Wednesday, 17 April 2013

THE MORNING OF JOY
Ezekiel 39   1) God's judgment upon Gog.   8) Israel's victory.   11) Gog's burial in Hamon-gog.
                    17) The feast of the fowls.   23) Israel, having been plagued for their sins, shall be gathered
                     again with eternal favour.
7 :   "SO WILL I MAKE MY HOLY NAME KNOWN IN THE MIDST OF MY PEOPLE
        ISRAEL;  and IWILL NOT LET THEM POLLUTE MY HOLY NAME ANY MORE;
       and THE HEATHEN (the nations) SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD, THE HOLY
       ONE IN ISRAEL."
8 :   "BEHOLD, IT IS COME,  and IT IS DONE,"   said THE LORD GOD;   "THIS IS THE DAY
       WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN."
9 :   "THOSE WHO LIVE IN ISRAEL's TOWNS WILL GO OUT AND GATHER WEAPONS
        FOR FUEL, BUCKLERS  and  SHIELDS,  BOWS and ARROWS, THROWING-STICKS
        and LANCES;   FOR SEVEN YEARS THEY WILL KINDLE FIRES WITH THEM."
10 : "THEY WILL TAKE NO WOOD FROM THE FIELDS, NOR CUT IT FROM THE FOREST,
        BUT WILL USE THE WEAPONS TO LIGHT THEIR FIRES.  THUS THEY WILL
        PLUNDER THOSE WHO PLUNDERED THEM AND SPOIL THEIR DESPOILERS."
        This is the WORD of THE LORD GOD.
11 :  "ON THAT DAY,  INSTEAD OF A BURIAL GROUND IN ISRAEL,  I SHALL ASSIGN
        TO GOG THE VALLEY OF ABARIM  EAST OF THE DEAD SEA.   THERE GOG WITH
        ALL HIS HORDE WILL BE BURIED,  AND ABARIM WILL BE ENTIRELY BLOCKED.
        IT WILL BE CALLED THE VALLEY OF GOG's HORDE."
12 :  "IT WILL TAKE THE ISRAELITES SEVEN MONTHS TO BURY THEM AND TO
        PURIFY THE LAND,
13 :  AND ALL THE PEOPLE WILL SHARE IN THE TASK. THE DAY THAT I WIN MYSELF
        HONOUR WILL BE A MEMORABLE DAY FOR THEM."  This is THE WORD OF THE
        LORD GOD.

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