Ezekiel 5:1-17, NIV
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God gave Ezekiel a process to follow to execute judgement on Israel..son of man..sharp sword..shave your head and your beard..set of scales…a third…burn…strike it with the sword…scatter to the wind…few strands..tuck away..garment-warrants a separate study.
This is what the Sovereign LORD says: This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the centre of the nations, with countries all around her..her wickedness she has rebelled against my laws and decrees more than the nations and countries around her vs 5.
A very sombre and sad outcome of this judgment pronounced on the people…vs 8-12..detestable idols…in your midst fathers will eat their children, and children eat their fathers vs 9-10…horrific scenes to comprehrehend or understand how a God of mercy and justice would allow this…thought:..must be the deadly famine around them to resort to these behaviors…will scatter all your survivors to the winds vs 10….my anger will cease and my wrath against you will subsude, and I will be avenged (vs 13).
..will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you…vs 14…will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring the sword against you vs 17. These are days of horrors and sorrows.
Mark 1:29-39, NIV
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Jesus power to heal fever, the sick and demon-possessed..healed many. (not all?)..would not let the demons speak because they knew who he was vs 29-34..very early in the morning..went to a solitary place, where he prayed.. (quiet time with God).
Remind me of – be stilled and know that I am God.
1 Timothy 1:12-20, NIV
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The Lord’s Grace to Paul.
Before: blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man vs 12-14..shown mercy
After: a fervent servant of God…massive contributions to the Kingdim of God.brings salvation to the Gentiles.
Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him abd receive eternal life vs 15.
I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me faithful, appointing me to his service vs 12.