| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: to him less than nothing, and vanity.
ISA 40:18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye
compare unto him?
ISA 40:19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith
spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
ISA 40:20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth
a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to
prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
ISA 40:21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told
you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of
the earth?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah,
and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.
JER 40:13 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
JER 40:14 And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the
king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay
thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.
JER 40:15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah
secretly saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee,
that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his
armourbearer slew after him.
SA1 14:14 And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer
made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land,
which a yoke of oxen might plow.
SA1 14:15 And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among
all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and
the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.
SA1 14:16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and,
behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one
another.
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