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The Righteous

1. WALK: Walks not in the ungodly's counsel, avoids the path of sinners (to avoid temptation) and does not sit in the seat of scoffers

2. THOUGHT: Delight is in the law (the character of God), meditates 24/7

3. RESULT: tree by rivers that is fruitful, prosper, leaf does not wither.

The Ungodly - reap "the grapes of Sodom."

1.  RESULT: Chaff - blown away, unsubstantiall oerusg

2. "Shall not stand in the judgment" - to stand is to last, to endure.

Chaff is lightweight and of no value

Matthew Henry's Commentary

They are like chaff, of no worth at all in God’s account, how highly soever they may value themselves. Would you know the temper of their minds? They are light and vain; they have no substance in them, no solidity; they are easily driven to and fro by every wind and temptation, and have no stedfastness. Would you know their end? The wrath of God will drive them away in their wickedness, as the wind does the chaff, which is never gathered nor looked after more. The chaff may be, for a while, among the wheat; but he is coming whose fan is in his hand and who will thoroughly purge his floor. Those that by their own sin and folly make themselves as chaff will be found so before the whirlwind and fire of divine wrath (Ps. 35:5), so unable to stand before it or to escape it, Isa. 17:13

Bottom line is this: those who are godless are of no worth to God. Eli's sons Hophni and Phinehas too the best portions of the sacrifice for themselves, had illicit sexual relations and were supposed to be priests!

What does God esteem?

"Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD." (1 Sam 2:12)

Belial = worthlesness, of no esteem, lawlessness, wicked and worthelss.

2 Cor 6:15 What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?

2 Cor 6:16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

[Note: back to Eden pre-Fall: And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. (Genesis 3:8)

2 Cor 6:17 Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,

Separation comes at Judgment but it also comes before judgment, by those who willingly subject themselves to the Lord and call Him Sovereign. We come out from the midst of unbelievers to be a holy nation, and royal priesthood. But leaving, exit, is a choice, and human agency must be exercised wisely.

 

 

 

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Tue, 04 Sep 2012 07:53:00 -0700 Daniel Chapter 1 References http://tarsusturn.posterous.com/daniel-chapter-1-references http://tarsusturn.posterous.com/daniel-chapter-1-references

 

 

1. Prophets and Time Line

 

  • Isaiah: 760-673 BC (fall of Jerusalem and Babylon)
  • Jeremiah b. 650, prophesies: 640-626 BC 
  • Daniel 620-540 BC 
  • Ezekiel: sees first vision: 593, 574 (25 years in exile) 

     

 

2.   Shinar (site of Babel/Babylon) mentioned: Gen 14:1-9; Joshua 7:21; Isaiah 11:1; Daniel 1:2 and Zechariah 5:11. - Mystery Babylon: see Revelation 17.  See: 'Hussein's Babylon: A Beloved Atrocity'. New York Times, 19 Aug 2003 

 

 3.  Principles of Judgment

Leviticus 18:3 After the doings of the land of Egypt , wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan , whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.  

 

Leviticus 18: 21, 28, 30 "you shall keep my Ordinance"

  

4.   Judgment of Judah and the Babylonian Captivity (for a time certain) and the judgment of Babylon 

Isaiah 39: 5-7 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord Almighty: The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the Lord. And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. ”  

2 Chronicles 36:14-21 (God hates and judges sin)  Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful, following all the detestable practices of the nations and defiling the temple of the Lord, which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.1 The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent word to them through his messengers again and again, because he had pity on his people and on his dwelling place. But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the Lord was aroused against his people and there was no remedy. He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians, who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and spared neither young man nor young woman, old man or aged. God handed all of them over to Nebuchadnezzar. He carried to Babylon all the articles from the temple of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the Lord’s temple and the treasures of the king and his officials.  They set fire to God’s temple and broke down the wall of Jerusalem; they burned all the palaces and destroyed everything of value there. He carried into exile to Babylon the remnant, who escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power. The land enjoyed its sabbath rests; all the time of its desolation it rested, until the seventy years were completed in fulfillment of the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah.  

5.      Nebuchadnezzar as the servant of God! Instructions to submit to Nebu or be in rebellion against God  

Jer 25:9 - I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,” declares the Lord,   

Jer 27:6-8 Now I will give all your countries into the hands of my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; I will make even the wild animals subject to him. All nations will serve him and his son and his grandson until the time for his land comes; then many nations and great kings will subjugate him. If, however, any nation or kingdom will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or bow its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation with the sword, famine and plague, declares the Lord, until I destroy it by his hand.

 6.      Destruction of Babylon and Likening to Sodom & Gomorrah as caution (What were the conditions of Sodom which attracted the judgment of God? Contrast with how God dealt with Nineveh in Jonah 2-3) 

Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.  

Amos 4:11 I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD.  

 

 

Romans 9:29 And just as Isaiah foretold, "UNLESS THE LORD OF SABAOTH HAD LEFT TO US A POSTERITY, WE WOULD HAVE BECOME LIKE SODOM, AND WOULD HAVE RESEMBLED GOMORRAH."  

 

 

Matt 10:15 I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.  

 

 

Jeremiah 51:24 "Before your eyes I will repay Babylon and all who live in Babylonia for all the wrong they have done in Zion," declares the LORD.

  

Jeremiah 25:98-12 Therefore the Lord Almighty says this: “Because you have not listened to my words, I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting ruin. I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp. This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. “But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation, the land of the Babylonians for their guilt,” declares the Lord, “and will make it desolate forever. I will bring on that land all the things I have spoken against it, all that are written in this book and prophesied by Jeremiah against all the nations. They themselves will be enslaved by many nations and great kings; I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.” 

 

 

Isaiah 13:19 Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the glory of the Babylonians' pride, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah 

 

 

2 Peter 2:6 if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;

 

7. Promise that the scattered will return  

 

 

Isaiah 11:11-12 (KJV) And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

 

Jeremiah 16:14-15 Therefore, days are coming, declares Yahweh, when it will no longer be said, “As Yahweh lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,” but, “As Yahweh lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where He had banished them.”

 

Jeremiah 29: 10 This is what the Lord says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place.

 

Jeremiah 32:36-37 (626-586 BC) "You are saying about this city, 'By the sword, famine and plague it will be handed over to the king of Babylon'; but this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I will surely gather them from all the lands where I banish them in my furious anger and great wrath; I will bring them back to this place and let them live in safety  

 

 

8.      Who will deliver the Judahites in Captivity? Cyrus! [Note that Cyrus allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem and sponsored the rebuilding of the Temple]   

Isaiah 48:14 Have any of your idols ever told you this? Come, all of you, and listen: The LORD has chosen Cyrus as his ally. He will use him to put an end to the empire of Babylon and to destroy the Babylonian armies.

 

Isaiah 44:28 who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd and will accomplish all that I please; he will say of Jerusalem, "Let it be rebuilt," and of the temple, "Let its foundations be laid."' 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 Cyrus Cylinder Departs; Moslehi Status in Doubt; Khatami Speaks Out

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Farvardin/April 18 The 2,500-year-old Cyrus Cylinder, regarded by some as one of civilization's first recorded expressions of human rights, was returned to the British Museum yesterday. It had been on display in Tehran since September. The 2,500-year-old artifact bears a text written in cuneiform script attributed to the Persian king Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire, on the occasion of the Persian conquest of Babylon.

Commentator Jon Snow observes that leading nonclerical figures in the Islamic Republic, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have recently been promoting a "'nationalist narrative' of Iran which long predates Islam. Hence the dislike of the object in the highest echelons of the clergy.... The Cyrus Cylinder has ignited a new debate in Iran about the country's culture and history. The mullahs boycotted the exhibition. The President, the man who could well be his successor [presidential chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei], and a current Vice President all embraced the Cyrus Cylinder." The third reference is to Hamid Baghaei, one of Iran's eight vice presidents and head of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization, who referred to Ahmadinejad as "the Cyrus of our times."

   

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The Iranians regarded Cyrus the Great him as "The Father", the Babylonian as "The Liberator", the Jews as 'Law-Giver' and The Anointed of the Lord.'  

 

 

 

 

 

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Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:57:00 -0700 Blessings and Curses - Verses http://tarsusturn.posterous.com/blessings-and-curses-verses http://tarsusturn.posterous.com/blessings-and-curses-verses

THE LAND SUFFERS AS A RESULT OF SIN

Hosea 4:1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. (2) By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. (3) Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

Leviticus 18:3 After the doings of the land of Egypt , wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan , whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.

 

Leviticus 18:24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

(25) And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

(26) Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:

(27) (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

A WARNING PRECEDENT: SODOM AND GOMORRAH

 

Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

JUDGMENT AND LIABILITY: SINNERS AND APPROVERS OF SIN

Romans 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure (agree with) in them that do them.

Proverbs 11:21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered

Good Resource: Blesses and Curses, you can choose: Derek Prince

 http://www.2shared.com/document/bu3h1efn/Blessing_or_Curse_-_You_Can_Ch.html 

 

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Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:05:00 -0700 God cannot be mocked http://tarsusturn.posterous.com/god-cannot-be-mocked http://tarsusturn.posterous.com/god-cannot-be-mocked

 

  

America has been undergoing one of its worst heat waves in June-July 2012. Colarado fires. There is a correlation between this and its immorality, lead top-down by the Obama administration and bottom-up by wicked Hard Left fascists promoting the sodomite agenda and the equalisation of homosexuality with God's divine creation order.

 

Leviticus 18: if you defile the land, you will be spewed out; because the land is sick. When Cain murdered Abel, Abel's blood cried out from the earth. Nothing is hidden from the eyes of a just and holy God.

 

Genesis 15:16 carries the principle of the iniquity of the Amorites (now Americans) being full - America has walked in the ordinances (law and custom) of the sodomites.

 

Slouching towards Gomorrah? Isaiah 5:20 - evil is called good? We are there. Obama declared June 2012 LGBT pride month. And Obama wanted to divide the land of Israel. And Obama bowed to the Saudi Arabian king. The confluence of events is a clear sign of the latest incarnation of the anti-christ Spirit, its relentless push for immorality and anti-Semitism.

 

But God is not to be mocked: there are reports of a impending food crisis - because of the heat, the corn and soybean crop have failed - this will put an entire industry into recession, with global implications. The ethanol industry will fail. Prices will soar. Wicked America. It used to bless the world, now it has become a curse. Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to the American people. Stage 3 of the Romans 1 degeneration.

 

May God have mercy on the righteous who dwell in that land. Remnant.

 

The articles below sets it out.

 

  1. The weakening of crop like corn, soybean - rising prices, domestic food inflation
  2. As prices rise, farmers may feed livestock more wheat - rising prices - global inflation (Arab uprisings - stockpiling wheat from Algeria to Saudi Arabia)
  3. Herds are culled - prices depressed - nothing to feed them
  4. Decline of ethanol industry

 

U.S. drought pushes world to food crisis July 20, 2012, UPI - The worst U.S. drought in 56 years is pushing the world to a food crisis, officials said as scorching Midwest heat sent corn and soybean prices to record highs

 

The world is closer to a food crisis than most people realise, Guardian UK 24 Jul 2012

 

Heatwave Threatens New Food Crisis, Today. 3 Aug 2012

 

There are consequences to iniquity:

 

He turns rivers into a wilderness… A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. Psalm 107:33, 34

 

But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. Genesis 15:16

 

After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. Leviticus 18:3

 

Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered. Proverbs 11:21

 

The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God Psalm 9:17

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Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Jude 1:7

 

Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. Isaiah 1:7

 

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. Proverbs 14:24

 

He and she who has eyes to see and ears to hear, awaken and arise.

 

Noah. Ark. Warning. Mocking. Judgment.

 

The 21st century incarnation of the anti-christ spirit. Mystery Babylon. Humanism, Hubris, Homosexuality.

 

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Colarado Fires - Isaiah 1:7

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Gay marriage in cartoons - ordinances (law and social customs) of the Amorities/Americans.

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For more on sodomite America: see God's Final Warning to America at John McTernan's insights http

 

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