The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: unto them, I am old and stricken in age:
JOS 23:3 And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all
these nations because of you; for the LORD your God is he that hath
fought for you.
JOS 23:4 Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that
remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the
nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
JOS 23:5 And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you,
and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land,
as the LORD your God hath promised unto you.
JOS 23:6 Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and
there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken,
and snared, and taken.
ISA 28:14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that
rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
ISA 28:15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and
with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass
through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge,
and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
ISA 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for
a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can
come upon us.
MIC 3:12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and
Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high
places of the forest.
MIC 4:1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain
of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the
mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall
flow unto it.
MIC 4:2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to
the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he
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