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Watchman On The Wall
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I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me. — read the full passage →
But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.
Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →
Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters, — read the full passage →
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.
God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’
But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart”; that is, the word of faith, which we preach: — read the full passage →
making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”
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.
The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him. — read the full passage →
Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times. — read the full passage →
I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?”
who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and to the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, — read the full passage →
In God, I will praise his word. In Yahweh, I will praise his word.
Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;
The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying, — read the full passage →
But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.
The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.
The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there is great reward.
In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →
I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.
The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing Yahweh’s words.
Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.
and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names. — read the full passage →
For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; — read the full passage →
“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can’t bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →
For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
The voice of your watchmen! they lift up the voice, together do they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when Yahweh returns to Zion.
The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?” — read the full passage →
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →
The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”
He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.
then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn’t take warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be on his own head.
if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;
When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.
For there shall be a day, that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.
I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’
Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.
Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →
Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand. — read the full passage →
When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand. — read the full passage →
My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; more than watchmen for the morning.
But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming by way of the hillside behind him.
but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;
Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →
For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →
Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
“Cry aloud, don’t spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
Thus says Yahweh, “Keep justice, and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. — read the full passage →
They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield! — read the full passage →
I said to them, “Don’t let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house.”
When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were no one who escaped.
Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.” Joram said, “Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”
and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,
Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone. — read the full passage →
Saul said, “You shall tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →
They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is “Abaddon”, but in Greek, he has the name “Apollyon”.
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, — read the full passage →
Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, — read the full passage →
By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.
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