Today's Bibliomancy for Barack Obama

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from King James Bible:

LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

SA2 17:15 Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.

SA2 17:16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.

SA2 17:17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.

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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible:

believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

ROM 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

ROM 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

ROM 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

ROM 10:18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

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The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from King James Bible:

walked in their own counsels.

PSA 81:13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

PSA 81:14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

PSA 81:15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.

PSA 81:16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

PSA 82:1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.

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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from King James Bible:

JOH 12:6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

JOH 12:7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.

JOH 12:8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

JOH 12:9 Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

JOH 12:10 But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;

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