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from the nations, who have acquired livestock 4 I will not give sleep to my eyes
and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land. Or slumber to my eyelids,
13 Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, 5 Until I find a place for the LORD,
and all their young lions will say to you, ‘Have A dwelling place for the Mighty One
you come to take plunder? Have you gathered of Jacob.”
your army to take booty, to carry away silver 6 Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah;
and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to We found it in the fields of the woods.
take great plunder?’ ” ’ 7
14 “Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say Let us go into His tabernacle;
to Gog, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “On that day 8 Let us worship at His footstool.
Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place,
when My people Israel dwell safely, will you You and the ark of Your strength.
not know it? Then you will come from your 9
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place out of the far north, you and many peo- Let Your priests be clothed with
righteousness,
ples with you, all of them riding on horses, a And let Your saints shout for joy.
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great company and a mighty army. You will
come up against My people Israel like a cloud, Proverbs 29:4
to cover the land. It will be in the latter days 4 The king establishes the land by
that I will bring you against My land, so that justice,
the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed But he who receives bribes
in you, O Gog, before their eyes.” Thus says overthrows it.
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the Lord GOD: “Are you he of whom I have
spoken in former days by My servants the James 4:1–17
prophets of Israel, who prophesied for years in Where do wars and fights come from
those days that I would bring you against them?
18 “And it will come to pass at the same time, 4 among you? Do they not come from your
when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” desires for pleasure that war in your members?
You lust and do not have. You murder and
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says the Lord GOD, “that My fury will show in covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet
My face. For in My jealousy and in the fire of you do not have because you do not ask. You
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My wrath I have spoken: ‘Surely in that day ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss,
there shall be a great earthquake in the land of that you may spend it on your pleasures. Adul-
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Israel, so that the fish of the sea, the birds of terers and adulteresses! Do you not know that
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the heavens, the beasts of the field, all creeping friendship with the world is enmity with God?
things that creep on the earth, and all men who Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the
are on the face of the earth shall shake at My world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do
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presence. The mountains shall be thrown you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The
down, the steep places shall fall, and every Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?
wall shall fall to the ground.’ I will call for a 6 But He gives more grace. Therefore He
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sword against Gog throughout all My moun- says:
tains,” says the Lord GOD. “Every man’s
sword will be against his brother. And I will “God resists the proud,
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bring him to judgment with pestilence and But gives grace to the humble.”
bloodshed; I will rain down on him, on his
troops, and on the many peoples who are with
him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and
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brimstone. Thus I will magnify Myself and
sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the 4:4 friendship. Appearing only here in the
eyes of many nations. Then they shall know New Testament, the Greek word describes
that I am the LORD.” ’ love in the sense of a strong emotional attach-
Psalm 132:1–9 ment.Those with a deep and intimate longing
for the things of the world give evidence that
A Song of Ascents. they are not redeemed (1 John 2:15–17).
L ORD, remember David enmity with God. The necessary corollary to
friendship with the world. The sobering truth
And all his afflictions;
How he swore to the LORD, throughout Scripture (Deut. 32:41–43; Pss.
2 that unbelievers are God’s enemies is taught
And vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
“Surely I will not go into the chamber of Luke 19:27; Rom. 5:10; 8:5–7; 1 Cor. 15:25).
3 21:8; 68:21; 72:9; 110:1,2; Is. 42:13; Nah. 1:2,8;
my house,
Or go up to the comfort of my bed;
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