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Sukkot Reading (Revelation 21)

The New Heaven and the New Earth 21  Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.  2  And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.  3  And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.  4  He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” 5  And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” 6  And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the...

All Things Bright & Beautiful

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Sukkot Reading (John 7)

Jesus at the Feast of Booths 7  After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews[a] were seeking to kill him.  2  Now the Jews' Feast of Booths was at hand. 3  So his brothers[b] said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. 4  For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”  5  For not even his brothers believed in him.  6  Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.  7  The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil. 8  You go up to the feast. I am not[c] going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.”  9  After saying this, he remained in Galilee. 10  But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.  11 ...

By Babylon’s River

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Sukkot Reading (Numbers 29:12 - 26)

  12  “On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall keep a feast to the Lord seven days. 13  And you shall offer a burnt offering, a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord, thirteen bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish; 14  and their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each of the two rams, 15  and a tenth for each of the fourteen lambs; 16  also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offering.  ( Numbers 29:12–16 , ESV) This is the Way!  This Is Our Prayer! O LORD, Hear Our Prayer(s)! 

A Dog’s Prayer

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    Hold To God’s Unchanging Hand 

Sukkot Reading (Romans 1:18 - 32(

God's Wrath on Unrighteousness 18  For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19  For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.  20  For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,[a] in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.  21  For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.  22  Claiming to be wise, they became fools,  23  and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. 24  Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,...

All Things Bright & Beautiful

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Sukkot Reading (Genesis 6 - 8)

Increasing Corruption on Earth 6  When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them,  2  the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. 3  Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in[a] man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”  4  The Nephilim[b]were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. 5  The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  6  And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. 7  So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the h...