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You Will Not Be Led -5- Disobedience to Witness
We stand daily on the precipice of loving the LORD our God or turning away toward the pit of our destruction.
Roger @ talk of Jesus {dot}.com

From Awe to Law

All the people answered together and said,
“All that the LORD has spoken we will do!”
And Moses brought back the words of the people to the LORD.
Exodus 19:8 NASB95

AWESOME! Amazing beyond human comprehension (if you were not there); not only the Red Sea crossing but more so the appearance of the LORD at Sinai. This is were we left the Hebrews following the LORD and Moses in You Will Not Be Led -4- Death in the Wilderness.

But now after receiving the Law their troubles continue.

Exodus 20:

18 All the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the ram’s horn, and the mountain surrounded by smoke. When the people saw it they trembled and stood at a distance.

19 “You speak to us, and we will listen,” they said to Moses, “but don’t let God speak to us, or we will die.”

20-21 Moses responded to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, so that you will fear him and will not sin.” And the people remained standing at a distance as Moses approached the total darkness where God was.

24:3 וַיָּבֹא מֹשֶׁה וַיְסַפֵּר לָעָם אֵת כָּל־דִּבְרֵי יְהוָה וְאֵת כָּל־הַמִּשְׁפָּטִים וַיַּעַן כָּל־הָעָם קוֹל אֶחָד וַיֹּאמְרוּ כָּל־הַדְּבָרִים אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּר יְהוָה נַעֲשֶֽׂה׃
Masoretic Text

3 Moses came and told the people all the commands of the Lord and all the ordinances. Then all the people responded with a single voice,

“We will do everything that the Lord has commanded.”

The Covenant Cermony

8 Moses took the blood, splattered it on the people, and said,

“This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you concerning all these words.”

An Agreement Carved in Stone

12 The Lord said to Moses,

“Come up to me on the mountain and stay there so that I may give you the stone tablets with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.” .. The glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days..

18 Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

The Testing in WAITING for the Promised Land

Moses disappears for more than a month.

Can you wait thirty or forty days or even forty years for God’s answer?
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To be continued...  .. {for now just think how the Hebrews waited
 and turn the page.. it's a test}
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March 8, 2021
SHAKEN 3 a great cloud of witnesses over our head
TODAY we move forward in time from about 520 B.C. to around A.D. 100 and ‘a great cloud of witnesses’ from the New Testament book of Hebrews. This cloud of witnesses, however, goes back to the Old Covenant and continues until this day.
Epistle of St Paul [*] to the Hebrews
God spoke of old by the prophets, but now by his Son, who is incomparably greater than the angels.
A List of Fathers of our founding
Jesus Christ OR Judgment?
Hebrews 10:
Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All
the cloud of Witnesses [Hebrews 11]
What faith is. Its wonderful fruits and efficacy demonstrated in the fathers.
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Previously in SHAKEN 2 “Think carefully about your ways we found political and religious leadership along with all the people once again turning back to the Lord their God who now proclaims HE IS with them.
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“Speak to Zerubbabel governor of Judah, saying, ‘I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
Haggai 2:21 NASB

Epistle of St Paul [*] to the Hebrews

* NOTE: Some commentators question if this epistle or letter to the Hebrews, who’s author is unidentified in its text, was written by Paul or possibly by other A.D. 1st century apostles.
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Some excerpts from D-R Bible {pictured with Joseph Biden, a professing Roman Catholic, being sworn in as 46th President of the United States}

Most translations from NASB translation or versions as noted.
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God spoke of old by the prophets, but now by his Son, who is incomparably greater than the angels.
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The Prophets provided not only a cloud of witnesses to Israel but spoke the very admonitions of the LORD God to a disobedient and unfaithful people.
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[1] God, who, at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets, last of all,

[2] In these days hath spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world.

A List of Fathers of our founding
- He again sets a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before,
“Today if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts.”
Hebrews 4:7b CSB
- 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that.
- Melchizedek and Abraham – Heb. 7
- Aaron & Moses – Heb. 7:11,14
- And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us.. Heb. 10:15
Now where there is forgiveness of these things, an offering for sin is no longer required.
Hebrews 10:18

Jesus Christ OR Judgment?

Application to a 21st century world.

So you want justice, do you?

Is this justice you demand finally for ones you judge (opponents to your own world view)?

Or do you seek judgment on your own sins, transgressions and trespasses (for which you ask forgiveness)?

The Apostles wrote to a 1st century church persecuted for their faith in Jesus Christ.

It was not faith in their failing leaders of government

OR was it faith in a zealous vision of their pastor.

Nor was it faith that their country would come under the LAW of God, their state under a mandate of morality and their community forced into the fellowship of love.

The CHURCH believed GOD in Christ Jesus and it was counted to them as righteousness.

These faithful saints suffered for their hope in the Lord and persevered by grace suffering for a higher community in a heavenly kingdom.
Roger@TalkofJesus.com – on the 1st century saints of the Church

Hebrews 10:

Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All

11 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

26 For if we sin deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries.

For we know Him who said,

“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge His people.”

It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Hebrews 10:30-31 CSB

the cloud of Witnesses [Hebrews 11]
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From the Douay-Rheims Bible [background of Biden Presidential oath pictured above]
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What faith is. Its wonderful fruits and efficacy demonstrated in the fathers.

[1] Now faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not. [2] For by this the ancients obtained a testimony. [3] By faith we understand that the world was framed by the word of God…

Hebrews 11 continues, mentioning these witnesses of faith in the Lord God:
- Abel
- Enoch
- Noah
- Abraham
- Sarah
- Isaac
- Jacob [Israel]
- Joseph
- Moses
- Rahab
- Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets..
Hebrews 12 – surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses

Exhortation to constancy under their crosses. The danger of abusing the graces of the New Testament.
Hebrews 12 summary from the Douay-Rheims Bible

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith..
Hebrews 12:1-2a RSVCE
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To be continued...
NEXT: SHAKEN 4 ! His voice shook the earth
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January 27, 2021
A Temporary Throne – 37

CHAPTER 37

Proverbs 18: 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

FROM THE WOMB ESAU HONORED HIS FATHER, BUT DID NOT HONOR HIS GOD AND CREATOR. I AM THE LORD.

Genesis 27: Now it came to pass, when Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim that he could not see, that he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.”

And he answered him, “Here I am.”
2 Then he said, “Behold now, I am old. I do not know the day of my death …make me savory food, such as I love… that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.”

ESAU IS A GROWN MAN SEEKING WHAT HE EXCHANGED FOR FOOD AS A YOUNG MAN. ISAAC IS A MAN OF HIS WORD.

34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me—me also, O my father!”

35 But he said, “Your brother came with deceit and has taken away your blessing.”
36 And Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and now look, he has taken away my blessing!” And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

Then I said to the LORD, “Esau remembered his word to his brother from years before. As You allowed Esau to be born first, You allowed Jacob to supplant him from his rightful blessing, which he disavowed.”

HEAR ISAAC’S BLESSING AND UNDERSTAND.

“… And it shall come to pass, when you become restless,
That you shall break his yoke from your neck.”

To be continued…

A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

© Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

July 23, 2014