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: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 9:51 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Tuesday September 22 > Day 265 > > Joel 1-3 (The Message) > > Joel 1 > Get in Touch with Reality-and Weep! > 1-3 God's Message to Joel son of Pethuel: > Attention, elder statesmen! Listen closely, > everyone, whoever and wherever you are! > Have you ever heard of anything like this? > Has anything like this ever happened before-ever? > Make sure you tell your children, > and your children tell their children, > And their children their children. > Don't let this message die out. > > 4What the chewing locust left, > the gobbling locust ate; > What the gobbling locust left, > the munching locust ate; > What the munching locust left, > the chomping locust ate. > > 5-7Sober up, you drunks! > Get in touch with reality-and weep! > Your supply of booze is cut off. > You're on the wagon, like it or not. > My country's being invaded > by an army invincible, past numbering, > Teeth like those of a lion, > fangs like those of a tiger. > It has ruined my vineyards, > stripped my orchards, > And clear-cut the country. > The landscape's a moonscape. > > 8-10Weep like a young virgin dressed in black, > mourning the loss of her fiance. > Without grain and grapes, > worship has been brought to a standstill > in the Sanctuary of God. > The priests are at a loss. > God's ministers don't know what to do. > The fields are sterile. > The very ground grieves. > The wheat fields are lifeless, > vineyards dried up, olive oil gone. > > 11-12Dirt farmers, despair! > Grape growers, wring your hands! > Lament the loss of wheat and barley. > All crops have failed. > Vineyards dried up, > fig trees withered, > Pomegranates, date palms, and apple trees- > deadwood everywhere! > And joy is dried up and withered > in the hearts of the people. > > Nothing's Going On in the Place of Worship > 13-14 And also you priests, > put on your robes and join the outcry. > You who lead people in worship, > lead them in lament. > Spend the night dressed in gunnysacks, > you servants of my God. > Nothing's going on in the place of worship, > no offerings, no prayers-nothing. > Declare a holy fast, call a special meeting, > get the leaders together, > Round up everyone in the country. > Get them into God's Sanctuary for serious prayer to God. > 15-18What a day! Doomsday! > God's Judgment Day has come. > The Strong God has arrived. > This is serious business! > Food is just a memory at our tables, > as are joy and singing from God's Sanctuary. > The seeds in the field are dead, > barns deserted, > Grain silos abandoned. > Who needs them? The crops have failed! > The farm animals groan-oh, how they groan! > The cattle mill around. > There's nothing for them to eat. > Not even the sheep find anything. > > 19-20God! I pray, I cry out to you! > The fields are burning up, > The country is a dust bowl, > forest and prairie fires rage unchecked. > Wild animals, dying of thirst, > look to you for a drink. > Springs and streams are dried up. > The whole country is burning up. > > Joel 2 > The Locust Army > 1-3 Blow the ram's horn trumpet in Zion! Trumpet the alarm on my holy > mountain! > Shake the country up! > God's Judgment's on its way-the Day's almost here! > A black day! A Doomsday! > Clouds with no silver lining! > Like dawn light moving over the mountains, > a huge army is coming. > There's never been anything like it > and never will be again. > Wildfire burns everything before this army > and fire licks up everything in its wake. > Before it arrives, the country is like the Garden of Eden. > When it leaves, it is Death Valley. > Nothing escapes unscathed. > 4-6The locust army seems all horses- > galloping horses, an army of horses. > It sounds like thunder > leaping on mountain ridges, > Or like the roar of wildfire > through grass and brush, > Or like an invincible army shouting for blood, > ready to fight, straining at the bit. > At the sight of this army, > the people panic, faces white with terror. > > 7-11The invaders charge. > They climb barricades. Nothing stops them. > Each soldier does what he's told, > so disciplined, so determined. > They don't get in each other's way. > Each one knows his job and does it. > Undaunted and fearless, > unswerving, unstoppable. > They storm the city, > swarm its defenses, > Loot the houses, > breaking down doors, smashing windows. > They arrive like an earthquake, > sweep through like a tornado. > Sun and moon turn out their lights, > stars black out. > God himself bellows in thunder > as he commands his forces. > Look at the size of that army! > And the strength of those who obey him! > God's Judgment Day-great and terrible. > Who can possibly survive this? > > Change Your Life > 12 But there's also this, it's not too late- > God's personal Message!- > "Come back to me and really mean it! > Come fasting and weeping, sorry for your sins!" > 13-14Change your life, not just your clothes. > Come back to God, your God. > And here's why: God is kind and merciful. > He takes a deep breath, puts up with a lot, > This most patient God, extravagant in love, > always ready to cancel catastrophe. > Who knows? Maybe he'll do it now, > maybe he'll turn around and show pity. > Maybe, when all's said and done, > there'll be blessings full and robust for your God! > > 15-17 Blow the ram's horn trumpet in Zion! > Declare a day of repentance, a holy fast day. > Call a public meeting. > Get everyone there. Consecrate the congregation. > Make sure the elders come, > but bring in the children, too, even the nursing babies, > Even men and women on their honeymoon- > interrupt them and get them there. > Between Sanctuary entrance and altar, > let the priests, God's servants, weep tears of repentance. > Let them intercede: "Have mercy, God, on your people! > Don't abandon your heritage to contempt. > Don't let the pagans take over and rule them > and sneer, 'And so where is this God of theirs?'" > > 18-20 At that, God went into action to get his land back. > He took pity on his people. > God answered and spoke to his people, > "Look, listen-I'm sending a gift: > Grain and wine and olive oil. > The fast is over-eat your fill! > I won't expose you any longer > to contempt among the pagans. > I'll head off the final enemy coming out of the north > and dump them in a wasteland. > Half of them will end up in the Dead Sea, > the other half in the Mediterranean. > There they'll rot, a stench to high heaven. > The bigger the enemy, the stronger the stench!" > > The Trees Are Bearing Fruit Again > 21-24 Fear not, Earth! Be glad and celebrate! > God has done great things. > Fear not, wild animals! > The fields and meadows are greening up. > The trees are bearing fruit again: > a bumper crop of fig trees and vines! > Children of Zion, celebrate! > Be glad in your God. > He's giving you a teacher > to train you how to live right- > Teaching, like rain out of heaven, showers of words > to refresh and nourish your soul, just as he used to do. > And plenty of food for your body-silos full of grain, > casks of wine and barrels of olive oil. > 25-27 "I'll make up for the years of the locust, > the great locust devastation- > Locusts savage, locusts deadly, > fierce locusts, locusts of doom, > That great locust invasion > I sent your way. > You'll eat your fill of good food. > You'll be full of praises to your God, > The God who has set you back on your heels in wonder. > Never again will my people be despised. > You'll know without question > that I'm in the thick of life with Israel, > That I'm your God, yes, your God, > the one and only real God. > Never again will my people be despised. > > The Sun Turning Black and the Moon Blood-Red > 28-32 "And that's just the beginning: After that- > "I will pour out my Spirit > on every kind of people: > Your sons will prophesy, > also your daughters. > Your old men will dream, > your young men will see visions. > I'll even pour out my Spirit on the servants, > men and women both. > I'll set wonders in the sky above > and signs on the earth below: > Blood and fire and billowing smoke, > the sun turning black and the moon blood-red, > Before the Judgment Day of God, > the Day tremendous and awesome. > Whoever calls, 'Help, God!' > gets help. > On Mount Zion and in Jerusalem > there will be a great rescue-just as God said. > Included in the survivors > are those that God calls." > > Joel 3 > God Is a Safe Hiding Place > 1-3 "In those days, yes, at that very time when I put life back together > again for Judah and > Jerusalem, > I'll assemble all the godless nations. > I'll lead them down into Judgment Valley > And put them all on trial, and judge them one and all > because of their treatment of my own people Israel. > They scattered my people all over the pagan world > and grabbed my land for themselves. > They threw dice for my people > and used them for barter. > They would trade a boy for a whore, > sell a girl for a bottle of wine when they wanted a drink. > 4-8 "As for you, Tyre and Sidon and Philistia, > why should I bother with you? > Are you trying to get back at me > for something I did to you? > If you are, forget it. > I'll see to it that it boomerangs on you. > You robbed me, cleaned me out of silver and gold, > carted off everything valuable to furnish your own temples. > You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem > into slavery to the Greeks in faraway places. > But I'm going to reverse your crime. > I'm going to free those slaves. > I'll have done to you what you did to them: > I'll sell your children as slaves to your neighbors, > And they'll sell them to the far-off Sabeans." > God's Verdict. > > 9-11 Announce this to the godless nations: > Prepare for battle! > Soldiers at attention! > Present arms! Advance! > Turn your shovels into swords, > turn your hoes into spears. > Let the weak one throw out his chest > and say, "I'm tough, I'm a fighter." > Hurry up, pagans! Wherever you are, get a move on! > Get your act together. > Prepare to be > shattered by God! > > 12Let the pagan nations set out > for Judgment Valley. > There I'll take my place at the bench > and judge all the surrounding nations. > > 13"Swing the sickle- > the harvest is ready. > Stomp on the grapes- > the winepress is full. > The wine vats are full, > overflowing with vintage evil. > > 14"Mass confusion, mob uproar- > in Decision Valley! > God's Judgment Day has arrived > in Decision Valley. > > 15-17"The sky turns black, > sun and moon go dark, stars burn out. > God roars from Zion, shouts from Jerusalem. > Earth and sky quake in terror. > But God is a safe hiding place, > a granite safe house for the children of Israel. > Then you'll know for sure > that I'm your God, > Living in Zion, > my sacred mountain. > Jerusalem will be a sacred city, > posted: 'no trespassing.' > > Milk Rivering Out of the Hills > 18-21 "What a day! > Wine streaming off the mountains, > Milk rivering out of the hills, > water flowing everywhere in Judah, > A fountain pouring out of God's Sanctuary, > watering all the parks and gardens! > But Egypt will be reduced to weeds in a vacant lot, > Edom turned into barren badlands, > All because of brutalities to the Judean people, > the atrocities and murders of helpless innocents. > Meanwhile, Judah will be filled with people, > Jerusalem inhabited forever. > The sins I haven't already forgiven, I'll forgive." > God has moved into Zion for good. > > > > > > > ~~~~~ > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > Also, follow my tweets on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/Donnie1261 > > > 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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