…Carry me out of Egypt…

Our reading for today is Genesis 46 through 48. We find Jacob in Egypt and near to death, and does not desire to be buried in that land, but back in Canaan. ...And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.  …

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He Answered Me In the Day of My Distress

The word of God hides nothing concerning the people He calls. In chapters 34 through 36 of Genesis we read of frailties, and the sins of the people of God; yet we also see the love, mercy, and grace of God. O that we as the redeemed of God would walk in His word and …

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…According to your ways, and according to your doings…

Remember the yea and nay of the promises of God. Today's reading is Ezekiel 22 through 24. ...Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; "Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! Bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon …

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Children of the Promise

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.  For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, …

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All The House of Israel

"Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, 'Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD: 'Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, 'Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:' therefore prophesy and say, 'Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have …

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No Pleasure in the Death of the Wicked

Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; "Thus ye speak, saying, 'If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?' Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; …

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Begin at My House

He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, "Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand." And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon …

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Rejoice, Your Sin Is Found Out

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; He will no more carry thee away into captivity: He will visit …

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A Perpetual Covenant

The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. "Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, 'Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken …

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Know the name of the LORD

"Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, 'The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;' but, 'The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither He had …

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