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When ashe saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more to her.So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. And when they had come to Bethlehem, aall the city was stirred because of them, and the women said, "Is this Naomi?"She said to them, "Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for athe Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me."I went out full, but athe Lord has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has witnessed against me and the Almighty has afflicted me?"So Naomi returned, and with her Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, who returned from the land of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at athe beginning of barley harvest.

Nov 16

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted Ruth 1:16-17 NASB

But Ruth said, "Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God."Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may athe Lord do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me."

Nov 16

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted Ruth 1:1-7 NASB

Now it came about in the days awhen the judges governed, that there was ba famine in the land. And a certain man cof Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons.The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi; and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Judah. Now they aentered the land of Moab and remained there.Then Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left with her two sons.They took for themselves Moabite women as wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. And they lived there about ten years.Then both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and the woman was bereft of her two children and her husband.Then she arose with her daughters-in-law that she might return from the land of Moab, for she had heard in the land of Moab that the Lord had avisited His people in bgiving them food.So she departed from the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

Nov 16

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted Ruth 1:8-15 NASB

And they said to her, "No, but we will surely return with you to your people."But Naomi said, "Return, my daughters. Why should you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb, that athey may be your husbands?"Return, my daughters! Go, for I am too old to have a husband. If I said I have hope, if I should even have a husband tonight and also bear sons,would you therefore wait until they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters; for it is harder for me than for you, for athe hand of the Lord has gone forth against me."And they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.Then she said, "Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her agods; return after your sister-in-law."And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, return each of you to her mother's house. aMay the Lord deal kindly with you as you have dealt with the dead and with me."May the Lord grant that you may find rest, each in the house of her husband." Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept.

Nov 16

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted 1 Samuel 15:23 NASB

"For rebellion is as the sin of adivination, And insubordination is as biniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, cHe has also rejected you from being king."

Nov 12

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted 1 Samuel 15:22 NASB

Samuel said, "aHas the Lord as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, bto obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.

Nov 12

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted Haggai 2:20-23 NASB

Then the word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai on the atwenty-fourth day of the month, saying,"Speak to aZerubbabel governor of Judah, saying, 'I am going to bshake the heavens and the earth.'I will aoverthrow the thrones of kingdoms and destroy the bpower of the kingdoms of the nations; and I will coverthrow the chariots and their riders, and the dhorses and their riders will go down, eeveryone by the sword of another.''On that day,' declares the Lord of hosts, 'I will take you, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, My servant,' declares the Lord, 'and I will make you like a asignet ring, for bI have chosen you,'" declares the Lord of hosts.

Nov 12

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted Haggai 2:13-19 NASB

Then Haggai said, "aIf one who is unclean from a corpse touches any of these, will the latter become unclean?" And the priests answered, "It will become unclean."Then Haggai said, " 'aSo is this people. And so is this nation before Me,' declares the Lord, 'and so is every work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean.'But now, do aconsider from this day onward: before one bstone was placed on another in the temple of the Lord,from that time when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there would be only twenty.'I smote you and every work of your hands with ablasting wind, mildew and hail; yet you did not come back to Me,' declares the Lord.'Do aconsider from this day onward, from the btwenty-fourth day of the ninth month; from the day when the temple of the Lord was cfounded, consider:'Is the seed still in the barn? Even including the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree, it has not borne fruit. Yet from this day on I will abless you.'"

Nov 12

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted Haggai 2:10-12 NASB

On the atwenty-fourth of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Haggai the prophet, saying,"Thus says the Lord of hosts, 'aAsk now the priests for a ruling:'If a man carries aholy meat in the fold of his garment, and touches bread with this fold, or cooked food, wine, oil, or any other food, will it become holy?'" And the priests answered, "No."

Nov 12

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted Haggai 2:5-9 NASB

'As for the apromise which I made you when you came out of Egypt, My bSpirit is abiding in your midst; cdo not fear!'"For thus says the Lord of hosts, 'aOnce more in a blittle while, I am going to cshake the heavens and the earth, the sea also and the dry land.'I will shake aall the nations; and they will come with the bwealth of all nations, and I will cfill this house with glory,' says the Lord of hosts.'The asilver is Mine and the gold is Mine,' declares the Lord of hosts.'The latter aglory of this house will be greater than the bformer,' says the Lord of hosts, 'and in this place I will give cpeace,' declares the Lord of hosts."

Nov 12

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted Haggai 2:1-4 NASB

On the twenty-first of the seventh month, the word of the Lord came by aHaggai the prophet saying,"Speak now to aZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, agovernor of Judah, and to aJoshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the bremnant of the people saying,'Who is aleft among you who saw this temple in its bformer glory? And how do you see it now? Does it not seem to you like nothing in comparison?'But now atake courage, Zerubbabel,' declares the Lord, 'take courage also, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all you people of the land take courage,' declares the Lord, 'and work; for bI am with you,' declares the Lord of hosts.

Nov 12

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted 2 Corinthians 6:17 NASB

"aTherefore, bCOME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE," says the Lord. "AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN; And I will welcome you.

Nov 12

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted 2 Corinthians 6:16 NASB

Or awhat agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are bthe temple of cthe living God; just as God said, "dI WILL eDWELL IN THEM AND fWALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.

Nov 12

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted Haggai 1:12-15 NASB

Then aZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and bJoshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, cobeyed the voice of the Lord their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him. And the people dshowed reverence for the Lord.Then Haggai, the amessenger of the Lord, spoke by the commission of the Lord to the people saying, " 'bI am with you,' declares the Lord."So the Lord stirred up the spirit of aZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, agovernor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the bremnant of the people; and they came and cworked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God,on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of Darius the king.

Nov 12

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted Haggai 1:7-10 NASB

"Therefore, because of you the asky has withheld its dew and the earth has withheld its produce.Thus says the Lord of hosts, "Consider your ways!"Go up to the mountains, bring wood and arebuild the temple, that I may be bpleased with it and be cglorified," says the Lord."aYou look for much, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I bblow it away. Why?" declares the Lord of hosts, "Because of My house which clies desolate, while each of you runs to his own house.

Nov 12

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted Haggai 1:11 NASB

"I called for a adrought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on bmen, on cattle, and on call the labor of your hands."

Nov 12

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted Haggai 1:1-6 NASB

In the asecond year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came by the prophet bHaggai to cZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, dgovernor of Judah, and to eJoshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,"Thus says the Lord of hosts, 'This people says, "The time has not come, even the time for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt."'"Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,"Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house alies desolate?"Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, "Consider your ways!"You have asown much, but harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but no one is warm enough; and he who earns, earns wages to put into a purse with holes."

Nov 12

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted Daniel 7:23-28 NASB

"Thus he said: 'The fourth beast will be a fourth kingdom on the earth, which will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth and tread it down and crush it.'As for the aten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise; and another will arise after them, and he will be different from the previous ones and will subdue three kings.'He will aspeak out against the bMost High and cwear down the saints of the Highest One, and he will intend to make dalterations in times and in law; and they will be given into his hand for a etime, times, and half a time.'But the court will sit for judgment, and his dominion will be ataken away, annihilated and destroyed forever.'Then the asovereignty, the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be an beverlasting kingdom, and all the dominions will cserve and obey Him.'"At this point the revelation ended. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts were agreatly alarming me and my face grew pale, but I bkept the matter to myself."

Nov 9

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted Daniel 7:8-22 NASB

"A river of afire was flowing And coming out from before Him; bThousands upon thousands were attending Him, And myriads upon myriads were standing before Him; The ccourt sat, And dthe books were opened."Then I kept looking because of the sound of the boastful words which the horn was speaking; I kept looking until the beast was slain, and its body was destroyed and given to the aburning fire."As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but an extension of life was granted to them for an appointed period of time."I kept looking in the night visions, And behold, with the clouds of heaven One like a aSon of Man was coming, And He came up to the Ancient of Days And was presented before Him."And to Him was given adominion, Glory and ba kingdom, cThat all the peoples, nations and men of every language Might serve Him. dHis dominion is an everlasting dominion Which will not pass away; eAnd His kingdom is one Which will not be destroyed."As for me, Daniel, my spirit was distressed within me, and the avisions in my mind kept balarming me."I approached one of those who were astanding by and began asking him the exact meaning of all this. So he btold me and made known to me the interpretation of these things:'These great beasts, which are four in number, are four kings who will arise from the earth.'But the asaints of the Highest One will breceive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, for all ages to come.'"Then I desired to know the exact meaning of the afourth beast, which was different from all the others, exceedingly dreadful, with its teeth of iron and its claws of bronze, and which devoured, crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet,and the meaning of the ten horns that were on its head and the other horn which came up, and before which three of them fell, namely, that horn which had eyes and a mouth uttering great boasts and which was larger in appearance than its associates."I kept looking, and that horn was awaging war with the saints and overpowering themuntil the Ancient of Days came and ajudgment was passed in favor of the saints of the Highest One, and the time arrived when the saints took possession of the kingdom."While I was contemplating the horns, behold, aanother horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were pulled out by the roots before it; and behold, this horn possessed eyes like the eyes of a man and ba mouth uttering great boasts."I kept looking Until athrones were set up, And the Ancient of Days took His seat; His bvesture was like white snow And the chair of His head like pure wool. His dthrone was ablaze with flames, Its ewheels were a burning fire.

Nov 9

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted Daniel 7:1-7 NASB

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel saw a adream and visions in his mind as he lay on his bed; then he bwrote the dream down and related the following summary of it.Daniel said, "I was alooking in my vision by night, and behold, the bfour winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea."And four great abeasts were coming up from the sea, different from one another."The first was alike a lion and had the wings of an eagle. I kept looking until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man; a human mind also was given to it."And behold, another beast, a second one, resembling a bear. And it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth; and thus they said to it, 'Arise, devour much meat!'"After this I kept looking, and behold, another one, alike a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird; the beast also had bfour heads, and dominion was given to it."After this I kept looking in the night visions, and behold, a afourth beast, dreadful and terrifying and extremely strong; and it had large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had bten horns.

Nov 9

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