Building your house on the word from God
Dr. Joan Boney, born again by God and set in the church by Jesus Christ, in offices of apostle and prophet according to Ephesians 4:8;11-14, with spiritual gift of exhortation, to deal with current problems faced by body of Christ, focused on doing the Word of God and preparing for the end time and the return of Jesus to gather the elect of God. SUBJECTS: What the Bible says about: homosexuals & lesbians; divorce and remarriage; antichrist; what happens according to the Bible when a person dies; description in Bible of the New Heaven and New earth created by God for the believer to live for eternity; the new spiritual body for each believer; following God and knowing the will of God today on this present earth.
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Friday Sep 01, 2023
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
I Corinthians 10
1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
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Exodus 18
1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;
2 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,
3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
5 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:
6 And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
7 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.
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8 And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.
(Overcoming through God, honoring God in what we say. This is what we should do. Click below for story of Pam Padgett overcoming bladder cancer through following God.)
💥 Led by God and delivered by God in cancer treatment
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9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom HE had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
10 And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly HE was above them.
12 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God.
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13 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.
14 And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?
15 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to enquire of God:
(In the Old Testament, the prophets had the Holy Spirit of God in them but the people did not so they came to inquire of God through the prophets. But in the New Testament each of us are given the Holy Spirit so we go directly to God through the Holy Spirit in the New Testament Church. Hebrews 1:1-2 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;)
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16 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and HIS laws.
(The apostles ordained by Jesus today in the New Testament Church do the same thing as Moses, trying to turn the church back to the New Testament Bible and know the statutes of God and HIS law of the New Testament scriptures.)
17 And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.
18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.
19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:
20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: (600,000 men were in the group of the children of Israel in the wilderness.)
22 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
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24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said.
25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
27 And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land.
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After Podcast
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
Movements: 1,2,3,4 (20:25)
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)
Alan Loveday (violin)
Colin Tilney (harpsichord)
Philip Ledger (harpsichord)
London, 1971
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Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
Numbers 9
15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.
16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.
(for us today: cloud: as long as you don't know from God what to do, don't plan anything and don't do anything)
19 And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.
20 And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.
21 And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
22 Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
23 At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
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New Testament church today:
Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
The Holy Spirit of God is given to each person who is born again by God. The Holy Spirit leads us today in the church by bringing to our mind truths from God and scriptures.
Jesus explains what the Holy Spirit will do in the New Testament church after HE is crucified and raised from the dead and taken into heaven:
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 16:13 Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever HE shall hear (from God), that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.
I Corinthians 2
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love HIM. (OT)
10 (NT) But God hath revealed them unto us by HIS Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
I find that most churches are not taught about the Holy Spirit. God taught me these things about following the Holy Spirit and I have lived by the truths of the scriptures since I was born again in 1975.
I Corinthians 3:16-17 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
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After Podcast
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Opera Renzi: Overture
Philharmonia Orchestra
Otto Klemperer, Conductor
(1960/11:33)
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Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
As God set the sun, moon, stars in exact order in the solar system, God set the order for the children of Israel in the wilderness, and in the NT church as HE ordained HIS ministers.
Order of ministers in the New Testament Church: apostles, prophets evangelists, pastors and teachers
Ephesians 4
8 Wherefore HE saith, When HE (Jesus) ascended up on high, HE led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
11-12 And HE (Jesus) gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
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All men above the age of 20 who are able to go to war are numbered from the tribes of Israel. (Numbers 1)
Now the tribes of Israel are set by God in exact places where they will rest within the camp and go forward when they journey according to the families of the 12 tribes of Israel with an the 1/2 tribes from Joseph for they were counted as 2 1/2 tribes.
(As in the solar system, there would be complete chaos except for fact that God placed these men in exact places so the 603,550 knew exactly where to camp when resting and in which order to go out when they journeyed or went to war.)
The tabernacle was in the center with the priests, Levites, and all the tribes of Israel surrounding the tabernacle of God on north, south, east and west sides.
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Numbers 2:3 And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.
💥 Judah: captain, Nahshon (74,600)
Issachar: captain, Nethaneel (54,400)
Zebulun: captain, Eliab (57,400)
Judah: Totals: (186,400)
(First to set forth)
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Numbers 2:10 On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
💥 Ruben: captain Elizur (46,500)
Simeon: captain Shelumiel (59,300)
Gad : captain Eliasaph (45,650)
Ruben: totals (151,450)
(Second to set forth)
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Numbers 2:17 Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.
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Numbers 2:18 On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
💥 Ephraim: captain, Elishama (40,500)
Manasseh; captain, Gamaliel (32,200)
Benjamin: captain, Abidan (35,400)
Ephraim: Totals (108,100)
(Third rank forward )
(Interestingly, God grouped together the tribes of the children of Jacob and Rachel: Joseph (his sons, Ephraim & Manasseh) and Benjamin.)
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Numbers 2:25 The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
💥 Dan: captain, Ahiezer (62,700)
Asher: captain, Pagiel (41,500)
Naphitali: captain, Ahira (53,400)
Dan: Totals: (157,600)
Hindmost in order
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So the tabernacle was in the center, surrounded with tribes of the children of Israel on north, south, east, and west of the tabernacle.
Numbers 2
34 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.
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After Podcast:
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
(Orchestral Version)
Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell, Conductor
Maurice Revel, Orchestration
1963
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Ten Movements based on individual paintings
at an exhibition in St. Petersburg, Russia.
See: Wikipedia
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Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
Numbers 1
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2 Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
3 From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.
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Numbers 1
19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
Moses was so obedient to God.
Throughout the Bible, over and over, we read: As the Lord commanded, so did Moses.
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21 ... of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred. (46,500)
23 ... of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred. (59,300)
25 ... of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty. (45,650)
27 ... of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred. (74,600)
29 ... of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred. (54,400)
31 ... of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred. (57,400)
33 ... of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred. (40,500)
35 ... of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred. (32,200)
37 ... of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred. (35,400)
39 ... of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred. (62,700)
41 ... of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred. (41,500)
43 ... of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred. (53,400)
45 So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;
46 Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. (603,550)
47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.
48 For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying, 49 Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
50 But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
51 And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.
53 But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.
54 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
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Numbers 3
22 Those that were numbered of them (of the Gershonites), according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred. (7,500)
28 In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary. (8,600) the families of the Kohathites.
34 And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred. (6,200) these are the families of Merari.
39 All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand. (22,000)
42-43 And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn (males) among the children of Israel.
43 And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen. (22,273)
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44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
45 Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.
46 And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites;
47 Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
48 And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
49 And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:
50 Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
51 And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.
(God continues to present HIS laws for the work of the Tabernacle of the Old Testament in Numbers 3-4
Rules concerning lepers and other laws of Old Testament: Numbers 5-6
Old Testament offerings: Numbers 7
Word of the Old Testament tabernacle: Numbers 8)
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At end of Podcast:
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade No. 1 (1831-35), Op.23
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
Carnegie Hall, NY
(1965/8:53)
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Monday Aug 28, 2023
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
When Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to this earth, HE sacrificed HIS life by dying on a cross, shedding HIS own blood, to pay for the sins of the church of the New Testament.
We today are not saved by our own works but by faith in that shed blood of Christ.
Hebrews 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Up to the time of Jesus, the children of Israel, by the instruction and will of God, paid for their sins by the shedding of blood of animals.
The Book of Leviticus gives the laws of God for the Old Testament:
Here is a sample:
Leviticus 1
1 And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.
3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.
4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
5 And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
6 And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces.
7 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire:
8 And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
9 But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
10 And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.
11 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar.
12 And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
13 But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
14 And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.
15 And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:
16 And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:
17 And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Leviticus 27:34 These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
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If the Jews do not believe in Jesus as the Messiah today, then how do they pay for their sins?
So far as I know today's Jews do not sacrifice animals as God instructed prior to the sacrifice of Jesus.
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So if you are inclined to do so, read the Book of Leviticus. I told God, the last time I read the entire book, I didn't want to do that again.
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At end of Podcast:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 6 'Pastorale' (1807-8) Op. 68
1. Allegro ma non troppo
2. Andante molto moto
3. Allegro
4. Allegro
5. Allegretto
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vanska, conductor
(2007/42:08)
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Sunday Aug 27, 2023
Sunday Aug 27, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
I Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
I find parallel examples also in many of the sections of New Testament scripture, giving the same instruction from God that I saw in the Old Testament.
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You can't run around with unbelievers:
Exodus 34
10 And HE said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
We see the same instruction in the New Testament:
2 Corinthians 6
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be MY people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you,
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be MY sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
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At end of Podcast:
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Violin Concerto in D-dur/ (1878)
1. Allegro moderato
2. Canzonetta: Andante
3. Finale: Vivacissimo
Zino Francescatti , Violin
Sir Thomas Schippers , Conductor
New York Philharmonic
(1965/33:06)
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Saturday Aug 26, 2023
Saturday Aug 26, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
In July, 2023, I believe God brought some insight to me concerning the subjects of bringing other gods before Him.
The Holy Spirit is in us. To speak of other "gods" and think on other "gods" or see movies of other "gods" would be to bring other "gods" before HIM.
I Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Judges 2:12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
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A teacher of our Bible class at church always said to us: Don't look into other religious to see what they do. Study the Bible and when someone comes to you with wrong doctrine you will recognize that wrong doctrine.
Their gods have no power. Our God created the heaven and earth and has all power.
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One day, the Holy Spirit spoke the following word to me over and over, "in the air".
I knew that was in a scripture and I found it as follows:
I Thessalonians 4:16-17 For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
That same day, a man came to my house speaking a false doctrine saying Jesus would set up HIS kingdom on this present earth.
I knew what he said was incorrect for the Holy Spirit had just shown me we would be taken as the church "into the air" .
I also knew we would be taken to the New heaven and the New earth told us in Revelation 21.
Revelation 21
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and HE will dwell with them, and they shall be HIS people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And HE that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.
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Also the apostle Peter tells us the following:
2 Peter 3
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.
The present earth as we know it will be destroyed by God by fire and will dissolve, not even existing.
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I Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Devils bring thoughts contrary to scripture to our minds to see if we will accept these doctrines as true. (There is no truth in devils. Jn. 8:44)
We must not take on ourselves doctrines of devils nor speaking doctrines of devils to other people.
Cling to scripture. Believe that doctrine shown us by scripture. Believe that which God has shown to you by dreams.
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At end of Podcast:
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Capriccio Italian, (1880)
Sir Adrian Boult, Conductor
London Philharmonic
(16:37)
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Friday Aug 25, 2023
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
Exodus 33
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
2 And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
Angels do not have wings. They look like natural men. (Gen. 19 & Heb. 13:2) Cherubs have wings and are carved wing to wing on the Ark of the Tabernacle which they carried before them in the wilderness. Angels have great power. God sent 2 angels to get Lot out of Sodom before destroying Sodom. (Gen. 19)
3 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
(God was angry with the children of Israel and there was a good chance God would destroy them if HE went up with them and saw what they were doing. So to avoid this, God said HE would not go up with them. Moses interceded and cause God to change HIS mind.)
4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
5 For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.
8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.
9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the LORD talked with Moses.
10 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.
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Exodus 33
11 And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
12 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
14 And HE said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
15 And he (Moses) said unto HIM (to God), If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
17 And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in MY sight, and I know thee by name.
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Jesus tells us that our name can be blotted out of the book of life.
Revelation 3:5 (Jesus says) He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before MY Father, and before HIS angels.
We "overcome through God" as we pray and seek God's will for us in the problems of this life and then we do that which God tells us to do. If we return and join the world and do the sins of this world, there is no more sacrifice for sins for we would have to crucify Jesus afresh and Jesus would have to be a constant sacrifice.
Here is what it says in the Bible about those who know the truth of God but return to their sins.
Hebrews 10
26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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2 Peter 2
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
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Hebrews 6
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put HIM to an open shame.
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Hebrews 3
6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. 11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
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After this Podcast:
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Symphony No.8 "The Unfinished"
(1822-23) D 759
1. Allegro moderato
2. Andante con moto
3. Allegro
London Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski conductor
(1992/25:00)
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Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
Exodus 32:1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
They didn't even recognize the God who created the heaven and the earth was the God who brought them out of Egypt. They thought it was Moses who brought them out. Though they had witnessed the great wonders which God performed upon the Egyptians and how God had led them through the Red Sea and had killed Pharaoh and his men who chased after them by causing the waters of the Red Sea to go back and cover their enemies and kill their enemies. (Ex. 14)
Exodus 32:35 And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
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What has God done in the lives of those who are born again by HIM by HIS Spirit?
I Corinthians 6
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
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We learn to pray and wait upon God to bring us HIS answer to problems and then we go by faith in what God has said to us as we do that which God says to us.
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After this Podcast:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No.1, (1799-1800), Op. 21
1. Adagio molto, Allegro con brio;
2. Andante cantabile con moto;
3. Menuetto. Allegro molto e vivace;
4. Finale: Allegro molto e vivace
Claudio Abbado, conductor,
Berliner Philharmoniker
(2001/26:51)
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Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
Exodus 24:18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
From Exodus 25-31 God gives Moses instruction for the building of the tabernacle and the way of priesthood in the Old Testament and the garments for Aaron and his sons who would be priests and the sacrifices of animals for sins.
With the coming of Jesus the New Covenant began and the sacrifices for sins are no longer animals but the sacrifice is Jesus and HIS shed blood.
John 4, the woman of Samaria asked Jesus, "Where are we to worship?" (What place? Which mountain?)
Jesus answers:
John 4
21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship HIM.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship HIM must worship HIM in spirit and in truth.
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Many church groups today try to hold on to some Old Testament rules and mix Old Covenant with New Covenant.
💥 Their ministers dress in robes and other garments to identify themselves as ministers.
The garment the NT minister dresses in is the Word of God, the Holy Scriptures. We cover ourselves with Jesus, the Word. And when we speak the church recognizes us because of the Word of God which we speak and the gifts of the Holy Spirit which God gives us.
Romans 12
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
I Corinthians 12
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as HE (God) will.
As we exercise that spiritual gift given us by God, the church recognizes us as being of God.
On this Podcast, I will speak about some of the differences between the things God told them to do in the Old Covenant and things today in the New Covenant Church ... and how some of the people today misunderstand Old from New and mix covenants.
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At end of Podcast:
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Four seasons: Spring (RV269)
1. Allegro 2. Largo
3. Allegro
Joshua Bell, violin
John Constable. harpsichord
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
(2008/10:20)
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Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
Exodus 24
12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to ME into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.
15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
Exodus 31:18 And HE (God) gave unto Moses, when HE had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Church goers today often long for those tables of stone written by God as if they can worship some type of idol seen by the natural eye.
But they deceive themselves for the Bible shows us the New Covenant is far better than the Old Covenant for the New Covenant is founded on better promises of God.
If you think the Old is better, try reading the Book of Leviticus. (I really don't want to do that again!)
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The New Testament Church today:
In the new covenant, the blood of Jesus pays for our sins so we no longer have to sacrifice animals for sins.
A very big difference also in the New Testament Church is all who believe in Jesus, the Word, are given the Holy Spirit of Jesus to live in each of them and guide them and teach them.
John 14:26 (Jesus says:) But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 16:13 Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever HE shall hear (from God), that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.
I Corinthians 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
I Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
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Concerning the new covenant, God says:
Hebrews 8
6 But now hath HE (Jesus) obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also HE is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
8 For finding fault with them, HE saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in MY covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put MY laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to ME a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know ME, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
13 In that HE saith, A new covenant, HE hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
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God has given the New Testament Church the New Testament Bible and the laws and commandments of God are contained in that Bible.
The New Testament Church is built upon the New Testament scriptures. And we have in us the Holy Spirit of Jesus to guide us. We are given the Spirit of Jesus after we are born again by the Word of Jesus and God speaks to us by HIS Spirit to recreate us by HIS Word.
II Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
When God speaks to us, we are changed instantly by HIS Word, though we continue to learn as Christians as we continue in this present life.
Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
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At end of Podcast:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 3, Eroica (1803-1804)
op. 55
1. Allegro con brio;
2. Marcia funebre; Adagio assai;
3. Scherzo;
4. Finale: Allegro molto
Leopold Stokowski, Conductor,
London Symphony Orchestra
(1975/46:23)
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Monday Aug 21, 2023
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
1 And God spake all these words, saying,
2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate ME;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love ME, and keep MY commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh HIS name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
(The New Testament sabbath is not the same as the Old Testament Sabbath in requirements. In the OT the people could not go out of their tents on the sabbath. They could not cook their food on the sabbath. NT sabbath is a continual rest, day by day, trusting in the Word of God and ceasing from their own works as God did from HIS. Hebrews 3 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; 15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear HIS voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. 16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.17 But with whom was HE grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom sware HE that they should not enter into HIS rest, but to them that believed not? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. Hebrews 4 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. 3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. 5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. 6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: 7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.)
Acts 15 (New Testament Church)
1 And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
2 When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
4 And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
6 And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as HE did unto us;
9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
(The of the Jews weren't even able to keep the Law of Moses, says Peter. The New Testament Church has the New Testament Scripture which show the NT laws of God for the NT Church. We in the church today keep those commandments of God that are in the NT Bible.)
11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
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Exodus 20
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
(All commandments apply to the New Testament Church except for the rules pertaining to the sabbath and we have different rules for the sabbath. We have a continual sabbath daily as we rest in God's Word and do HIS works told to us by the New Testament Bible and the Holy Spirit.)
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18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that HIS fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. (Today God speaks to us from heaven through the Holy Spirit who brings thoughts from God to our mind and dreams.)
23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee. (We do not sacrifice animals today as they did in Old Testament. The blood of Jesus is our sacrifice in the New Testament church today.)
25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
(Basically man pollutes all that he touches except for that which God tells him to do.)
26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
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At end of Podcast:
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Suite from the Nutcracker
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sir George Solti, Conductor
1981
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Sunday Aug 20, 2023
Sunday Aug 20, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
In the Old Testament, the people were not given the Holy Spirit of God but the prophets were and the people went to the prophets to inquire of God.
In the New Testament each believer is given the Holy Spirit and sealed with the Holy Spirit and goes directly to God through Jesus Christ, the Word.
Hebrews 1:1-2 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by HIS Son, whom HE hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also HE made the worlds; (by the Word)
Exodus 19
10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
(We keep ourselves today by the Word of God, causing ourselves to walk in God's instructions, being sanctified by the Word and cleansed by that which God shows us.)
11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
(Be ready today for the return of Jesus, praying always over all concerns and keeping connected through prayer in all things with God.)
12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:
13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
(New Testament: I Thessalonians 4:16-17 For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.)
14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
(Jesus says: Luke 21:34-36 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting (over indulgence), and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.)
15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.
(In the New Testament Church we must be ready continually, "For ye know not when the Lord comes." Mt. 24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. Those who are ready will be taken out, I believe before The Great Tribulation and those who are not ready will be left to go though The Great Tribulation. Luke 17:34-36 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. 35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.)
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Exodus 19
16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.
22 And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.
(Now in the New Testament all come to God through the blood shed by Jesus Christ. HE is the passover for the New Testament church.)
23 And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
24 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest HE break forth upon them.
25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.
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John 14:6 (Jesus says) I (the Word) am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by ME (the Word).
I Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
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At end of Podcast:
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Symphony No. 1, (1862-76) Op. 68
l. Un pocco sostenuto - Allegro
2. Andante sustenuto
3. Un pocco Allegretto e grazioso
4. Adiago - Piu Andante - Allegro non troppo, ma con brio
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado, conductor
(1990/45:29)
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Saturday Aug 19, 2023
Saturday Aug 19, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
Exodus 19
1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.
3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto Myself.
5 Now therefore, if ye will obey MY voice indeed, and keep MY covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto ME above all people: for all the earth is mine:
6 And ye shall be unto ME a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
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7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.
9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever.
And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
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Parallel scripture in the New Testament:
I Peter 2
1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on HIM shall not be confounded.
7 Unto you therefore which believe HE (The Word) is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of HIM WHO hath called you out of darkness into HIS marvellous light:
10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
(visitation: judgment)
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At end of Podcast:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 4 (1806) Op. 60
1. Adagio -Allegro vivace
2. Adagio
3. Allegro vivace
4. Allegro ma non troppo
Symphonie Orchestra of the Moscow State Philharmonic
Yurly Simonov, conductor
(35:04)
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Friday Aug 18, 2023
Friday Aug 18, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
Exodus 18
1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel HIS people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;
2 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,
3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
5 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:
6 And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
7 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.
(obeisance: a gesture expressing deferential respect, such as bow or curtesy)
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8 And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.
9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom HE had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
10 And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly HE was above them.
12 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God.
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13 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.
14 And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?
15 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to enquire of God:
(The people of the Old Testament did not have the Holy Spirit in them as the people do of the New Testament. Hebrews 1:1-2)
16 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
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17 And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.
18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.
19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:
20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
22 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said.
25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
27And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land.
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Elder/Bishop/Deacon New Testament Church:
I Timothy 3
1 A bishop (elder) then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
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At end of Podcast:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Piano Concerto No. 24 (1786)
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Alfred Brendel (piano) Neville Marriner (conductor)(1973/29:45)
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Thursday Aug 17, 2023
Thursday Aug 17, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
I Corinthians 10:11-12
11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
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Exodus 17
8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:
16 For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
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This makes me think of the need for constant prayer as individuals in the New Testament Church.
The apostle Paul says: Pray without ceasing. (I Thessalonians 5:17)
Jesus said:
Luke 21
36 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting (over indulgence), and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Pray over all problems, concerns, torments, dreads ... for by prayer we connect to God ... and this causes us to be worthy to escape all these things that are coming upon this world!
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At end of Podcast:
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Symphony No.5 (1888), Op. 64
1. Andante: Allegro con anima
2. Andante cantabile con alcuna licenza
3. Valse
4. Finale: Andante maestoso - Allegro vivace
Antal Dortai, Conductor,
London Symphony Orchestra
(1961/47:02)
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Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
Exodus 17:1-7
1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
5 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.
6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
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Ministers set and called by Jesus for work of the ministry in the New Testament Church today:
Ephesians 4
8 Wherefore HE (Jesus) saith, When HE ascended up on high, HE led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
11 And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
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Jesus calls Paul from heaven; Jesus calls us today for the work of the ministry from heaven.
Acts 26 (Paul tells his story to king Agrippa)
1 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:
2 I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews: 3Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; 5 Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
6 And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: 7 Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
9 I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 10 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.
11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
13 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.
14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou ME? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord?
And HE said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee; 17 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, 18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in ME.
19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
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(Comments by Joan Boney) On the night of January 10, 1975, I was in my bed and was reading a book about sin, when God spoke these words to me: "Joan ... You know those 'mistakes' you've been making all these years? Those weren't mistakes. Those were sins."
"Sins?" I gasped! I was shocked. I thought they were mistakes.
I was instantly born again.
A few nights after that I was transported into heaven in the night while sleeping.
I was with God, and Christ, and the Holy Spirit. (I saw no physical images. It was a spiritual experience.) At that time, I was merged into the body of Jesus, made one with the Word of God, God and the Holy Spirit witnessing. This exact same thing happened to me again a second time a few nights later. (see 2 Corinthians 12:1-4) I thought everyone who was born again had this experience. But later found out that was not so. I believe I was at that time ordained into the 2 ministry offices to which I am called: apostle & prophet.
For the next 5 years God taught me, leading me through both the Old Testament and New Testament. I knew by then God had called me to be in the ministry and thought I knew what I was called to do because God had showed me by the scriptures what I would be doing, I didn't know where I was to do these things in the church.
God was going to show me. I waited for the next 6 months. I had closed my small business in Dallas, Texas, and waited at my apartment for God to show me where I was to go. I did not apply at any church. I just waited to hear from God.
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On January 10, 1980, I was asleep in the night. A very loud trumpet-like voice spoke three words into my ear: "Hartford, Seattle, KWJS"
I jumped out of bed and wrote the letters "KWJS" onto a note pad beside my bed. I didn't want to get these letters mixed up for they sounded to me like call letters to either radio or television. (They were radio.)
I said to God, "Are YOU telling me to go on radio? I wouldn't know how to do that. I'm a writer, not a speaker."
I heard: "Call the radio station manager."
When the station office opened that same morning, I called and ask to speak to the station manager. He came on the phone immediately. I said, "God might be showing me to go on radio. How would you do that?"
The station manager replied: "Make an audition tape 29 1/2 minutes long and send it to me. If you fit our broadcasting, we will offer you a contract."
As soon as I got off the phone, I got my tape recorder and kitchen timer and recorded an audition tape and took that tape to the US post office and mailed it that morning to the radio station manager at KWJS radio.
They sent me a contract immediately and within 5 days I was on station KWJS speaking exhortations to the church at the noon-time hour.
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At end of Podcast:
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Variations on a Rococo Theme
Leonard Rose, Cello
George Szell, Conductor
New York Philharmonic, 1952
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Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
Exodus 16
1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured (complained) against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in MY law, or no. 5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.
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6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt:
7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that HE heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?
8 And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against HIM: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.
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9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for HE hath heard your murmurings.
10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.
11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.
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13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
16 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.
26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep MY commandments and MY laws?
29 See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore HE giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
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31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
32 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.
34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
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The New Testament Sabbath:
Entering in to God's rest:
Hebrews 3
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. (departing from the Word given by God)
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we are made partakers of Christ (the Word), if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear HIS voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17 But with whom was HE grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom sware HE that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Hebrews 4
1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into HIS rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as HE said, As I have sworn in MY wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For HE spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all HIS works.
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into MY rest.
6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
7 Again, HE limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear HIS voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would HE not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into HIS rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from HIS.
11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
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The New Testament sabbath is believing in God's works and ceasing from your own works.
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At end of Podcast:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No. 23 (1786) KV488
1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Allegro assai
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Alfred Brendel, piano
Neville Marriner, conductor
(1971/25:55)
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Monday Aug 14, 2023
Monday Aug 14, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
Exodus 15
1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for HE (God) hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider (the Egyptians) hath HE thrown into the sea.
2 The LORD is my strength and song, and HE is become my salvation: HE is my God, and I will prepare HIM an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt HIM.
3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is HIS name.
4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath HE cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
6 THY right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: THY right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
7 And in the greatness of THINE excellency THOU hast overthrown them that rose up against THEE: THOU sentest forth THY wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
8 And with the blast of THY nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
10 THOU didst blow with THY wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
11 Who is like unto THEE, O LORD, among the gods? who is like THEE, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
12 THOU stretchedst out THY right hand, the earth swallowed them.
13 THOU in THY mercy hast led forth the people which THOU hast redeemed: THOU hast guided them in thy strength unto THY holy habitation.
14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of THINE arm they shall be as still as a stone; till THY people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which THOU hast purchased.
17 THOU shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of THINE inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which THOU hast made for THEE to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which THY hands have established.
18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.
19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for HE hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath HE thrown into the sea.
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The children of Israel go into the wilderness, heading toward the land God has promised Abraham.
22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there HE made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there HE proved them,
26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in HIS sight, and wilt give ear to HIS commandments, and keep all HIS statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
27And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
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At end of Podcast:
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Overture '1812' (1880), Op. 49
Largo, Andante, Allegro giusto, Largo, Allegro vivace
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink, conductor
With Netherlands Royal Military Band
(1973/16:09)
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Sunday Aug 13, 2023
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
Exodus 14
19 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
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21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
25 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
26 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
(The children of Israel couldn't go to the right or left because the walls of the Red Sea, and they couldn't go back because Pharaoh's army was behind them. The only way the children of Israel could go was forward. The only way we can go is forward when God gives us a Word.)
30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
31 And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.
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At end of Podcast:
Niccolo Paganini, (1782-1840)
Concerto for violin and orchestra No. 1,(1816)
1. Allegro maestoso
2. Adagio
3. Rondo (Allegro spiritoso)
Salvatore Accardo, violin,
Charles Dutoit, conductor,
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London,
(1975/37:55)
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Saturday Aug 12, 2023
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
As a new Christian, God cast out of me 3 devils. I was already born again when this happened.
Some church groups are taught that devils cannot live in the same body as the Holy Spirit.
Here is what happened which God allowed me to witness although this happened in a dream while I was sleeping in the night.
A devil was skipping through my chest cavity and ran into the Holy Spirit in me. That devil tried to dart back. It was "a double minded spirit".
The Holy Spirit in me said: "I see you ... you must leave her ... you must go ... you must go ... you must go ..." I felt like I was choking. I began coughing. I felt something tear out of my body through my throat.
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Bible examples of effect of devils that are in humans and animals.
Matthew 8
28 And when HE (Jesus) was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
30 And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.
31 So the devils besought HIM, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
32 And he said unto them, Go.
And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.
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Devils cause people to act in completely irrational ways, saying things through humans that person would never say in his right mind.
There was a church person that did this with me from time to time through many years. At first, I did not recognize it was a devil in her that was fighting against me and even against the Bible. It was crazy. But I did not recognize devil until God showed me I would have done this same thing before devils were cast out of me by the Holy Spirit!
I Cor. 6
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
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Devils are twisted, irrational, crazy. They especially fight against God and Bible. What they say through church people are completely opposite from scripture. You certainly cannot reason with devils! All you can do is cast devils out of people.
Devils are spirits. I think you can command those devils to go from that person and don't come back, even when you are not in the same area where that person lives since they are spirits that you speak to.
I have commanded devils to go from a person even when I'm not in the same country as the person. I have said, "I command you in the name of Jesus to leave her and don't come back to her." (I use the person's name when I do this.)
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Recently when I was having trouble with a church woman, God showed me the devil was trying to persuade her in an opposite way from the Bible.
I wrote her this e-mail: God showed this about you: Devils are trying to get you to believe things opposite to scripture. You're going to have to fight them and cling to scripture.
She responded to me by email saying: "Thank you."
I've found devils doing this to me and I have to hold onto scripture and fight with scripture.
Luke 4: When the devil tempted Jesus, HE had to fight back with scripture which is truth ... and we read: v. 18 And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from HIM for a season.
Only for a season did devil depart. He will come back to you trying again to persuade you in ways opposite to scripture so be prepared to fight when that happens.
I Peter 5
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that HE may exalt you in due time:
7 Casting all your care upon him; for HE careth for you.
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
I've found devils often attack us when we are overly tired.
And as long as we live on this earth devils will attack when possible.
After God takes us off the earth we have the total victory if we continue to overcome those thoughts sent by devils and hold fast to faith in God and Christ.
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At end of Podcast:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No. 8,
Alfred Brendel (piano)
1962
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Friday Aug 11, 2023
Friday Aug 11, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
Exodus 13
17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:
18 But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
Exodus 14
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.
3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.
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5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
8 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand.
9 But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.
10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.
11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
12 Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
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13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which HE will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
15 And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
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At end of Podcast:
Johann Sebastian Bach,
Partita No. 2, Chaconne,
Henryk Szeryng, Violin,
Live broadcast BBC, London 1967)
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Thursday Aug 10, 2023
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
5 For HE established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which HE commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: 6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep HIS commandments:
8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
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9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in HIS law; 11 And forgat HIS works, and HIS wonders that HE had shewed them.
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12 Marvellous things did HE in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13 HE divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and HE made the waters to stand as an heap.
14 In the daytime also HE led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
15 HE clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
16 HE brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17 And they sinned yet more against HIM by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
20 Behold, HE smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can HE give bread also? can HE provide flesh for HIS people?
21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in HIS salvation:
23 Though HE had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
25 Man did eat angels' food: HE sent them meat to the full.
26 HE caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by HIS power HE brought in the south wind.
27 HE rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
28 And HE let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for HE gave them their own desire;
30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for HIS wondrous works.
33 Therefore their days did HE consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
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34 When HE slew them, then they sought HIM: and they returned and enquired early after God.
35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
36 Nevertheless they did flatter HIM with their mouth, and they lied unto HIM with their tongues.
37 For their heart was not right with HIM, neither were they stedfast in HIS covenant.
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38 But HE, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned HE HIS anger away, and did not stir up all HIS wrath.
39 For HE remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
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40 How oft did they provoke HIM in the wilderness, and grieve HIM in the desert!
41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
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42 They remembered not HIS hand, nor the day when HE delivered them from the enemy.
43 How HE had wrought HIS signs in Egypt, and HIS wonders in the field of Zoan:
44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
45 HE sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
46 HE gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
47 HE destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
48 HE gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49 HE cast upon them the fierceness of HIS anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
50 HE made a way to HIS anger; HE spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
52 But made HIS own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 And HE led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 And HE brought them to the border of HIS sanctuary, even to this mountain, which HIS right hand had purchased.
55 HE cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
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56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not HIS testimonies:
57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58 For they provoked HIM to anger with their high places, and moved HIM to jealousy with their graven images.
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59 When God heard this, HE was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
60 So that HE forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which HE placed among men;
61 And delivered HIS strength into captivity, and HIS glory into the enemy's hand.
62 HE gave HIS people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with HIS inheritance.
63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
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65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
66 And HE smote HIS enemies in the hinder parts: HE put them to a perpetual reproach.
67 Moreover HE refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which HE loved.
69 And HE built HIS sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which HE hath established for ever.
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70 He chose David also HIS servant, and took HIM from the sheepfolds:
71 From following the ewes great with young HE brought HIM to feed Jacob HIS people, and Israel HIS inheritance.
72 So HE fed them according to the integrity of HIS heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of HIS hands.
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At end of Podcast:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Violin Concerto No. 1, BMV1041
1. Allegro moderato
2. Andante
3. Allegro assai
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Salvatore Accardo, violin
(1985/14:23)
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Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
The children of Israel overcome through God as we today overcome through God.
Revelation 3:5 (Jesus says to the church) He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before MY Father, and before HIS angels.
We go to God in prayer finding out what we are to do and we do that which God tells us to do!
Overcoming through God. We win over every problem, over every enemy of the Word of God, because we are children of God and obey what God shows us to do!
The power of God is with us today.
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Exodus 11:
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.
2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.
3 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.
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God's promise to Abraham:
Genesis 15
13 And HE (God) said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
(This promise of God was made 400-years earlier and now deliverance is upon the children of Israel and the promise God made to Abraham will be fulfilled!)
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Exodus 11
4 And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: 5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts. 6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.
7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
(God puts a difference between us today who follow God's Word and the world and the apostate churches who cast aside the word of God for what they view as advantage to themselves on this earth.)
8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto ME, and bow down themselves unto ME, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out.
And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.
9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that MY wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
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Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of ME, saith the LORD.
We should not lose. We do not lose. We overcome through God at all times on this earth and through all things.
As David said concerning the giant Goliath: I Samuel 17:26 for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
Numbers 13:30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
How can we not overcome? Isn't God in us and with us? We hear from God and do what HE tells us to do each time a problem surfaces. That is overcoming through God.
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Exodus 12
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: 4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
(I Peter 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:)
6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
(Under the blood of Jesus and covered by the blood of Jesus.)
8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. 10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.
(Keep yourself ready to go.)
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt (the world).
19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
(I Cor. 5:5-7 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:)
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
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28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
(Pharaoh didn't wait till morning to get rid of the people of Israel.)
32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: 36 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children. (It would have been well over a million walking out of Egypt.)
38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
(They had to depend on God. Once God said to me, "If need be, I could raise manna in the back yard of your house.")
40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
42 It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
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Music at end of Podcast: Paganini,
Violin Concerto No.2, Movement 3
'LaCampanella'
Salvatore Accardo, violin
Charles Dutoit, Conductor
London Philharmonic, 1975
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Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
💥 Plague # 1: God turns the rivers into blood:
Exodus 7
14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go. 15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand. 16 And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying,
Let MY people go, that they may serve ME in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.
17 Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. 18 And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.
19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.
20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
21 And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
25 And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten the river.
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💥 Plague # 2: God sends frogs upon the Egyptians
Exodus 8
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let MY people go, that they may serve ME. 2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
3 And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs: 4 And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.
Moses and Arron did as God said to do and frogs came upon the Egyptians. Finally Pharaoh begged Moses to stop these frogs. Dead frogs stank up the land and the frogs stopped coming after Moses talked with God.
13 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.
14 And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
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💥 Plague # 3: God sends lice upon the Egyptians: both man and beast
Exodus 8
16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
17 And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
18 And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.
19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
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💥 Plague # 4: God sends swarms of flies upon the Egyptians
Exodus 8
20 And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let MY people go, that they may serve ME. 21 Else, if thou wilt not let MY people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.
22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which MY people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth. 23 And I will put a division between MY people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.
24 And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.
25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.
But Pharaoh set conditions which Moses would not agree to. No compromise with Moses.
29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.
30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
31 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and HE removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one.
32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.
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Plague # 5: God kills the cattle of Egypt and horses and other beasts.
Exodus 9
1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let MY people go, that they may serve ME. 2 For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still, 3 Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.
(murrain: plague, disease, epidemic affecting cattle and other animals ... it literally means "death".)
4 And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children's of Israel.
5 And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land.
6 And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.
(Still Pharaoh wavered.)
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Plague # 6: God sent boils upon the Egyptians: upon man and beast
Exodus 9
8 And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. 9 And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.
10 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast. 11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.
12 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.
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💥 Plague # 7: God sends hail upon the Egyptians: both man and beast.
Exodus 9:
22 Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now. 24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field. 26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
(Pharaoh begged Moses to entreat God that the hail would stop.)
34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. 35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.
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💥 Plague # 8: God brings locust and fills the land of the Egyptians.
Exodus 10
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these MY signs before him: 2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and MY signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.
(Moses goes to Pharaoh and says:)
4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast: 5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field: 6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he (Moses) turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve the LORD your God: but who are they that shall go? 9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.
10 And he (Pharaoh) said unto them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you. 11 Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.
13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. 14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. 15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Pharaoh sent for Moses and asked him to entreat "the Lord" for him and rid them of the locust.
19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.
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💥 Plague # 9 : God sends darkness upon the Egyptians.
Exodus 10
21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days: 23 They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
24 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go with you.
(Moses would not compromise.)
25 And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God. 26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.
28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in that day thou seest my face thou shalt die.
29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face again no more.
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💥 Plague # 10: God kills the firstborn of all Egyptians and first born of the animals of all Egyptians.
(To be covered on tomorrow's Podcast!)
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Music at end of Podcast: Paganini,
Violin Concerto No.2, Movement 2
Salvatore Accardo, violin
Charles Dutoit, Conductor
London Philharmonic, 1975
classical-music-online.net
$20 for 3 years
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog