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Talk about being in two-worlds . . . I was honored to attend the Broken Science Initiative's meeting in conservative Aromas, California last weekend. Greg Glassman, the Founder and former CEO of CrossFit started the Initiative to help rescue the practice of scientific rigor from con artists and politicians. This particular meeting was held on the Castro family Ranch. Known in CrossFit communities simply as “The Ranch”, it where the first CrossFit Games were held in 2008. It was a joy for me to get to see the Ranch, talk with the Castro brothers, meet the many cops and former elite military there and watch Greg and Dr. William Briggs talk about fixing broken science. But, it was what I observed off the Ranch that informs this Episode. While Aromas is conservative and hard-working, I spent most of my time in Santa Cruz, a weekend get-away spot for many San Francisco liberals. Believe it or not. I encountered masked-people still terrified of the unmasked, saw people obviously startled by my beard and general looks, and found myself doing my best job of being polite while confronting a woman who called our troops “moronic, gun-toting rednecks.” It was at the airport, though, where the fracture in our society became so clear and on the plane back where God convicted me. At the Ranch, on the base “the Hill”, anyone who is a fan of the sport knows about the Hill. Greg Glassman begins his address. What does God's Word say? Proverbs 24:30-34 I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.Ezekiel 16:49 Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.Episode 882 Links:The Broken Science InitiativeThe CrossFit Games - Men's Ranch Mini ChipperExquisitely Boredby Pete Townshend The tissue box is emptyNo coffee for my creamDogs howl in the alleyCrazy women screamSome kids shout from their pick up truckThey're stoned on life and beerFifty radios playing in this streetBut I'm still hardly hereExquisitely bored in CaliforniaWe take our trouble to the CrestExquisitely bored in CaliforniaExquisitely bored, Just like all the restWhen the sun shines things'll get movingYou feel close to the starsThere are good times walking in LagunaBut it rains in my heartThe peasants here are starvingThey look out there barrels out in spacePray TV looks like pay TV to meIt's just a curse on the human raceI take a drive up to L.A.In my gas guzzling limousineThere's a whole lot of crazy people up thereLiving out a life in sweet ennuiExquisitely bored in CaliforniaWe take our trouble to the CrestExquisitely bored in CaliforniaExquisitely bored, Just like all the restWhen the sun shines things'll get movingYou feel close to the starsThere are good times walking in LagunaBut it rains in my heartExquisitely bored in CaliforniaWe take our trouble to the CrestExquisitely bored in CaliforniaExquisitely bored, Just like all the rest4Patriots https://4patriots.com Protect your family with Food kits, solar generators and more at 4Patriots. Use code TODD for 10% off your first purchase. Alan's Soaps https://alanssoaps.com/TODD Use coupon code ‘TODD' to save an additional 10% off the bundle price. BiOptimizers https://magbreakthrough.com/todd Use promo code TODD for 10% off your order. Bonefrog https://bonefrog.us Enter promo code TODD at checkout to receive 10% off your subscription. Bulwark Capital http://KnowYourRiskRadio.com Find out how Bulwark Capital Actively Manages risk. Call 866-779-RISK or vist KnowYourRiskRadio.com Healthycell http://healthycell.com/todd Protect your heart with Healthycell! Use promo code TODD for 20% off your first order. My Pillow https://mypillow.com Use code TODD for BOGO on the new MyPillow 2.0 Patriot Mobile https://patriotmobile.com/herman Get free activation today with offer code HERMAN. Visit or call 878-PATRIOT. RuffGreens https://ruffgreens.com/todd Get your FREE Jumpstart Trial Bag of Ruff Greens, simply cover shipping. Visit or call 877-MYDOG-64. SOTA Weight Loss https://sotaweightloss.com SOTA Weight Loss is, say it with me now, STATE OF THE ART! GreenHaven Interactive https://greenhaveninteractive.com Digital Marketing including search engine optimization and website design.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5674544/advertisement

With family: Deuteronomy 13–14; Psalms 99–101 Deuteronomy 13–14 (Listen) 13 “If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,' which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,' 3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. 5 But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil1 from your midst. 6 “If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace2 or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known, 7 some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, 8 you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him. 9 But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. 10 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 11 And all Israel shall hear and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you. 12 “If you hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you to dwell there, 13 that certain worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,' which you have not known, 14 then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you, 15 you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, devoting it to destruction,3 all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword. 16 You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again. 17 None of the devoted things shall stick to your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers, 18 if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping all his commandments that I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of the LORD your God. Clean and Unclean Food 14 “You are the sons of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. 2 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 3 “You shall not eat any abomination. 4 These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5 the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex,4 the antelope, and the mountain sheep. 6 Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. 7 Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you. 8 And the pig, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. 9 “Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat. 10 And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you. 11 “You may eat all clean birds. 12 But these are the ones that you shall not eat: the eagle,5 the bearded vulture, the black vulture, 13 the kite, the falcon of any kind; 14 every raven of any kind; 15 the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind; 16 the little owl and the short-eared owl, the barn owl 17 and the tawny owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant, 18 the stork, the heron of any kind; the hoopoe and the bat. 19 And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten. 20 All clean winged things you may eat. 21 “You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk. Tithes 22 “You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year. 23 And before the LORD your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always. 24 And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the LORD your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God chooses, to set his name there, 25 then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the LORD your God chooses 26 and spend the money for whatever you desire—oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household. 27 And you shall not neglect the Levite who is within your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with you. 28 “At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns. 29 And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do. Footnotes [1] 13:5 Or evil person [2] 13:6 Hebrew the wife of your bosom [3] 13:15 That is, setting apart (devoting) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction) [4] 14:5 Or addax [5] 14:12 The identity of many of these birds is uncertain (ESV) Psalms 99–101 (Listen) The Lord Our God Is Holy 99   The LORD reigns; let the peoples tremble!    He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!2   The LORD is great in Zion;    he is exalted over all the peoples.3   Let them praise your great and awesome name!    Holy is he!4   The King in his might loves justice.1    You have established equity;  you have executed justice    and righteousness in Jacob.5   Exalt the LORD our God;    worship at his footstool!    Holy is he! 6   Moses and Aaron were among his priests,    Samuel also was among those who called upon his name.    They called to the LORD, and he answered them.7   In the pillar of the cloud he spoke to them;    they kept his testimonies    and the statute that he gave them. 8   O LORD our God, you answered them;    you were a forgiving God to them,    but an avenger of their wrongdoings.9   Exalt the LORD our God,    and worship at his holy mountain;    for the LORD our God is holy! His Steadfast Love Endures Forever A Psalm for giving thanks. 100   Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth!2     Serve the LORD with gladness!    Come into his presence with singing! 3   Know that the LORD, he is God!    It is he who made us, and we are his;2    we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4   Enter his gates with thanksgiving,    and his courts with praise!    Give thanks to him; bless his name! 5   For the LORD is good;    his steadfast love endures forever,    and his faithfulness to all generations. I Will Walk with Integrity A Psalm of David. 101   I will sing of steadfast love and justice;    to you, O LORD, I will make music.2   I will ponder the way that is blameless.    Oh when will you come to me?  I will walk with integrity of heart    within my house;3   I will not set before my eyes    anything that is worthless.  I hate the work of those who fall away;    it shall not cling to me.4   A perverse heart shall be far from me;    I will know nothing of evil. 5   Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly    I will destroy.  Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart    I will not endure. 6   I will look with favor on the faithful in the land,    that they may dwell with me;  he who walks in the way that is blameless    shall minister to me. 7   No one who practices deceit    shall dwell in my house;  no one who utters lies    shall continue before my eyes. 8   Morning by morning I will destroy    all the wicked in the land,  cutting off all the evildoers    from the city of the LORD. Footnotes [1] 99:4 Or The might of the King loves justice [2] 100:3 Or and not we ourselves (ESV) In private: Isaiah 41; Revelation 11 Isaiah 41 (Listen) Fear Not, for I Am with You 41   Listen to me in silence, O coastlands;    let the peoples renew their strength;  let them approach, then let them speak;    let us together draw near for judgment. 2   Who stirred up one from the east    whom victory meets at every step?1  He gives up nations before him,    so that he tramples kings underfoot;  he makes them like dust with his sword,    like driven stubble with his bow.3   He pursues them and passes on safely,    by paths his feet have not trod.4   Who has performed and done this,    calling the generations from the beginning?  I, the LORD, the first,    and with the last; I am he. 5   The coastlands have seen and are afraid;    the ends of the earth tremble;    they have drawn near and come.6   Everyone helps his neighbor    and says to his brother, “Be strong!”7   The craftsman strengthens the goldsmith,    and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil,  saying of the soldering, “It is good”;    and they strengthen it with nails so that it cannot be moved. 8   But you, Israel, my servant,    Jacob, whom I have chosen,    the offspring of Abraham, my friend;9   you whom I took from the ends of the earth,    and called from its farthest corners,  saying to you, “You are my servant,    I have chosen you and not cast you off”;10   fear not, for I am with you;    be not dismayed, for I am your God;  I will strengthen you, I will help you,    I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. 11   Behold, all who are incensed against you    shall be put to shame and confounded;  those who strive against you    shall be as nothing and shall perish.12   You shall seek those who contend with you,    but you shall not find them;  those who war against you    shall be as nothing at all.13   For I, the LORD your God,    hold your right hand;  it is I who say to you, “Fear not,    I am the one who helps you.” 14   Fear not, you worm Jacob,    you men of Israel!  I am the one who helps you, declares the LORD;    your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.15   Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge,    new, sharp, and having teeth;  you shall thresh the mountains and crush them,    and you shall make the hills like chaff;16   you shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away,    and the tempest shall scatter them.  And you shall rejoice in the LORD;    in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory. 17   When the poor and needy seek water,    and there is none,    and their tongue is parched with thirst,  I the LORD will answer them;    I the God of Israel will not forsake them.18   I will open rivers on the bare heights,    and fountains in the midst of the valleys.  I will make the wilderness a pool of water,    and the dry land springs of water.19   I will put in the wilderness the cedar,    the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive.  I will set in the desert the cypress,    the plane and the pine together,20   that they may see and know,    may consider and understand together,  that the hand of the LORD has done this,    the Holy One of Israel has created it. The Futility of Idols 21   Set forth your case, says the LORD;    bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.22   Let them bring them, and tell us    what is to happen.  Tell us the former things, what they are,    that we may consider them,  that we may know their outcome;    or declare to us the things to come.23   Tell us what is to come hereafter,    that we may know that you are gods;  do good, or do harm,    that we may be dismayed and terrified.224   Behold, you are nothing,    and your work is less than nothing;    an abomination is he who chooses you. 25   I stirred up one from the north, and he has come,    from the rising of the sun, and he shall call upon my name;  he shall trample on rulers as on mortar,    as the potter treads clay.26   Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know,    and beforehand, that we might say, “He is right”?  There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed,    none who heard your words.27   I was the first to say3 to Zion, “Behold, here they are!”    and I give to Jerusalem a herald of good news.28   But when I look, there is no one;    among these there is no counselor    who, when I ask, gives an answer.29   Behold, they are all a delusion;    their works are nothing;    their metal images are empty wind. Footnotes [1] 41:2 Or whom righteousness calls to follow? [2] 41:23 Or that we may both be dismayed and see [3] 41:27 Or Formerly I said (ESV) Revelation 11 (Listen) The Two Witnesses 11 Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, 2 but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. 3 And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” 4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. 5 And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. 6 They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire. 7 And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit1 will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, 8 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically

OUTLINE of today's show with TIMECODES Whatever started the Canadian fires, the change from a conservation/steward management to a quasi-religious obsession to do NO management has laid the groundwork (literally) for gasoline on the fire — and Gov Hochul in NY is ready with a MILLION masks from the stockpiles (2:19)John Kerry gives us yet another reminder that New World Order is not simply about theft — but depopulation, destruction of humanity (8:03)Remember Deagle? Are we on track with the massive depopulation they predicted in 2015 would happen by 2025? (11:02)Listener from Australia comments on what they've done to forestry policy there as well (24:07) HG Wells, Julian Huxley, and Musk's grandfather — roots of technocracy and transhumanism (32:07)A look at massive CORRUPTION throughout the USA from state to federal levels (42:12)The intentional martyrdom of Trump by the left as the FBI beclowns itself covering up for Trump and GOP responds with nothing but show hearings (57:36) Chris Christie enters the race focusing on Jared & Ivanka's "breathtaking grift" with the Saudi's. But Christie has more baggage than Sam Brinton as he wound up on "the wrong side of history" pushing face masks (1:06:40)Pence joins the presidential circus talking about loyalty to the Constitution. He NEVER had a problem with what Trump did to the Constitution throughout 2020 until Trump came for him (1:16:06)RFKj goes to the border (at 2am?) and reports the "humanitarian crisis". What is his solution?(1:21:50)Instagram not only allowed pedophile content and groups, it PUSHED CONTENT (1:39:56)"Miss" San Francisco is a man who will go on to compete in the Miss USA pageant (1:49:02)Sodom Isn't a Fairy Tale WATCH this footage of Sodom & Gomorrah today. An ancient archaeological warning that stands to this day (1:54:15)King James Bible banned in some Utah schools over claims of vulgarity and violence (1:55:12)INTERVIEW Challenging Content-Based Restrictions on Free Speech Roger Gyron, Senior Counsel, First Liberty Institute firstliberty.org After Liberty Institute's recent win at the Supreme Court defending Coach Joseph Kennedy's right to pray silently on the 50 yard line after the game (he was fired for doing so), Mr. Byron joins to talk about a new challenge to Colorado's law that imposes severe, content-based restrictions on speech outside of abortion clinics. It's clearly a violation of the First Amendment. (2:04:42)James Woods weighs in when someone asks him "how evil is Hollywood?" (2:28:32)Irish Times falls prey to their bigotry with AI essay they believed was real. (2:37:41) Doc Octopus Arms, Camera w/o Lens: Tech Getting Dumber All the Time Desc: Is "fake it til you make it" the latest in tech "innovation"? How about AI that writes songs and gets paid to listen to its songs? The idiocracy of technology, however, is nothing compared to millennials and younger who wouldn't have a problem with government cameras watching them constantly at home (2:42:45)The "Rainbow" — it's all about attracting kids, says Jason Barker. LGBT doesn't see the irony in how they're using God's promise. (2:48:58)Spotify ripped off by massive AI grift (2:51:10)Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT

OUTLINE of today's show with TIMECODESWhatever started the Canadian fires, the change from a conservation/steward management to a quasi-religious obsession to do NO management has laid the groundwork (literally) for gasoline on the fire — and Gov Hochul in NY is ready with a MILLION masks from the stockpiles (2:19)John Kerry gives us yet another reminder that New World Order is not simply about theft — but depopulation, destruction of humanity (8:03)Remember Deagle? Are we on track with the massive depopulation they predicted in 2015 would happen by 2025? (11:02)Listener from Australia comments on what they've done to forestry policy there as well (24:07) HG Wells, Julian Huxley, and Musk's grandfather — roots of technocracy and transhumanism (32:07)A look at massive CORRUPTION throughout the USA from state to federal levels (42:12)The intentional martyrdom of Trump by the left as the FBI beclowns itself covering up for Trump and GOP responds with nothing but show hearings (57:36)Chris Christie enters the race focusing on Jared & Ivanka's "breathtaking grift" with the Saudi's. But Christie has more baggage than Sam Brinton as he wound up on "the wrong side of history" pushing face masks (1:06:40)Pence joins the presidential circus talking about loyalty to the Constitution. He NEVER had a problem with what Trump did to the Constitution throughout 2020 until Trump came for him (1:16:06)RFKj goes to the border (at 2am?) and reports the "humanitarian crisis". What is his solution?(1:21:50)Instagram not only allowed pedophile content and groups, it PUSHED CONTENT (1:39:56)"Miss" San Francisco is a man who will go on to compete in the Miss USA pageant (1:49:02)Sodom Isn't a Fairy Tale WATCH this footage of Sodom & Gomorrah today. An ancient archaeological warning that stands to this day (1:54:15)King James Bible banned in some Utah schools over claims of vulgarity and violence (1:55:12)INTERVIEW Challenging Content-Based Restrictions on Free Speech Roger Gyron, Senior Counsel, First Liberty Institute firstliberty.org After Liberty Institute's recent win at the Supreme Court defending Coach Joseph Kennedy's right to pray silently on the 50 yard line after the game (he was fired for doing so), Mr. Byron joins to talk about a new challenge to Colorado's law that imposes severe, content-based restrictions on speech outside of abortion clinics. It's clearly a violation of the First Amendment. (2:04:42)James Woods weighs in when someone asks him "how evil is Hollywood?" (2:28:32)Irish Times falls prey to their bigotry with AI essay they believed was real. (2:37:41)Doc Octopus Arms, Camera w/o Lens: Tech Getting Dumber All the Time Desc: Is "fake it til you make it" the latest in tech "innovation"? How about AI that writes songs and gets paid to listen to its songs? The idiocracy of technology, however, is nothing compared to millennials and younger who wouldn't have a problem with government cameras watching them constantly at home (2:42:45)The "Rainbow" — it's all about attracting kids, says Jason Barker. LGBT doesn't see the irony in how they're using God's promise. (2:48:58)Spotify ripped off by massive AI grift (2:51:10)Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT

Proper 4 First Psalm: Psalm 119:49–72 Psalm 119:49–72 (Listen) Zayin 49   Remember your word to your servant,    in which you have made me hope.50   This is my comfort in my affliction,    that your promise gives me life.51   The insolent utterly deride me,    but I do not turn away from your law.52   When I think of your rules from of old,    I take comfort, O LORD.53   Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked,    who forsake your law.54   Your statutes have been my songs    in the house of my sojourning.55   I remember your name in the night, O LORD,    and keep your law.56   This blessing has fallen to me,    that I have kept your precepts. Heth 57   The LORD is my portion;    I promise to keep your words.58   I entreat your favor with all my heart;    be gracious to me according to your promise.59   When I think on my ways,    I turn my feet to your testimonies;60   I hasten and do not delay    to keep your commandments.61   Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me,    I do not forget your law.62   At midnight I rise to praise you,    because of your righteous rules.63   I am a companion of all who fear you,    of those who keep your precepts.64   The earth, O LORD, is full of your steadfast love;    teach me your statutes! Teth 65   You have dealt well with your servant,    O LORD, according to your word.66   Teach me good judgment and knowledge,    for I believe in your commandments.67   Before I was afflicted I went astray,    but now I keep your word.68   You are good and do good;    teach me your statutes.69   The insolent smear me with lies,    but with my whole heart I keep your precepts;70   their heart is unfeeling like fat,    but I delight in your law.71   It is good for me that I was afflicted,    that I might learn your statutes.72   The law of your mouth is better to me    than thousands of gold and silver pieces. (ESV) Second Psalm: Psalm 49; Psalm 53 Psalm 49 (Listen) Why Should I Fear in Times of Trouble? To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. 49   Hear this, all peoples!    Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,2   both low and high,    rich and poor together!3   My mouth shall speak wisdom;    the meditation of my heart shall be understanding.4   I will incline my ear to a proverb;    I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre. 5   Why should I fear in times of trouble,    when the iniquity of those who cheat me surrounds me,6   those who trust in their wealth    and boast of the abundance of their riches?7   Truly no man can ransom another,    or give to God the price of his life,8   for the ransom of their life is costly    and can never suffice,9   that he should live on forever    and never see the pit. 10   For he sees that even the wise die;    the fool and the stupid alike must perish    and leave their wealth to others.11   Their graves are their homes forever,1    their dwelling places to all generations,    though they called lands by their own names.12   Man in his pomp will not remain;    he is like the beasts that perish. 13   This is the path of those who have foolish confidence;    yet after them people approve of their boasts.2 Selah14   Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol;    death shall be their shepherd,  and the upright shall rule over them in the morning.    Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell.15   But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol,    for he will receive me. Selah 16   Be not afraid when a man becomes rich,    when the glory of his house increases.17   For when he dies he will carry nothing away;    his glory will not go down after him.18   For though, while he lives, he counts himself blessed    —and though you get praise when you do well for yourself—19   his soul will go to the generation of his fathers,    who will never again see light.20   Man in his pomp yet without understanding is like the beasts that perish. Footnotes [1] 49:11 Septuagint, Syriac, Targum; Hebrew Their inward thought was that their homes were forever [2] 49:13 Or and of those after them who approve of their boasts (ESV) Psalm 53 (Listen) There Is None Who Does Good To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath. A Maskil1 of David. 53   The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”    They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity;    there is none who does good. 2   God looks down from heaven    on the children of man  to see if there are any who understand,2    who seek after God. 3   They have all fallen away;    together they have become corrupt;  there is none who does good,    not even one. 4   Have those who work evil no knowledge,    who eat up my people as they eat bread,    and do not call upon God? 5   There they are, in great terror,    where there is no terror!  For God scatters the bones of him who encamps against you;    you put them to shame, for God has rejected them. 6   Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!    When God restores the fortunes of his people,    let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad. Footnotes [1] 53:1 Probably musical or liturgical terms [2] 53:2 Or who act wisely (ESV) Old Testament: Deuteronomy 13:1–11 Deuteronomy 13:1–11 (Listen) 13 “If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,' which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,' 3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. 5 But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil1 from your midst. 6 “If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace2 or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known, 7 some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, 8 you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him. 9 But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. 10 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 11 And all Israel shall hear and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you. Footnotes [1] 13:5 Or evil person [2] 13:6 Hebrew the wife of your bosom (ESV) New Testament: 2 Corinthians 7:2–16 2 Corinthians 7:2–16 (Listen) Paul's Joy 2 Make room in your hearts1 for us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one. 3 I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together. 4 I am acting with great boldness toward you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy. 5 For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn—fighting without and fear within. 6 But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, 7 and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted by you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more. 8 For even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it—though I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while. 9 As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. 10 For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. 11 For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter. 12 So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one who did the wrong, nor for the sake of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your earnestness for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God. 13 Therefore we are comforted. And besides our own comfort, we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. 14 For whatever boasts I made to him about you, I was not put to shame. But just as everything we said to you was true, so also our boasting before Titus has proved true. 15 And his affection for you is even greater, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling. 16 I rejoice, because I have complete confidence in you. Footnotes [1] 7:2 Greek lacks in your hearts (ESV) Gospel: Luke 17:20–37 Luke 17:20–37 (Listen) The Coming of the Kingdom 20 Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed, 21 nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!' or ‘There!' for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”1 22 And he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. 23 And they will say to you, ‘Look, there!' or ‘Look, here!' Do not go out or follow them. 24 For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.2 25 But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. 26 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, 29 but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—30 so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed. 31 On that day, let the one who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back. 32 Remember Lot's wife. 33 Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it. 34 I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left. 35 There will be two women grinding together. One will be taken and the other left.”3 37 And they said to him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the corpse4 is, there the vultures5 will gather.” Footnotes [1] 17:21 Or within you, or within your grasp [2] 17:24 Some manuscripts omit in his day [3] 17:35 Some manuscripts add verse 36: Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left [4] 17:37 Greek body [5] 17:37 Or eagles (ESV)

Isaiah 1–4 Isaiah 1–4 (Listen) 1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. The Wickedness of Judah 2   Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth;    for the LORD has spoken:  “Children1 have I reared and brought up,    but they have rebelled against me.3   The ox knows its owner,    and the donkey its master's crib,  but Israel does not know,    my people do not understand.” 4   Ah, sinful nation,    a people laden with iniquity,  offspring of evildoers,    children who deal corruptly!  They have forsaken the LORD,    they have despised the Holy One of Israel,    they are utterly estranged. 5   Why will you still be struck down?    Why will you continue to rebel?  The whole head is sick,    and the whole heart faint.6   From the sole of the foot even to the head,    there is no soundness in it,  but bruises and sores    and raw wounds;  they are not pressed out or bound up    or softened with oil. 7   Your country lies desolate;    your cities are burned with fire;  in your very presence    foreigners devour your land;    it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.8   And the daughter of Zion is left    like a booth in a vineyard,  like a lodge in a cucumber field,    like a besieged city. 9   If the LORD of hosts    had not left us a few survivors,  we should have been like Sodom,    and become like Gomorrah. 10   Hear the word of the LORD,    you rulers of Sodom!  Give ear to the teaching2 of our God,    you people of Gomorrah!11   “What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?    says the LORD;  I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams    and the fat of well-fed beasts;  I do not delight in the blood of bulls,    or of lambs, or of goats. 12   “When you come to appear before me,    who has required of you    this trampling of my courts?13   Bring no more vain offerings;    incense is an abomination to me.  New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations—    I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly.14   Your new moons and your appointed feasts    my soul hates;  they have become a burden to me;    I am weary of bearing them.15   When you spread out your hands,    I will hide my eyes from you;  even though you make many prayers,    I will not listen;    your hands are full of blood.16   Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;    remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;  cease to do evil,17     learn to do good;  seek justice,    correct oppression;  bring justice to the fatherless,    plead the widow's cause. 18   “Come now, let us reason3 together, says the LORD:  though your sins are like scarlet,    they shall be as white as snow;  though they are red like crimson,    they shall become like wool.19   If you are willing and obedient,    you shall eat the good of the land;20   but if you refuse and rebel,    you shall be eaten by the sword;    for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.” The Unfaithful City 21   How the faithful city    has become a whore,4    she who was full of justice!  Righteousness lodged in her,    but now murderers.22   Your silver has become dross,    your best wine mixed with water.23   Your princes are rebels    and companions of thieves.  Everyone loves a bribe    and runs after gifts.  They do not bring justice to the fatherless,    and the widow's cause does not come to them. 24   Therefore the Lord declares,    the LORD of hosts,    the Mighty One of Israel:  “Ah, I will get relief from my enemies    and avenge myself on my foes.25   I will turn my hand against you    and will smelt away your dross as with lye    and remove all your alloy.26   And I will restore your judges as at the first,    and your counselors as at the beginning.  Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness,    the faithful city.” 27   Zion shall be redeemed by justice,    and those in her who repent, by righteousness.28   But rebels and sinners shall be broken together,    and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.29   For they5 shall be ashamed of the oaks    that you desired;  and you shall blush for the gardens    that you have chosen.30   For you shall be like an oak    whose leaf withers,    and like a garden without water.31   And the strong shall become tinder,    and his work a spark,  and both of them shall burn together,    with none to quench them. The Mountain of the Lord 2 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2   It shall come to pass in the latter days    that the mountain of the house of the LORD  shall be established as the highest of the mountains,    and shall be lifted up above the hills;  and all the nations shall flow to it,3     and many peoples shall come, and say:  “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,    to the house of the God of Jacob,  that he may teach us his ways    and that we may walk in his paths.”  For out of Zion shall go forth the law,6    and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.4   He shall judge between the nations,    and shall decide disputes for many peoples;  and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,    and their spears into pruning hooks;  nation shall not lift up sword against nation,    neither shall they learn war anymore. 5   O house of Jacob,    come, let us walk    in the light of the LORD. The Day of the Lord 6   For you have rejected your people,    the house of Jacob,  because they are full of things from the east    and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines,    and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.7   Their land is filled with silver and gold,    and there is no end to their treasures;  their land is filled with horses,    and there is no end to their chariots.8   Their land is filled with idols;    they bow down to the work of their hands,    to what their own fingers have made.9   So man is humbled,    and each one is brought low—    do not forgive them!10   Enter into the rock    and hide in the dust  from before the terror of the LORD,    and from the splendor of his majesty.11   The haughty looks of man shall be brought low,    and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled,  and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. 12   For the LORD of hosts has a day    against all that is proud and lofty,    against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;13   against all the cedars of Lebanon,    lofty and lifted up;    and against all the oaks of Bashan;14   against all the lofty mountains,    and against all the uplifted hills;15   against every high tower,    and against every fortified wall;16   against all the ships of Tarshish,    and against all the beautiful craft.17   And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled,    and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low,    and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.18   And the idols shall utterly pass away.19   And people shall enter the caves of the rocks    and the holes of the ground,7  from before the terror of the LORD,    and from the splendor of his majesty,    when he rises to terrify the earth. 20   In that day mankind will cast away    their idols of silver and their idols of gold,  which they made for themselves to worship,    to the moles and to the bats,21   to enter the caverns of the rocks    and the clefts of the cliffs,  from before the terror of the LORD,    and from the splendor of his majesty,    when he rises to terrify the earth.22   Stop regarding man    in whose nostrils is breath,    for of what account is he? Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem 3   For behold, the Lord GOD of hosts    is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah  support and supply,8    all support of bread,    and all support of water;2   the mighty man and the soldier,    the judge and the prophet,    the diviner and the elder,3   the captain of fifty    and the man of rank,  the counselor and the skillful magician    and the expert in charms.4   And I will make boys their princes,    and infants9 shall rule over them.5   And the people will oppress one another,    every one his fellow    and every one his neighbor;  the youth will be insolent to the elder,    and the despised to the honorable. 6   For a man will take hold of his brother    in the house of his father, saying:  “You have a cloak;    you shall be our leader,  and this heap of ruins    shall be under your rule”;7   in that day he will speak out, saying:  “I will not be a healer;10    in my house there is neither bread nor cloak;  you shall not make me    leader of the people.”8   For Jerusalem has stumbled,    and Judah has fallen,  because their speech and their deeds are against the LORD,    defying his glorious presence.11 9   For the look on their faces bears witness against them;    they proclaim their sin like Sodom;    they do not hide it.  Woe to them!    For they have brought evil on themselves.10   Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them,    for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.11   Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,    for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.12   My people—infants are their oppressors,    and women rule over them.  O my people, your guides mislead you    and they have swallowed up12 the course of your paths. 13   The LORD has taken his place to contend;    he stands to judge peoples.14   The LORD will enter into judgment    with the elders and princes of his people:  “It is you who have devoured13 the vineyard,    the spoil of the poor is in your houses.15   What do you mean by crushing my people,    by grinding the face of the poor?”      declares the Lord GOD of hosts. 16   The LORD said:  Because the daughters of Zion are haughty    and walk with outstretched necks,    glancing wantonly with their eyes,  mincing along as they go,    tinkling with their feet,17   therefore the Lord will strike with a scab    the heads of the daughters of Zion,    and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts. 18 In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents; 19 the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves;

On today's Equipping You in Grace show, Dave talks with Rosaria Butterfield about the nature and purpose of biblical repentance, the danger of using the moral lens of LGBTQ+ personhood, and a soft presence in Sodom, why transgenderism has turned into a religion, what is most concerning about prominent evangelicals using transgender pronouns in articles, books, and podcasts, and much more on this new episode.What you'll hear in this episodeThe importance of standing fast on the image of God revealed in the Word.The nature and purpose of biblical repentance.The danger of being a soft presence in Sodom.Why using transgender pronouns is sinful for Christians.What is most concerning about prominent evangelicals using transgender pronouns in articles books, and podcasts.The danger of evangelicals using the moral lens of LGBTQ+ personhood.Why transgenderism has turned into a religion.How Christians should respond to transgenderism in our schools and in the public square.What to do about the indoctrination of children about transgenderism in our schools and multimedia.About GuestRosaria Butterfield (PhD, Ohio State University) is an author, pastor's wife, homeschool mom, and former professor of English and women's studies at Syracuse University. She is the author of The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert; Openness Unhindered, and The Gospel Comes with a House Key. Her new book, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age releases soon. To learn more about Rosaria please visit her website.Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you've heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will go a long way to helping other people find the show). You can also connect with me on Twitter at @davejjenkins, on Facebook, or via email to share your feedback.Thank you for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace.

Caleb opens the podcast by reading an excerpt from The Marquis De Sade's 120 Days of Sodom. You may want to skip straight to the episode if you're easily grossed out.  Today we discuss what makes something a fairy tale instead of a fantasy. We also figure out if some famous works count as fairy tales, such as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and even the Bible! Check out Caleb's work at www.calebjamesk.com Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @dpwpodcast

Tiziana Severse is back in the studio to continue her study of Homosexuality and the Bible. The term "sodomite" has been used in society to describe the sexual sins of the people of Sodom, who were destroyed by a raining hail of fire, along with the city of Gomorrah. Taking a microscope to the scriptures and the way in which they describe the sins of Sodom, surprisingly they never mention the sexual sins that we so commonly think of regarding the Genesis account of the city's destruction. Tiziana carefully seeks out what the true definition of "sodomite" is according to the scriptures themselves. Listen in to hear one of the largest deep dives we've ever done on our Notes segment. Thanks for listening! TRIGGER WARNING: There are moments where we mention sexual and child sexual abuse. Parental Supervision is suggested. NOTE: We are a conversation podcast, not an ideological one. The cast holds differing views but are determined to discuss tough topics with love and respect for one another. If you would like to support our podcast, please visit: www.patreon.com/theburrosofberea. If you'd like to learn more about us, please visit our website at: www.burrosofberea.com

Do we put our families in harm's way with our decisions? Today we talk about how Lot's choices affected him, his family, and his descendants when he chose to live in Sodom and Gamorrah. Watch us on YouTube! https://youtu.be/WLHafHhSGmE

Hey we did an epic episode thingy with Dorian Electra :^D  It's EPIC so go listen to the epic episode to expand your Mind and go listen to Dorian's epic new epic song Sodom and Gomorrah for an epic song.   Follow us on instagram: Sophie - joan.of.arca Caio - punkrevolutionnow    Follow us on twitter: Sophie - soophieeb Caio - punkrevnow   Follow us on Patreon to support our work and get access bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/BasedNewsNetwork  

Walt Disney recently launched their Pride Collection featuring the ‘Mickey Mouse Bodysuit for Baby,' adorned with the colors of the rainbow. “Expressive Mickey Mouse shares the love from this soft cotton bodysuit featuring rainbow color graphics and stitched trims. Baby will lead the parade as your pride and joy!” the item description reads. The Pride Movement wants your children from the cradle, and Walt Disney has just thrown down the gauntlet. On this episode of the NTEB Prophecy News Podcast, Walt Disney World and Disneyland are becoming dystopian battlegrounds in the grooming and recruiting of children as members of the LGBTQIA+ Movement. In California, a transgender man wearing a dress and working at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique greets biological girls to sell them dresses. At Walt Disney World in Florida, ‘Gay Days' have turned the fantasyland into Vanity Fair from The Pilgrim's Progress, and into Sodom and Gomorrah from the Bible. As we have long told you, the Pride Movement started seeking only tolerance, then acceptance, then equality, and now? Dominance. On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, we show you the stunning rise of child grooming and recruiting movements taking place not only at Walt Disney, but all across corporate America as well.

Beware of certain men- Jude used three examples of God's past judgment against "certain men" to remind his readers that God does not let evil go unpunished: The people of Israel, the angels who sinned, and Sodom and Gomorrah.

For nearly ten years, lawyer Randy Schoenberg represented Austrian Maria Altmann in her quest to recover her family’s paintings that had been stolen by the Nazis during World War II. The exquisite paintings, valued at more than $325 million, were discovered in museums where they had been displayed for decades. Schoenberg persisted on Altmann’s behalf, appealing to many judges, including the U.S. Supreme Court, before winning her case. In Genesis 18, we find Abraham in a bargaining conversation with the Lord. Sodom and Gomorrah were the “Sin Cities” of the day. The mercy cries of the oppressed and powerless had reached the ears of the Lord (vv. 20– 21). God was on the verge of pouring out another round of destruction. But before God punished Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham courageously pled their case (v. 22). Even though the Scriptures do not explicitly mention Lot, Abraham’s nephew and his family was most likely on his mind, since they were still in Sodom. The premise of Abraham’s argument to the Lord was: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?” (v. 23). Beginning with 50 and working his way down to ten, Abraham witnessed the Lord’s mercy and goodness in one hypothetical measurement at a time. Using the skills of an experienced arbitrator, he interceded for the righteous in Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham’s intervention before God on behalf of the righteous may remind you of the way Jesus has intervened for us! Centuries later, Jesus would stand before the Father to intercede for our deliverance from death and destruction (Rom. 8:34). >> For whom can you intercede today? As a godly leader, you may be asked to stand up for the rights of another. And certainly, we can intercede for them through prayer. Using Abraham as a model, pray for those you know who are lost and need the Savior.

Welcome to "The Bible in Today's World", the show that compares today's world with the Word of God. In general and specifically, are we following the Bible in our daily walks? Is society demanding that we follow the Word of God in all that we do? Does our Almighty Father look upon us and frequently say, "Well done, good and faithful servant!" - or is He thinking of us as He thought/thinks of Sodom and Gomorrah? On today;'s show, we will explore the aspect of "Sodom and Gomorrah" - According to the Word of God, are there any similarities between these two ancient cities and today's world, according to the Word of God? We also played Part 2 of my interview with Christian author, DAVID STANFIELD. DAVID STANFIELD, a new Christian author from Texas, will join us to discuss his faith in Jesus, and how the Lord led him to write a Christian book, even though he had never written a book - nor had hardly even read one! - in his life. His book, entitled, "Hellven" is available now. FROM HIS BIO: "Hello. I am an author and my new book, "Hellven: The Struggles of Being a Worldly Christian" was recently released by Trilogy Publishing, which is TBN's publishing company. I use this "Hellven" concept to help explain the state of Christianity in today's world as most of us so called Christians have conformed to the world and become hypocritical. We know how we are supposed to live, what is right, and what is wrong, yet we choose to believe that we can do what we want instead and just ask forgiveness later. "Hellven" is described as having the horns and the halo, or having our cake and eating it too so to speak, but we all know that is not the case. We know that is not the way God intends us to live. However, when we choose to get off the right path, we begin to face more and more life struggles, which are even harder to deal with when we are not living for Christ, but of this world. After explaining the "Hellven" concept, the book then goes into some of the many struggles we face on a daily basis. There is a chapter for each of the struggles discussed and I give statistics, real life experiences and stories of things I have personally faced (including the loss of my son to suicide), and advice for dealing with these struggles. Some of the struggles/topics in the book are questioning faith, anger, profanity, worry, relationships, forgiveness, finances, life balance, stress, depression, grief, addiction, honesty & integrity, witnessing, obedience, and more. At the end of each chapter/struggle, I give 10 scriptures to help and encourage the reader to overcome that struggle when faced with it. My goal is to get the message God gave me to share with the book out to as many people as I can, and get it outside of my family/friend circle. It is a very real and very relevant message for the current state of this world." www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hellven-david-stanfield/1141389927 OUR WEBSITE https://www.impactradiousa.com/the-bible-in-todays-world.html OUR EMAIL ADDRESS TheBibleInTodaysWorld@gmail.com

How should Christians navigate the waters of Pride Month? What does faithfulness to Christ look like when the world is pressing us to conform?

Zephaniah 1–3 Zephaniah 1–3 (Listen) 1 The word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah. The Coming Judgment on Judah 2   “I will utterly sweep away everything    from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.3   “I will sweep away man and beast;    I will sweep away the birds of the heavens    and the fish of the sea,  and the rubble1 with the wicked.    I will cut off mankind    from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.4   “I will stretch out my hand against Judah    and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem;  and I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal    and the name of the idolatrous priests along with the priests,5   those who bow down on the roofs    to the host of the heavens,  those who bow down and swear to the LORD    and yet swear by Milcom,26   those who have turned back from following the LORD,    who do not seek the LORD or inquire of him.” The Day of the Lord Is Near 7   Be silent before the Lord GOD!    For the day of the LORD is near;  the LORD has prepared a sacrifice    and consecrated his guests.8   And on the day of the LORD's sacrifice—  “I will punish the officials and the king's sons    and all who array themselves in foreign attire.9   On that day I will punish    everyone who leaps over the threshold,  and those who fill their master's3 house    with violence and fraud. 10   “On that day,” declares the LORD,    “a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate,  a wail from the Second Quarter,    a loud crash from the hills.11   Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar!    For all the traders4 are no more;    all who weigh out silver are cut off.12   At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps,    and I will punish the men  who are complacent,5    those who say in their hearts,  ‘The LORD will not do good,    nor will he do ill.'13   Their goods shall be plundered,    and their houses laid waste.  Though they build houses,    they shall not inhabit them;  though they plant vineyards,    they shall not drink wine from them.” 14   The great day of the LORD is near,    near and hastening fast;  the sound of the day of the LORD is bitter;    the mighty man cries aloud there.15   A day of wrath is that day,    a day of distress and anguish,  a day of ruin and devastation,    a day of darkness and gloom,  a day of clouds and thick darkness,16     a day of trumpet blast and battle cry  against the fortified cities    and against the lofty battlements. 17   I will bring distress on mankind,    so that they shall walk like the blind,    because they have sinned against the LORD;  their blood shall be poured out like dust,    and their flesh like dung.18   Neither their silver nor their gold    shall be able to deliver them    on the day of the wrath of the LORD.  In the fire of his jealousy,    all the earth shall be consumed;  for a full and sudden end    he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth. Judgment on Judah's Enemies 2   Gather together, yes, gather,    O shameless nation,2   before the decree takes effect6    —before the day passes away like chaff—  before there comes upon you    the burning anger of the LORD,  before there comes upon you    the day of the anger of the LORD.3   Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land,    who do his just commands;7  seek righteousness; seek humility;    perhaps you may be hidden    on the day of the anger of the LORD.4   For Gaza shall be deserted,    and Ashkelon shall become a desolation;  Ashdod's people shall be driven out at noon,    and Ekron shall be uprooted. 5   Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast,    you nation of the Cherethites!  The word of the LORD is against you,    O Canaan, land of the Philistines;    and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.6   And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures,    with meadows8 for shepherds    and folds for flocks.7   The seacoast shall become the possession    of the remnant of the house of Judah,    on which they shall graze,  and in the houses of Ashkelon    they shall lie down at evening.  For the LORD their God will be mindful of them    and restore their fortunes. 8   “I have heard the taunts of Moab    and the revilings of the Ammonites,  how they have taunted my people    and made boasts against their territory.9   Therefore, as I live,” declares the LORD of hosts,    the God of Israel,  “Moab shall become like Sodom,    and the Ammonites like Gomorrah,  a land possessed by nettles and salt pits,    and a waste forever.  The remnant of my people shall plunder them,    and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”10   This shall be their lot in return for their pride,    because they taunted and boasted    against the people of the LORD of hosts.11   The LORD will be awesome against them;    for he will famish all the gods of the earth,  and to him shall bow down,    each in its place,    all the lands of the nations. 12   You also, O Cushites,    shall be slain by my sword. 13   And he will stretch out his hand against the north    and destroy Assyria,  and he will make Nineveh a desolation,    a dry waste like the desert.14   Herds shall lie down in her midst,    all kinds of beasts;9  even the owl and the hedgehog10    shall lodge in her capitals;  a voice shall hoot in the window;    devastation will be on the threshold;    for her cedar work will be laid bare.15   This is the exultant city    that lived securely,  that said in her heart,    “I am, and there is no one else.”  What a desolation she has become,    a lair for wild beasts!  Everyone who passes by her    hisses and shakes his fist. Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations 3   Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled,    the oppressing city!2   She listens to no voice;    she accepts no correction.  She does not trust in the LORD;    she does not draw near to her God. 3   Her officials within her    are roaring lions;  her judges are evening wolves    that leave nothing till the morning.4   Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men;  her priests profane what is holy;    they do violence to the law.5   The LORD within her is righteous;    he does no injustice;  every morning he shows forth his justice;    each dawn he does not fail;    but the unjust knows no shame. 6   “I have cut off nations;    their battlements are in ruins;  I have laid waste their streets    so that no one walks in them;  their cities have been made desolate,    without a man, without an inhabitant.7   I said, ‘Surely you will fear me;    you will accept correction.  Then your11 dwelling would not be cut off    according to all that I have appointed against you.'12  But all the more they were eager    to make all their deeds corrupt. 8   “Therefore wait for me,” declares the LORD,    “for the day when I rise up to seize the prey.  For my decision is to gather nations,    to assemble kingdoms,  to pour out upon them my indignation,    all my burning anger;  for in the fire of my jealousy    all the earth shall be consumed. The Conversion of the Nations 9   “For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples    to a pure speech,  that all of them may call upon the name of the LORD    and serve him with one accord.10   From beyond the rivers of Cush    my worshipers, the daughter of my dispersed ones,    shall bring my offering. 11   “On that day you shall not be put to shame    because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me;  for then I will remove from your midst    your proudly exultant ones,  and you shall no longer be haughty    in my holy mountain.12   But I will leave in your midst    a people humble and lowly.  They shall seek refuge in the name of the LORD,13     those who are left in Israel;  they shall do no injustice    and speak no lies,  nor shall there be found in their mouth    a deceitful tongue.  For they shall graze and lie down,    and none shall make them afraid.” Israel's Joy and Restoration 14   Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion;    shout, O Israel!  Rejoice and exult with all your heart,    O daughter of Jerusalem!15   The LORD has taken away the judgments against you;    he has cleared away your enemies.  The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst;    you shall never again fear evil.16   On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem:  “Fear not, O Zion;    let not your hands grow weak.17   The LORD your God is in your midst,    a mighty one who will save;  he will rejoice over you with gladness;    he will quiet you by his love;  he will exult over you with loud singing.18   I will gather those of you who mourn for the festival,    so that you will no longer suffer reproach.1319   Behold, at that time I will deal    with all your oppressors.  And I will save the lame    and gather the outcast,  and I will change their shame into praise    and renown in all the earth.20   At that time I will bring you in,    at the time when I gather you together;  for I will make you renowned and praised    among all the peoples of the earth,  when I restore your fortunes    before your eyes,” says the LORD. Footnotes [1] 1:3 Or stumbling blocks (that is, idols) [2] 1:5 Or their king [3] 1:9 Or their Lord's [4] 1:11 Or all the people of Canaan [5] 1:12 Hebrew are thickening on the dregs [of their wine] [6] 2:2 Hebrew gives birth [7] 2:3 Or who carry out his judgment [8] 2:6 Or caves [9] 2:14 Hebrew beasts of every nation [10] 2:14 The identity of the animals rendered owl and hedgehog is uncertain [11] 3:7 Hebrew her [12] 3:7 Hebrew her [13] 3:18 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain (ESV)

Not even imprisonment could stop the Marquis de Sade from writing his insanely intense, unrelenting erotica - and not even Sade's eventual death could stop his secret manuscript, temporarily hidden in a Bastille wall to protect it from looters and revolutionaries, from haunting its owners as though possessed by a demonic force. Now one of the most valuable manuscripts in the world and viewed as a French national treasure, Sade's novel 120 Days of Sodom has been fascinating and repelling readers for more than two hundred years. In this episode, Jacke talks to author Joel Warner about his new book The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History. PLUS Diane Rayor, expert and translator of Sappho, joins Jacke for a discussion of the last book she would like to read. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Battle4Freedom (2023) Talking to the Cis In the Mirror - The Ugly We Refuse to SeeWebsite: http://www.battle4freedom.comNetwork: https://www.mojo50.comStreaming: https://www.rumble.com/c/Battle4FreedomStreaming LIVE on RUMBLE @ https://rumble.com/v2qphb0-battle4freedom-2023-talking-to-the-cis-in-the-mirror-the-ugly-we-refuse-to-.htmlGenesis 18:22-33English Standard Version22 So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord. 23 Then Abraham drew near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?” 26 And the Lord said, “If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”27 Abraham answered and said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes. 28 Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And he said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.” 29 Again he spoke to him and said, “Suppose forty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of forty I will not do it.” 30 Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there.” He answered, “I will not do it, if I find thirty there.” 31 He said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it.” 32 Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.” 33 And the Lord went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12134785/Barely-conscious-teen-raped-seat-car-filmed-laughed-suspect-assaulted-victim.htmlLas Vegas teen, 17, arrested for 'raping' barely conscious girl in backseat of car as friends filmed and laughed after the two met on a party bushttps://twitter.com/i/status/1662806030357766144Dangerous White Womenhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12133523/The-three-men-charged-brazen-Lululemon-store-robbery-Georgia.htmlThe three men charged over brazen Lululemon store robbery in Georgia which led to two staffers losing their jobs for confronting masked thieves as they ran out with $7,000 worth of workout gearDoctored Machines in AZ"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing," Author Unknownhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12133561/Lindsey-Graham-says-Russians-dying-best-money-spent-meeting-Zelensky.htmlLindsey Graham says 'Russians dying' is the 'best money the US has ever spent' while in meeting with Zelensky - as Moscow's London ambassador threatens 'escalation' if West continues to help Ukrainehttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mlb/article-12134589/Yankees-awful-fielding-goes-viral-social-media-Padres-single-turns-little-league-homer.html'Were they throwing the ball with their eyes closed?': Yankees' awful fielding goes viral on social media as Padres single turns into little-league homer with THREE errors in quick successionhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12135077/Rescues-search-people-unaccounted-Iowa-apartment-collapse.htmlFrantic search for survivors after six-story apartment building in Iowa partially collapses during repairs with fears dozens of residents who complained about issues for years are unaccounted forPale Rider - Clint Eastwood

With family: Deuteronomy 2; Psalms 83–84 Deuteronomy 2 (Listen) The Wilderness Years 2 “Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea, as the LORD told me. And for many days we traveled around Mount Seir. 2 Then the LORD said to me, 3 ‘You have been traveling around this mountain country long enough. Turn northward 4 and command the people, “You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very careful. 5 Do not contend with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. 6 You shall purchase food from them with money, that you may eat, and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink. 7 For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”' 8 So we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber. “And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab. 9 And the LORD said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the people of Lot for a possession.' 10 (The Emim formerly lived there, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim. 11 Like the Anakim they are also counted as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim. 12 The Horites also lived in Seir formerly, but the people of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, as Israel did to the land of their possession, which the LORD gave to them.) 13 ‘Now rise up and go over the brook Zered.' So we went over the brook Zered. 14 And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them. 15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they had perished. 16 “So as soon as all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people, 17 the LORD said to me, 18 ‘Today you are to cross the border of Moab at Ar. 19 And when you approach the territory of the people of Ammon, do not harass them or contend with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.' 20 (It is also counted as a land of Rephaim. Rephaim formerly lived there—but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim—21 a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before the Ammonites,1 and they dispossessed them and settled in their place, 22 as he did for the people of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before them and they dispossessed them and settled in their place even to this day. 23 As for the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their place.) 24 ‘Rise up, set out on your journey and go over the Valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession, and contend with him in battle. 25 This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.' The Defeat of King Sihon 26 “So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying, 27 ‘Let me pass through your land. I will go only by the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left. 28 You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink. Only let me pass through on foot, 29 as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving to us.' 30 But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day. 31 And the LORD said to me, ‘Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land.' 32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. 33 And the LORD our God gave him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and all his people. 34 And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction2 every city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors. 35 Only the livestock we took as spoil for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities that we captured. 36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The LORD our God gave all into our hands. 37 Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, whatever the LORD our God had forbidden us. Footnotes [1] 2:21 Hebrew them [2] 2:34 That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction) (ESV) Psalms 83–84 (Listen) O God, Do Not Keep Silence A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. 83   O God, do not keep silence;    do not hold your peace or be still, O God!2   For behold, your enemies make an uproar;    those who hate you have raised their heads.3   They lay crafty plans against your people;    they consult together against your treasured ones.4   They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;    let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”5   For they conspire with one accord;    against you they make a covenant—6   the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,    Moab and the Hagrites,7   Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,    Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;8   Asshur also has joined them;    they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah 9   Do to them as you did to Midian,    as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,10   who were destroyed at En-dor,    who became dung for the ground.11   Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,    all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,12   who said, “Let us take possession for ourselves    of the pastures of God.” 13   O my God, make them like whirling dust,1    like chaff before the wind.14   As fire consumes the forest,    as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,15   so may you pursue them with your tempest    and terrify them with your hurricane!16   Fill their faces with shame,    that they may seek your name, O LORD.17   Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever;    let them perish in disgrace,18   that they may know that you alone,    whose name is the LORD,    are the Most High over all the earth. My Soul Longs for the Courts of the Lord To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.2 A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. 84   How lovely is your dwelling place,    O LORD of hosts!2   My soul longs, yes, faints    for the courts of the LORD;  my heart and flesh sing for joy    to the living God. 3   Even the sparrow finds a home,    and the swallow a nest for herself,    where she may lay her young,  at your altars, O LORD of hosts,    my King and my God.4   Blessed are those who dwell in your house,    ever singing your praise! Selah 5   Blessed are those whose strength is in you,    in whose heart are the highways to Zion.36   As they go through the Valley of Baca    they make it a place of springs;    the early rain also covers it with pools.7   They go from strength to strength;    each one appears before God in Zion. 8   O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer;    give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah9   Behold our shield, O God;    look on the face of your anointed! 10   For a day in your courts is better    than a thousand elsewhere.  I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God    than dwell in the tents of wickedness.11   For the LORD God is a sun and shield;    the LORD bestows favor and honor.  No good thing does he withhold    from those who walk uprightly.12   O LORD of hosts,    blessed is the one who trusts in you! Footnotes [1] 83:13 Or like a tumbleweed [2] 84:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term [3] 84:5 Hebrew lacks to Zion (ESV) In private: Isaiah 30; Jude Isaiah 30 (Listen) Do Not Go Down to Egypt 30   “Ah, stubborn children,” declares the LORD,  “who carry out a plan, but not mine,  and who make an alliance,1 but not of my Spirit,    that they may add sin to sin;2   who set out to go down to Egypt,    without asking for my direction,  to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh    and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!3   Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame,    and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.4   For though his officials are at Zoan    and his envoys reach Hanes,5   everyone comes to shame    through a people that cannot profit them,  that brings neither help nor profit,    but shame and disgrace.” 6 An oracle on the beasts of the Negeb.   Through a land of trouble and anguish,    from where come the lioness and the lion,    the adder and the flying fiery serpent,  they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys,    and their treasures on the humps of camels,    to a people that cannot profit them.7   Egypt's help is worthless and empty;    therefore I have called her    “Rahab who sits still.” A Rebellious People 8   And now, go, write it before them on a tablet    and inscribe it in a book,  that it may be for the time to come    as a witness forever.29   For they are a rebellious people,    lying children,  children unwilling to hear    the instruction of the LORD;10   who say to the seers, “Do not see,”    and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;  speak to us smooth things,    prophesy illusions,11   leave the way, turn aside from the path,    let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”12   Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel,  “Because you despise this word    and trust in oppression and perverseness    and rely on them,13   therefore this iniquity shall be to you    like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse,    whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;14   and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel    that is smashed so ruthlessly  that among its fragments not a shard is found    with which to take fire from the hearth,    or to dip up water out of the cistern.” 15   For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel,  “In returning3 and rest you shall be saved;    in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”  But you were unwilling, 16 and you said,  “No! We will flee upon horses”;    therefore you shall flee away;  and, “We will ride upon swift steeds”;    therefore your pursuers shall be swift.17   A thousand shall flee at the threat of one;    at the threat of five you shall flee,  till you are left    like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain,    like a signal on a hill. The Lord Will Be Gracious 18   Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you,    and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you.  For the LORD is a God of justice;    blessed are all those who wait for him. 19 For a people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you. 20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher. 21 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. 22 Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, “Be gone!” 23 And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures, 24 and the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork. 25 And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26 Moreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the LORD binds up the brokenness of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow. 27   Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar,    burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke;4  his lips are full of fury,    and his tongue is like a devouring fire;28   his breath is like an overflowing stream    that reaches up to the neck;  to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction,    and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray. 29 You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel. 30 And the LORD will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and storm and hailstones. 31 The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the LORD, when he strikes with his rod. 32 And every stroke of the appointed staff that the LORD lays on them will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres. Battling with brandished arm, he will fight with them. 33 For a burning place5 has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it. Footnotes [1] 30:1 Hebrew who weave a web [2] 30:8 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac, Targum, Vulgate, and Greek versions; Masoretic Text forever and ever [3] 30:15 Or repentance [4] 30:27 Hebrew in weight of uplifted clouds [5] 30:33 Or For Topheth (ESV) Jude (Listen) Greeting 1 Jude, a servant1 of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for2 Jesus Christ: 2 May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. Judgment on False Teachers 3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. 5 Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved3 a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire,4 serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. 8 Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. 9 But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.” 10 But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. 11 Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam's error and perished in Korah's rebellion. 12 These are hidden reefs5 at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; 13 wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever. 14 It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold,

Plague, Invasion, Revival, Refuge  (audio)  David Eells 5/28/23  A US Military camp at Eagles Pass Texas was bringing in and housing Iran's Revolutionary guardsmen. “This is a well-planned effort to take down the United States of America from inside – an active, well-coordinated invasion into the nation.” …General Flynn   General Flynn Shared This: Eagles Pass Texas – Military Camp (Must See Video) – American Media Group (amg-news.com) Eagles Pass Texas has a military camp where they are housing & bringing young adult military aged men, from the river onto white buses, into this facility. “This has been a planned coordinated effort to take down the United States of America from inside. This is an active, well-coordinated invasion into the nation. We have Iran's Revolutionary Guard & QST forces flying into Venezuela & the Venezuelan government is then giving them passports and proper documentation. If you think that fertilizer is not going to be utilized, that ammonium nitrate that can be used as massive bombs.”  (26 tons of ammonium nitrate turned up missing. Tim McVeigh only used 2 tons to blow up the Murrah Building.) …General Flynn There is an invasion of Chinese “Immigrants” flowing over the Southern Border. I believe most of their reasons are false. The liberal DS is touting it as a victory for what? A military takeover of the country. These are mostly military aged men. Former, Current Border Officials Slam Biden Admin For Touting Success Of Illegal Immigration Policies | The Daily Caller  “We're still in the middle of the worst self-inflicted border security crisis in our lifetime, and they're trying to claim victory,” Morgan added.  Border authorities aren't turning away any migrants using the CBP One phone app, one of the Biden administration's legal pathways, to claim asylum at ports of entry, DHS immigration official Blas Nunez Neto told reporters on a phone call Wednesday. ‘These Numbers Are Staggering': Chinese Migrants Continue To Surge Across Southern Border  | The Daily Caller  "Border Patrol encountered 3,182 migrants from China at the U.S.-Mexico border in April alone, according to CBP data.”  (I already shared a smaller portion of this but thought it important to get out to larger UBM so everyone can pray accordingly.)     “Let Me Show You Something”   Dana Coverstone (Notes in blue) 5/19/23 (David's notes in red) https://www.youtube.com/live/Fmmd82K8fQw?feature=share (This revelation seems to be the backlash of the DS against the supporters of the Alliance and the American people in general.)  Preface: Dana said that this dream lasted from April 17th to May 16th, almost a month, almost 30 days, it's been one the longest dreams he's had.    The dream began with me sitting in the top of a very tall tree, looking down on fog and mist that hung over the entire nation. It was covering over Canada and Mexico as well. It did not cover the water, just this nation, only the land. (It appears as a fog but is man-made and controlled. Prevailing winds would remove it.) I can see the physical land covered in fog. It covered Canada and Mexico as well, but it looked like the fog was churning. It was moving. It was staying in place over the United States of America, (Man-made and controlled) but not over Mexico or Canada. It reminded me of a locust swarm that you can see like in a National Geographic photo. (The locusts in Joel 2 were the Assyrian army that was able to take down apostate northern 10 tribes but not the Bride, Jerusalem.) It was just moving effortlessly, but it was also frothing. It was like the steam coming off of hot coffee or hot cocoa or hot tea or something. But what it covered was thick and you cannot see anything below what you were seeing from the top of the fog. (True fog skips dry areas and manifests over damp watery places.) And as I was pondering the moving of the fog, is when the man appeared to me, and I believe the man is Jesus or represents the Holy Spirit at times, but he came out and he simply said, “Let me show you something.” And he grabbed my hand, and we stepped out into the air. Because I was in a tall tree, looking down, I was kind of hanging, you know, like holding on to a limb with my feet just looking at it. I'm thankful that God sees all the things that are going on. He knows what's coming, he knows what's happening. And I just had that sense as I was watching that I was about to be instructed or told some things. We descended down through the fog, we were not flying, it was like we were walking. The fog seemed to be very evil and very intentional. That it appeared to try to reach out and grab me with these eerie ethereal arms. (It is a menace to man and will kill many.) It was almost like the fog was alive. (It is alive to spread disease) It was dark, it was evil, but it was trying to grab hold…   The man led me on until he reached the ground and then he said, “Look up.” When he said that, I realized that the fog was gone, but I could see jets that were flying in all directions and it appeared to be almost 7:00 or 7:30 at night. It was dusk. (How often we have seen this same thing? Chemtrails.) The lights were going off as people were getting ready for bed. Darkness was hitting; it was almost like I could see traffic had stopped and people were home going to bed and to get ready for work the next day. (Poisoned as they slept.)  So I'm watching all these jets that are going back and forth, north, south, east and west, flying in all directions. It was obviously dusk and the lights were going out. And that's when I realized that I heard this loud hissing and every single jet was spraying something out of the exhaust. (Now we would call these things chemtrails. And I've discussed some of that.) And the jets flying north would be going north for a while. Then suddenly turn around and come back and spray the same way. The ones going east would go east for a couple miles and then come back and it was like regional. It wasn't like one jet going all the way north and south, it was not just east and west. It was like this in every state, there were jets flying over in every state, every region, every area, in that sense. And the jets flying east, and west were doing what the ones going north were doing. They kept blanketing the country in whatever it was spraying. The time passed and the jets disappeared. (In A.A. Allen's vision he saw the same thing and then people started dropping dead everywhere in the U.S.) Then I saw people getting up leaving their houses and going to work. So all of this stuff was being done at night. And the sense that I have about it was a whole lot of evil that's going on right here and right now in our world. This spraying was going on at night when no one was aware. No one was watching and no one was awake. Almost as if there was some elite and corporate plan to poison the nation. (It's a Satanic depopulation cult.)  Once again the fog was over Mexico and Canada, but it was not moving anywhere except the United States of America. (Also, I realized that this is probably a real conspiracy, these things that were going on, the things that we're seeing in that regard. And it's all happening at night, so nobody sees them.) People are getting up for school, getting on the buses and going to school. And then the next thing that I see happening is this, I was standing in Times Square watching those jumbotron television screens with a breaking news item of a major outbreak of a new virus. Now, the timeline that I could tell in the dream is late summer, early fall as the news broadcast we're talking about this.   The World Health Organization was laying out guidelines that must be followed regardless of constitutions or national law. (This is to kill the population and make money for the DS pharmaceutical companies.) Those are the two words they used, “regardless of constitutions or national law”. There were military tanks and Hummers, that started patrolling as the announcements were being made. And I said to the man that the jets appeared to be the source of the medical issue.   The man nodded and said, “There's more to see.” And then we suddenly appeared on the southern border. (So here I saw that the news was complicit and almost an accomplice with what was going on and what was being said. Obviously somebody was behind this; it was happening at night. And so who knows if that's the cause (of the disease). All we realize is that there is something sinister happening in our world and it's being allowed. It's being pushed probably by those in power.) Then he said to me, “There's more to see.”    Suddenly I'm on the southern border. I saw an enormous line of volcanoes that seemed to have sprung up overnight and they were just on the border. They covered from the western point of California all the way to Texas. Literally these were volcanos on the border. (HAARP has the ability to awaken volcanoes and possibly to create them over underground lava flows that flow through huge tunnels made on the border by the DS nuclear boring machines. But also a volcano can represent Hell's demons coming out upon the earth to join with the wicked enemies. Rev 9:2-3 And he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 3 And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.)   They were very tall, they shadowed the ground. And I cannot emphasize this enough. It was volcanoes on the border, and they were (shooting) hundreds of miles up into the air. The ground was shaking, seemingly creaking, and the volcanoes trembled, and they started erupting magma and lava. And then suddenly the entire border shook and I saw the volcanoes appear to grow and the ground below them looked like it was torn. Now, like if you've ever seen a tree that gets knocked over in the wind or damaged by a tornado; there was just a little area of the of earth that was open there. Okay, so the volcanoes tip backwards, they're still spewing lava and all these other things. But there was a hole where the volcanoes came up along the entire southern border. (This can only be man-made, like the border itself.)  At that moment all sorts of people dressed like normal migrants came running out and they were sprinting. (This would be in addition to those who have already come across the border and those anarchists and radical muslims already inside the US. And the left wing military faction. It has been reported that millions of migrants are below the border waiting and many are military age men, and also there are many Communist Chinese there to support their DS. MS-13 has been an arm of the DS military too.) They were running as hard and as fast as they possibly could to get into the country. As they ran, they were taking off backpacks and they were pulling out weapons and they were putting them together. There were weapons that can be folded down. They were unfolding and they were pulling them out. They were putting clips in, but they're doing it as they were running. They were running as hard as they could.   The people in the American side were watching the eruptions, watching the magma and the lava and the smoke and the ash cloud and they didn't even notice the people that were running towards them. They pointed to the sky making all sorts of faces and making noises. Almost as if they were watching fireworks, they were just, like “Oh wow! Look at that.” And they pointing over there, and over here and saying things, like, “Look at that!” They were looking up and they did not see any of the people that were rushing towards them. And now the runners were running up and they were shooting. They were teaming up on people, they were storming properties, but they took nothing.   When they went into the homes and the houses, they took nothing, they just shot people. They killed the people. They sprinted on and they were moving with skilled intent and military precision. They would come together to a house, they would go in, and you would see gunfire; they run out, not taking a thing. They were brutal. They showed no mercy. And there were some that carried samurai swords and they were beheading many people along the way. (What I saw was this, that we don't have an immigration issue, we have an invasion going on and what you don't know will kill you. People are looking at the wrong things. People are seeing the whole wrong issue of what's going on out there. Instead of looking at what's really happening and seeing what's really happening and the danger that it is.  We just kind of push it off and think, “Oh, Washington will fix that or whatever.”)   I saw death and destruction. I saw danger. I saw chaos on the border and it was rushing towards us. It was rushing north. This was on purpose, a “dismantling” and this was also on purpose, a “distraction”.    Back at Times Square, the broadcaster was informing citizens that spectacular eruptions on the southern border were getting people out of their homes to watch. So now they're saying, “Hey, hey, folks, you need to go out of your homes and watch these incredible magma fields and watch these incredible volcanic eruptions that are going on. Go outside and watch.” He also encouraged anyone within 100 miles of the border, and that's exactly what he said. He said, “If you live within 100 miles of the border, you need to go outside immediately and see if you can see them from where you are.” (On foot they could not go very far without stealing vehicles from their victims. Maybe 100 miles before the volcanoes were out of view and their attack was discovered and people and the military would take them down.) And I said to the man, that newsman is trying to get people outside so they will be killed and the man nodded. And then he said, “There's more.” (I think all of us know that the news media is complicit with the lies that are coming out of our leadership.)  Suddenly we're standing outside the Capital of Washington, DC. Then I could hear all kinds of noise going on inside the Capitol building. And someone yelling with a bullhorn. (Now look, a bullhorn is just a cheap way to get attention, so if you don't have a sound system or good balance, or stereo or speakers, you use a bullhorn. It's cheap communication.) But these people are talking about taking the country back (Obviously from the Alliance and Trump) and making people listen.   There were screams that seemed very demonic and just wild coming out of humans. It was like growls and screams and cries. Demonic, almost like banshees. And there was a fence outside the Capitol building. They surrounded it. But suddenly police and military came and they tied ropes, like they made loops and threw them up on the tops of the fence, like a noose. And they grabbed the top parts of the fence and they began to pull them down. They were pulling with all their might pulling the fences down. They bent the fences over. They didn't push them out of the way they didn't knock them down. They pulled them down.  (We have been told that military tribunals are being held there at this time. Hence the fence.)  And then just as suddenly, the doors of the Capitol pushed open and the congressmen, congresswomen, senators, faces of people I recognized, people who are in power, leadership, elected officials at the federal level. (Satanists, the head of the dragon devouring the people.) They all came rushing out into the streets and they were jumping and leaping and stepping over those fences. (This could just symbolize that the leftist DC leadership, some under investigation will escape and will join and be behind this invasion against the people. As far as I know they are not meeting in the Capitol anymore.) And they were armed. They were armed with guns and clubs. And they began attacking and beating any citizen that was close. (Symbolizing their abuse of the people.)  They left this extremely bloody trail. And they pursued people, until the people became so exhausted, they dropped from exhaustion, and then they beat them to death. I watched elected officials beat these people to death. (Now I do not think this is what's going to (physically) happen. I think the whole point of it is the people who were there, were the ones that make the laws, the ones who provide for those things out there.) This is horrific because they were beating people to death in the streets and it was getting darker. (Through more demon possession and death.)  It was horrific to the point I said to the man, “Why are our elected officials are doing this to the people?” Well, this time he didn't move, he didn't nod, he didn't move his head at all, but he said, “There's more to see.” And it suddenly became very, very quiet. (Folks, we have laws that are changing and shifting, we have people that believe that men can be pregnant, that men can be women, and women can be men and everything else. And we know better. We absolutely know better. We're starting to see culture believe every single lie that's being pushed out there and then we have new laws are being passed to protect those lies. Think about that.)   The Congress began to beat these people to death. They were attacking ordinary citizens. I saw families taking pictures outside the capital who were just pummelled and beaten down by people and the elected officials who were running, were covered in blood from the people that they had beaten to death. (Meaning they are guilty of the blood of the people.) And they just kept on going, looking for somebody else to attack and beat on. The man didn't move his head when I said, “Why are elected officials doing this to the people?” He didn't move his head at all. He just simply said, “There's more to see.” (Well, obviously, we know what this is. We know the government is corrupt, we know the government is compromised, everything it is and was and it's going to be. It's not to be trusted, it's not going to be a help to us at all.) (And the Alliance has gathered all their crimes to prosecute and in many cases execute them as is going on now. So they are desperately trying to save their lawless lives.)  Continuing with the dream, the difference in what I just heard with the screams for help and the people running was significant. Now everything is quiet. So, I've seen the jets spraying, I've seen the volcanoes erupting and the distraction of the volcanoes going off, and all the people were watching, the people were running out from the border and they were headed out towards anyone they could kill getting to America. And they were headed north, folks. No one was headed South.    Then I was standing on the banks of a river early in the morning. It was early morning; it was quiet and if you're a morning person, you understand there's just a morning feel. There's a small amount of fog that began to dissipate and I can hear frogs croaking in the background. I hear fish jumping in the water. Suddenly, there was no noise at all. It became deathly quiet. I remember it being almost uneasy because it was so quiet. And then the man stood beside me quietly, and he pointed to his head. He did this twice. And he pointed across the river, so he taps on his head, taps near his ear twice and points across the river. So I walked to the edge of the river and I listened as intently as I possibly could, but I could hear nothing. So I began to strain to hear because I knew that the man had pointed twice and tapped his ear twice and making the point that he was telling me to listen.    Finally, I began to hear what sounded like muffled little cries. The fog continue to lift and I can see the sun shining and now I'm looking at a little country church. And it was at the end of this long gravel road. But there were no cars parked near this church. And I could hear people inside that little church. The windows were open and I can hear them crying out. And there was just a wisp of fire, just like if you got a fire that's almost dying. There's a little wisp of a fire that was on the roof of that little church and it's burning. l could see it in the sun. (Fire on the roof represents revival of the Holy Spirit Acts 2:3-4 And there appeared unto them tongues parting asunder, like as of fire; and it sat upon each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Also in  A.A.Allens vision he heard the sounds of singing and rejoicing and there was a people who were spared in the cleft of the rock and apparently in revival.)    It's a little country church and the windows are open and this long gravel road and but no cars. So I immediately got the idea that nobody drove here. (We have dreams of an EMP hitting the US, which would eliminate the vehicles and most of our military. For there to be any success any planned invasion as we are seeing would likely start with an EMP.)  Everybody walked down this long gravel road. They walked down this uneasy gravel road and they came down there with one reason; that reason was to pray. They were crying out. They were repenting, they were calling out names of elected officials. I heard governors' names. I heard senators' names. I heard congressmen's names. I heard names of leaders in this country. I heard those people calling out their names and asking God to expose the corruption in them, asking God that they would repent. They were asking God for conviction to come to their hearts and lives and their mind. They were praying that corruption would be exposed. That was the highlight of it and they were praying in tongues.  Something else that caught my attention, I heard them speaking, specifically in English and in Spanish. I kept hearing certain Spanish words. And they were praying with a passion. It was refreshing and as I walked closer to the building in this dream, I began to see the people inside. They were packed and there was no walking room. These people were packed together and they were praying and they were praying with passion and there was fire in their prayers and they were going, I mean they were going at it. If you have ever been in a Pentecostal prayer time where the focus is on God and God's presence is there, the fire is hot. This is what I'm saying, it was that type of atmosphere.    There's a table stand with a globe, like a little pillar, with a globe, like one of the things you see in the school, and you could spin it. It was standing on a pillar near the pulpit and there were people who laid their hands on that globe and they were praying for the nations. They were calling out for kings and queens and prime ministers and leaders and officials and presidents. They were calling out the leaders of nations. I heard Zelinski's name. I heard Putin's name. I heard King Charles' name. I heard Trudeau's name. I heard the Mexican president's name. I heard different places from all people who were just praying and this whole room was full. Nobody was talking or looking around. They were engaged in prayer the whole time they were there. They were praying intently. They were focused. There was passion, there was fire.   They laid their hands on that globe and they were praying for the nations, and they were praying for those nations by name. And I began to pray on the outside of the window, and the man said to go tell them he was pleased with their passion, but they must not stop. This was an absolute determined cry on God's behalf, to tell the truth. Don't stop praying. Don't stop praying! Don't think it's too bad. It's too ugly. Don't think it is. We've got to keep praying, folks. And then he said this to me, “Prayer is the most effective way to push back the darkness that is both here and is coming.” (Nobody has to tell us it's going to get worse, we know that it is.)   After he said, “Prayer is the most effective way to push back, the darkness is both here and coming,” He then breathed towards me. Now I'm next to the building looking at him. The building is behind me, the church is behind me with a little fire on the top. He breathed towards me, and it went past me and it felt like a hot breeze on a hot August summer day. It was hot! I mean, it was hot to the touch. This hot breath goes by me. It went through me and even in the dream, and even at night it felt like the hair of my arm was standing up, because of what had just gone past me, the Breath of God! And when it got to the building, it set the entire church on fire. There was fire there before, but when he breathed on it, that's when the fire erupted and it was like the burning bush that was not consumed and even looking in the windows, you can see the fire was inside the building. So they've been praying with passion, passion, passion, a little bit of fire on top. The fire of what Jesus breathed towards us, or towards that church of people praying, it erupted! It was like when you hear that WOOSH sound? That was what it was like.  And people were praying with fire and they were praying loud and they got louder and louder and louder and louder! It was exciting! I have a lot of different emotions when I'm having the dreams. In the dream, it was like, “This is good! This is powerful, Lord! I knew this is what I want for my life!” I turned to look at the man now instead, because I had been looking at the building that had just erupted into flame and burning. I turned to look at the man, but he was gone. But I heard his words, and he said, “I am with you church. I am with you. And there is more to do. Verily, verily, I say unto you.” When he tapped his ear twice and pointed, I knew he was saying, “Church, listen, you need to pray.”       Overcomers and the Evil Army   Tianna Fire 5/21/23 (David's note in red)  I saw all the local brethren together worshiping, and they were all in the light and unity in Christ. I then saw an enormous army of evil spirits of all different kinds, hatred, murder, perversion, unbelief, witchcraft, unforgiveness and so very many more evil spirits. The evil spirits had an enormous variety of weapons and tactics. (What is also true is that these hordes of demons prefer to assault others in a host of wicked humans.)  There were waves of these evil spirits and there were so many it heavily outnumbered the brethren. (Job 10:17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me. Psa 27:2-3 When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, Even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell. 3 Though a host should encamp against me, My heart shall not fear: Though war should rise against me, Even then will I be confident.)  The evil army got closer and closer to the brethren, but there was this invisible wall and roof of protection around them. The evil spirits couldn't get into this individual house of protection. (Psa 91:1-3 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of Jehovah, He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in whom I trust. 3 For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the deadly pestilence.)   But the evil spirits could see them (but were not able to touch them), and the evil spirits had such anger and unforgiveness to the brethren (Because they cannot accept that they are forever separated from God and their judgement is pending.) They were jealous of the brethren, because they could see that God loves them and God's grace on them and they could see Jesus in them. The evil spirits hate all of this and are pure evil.   The evil spirits tried to send fear to the brethren by making scary faces (Sometimes seen in the faces of their hosts. vain imaginations, dread, apprehension of evil.) and by trying to get them to doubt God, or by trying to make them think and feel themselves to be unworthy and unholy. (Rejection.) The evil spirits would try to intimidate the brethren by sending lies to cause fear from outside this invisible protection, but these unclean spirits were unsuccessful, because the brethren cast down all unholy thoughts, fears, rejection, doubt, unbelief, etc. (2Co 10:3-6 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh 4 (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds), 5 casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ; 6 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be made full.)    The enemy could not do anything (faith in the promises bind the enemy) because the brethren ignored them. The brethren did not entertain or accept those thoughts and feelings. Instead, they kept their focus on, and being in Jesus, so they were completely protected, and the enemy was defeated. (NENT Eph 4:27 neither give place to the devil. Jas 4:7 Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.)      End Time Dream: Man-Child In Training  Samuel Fire 5/25/23 (David's notes in red) I dreamed it was the end-times era. Everything was dry and dusty, and orange colored. (Orange often represents warning, danger or anarchy.) There were no trees or grass, and only dirt. (The wilderness)  Many people were missing and very few people inhabited the city. (The coming destruction will cause many to flee from the cities and to flee from man.) Many homes were vacant. Cars were left scattered everywhere. (People won't be driving their cars, possibly because of EMP, or because of the fuel shortages, loss of jobs, sickness from the JAB, businesses are closing, banks foreclosing, etc.)   Everything was collecting dirt and dust and had a thick layer on anything that had not been used. I was dressed in old clothes, with a rag for a scarf and an old baseball cap with ski-goggles to keep my eyes protected, and I was carrying a backpack. (Luke 17:28 Likewise even as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all: 30 after the same manner shall it be in the day that the Son of man is revealed. 31 In that day, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and let him that is in the field likewise not return back.)  And Heb 12:1-2 Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.)  I went out because we needed food, even though my wife was very adept at making a big meal from very little ingredients. We now were running very low, and I reluctantly had to go out to source goods. My wife and son were safe and didn't need to go with me. So, I got ready in the early hours before sunrise, so I had as much time as possible to travel and get back home. (We all want to be ready before the Son/sun rises in the man-child, so we don't miss what God is going to do.)   I walked for a very long time, checking many buildings to see whether there were any groceries left in cupboards. I didn't find much, only a couple of can of beans. Along my journey I met a man. He was very cautious. His dress was like the biblical times but also wearing a jacket and a wide brimmed hat. He had a long beard and wore sunglasses. He didn't say very much but he was very friendly. (I asked the Lord who the bearded man is, and my finger was on a list of “sons” from Luk 3:24-38. I think the bearded man represents another brother in Christ, more mature in the ways of Jesus.)  The man led me to a shop, but it was not a typical store. There was barely anything, just a few shelves with hardly anything on them. The shop looked like it was a front for something else. The man then asked me what I was doing out here. I replied, “I'm out here for food. We rely on God for everything.” He said, “Hmm, okay.” (Act 7:11 Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.)  He then asked one unusual question, “Do you have anything that someone could use to identify you? I said, “I have my wallet.” He said, “Okay.” Then suddenly he said, “Now quickly, get down and pray in silence and don't move.” Then shortly after, a man with a bicycle entered the store. I saw to my side that this other man just stood there staring at me. Then he slowly moved through the store while walking his bike going past me. I saw him open up a secret door and he went through it and closed it behind him.(Hidden in plain sight)  The bearded man and I, got up from kneeling and I said, “There is a secret door here. There must be a secret base behind it.” The man said, “Yes.” I said, “But the door has no locks or password combo.” He said, “Yes, only those led by God will know where it is and would be able to come in.” (Rev 3:8 I know thy works (behold, I have set before thee a door opened, which none can shut), that thou hast a little power, and didst keep my word, and didst not deny my name.)  We went in, and it looked like a small group of maybe 11 or 12 people were in there talking. (12 is the number for the elect, 11 is the number of the elect without Judas.) They looked like they were leaders of refuges and had gathered for a meeting. The man I was with talked to them, and then he came back to me.  He sat me down at a desk and handed me a few sheets with interesting drawings. The drawings were about things required to give up, so you could be able to continue with God and if you had passed all the requirements on the first sheet, you could go on to the next sheet. After all these lists, the group deemed it good to be able to lead a group in a refuge. (1Ti 1:12 I thank him that enabled me, even Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he counted me faithful, appointing me to his service;  Mat 19:29 And every one that hath left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life.)   One of the refuge leaders started explaining about all these things, but I forget what they were, except for one that I remembered. As he went down the list, I called out and said, “This one is about lust.” He said, “Yeah. That's the one where so many fall away.” I said, “Wow, okay.” (Rev 12:4 And his tail draweth the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth.) I then asked the group, “What if someone turns up on the opposition; you know, a bad guy?” They said, “God will lead us and tell us when, where, and what to do.” (1Jn 4:1-2 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God.) Later, after we all had eaten, cleaned up and got into newer clothes, they handed me a bag of canned food to take home.   Then a couple, a man and woman, came in. They appeared to be nice and friendly and were dressed in modern clothes. They said they were just like us. I told the whole group what I thought about them, plainly stating, “They're government. So, what do you do about them?” The man then said, “How did you know that?” I said, “They clearly aren't like us and are pretending to get in.” (Gal 2:4 and that because of the false brethren privily brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:) The bearded man said, “God will tell us what to do. We are not worried about anything. If we have time, we can gather items and leave. If not, we leave with the shirt of our back and run. God has always protected us.”  Then the impersonating couple reached for a radio or phone and pressed a button. Suddenly I could hear that there were multiple cars driving up to the area. Everyone got up and rushed about and grabbed stuff and ran in different ways out of the base.  I went with the bearded man. We were running through streets and over fences etc. We were being chased by a car and were being shot at by the passenger in the car with a pistol. I became separated from the bearded man, and I ran to the right up an alley. When I came out the other side, I saw a white Mercedes in very good condition. I thought, “I wonder if this is unlocked and if I can use it?” I tried, and it opened. I exclaimed, “Praise God!” I jumped in turned it on first go and it sounded so smooth and powerful, and I drove off. (White vehicle represents power to the sanctified ones.)  I saw the bearded man from before; he was running along the fence line, so I drove to pick him up. Just afterwards the bad guy's car came again and started shooting at us again. I drove the car as the Spirit led me, taking corners like a pro race driver and they couldn't hit us or keep up with our speed. (Rom 8:12-14 So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh: 13 for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.)  We had to go onto a main road to continue, and then an armoured tank, completely black in color, came up on the horizon towards us.  I thought, “Oh wow, That tank could blow us apart.” The bearded man said, “Never fear.” (Psa 56:2-4 Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me. 3 What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee. 4 In God (I will praise his word), In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can flesh do unto me?)  I immediately turned right, and I drove through fences and through yards and into an alley, and then behind many houses. We kept going past many larger homes with huge yards. Strangely, no one was home in any of the places. (The cities are prime targets for invaders and are under the most judgment from God according to the Word. People have left their homes and belongings and fled into the wilderness.) We then saw a drainage area on the side of the road for when if it rained too much and the area flooded. We drove into it and stopped. We both felt calm and knew no one could see us here.   Just then, in the natural, my phone made a noise and I woke up. (Be ready to answer the call to follow Jesus!)      UBM Wilderness Refuge  Tianna Fire 5/24/23 (David's notes in red) I dreamed that there were many people that wanted to go to the UBM refuge, but to get there they had to go through this difficult and dangerous wilderness (This is to test whether a person is ready to enter a refuge or needs more chastening in the wilderness. To the Israelites the wilderness was a filter to keep the wicked from entering the Promised Land. NENT Mat 7:13-14 Enter ye by the narrow gate: for wide and spacious is the way that leadeth unto the destruction, and many are they that enter thereby. 14 Because narrow the gate, and straitened the way that leadeth unto the life, and few are they that find it.)  There was a certain city, and on the outskirts of this city was a giant grassy terrain, and it went on further than you could see. It eventually led to snow and dessert areas also. There were many hills and mountains with caves too. But once you left the city, it was just this wilderness that you saw and no civilization. (Leaving the city of Babylon/Egypt of this world, would be trials and tribulations of the wilderness.)  Many people would come to this area to start their journey to UBM, and mostly people would come in groups, to try and help each other get there. Some people would get lost and were never found again, others would die from animal attacks or from the weather, while some people would return back to the city and only a few people ever made it to the UBM refuge. (Many people have moved here and have been tried and tested to see if they should be part of this holy Body of Christ. Some people never made it here. Several people who have come, have failed in their love tests and have not had a true desire for holiness and submission to Christ. 1Jn 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us.)  I was coming from far away to get to this place, so I flew on a plane to this city, and then I was transported by a vehicle that was like a roller coaster to get to the starting point of the journey in the wilderness. (This represents the mountains and valleys.) The rollercoaster was very high off the ground, and it seemed very unstable, and it was completely packed with many people. (Isa 40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.)  The rollercoaster travelled fast through the city to the outskirts of the city and suddenly, the rollercoaster started going in circles so fast, and many people fell off the rollercoaster as the seatbelts and everything else was very unstable. (Rollercoaster rides have been used to type many up and down and back and forth trials of life and truly that is where many are headed.)  I held onto the seat with one hand and I almost slipped off, but I asked God for help and God supernaturally kept me from falling off, because naturally I should have fallen off. (NENT Rom 10:13 for, Whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.) The rollercoaster landed on the ground, and there were less than half of us left that were originally on the rollercoaster. (The great falling away.) We were now at the starting point of the journey to the UBM refuge.  We were advised to stick together, and we were given a map on how to get there. (A unity in one corporate Body of Christ.) The whole wilderness area was a gigantic size with different types of areas. (Around the World.)   We stayed together in a group the first day, following what the map said. Towards the evening we found a very run-down, tiny, ancient house. It was completely empty, and the ground inside was dirt, but it protected us from the weather and wild animals. (1Tim 6:8: but having food and covering we shall be therewith content.) We all slept on the floor in there, and heard many wolves howling outside.  I had a dream where God clearly said to me "The map they gave you was made by man and it is not the right instructions to get to UBM”.(This is like many are taught the Bible with carnal interpretations and wont arrive in the Kingdom.) I woke up and knew that I couldn't go any further with what the map said, and I prayed heavily, and God told me that the real way is the complete opposite direction to what the map said. He showed me the next step about where to go next. (Psa 32:8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee. Pro 3:5-6 Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart, And lean not upon thine own understanding: 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he will direct thy paths.)  When morning came, I told everyone what God showed me and only five of the people believed me. Everyone else continued to follow the map. Now it was me and five others and we stopped to seek God constantly to get the right directions. (What seemingly is true may be ear-tickling doctrine. All your ways need to be checked with Holy Spirit according to His Word.)   During the day we went through desert and rocky areas, and we ended in grassy terrain. It was now late evening, and we were to start going into desert terrain, but then God stopped me and said, "Don't continue anymore today, stay here tonight and continue tomorrow".  I obeyed and only two others believed me and stayed with me. The other three continued alone into the desert. One of the people that stayed with me said that if those others don't have faith in God to protect them and keep warm, they will freeze overnight. (Ecc 4:9-12 9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. 10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and hath not another to lift him up. 11 Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm alone? 12 And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.)   We continued journeying through all different terrains, and a few times God led us into caves to keep warm, and one time he made the resources for a fireplace to appear. My faith kept increasing in the dream, and I got to a point where I believed that God would keep me warm even without a fire and God would protect me from wild animals. (God can do supernatural things through our faith in the promises of Christ.) One night, some hyenas came around us intimidating us, and one of the people with me was fearful and didn't believe God would protect him, so he was taken out. However, the remaining person and I believed, and we were kept safe, and the animals couldn't touch us.   It felt like weeks, maybe months of us walking through this wilderness, but God said we were almost there. It was hot one day, and the other person I was with became weary in his soul, and started becoming weak in spirit and gave into doubt and unbelief, and he died.   I was alone. I kept praying and going on where the Lord said to, and I eventually made it to the UBM area. I was greeted by Chuc, Winnie and Lakeisha. I gave them all a big hug and felt so much love and care from them. Winnie and Lakeisha helped clean me up and gave me clothes and food and they were all so kind. I went and sat on the couch next to the two women. Chuc was on another couch. In the dream he had a British accent and then he started to share his testimony about how he got to UBM. I woke up.      Angels Guide to Refuges Eve Brast - 7/15/08 (David's notes in red) ... It was dark outside and it seemed like we spent the night there. Suddenly, the next morning, late in the morning, a young man with short brown hair burst through the front glass door and braced it open with his foot and said very excitedly, "David said it's time to go to the wilderness!" We (our UBM study group) all hurried out into the parking lot with the kids and a supersonic noise got my attention. I thought it was a jet plane flying overhead. As I looked up into the sky there were no clouds and the sky was blue about 11:00 AM. I saw an arrow-shaped vapor trail just clearing the mall on my right, high up in the sky and flying overhead toward the left horizon. It went all the way around the world and then I watched it come up from the horizon ahead of me and I followed it overhead and turned around to watch it head down the horizon behind me, but it stopped 30 degrees up from the horizon and faced us. Then we realized it wasn't a jet but an angel. He had golden, curled hair and a simple white robe with a thin gold rope around his waist. He motioned with his right arm and forefinger to follow him in that direction. So, we all started to walk in that direction. Then I woke up.   (The arrow-shaped vapor trail cleared the roof of the mall from the east, heading west down past the horizon, around the world and came up the northern horizon and headed over our heads toward the southern horizon, then stopped 30 degrees from the southern horizon. Our UBM group then all began to walk toward the direction of the south, following the angel.) Our UBM group was located in the Dallas / Fort Worth area in Texas. (When the people of God left Egypt to go to the wilderness refuge from the beast they went south first and then went north to their Promised Land) I felt in the dream that this angel was showing multiple groups of people at the same time around the world where their refuges were.)   Note from David: It was an angel of God that guided Israel into the wilderness place of safety from the beast kingdom (Exo.12:37; 13:20; 14:19). I believe God's angels will do this for UBM and saints all over the world. This way only the right people will be there.  Also, there is another type of angel, or messenger, that will guide God's people to their wilderness refuge during the tribulation. Satellites are commonly called angels nowadays. Sky Angel is a satellite network. There is a road angel satellite navigation system. The military has had a program since 2004 called  Autonomous Nanosatellite Guardian Evaluating Local Space, or A.N.G.E.L.S., to watch over the U.S. There is also Digital Angel which has designed microchips readable from satellite for the beast system. Three angels in Rev.14:6-9 preach the Gospel, warn of judgment, the fall of Babylon, and the mark of the beast, from mid heaven... and all of this before the middle of the tribulation.   We believe the Lord would have us use satellite angels to reach the majority of the population of Earth with this same message and will guide some to the wilderness refuge. Satellites are also commonly called "birds". {Rev.12:13} And when the dragon saw that he was cast down to the earth, he persecuted the woman that brought forth the man [child]. {14} And there were given to the woman the two wings of the great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness unto her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. See also Davids Will Preach The Word From Heaven. Refuge Ministry to the World     America, a Nation of Refugees Vincent Xavier - 7/10/08 Americans will be roaming through the streets. The Lord has shown this writer that America will be known as a NATION OF REFUGEES. People will be roaming to and fro from one city to another, seeking shelter and rest. The Lord said what we saw in New Orleans after the hurricane called Katrina hit will become a national reality. Just as those people fled from their destroyed city to other cities, so shall it be in the days ahead. Because of the several nuclear detonations, natural disasters and other terrorist-related incidents in major cities across America on the same day, millions will be wandering from sea to shining sea looking for a place of safety and rest. During this time of wandering people will become infected as biological and chemical weapons are released upon the population. Great food shortages and water shortages are going to cause rioting and looting in an unprecedented way. Great violence will emerge and a strong spirit of brutality will manifest. KATRINA IS THE PICTURE multiplied a thousand times. Las Vegas, Nevada will be a GHOST TOWN. People will be wandering through the emptied and mostly destroyed casinos and city shopping malls. They will fondle gambling "chips" that possess no value. Las Vegas shall surely be a haunt of every unclean bird and jackals will reside in that place. Martial law will be imposed within the nation. A time of complete desperation will hit. Those who barked like dogs in so-called revivals will whimper at the devastation and all their foolery will amount to nothing. Those who refused to repent, but went after the GIFTS, will come away empty-handed and their short-lived healings will be met with eternal burnings because their hearts were led astray into great deception, as the Scriptures said they would. The burning heart of repentance can no longer be seen in America. The cry for repentance is falling upon deaf ears and the masses are being led into the slaughter. The day of slaughter began on 9/11; it has escalated into a worldwide epidemic as hundreds of thousands are being destroyed daily. The prophets are fools (those in the harlot church)! The people are mad upon their idols! A sword against the treasury of the United States has been unsheathed. I will strike their treasures and take them away to another land. I will transfer the wealth of the nation to another. It is over! The collapse is sure! The time of debate is ended! America will be a nation of refugees. Those who hate shall meet with hatred! Those who mocked shall be a derision! Those who refused to obey shall be punished! Terror shall take hold of a nation that has forsaken the LAW OF THE LORD! SAINTS, find your way to the cities of refuge now! Begin to build your lives in those places. Go to those places that uphold the Laws of the Lord. You will be protected. Build cities that will welcome and provide for survivors who are sent from the Lord. These will be seeking Christ Jesus from true hearts. Establish Godly leaders within the cities of refuge for the transfer will come to a nation within a nation! Fill up the storehouses! Many will be led by the Spirit to these safe places they never knew of. The coastlands will perish! Seek refuge now! It is late! Let us not linger anymore! David: The real good news is that revival will spring forth wherever the elect are and people will know the value of Psa 91. Psa 91:1-16 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of Jehovah, He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in whom I trust. 3 For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the deadly pestilence. 4 He will cover thee with his pinions, And under his wings shalt thou take refuge: His truth is a shield and a buckler. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, Nor for the arrow that flieth by day; 6 For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.  7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, And ten thousand at thy right hand; But it shall not come nigh thee. 8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, And see the reward of the wicked. 9 For thou, O Jehovah, art my refuge! Thou hast made the Most High thy habitation; 10 There shall no evil befall thee, Neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent. 11 For he will give his angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways. 12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.  13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: The young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under foot. 14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. 15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble: I will deliver him, and honor him. 16 With long life will I satisfy him, And show him my salvation.

Welcome to "The Bible in Today's World", the show that compares today's world with the Word of God. In general and specifically, are we following the Bible in our daily walks? Is society demanding that we follow the Word of God in all that we do? Does our Almighty Father look upon us and frequently say, "Well done, good and faithful servant!" - or is He thinking of us as He thought/thinks of Sodom and Gomorrah? On today;'s show, we will explore the aspect of "Homosexuality" - how does society view this choice, and what did God say in the Bible about this lifestyle? Welcome to "The Bible in Today's World", the show that compares today's world with the Word of God. In general and specifically, are we following the Bible in our daily walks? Is society demanding that we follow the Word of God in all that we do? Does our Almighty Father look upon us and frequently say, "Well done, good and faithful servant!" - or is He thinking of us as He thought/thinks of Sodom and Gomorrah? On today;'s show, we will explore the aspect of "Homosexuality" - how does society view this choice, and what did God say in the Bible about this lifestyle? We also played Part 1 of my interview with Christian author, DAVID STANFIELD. DAVID STANFIELD, a new Christian author from Texas, will join us to discuss his faith in Jesus, and how the Lord led him to write a Christian book, even though he had never written a book - nor had hardly even read one! - in his life. His book, entitled, "Hellven" is available now. FROM HIS BIO: "Hello. I am an author and my new book, "Hellven: The Struggles of Being a Worldly Christian" was recently released by Trilogy Publishing, which is TBN's publishing company. I use this "Hellven" concept to help explain the state of Christianity in today's world as most of us so called Christians have conformed to the world and become hypocritical. We know how we are supposed to live, what is right, and what is wrong, yet we choose to believe that we can do what we want instead and just ask forgiveness later. "Hellven" is described as having the horns and the halo, or having our cake and eating it too so to speak, but we all know that is not the case. We know that is not the way God intends us to live. However, when we choose to get off the right path, we begin to face more and more life struggles, which are even harder to deal with when we are not living for Christ, but of this world. After explaining the "Hellven" concept, the book then goes into some of the many struggles we face on a daily basis. There is a chapter for each of the struggles discussed and I give statistics, real life experiences and stories of things I have personally faced (including the loss of my son to suicide), and advice for dealing with these struggles. Some of the struggles/topics in the book are questioning faith, anger, profanity, worry, relationships, forgiveness, finances, life balance, stress, depression, grief, addiction, honesty & integrity, witnessing, obedience, and more. At the end of each chapter/struggle, I give 10 scriptures to help and encourage the reader to overcome that struggle when faced with it. My goal is to get the message God gave me to share with the book out to as many people as I can, and get it outside of my family/friend circle. It is a very real and very relevant message for the current state of this world." www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hellven-david-stanfield/1141389927 OUR WEBSITE https://pod.co/thebibleintodaysworld OUR EMAIL ADDRESS TheBibleInTodaysWorld@gmail.com

Amos 1–5 Amos 1–5 (Listen) 1 The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds1 of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years2 before the earthquake. Judgment on Israel's Neighbors 2 And he said:   “The LORD roars from Zion    and utters his voice from Jerusalem;  the pastures of the shepherds mourn,    and the top of Carmel withers.” 3 Thus says the LORD:   “For three transgressions of Damascus,    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,3  because they have threshed Gilead    with threshing sledges of iron.4   So I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael,    and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.5   I will break the gate-bar of Damascus,    and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven,4  and him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden;    and the people of Syria shall go into exile to Kir,”      says the LORD. 6 Thus says the LORD:   “For three transgressions of Gaza,    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,  because they carried into exile a whole people    to deliver them up to Edom.7   So I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza,    and it shall devour her strongholds.8   I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod,    and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;  I will turn my hand against Ekron,    and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,”      says the Lord GOD. 9 Thus says the LORD:   “For three transgressions of Tyre,    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,  because they delivered up a whole people to Edom,    and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.10   So I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre,    and it shall devour her strongholds.” 11 Thus says the LORD:   “For three transgressions of Edom,    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,  because he pursued his brother with the sword    and cast off all pity,  and his anger tore perpetually,    and he kept his wrath forever.12   So I will send a fire upon Teman,    and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah.” 13 Thus says the LORD:   “For three transgressions of the Ammonites,    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,  because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead,    that they might enlarge their border.14   So I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah,    and it shall devour her strongholds,  with shouting on the day of battle,    with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;15   and their king shall go into exile,    he and his princes5 together,”      says the LORD. 2 Thus says the LORD:   “For three transgressions of Moab,    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,6  because he burned to lime    the bones of the king of Edom.2   So I will send a fire upon Moab,    and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth,  and Moab shall die amid uproar,    amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;3   I will cut off the ruler from its midst,    and will kill all its princes7 with him,”      says the LORD. Judgment on Judah 4 Thus says the LORD:   “For three transgressions of Judah,    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,  because they have rejected the law of the LORD,    and have not kept his statutes,  but their lies have led them astray,    those after which their fathers walked.5   So I will send a fire upon Judah,    and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.” Judgment on Israel 6 Thus says the LORD:   “For three transgressions of Israel,    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,  because they sell the righteous for silver,    and the needy for a pair of sandals—7   those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth    and turn aside the way of the afflicted;  a man and his father go in to the same girl,    so that my holy name is profaned;8   they lay themselves down beside every altar    on garments taken in pledge,  and in the house of their God they drink    the wine of those who have been fined. 9   “Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,    whose height was like the height of the cedars    and who was as strong as the oaks;  I destroyed his fruit above    and his roots beneath.10   Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt    and led you forty years in the wilderness,    to possess the land of the Amorite.11   And I raised up some of your sons for prophets,    and some of your young men for Nazirites.    Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?”      declares the LORD. 12   “But you made the Nazirites drink wine,    and commanded the prophets,    saying, ‘You shall not prophesy.' 13   “Behold, I will press you down in your place,    as a cart full of sheaves presses down.14   Flight shall perish from the swift,    and the strong shall not retain his strength,    nor shall the mighty save his life;15   he who handles the bow shall not stand,    and he who is swift of f