• Each has his sword at his side to guard against the terrors of the night

    From Clara Flores@pyr@zont.reit to alt.privacy.anon-server on Wed Sep 16 20:38:17 2026
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    Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. As many as
    desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be
    circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross
    of Christ. And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread
    shall ye burn with fire. Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold
    wondrous things out of thy law. And in those days shall men seek
    death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death
    shall flee from them.

    And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the
    priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the
    Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the
    king. And the LORD magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all
    Israel, and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on
    any king before him in Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all
    And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven
    years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in
    Jerusalem. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
    And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour
    out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters
    shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old
    men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I
    will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
    And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth
    beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be
    turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and
    notable day of the Lord come: And it shall come to pass, that
    whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. And the
    sons of Ishi were, Zoheth, and Benzoheth. The LORD standeth up to
    plead, and standeth to judge the people. Thou art near, O LORD; and
    all thy commandments are truth. LORD hath said unto him, Curse
    David. And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me,
    saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city
    on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work
    therein; Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings
    and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and
    on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the
    inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever.

    At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint
    captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice
    with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast
    a mount, and to build a fort. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
    Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass,
    to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein. And
    his men that were with him did David bring up, every man with his
    household: and they dwelt in the cities of And the men of Judah
    came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah.
    And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed
    in: for God is able to graff them in again. If I must needs glory, I
    will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. Joshua
    therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan.

    And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not
    toward him as before. And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and
    Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korhites. And they said unto
    her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people. He that
    rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that
    flattereth with the tongue. Then said Saul to his armourbearer, Draw
    thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised
    come and abuse me. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the
    Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation for
    our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole
    world.

    Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of
    the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of
    their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
    Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto
    blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood,
    even blood shall pursue thee. In all things ye have approved
    yourselves to be clear in this matter. For the time is come that
    judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at
    us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
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