Vicki Stephens-Parent
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Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Daniel 4:19-25 NASB
"Then Daniel, whose name is Belteshazzar, was appalled for a while as his athoughts alarmed him. The king responded and said, 'Belteshazzar, do not blet the dream or its interpretation alarm you.' Belteshazzar replied, 'cMy lord, if only the dream applied to those who hate you and its interpretation to dyour adversaries!'The atree that you saw, which became large and grew strong, whose height reached to the sky and was visible to all the earthand whose foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in which was food for all, under which the beasts of the field dwelt and in whose branches the birds of the sky lodged--it is ayou, O king; for you have become great and grown strong, and your majesty has become great and reached to the sky and your bdominion to the end of the earth.'In that the king saw an angelic watcher, a holy one, descending from heaven and saying, "aChop down the tree and destroy it; yet leave the stump with its roots in the ground, but with a band of iron and bronze around it in the new grass of the field, and let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let him share with the beasts of the field until bseven periods of time pass over him,"this is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the Most High, which has acome upon my lord the king:that you be adriven away from mankind and your dwelling place be with the beasts of the field, and you be given grass to eat like cattle and be drenched with the dew of heaven; and seven periods of time will pass over you, until you recognize that the bMost High is ruler over the realm of mankind and cbestows it on whomever He wishes.
Oct 29
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Daniel 4:7 NASB
"Then the amagicians, the conjurers, the Chaldeans and the diviners came in and I related the dream to them, but they could not make its binterpretation known to me.
Oct 29
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Daniel 4:2-6 NASB
"It has seemed good to me to declare the signs and wonders which the aMost High God has done for me."How great are His asigns
Oct 29
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Daniel 4:1 NASB
Nebuchadnezzar the king to all the peoples, nations, and men of every language that live in all the earth: "May your apeace abound!
Oct 29
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Hebrews 8:13 NASB
When He said, "aA new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. bBut whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.
Oct 26
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Hebrews 8:8-11 NASB
"aFOR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL
Oct 26
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Hebrews 8:6 NASB
But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the amediator of ba better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
Oct 26
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Hebrews 8:7 NASB
For aif that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second.
Oct 26
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Hebrews 8:5 NASB
who serve aa copy and bshadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was cwarned by God when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for, "dSEE," He says, "THAT YOU MAKE all things ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN WHICH WAS SHOWN YOU ON THE MOUNTAIN."
Oct 26
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Hebrews 8:3-4 NASB
For every ahigh priest is appointed bto offer both gifts and sacrifices; so it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who aoffer the gifts according to the Law;
Oct 26
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Hebrews 8:1-2 NASB
Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a ahigh priest, who has taken His seat at bthe right hand of the throne of the bMajesty in the heavens,a aminister in the sanctuary and in the btrue tabernacle, which the Lord cpitched, not man.
Oct 26
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Hebrews 8:12 NASB
"aFOR I WILL BE MERCIFUL TO THEIR INIQUITIES,
Oct 26
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Daniel 2:17-19 NASB
Then Daniel went to his house and informed his friends, aHananiah, Mishael and Azariah, about the matter,so that they might arequest compassion from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends would not be bdestroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a night avision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven;
Oct 22
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Daniel 1:7-10 NASB
and the commander of the officials said to Daniel, "I am afraid of my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces looking more haggard than the youths who are your own age? Then you would make me forfeit my head to the king."Then the commander of the officials assigned new names to them; and to Daniel he assigned the name aBelteshazzar, to Hananiah bShadrach, to Mishael bMeshach and to Azariah bAbed-nego.But Daniel made up his mind that he would not adefile himself with the bking's choice food or with the cwine which he drank; so he sought permission from the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself.Now God granted Daniel afavor and compassion in the sight of the commander of the officials,
Oct 22
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Daniel 1:5-6 NASB
The king appointed for them a daily ration from the aking's choice food and from the wine which he drank, and appointed that they should be educated three years, at the end of which they were to benter the king's personal service.Now among them from the sons of Judah were aDaniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.
Oct 22
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Daniel 1:1-4 NASB
In the third year of the reign of aJehoiakim king of Judah, bNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.The aLord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the bvessels of the house of God; and he brought them to the land of cShinar, to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into the treasury of his dgod.Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, the chief of his officials, to bring in some of the sons of Israel, including some of the royal afamily and of the nobles,youths in whom was ano defect, who were good-looking, showing bintelligence in every branch of wisdom, endowed with understanding and discerning knowledge, and who had ability for serving in the king's court; and he ordered him to teach them the literature and clanguage of the dChaldeans.
Oct 22
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Kings 18:25 NASB
So Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one ox for yourselves and prepare it first for you are many, and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it."
Oct 19
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Kings 18:23-24 NASB
"Now let them give us two oxen; and let them choose one ox for themselves and cut it up, and place it on the wood, but put no fire under it; and I will prepare the other ox and lay it on the wood, and I will not put a fire under it."Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the Lord, and athe God who answers by fire, He is God." And all the people said, "That is a good idea."
Oct 19
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Kings 18:22 NASB
Then Elijah said to the people, "I aalone am left a prophet of the Lord, but Baal's prophets are b450 men.
Oct 19
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Kings 18:21 NASB
Elijah came near to all the people and said, "aHow long will you hesitate between two opinions? bIf the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him." But the people did not answer him a word.
Oct 19