The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: the nations which Joshua left when he died:
JDG 2:22 That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep
the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or
not.
JDG 2:23 Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them
out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
JDG 3:1 Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel
by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
JDG 3:2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know,
to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
JDG 3:3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall
be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
AMO 8:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that
I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in
the clear day:
AMO 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs
into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and
baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only
son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
AMO 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a
famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: NUM 3:16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as
he was commanded.
NUM 3:17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and
Kohath, and Merari.
NUM 3:18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their
families; Libni, and Shimei.
NUM 3:19 And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar,
Hebron, and Uzziel.
NUM 3:20 And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi.
These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their
fathers.
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