The Words of
Jesus the Christ,
the Son of God:
How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.-Matthew 18:12-14***The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that Adam was the 1st man. The Lord God created Adam. The Lord God formed Adam from the dust of the ground, and the Lord God made Adam's wife Eve, the mother of all living, after taking a part out of Adam. Over 3,000 years after Cain, Abel and Seth were born to Adam and Eve, 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. Judah was the 4th son born to Jacob (Israel) and his 1st wife Leah. Jacob was the youngest fraternal twin son born to Isaac and Rebekah. Isaac was born to 100-year-old Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and 90-year-old Sarah (Sarai). Abraham and Sarah were born to Terah. Terah was the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Arphaxad. Arphaxad was born to Shem, and Shem was born to Noah the ark builder. Noah was the great-grandson of Enoch. Enoch was the great-great-great-grandson of Seth. In the Garden of Eden, Eve was deceived and disobeyed the command of the Lord God and led Adam to disobey the command of the Lord God. Enoch walked with the Lord God, and pleased the Lord God, and the Lord God took Enoch without Enoch being dead. Noah was righteous and blameless and walked with the Lord God. Terah worshiped many gods. When Terah, Abraham and Sarah were living in Ur, in southern Mesopotamia, the Lord God told Abraham to depart from his country and kin and come into the land he would be shown. Abraham journeyed away from Ur with Sarah, Terah, and nephew Lot and began living in Haran, in northern Mesopotamia. Sometime after 205-year-old Terah died in Haran, Abraham, Sarah and Lot journeyed with their servants and possessions to Canaan, a land inhabited by idolaters. The Lord God promised to give Canaan to Abraham, and Isaac, and to Jacob, and their descendants. In Padan Aram, Haran, Jacob was married to Leah and Leah's younger sister Rachel, the daughters of Rebekah's brother Laban the Syrian (Aram). Laban kept idols and, and before Jacob, his wives and maidservants journeyed away from Laban's property with the children, servants and possessions, Rachel stole Laban's idols. Esau's descendants the Edomites were idolaters. Judah, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, Zebulun, and daughter Dinah were born to Jacob and Leah. Dan and Naphtali were born to Jacob and Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant. Gad and Asher were born to Jacob and Zilpah, Leah's maidservant. Joseph and Benjamin were born to Jacob and Rachel. When Jacob was 130 years old, he moved with his family from Canaan to Egypt, the country wherein Joseph was second-in-command. In Egypt, Jacob proclaimed Manasseh and Ephraim, the sons born to Joseph and his wife Asenath, to be his own sons. Sometime after 147-year-old died in Egypt and Jacob's family buried his body in Canaan, and 110-year-old Joseph and his sibling were dead, the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt. Some of the Israelites began worshiping idols. Miriam and her younger brothers Aaron and Moses were born into the tribe of Levi. When Moses was 80 years old and Aaron was 83, they led the Israelites away from Egypt, across the divinely parted Red Sea, and into the desert wilderness of Shur, according to the commands of the Lord God. In the desert wilderness of Sinai, in the region of Mount Sinai, the Israelites heard the voice of the Lord God proclaim the Ten Commandments to them, and the Lord God began giving Moses judgments, statutes and laws for the Israelites. During the 40-year journey to Canaan, the Promised Land, Miriam the prophetess died and was buried in Kadesh, in the desert wilderness of Zin. Upon Mount Hor, 123-year-old Aaron the high priest died. When Moses went upon Mount Nebo, the Lord God showed Moses the Promised Land, and 120-year-old Moses the prophet died and was divinely buried. Joshua, Moses' aide and successor from the tribe of Ephraim, led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants. Over 1,300 years after 110-year-old Joshua died and was buried in his tribe's portion of the Promised Land, Jesus the Christ was born to Joseph and Mary. On the 8th day after Jesus was born, Jesus was circumcised, according to the covenant of circumcision that the Lord God gave Abraham. In Nazareth, Jesus, being filled with wisdom, grew and became strong, and the grace of the Lord God was upon Jesus. During the 12th year after Jesus was born, Joseph and Mary found Jesus in the temple of the Lord, listening, asking, understanding, and answering. Approximately 30 years after Jesus was born, 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, 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. Moreover, in Galilee, Jesus held the hand of a dead 12-year-old girl and commanded the girl to arise, and Jesus healed a boy whom his disciples did not heal, and Jesus told a royal official that the official's feverish, dying son lives. In Judea, after the disciples were annoyed when people brought little children and infants to Jesus, Jesus told them to permit the little children and not forbid them, and Jesus spoke about the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God. Amid the region of Tyre and Sidon, a Canaanite woman cried out to Jesus, and worshiped Jesus, and revealed her request and faith to Jesus, and Jesus spoke to the woman, and the woman's daughter was healed.-Genesis, Exodus, Numbers 13:1-14:45, 20:1-20, 26:1-27:23, Deuteronomy 31:1-34:12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-2:17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 7:20-29, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles, Psalm 106, Ezekiel 20:1-49, 23:1-49, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
Reference Scriptures:
Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?-Ezekiel 18:23
Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,-Matthew 23:1...O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!-Matthew 23:37
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.-Matthew 15:1...And he spake this parable unto them, saying, What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?-Luke 15:4
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.-2 Peter 3:9
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