The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.
ACT 21:25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and
concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep
themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from
strangled, and from fornication.
ACT 21:26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself
with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the
days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every
one of them.
ACT 21:27 And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which
were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: ACT 19:24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made
silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;
ACT 19:25 Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation,
and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
ACT 19:26 Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but
almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away
much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
ACT 19:27 So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at
nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be
despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and
the world worshippeth.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to
breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.
JOS 11:12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them,
did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he
utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.
JOS 11:13 But as for the cities that stood still in their strength,
Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.
JOS 11:14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the
children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they
smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither
left they any to breathe.
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