“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Sunday Scripture: God’s Wrath Against Nineveh

Sunday Scripture: God’s Wrath Against Nineveh

At Dawn Pine’s suggestion – this one is worth reading through because of what it says about our current times: 1 An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.2 The Lord is a jealous and avenging God;    the Lord is avenging and...
Sunday Scripture: God’s Wrath Against Nineveh

Sunday Scripture: Make a Joyful Noise to the Lord

98 Oh sing to the Lord a new song,    for he has done marvelous things!His right hand and his holy arm    have worked salvation for him.2 The Lord has made known his salvation;    he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.3 He has remembered...
Sunday Scripture: God’s Wrath Against Nineveh

Sunday Scripture: The Shepherds and the Angels

8 And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. 10 And the angel said to them,...
Sunday Scripture: God’s Wrath Against Nineveh

Sunday Scripture: The Law and the Promise

15 To give a human example, brothers:[f] even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. 16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to...
Sunday Scripture: God’s Wrath Against Nineveh

Sunday Scripture: The Sons of Sceva

11 And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, 12 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them. 13 Then some of the itinerant...
Sunday Scripture: God’s Wrath Against Nineveh

Sunday Scripture: Robbing God

6 “For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. 7 From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, ‘How...
Sunday Scripture: God’s Wrath Against Nineveh

Sunday Scripture: Godlessness in the Last Days

3 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without...
Sunday Scripture: God’s Wrath Against Nineveh

Sunday Scripture: Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind

Set the trumpet to your lips!    One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord,because they have transgressed my covenant    and rebelled against my law.2 To me they cry,    “My God, we—Israel—know you.”3 Israel has spurned the good;    the enemy shall pursue...
Sunday Scripture: God’s Wrath Against Nineveh

Sunday Scripture: The Great Commandment

28 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is...
Sunday Scripture: God’s Wrath Against Nineveh

Sunday Scripture: Lying Prophets

13 Then I said: “Ah, Lord God, behold, the prophets say to them, ‘You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.’” 14 And the Lord said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them,...