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Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem

Our Father in Heaven,
Hallowed, Magnified,
and Sanctified is Your Most Holy Name!
How Blessed and How True is Your Word,
and How Mighty!
How Glorious, to Span the Millennia,
To be Unfettered by Time and Space,
To Know The End from the Beginning
and the Beginning from The End!
For it is You, Oh LORD,
Who designed the Galaxies with Your Compass,
And Mapped Out the Vast Reaches of Space With Your Word
and Your Omniscient Imagination!
Scientists tell us even the heavens are finite.
But YOU are Infinite!
LORD, remind us ALWAYS to Worship You,
and not Your Creation.
Your creation is there but to proclaim YOUR GLORY.
Hallelujah and Amen.

Let all that has been Concealed
Be Revealed.

Father, We Pray For The Peace Of Jerusalem,
According To Your Will and Promise.
We Pray That You Will Forgive The Sins
of Our Own Nation,
and Lead us all to Godly Repentance.
Create in Us Clean Hearts, Oh LORD,
and Renew a Right Spirit Within Us.

This we Pray Together,
As We Await Your Messiah,
Blessed Be He,
To Set Up His Kingdom,
And Make All Things Right.

God Bless America.

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Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem

The Names and Titles of God (The Beginning of the Creation of God)

Revelation 3:14

14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

King James Version

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At a very young age, I became very conscious of being the "First Born". Perhaps this was because Mom had six kids in eleven years, so I was always involved in baby care. Mom had some health issues back in the sixties, and so I ended up having a lot of responsibilities. In modern parlance, I would be said to have an "Alpha" personality, with all the positive and negative connotations. In those days I was just being a Big Sister.

To this day, I have a great relationship with my younger siblings, but I still have a tendency to want to run things. Once a First Born, always a First Born, I guess.

In this Passage, Jesus is called "The Beginning (or Firstborn) of God's Creation". This has caused some confusion and even the formation of false religious groups, because, in translation to English, this title seems to imply that Jesus was a created being. This confusion is not evident in the original Greek Text.

The word for "Beginning" in this context is ἀρχή (Strong's 746)

This doesn't mean "the first in a series of created beings" as some poor translators would read it. Instead, it means Preeminence, Majesty, and Authority. We see the Greek word in English words like "Archenemy", "Archbishop", and "Archangel". These usages show that we are not talking about a plain enemy, bishop, or angel. The addition of the "Arch" elevates these to a position of authority over the others.

Scripture uses this Greek word in other instances where it talks about "The Beginning" as an exalted rank rather than an ordinal number. Jesus is The First and the Last, The Alpha and the Omega, and the FIRSTBORN (rank, not order) of all Creation. He is the BEGINNING and the END.

Just because the guy at the door has a decent haircut and a nice suit, doesn't mean he's got his Christology correct.

Whenever there is a problem with the Translation, it is best to go back to the original language, culture, and laws that were in place at the time.

PS. Being the firstborn in our own culture doesn't mean much more than being the OLDEST. I don't mind that so much.

Come and Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open. (Mark 4:22)

God Bless America.

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

Hallelujah and Amen

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Prayers for Jerusalem and for the inheritance of Christ Jesus for all of us believers being a witness on this Earth of who is the ultimate owner of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria at his coming.

His Holy Word will stand forever.

“The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.” Psalm 2:2-3

“A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.” Jeremiah 25:31

“I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.” Joel 3:2