The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
HAG 1:12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of
Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed
the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as
the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the
LORD.
HAG 1:13 Then spake Haggai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's message
unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.
HAG 1:14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of
Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of
Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of 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: prey to ourselves.
DEU 3:8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of
the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of
Arnon unto mount Hermon;
DEU 3:9 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call
it Shenir;)
DEU 3:10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan,
unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
DEU 3:11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants;
behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the
children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend
upon the Lord without distraction.
CO1 7:36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward
his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let
him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
CO1 7:37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no
necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his
heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
CO1 7:38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that
giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
CO1 7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth;
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