I didn't get anything out of reading the book of Ecliasiasties. ----- Original Message ----- From: "O.Addison Gethers" <[email protected]> To: "Deaf-blind inspirational life groups" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 9:46 AM Subject: {dbilg} Fw: Daily Bible Reading For Monday July 20
> > > O. Addison Gethers > > e-mail address > [email protected] > [email protected] > > twitter > URL http//:twitter.com/OAddisonGethers > > Messenger contact > window live/msn messenger: [email protected] aim: durangoadd64 skype: > cowboys62 yahoo messenger: OADDISONGETHERS > rs > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 10:51 PM > Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Monday July 20 > > >> Isaiah 1-3 (The Message) >> >> Isaiah 1 >> Messages of Judgment >> Quit Your Worship Charades >> 1The vision that Isaiah son of Amoz saw regarding Judah and Jerusalem >> during the times of the kings >> of Judah: Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. 2-4Heaven and earth, you're >> the jury. >> Listen to God's case: >> "I had children and raised them well, >> and they turned on me. >> The ox knows who's boss, >> the mule knows the hand that feeds him, >> But not Israel. >> My people don't know up from down. >> Shame! Misguided God-dropouts, >> staggering under their guilt-baggage, >> Gang of miscreants, >> band of vandals- >> My people have walked out on me, their God, >> turned their backs on The Holy of Israel, >> walked off and never looked back. >> 5-9"Why bother even trying to do anything with you >> when you just keep to your bullheaded ways? >> You keep beating your heads against brick walls. >> Everything within you protests against you. >> From the bottom of your feet to the top of your head, >> nothing's working right. >> Wounds and bruises and running sores- >> untended, unwashed, unbandaged. >> Your country is laid waste, >> your cities burned down. >> Your land is destroyed by outsiders while you watch, >> reduced to rubble by barbarians. >> Daughter Zion is deserted- >> like a tumbledown shack on a dead-end street, >> Like a tarpaper shanty on the wrong side of the tracks, >> like a sinking ship abandoned by the rats. >> If God-of-the-Angel-Armies hadn't left us a few survivors, >> we'd be as desolate as Sodom, doomed just like Gomorrah. >> >> 10"Listen to my Message, >> you Sodom-schooled leaders. >> Receive God's revelation, >> you Gomorrah-schooled people. >> >> 11-12"Why this frenzy of sacrifices?" >> God's asking. >> "Don't you think I've had my fill of burnt sacrifices, >> rams and plump grain-fed calves? >> Don't you think I've had my fill >> of blood from bulls, lambs, and goats? >> When you come before me, >> whoever gave you the idea of acting like this, >> Running here and there, doing this and that- >> all this sheer commotion in the place provided for worship? >> >> 13-17"Quit your worship charades. >> I can't stand your trivial religious games: >> Monthly conferences, weekly Sabbaths, special meetings- >> meetings, meetings, meetings-I can't stand one more! >> Meetings for this, meetings for that. I hate them! >> You've worn me out! >> I'm sick of your religion, religion, religion, >> while you go right on sinning. >> When you put on your next prayer-performance, >> I'll be looking the other way. >> No matter how long or loud or often you pray, >> I'll not be listening. >> And do you know why? Because you've been tearing >> people to pieces, and your hands are bloody. >> Go home and wash up. >> Clean up your act. >> Sweep your lives clean of your evildoings >> so I don't have to look at them any longer. >> Say no to wrong. >> Learn to do good. >> Work for justice. >> Help the down-and-out. >> Stand up for the homeless. >> Go to bat for the defenseless. >> >> Let's Argue This Out >> 18-20"Come. Sit down. Let's argue this out." >> This is God's Message: >> "If your sins are blood-red, >> they'll be snow-white. >> If they're red like crimson, >> they'll be like wool. >> If you'll willingly obey, >> you'll feast like kings. >> But if you're willful and stubborn, >> you'll die like dogs." >> That's right. God says so. >> Those Who Walk Out on God >> 21-23Oh! Can you believe it? The chaste city >> has become a whore! >> She was once all justice, >> everyone living as good neighbors, >> And now they're all >> at one another's throats. >> Your coins are all counterfeits. >> Your wine is watered down. >> Your leaders are turncoats >> who keep company with crooks. >> They sell themselves to the highest bidder >> and grab anything not nailed down. >> They never stand up for the homeless, >> never stick up for the defenseless. >> 24-31This Decree, therefore, of the Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, >> the Strong One of Israel: >> "This is it! I'll get my oppressors off my back. >> I'll get back at my enemies. >> I'll give you the back of my hand, >> purge the junk from your life, clean you up. >> I'll set honest judges and wise counselors among you >> just like it was back in the beginning. >> Then you'll be renamed >> City-That-Treats-People-Right, the True-Blue City." >> God's right ways will put Zion right again. >> God's right actions will restore her penitents. >> But it's curtains for rebels and God-traitors, >> a dead end for those who walk out on God. >> "Your dalliances in those oak grove shrines >> will leave you looking mighty foolish, >> All that fooling around in god and goddess gardens >> that you thought was the latest thing. >> You'll end up like an oak tree >> with all its leaves falling off, >> Like an unwatered garden, >> withered and brown. >> 'The Big Man' will turn out to be dead bark and twigs, >> and his 'work,' the spark that starts the fire >> That exposes man and work both >> as nothing but cinders and smoke." >> >> Isaiah 2 >> Climb God's Mountain >> 1-5 The Message Isaiah got regarding Judah and Jerusalem: There's a day >> coming when the mountain of >> God's House >> Will be The Mountain- >> solid, towering over all mountains. >> All nations will river toward it, >> people from all over set out for it. >> They'll say, "Come, >> let's climb God's Mountain, >> go to the House of the God of Jacob. >> He'll show us the way he works >> so we can live the way we're made." >> Zion's the source of the revelation. >> God's Message comes from Jerusalem. >> He'll settle things fairly between nations. >> He'll make things right between many peoples. >> They'll turn their swords into shovels, >> their spears into hoes. >> No more will nation fight nation; >> they won't play war anymore. >> Come, family of Jacob, >> let's live in the light of God. >> 6-9God, you've walked out on your family Jacob >> because their world is full of hokey religion, >> Philistine witchcraft, and pagan hocus-pocus, >> a world rolling in wealth, >> Stuffed with things, >> no end to its machines and gadgets, >> And gods-gods of all sorts and sizes. >> These people make their own gods and worship what they make. >> A degenerate race, facedown in the gutter. >> Don't bother with them! They're not worth forgiving! >> >> Pretentious Egos Brought Down to Earth >> 10Head for the hills, >> hide in the caves >> From the terror of God, >> from his dazzling presence. >> 11-17People with a big head are headed for a fall, >> pretentious egos brought down a peg. >> It's God alone at front-and-center >> on the Day we're talking about, >> The Day that God-of-the-Angel-Armies >> is matched against all big-talking rivals, >> against all swaggering big names; >> Against all giant sequoias >> hugely towering, >> and against the expansive chestnut; >> Against Kilimanjaro and Annapurna, >> against the ranges of Alps and Andes; >> Against every soaring skyscraper, >> against all proud obelisks and statues; >> Against ocean-going luxury liners, >> against elegant three-masted schooners. >> The swelled big heads will be punctured bladders, >> the pretentious egos brought down to earth, >> Leaving God alone at front-and-center >> on the Day we're talking about. >> >> 18And all those sticks and stones >> dressed up to look like gods >> will be gone for good. >> >> 19Clamber into caves in the cliffs, >> duck into any hole you can find. >> Hide from the terror of God, >> from his dazzling presence, >> When he assumes his full stature on earth, >> towering and terrifying. >> >> 20-21On that Day men and women will take >> the sticks and stones >> They've decked out in gold and silver >> to look like gods and then worshiped, >> And they will dump them >> in any ditch or gully, >> Then run for rock caves >> and cliff hideouts >> To hide from the terror of God, >> from his dazzling presence, >> When he assumes his full stature on earth, >> towering and terrifying. >> >> 22Quit scraping and fawning over mere humans, >> so full of themselves, so full of hot air! >> Can't you see there's nothing to them? >> >> Isaiah 3 >> Jerusalem on Its Last Legs >> 1-7 The Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, is emptying Jerusalem and Judah >> Of all the basic necessities, >> plain bread and water to begin with. >> He's withdrawing police and protection, >> judges and courts, >> pastors and teachers, >> captains and generals, >> doctors and nurses, >> and, yes, even the repairmen and jacks-of-all-trades. >> He says, "I'll put little kids in charge of the city. >> Schoolboys and schoolgirls will order everyone around. >> People will be at each other's throats, >> stabbing one another in the back: >> Neighbor against neighbor, young against old, >> the no-account against the well-respected. >> One brother will grab another and say, >> 'You look like you've got a head on your shoulders. >> Do something! >> Get us out of this mess.' >> And he'll say, 'Me? Not me! I don't have a clue. >> Don't put me in charge of anything.' >> 8-9"Jerusalem's on its last legs. >> Judah is soon down for the count. >> Everything people say and do >> is at cross-purposes with God, >> a slap in my face. >> Brazen in their depravity, >> they flaunt their sins like degenerate Sodom. >> Doom to their eternal souls! They've made their bed; >> now they'll sleep in it. >> >> 10-11"Reassure the righteous >> that their good living will pay off. >> But doom to the wicked! Disaster! >> Everything they did will be done to them. >> >> 12"Skinny kids terrorize my people. >> Silly girls bully them around. >> My dear people! Your leaders are taking you down a blind alley. >> They're sending you off on a wild-goose chase." >> >> A City Brought to Her Knees by Her Sorrows >> 13-15God enters the courtroom. >> He takes his place at the bench to judge his people. >> God calls for order in the court, >> hauls the leaders of his people into the dock: >> "You've played havoc with this country. >> Your houses are stuffed with what you've stolen from the poor. >> What is this anyway? Stomping on my people, >> grinding the faces of the poor into the dirt?" >> That's what the Master, >> God-of-the-Angel-Armies, says. >> 16-17God says, "Zion women are stuck-up, >> prancing around in their high heels, >> Making eyes at all the men in the street, >> swinging their hips, >> Tossing their hair, >> gaudy and garish in cheap jewelry." >> The Master will fix it so those Zion women >> will all turn bald- >> Scabby, bald-headed women. >> The Master will do it. >> >> 18-23The time is coming when the Master will strip them of their fancy >> baubles-the dangling >> earrings, anklets and bracelets, combs and mirrors and silk scarves, >> diamond brooches and pearl >> necklaces, the rings on their fingers and the rings on their toes, the >> latest fashions in hats, >> exotic perfumes and aphrodisiacs, gowns and capes, all the world's finest >> in fabrics and design. >> >> 24Instead of wearing seductive scents, >> these women are going to smell like rotting cabbages; >> Instead of modeling flowing gowns, >> they'll be sporting rags; >> Instead of their stylish hairdos, >> scruffy heads; >> Instead of beauty marks, >> scabs and scars. >> >> 25-26Your finest fighting men will be killed, >> your soldiers left dead on the battlefield. >> The entrance gate to Zion will be clotted >> with people mourning their dead- >> A city stooped under the weight of her loss, >> brought to her knees by her sorrows. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning >> Skype Prayer Time. >> >> >> Contact Me At: >> Donnie Parrett >> 1956 Asa Flat Road >> Annville, Kentucky 40402 >> Home Phone: 606-364-3321 >> Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY >> Skype Name: Donnie1261 >> Email: [email protected] >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. 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