GRACE UPON GRACE

PSALM 132:13-14 FOR  THE LORD HATH CHOSEN ZION;  HE HATH DESIRED IT  FOR HIS HABITATION.  THIS IS MY REST FOR EVER:  HERE WILL I DWELL;  FOR I HAVE DESIRED IT.    LOVE

EZEKIEL 8:4-8 AND, BEHOLD, THE GLORY OF  THE GOD OF ISRAEL WAS THERE,  ACCORDING TO THE VISION THAT I SAW IN THE PLAIN. THEN SAID HE UNTO ME,  SON OF MAN,  LIFT UP THINE EYES  NOW THAT WAY TOWARD  THE NORTH.  SO I LIFTED UP  MINE EYES THE WAY TOWARD  THE NORTH, AND BEHOLD  NORTHWARD AT THE GATE OF THE ALTER THIS IMAGE OF JEALOUSY IN THE ENTRY.   HE SAID FURTHERMORE  UNTO ME,  SON OF MAN,  SEEST THOU WHAT THEY DO?  EVEN THE  GREAT ABOMINATIONS  THAT THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL  COMMMITTETH HERE,  THAT I SHOULD GO  FAR OFF FROM MY SANCTUARY?  BUT TURN THEE YET AGAIN, AND THOU SHALT SEE GREATER ABOMINATIONS . AND HE BROUGHT  ME TO THE DOOR OF THE COURT;  AND WHEN I LOOKED,  BEHOLD A HOLE IN THE WALL.  THEN SAID HE UNTO ME,  SON OF MAN,  DIG NOW IN THE WALL:  AND WHEN  I HAD DIGGED IN THE WALL,  BEHOLD A DOOR. LOVE   2023 THE YEAR OF DISTRUST: ...

 JEREMIAH 12:14-17 THUS SAITH THE LORD  AGAINST ALL MINE EVIL NEIGHBOURS, THAT TOUCH THE INHERITANCE WHICH I HAVE CAUSED MY PEOPLE ISRAEL TO INHERIT; BEHOLD, I WILL PLUCK THEM OUT OF THEIR LAND,  AND PLUCK OUT  THE HOUSE OF JUDAH FROM  AMONG THEM.  AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, AFTER THAT I HAVE PLUCKED THEM OUT I WILL RETURN, AND HAVE COMPASSION ON THEM, AND  WILL BRING THEM AGAIN,  EVERY MAN TO HIS HERITAGE,  AND  EVERY MAN TO HIS LAND.  AND  IT SHALL COME TO PASS, I F THEY WILL DILIGENTLY LEARN THE WAYS OF MY PEOPLE, TO SWEAR BY MY NAME, THE LORD LIVETH; AS THEY TAUGHT MY PEOPLE TO SWEAR BY BAAL; THEN SHALL THEY BE BUILT IN THE MIDST OF MY PEOPLE. BUT IF THEY WILL NOT OBEY, I WILL UTTERLY PLUCK UP  AND DESTROY THAT NATION, SAITH THE LORD.    LOVE  

ISAIAH 9:5-7 FOR EVERY  BATTLE  OF  THE WARRIOR IS WITH  CONFUSED NOISE,  AND GARMENTS ROLLED  IN BLOOD;   BUT THIS SHALL  BE WITH BURNING AND FUEL OF FIRE.  FOR UNTO US  A CHILD IS BORN,    UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN:  AND THE GOVERNMENT SHALL  BE UPON HIS SHOULDER:  AND  HIS NAME SHALL BE  CALLED WONDERFUL,  COUNSELLOR, THE MIGHTY GOD,  THE EVERLASTING FATHER,  THE PRINCE OF PEACE.  OF  THE INCREASE OF HIS  GOVERNMENT AND PEACE THERE SHALL BE NO END,   UPON THE THRONE OF DAVID,  AND UPON HIS KINGDOM,  TO ORDER IT,  AND  TO ESTABLISH IT WITH  JUDGMENT AND WITH  JUSTICE FROM  HENCEFORTH EVEN FOR EVER.  THE ZEAL OF THE   LORD OF HOSTS WILL PERFORM THIS.  LOVE

PSALM 41:4 BLESSED IS HE  THAT CONSIDERETH THE POOR:  THE LORD  WILL DELIVER HIM IN  TIME OF TROUBLE.  THE LORD WILL PRESERVE HIM,  AND  KEEP HIM ALIVE;  AND  HE SHALL BE BLESSED  UPON THE EARTH:  AND  THOU WILT NOT DELIVER  HIM UNTO  THE WILL OF HIS ENEMIES.  THE LORD WILL STRENGTHEN  HIM UPON  THE BED OF LANGUISHING:  THOU WILT MAKE ALL HIS BED  IN HIS SICKNESS.  I SAID, LORD BE MERCIFUL  UNTO ME: HEAL MY SOUL;  FOR I HAVE SINNED AGA INST THEE.    LOVE

REVELATION 13:11-14 AND I BEHELD ANOTHER  BEAST COMING UP OUT OF  THE EARTH;  AND  HE HAD TWO HORNS  LIKE A LAMB,  AND  HE SPAKE AS A DRAGON.   AND HE  EXERCISETH ALL  THE POWER OF THE FIRST  BEAST BEFORE HIM,  AND CAUSETH THE EARTH AND THEM WHICH DWELL THEREIN TO WORSHIP THE FIRST BEAST,   WHOSE DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED. AND HE DOETH GREAT WONDERS,  SO THAT HE MAKETH  FIRE COME DOWN  FROM HEAVEN ON THE EARTH  IN THE SIGHT OF MEN,  AND  DECEIVETH THEM  THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH  BY  THE MEANS OF THOSE  MIRACLES WHICH  HE HAD POWER  TO DO IN  THE SIGHT OF THE BEAST;  SAYING TO THEM THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH, THAT THEY SHOULD MAKE AN IMAGE TO THE BEAST, WHICH HAD THE WOUND BY A SWORD, AND DID LIVE.   LOVE

ISAIAH 50:9-11 BEHOLD,  THE LORD GOD WILL HELP ME;  WHO IS HE  THAT SHALL CONDEMN ME?  LO ,  THEY ALL SHALL WAX  OLD AS A GARMENT;  THE MOTH SHALL EAT THEM UP. WHO IS AMONG YOU THAT FEARETH THE LORD,  THAT OBEYETH THE VOICE OF HIS SERVANT,  THAT WALKETH IN DARKNESS, AND HATH NO LIGHT? LET HIM TRUST IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, AND STAY UPON HIS GOD. BEHOLD, ALL YE THAT KINDLE A FIRE, THAT COMPASS YOURSELVES ABOUT WITH SPARKS: WALK IN THE LIGHT OF YOUR FIRE, AND IN THE SPARKS THAT YE HAVE KINDLED. THIS SHALL  YE HAVE OF MINE HAND;  YE SHALL LIE DOWN IN SORROW. LOVE  

REVELATION 12:12-14   THEREFORE REJOICE,  YE HEAVENS,  AND  YE THAT DWELL IN THEM.  WOE TO THE  INHABITERS OF  THE EARTH AND OF THE SEA!   FOR THE DEVIL IS COME DOWN UNTO YOU, HAVING GREAT WRATH, BECAUSE HE KNOWETH THAT HE HATH BUT A SHORT TIME. AND  WHEN THE DRAGON  SAW THAT HE WAS  CAST UNTO THE EARTH,  HE PERSECUTED  THE WOMAN WHICH  BROUGHT FORTH THE MAN CHILD.  AND 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.    LOVE

JEREMIAH 4:20-28   DESTRUCTION UPON DESTRUCTION  IS CRIED;  FOR THE WHOLE LAND  IS SPOILED:  SUDDENLY  ARE MY TENTS SPOILED,  AND  MY CURTAINS IN A MOMENT.  HOW LONG SHALL  I SEE THE STANDARD,  AND  HEAR THE SOUND OF  THE TRUMPET?  FOR MY PEOPLE IS FOOLISH,  THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN ME;  THEY ARE SOTTISH CHILDREN,  AND  THEY HAVE NONE UNDERSTANDING:  THEY ARE WISE TO DO EVIL,  BUT TO DO GOOD  THEY ARE HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE.  I BEHELD THE EARTH,  AND LO,  IT WAS WITHOUT FORM,  AND VOID;  AND THE HEAVENS,  AND  THEY HAD NO LIGHT.  I BEHELD THE MOUNTAINS,  AND, LO, THEY TREMBLE,  AND  ALL THE HILLS MOVED LIGHTLY.  I BEHELD, AND, LO, THERE WAS NO MAN, AND ALL THE BIRDS OF THE HEAVENS WERE FLED.   I BEHELD, AND LO, THE FRUITFUL PLACE WAS A WILDERNESS, AND ALL THE CITIES THEREOF WERE BROKEN DOWN AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, AND BY HI...

ROMANS 7:4-6 WHEREFORE, MY BRETHREN, YE ALSO ARE BECOME DEAD TO THE LAW BY THE BODY OF CHRIST; THAT YE SHOULD  BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER,  EVEN TO HIM  WHO IS RAISED FROM THE DEAD,  THAT  WE SHOULD BRING FORTH FRUIT UNTO GOD.   FOR WHEN WE WERE IN THE FLESH,  THE MOTIONS OF SINS,  WHICH WERE  BY THE LAW,  DID WORK IN OUR MEMBERS  TO BRING FORTH FRUIT UNTO DEATH.  BUT NOW WE ARE DELIVERED  FROM THE LAW,  THAT BEING DEAD WHEREIN  WE WERE HELD;  THAT WE SHOULD SERVE IN NEWNESS OF SPIRIT,   AND NOT  IN THE OLDNESS OF THE LETTER.    LOVE

PSALM 119:18-22   OPEN THOU MINE EYES, THAT I MAY BEHOLD WONDROUS THINGS OUT OF THY LAW. I AM A STRANGER IN THE EARTH: HIDE NOT THY  COMMANDMENTS FROM ME.  MY SOUL BREAKETH FOR THE LONGING THAT IT HATH UNTO THY JUDGMENTS AT ALL TIMES. THOU HAST REBUKED THE PROUD THAT ARE CURSED, WHICH DO ERR FROM THY COMMANDMENTS. REMOVE FROM ME REPROACH AND CONTEMPT; FOR I HAVE KEPT THY TESTIMONIES.   LOVE