the stem of an embryo plant beneath the stalks of the seed leaves and directly above the root.

 

Epicotyl :

The part of the stem that develops above the cotyledon into stem and leaves. 

 

These grow upward in response to light

  

 

Hypocotyl :

Jesus

 

Epicotyl :

his followers

who abide in His Love

by Keeping his commandments/instructions 

 

• There are 3 things  that a plant requires for growth and for the ability to bear fruit. 

 

Light

 

John 8 :  Jesus the Light of the World

12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.   

 

water

 

John 7 :  jesus the Living Water

37In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink. 38He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39(But this spoke he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

 

food

 

John 6 :  Jesus the Bread of Life 

35And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believes on me shall never thirst. 36But I said to you, That you also have seen me, and believe not. 

 

WHAT GOD REQUIRES FROM US?

1) TO FEAR HIM

Which leads to 

learning and observing to…

 

 

2) KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS

Which is how we Love

and Worship God, 

so that we can then…

 

 

3)  Love others

Which is how we abide in His Love 

and bring forth the fruits of the spirit

(worthy of repentance)

 

We were created to glorify God by bearing much fruit.

 

 

 

 

Matthew 26 : Jesus Prays at Gethsemane

 40And he comes to the disciples, and finds them asleep, and said to Peter, What, could you not watch with me one hour? 41Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

 

Galatians 5 :  Living by the Spirit (Romans 8:9-11)

16This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, 

and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 

17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit,

and the Spirit against the flesh:

and these are contrary the one to the other:

so that you cannot do the things that you would. 

18But if you be led of the Spirit, you are not under the law.

 

19Now THE WORKS OF THE FLESH are:   

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• Adultery,
• fornication,
• uncleanness,  
• lasciviousness,  
• 20Idolatry,
• witchcraft,
• hatred,
• variance,
• jealousies,
• wrath,
• strife,
• seditions,
• heresies, 
• 21Contentions,
• murders,
• drunkenness,
• revelings, and such like:

 

of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

 

 

 

22But THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT is:

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• love,
• joy,
• peace,
• long-suffering,
• gentleness,
• goodness,
• faith, 
• 23Meekness,
• temperance:

 

against such there is no law. 

24And they that are Christ’s have

crucified the flesh

with the affections and lusts.

 

25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 

26Let us not be desirous of vain glory,

provoking one another, envying one another. 

 

 

1 CORINTHIANS 7 :  LIVE ACCORDING TO YOUR CALLING 

18Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.  19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. 

 

Romans 8: No Condemnation in Christ

1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Control by the Spirit (Galatians 5:16-26)

9But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you.

Heirs with Christ (Genesis 21:1-8; Galatians 4:1-7)

12Therefore, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live. 14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

Future Glory (2 Corinthians 5:1-10)

18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19For the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected the same in hope, 21Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. 23And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 24For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for? 25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. 26Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

 

•  We are new creatures in Him. 
•  Our old man (Adam) is dead and buried with Him in Baptism.
•  We and raised to newness of life in Him. 

 

Romans 6 :  Dead to Sin, Alive to God (2 Corinthians 4:7-18)

1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin. 7For he that is dead is freed from sin.

 

8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 9Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no more dominion over him. 10For in that he died, he died to sin once: but in that he lives, he lives to God. 11Likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13Neither yield you your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin: but yield yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.

Wages of Sin

20For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.  21What fruit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.  22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life. 23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

Ephesians 4 : Put on the New Man

17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you from now on walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20But you have not so learned Christ; 21If so be that you have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22That you put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;23And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24And that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

 

john 12 : Jesus Predicts His Death 

 24Truly, truly, I say to you,

Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it stays alone:

but if it die, it brings forth much fruit. 

25He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal. 26If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honor.

 

A seed ceases to become a seed

 (meaning, it has to die)

 

so it can become something new,

in order to bear fruit.

 

Why was a new Covenant needed?

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•  The Law was made weak through the flesh.
•  The law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw near to God.
•  Our flesh contains sin.  
•  Our flesh intercepted the Law and made it weak.
•  So God sent His only son, “the Word”, that came as sinful flesh, to live the we couldn’t, and condemned sin in the flesh , so the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us.
•  Moses Tabernacle and the Law served as a Shadow of the good things to come, but not the very image.
•  A shadow is caused from the interception of light.
•  They served as a temporary placeholder (and an example) of what His son would do for us. 
•  The Law came by way of Moses but Grace and Truth came by way of Christ

OLD COVENANT

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• The Law was spoken to them by Moses.
• Bound through blood of goats and calves.
• Contained the inheritance of Promised Land

 

 

 

 

NEW COVENANT

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• Law written into our hearts and minds
• Bound through blood shed of Christ.
• Contains the promise of Inheriting Eternal Life 

 

jeremiah 31 : A New Covenant

31Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was an husband to them, said the LORD: 33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, said the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, said the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. 

John 3 :  Jesus and Nicodemus

1There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 2The same came to Jesus by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that you do, except God be with him. 3Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? 5Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

 6That which is born of the flesh is flesh;and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

 7Marvel not that I said to you, You must be born again. 8The wind blows where it wants, and you hear the sound thereof, but can not tell from where it comes, and where it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

2 CORINTHIANS 4 :

16For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 

• Abraham, is called out of Babylon by God used to be the father of His Nation, and to bear Him fruit (profit) 

 

 

 

70 Souls

from Jacob go into Egypt

and multiplied into 

600k+ souls

 

 

1 Nation

redeemed by God our of Egypt

 

Israel

Moses received the Law from God and established His covenant with Israel at Mt. Sinai.  

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At that point He considered Israel as His “Bride” because of the binding covenant they made. 

From God’s Point of View

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Israel was the Firstborn of God

Israel was God’s Wife

 

 From Israel’s Point of View

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God was the Father of Israel

God was the Husband of Israel

31And he said to Jeroboam, Take you ten pieces: for thus said the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you: 32(But he shall have one tribe for my servant David’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:) 33Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.

 

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do:

and, behold, all [was] vanity^[h1892] and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun.

 

Psalm 39 : I Will Watch My Ways

4LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am. 5Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity^[h1892]. Selah. 6Surely every man walks in a vain^[h1892]show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them. 7And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in you. 8Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. 9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because you did it. 10Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand. 11When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity^[h1892]. Selah. 

 

• After Solomon died, He gave 10 tribes of Israel to Jeroboam and 2 to Judah. 

 

 27And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the heathen, where the LORD shall lead you.  

•  God had warned Israel just before crossing the Jordan River,  with the added covenant, that this would happen if they didn’t obey,  but they ignored the covenant that said… 

• Now we see this scripture in Deuteronomy beginning to unfold, as the people of Israel no longer remain a people,  but begin assimilating into the nations. 

 

11For thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. 12As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. 13And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them on the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country. 14I will feed them in a good pasture, and on the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Israel. 15I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, said the Lord GOD. 16I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

 

23And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. 24And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.

Matthew 15 :  The Faith of the Canaanite Woman (Mark 7:24-30)

21Then Jesus went there, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. 22And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried to him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, you son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. 23But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and sought him, saying, Send her away; for she cries after us. 24But he answered and said, I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 25Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. 26But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs. 27And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table. 28Then Jesus answered and said to her, O woman, great is your faith: be it to you even as you will. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

“Milling” is the process of separating and classifying aggregate material.  My last name is “Miller” which I got from my grandfather in the picture.  

“A Miller” is a person who operates a MILL, which is a machine that grinds the harvested wheat grain, into flour, which is used to make bread.

 

How Bread is made…

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Grain/fruit that has been separated the husk of wheatis ground intoFlour

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Flour is then mixed with Olive Oil to make dough

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Dough is thenplaced in oven to make Bread   

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Leviticus 23 :  The Feast of Firstfruits

9And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 10Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you be come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then you shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest: 11And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12And you shall offer that day when you wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering to the LORD. 13And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to the LORD for a sweet smell: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin. 14And you shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that you have brought an offering to your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

The Feast of Pentecost

15And you shall count to you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: 16Even to the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall you number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meat offering to the LORD. 17You shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals;they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven; they are the first fruits to the LORD. 18And you shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering to the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet smell to the LORD. 19Then you shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings. 20And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. 21And you shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation to you: you shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. 22And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not make clean riddance of the corners of your field when you reap, neither shall you gather any gleaning of your harvest: you shall leave them to the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

John 21 :  Jesus Reinstates Peter

15So when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, love you me more than these? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you. He said to him, Feed my lambs. 16He said to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, love you me? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you. He said to him, Feed my sheep. 17He said to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, love you me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Love you me? And he said to him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you. Jesus said to him, Feed my sheep. .

So who are his sheep?

The overarching narrative 

and redemptive story line 

of the bible is the shepherd

and his sheep, which is the bride,

 

which all

traces back to

 

Rachel which means “ewe” (lamb)

“the wife Jacob loved most”,

and her 1st born son, JOSEPH,

who “Jacob loved the most out of the 12 tribes”. 

 

• The 12 Tribes of Israel that came from Jacob came by way of his 2 wives,  Leah and Rachel and their 2 handmaids, Zilphah, and Bilhah.

• Rachel and Leah were the ones that built the house of Israel.

 

RUTH 4 : BOAZ REDEEMS RUTH

11And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do you worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem: 

Benjamin (“son of the right hand”)

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•  Paul who planted and established the first churches was from the tribe of Benjamin

 

Joseph (“God has added”)

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• Joseph, was the son that Jacob “loved the most.”   
• He received the 1st born birthright promise

 

 1And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, your father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 2And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, your son Joseph comes to you: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed. 3And Jacob said to Joseph, God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 4And said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people; and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession. 5And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. 6And your issue, which you beget after them, shall be yours, and shall be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance. 7And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.

 

8And Israel beheld Joseph’s sons, and said, Who are these? 9And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray you, to me, and I will bless them. 10Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. 11And Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought to see your face: and, see, God has showed me also your seed. 12And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 13And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near to him.14And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn. 15And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long to this day,

 

16The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the middle of the earth. 17And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. 18And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head. 19And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

 

20And he blessed them that day, saying, In you shall Israel bless, saying, God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. 21And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers. 22Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. 

 

When stationed in the wilderness after the Exodus out of Egypt,  all of Rachel’s descendant’s were stationed together in the West and were known as…

 

the Camp of Ephraim (Joseph’s Son)

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• Ephraim
• Benjamin
• Manassah

Joseph receive the 1st born birthright even though he was 2nd to last one born of the 12 tribes because after Rachel died, Reuben who was Jacob’s actual 1st born son through Leah, slept with Bilhah and defiled Jacob’s bed 

Because of this, Reuben lost his 1st Born Birth Right

and it was given to Joseph the 1st born of Rachel 

Birthright Promise

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 Joseph and his 2 son’s: 

• Manassah 
• Ephraim 

 

Scepter Promise

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 Judah

• David
• Jesus  

Jacob’s prophecy of Joseph : The Fruit

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 GENESIS 49 : JACOB’S PROPHECY OF HIS SONS

22Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

23The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:

24But his bow stayed in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)

25Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:

26The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brothers.

 

Jacob’s prophecy of Judah : The Scepter

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 GENESIS 49 : JACOB’S PROPHECY OF HIS SONS

8Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck of your enemies; your father’s children shall bow down before you. 9Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and to him shall the gathering of the people be. 11Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass’s colt to the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 12His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk

Ephraim

 

[h669]

אֶפְרַיִם ʼEphrayim

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double fruit;

Ephrajim, a son of Joseph and grandson of Rachel.

also the tribe descended from him, and its territory:—Ephraim, Ephraimites.

 

Ephraim = “double ash-heap: I shall be doubly fruitful”

1. second son of Joseph, blessed by him and given preference over first son, Manasseh

2. the tribe, Ephraim

3. the mountain country of Ephraim

4. sometimes used name for the northern kingdom (Hosea or Isaiah)

5. a city near Baal-hazor

6. a chief gate of Jerusalem

1st portion of Ephraim’s fruit

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  (of the womb) Multiplying into a nation while in Egypt after God told them “to be fruitful and multiply.”

 

2nd portion of Ephraim’s fruit

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  (of actions)   the fruit of the Spirit given to us by Christ’s Holy Spirit

Genesis 11 : The Tower of Babel

 4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth.

 

 8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city

 

 

 

 

Revelation 18 : Babylon is Fallen

4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues. 5For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 6Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double to her double according to her works: in the cup which she has filled fill to her double. 

1You also, son of man, take you a tile, and lay it before you, and portray on it the city, even Jerusalem: 2And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. 3Moreover take you to you an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 4Lie you also on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it: according to the number of the days that you shall lie on it you shall bear their iniquity. 5For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, 390 days: so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6And when you have accomplished them, lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed you each day for a year.7Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it. 8And, behold, I will lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to another, till you have ended the days of your siege.

 

•  However, history shows that the Northern Kingdom never returned to their land.
•  So what else does Scripture give us that can shed light on this.

 

14But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments; 15And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break my covenant: 16I also will do this to you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and you shall flee when none pursues you. 18And if you will not yet for all this listen to me, then I will punish you 7 times more for your sins. 19And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: 20And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.21And if you walk contrary to me, and will not listen to me; I will bring 7 times more plagues on you according to your sins.

 

Both of my grandfathers happen to pass away in 2009, when God started to really stir up my heart.

 

My Grandfather didn’t have much money, and tithed when he didn’t know if he was going to even have enough money to pay the bills, yet, he had so much peace in his life.  I will always remember seeing his bible with underlines and highlights all throughout.  

 

 At his funeral, the amount of people that came and told me that he was one the “most Godly, humble, and kind men” they had ever met, and the impact he had on their life, made me really question what I was doing with my life. 

 

I saw first hand the fruits produced from a life led by the holy spirit.

 

I knew the life I was leading was not pleasing to Him. 

 

I had become an empty vine, producing no fruit

 

I lived to be known and respected for my basketball ability.  That it is how the serpent deceives.  He inverts everything to make it about your glory instead of Gods. That is why my life was in such shambles after college.  You are empty and left with nothing once it ends.  My whole identity was wrapped up in being a successful basketball player.  I desired Vain Glory.

 

After my dreams of basketball were crushed,  I then pursued after girls, money, and possessions.  

 

The more I did,  the more empty, fruitless, and tired I became. 

 

The reason the picture of my grandfather became so significant to me was because I have had my picture and name in the paper many times for basketball.   The difference though was that My grandfather was laboring for a different kingdom and a much different purpose. 

I knew I would not have that same reception as my grandfather had my time ended then.  My life had become a trainwreck.  I tried to carve my own path and it left me with nothing but baggage and misery. 

 

I was in the midst of one the roughest patches of my life, and it was when I really started seeking the Lord with all my heart.   

 

It was when God started opening my eyes and started giving me understanding.

 

The 2017th Verse of Psalms sums up my life.

 

PSALMS 119:59

DEUTERONOMY8 :REMEMBER THE LORD YOUR GOD

1All the commandments which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers. 2And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness,  to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or no. 3And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD does man live. 4Your raiment waxed not old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years. 5You shall also consider in your heart, that,  as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you. 6Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 7For the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; 

 

11/22/2016

GATLINBURG FIRE

 

 

DOLLYWOOD EMPLOYEE FINDS

BURNED BIBLE PAGE AFTER WILDFIRES 

 The page from Book of JOEL found in the Gatlinburg Fire 

is burnt right through the middle, 

verse 17

but the page is not consumed:

 

 

 

EXODUS 3 : MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH

1Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb^[h2722].  2And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

HOREB occurs 17 times in 17 verses

 

Ewes have estrus cycles about every 17 days,^[71]during which they emit a scent and indicate readiness through physical displays towards rams.  The female then exhibits sexually receptive behavior,a situation that may be signaled by visible physiologic changes. A signal trait of estrus is the lordosis reflex, in which the animal spontaneously elevates her hindquarters.

HABBAKUK 3

The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds feet and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.

 

The trumpet was blown as a Warning Sign, and also as reminder of the ram offered for a burnt offering as ransom for Isaac at Mount Moriah, where David bought the Threshing Floor and where the Temple was built.

 

REVELATION 12 : THE WOMAN AND THE DRAGON

1And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars: 2And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. 3And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns on his heads. 4And 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. 5And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.   6And THE WOMAN FLED INTO THE WILDERNESS, where she has a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a 1260 days. 

THE DRAGON PERSECUTES THE WOMAN

13And when the dragon saw that he was cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. 14And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.15And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. 16And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. 17And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. 

August 16th, 2018

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Members and supporters of the Satanic Temple wheeled a statue of winged, goat-headed creature Baphomet onto the grounds of the Arkansas state capitol on Thursday to horn in on a battle over religious freedom.

 

THE BAPHOMET RALLY PROTESTED A

TEN COMMANDMENTS MONUMENT

installed last year outside the state capitol

after lawmakers approved it in 2015.

 

In May, the American Civil Liberties Union sued on behalf of four Arkansas women to remove the monument, saying it violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty for all. 

 

View image on Twitter

 

 

 

The sign in the heavens on 9/23/2017was the dilineation marker  for the beginning of the 3.5 year wilderness period where God will feed his sheep.

 

Revelation 12 : 

6And the woman fled into the wilderness,

where she has a place prepared of God,

that they should feed her there a 1260 days.

5/14/2014

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BRENHAM, TX – Valerie Escalera says she has no explanation, no idea how such a thing could happen. A book, Escalera said, was sitting inside the cab of her burned-out pickup truck, on what used to be the back seat. She wasn’t expecting to find much when she finally got the nerve to inspect her beloved 1995 truck after it was destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon while her father Armondo was driving it on Highway 105.  Escalera peeked through the windows and saw one item intact.  There was a book sitting on the springs of the back seat, the wind flipping its pages.  

 

“I thought, ‘Oh my God. What is this?” she said. 

 

When the pages flipped back to reveal the cover, she knew immediately what it was.  It was her leather-bound Bible, inscribed on the cover with her name and her ex-husband’s name.  It sent a shiver up Escalera’s back. 

 

 The Bible had survived a fire that fused the doors shut and melted away the dashboard.

 

 “When it revealed itself that it was the holy Bible, I thought, ‘This is unbelievable. This is crazy,’” she said. 

 

 

Long-forgotten Bible survives fire

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 “You see images (of religious figures) and all that.  But this is sitting in the back of our good old ranch truck. Everything burned and melted around it. There’s not even a steering wheel.“

 

The leather cover is barely charred. The edges of the Bible are intact.  “I’d put it in a cardboard box, and there’s no trace of that.”  

 

Escalera said she tucked the Bible away when she drove the truck here from California in 1996, covered it with sweatshirts and forgot about it.   Until Monday.

 

“I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it,” she said this morning. “I’m going to try and take it out. Maybe it’s an omen or something …”

1/6/2016

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NEWPORT, TENN. (WVLT) — A Newport couple that lost almost everything they own in a house fire found a surprise in the ashes.  Justin and Cynthia Wagner were just about to head to bed on Sunday night at their Trentham Road home when they smelled something burning coming from outside the house. Justin said he looked out his front porch and noticed the garage he converted into a makeshift apartment was engulfed in flames.  The fire destroyed the Wagner’s garage, left their Mazda unrecognizable, and did extensive damage to the majority of their two-story home.

 

“Pretty much everything that we own is gone,” Wagner said.  But then a friend found an unexpected surprise while he was helping the couple clean up on Wednesday morning. In the middle of the ashes was a Bible,opened up to JOHN 3:16.The verse reads, “For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”  Wagner took that as a clear sign.  “That tells you right there that God is still here with us, he’s still here for us,” he said.

 

The majority of the Bible was burned with the edges of the pages blackened and charred, but the words of the passage are nearly untouched and clearly visible. Wagner said he has no doubt in his mind that God saved he and his wife that night because there is still more work for them to do on this earth.

 

Couple finds Bible in the ashes

of burned down home

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2/22/2016

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MEMPHIS, TN –  An official showed off a bible that was recovered, unharmed, from a car that completely destroyed after it exploded and burst into flames. (Credit: WREG)  A Tennessee man was rescued from a vehicle by good Samaritans and police on Sunday just moments before it exploded and caught fire.   The crash happened on the eastbound side of I-385 near Memphis on Sunday afternoon. The 2014 Jeep Laredo struck a pole and burst into flames.   The Memphis Police Department responded to the scene. An officer and several Good Samaritans were able to pull the trapped driver out of the vehicle right before the explosion.

 

After firefighters extinguished the fire, officials found an undamaged Bible in the passenger seat of the vehicle. The driver was taken to Regional Medical Center with non-critical injuries. His car was completely destroyed. One witness posted video on Facebook saying, “I just saw GOD on 385.”

 

Bible Survives

‘Unscathed’ in Fiery Crash

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Anita Irby wrote,

 

THE ENTIRE EXPRESSWAY STOPPED and people ran from their cars trying to break the windows and open the doors of this mans car to free him; as they were, the others went up in prayer for God to deliver this man from the paws of the devil.[…] None of the flames touched him.”

2/22/2016

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GAFFNEY, SOUTH CAROLINA – The sweltering blaze engulfed the car and everything in it. Those who witnessed it never guessed anything could survive such an intense car fire.

 

“When the fire was burning it was an intense fire,”  said onlooker, TJ Felder.  “Then it just blew up.”

 

But then firefighters pulled an intact Bible from the backseat.

 

“There was a bible in the backseat,”  said Gaffney Fire Department Chief Jamie Caggiano.

 

“It was charred on the edges but not burnt up.”

 

 

Intense Car Fire Burns Everything

Except The Good Book

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11/22/2016

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GATLINBURG, TN –

The day after wildfires tore through Gatlinburg, damaging or destroying more than 700 structures, killing at least 10 people and displacing thousands, Isaac McCord was doing his part to help out, picking up debris from the Dollywood park grounds.

 

Gripping his rake, he revisited a spot in Craftsman Valley he had skimmed over after his co-worker, Misty Carver, quipped, “Is that how you clean your room?” Provoked, he said he had started “really getting in the nooks and crannies” under a park bench when he caught a glimpse of a piece of paper lying in a puddle of water — soggy, seared and torn in two.

 

McCord, a University of Tennessee alumnus who now works as a human resources training coordinator at Dollywood, said he had no idea what the paper would read, but considering the circumstances, he was curious enough to pick it up.

 

“As soon as I got down on the ground, I noticed it was a Bible verse, and I was like holy crap,” McCord said in a phone interview on Tuesday night. “It was in a puddle of water. I said, ‘I want to take care of this the best way I can,’ so I gently scooped it up and carried it out the best I could.”

 

McCord, 24, sat on the bench where he found the paper, and called Carver over. Their work partners, Dollywood wardrobe manager Angela Davis and employee Kimberly Moore, had left to go to the restroom, McCord said.

 

In silence, the pair pored over the page, the edges of which were burned black, rendering many words illegible. But parts of the right side of the page were preserved enough to get the message across: it perfectly reflected, McCord said, the tragic natural disaster that had thrust Gatlinburg and Sevier County into the national spotlight the night before.

 

“O Lord, to thee will I cry: For the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field,”  the page reads, according to a picture of the page posted on McCord’s Facebook.

 

Dollywood employee finds

burned Bible page after wildfires

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“At first, we didn’t know what part of the book it was from,” McCord said on Tuesday night, “but we saw bits and pieces about fire and scorching the land, and how the beast groaned and roared for help.”

 

The page appears to be from the first chapter of Joel from the King James version of the Bible

 

“We were like this is unreal, this is unbelievable,” McCord said. “When we had both fully read it, we looked at each other — and I will never forget this moment — we both burst into tears. I was ghost white, and we just prayed. There was nothing else to do.

 

“Still to this moment, almost four hours after the fact, I don’t have words for it.”

1/24/2017

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HATTIESBURG, MISS. —A tornado wreaked havoc on parts of southern Mississippi.  The William Carey University campus in Hattiesburg was hit hard, with the gym destroyed and many other buildings having sustained extensive damage. The stained-glass window in the school’s Bass Chapel is gone — but it’s what was left inside the chapel that has many amazed.

 

The tornado left a Bible unharmedand open to PSALM 46, which begins,

 

“God is our refuge and strength,

 a very present help in trouble.”

 

Rick Wilemon, who teaches in the school’s art department, posted photos of the chapel and Bible to Facebook.

 

The tornado killed four people and injured more than 50 others, according to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.

 

The William Carey University campus remains closed while the university works to rebuild and prepares to resume classes.

 

Tornado breaks church window

but leaves Bible intact, open to Psalm 46

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12/26/2017

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HAUGHTON, LA –

A Haughton family loses everything in a house fire early Christmas morning, but they have found comfort after family Bibles are pulled from the rubble, intact.

 

The fire happened just after midnight Monday morning on Highway 164.

 

“Money, insurance cards, life insurance cards, deeds to the house. They’ve been staying here for like 30 years and everything they own is gone, all their clothes everything.”

 

Everything that had been a part of Tineke Brewer’s parents lives, now reduced to rubble. 

 

On Christmas Eve, her 70-year-old mother chose to spend the night at the hospital with her 76-year-old husband, who’s fighting to live following brain surgery.
 
The only one inside was Tineke’s cousin. 

“She said something touched her and told her to get up,” explained Tineke, “so she said when she got up she walked out her door and she seen smoke and fire. Her window was hard to lift up, she said that she just kept on trying to pry it open and she jumped out the window.”

Looking at the pile of debris, Tineke can’t help but think “what if.” 

 

“My son, he usually stays over here when my mom is at the hospital, and that night around 10 o’clock he came home and he said his head was hurting, so I gave him some medicine he laid on my couch and went to sleep.”

Two hours later, the fire erupted.

 

 

Bible pulled from fire rubble

restores family’s faith

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“My husband and my nephew were putting up a basketball goal at the back for the kids, and they ran over here and came knocking on the door saying my mom’s house was on fire. My child could’ve been there.”

 

But the only items to survive the blaze assures them that this is all part of God’s plan.

 

“The Bible is the only thing, everything else is crisp and burnt, but the Holy Bible never burns up, it’s a blessing.”

The charred edges reminding them to be strong, brave and to be thankful. 

3/19/2018

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NORTH AUGUSTA, SC –

  A North Augusta family is rebuilding after a fire left them without a home.  The family lost everything, including their 2 dogs, but among all the rubble one thing remained.

 

“I will never leave you or forsake you, and he hasn’t left us.” Homeowner Wendy Crawley told WJBF NewsChannel 6. 

 

Crawley says she was on her way home, when she saw her life go up in smoke. Wet pages and minor smoke damage, but her bible survived the fire that destroyed the home and just about everything in it. 

 

“Laying on my night stand, is where I kept it.” Crawley said. “It was the only thing I found that we really needed.” 

The flames showed no mercy, claiming the lives of Crawley’s two dogs. 

 

“One we’ve had one for 15 years and the other one was our son’s service dog.” She said. 

 

Crawley says Sugar was very special to her 10-year-old, who was diagnosed with Autism 8 years ago. 

 

“She was always there for him,” she said. “If he couldn’t figure out how to calm down, she would come and she would sit, and she would just lay on him and love on him.” 

On Monday, the homeowner took our crew through what was left of her house.

 

For 17 years her family made memories there. Now they can only start over with their faith and the community’s support on their side. 

 

“God didn’t start that fire, but he has certainly brought you through it.” She told WJBF NewsChannel 6. 

 

Crawley says the bible is only one of the miracles she witnessed, that reminds her someone upstairs is keeping her and her family safe. 

 

 

Fire Destroys South Carolina Home

But Bible Remains Intact Among Rubble

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“Do you want to know something crazy? When we came over here, not an ash on that bed.” Crawley said. “Now the cabinet beside it, is messed up, but not an ash on his bed.” 

 

Crawley does have homeowners insurance. At this time the cause of the fire has not been determined.

 

She tells WJBF NewsChannel 6 she hopes to find her son a new service dog. 

 

Crawley and her family are currently staying with her parents in North Augusta. 

 

All these occurrences happened within the Bible Belt

Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, Texas

REVELATION 3 : MESSAGE TO PHILADELPHIA

 

 He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says this: 

 

8‘I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name.

 

The Keepers of “His Word” :: THE BIBLE BELT

The Camp of Ephraim was typified as an OX

 

We are the oxen that God 

uses to separate

the grain [fruit] from the chaff,

& to smooth out the rough

Just as we are the clay

that is molded by the

hands of potter

as it spins in a circle.

Isaiah 40:22

It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth

 

Isaiah 64 :  illustration of God’s Power

8But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

 The Church of Philadelphia

has the Key of David 

 

 

Philadelphia = “brotherly love”

Brotherly love meaning the Ephraim and Manassah