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: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:58 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Thursday July 23 > It has been brought to my attention that those of you who use Bellsouth > for your internet service > have not been receiving my emails since last Thursday or Friday. If you > are a user of Bellsouth and > you get this, please let me know. > > Isaiah 10-12 (The Message) > > Isaiah 10 > You Who Legislate Evil > 1-4 Doom to you who legislate evil, who make laws that make victims- Laws > that make misery for the > poor, > that rob my destitute people of dignity, > Exploiting defenseless widows, > taking advantage of homeless children. > What will you have to say on Judgment Day, > when Doomsday arrives out of the blue? > Who will you get to help you? > What good will your money do you? > A sorry sight you'll be then, huddled with the prisoners, > or just some corpses stacked in the street. > Even after all this, God is still angry, > his fist still raised, ready to hit them again. > Doom to Assyria! > 5-11"Doom to Assyria, weapon of my anger. > My wrath is a cudgel in his hands! > I send him against a godless nation, > against the people I'm angry with. > I command him to strip them clean, rob them blind, > and then push their faces in the mud and leave them. > But Assyria has another agenda; > he has something else in mind. > He's out to destroy utterly, > to stamp out as many nations as he can. > Assyria says, 'Aren't my commanders all kings? > Can't they do whatever they like? > Didn't I destroy Calno as well as Carchemish? > Hamath as well as Arpad? Level Samaria as I did Damascus? > I've eliminated kingdoms full of gods > far more impressive than anything in Jerusalem and Samaria. > So what's to keep me from destroying Jerusalem > in the same way I destroyed Samaria and all her god-idols?'" > 12-13When the Master has finished dealing with Mount Zion and Jerusalem, > he'll say, "Now it's > Assyria's turn. I'll punish the bragging arrogance of the king of Assyria, > his high and mighty > posturing, the way he goes around saying, > > 13-14"'I've done all this by myself. > I know more than anyone. > I've wiped out the boundaries of whole countries. > I've walked in and taken anything I wanted. > I charged in like a bull > and toppled their kings from their thrones. > I reached out my hand and took all that they treasured > as easily as a boy taking a bird's eggs from a nest. > Like a farmer gathering eggs from the henhouse, > I gathered the world in my basket, > And no one so much as fluttered a wing > or squawked or even chirped.'" > > 15-19Does an ax take over from the one who swings it? > Does a saw act more important than the sawyer? > As if a shovel did its shoveling by using a ditch digger! > As if a hammer used the carpenter to pound nails! > Therefore the Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, > will send a debilitating disease on his robust Assyrian fighters. > Under the canopy of God's bright glory > a fierce fire will break out. > Israel's Light will burst into a conflagration. > The Holy will explode into a firestorm, > And in one day burn to cinders > every last Assyrian thornbush. > God will destroy the splendid trees and lush gardens. > The Assyrian body and soul will waste away to nothing > like a disease-ridden invalid. > A child could count what's left of the trees > on the fingers of his two hands. > > 20-23And on that Day also, what's left of Israel, the ragtag survivors of > Jacob, will no longer be > fascinated by abusive, battering Assyria. They'll lean on God, The > Holy-yes, truly. The ragtag > remnant-what's left of Jacob-will come back to the Strong God. Your people > Israel were once like the > sand on the seashore, but only a scattered few will return. Destruction is > ordered, brimming over > with righteousness. For the Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, will finish > here what he started all > over the globe. > > 24-27Therefore the Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, says: "My dear, dear > people who live in Zion, > don't be terrorized by the Assyrians when they beat you with clubs and > threaten you with rods like > the Egyptians once did. In just a short time my anger against you will be > spent and I'll turn my > destroying anger on them. I, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, will go after them > with a cat-o'-nine-tails > and finish them off decisively-as Gideon downed Midian at the rock Oreb, > as Moses turned the tables > on Egypt. On that day, Assyria will be pulled off your back, and the yoke > of slavery lifted from > your neck." > > 27-32Assyria's on the move: up from Rimmon, > on to Aiath, > through Migron, > with a bivouac at Micmash. > They've crossed the pass, > set camp at Geba for the night. > Ramah trembles with fright. > Gibeah of Saul has run off. > Cry for help, daughter of Gallim! > Listen to her, Laishah! > Do something, Anathoth! > Madmenah takes to the hills. > The people of Gebim flee in panic. > The enemy's soon at Nob-nearly there! > In sight of the city he shakes his fist > At the mount of dear daughter Zion, > the hill of Jerusalem. > > 33-34But now watch this: The Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, > swings his ax and lops the branches, > Chops down the giant trees, > lays flat the towering forest-on-the-march. > His ax will make toothpicks of that forest, > that Lebanon-like army reduced to kindling. > > Isaiah 11 > A Green Shoot from Jesse's Stump > 1-5 A green Shoot will sprout from Jesse's stump, from his roots a budding > Branch. > The life-giving Spirit of God will hover over him, > the Spirit that brings wisdom and understanding, > The Spirit that gives direction and builds strength, > the Spirit that instills knowledge and Fear-of-God. > Fear-of-God > will be all his joy and delight. > He won't judge by appearances, > won't decide on the basis of hearsay. > He'll judge the needy by what is right, > render decisions on earth's poor with justice. > His words will bring everyone to awed attention. > A mere breath from his lips will topple the wicked. > Each morning he'll pull on sturdy work clothes and boots, > and build righteousness and faithfulness in the land. > A Living Knowledge of God > 6-9The wolf will romp with the lamb, > the leopard sleep with the kid. > Calf and lion will eat from the same trough, > and a little child will tend them. > Cow and bear will graze the same pasture, > their calves and cubs grow up together, > and the lion eat straw like the ox. > The nursing child will crawl over rattlesnake dens, > the toddler stick his hand down the hole of a serpent. > Neither animal nor human will hurt or kill > on my holy mountain. > The whole earth will be brimming with knowing God-Alive, > a living knowledge of God ocean-deep, ocean-wide. > 10On that day, Jesse's Root will be raised high, posted as a rallying > banner for the peoples. The > nations will all come to him. His headquarters will be glorious. > > 11Also on that day, the Master for the second time will reach out to bring > back what's left of his > scattered people. He'll bring them back from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, > Ethiopia, Elam, Sinar, Hamath, > and the ocean islands. > > 12-16And he'll raise that rallying banner high, visible to all nations, > gather in all the scattered exiles of Israel, > Pull in all the dispersed refugees of Judah > from the four winds and the seven seas. > The jealousy of Ephraim will dissolve, > the hostility of Judah will vanish- > Ephraim no longer the jealous rival of Judah, > Judah no longer the hostile rival of Ephraim! > Blood brothers united, they'll pounce on the Philistines in the west, > join forces to plunder the people in the east. > They'll attack Edom and Moab. > The Ammonites will fall into line. > God will once again dry up Egypt's Red Sea, > making for an easy crossing. > He'll send a blistering wind > down on the great River Euphrates, > Reduce it to seven mere trickles. > None even need get their feet wet! > In the end there'll be a highway all the way from Assyria, > easy traveling for what's left of God's people- > A highway just like the one Israel had > when he marched up out of Egypt. > > Isaiah 12 > My Strength and Song > 1 And you will say in that day, > "I thank you, God. > You were angry > but your anger wasn't forever. > You withdrew your anger > and moved in and comforted me. > 2"Yes, indeed-God is my salvation. > I trust, I won't be afraid. > God-yes God!-is my strength and song, > best of all, my salvation!" > > 3-4Joyfully you'll pull up buckets of water > from the wells of salvation. > And as you do it, you'll say, > "Give thanks to God. > Call out his name. > Ask him anything! > Shout to the nations, tell them what he's done, > spread the news of his great reputation! > > 5-6"Sing praise-songs to God. He's done it all! > Let the whole earth know what he's done! > Raise the roof! Sing your hearts out, O Zion! > The Greatest lives among you: The Holy of Israel." > > > > > > > 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. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
