Psalm 128 New American Standard Bible 1995 Blessedness of the Fear of the Lord. A Song of Ascents. 1 How blessed is everyone who fears the Lord,Who walks in His ways.2 When you shall eat of the fruit of your hands,You will be happy and it will be well with you.3 Your wife shall be like a fruitful vineWithin your house,Your children like olive plantsAround your table.4 Behold, for thus shall the man be blessedWho fears the Lord. 5 The Lord bless you from Zion,And may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life.6 Indeed, may you see your children’s children.Peace be upon Israel! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maranatha-ministries/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maranatha-ministries/support

1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maranatha-ministries/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maranatha-ministries/support

Isaiah 13 New King James Version Proclamation Against Babylon 1 The burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw. 2 “Lift up a banner on the high mountain,Raise your voice to them;Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.3 I have commanded My sanctified ones;I have also called My mighty ones for My anger—Those who rejoice in My exaltation.” 4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains,Like that of many people!A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together!The Lord of hosts mustersThe army for battle.5 They come from a far country,From the end of heaven—The Lord and His weapons of indignation,To destroy the whole land. 6 Wail, for the day of the Lord is at hand!It will come as destruction from the Almighty.7 Therefore all hands will be limp,Every man’s heart will melt,8 And they will be afraid.Pangs and sorrows will take hold of them;They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth;They will be amazed at one another;Their faces will be like flames. 9 Behold, the day of the Lord comes,Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger,To lay the land desolate;And He will destroy its sinners from it.10 For the stars of heaven and their constellationsWill not give their light;The sun will be darkened in its going forth,And the moon will not cause its light to shine. 11 “I will punish the world for its evil,And the wicked for their iniquity;I will halt the arrogance of the proud,And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.12 I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold,A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.13 Therefore I will shake the heavens,And the earth will move out of her place,In the wrath of the Lord of hostsAnd in the day of His fierce anger.14 It shall be as the hunted gazelle,And as a sheep that no man takes up;Every man will turn to his own people,And everyone will flee to his own land.15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through,And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.16 Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;Their houses will be plunderedAnd their wives ravished. 17 “Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,Who will not regard silver;And as for gold, they will not delight in it.18 Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces,And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb;Their eye will not spare children.19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,The beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride,Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.20 It will never be inhabited,Nor will it be settled from generation to generation;Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there,Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.21 But wild beasts of the desert will lie there,And their houses will be full of owls;Ostriches will dwell there,And wild goats will caper there.22 The hyenas will howl in their citadels,And jackals in their pleasant palaces.Her time is near to come,And her days will not be prolonged.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maranatha-ministries/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maranatha-ministries/support

Isaiah 2 New American Standard Bible 1995 1 The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 Now it will come about thatIn the last daysThe mountain of the house of the LordWill be established as the chief of the mountains,And will be raised above the hills;And all the nations will stream to it.3 And many peoples will come and say,“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,To the house of the God of Jacob;That He may teach us concerning His waysAnd that we may walk in His paths.”For the law will go forth from ZionAnd the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.4 And He will judge between the nations,And will render decisions for many peoples;And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.Nation will not lift up sword against nation,And never again will they learn war. 5 Come, house of Jacob, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.6 For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob,Because they are filled with influences from the east,And they are soothsayers like the Philistines,And they strike bargains with the children of foreigners.7 Their land has also been filled with silver and goldAnd there is no end to their treasures;Their land has also been filled with horsesAnd there is no end to their chariots.8 Their land has also been filled with idols;They worship the work of their hands,That which their fingers have made.9 So the common man has been humbledAnd the man of importance has been abased,But do not forgive them.10 Enter the rock and hide in the dustFrom the terror of the Lord and from the splendor of His majesty.11 The proud look of man will be abasedAnd the loftiness of man will be humbled,And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day. 12 For the Lord of hosts will have a day of reckoningAgainst everyone who is proud and loftyAnd against everyone who is lifted up,That he may be abased.13 And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon that are lofty and lifted up,Against all the oaks of Bashan,14 Against all the lofty mountains,Against all the hills that are lifted up,15 Against every high tower,Against every fortified wall,16 Against all the ships of TarshishAnd against all the beautiful craft.17 The pride of man will be humbledAnd the loftiness of men will be abased;And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,18 But the idols will completely vanish.19 Men will go into caves of the rocksAnd into holes of the groundBefore the terror of the LordAnd the splendor of His majesty,When He arises to make the earth tremble.20 In that day men will cast away to the moles and the batsTheir idols of silver and their idols of gold,Which they made for themselves to worship,21 In order to go into the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffsBefore the terror of the Lord and the splendor of His majesty,When He arises to make the earth tremble.22 Stop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils;For why should he be esteemed? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maranatha-ministries/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maranatha-ministries/support

Psalm 127 New King James Version Laboring and Prospering with the Lord A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. 1 Unless the Lord builds the house,They labor in vain who build it;Unless the Lord guards the city,The watchman stays awake in vain.2 It is vain for you to rise up early,To sit up late,To eat the bread of sorrows;For so He gives His beloved sleep. 3 Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord,The fruit of the womb is a reward.4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,So are the children of one’s youth.5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them;They shall not be ashamed,But shall speak with their enemies in the gate. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maranatha-ministries/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maranatha-ministries/support

John 13:34-35 (ESV) 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maranatha-ministries/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maranatha-ministries/support

The two concepts "Day of the Lord" and "Second Coming" are distinct from one another. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maranatha-ministries/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maranatha-ministries/support

1 Peter 1 Revised Geneva Translation 1 Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, To the strangers who dwell here and there throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia; 2 Elect, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, for sanctification of the Spirit through obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you. 3 Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; Who, according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope - by the resurrection from the dead of Jesus Christ - 4 to an immortal and undefiled inheritance which does not wither, reserved in Heaven for us 5 who are kept for salvation through faith by the power of God - which is prepared to be revealed in the last time 6 and in which you rejoice - though now for a season (if need be) you are in heaviness through various trials, 7 so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than gold, which perishes though it be tried with fire), might be found to your praise, honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ, 8 Whom you have not seen and yet love; in Whom now (though you do not see Him) you still believe and rejoice with unspeakable and glorious joy, 9 receiving the purpose of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 10 Of such salvation the Prophets have inquired and searched, prophesying of the grace that would come to you, 11 searching when or at what time the Spirit of Christ (Who testified before) was in them, declaring the sufferings that would come to Christ and the glory that would follow. 12 To them it was revealed that: not to themselves, but to us, they should minister the things which are shown to you by those who have preached the Gospel by the Holy Ghost, sent down from Heaven. These things the angels desire to behold. 13 Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind. Be sober and trust completely in that grace which is brought to you by the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14 As obedient children, do not conform yourselves to the former lusts of your ignorance. 15 But as He Who has called you is holy, so you be holy, in all manner of conversation. 16 Because it is written, “Be holy. For I am holy.” 17 And if you call him ‘Father’ (Who judges according to the work of each, without respect of persons), pass the time of your dwelling here in fear, 18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things - like silver and gold from your ineffective lifestyle received by the traditions of the Fathers - 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb undefiled and without spot. 20 He was ordained before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sakes, 21 You, through Him, believe in God Who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God. 22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth (through the Spirit) toward brotherly love without hypocrisy, love one another fervently, with a pure heart; 23 being born anew - not of mortal seed, but of immortal - by the word of God, Who lives and endures forever. 24 For “all flesh is as grass. And all the glory of man is as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls away. 25 “But the word of the Lord endures forever.” And this is the word which is preached among you. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maranatha-ministries/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maranatha-ministries/support

Psalm 126 New King James Version A Joyful Return to Zion A Song of Ascents. 1 When the Lord brought back the captivity of Zion,We were like those who dream.2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter,And our tongue with singing.Then they said among the nations,“The Lord has done great things for them.”3 The Lord has done great things for us,And we are glad. 4 Bring back our captivity, O Lord,As the streams in the South. 5 Those who sow in tearsShall reap in joy.6 He who continually goes forth weeping,Bearing seed for sowing,Shall doubtless come again with rejoicing,Bringing his sheaves with him. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maranatha-ministries/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maranatha-ministries/support

You Must Be Born Again Revised Geneva Translation 1 There was now a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus - a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night, and said to Him, “Rabbi(G4461 ῥαββί rhabbi rhab-biy'), we know that You are a teacher(G1320 διδάσκαλος didaskalos d̮iy-d̮a'-ska-los) from God; for no one could do these miracles that You do, except God were with Him.” 3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born(G1080 γεννάω gennao ǰen-naō') again(G509 ἄνωθεν anothen a'-nō-then), he cannot see the Kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born who is old?(#1) Can he enter into his mother’s womb again, and be born?(#2)” 5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. 6 “That which is born of the flesh, is flesh. And that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit. 7 “Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born(G1080 γεννάω gennao ǰen-naō') again(G509 ἄνωθεν anothen a'-nō-then).’ 8 “The wind blows where it will, and you hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell from where it comes, and where it goes. So is every man who is born of the Spirit.” 9 Nicodemus answered, and said to Him, “How can these things be?(#3)” 10 Jesus answered, and said to him, “Are you a teacher(G1320 διδάσκαλος didaskalos d̮iy-d̮a'-ska-los) of Israel, and know not these things?(#4) 11 “Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak that we know, and testify that we have seen. But you do not receive our witness. 12 “If when I tell you earthly things you do not believe, how shall you believe if I tell you of Heavenly things?(#5) 13 “For no one ascends up to Heaven, except He who descended from Heaven – the Son of Man, who is in Heaven. 14 “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up; 15 “that whoever believes in Him, should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 “For God so loves the world, that He has given His only begotten Son; that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 “For God did not send his Son into the world that He should condemn the world, but that the world, through Him, might be saved. 18 “The one who believes in Him is not condemned. But the one who does not believe, is condemned already, because he has not believed in the Name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 “And this is the judgment: that the Light came into the world, and man loved darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil. 20 “For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 “But the one who practices truth comes to the Light, that his works done according to God might be made visible.” 22 After these things, Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea and stayed there with them and baptized. 23 And John also baptized in Aenon, near Salim, because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized. 24 For John was not yet cast into prison. 25 Then there arose a question(G2214 ζήτησις zetesis zee'-tee-sis) between John’s disciples and the Jews about purification. 26 And they came to John, and said to him, “Rabbi(G4461 ῥαββί rhabbi rhab-biy'), he who was with you beyond Jordan, to whom you have borne witness, behold, he baptizes, and all come to him.” 27 John answered, and said... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maranatha-ministries/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maranatha-ministries/support