The Lord Himself

From a letter written by the apostle Paul

 to Timothy:

Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me: For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry. And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus. The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments. Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works: Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words. At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.-2 Timothy 4:9-18***The apostle Paul (Saul) was an Israelite from the tribe of Benjamin, descended from Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob (Israel) and his 2nd wife Rachel, and Jacob and Rachel's 2nd and last son Benjamin. Paul thought of Timothy (Timotheus), Titus, and Onesimus as sons. Shortly after Paul met Timothy, Paul circumcised Timothy, and took Timothy on journeys to help teach the good news about Jesus the Christ, who had been crucified, buried in a tomb, resurrected, and returned to heaven. Titus, a fellow believer, was uncircumcised and a Gentile, a person not born into the Israelite tribes. Except for the verse above, there is no other mention of Crescens in the divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible. Luke was a physician, and was regularly with Paul, and is widely regarded to be the divinely inspired writer of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles in the Holy Bible. Mark (John Mark) is widely recognized to be the divinely inspired writer of the Gospel of Mark in the Holy Bible. Mark traveled with Paul and fellow believer Barnabas until they parted company over the issue of Mark's previous desertion. Tychicus is first mentioned in association with Paul when Timothy was with Paul and others in Greece. Demas was a believer, and a servant of the Lord, and willingly walked out of Paul's life. Alexander turned his back on Paul, although no specific details of the event are revealed in the Holy Bible.-Genesis 11:26-35:29, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26, 4:1-37, 6:1-8:4, 9:1-31, 11:19-28:31, Romans 1:1-32, 16:1-27, 1 Corinthians 1:1-31, 4:1-21, 9:1-27, 16:1-24, 2 Corinthians 1:1-2:17, 7:1-8:24, 12:1-21, Galatians 1:1-2:21, Ephesians 1:1-23, 6:1-24, Philippians 1:1-2:30, Colossians 1:1-29, 4:1-18, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, 3:1-13, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon

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The One and Only

From a letter written by the apostle Paul,

with Timotheus (Timothy), to believers in Philippi:

But I trust in the Lord Jesus to sent Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel. Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me. But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.-Philippians 2:19-24***The apostle Paul (Saul) was an Israelite from the tribe of Benjamin, descended from Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob (Israel) and his 2nd wife Rachel, and Jacob and Rachel's 2nd and last son Benjamin. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible do not reveal any information about Paul being married or having children. However, Paul it is revealed that Paul had at least 1 sister, and it was his sister's son who learned that a group of Israelites was planning to kill Paul. Paul's nephew told Paul about the plot, and Paul arranged for his nephew to tell the information to Roman commander Claudius Lysias. Other young men were especially beneficial to Paul, and 3 of them, Titus, Onesimus and Timothy (Timotheus), were regarded by Paul as sons. Paul, Titus, Onesimus, and Timothy believed Jesus, who had been crucified, buried in a tomb, resurrected, and returned to heaven, to be the Christ, the Son of God. Timothy's mother Eunice  was an Israelite and Timothy's father was a Gentile, a person not born into the Israelite tribes. Titus was a Gentile. Onesimus was formerly a slave; his lineage is not revealed in the Holy Bible.-Genesis 11:26-35:29, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 8:1-40, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26, 6:1-8:4, 9:1-31, 11:19-28:31, Romans 16:1-27, 1 Corinthians 4:1-21, 7:1-40, 16:1-24, 2 Corinthians 1:1-24, Philippians 1:1-3:23, Colossians 1:1-29,  1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, 3:1-13, 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon

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Know What

The death of Absalom:

And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom. So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim; where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men. For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured. And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away. And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak. And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? And I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle. And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom. Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me. Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak. And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.-2 Samuel 18:5-15***In Canaan, the Promised Land, Joab, Abishai and Asahel were born to Zeruiah.  Zeruiah and King David were siblings from the tribe of Judah, descended from Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob (Israel) and his 1st wife Leah, and Jacob and Leah's 3rd born son Judah. Absalom was born to David and Maacah.  When David was 30 years old, he began to reign only over the tribe of Judah. When David was 37 1/2 years old, he became the 2nd king to rule over all of the Israelites in the Promised Land, the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, and Isaac, and to Jacob, and their descendants. Joab became commander of the army after defeating the Jebusites. While David was reigning, Absalom had himself proclaimed king. David and many of those loyal to David, including Joab and Abishai, immediately left Jerusalem. When David and his loyalists arrived in Mahanaim, on the other side of the Jordan River, David gave specific commands about Absalom. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that over 900 years earlier, Jacob  encountered the angels of God in Mahanaim. Solomon, the 2nd child born to David and Bathsheba, was the 3rd king to rule over all of the Israelites. Over 900 years after Rehoboam, the son born to Solomon and Naamah, became the 4th king to reign, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Samuel 1:1-3:21, 8:1-31:13, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1:1-11:43, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles 1:1-9:31, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

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'Tis Like

The Words of
 Jesus the Christ,
the Son of God:

Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet their bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.-Matthew 25:1-13***Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, lived among the Israelites for less than 33 1/2 years after he was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. Approximately 30 years after Jesus was born to Joseph and Mary, Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River by Mary's relative John the Baptist, from the tribe of Levi. Jesus having prayed, the heavens tearing open, the Holy Spirit descended as a dove and lit upon Jesus. The Lord God in heaven audibly acknowledged his Son Jesus, and the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert wilderness. Jesus fasted 40 days and nights and was tempted. Afterwards, Jesus was tended to by angels, and Jesus went to the area near John the Baptist, and John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus to be the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world. In Galilee, Jesus told specific Israelite men to follow him, and Jesus began to preach, teach, and perform miracles among the Israelites, the treasured and chosen people of the Lord God. Jesus spoke about the kingdom of heaven, and the kingdom of God, and the divisions he had come to set within relationships. Jesus sometimes used parables, and identified and referred to himself as the Son of man. Jesus explained to his disciples that he would soon be put to death, and would return, and that 1 of them was going to betray him. When Jesus spoke about the betrayer, he used some of the same words regarding  false friends that were divinely revealed by King David over 900 years earlier.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings 1:1-2:12, 1 Chronicles 1:1-33, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 10:1-29:30, Psalm 12, Psalm 36, Psalm 41, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

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Wait, What Are We Doing Here

Absalom

And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him. Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel. And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee. Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice! And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him. And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron. For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the Lord shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD. And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron. But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron. And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing. And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.-2 Samuel 15:1-12 ***David experienced relationship problems before and after he became the 2nd king to rule over all of the Israelites in the Promised Land. Saul, from the tribe of Benjamin, was the 1st king to rule over the Israelites in the Promised Land. At least twice, Saul did not obey the commands of the Lord God. While Saul reigned, the Lord God sent Samuel, the priest, prophet and judge who had anointed Saul, to anoint David to reign as king. Sometime thereafter, David began serving as a musician and an armor-bearer for Saul. After David killed and beheaded Goliath, the gigantic Philistine, David and Jonathan, Saul's son, made a covenant. The Israelite women sang of David higher than they sang of Saul, and Saul was angry. Saul wanted to kill David, and became afraid of David, and sent David on missions to get killed, and commanded others, including Jonathan, to kill David. Saul wanted his daughter Merab to become David's wife. However, Merab became Adriel's wife, and Saul's daughter Michal  became David's wife. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that Michal helped David escape from their home. During the years that David lived on the run, Michal became the wife of Phalti (Phaltiel), and Abigail and Ahinoam became David's wives. After Jonathan and his brothers Malchishua and Abinadab (Ishui?) were killed by the Philistines, and Saul's self-inflicted death on the same battlefield, men from the tribe of Judah anointed 30-year-old David, and David began to reign only over the tribe of Judah, the tribe of his birth. Abner, Saul's cousin and army commander, set Saul's son Ishbosheth (Eshbaal) as king over the other Israelite tribes. After Ishbosheth accused Abner of being intimate with Saul's concubine Rizpah, Abner pledged allegiance to David, and David required that Michal be brought to him. Sometime after Ishbosheth was murdered, the Israelite elders went to David, and David made a covenant with them. The elders anointed 37-year-old David, and David began to reign over all of the Israelites. When Michal criticized David after David danced before the Lord God as the ark of the covenant of the Lord was being brought into the City of David, the marital intimacy between David and Michal apparently stopped. During David's reign, Amnon, the son born to David and Ahinoam, raped Tamar, the daughter born to David and Maacah. Two years thereafter, Absalom, the son born to David and Maacah, gave the command for Amnon's death. Meanwhile, Absalom ran to Geshur, his maternal grandfather's kingdom in Syria (Aram). Three years after Absalom fled, David's nephew and army commander Joab enacted a plan and  brought Absalom back to Jerusalem. However, Absalom was not invited to visit David until Joab's successful plea to David. Four years after Joab's request, Absalom had himself proclaimed king and sent for Ahithophel, David's advisor. Ahithophel turned his back on David and joined Absalom. Over 900 years after Adonijah, the son born to David and Haggith, tried to have himself proclaimed king, and Joab helped Adonijah, and Solomon, the 2nd child born to David and Bathsheba, became the 3rd king to rule over all of the Israelites,  Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Samuel 1:1-3:21, 8:1-31:13, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1:1-11:43, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles 1:1-9:31, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

Him, too

Psalm 41

Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee. Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish? And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it. All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them. By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever. Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.-Psalm 41:1-13/the complete psalm***King David was the 2nd king to rule over all of the Israelites in the Promised Land. Canaan, the Promised Land, is the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham (Abram the Hebrew), and to Abraham's son Isaac, and to Isaac's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel), and to their descendants. David is identified as the divinely inspired writer of Psalm 41. Before David began to reign, and during his kingship, some people accepted David's help or stood by his side and later betrayed him. King Saul, from the tribe of Jacob's 12th and last son Benjamin, was the 1st king to rule over the Israelites in the Promised Land. Saul, and the Israelites in Keilah, and David's sons Absalom and Adonijah, and David's nephew Joab, and David's advisor Ahithophel, and Abiathar the priest, turned against David. Solomon, the 2nd child born to David and Bathsheba, was the 3rd king to rule over all of the Israelites. Over 900 years after Rehoboam, the son born to Solomon and Naamah, became the 4th king to rule over all of the Israelites, John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, were born. John the Baptist was born into the tribe of Jacob's 3rd born son Levi to Zechariah (Zacharias) the priest and his wife Elizabeth (Elisabeth). Jesus the Christ was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Elizabeth's relative Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Jacob's 4th born son Judah, the tribe of David and his descendants, to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. Approximately 30 years after John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ were born, Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. Jesus having prayed, the heavens tearing open, the Holy Spirit descended as a dove and lit upon Jesus. The Lord God in heaven audibly acknowledged his Son Jesus, and the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert wilderness. Jesus fasted 40 days and nights and was tempted. Afterwards, Jesus was tended to by angels, and Jesus went to the area near John the Baptist, and John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus to be the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world, and testified that Jesus is the Son of God. In Galilee, Jesus told specific Israelite men to follow him, and Jesus began to preach, teach and perform miracles among the Israelites, the treasured and chosen people of the Lord God. Less than 3 1/2 years after Jesus was baptized, Jesus spoke about a traitor, Judas Iscariot, the disciple and apostle who betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Samuel 1:1-3:21, 8:1-31:13, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1:1-11:43, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 8:1-40, 9:35-29:30, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

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The Lord God Himself

A message the Lord God

revealed to Zechariah the prophet

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.-Zechariah 13:7-9***After Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, finished speaking about his upcoming crucifixion to his 12 disciples, and after Judas Iscariot the disciple and apostle left to betray Jesus, Jesus explained to his remaining 11 disciples and apostles that they would soon scatter. Jesus quoted some of the words that Zechariah the prophet received from the Lord God over 400 years earlier, when many of the Israelites from Jerusalem and the rest of Judah, the southern nation in the Promised Land, were living in Judah and Jerusalem again after returning from Babylonian (Chaldean) exile and captivity.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Zechariah, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

Reference Scriptures: 

Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.--Matthew 26:31

And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.-Mark 14:27

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