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: Saturday, July 25, 2009 9:49 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Sunday July 26 > Day 207 > > Isaiah 19-21 (The Message) > > Isaiah 19 > Anarchy and Chaos and Killing! > 1 A Message concerning Egypt: Watch this! God riding on a fast-moving > cloud, > moving in on Egypt! > The god-idols of Egypt shudder and shake, > Egyptians paralyzed by panic. > 2-4God says, "I'll make Egyptian fight Egyptian, > brother fight brother, neighbor fight neighbor, > City fight city, kingdom fight kingdom- > anarchy and chaos and killing! > I'll knock the wind out of the Egyptians. > They won't know coming from going. > They'll go to their god-idols for answers; > they'll conjure ghosts and hold seances, desperate for answers. > But I'll turn the Egyptians > over to a tyrant most cruel. > I'll put them under the rule of a mean, merciless king." > Decree of the Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies. > > 5-10The River Nile will dry up, > the riverbed baked dry in the sun. > The canals will become stagnant and stink, > every stream touching the Nile dry up. > River vegetation will rot away > the banks of the Nile-baked clay, > The riverbed hard and smooth, > river grasses dried up and gone with the wind. > Fishermen will complain > that the fishing's been ruined. > Textile workers will be out of work, all weavers > and workers in linen and cotton and wool > Dispirited, depressed in their forced idleness- > everyone who works for a living, jobless. > > 11-15The princes of Zoan are fools, > the advisors of Pharaoh stupid. > How could any of you dare tell Pharaoh, > "Trust me: I'm wise. I know what's going on. > Why, I'm descended from the old wisdom of Egypt"? > There's not a wise man or woman left in the country. > If there were, one of them would tell you > what God-of-the-Angel-Armies has in mind for Egypt. > As it is, the princes of Zoan are all fools > and the princes of Memphis, dunces. > The honored pillars of your society > have led Egypt into detours and dead ends. > God has scrambled their brains, > Egypt's become a falling-down-in-his-own-vomit drunk. > Egypt's hopeless, past helping, > a senile, doddering old fool. > > 16-17On that Day, Egyptians will be like hysterical schoolgirls, screaming > at the first hint of > action from God-of-the-Angel-Armies. Little Judah will strike terror in > Egyptians! Say "Judah" to an > Egyptian and see panic. The word triggers fear of the > God-of-the-Angel-Armies' plan against Egypt. > > 18On that Day, more than one city in Egypt will learn to speak the > language of faith and promise to > follow God-of-the-Angel-Armies. One of these cities will be honored with > the title "City of the > Sun." > > 19-22On that Day, there will be a place of worship to God in the center of > Egypt and a monument to > God at its border. It will show how the God-of-the-Angel-Armies has helped > the Egyptians. When they > cry out in prayer to God because of oppressors, he'll send them help, a > savior who will keep them > safe and take care of them. God will openly show himself to the Egyptians > and they'll get to know > him on that Day. They'll worship him seriously with sacrifices and burnt > offerings. They'll make > vows and keep them. God will wound Egypt, first hit and then heal. Egypt > will come back to God, and > God will listen to their prayers and heal them, heal them from head to > toe. > > 23On that Day, there will be a highway all the way from Egypt to Assyria: > Assyrians will have free > range in Egypt and Egyptians in Assyria. No longer rivals, they'll worship > together, Egyptians and > Assyrians! > > 24-25On that Day, Israel will take its place alongside Egypt and Assyria, > sharing the blessing from > the center. God-of-the-Angel-Armies, who blessed Israel, will generously > bless them all: "Blessed be > Egypt, my people!...Blessed be Assyria, work of my hands!...Blessed be > Israel, my heritage!" > > Isaiah 20 > Exposed to Mockery and Jeers > 1-2 In the year the field commander, sent by King Sargon of Assyria, came > to Ashdod and fought and > took it, God told Isaiah son of Amoz, "Go, take off your clothes and > sandals," and Isaiah did it, > going about naked and barefooted. > 3-6Then God said, "Just as my servant Isaiah has walked around town naked > and barefooted for three > years as a warning sign to Egypt and Ethiopia, so the king of Assyria is > going to come and take the > Egyptians as captives and the Ethiopians as exiles. He'll take young and > old alike and march them > out of there naked and barefooted, exposed to mockery and jeers-the bared > buttocks of Egypt on > parade! Everyone who has put hope in Ethiopia and expected help from Egypt > will be thrown into > confusion. Everyone who lives along this coast will say, 'Look at them! > Naked and barefooted, > shuffling off to exile! And we thought they were our best hope, that > they'd rescue us from the king > of Assyria. Now what's going to happen to us? How are we going to get out > of this?'" > > Isaiah 21 > The Betrayer Betrayed > 1-4A Message concerning the desert at the sea: As tempests drive through > the Negev Desert, > coming out of the desert, that terror-filled place, > A hard vision is given me: > The betrayer betrayed, the plunderer plundered. > Attack, Elam! > Lay siege, Media! > Persians, attack! > Attack, Babylon! > I'll put an end to > all the moaning and groaning. > Because of this news I'm doubled up in pain, > writhing in pain like a woman having a baby, > Baffled by what I hear, > undone by what I see. > Absolutely stunned, > horror-stricken, > I had hoped for a relaxed evening, > but it has turned into a nightmare. > 5The banquet is spread, > the guests reclining in luxurious ease, > Eating and drinking, having a good time, > and then, "To arms, princes! The fight is on!" > > 6-9The Master told me, "Go, post a lookout. > Have him report whatever he spots. > When he sees horses and wagons in battle formation, > lines of donkeys and columns of camels, > Tell him to keep his ear to the ground, > note every whisper, every rumor." > Just then, the lookout shouted, > "I'm at my post, Master, > Sticking to my post day after day > and all through the night! > I watched them come, > the horses and wagons in battle formation. > I heard them call out the war news in headlines: > 'Babylon fallen! Fallen! > And all its precious god-idols > smashed to pieces on the ground.'" > > 10Dear Israel, you've been through a lot, > you've been put through the mill. > The good news I get from God-of-the-Angel-Armies, > the God of Israel, I now pass on to you. > > 11-12A Message concerning Edom: > > A voice calls to me > from the Seir mountains in Edom, > "Night watchman! How long till daybreak? > How long will this night last?" > The night watchman calls back, > "Morning's coming, > But for now it's still night. > If you ask me again, I'll give the same answer." > > 13-15A Message concerning Arabia: > > You'll have to camp out in the desert badlands, > you caravans of Dedanites. > Haul water to the thirsty, > greet fugitives with bread. > Show your desert hospitality, > you who live in Tema. > The desert's swarming with refugees > escaping the horrors of war. > > 16-17The Master told me, "Hang on. Within one year-I'll sign a contract on > it!-the arrogant > brutality of Kedar, those hooligans of the desert, will be over, nothing > much left of the Kedar > toughs." The God of Israel says so. > > > > > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
