BELIEVER IN CHRIST AS MY BEST FRIEND

  MAY  YOU BE BLESSED IN THE NEW YEAR.  MAY YOU BE BLESSED WITH NEW IDEAS. AND A WILL TO HELP OTHERS. ABIDE IN THE LORD AND SAVIOUR AND KNOW THAT YOU ARE LOVED BEYOND MEASURE.  WHATEVER   WAS LOST MAY THE FATHER IN HEAVEN  RESTORE 100 FOLD BLESSINGS. MAY YOUR MIND BE HEALED , SEALED AND DELIVERED IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. MAY YOUR SOUL PROSPER AND MAY AMAZING THINGS BEFALL YOU IN YOUR LIFE.  MAY THE LORD'S  AMAZING GRACE  SHINE DOWN ON YOU BY DAY AND BY NIGHT. SHINES. MAY HIS FACE SHINE AMONG YOU IN 2023. A NEW YEAR BRINGS NEW THINGS. BREATHE AND EXHALE AND RELAX YOUR MINDS. BE KIND TO OTHERS AND BLESS OTHERS. THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX  AND SHINE SHINE SHINE. MAY YOU PROSPER THIS NEW YEAR 2023 AND BE CLOSER TO GOD MORE, AND MORE EACH DAY. IT IS SO AMAZING TO BE LOVED! THE FATHER IN HEAVEN LOVES US SO MUCH.

  STEPHEN WAS ONE OF THE 7 DEACONS CHOSEN BY THE CHURCH TO SERVE THE WIDOWS IN ACTS 6. THE WIDOWS WERE NEGLECTED. STEPHEN WAS CHOSEN TO GO OUT AND FULFILL AN HONEST REPORT OF THE MESSIAH, JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH. HE WAS FULL OF THE  HOLY GHOST AND WISDOM. STEPHEN WAS FULL OF GREAT FAITH AND POWER, MIRACLES WERE PERFORMED ON OTHERS THROUGH HIS FAITH.  STEPHEN CAME UP AGAINST OPPOSITION FROM THE SYNAGOGUE OF THE LIBERTINES, AND CYRENIANS, AND THE ALEXANDRIANS AND THEM OF CELICIA AND ASIA, DISPUTING WITH STEPHEN. STEPHEN WAS SET UP . HE WAS LIED ON ABOUT SPEAKING BLASPHEMY. ALL OF THE CONFUSION WAS BROUGHT UP AGAINST HIM AND TAKEN TO THE COUNCIL. FALSE WITNESSES WERE SET UP. STEPHEN WAS TELLING THE COUNCIL THAT THEY WERE STIFFNECKED AND UNCIRCUMCISED IN THEIR HEARTS. ACTS 7: 56 SAYS BEHOLD, I SEE THE HEAVENS OPENED, AND THE SON OF MAN STANDING ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD. VS 59 AND THEY STONED STEPHEN, CALLING UPON GOD, AND SAYING, LORD, JESUS , RECEIVE MY SPIRIT. 60 AND KNEELED DOWN , AND

  אַבְרָהָם   ʼAbrâhâm,  ab-raw-hawm'; contracted from  H1  and an unused root (probably meaning to be populous); father of a multitude; Abraham, the later name of Abram:—Abraham Abraham = "father of a multitude" or "chief of multitude" friend of God and founder of Hebrew nation via God's elective covenant . Neither shall thy name   any more be called   Abram,   but thy name   shall be Abraham;   for a father   of many   nations   have I made thee. GENESIS 17 VS 6 I WILL MAKE YOU VERY FRUITFUL; I WILL MAKE NATIONS OF YOU, AND KINGS WILL COME FROM YOU.  GENESIS 17 VS 7 I WILL ESTABLISH MY COVENANT AS AN EVERLASTING COVENANT BETWEEN ME AND YOU FOR THE GENERATIONS TO COME, TO BE YOUR GOD AND THE GOD OF YOUR DESCENDANTS AFTER YOU.  THE FATHER OF ABRAHAM . ISAAC AND JACOB IS THE KEEPER OF ALL WHO BELIEVE IN HIM AND HIS SON. HE IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIGHT. HE WILL KEEP YOU IN PERFECT PEACE WHOSE MIND IS STAYED ON HIM.                                     

  ARTIFICE -698=ORBAH HEBREW-TRICKS OF HIS HAND,SKILLFULL CONTRIVANCE; ELABORATE TRICKERY; WILE; DECEPTION, CRAFTY DEVICE; AN ARTFUL , INGENIOUS, OR ELABORATE TRICK. A HANDICRAFT ; A TRADE; ART OF MAKING. WORKMANSHIP; A SKILLFULLY CONTRIVED WORK. PSALMS 31:20 thou has wrought for those trusting in thee, before sons of men. thou HIDEST them in the secret place of thy presence, from ARTIFICES of man, thou concealest them in a tabernacle , from the strife of tongues. THE FATHER IN HEAVEN TEACHES OUR HANDS TO WAR. HE TRAINS HIS CHILDREN TO BE SKILLFUL IN TRADE AND HE TRAINS US TO HAVE ON THE FULL ARMOR TO FIGHT AGAINST THE WILES OF THE EVIL ONE. ARENT YOU GLAD HE IS OUR HEALER AND OUR DELIVERER

  ANTEDILUVIAN -BEFORE THE FLOOD-EXTREMELY OLD -SEMMINGLY TO BELONG TO AN EARLIER PERIOD.  OLD PERSON-OLDSTER-SENIOR CITIZEN . And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints, JUDE 1 14,15 Antediluvian  (literally, “before the flood”) refers to the time period before the flood recorded in  Genesis 6—8 . The righteous people who lived before  Noah’s  time are called antediluvian patriarchs. Those men are listed in  Genesis 5  and include Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Enoch, and Methuselah, who lived to be 969, making him the oldest person on record. The word  antediluvian  has also come to mean “extremely old” or “out-of-date.”

ADVENT -THE APROACH OF AN IMPORTANT ARRIVAL OR EVENT-LATIN WORD ADVENTUS=MEANING "COMING", ARRIVAL THAT HAS BEEN AWAITED ALTAR- MIZBEACH- J E narrate that altars were built by Noah after leaving the ark Genesis 8:20; by Abraham at Shechem Genesis 12:7, Bethel Genesis 12:8, Hebron Genesis 13:18, mountain in land Moriah Genesis 22:9; by Issac at Beersheba Genesis 26:25; by Jacob at Shechem Genesis 33:20  A great altar was built east of the Jordan, but it was according to P only as an  עֵד  after the pattern of the altar before the Tabernacle  Joshua 22:10-34 . P describes two altars:

  Curses from Mount Ebal 9  Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, “Keep silence and hear, O Israel: this day you have become the people of the  Lord  your God.   10  You shall therefore obey the voice of the  Lord  your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.” 11  That day Moses charged the people, saying,   12  “When you have crossed over the Jordan, these shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.   13  And these shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.   14  And the Levites shall declare to all the men of Israel in a loud voice: 15  “‘Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the  Lord , a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’ 16  “‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall

  The Altar on Mount Ebal 27 NOW MOSES AND THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL COMMANDED THE PEOPLE, SAYING, KEEP THE WHOLE COMMANDMENT WHICH I COMMAND YOU THIS DAY. AND IT SHALL BE ON THE DAY WHEN YE SHALL PASS OVER JORDAN UNTO THE LAND WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE, A LAND THAT FLOWETH WITH MILK AND HONEY; AS THE LORD GOD OF THY FATHERS HATH PROMISED THEE. MOUNT EBAL MOUNTAIN IN THE IMMEDIATE CITY OF OF NABLUS IN THE WEST BANK, AND FORMS THE NORTHERN SIDE OF THE VALLEY IN WHICH NABLUS IS SITUATED, THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF THE VALLEY IN WHICH  NABLUS IS SITUATED , THE SOUTHERN SIDE BEING FORMED BY MOUNT GERIZIM.

  .   The attempt to bring the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem. 1. (1-4) The plan to bring the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem. Then David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds,   and  with every leader. And David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If   it seems  good to you, and if it is of the LORD our God, let us send out to our brethren everywhere   who are  left in all the land of Israel, and with them to the priests and Levites   who are  in their cities   and  their common-lands, that they may gather together to us; and let us bring the ark of our God back to us, for we have not inquired at it since the days of Saul.” Then all the assembly said that they would do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.  a the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem. Then David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds,  and  with every leader. And David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If  it seems  good to you, and if it is of the LORD our God, le

HE SAID I AM THE LIFE! JOHN 11 -JESUS SAID TO HER,   I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE. THE ONE WHO BELIEVES IN ME WILL LIVE, EVEN THOUGH THEY DIE; AND WHOEVER LIVES BY BELIEVING IN ME WILL NEVER DIE. DO YOU BELIEVE THIS?  YES, LORD SHE REPLIED, I BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE THE MESSIAH, THE SON OF GOD, THE ONE WHO HAS COME INTO THE WORLD . AFTER SHE HAD SAID THIS, SHE WENT BACK AND CALLED HER SISTER MARY ASIDE. THE TEACHER IS HERE, SHE SAID, AND IS ASKING FOR YOU. WHEN MARY HEARD THIS, SHE GOT UP QUICKLY AND WENT TO HIM. NOW JESUS WAS STILL AT THE PLACE WHERE MARTHA HAD MET HIM. WHEN THE JEWS WHO HAD BEEN WITH MARY IN THE HOUSE, COMFORTING HER, NOTICED HOW QUICKLY SHE GOT UP AND WENT OUT, THEY FOLLOWED HER, SUPPOSING SHE WAS GOING TO THE TOMB TO MOURN THERE. THE FATHER GAVE US HIS SON AND THE SPIRIT OF HIS SON SO THAT WE MAY RECEIVE HIS GRACE AND GLORY THROUGH HIM. WHEN WE PARTAKE IN HIS SPIRIT WE ARE ONE OF HIS, WE SUP WITH HIM AT HIS TABLE. LET US GLORIFY HIM BECAUSE I AND THE FATHER AM O