1 Thessalonians 4:8
4:8 Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority
but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Numbers 11:25-29
11:25 And the
Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to them, and he took some of the Spirit that was on Moses
and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them,
they prophesied,
but did not do so again.
Eldad and Medad
11:26 But two men remained in the camp; one’s name was Eldad, and the other’s name was Medad. And the spirit rested on them. (Now they were among those in the registration, but had not gone to the tabernacle.) So they prophesied in the camp.
11:27 And a young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”
11:28 Joshua son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his choice young men, said, “My lord Moses, stop them!”
11:29 Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for me? I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets, that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!”
Numbers 11:1
The Israelites Complain
11:1 When the people complained, it displeased the Lord. When the Lord heard it, his anger burned, and so the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outer parts of the camp.
Numbers 10:5-6
10:5 When you blow an alarm,
then the camps that are located
on the east side must begin to travel.
10:6 And when you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that are located on the south side must begin to travel.
An alarm must be sounded
for their journeys.
Numbers 10:10-13
10:10 “Also in the time when you rejoice, such as on your appointed festivals or at the beginnings of your months, you must blow with your trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings, so that they may become a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God.”
The Journey From Sinai to Kadesh
10:11 On the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the testimony.
10:12 So the Israelites set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran.
Judah Begins the Journey
10:13 This was the first time they set out on their journey according to the commandment of the Lord, by the authority of Moses.
Numbers 19:20
19:20 But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person must be cut off from among the community, because he has polluted the sanctuary of the
Lord; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.
Acts 19:6
19:6 and when Paul placed
his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came
upon them, and they began to speak
in tongues and to prophesy.
Acts 19:1
Disciples of John the Baptist at Ephesus
19:1 While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul went through the inland regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciples there
Colossians 1:4
1:4 since
we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.
Colossians 1:1
Salutation
1:1 From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
Colossians 1:10
1:10 so that you may live
worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects
– bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,
Colossians 1:28
1:28 We proclaim him by instructing
and teaching
all people
with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature
in Christ.
Colossians 1:2
1:2 to the saints, the faithful
brothers and sisters
in Christ, at Colossae. Grace and peace to you
from God our Father!
Colossians 1:9
Paul’s Prayer for the Growth of the Church
1:9 For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Colossians 1:1
Salutation
1:1 From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
Colossians 1:3-6
Paul’s Thanksgiving and Prayer for the Church
1:3 We always give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
1:4 since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.
1:5 Your faith and love have arisen from the hope laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel
1:6 that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.
Colossians 1:22-25
1:22 but now he has reconciled you
by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him –
1:23 if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm,
without shifting
from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.
1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body – for the sake of his body, the church – what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.
1:25 I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship from God – given to me for you – in order to complete the word of God,
Colossians 1:29
1:29 Toward this goal
I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully
works in me.
Colossians 1:1
Salutation
1:1 From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
Ephesians 4:11-12
4:11 It was he
who gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,
4:12 to equip
the saints for the work of ministry, that is,
to build up the body of Christ,
Revelation 11:3-11
11:3 And I will grant my two witnesses authority
to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.
11:4 (These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.)
11:5 If
anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths
and completely consumes
their enemies. If
anyone wants to harm them, they must be killed this way.
11:6 These two have the power
to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the time
they are prophesying. They
have power
to turn the waters to blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague whenever they want.
11:7 When
they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war on them and conquer
them and kill them.
11:8 Their
corpses will lie in the street
of the great city that is symbolically
called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified.
11:9 For three and a half days those from every
people, tribe,
nation, and language will look at their corpses, because they will not permit them to be placed in a tomb.
11:10 And those who live on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate, even sending gifts to each other, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.
11:11 But
after three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and tremendous fear seized
those who were watching them.