Christians And Anti-Christians
August 28, 1995


Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head,
and fell down upon the ground, and worshiped.
And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb,
and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away;
blessed be the name of the Lord.
In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. (Job 1)

And David built there an alter unto the Lord,
and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings,
and called upon the Lord; and he answered him from heaven
by fire upon the alter of burnt-offering. And the Lord commanded the angel;
and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
At that time when David saw that the Lord had answered him
in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the wilderness,
and the alter of the burnt-offering, were at that season in the high place at Gideon.
But David could not go before it to enquire of God:
for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord. (I Chronicles 21)

So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain:
then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine,
and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters,
and the fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of
Shittim. Egypt shall a be desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness,
for the violence again the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in
their land. But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to
generation. For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the Lord
dwelleth in Zion. (Joel 3)

But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
For it is written, Rejoice thou barren that barest not; break forth and cry, thou that
travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath a husband.
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. But as then he
that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit,
even so it is now. Nevertheless what saith the scripture?
Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman
shall not be heir with the son of the free woman. So then, brethren,
we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. (Galatians 4)

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me:
and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,
who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2)

I leave you praying, and I love you,
"for love is strong as death" (Song of Solomon 8)
Estella.