Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem

Our Father,
Who Art in Heaven,
Hallowed Be Your Most Holy Name!
For You Alone Are Worthy,
You Alone Are Holy,
You Alone Are The Most High!
Teach us To Put Our Trust In You,
And Not In The Princes Of The Earth,
Or In Worldly Governments To Provide for Us,
For You Are Our Provider, Our Refuge, and Our Strength.
Thank You For Creating Us In Your Image,
And Thank You For The Artistic Gifts You Have Given Us.

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.

”The Greatest Of these Is Love.”

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ML/LTOS

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem

A New Study For A New Year: Personalities

Numbers 16:1-50

16 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:

2 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:

3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord?

4 And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:

5 And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the Lord will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.

6 This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;

7 And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the Lord to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the Lord doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.

8 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:

9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?

10 And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?

11 For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the Lord: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?

12 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:

13 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?

14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.

15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the Lord, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.

16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the Lord, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow:

17 And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the Lord every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.

18 And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.

19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the congregation.

20 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.

22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?

23 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

24 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.

26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of their's, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.

27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.

28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.

29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the Lord hath not sent me.

30 But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.

31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:

32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.

33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.

34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

35 And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

36 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.

38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the Lord, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.

39 And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:

40 To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the Lord; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the Lord said to him by the hand of Moses.

41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord.

42 And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.

43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.

44 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.

46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague is begun.

47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.

48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.

50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.

( The King James Version)

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My best friend Sandy was two years older than I was, so when I was still a Junior in High School, she went away to Amherst for her first semester at U-Mass. This was in 1968, and although I was a bit of a hippie-flower-child-folk-singer, I was not "political". When Sandy came home for Spring Break, everything about her was different. She wore a button with Che Guevara's face on it, was contemptuous of her parents, (who were paying for her education), and was a different girl than the one who had left a mere six months earlier. She even TALKED differently. Gone was the Boston Accent and the lively girlish chatter, replaced by a haughty vocal drawl that sneered down at us little people and stank of academic snobbery. It was unsettling. Her mind had been poisoned in a few short months, and our friendship ended.

By allowing Sandy to leave home and study in a University that was 100 miles away, her Parents had invested in her a measure of Trust and Responsibility. She was sent to Amherst with a goal: to become educated, to earn her degree in her chosen field, and to become an adult. Instead, she dabbled in the Political Philosophy that rooted itself in Envy and Jealousy. Marx's vision of "Class Struggle" pits the Rich against the Poor, The Proletariat against the Bourgeoisie, and the Working Person against the Landowners and Bankers. Marxism eschews Religion, calling it "The Opiate of the People", probably because Religion teaches us to be content with the Gifts God has given us, to work without envying those who seem to be better off, to respect our Leaders and Pray for them, and other very "counterrevolutionary" qualities. In Theory, Communism was supposed to bring about total equality (WRONG!), a "withering away of the state" (WRONG!!!), and the elimination of Social Classes (WRONG AGAIN!!!!).

Even as I sat on the bus reading "The Communist Manifesto" that Sandy had placed in my hands, I knew that it was WRONG WRONG WRONG. The Soviet Union had been in existence for nearly 50 years by that time, and the people were NOT equal, the state had NOT withered away, and the USSR was NOT a "Classless Society". But even though Marx had been proven WRONG by History, people still believed in him. Weird.

Suddenly, an elderly lady in a babushka walked up to me on the bus, and knocked the book out of my hand.

"Vy are you reading zat FEELTH?" she demanded, in a heavy Ukrainian accent.

"I'm reading it for school" (I lied) I'm doing a paper on the failure of Communism."

She shuffled off to her own seat on the bus, muttering under her breath. I felt TERRIBLE, not only because I lied, but because of what that poor woman must have experienced in her lifetime. She would have been my age at the time when Stalin was starving the Ukraine. The book went into the trash when I got off the bus.

The Sons of Korah had a very specific job with regard to the Tabernacle. All of the sons and grandsons of Aaron were involved in the building and dismantling of the tent, the packing and transportation of the Holy Articles, the preparation of the Sacrificial Animals, and so on. There are many Chapters in Exodus that contain these details. But these men weren't content with the Honor and Authority that God had bestowed upon them and their families. They were Envious and Jealous of the Authority and Anointing that God had bestowed upon Moses and Aaron.

This whole event illustrates two very opposite features of Moses's Personality. First, he is furious with the rebellion. But, when God threatens to wipe out the whole camp, Moses becomes a passionate intercessor for his people. In tomorrow's Reading, we'll see how Moses illustrates God's hierarchy once and for all.

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

!עם ישראל חי
(The Spirit of Israel Lives!)

☔️🌸”Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.” (Hosea 6:3 NIV)🌸☔️

ML/LTOS

Amen to your word and prayer. Wish fire would come down on the “progressives”. But it seems God is allowing it all to play out to test us all. May we be ready for whatever happens by being grounded it Him.

Wish fire would come down on the “progressives”.

Don't think I haven't had those same thoughts myself! 😡

My prayers always for Israel. God bless.

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem

Thank You, norsky, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

!עם ישראל חי
(The Spirit of Israel Lives!)

☔️🌸”Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.” (Hosea 6:3 NIV)🌸☔️

ML/LTOS

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Thank You, Etabeta, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

!עם ישראל חי
(The Spirit of Israel Lives!)

☔️🌸”Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.” (Hosea 6:3 NIV)🌸☔️

ML/LTOS

Amen, left that other site

Joining in prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem and for our beloved America 250.

Side note:

From the lyrics of the Beatles song, Revolution (they knew something)

If you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow

Don’t you know it’s gonna be alright?

I remember loving that song!

I prefered the uptempo Single to the slower Album Version.

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem

Thank You, NEWwoman, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

!עם ישראל חי
(The Spirit of Israel Lives!)

☔️🌸”Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.” (Hosea 6:3 NIV)🌸☔️

ML/LTOS

Amen

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