The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and
my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.
NEH 5:15 But the former governors that had been before me were
chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside
forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the
people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
NEH 5:16 Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought
we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.
NEH 5:17 Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the
Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen
that are about us.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: EZR 10:13 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and
we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or
two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.
EZR 10:14 Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all
them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed
times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof,
until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
EZR 10:15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of
Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the
Levite helped them.
EZR 10:16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
ISA 4:6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time
from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm
and from rain.
ISA 5:1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching
his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
ISA 5:2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and
planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it,
and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring
forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
ISA 5:3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I
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