Christ in the Clouds

I will  take my stand at my watchpost      and station myself on the tower, and  look out to see  what He will say to me,      and what I will answer concerning my complaint. Though the fig tree should not blossom,      nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail      and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold      and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the  Lord ;       I will take joy in the God of my salvation.   God , the Lord, is my strength;      he makes my feet like the deer's;      he makes me  tread on my  high places . Habakkak 2:1, 3:17-19 Habakkuk saw how his people were turning against God. He pleaded to God to do something... “As a watchman takes the proper place, especially in time of danger and distress, h...

  Then Esther spoke to Hathach and commanded him to go to Mordecai and say,   “All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside  the inner court without being called,  there is but one law—to be put to death, except the one  to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. But as for me, I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.” And they told Mordecai what Esther had said.   Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think to yourself that in the king's palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews.   For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”   Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai,   “Go, gather all the Jews to be found ...

But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,     are only a small village among all the people of Judah. Yet a ruler of Israel,     whose origins are in the distant past,     will come from you on my behalf. The people of Israel will be abandoned to their enemies     until the woman in labor gives birth. Then at last his fellow countrymen     will return from exile to their own land. And he will stand to lead his flock with the  Lord ’s strength,     in the majesty of the name of the  Lord  his God. Then his people will live there undisturbed,     for he will be highly honored around the world.     And he will be the source of peace. When the Assyrians invade our land     and break through our defenses, we will appoint seven rulers to watch over us,     eight princes to lead us. ...

The word of the  Lord  came to Jonah  son of Amittai:   “Go to the great city of Nineveh  and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.” But Jonah ran  away from the  Lord  and headed for Tarshish . He went down to Joppa,  where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord. Now the Lord provided  a huge fish to swallow Jonah,  and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. And the  Lord  commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land. Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah  a second time:   “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.” Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it. Jonah 1:1-3,17; 2:10, 3:1-3 Jonah was chosen to be God's ...