URC Nature Relating to Religion

God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

"This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, 'The time hasn't yet come, the time for Yahweh's house to be built.'"

Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says Yahweh.

Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God,

Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of Yahweh.

Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh's temple was laid, consider it.

They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel."

Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.

The Jews therefore said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?"

Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.

He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.

But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, "We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches."

There were many lights in the upper room where we were gathered together.

And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!"

But I say, didn't they hear? Yes, most certainly, "Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."

So then death works in us, but life in you.

the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lampstands are seven assemblies.