David W. Zavitz (31 Oct 2005)
"History to recall, these last days, to encourage us ..."


Important 'HIS-story'/history to recall, these last
days, to encourage us ...
 

(It might to useful to print scriptures like these out
and read them again and again ... and carry them with
us so that we might hide them in our hearts ... just
in case one day soon, we may not have access to the
Bible, for a while.)
 

18  Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well
remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and
unto all Egypt;

19  The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and
the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and
the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God
brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto
all the people of whom thou art afraid.

21  Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD
thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
 

Deuteronomy 7:
1  When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the
land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast
out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the
Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and
the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
2  And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before
thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them;
thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy
unto them:
3  Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy
daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his
daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
4  For they will turn away thy son from following me,
that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of
the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee
suddenly.
5  But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy
their altars, and break down their images, and cut
down their groves, and burn their graven images with
fire.
6  For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God:
the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special
people unto himself, above all people that are upon
the face of the earth.
7  The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose
you, because ye were more in number than any people;
for ye were the fewest of all people:
8  But because the LORD loved you, and because he
would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your
fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty
hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen,
from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9  Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God,
the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy
with them that love him and keep his commandments to a
thousand generations;
10  And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to
destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth
him, he will repay him to his face.
11  Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and
the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee
this day, to do them.

12  Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to
these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD
thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the
mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
13  And he will love thee, and bless thee, and
multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy
womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy
wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the
flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto
thy fathers to give thee.
14  Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there
shall not be male or female barren among you, or among
your cattle.
15  And the LORD will take away from thee all
sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of
Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay
them upon all them that hate thee.
16  And thou shalt consume all the people which the
LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have
no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their
gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
17  If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations
are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
18  Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well
remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and
unto all Egypt;
19  The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and
the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and
the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God
brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto
all the people of whom thou art afraid.
20  Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet
among them, until they that are left, and hide
themselves from thee, be destroyed.
21  Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD
thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
22  And the LORD thy God will put out those nations
before thee by little and little: thou mayest not
consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field
increase upon thee.
23  But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee,
and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction,
until they be destroyed.
24  And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand,
and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven:
there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until
thou have destroyed them.
25  The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with
fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is
on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared
therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
26  Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine
house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou
shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor
it; for it is a cursed thing.
 

Matthew 10;
16  Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of
wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless
as doves.

17  But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to
the councils, and they will scourge you in their
synagogues;
18  And ye shall be brought before governors and kings
for my sake, for a testimony against them and the
Gentiles.
19  But when they deliver you up, take no thought how
or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in
that same hour what ye shall speak.
20  For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of
your Father which speaketh in you.

21  And the brother shall deliver up the brother to
death, and the father the child: and the children
shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to
be put to death.
22  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's
sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

23  But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye
into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not
have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of
man be come.

24  The disciple is not above his master, nor the
servant above his lord.
25  It is enough for the disciple that he be as his
master, and the servant as his lord. If they have
called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much
more shall they call them of his household?
26  Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing
covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that
shall not be known.
 

Mark 13:
1  And as he went out of the temple, one of his
disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of
stones and what buildings are here!

2  And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these
great buildings? there shall not be left one stone
upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

3  And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against
the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked
him privately,
4  Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall
be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?

5  And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed
lest any man deceive you:
6  For many shall come in my name, saying, I am
Christ; and shall deceive many.
7  And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars,
be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but
the end shall not be yet.
8  For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom
against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in
divers places, and there shall be famines and
troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
9  But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver
you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be
beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and
kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.
10  And the gospel must first be published among all
nations.
11  But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up,
take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak,
neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be
given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not
ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.
12  Now the brother shall betray the brother to death,
and the father the son; and children shall rise up
against their parents, and shall cause them to be put
to death.
13  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's
sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same
shall be saved.

14  But when ye shall see the abomination of
desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing
where it ought not, (let him that readeth
understand,)then let them that be in Judaea flee to
the mountains:
15  And let him that is on the housetop not go down
into the house, neither enter therein, to take any
thing out of his house:
16  And let him that is in the field not turn back
again for to take up his garment.
17  But woe to them that are with child, and to them
that give suck in those days!
18  And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
19  For in those days shall be affliction, such as was
not from the beginning of the creation which God
created unto this time, neither shall be.
20  And except that the Lord had shortened those days,
no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake,
whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
21  And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is
Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:
22  For false Christs and false prophets shall rise,
and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it
were possible, even the elect.
23  But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all
things.

24  But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun
shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her
light,
25  And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers
that are in heaven shall be shaken.
26  And then shall they see the Son of man coming in
the clouds with great power and glory.
27  And then shall he send his angels, and shall
gather together his elect from the four winds, from
the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part
of heaven.

28  Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her
branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye
know that summer is near:
29  So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these
things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the
doors.
30  Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall
not pass, till all these things be done.
31  Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words
shall not pass away.
 

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall
stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though
after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh
shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine
eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be
consumed within me.  (Job 19:25-27)
 

Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body
shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in
dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the
earth shall cast out the dead. (Isaiah 26:19)
 

The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out
in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the
midst of the valley which was full of bones,

And caused me to pass by them round about: and,
behold, there were very many in the open valley; and,
lo, they were very dry.

And he said unto me,

Son of man, can these bones live?

And I answered,

O Lord GOD, thou knowest.

Again he said unto me,

Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry
bones, hear the word of the LORD.  Therefore prophesy
and say unto them,

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will
open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your
graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
(Ezekiel 37:1-4;12)
 

I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will
redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy
plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction:
repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. (Hosea 13:14)
 

Jesus answered and said unto them,

Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power
of God.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are
given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in
heaven.

But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye
not read that which was spoken unto you by God,
saying,

I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the
God of Jacob?

God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
(Matthew 22:29-32)
 

And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto
the resurrection of life; and they that have done
evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. (John 5:29)
 

Jesus saith unto her,

Thy brother shall rise again.

Martha saith unto him,

I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at
the last day.

Jesus said unto her,

I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth
in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And
whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.

Believest thou this? (John 11:23-26)
 

And have hope toward God, which they themselves also
allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead,
both of the just and unjust. (Acts 24:15)
 

And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense
thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the
resurrection of the just. (Luke 14:14)
 

Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand,
Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire,
prepared for the devil and his angels: (Matthew 25:41)
 

Then shall he answer them, saying,

Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to
one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

And these shall go away into everlasting punishment:
but the righteous into life eternal. (Matthew
25:45-46)
 

Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek
for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey
the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and
wrath,

Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that
doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that
worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the
Gentile: (Romans 2:6-10)
 

For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh
reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit
shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due
season we shall reap, if we faint not.

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto
all men, especially unto them who are of the household
of faith. (Galations 6:8-10)
 

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall
be saved. (Matthew 24:13)
 

And ye shall be hated of all for my name's sake: but
he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be
saved. (Mark 13:13)
 

... Messiah ... Son over His own house, whose house
are we if we hold fast the confidence and the
rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. (Hebrews 3:6)
 

For we are made partakers of Messiah, if we hold the
beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end.
(Hebrews 3:14)
 

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath
great recompence of reward. For ye have need of
patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye
might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and
he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now
the just shall live by faith: but if any draw back, my
soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of
them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that
believe to the saving of the soul. (Hebrews 10:35-39)
 

Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have
heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of
the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender
mercy. (James 5:11)
 

But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Messiah's
sufferings; that, when His glory shall be revealed, ye
may be glad also with exceeding joy. (1 Peter 4:13)
 

Hebrews12:
1   Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with
so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every
weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and
let us run with patience the race that is set before
us,
2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our
faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured
the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the
right hand of the throne of God.
3  For consider him that endured such contradiction of
sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint
in your minds.

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4  Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving
against sin.
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5  And ye have forgotten the exhortation which
speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise
not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when
thou art rebuked of him:

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6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and
scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as
with sons; for what son is he whom the father
chasteneth not?
8  But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are
partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
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9  Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which
corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not
much rather be in subjection unto the Father of
spirits, and live?
10  For they verily for a few days chastened us after
their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we
might be partakers of his holiness.

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11  Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be
joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it
yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto
them which are exercised thereby.
12  Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and
the feeble knees;
13  And make straight paths for your feet, lest that
which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it
rather be healed.
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14  Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without
which no man shall see the Lord:
15  Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace
of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up
trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16  Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person,
as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his
birthright.
17  For ye know how that afterward, when he would have
inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found
no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully
with tears.

18  For ye are not come unto the mount that might be
touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto
blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19  And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of
words; which voice they that heard intreated that the
word should not be spoken to them any more:
20  (For they could not endure that which was
commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the
mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a
dart:
21  And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I
exceedingly fear and quake:)
22  But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city
of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an
innumerable company of angels,
23  To the general assembly and church of the
firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the
Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made
perfect,
24  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and
to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better
things than that of Abel.
25  See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if
they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth,
much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from
him that speaketh from heaven:
26  Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath
promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth
only, but also heaven.
27  And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the
removing of those things that are shaken, as of things
that are made, that those things which cannot be
shaken may remain.
28  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be
moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God
acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29  For our God is a consuming fire.

1  Let brotherly love continue.

2  Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for
thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
3  Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with
them; and them which suffer adversity, as being
yourselves also in the body.

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4  Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed
undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will
judge.
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5  Let your conversation be without covetousness; and
be content with such things as ye have: for he hath
said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
6  So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper,
and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

7  Remember them which have the rule over you, who
have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith
follow, considering the end of their conversation.

8  Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and
for ever.

9  Be not carried about with divers and strange
doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be
established with grace; not with meats, which have not
profited them that have been occupied therein.
10  We have an altar, whereof they have no right to
eat which serve the tabernacle.
11  For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is
brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin,
are burned without the camp.
12  Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the
people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13  Let us go forth therefore unto him without the
camp, bearing his reproach.
14  For here have we no continuing city, but we seek
one to come.
15  By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of
praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our
lips giving thanks to his name.
16  But to do good and to communicate forget not: for
with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

17  Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit
yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they
that must give account, that they may do it with joy,
and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

18  Pray for us: for we trust we have a good
conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
19  But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I
may be restored to you the sooner.

20  Now the God of peace, that brought again from the
dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep,
through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21  Make you perfect in every good work to do his
will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his
sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever
and ever. Amen.

22  And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of
exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in
few words.
23  Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at
liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see
you.
24  Salute all them that have the rule over you, and
all the saints. They of Italy salute you.
25  Grace be with you all. Amen.
 

Shalom shalom,

David

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