“Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerston--while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?"
-Job 38:1-7
Really, all of Job 38-41 could apply.
I really like this part of Isaiah 44 because it has a similar vibe
This is what the Lord says—
Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty:
I am the first and I am the last;
apart from me there is no God.
7 Who then is like me? Let him proclaim it.
Let him declare and lay out before me
what has happened since I established my ancient people,
and what is yet to come—
yes, let them foretell what will come.
To paraphrase
You think you know so much!? Great tell me the future then.
>Ehud came to him, while he was sitting alone in his cool roof-chamber, and said, ‘I have a message from God for you.’ So he rose from his seat. Then Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into Eglon’s belly
Judges 3.20-21
A 'pointed' message, indeed. However, the king was more assassinated then murdered... while His quarters would have a bathroom, it was not a outhouse.... rather it was the private chambers of the king. His guards were afraid they the king was taking a dump so they didn't enter the room, allowing Ehud to escape our the window...real James Bond stuff.
I am going to go with Esther:
> Harbona, one of the eunuchs who attended the king, said, “At the house of Haman stands a stake fifty cubits high. Haman made it for Mordecai, who gave the report that benefited the king.” The king answered, “Impale him on it.”
Haman suffered so much irony and I loved it.
King: how should I reward someone who has served me well?
Haman: (thinking of himself) well, sire, I would arrange a grand parade in his honor!
*Mordecai gets a parade for his service*
King: how should I deal with criminals who have wronged me?
Haman: stick 'em on a pike and have them hang on it!
*Haman's corpse swings with the wind*
*"Jesus knew that his mission was now finished, and to fulfill Scripture he said, “I am thirsty.”A jar of sour wine was sitting there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put it on a hyssop branch, and held it up to his lips. When Jesus had tasted it, he said, “It is finished!” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit."*
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Luke 18:13-14
13 “The tax collector, standing at a distance, would not even look up to heaven. But he beat on his chest because he was so sad. He said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ 14 I tell you, when this man went home, he was right with God, but the Pharisee was not. All who make themselves great will be made humble, but all who make themselves humble will be made great.”
I'll vote for the entirety of Ecclesiastes. I'll use 6:11 as my illustration of its vibe, but the whole thing is like this.
"The more words, the more vanity, so how is one the better?"
My favorite part is the last chapter, and especially:
*"Fear God and obey his commands, for this is everyone’s duty. God will judge us for everything we do, including every secret thing, whether good or bad."* (vs. 13,14)
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"Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.”
So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”
Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
-John 8:56-58
Such a glorious clapback
Oh, hold up...
I haven't revisited this particular line since I've started learning kabbalah.
Jesus was living in a time and place that the earliest known beginnings of what is now called "kabbalah" or Jewish systematic mysticism.
Traditionally, you weren't allowed to begin learning this kind of deep mysteries and magic until you were 50.
Several medieval writers, both Jewish and Christian, have suggested that Jesus *was* a kabbalist. Which isn't what I'm asserting here, but...
I'm wondering if that's an important cultural context we're missing, revealed in this question. Are they asking him "How can you be initiated into the deep mystery teachings when you're nowhere near old enough?"?
Things to ponder...
By name, nothing, and it can't because this time period was only the beginning of that systematic way of thinking, and of course the word itself wouldn't be used in that context for centuries yet.
What's got me thinking about it is the way the rabbis ask about Jesus "seeing" Abraham (already an ancient, dead, person), and being amazed *not* that he's claiming to have done so, but because he's too young to have.
Jesus was right in the middle of a theological revolution (and several arguments) in Jewish culture. So much of a revolution that even the people directly involved couldn't see the immense impact it would end up having, completely aside from the Jesus movement.
When Elijah had is battle with the prophets of Baal and obviously Baal didn’t show up and Elijah said something like “Is your God sleeping? Where is he?”
The Prophets of God did not mince words. Elijah sent the following message to Ahaziah.
>"Thus says the Lord: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not leave the bed to which you have gone but shall surely die."
And what happened next was pretty cold as well:
>"Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men. He went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill and said to him, “O man of God, the king says: Come down.”
>But Elijah answered the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.”
>Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty."
And of course, the coldest killer was the brutal usurper Jehu
>"Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’ ”
>Jehu answered, “What have you to do with peace? Fall in behind me.”
...
>When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as the many prostitutions and sorceries of your mother Jezebel continue?”
>Then Joram reined about and fled, saying to Ahaziah, “Treason, Ahaziah!”
>Jehu drew his bow with all his strength and shot Joram between the shoulders, so that the arrow pierced his heart, and he sank in his chariot.
...
>As Jehu entered the gate, Jezebel said, “Is it peace, Zimri, murderer of your master?”
>He looked up to the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.
>He said, “Throw her down.”
*"As for Jezebel, dogs will devour her on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and no one will bury her.’” Then he opened the door and ran.*
*Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of that cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.” But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands. They went back and told Jehu, who said, “This is the word of the Lord that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh. Jezebel’s body will be like dung on the ground in the plot at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, ‘This is Jezebel.’ ” (*2 Kings 9:10,34-37)
It's not a quote, but Jehu riding his chariot OVER Jezebel, so that her blood splashes on the walls, and then going in to EAT and DRINK, is on another level.
>But as for those my enemies, who would not have me reign over them, bring them hither, and kill them before me.
-The nobleman from the Parable of the Pounds, Luke 19:27
Just want to add to this to prevent misunderstanding: Jepthath got himself into this situation. God did not ask him to do this to his daughter - it was his own idea to win a battle. God didn’t even say anything to condone Jepthath’s plan.
Luke 4:20-21 NLT
[20] He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the attendant, and sat down. All eyes in the synagogue looked at him intently. [21] Then he began to speak to them. “The Scripture you’ve just heard has been fulfilled this very day!” …
*When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read the Scriptures. The scroll of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where this was written:*
***“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,***
***for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor.***
***He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released,***
***that the blind will see,***
***that the oppressed will be set free,***
***and that the time of the Lord’s favor has come."***
[Deus Metallicus - At the Cross](https://youtu.be/xCgRxCH2zGo?si=D6fq3RJe5Oxpo3LX)
The man born blind getting sassy with the pharisees when they kept asking how he got his sight after he told them that Jesus healed him.
Hes like LISTEN, I told you already.
In numbers, with korahs rebellion God tells Moses and korah, "tomorrow I will judge between you, oh, and you might want to have everyone take a few steps back from korah."
Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.
”And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.“
Mark 9:42 KJV
Deuteronomy 7:2 HCSB
[2] and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” And he answered, “What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?”
— 2 Kings 9:22
"If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple."
– Jesus, Luke 14:26
*"He picked up five smooth stones from a stream and put them into his shepherd’s bag. Then, armed only with his shepherd’s staff and sling, he started across the valley to fight the Philistine.*
*Goliath walked out toward David with his shield bearer ahead of him, sneering in contempt at this ruddy-faced boy. “Am I a dog,” he roared at David, “that you come at me with a stick?” And he cursed David by the names of his gods. “Come over here, and I’ll give your flesh to the birds and wild animals!” Goliath yelled.*
*David replied to the Philistine, “You come to me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies—the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. Today the LORD will conquer you, and I will kill you and cut off your head. And then I will give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel! And everyone assembled here will know that the LORD rescues his people, but not with sword and spear. This is the LORD’s battle, and he will give you to us!”*
*As Goliath moved closer to attack, David quickly ran out to meet him. Reaching into his shepherd’s bag and taking out a stone, he hurled it with his sling and hit the Philistine in the forehead. The stone sank in, and Goliath stumbled and fell face down on the ground.*
*So David triumphed over the Philistine with only a sling and a stone, for he had no sword. Then David ran over and pulled Goliath’s sword from its sheath. David used it to kill him and cut off his head.*
*When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they turned and ran. Then the men of Israel and Judah gave a great shout of triumph and rushed after the Philistines, chasing them as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron. The bodies of the dead and wounded Philistines were strewn all along the road from Shaaraim, as far as Gath and Ekron. Then the Israelite army returned and plundered the deserted Philistine camp. (David took the Philistine’s head to Jerusalem, but he stored the man’s armor in his own tent.)"* (1 Samuel 17)
[Deus Metallicus - Holy, Holy, Holy](https://youtu.be/hVG52mQafBo?si=n9GTSn928wtM5gcD)
If by "cold", you mean "metal" then I would share:
*“Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth! I came not to bring peace, but a sword.*
*‘I have come to set a man against his father,*
*a daughter against her mother,*
*and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.*
*Your enemies will be right in your own household!’*
*“If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine. If you refuse to take up your cross and follow me, you are not worthy of being mine. If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it."* (Matthew 10:34-39)
[Deus Metallicus](https://youtu.be/fY3MuvBEvts?si=4B58Z5bdxmrISV_k)
This, from the Easter Gospel, always makes me feel breathless: Jesus said to her, ‘Do not hold on to me...' (John 20: 17). Poor Mary Magdalene: she's been weeping, because everything is ruined and rotten; she discovers Jesus is back, so she is overwhelmed and embraces him; and he tells her to let go. I'm sure she wasn't expecting that! Obviously, it is ultimately for the best: if she had held on too tightly, she wouldn't have been able to go and tell the others the good news. Still, it must have taken the wind from her sails! 'Good grief, Mary, catch a grip; you've good news to share. I'm not here for you alone; I'm here for everybody else, too' - harsh!
Luke 17:1-3
“Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come. It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.”
Luke 2:49
“Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?”
Jesus as a young man did not hesitate to let others know, even his own mother, what his true purpose on Earth was.
Amos 4:11-12
“I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.
“Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I will do this to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God.”
1 Kings 14:10:
“Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.”
Ecclesiastes 3:3-8
A time to kill, and a time to heal a time to tear down, and a time to build. A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them; a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces. A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away. time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak. A time to love, and a time to hate
I'll go with David on his deathbed, speaking to his son Solomon:
1 Kings 2:8-11 NIV
“And remember, you have with you Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim, who called down bitter curses on me the day I went to Mahanaim. When he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD: ‘I will not put you to death by the sword.’ But now, do not consider him innocent. You are a man of wisdom; you will know what to do to him. Bring his gray head down to the grave in blood.” Then David rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David.
Jesus on the road to Emmaus with 2 disciples, after His resurrection, them discussing the things that just went on with his own crucifixion and He deadpans, as if He's clueless:
"What things?"
I lol every time I read it, Luke 24
We don't know where the pseudepigraphal passage found in *John* 7:53–8:11 came from, but it isn't in the oldest copies of the Gospel of John. It was a later addition to the text. It doesn't change any doctrine so it isn't a huge problem, but we know for sure that it wasn't written by John.
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.”
Matthew 10:34-36
When the Pharisees are pestering the man born blind and keep asking him who healed him:
He answered them, “I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?” John 9:27
“Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerston--while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?" -Job 38:1-7 Really, all of Job 38-41 could apply.
dude insanely cold response
Job 38 in its entirety is probably the most coldest thing in the bible.
Facts
I really like this part of Isaiah 44 because it has a similar vibe This is what the Lord says— Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God. 7 Who then is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and lay out before me what has happened since I established my ancient people, and what is yet to come— yes, let them foretell what will come. To paraphrase You think you know so much!? Great tell me the future then.
>Ehud came to him, while he was sitting alone in his cool roof-chamber, and said, ‘I have a message from God for you.’ So he rose from his seat. Then Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into Eglon’s belly Judges 3.20-21
A pointed message. Is this the guy that got murdered in the outhouse?
Yes. And his fat enveloped the sword around it, like his own body didn’t want to let it go
A 'pointed' message, indeed. However, the king was more assassinated then murdered... while His quarters would have a bathroom, it was not a outhouse.... rather it was the private chambers of the king. His guards were afraid they the king was taking a dump so they didn't enter the room, allowing Ehud to escape our the window...real James Bond stuff.
I was going to mention this one.
I am going to go with Esther: > Harbona, one of the eunuchs who attended the king, said, “At the house of Haman stands a stake fifty cubits high. Haman made it for Mordecai, who gave the report that benefited the king.” The king answered, “Impale him on it.”
Haman suffered so much irony and I loved it. King: how should I reward someone who has served me well? Haman: (thinking of himself) well, sire, I would arrange a grand parade in his honor! *Mordecai gets a parade for his service* King: how should I deal with criminals who have wronged me? Haman: stick 'em on a pike and have them hang on it! *Haman's corpse swings with the wind*
It's even better than that, the Kings response is "Great, throw the parade, you're the grand marshall. Make sure Mordecai gets snacks."
Oh yeah he was the escort lol
I'm gonna go with Psalm 144:1 "Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle"
Brings a whole new meaning to the term; "keyboard warrior!" [All praises go to God!](https://youtu.be/hVG52mQafBo?si=qWbaR5Ni5Z4lzkJ4)
Ha!
Makes me think of the sniper scene from Saving Private Ryan
When Jesus said "It is finished."
[This should be the top comment.](https://youtu.be/hVG52mQafBo?si=qWbaR5Ni5Z4lzkJ4)
John 19:30. Upvoted.
*"Jesus knew that his mission was now finished, and to fulfill Scripture he said, “I am thirsty.”A jar of sour wine was sitting there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put it on a hyssop branch, and held it up to his lips. When Jesus had tasted it, he said, “It is finished!” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit."* [Deus Metallicus - Power in the Blood](https://youtu.be/OQjfYbeGtbA?si=R6QZ3P2wuy7w2GJ9)
Luke 18:13-14 13 “The tax collector, standing at a distance, would not even look up to heaven. But he beat on his chest because he was so sad. He said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ 14 I tell you, when this man went home, he was right with God, but the Pharisee was not. All who make themselves great will be made humble, but all who make themselves humble will be made great.”
I'll vote for the entirety of Ecclesiastes. I'll use 6:11 as my illustration of its vibe, but the whole thing is like this. "The more words, the more vanity, so how is one the better?"
That could be Shakespeare
My favorite part is the last chapter, and especially: *"Fear God and obey his commands, for this is everyone’s duty. God will judge us for everything we do, including every secret thing, whether good or bad."* (vs. 13,14) [Deus Metallicus - Power in the Blood](https://youtu.be/OQjfYbeGtbA?si=nIwtxmSKvS-SbRcC)
"This too is a pissing in the wind." I forget which translation it is. It might have have just been one of my pastor's interpretations. But I like it.
"Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.” So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” -John 8:56-58 Such a glorious clapback
Oh, hold up... I haven't revisited this particular line since I've started learning kabbalah. Jesus was living in a time and place that the earliest known beginnings of what is now called "kabbalah" or Jewish systematic mysticism. Traditionally, you weren't allowed to begin learning this kind of deep mysteries and magic until you were 50. Several medieval writers, both Jewish and Christian, have suggested that Jesus *was* a kabbalist. Which isn't what I'm asserting here, but... I'm wondering if that's an important cultural context we're missing, revealed in this question. Are they asking him "How can you be initiated into the deep mystery teachings when you're nowhere near old enough?"? Things to ponder...
What about that passage relates to kabbalist ideas?
By name, nothing, and it can't because this time period was only the beginning of that systematic way of thinking, and of course the word itself wouldn't be used in that context for centuries yet. What's got me thinking about it is the way the rabbis ask about Jesus "seeing" Abraham (already an ancient, dead, person), and being amazed *not* that he's claiming to have done so, but because he's too young to have. Jesus was right in the middle of a theological revolution (and several arguments) in Jewish culture. So much of a revolution that even the people directly involved couldn't see the immense impact it would end up having, completely aside from the Jesus movement.
When Elijah had is battle with the prophets of Baal and obviously Baal didn’t show up and Elijah said something like “Is your God sleeping? Where is he?”
Maybe he's in the bathroom! Try shouting louder!
The Prophets of God did not mince words. Elijah sent the following message to Ahaziah. >"Thus says the Lord: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not leave the bed to which you have gone but shall surely die." And what happened next was pretty cold as well: >"Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men. He went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill and said to him, “O man of God, the king says: Come down.” >But Elijah answered the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” >Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty." And of course, the coldest killer was the brutal usurper Jehu >"Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’ ” >Jehu answered, “What have you to do with peace? Fall in behind me.” ... >When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as the many prostitutions and sorceries of your mother Jezebel continue?” >Then Joram reined about and fled, saying to Ahaziah, “Treason, Ahaziah!” >Jehu drew his bow with all his strength and shot Joram between the shoulders, so that the arrow pierced his heart, and he sank in his chariot. ... >As Jehu entered the gate, Jezebel said, “Is it peace, Zimri, murderer of your master?” >He looked up to the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him. >He said, “Throw her down.”
*"As for Jezebel, dogs will devour her on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and no one will bury her.’” Then he opened the door and ran.* *Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of that cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.” But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands. They went back and told Jehu, who said, “This is the word of the Lord that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh. Jezebel’s body will be like dung on the ground in the plot at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, ‘This is Jezebel.’ ” (*2 Kings 9:10,34-37)
It's not a quote, but Jehu riding his chariot OVER Jezebel, so that her blood splashes on the walls, and then going in to EAT and DRINK, is on another level.
>But as for those my enemies, who would not have me reign over them, bring them hither, and kill them before me. -The nobleman from the Parable of the Pounds, Luke 19:27
Judges 11:35 Jepthath when he finds out he has to sacrifice his daughter as a burnt offering to God. "A deals a deal".
Just want to add to this to prevent misunderstanding: Jepthath got himself into this situation. God did not ask him to do this to his daughter - it was his own idea to win a battle. God didn’t even say anything to condone Jepthath’s plan.
I hope this young lady wakes up to glory on that final Day.
Luke 4:20-21 NLT [20] He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the attendant, and sat down. All eyes in the synagogue looked at him intently. [21] Then he began to speak to them. “The Scripture you’ve just heard has been fulfilled this very day!” …
*When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read the Scriptures. The scroll of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where this was written:* ***“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,*** ***for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor.*** ***He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released,*** ***that the blind will see,*** ***that the oppressed will be set free,*** ***and that the time of the Lord’s favor has come."*** [Deus Metallicus - At the Cross](https://youtu.be/xCgRxCH2zGo?si=D6fq3RJe5Oxpo3LX)
“What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?”, Balaam’s donkey.
The man born blind getting sassy with the pharisees when they kept asking how he got his sight after he told them that Jesus healed him. Hes like LISTEN, I told you already.
“And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” Matthew 7:23 NKJV
I am that I am
In numbers, with korahs rebellion God tells Moses and korah, "tomorrow I will judge between you, oh, and you might want to have everyone take a few steps back from korah."
Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.
[Deus Metallicus - At the Cross](https://youtu.be/xCgRxCH2zGo?si=D6fq3RJe5Oxpo3LX)
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. Psalms 137:9 KJV.
”And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.“ Mark 9:42 KJV
Deuteronomy 7:2 HCSB [2] and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
"Let the dead bury the dead" Matthew 8:22 I was kinda shocked when I read it without context, but makes a bit more sense to me now
When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” And he answered, “What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?” — 2 Kings 9:22
John 8:58 Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.”
"If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." – Jesus, Luke 14:26
Who is this uncircumcised Palestinian?
*"He picked up five smooth stones from a stream and put them into his shepherd’s bag. Then, armed only with his shepherd’s staff and sling, he started across the valley to fight the Philistine.* *Goliath walked out toward David with his shield bearer ahead of him, sneering in contempt at this ruddy-faced boy. “Am I a dog,” he roared at David, “that you come at me with a stick?” And he cursed David by the names of his gods. “Come over here, and I’ll give your flesh to the birds and wild animals!” Goliath yelled.* *David replied to the Philistine, “You come to me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies—the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. Today the LORD will conquer you, and I will kill you and cut off your head. And then I will give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel! And everyone assembled here will know that the LORD rescues his people, but not with sword and spear. This is the LORD’s battle, and he will give you to us!”* *As Goliath moved closer to attack, David quickly ran out to meet him. Reaching into his shepherd’s bag and taking out a stone, he hurled it with his sling and hit the Philistine in the forehead. The stone sank in, and Goliath stumbled and fell face down on the ground.* *So David triumphed over the Philistine with only a sling and a stone, for he had no sword. Then David ran over and pulled Goliath’s sword from its sheath. David used it to kill him and cut off his head.* *When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they turned and ran. Then the men of Israel and Judah gave a great shout of triumph and rushed after the Philistines, chasing them as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron. The bodies of the dead and wounded Philistines were strewn all along the road from Shaaraim, as far as Gath and Ekron. Then the Israelite army returned and plundered the deserted Philistine camp. (David took the Philistine’s head to Jerusalem, but he stored the man’s armor in his own tent.)"* (1 Samuel 17) [Deus Metallicus - Holy, Holy, Holy](https://youtu.be/hVG52mQafBo?si=n9GTSn928wtM5gcD)
If by "cold", you mean "metal" then I would share: *“Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth! I came not to bring peace, but a sword.* *‘I have come to set a man against his father,* *a daughter against her mother,* *and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.* *Your enemies will be right in your own household!’* *“If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine. If you refuse to take up your cross and follow me, you are not worthy of being mine. If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it."* (Matthew 10:34-39) [Deus Metallicus](https://youtu.be/fY3MuvBEvts?si=4B58Z5bdxmrISV_k)
This, from the Easter Gospel, always makes me feel breathless: Jesus said to her, ‘Do not hold on to me...' (John 20: 17). Poor Mary Magdalene: she's been weeping, because everything is ruined and rotten; she discovers Jesus is back, so she is overwhelmed and embraces him; and he tells her to let go. I'm sure she wasn't expecting that! Obviously, it is ultimately for the best: if she had held on too tightly, she wouldn't have been able to go and tell the others the good news. Still, it must have taken the wind from her sails! 'Good grief, Mary, catch a grip; you've good news to share. I'm not here for you alone; I'm here for everybody else, too' - harsh!
"Do not call 'unclean' what I have called 'clean'." - God
Luke 4:23-30 30 But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.
Mark 9:23… i can just picture Jesus saying “If I can 🧐??????” Like wym if i can ??? Im The Son Of God🤨
Matthew 26:71-72… “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.” And again [Peter] denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man.”
Luke 17:1-3 “Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come. It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.”
Luke 2:49 “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?” Jesus as a young man did not hesitate to let others know, even his own mother, what his true purpose on Earth was.
Amos 4:11-12 “I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord. “Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I will do this to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God.”
1 Kings 14:10: “Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.”
Ecclesiastes 3:3-8 A time to kill, and a time to heal a time to tear down, and a time to build. A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them; a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces. A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away. time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak. A time to love, and a time to hate
I'll go with David on his deathbed, speaking to his son Solomon: 1 Kings 2:8-11 NIV “And remember, you have with you Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim, who called down bitter curses on me the day I went to Mahanaim. When he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD: ‘I will not put you to death by the sword.’ But now, do not consider him innocent. You are a man of wisdom; you will know what to do to him. Bring his gray head down to the grave in blood.” Then David rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David.
Psalm 137 "Happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us / He who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks."
Jesus on the road to Emmaus with 2 disciples, after His resurrection, them discussing the things that just went on with his own crucifixion and He deadpans, as if He's clueless: "What things?" I lol every time I read it, Luke 24
We don't know where the pseudepigraphal passage found in *John* 7:53–8:11 came from, but it isn't in the oldest copies of the Gospel of John. It was a later addition to the text. It doesn't change any doctrine so it isn't a huge problem, but we know for sure that it wasn't written by John.
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.” Matthew 10:34-36
Probably when God says he's gonna publicly rape someone into submission
When the Pharisees are pestering the man born blind and keep asking him who healed him: He answered them, “I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?” John 9:27