The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
JOE 3:4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all
the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye
recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon
your own head;
JOE 3:5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried
into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
JOE 3:6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have
ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their
border.
JOE 3:7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: talents beside them.
MAT 25:23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant;
thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over
many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
MAT 25:24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said,
Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not
sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
MAT 25:25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth:
lo, there thou hast that is thine.
MAT 25:26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful
servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger
in offering incense unto Baal.
JER 11:18 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it:
then thou shewedst me their doings.
JER 11:19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the
slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me,
saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut
him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more
remembered.
JER 11:20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest
the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee
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