Tag: pentecost
member name: Sheila Deeth
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April 16, 2009 05:03 PM EDT --
John looked across the island and remembered the beautiful city, Laodicea: The aqueduct, that marvel of modern technology; the hospital where they salved the eyes but couldn’t cure foolishness; the . . .
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April 13, 2009 12:03 AM EDT --
There’s fifty days from Easter to Pentecost, fifty years from Biblical Jubilee to Jubilee, and fifty steps in Revelation, once you get past the first seven letters. Today’s paper had an article . . .
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April 13, 2009 06:10 PM EDT --
In synagogue, church and temple, people were gathering for worship. They read their leaders’ letters, broke bread, sang songs and offered prayer. But not John —he stood alone, looking down at scattered . . .
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April 14, 2009 04:52 PM EDT --
“Write,” said the voice.
“Who to?” said the man.
“To the church.”
“What church?”
“Write letters to them all.”
So John sat on stones and penned his scrolls to seven . . .
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April 15, 2009 12:48 PM EDT --
“Write,” said the voice.
“What shall I write?”
“Write love and hope and truth and certainty. Write the morning watch and the afternoon march, and the evening to heal the . . .
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April 17, 2009 05:42 PM EDT --
John put his pens away and sighed. The desolate landscape faded to a heavenly staircase. He climbed, awestruck, with no words to describe the things he heard and saw. But the voice said, “Write,” . . .
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April 18, 2009 08:14 PM EDT --
“You wanted to worship at the Temple?” said the voice. John nodded. “Well, now you can.”
So he stood outside the Holy of Holies, gazing down at the crowds gathered below. Altar fires . . .
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May 02, 2009 05:07 PM EDT --
John watched two leaders preaching to the clamoring crowds below till they died in the dust.
"They've lost," cried John.
"They've won," the . . .
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April 19, 2009 08:12 PM EDT --
“ What are we doing?” John asked as the worship began. The angel held out a bulletin, so John could see the words and know his place.
1. Welcome , it said. Then
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April 20, 2009 07:11 PM EDT --
The scroll was sealed seven times, tied with ribbons and closed.
“Can they open it?” John pointed to the twenty-four who stood around the throne. But they were only human. The seals told . . .
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April 21, 2009 05:31 PM EDT --
“Write what you see,” the angel said as the seals were removed from the scroll. And so John watched and wept and wrote, while the tale of mankind ran its course.
A white horse led the . . .
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April 22, 2009 05:31 PM EDT --
“Is this the end?” asked John. The fourth seal was undone, and a quarter of mankind lay dead.
“No,” said the angel. “It’s the middle. It’s what has been and is and what will be.” . . .
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April 23, 2009 05:23 PM EDT --
The wind was roaring round John’s ears as he stood in darkest night at the gateway to heaven. Far below, four angels blocked hell’s portal, holding tight to the corners of the sky. “Is this . . .
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April 25, 2009 06:56 PM EDT --
Seven trumpets proclaimed their welcome but the music sounded like thunder’s warning blast. John saw the clouds engulfed in flames. Mountains dissolved into fire and rolled under the sea. Survivors . . .
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April 29, 2009 05:22 PM EDT --
“Now I know it all,” said John, but the angel said no. “Well, I’ve written it all.” But the angel still said no. “Then what else is there?” And seven peals of thunder roared on the mountain.
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April 27, 2009 05:10 PM EDT --
Dark locusts poured from the portal to hell, chewing the hearts of people instead of crops. John called to the guardian angels for help, but they just turned their backs and the demons ranged wider. . . .
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April 28, 2009 06:43 PM EDT --
“So we suffer because it’s a fallen world?” said John. The angel agreed and John wrote “4” on his page; then “1/4” for the death of an earthly fraction of mankind.
“And we suffer because . . .
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May 01, 2009 07:41 PM EDT --
I've revised this since William reminded me I'd edited out something that I wanted to keep in. Many thanks.
"When will the end arrive?" asked John.
"When . . .
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May 04, 2009 05:44 PM EDT --
Joseph, who dreamed the sun and moon and eleven stars would bow, was sold as a slave.
And now a woman with sun and moon and twelve stars round her head appeared to John. “She’s history,” . . .
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May 08, 2009 04:52 PM EDT --
Three angels proclaimed the story as the fifth text was read from the scroll. Three angels prepared the harvest at the sixth. And seven angels flew with bowls of incense at the seventh.
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