Isaiah 9:2 New International Version (NIV)
The
people walking in darkness have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.
on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.
Some conservative theologians have interpreted Jeremiah
49:18 verse as criticizing the inhabitants of Jerusalem
for their sexual sins, and implying that they were like the men of Sodom.
Not True
Jeremiah 49:18 New International Version (NIV)
18 As Sodom
and Gomorrah
were overthrown, along with their neighboring towns,” says the Lord, “so no one will live
there; no people will dwell in it.” (Notes: Black as a background - Spiritual Death, Letters of white – God
Speaking)
Jeremiah 49,
NIV Audio Bible, Dramatized; in context without falsely justified
interruption by city names.
12 This is what the Lord says: “If those who
do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, why should you go unpunished?
You will not go unpunished, but must drink it. 13 I swear by myself,” declares the Lord, “that Bozrah will become a ruin and a curse, an object of
horror and reproach; and all its towns will be in ruins forever.”
Isaiah 1 NIV Audio Bible, Dramatized
A
Rebellious Nation
7 Your
country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being
stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by
strangers.
8 Daughter Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under siege.
9 Unless the Lord Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.
8 Daughter Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under siege.
9 Unless the Lord Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of
Gomorrah!
Jeremiah 23
NIV Audio Bible, Dramatized
The
Righteous Branch
23 “Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my
pasture!” declares the Lord. 2 Therefore this is what the Lord, the God of Israel,
says to the shepherds who tend my people: “Because you have scattered my flock
and driven them away and have not bestowed care on them, I will bestow
punishment on you for the evil you have done,” declares the Lord. 3 “I
myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I
have driven them and will bring them back to their pasture, where they will be
fruitful and increase in number. 4 I
will place shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be
afraid or terrified, nor will any be missing,” declares the Lord.
Lying
Prophets
9 Concerning
the prophets: My heart is broken within me; all my bones tremble. I am like a
drunken man, like a strong man overcome by wine, because of the Lord and his holy words.
10 The land is full of adulterers; because
of the curse the land lies parched and the pastures in the wilderness are
withered. The prophets follow an evil course and use their power unjustly.
11 “Both prophet and
priest are godless; even in my temple I find their wickedness,” declares the Lord.
12 “Therefore their path will become slippery; they will be banished to darkness and there they will fall. I will bring disaster on them in the year they are punished,” declares the Lord.
12 “Therefore their path will become slippery; they will be banished to darkness and there they will fall. I will bring disaster on them in the year they are punished,” declares the Lord.
Exodus 20 NIV Audio Bible, Dramatized
The
Ten Commandments
20 And God spoke all these words: 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
3 “You shall have no
other gods before[a] me.
4 “You shall not make
for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth
beneath or in the waters below. 5 You
shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the
sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
6 but showing love to a thousand
generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
7 “You shall not misuse
the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
8 “Remember the Sabbath
day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you
shall labor and do all your work, 10 but
the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord
your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or
daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner
residing in your towns. 11 For
in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is
in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
12 “Honor your father and
your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving
you.
13 “You shall not murder.
14 “You shall not commit
adultery.
15 “You shall not steal.
16 “You shall not give
false testimony against your neighbor.
17 “You shall not covet
your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or
female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
18 When the people saw
the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke,
they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance 19 and said to Moses, “Speak to us
yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die.”
20 Moses said to the
people, “Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God
will be with you to keep you from sinning.”
21 The
people remained at a distance, while Moses approached the thick darkness where
God was.
Idols
and Altars
22 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell
the Israelites this: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you
from heaven: 23 Do not make any gods to
be alongside me; do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods of gold.
24 “‘Make an altar of
earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings,
your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I
will come to you and bless you. 25 If
you make an altar of stones for me, do not build it with dressed stones, for
you will defile it if you use a tool on it. 26 And
do not go up to my altar on steps, or your private parts may be exposed.’
Matthew 7:1-3 NIV Audio Bible, Dramatized
Judging
Others
7 “Do not judge, or you
too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you
judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be
measured to you.
3 “Why do you look at
the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in
your own eye?
1 Thessalonians 5 NIV Audio Bible,
Dramatized
The
Day of the Lord
5 Now, brothers and sisters, about
times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2 for you know
very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, “Peace and
safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant
woman, and they will not escape.
4 But you, brothers and
sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. 5 You are all
children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or
to the darkness. 6 So then,
let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober.
7 For those who sleep, sleep at
night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. 8 But since we belong to the day, let us
be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation
as a helmet. 9 For God did
not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus
Christ. 10 He died for us so
that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. 11 Therefore encourage one another and
build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
Final
Instructions
12 Now we ask
you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who work hard among you, who care
for you in the Lord and who admonish you.
13 Hold them in the highest regard
in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other. 14 And we urge you, brothers and sisters,
warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the
weak, be patient with everyone. 15 Make
sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is
good for each other and for everyone else.
16 Rejoice
always, 17 pray
continually, 18 give thanks
in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
19 Do not quench
the Spirit. 20 Do
not treat prophecies with contempt 21 but
test them all; hold on to what is good, 22 reject
every kind of evil.
23 May God
himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole
spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 The one who
calls you is faithful, and he will do it.
25 Brothers and
sisters, pray for us. 26 Greet all God’s people with a holy
kiss. 27 I charge you before
the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers and sisters.
28 The grace of
our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
2 Thessalonians 1 NIV Audio Bible,
Dramatized
1 Paul, Silas and Timothy,
To
the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Grace and peace to you from
God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thanksgiving
and Prayer
3 We ought always to thank God
for you, brothers and sisters,[b] and rightly so, because your faith is
growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is
increasing. 4 Therefore,
among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the
persecutions and trials you are enduring.
5 All this is evidence that
God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the
kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. 6 God is just:
He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you 7 and give relief to you who are troubled,
and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven
in blazing fire with his powerful angels. 8 He
will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord
Jesus. 9 They will be
punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the
Lord and from the glory of his might 10 on
the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among
all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our
testimony to you.
11 With this in
mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his
calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for
goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. 12 We pray this
so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him,
according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2 NIV Audio Bible,
Dramatized
The
Man of Lawlessness
2 Concerning the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to become
easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a
prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord
has already come. 3 Don’t let
anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion
occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.
4 He will oppose and will exalt
himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets
himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.
5 Don’t you remember that when
I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you
know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time.
7 For the secret power of
lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue
to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And
then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with
the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one will be in
accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through
signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and
all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish
because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a
powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who
have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
Stand
Firm
13 But we ought
always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because
God chose you as firstfruits to be saved through the sanctifying work of the
Spirit and through belief in the truth. 14 He called you to this through our
gospel, that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15 So then,
brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of
mouth or by letter.
16 May our Lord
Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us
eternal encouragement and good hope, 17 encourage your hearts and strengthen
you in every good deed and word.
In Jesus’ Name.
Amen.
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