The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which
testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great
provocations.
NEH 9:27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their
enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they
cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy
manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the
hand of their enemies.
NEH 9:28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee:
therefore leftest thou them in the land of their enemies, so that they
had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.
JER 40:3 Now the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath
said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his
voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
JER 40:4 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which
were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into
Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto
thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is
before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go,
thither go.
JER 40:5 Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up
again at the last day.
JOH 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which
seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I
will raise him up at the last day.
JOH 6:41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread
which came down from heaven.
JOH 6:42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose
father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down
from heaven?
JOH 6:43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among
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