| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed
old and stricken in age.
JOS 23:2 And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and
for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said
unto them, I am old and stricken in age:
JOS 23:3 And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all
these nations because of you; for the LORD your God is he that hath
fought for you.
JOS 23:4 Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that
remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the
nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
JOS 23:5 And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you,
and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land,
as the LORD your God hath promised unto you.
JOS 23:6 Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is
written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside
therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
JOS 23:7 That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among
you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear
by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:
JOS 23:8 But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt,
and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
ACT 13:18 And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners
in the wilderness.
ACT 13:19 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of
Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
ACT 13:20 And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of
four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
ACT 13:21 And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them
Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of
forty years.
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