Banners

You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

Moses built an altar, and called its name Yahweh our Banner.

He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.

We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests.

He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

“The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses: at a distance from the Tent of Meeting shall they encamp around it.”

Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

So shall they fear Yahweh’s name from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh drives.

All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!

He will lift up a banner to the nations from far, and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ They began to celebrate.

Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don’t wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.”

One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.

For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole. It shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”

Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.

Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

Declare among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don’t conceal: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed; her images are disappointed, her idols are dismayed.

Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Cast up, cast up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples.

His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will be afraid of the banner,” says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

It will be, that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’

“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold.I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

giving vengeance to those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, — read the full passage →

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.

Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,

When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done.

being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in your midst, even as you yourselves know, — read the full passage →

But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book; — read the full passage →

They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”

“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’”

In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. — read the full passage →

But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna.Yes, I tell you, fear him.

You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. — read the full passage →

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire, — read the full passage →

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehennaas yourselves.

If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehennaof fire.

If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.

But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna. — read the full passage →

But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.’

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — read the full passage →

They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Yahweh their God.

For thus says Yahweh to me, “As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for their noise, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.

and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd. — read the full passage →

For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways. — read the full passage →

He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.

“On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.