Thursday, April 23, 2020

Thoughts during this Sequester

"Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child. But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent. So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." Rev 12

The anger of men is portrayed as a flood.  A torrent.  A raging river.  Even though YHWH, you control the waters.  You are the only one who has destroyed in your wrath by the flood.  But the serpent will open his mouth and spew forth a river to wash away the children of the woman.  And if you are not on our side, we will be swallowed alive.  We will go down in the torrent.


"A Song of Ascents. Of David.
“If it had not been the Lord who was on our side,”
Let Israel now say—
“If it had not been the Lord who was on our side,
When men rose up against us,
Then they would have swallowed us alive,
When their wrath was kindled against us;
Then the waters would have overwhelmed us,
The stream would have gone over our soul;
Then the swollen waters
Would have gone over our soul.”
Blessed be the Lord,
Who has not given us as prey to their teeth.
Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers;
The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
Our help is in the name of the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth." Ps 124
i think making the effort to memorize, memorialize in music,
the songs of the ascents and many of the psalms will help us greatly in the Last Age to come out of this.

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