On April 28th, 1908, Oskar Schindler was born. He was responsible for saving the lives of some 1,200 Jews and was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 1993. Today, there are more than 8,000 living descendants of the Jews saved by Oskar Schindler. Last year I went to Mount Zion in Jerusalem to pay my respects to this legend. “Anyone who saves a life is as if he saved an entire world.”
RIP legend
Scripture of the Day - March 8, 2024
Day of The Lord, Day of The Lord’s Anger
[Eighth in a Series, from the KJV of the Bible]
THE Day of The Lord by Prophet Joel, Continued:
Joel 3:11-17 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither ‘cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord. ‘Let the heathen be wakened, and come up’ to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the DAY OF THE LORD is near in the valley of decision.
The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. The Lord also shall ROAR* out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
*Roar - Isaiah 42:13, Jeremiah 25:30, Joel 3:16, Amos 1:2
The Day of The Lord by Amos:
Amos 5:18 -20 Woe unto you that desire the DAY OF THE LORD! to what end is it for you? the DAY OF THE LORD is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not the DAY OF THE LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
The Day of The Lord by Obadiah:
Obadiah 1:15-17 For the DAY OF THE LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head. For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
1 Ha! land shadowing with wings, which art beyond the rivers of Cush, 2 that sendest ambassadors over the sea, and in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, saying, Go, swift messengers, to a nation scattered and ravaged, to a people terrible from their existence and thenceforth; to a nation of continued waiting and of treading down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, see ye, and when a trumpet is blown, hear ye!
4 For thus hath Jehovah said unto me: I will take my rest, and I will observe from my dwelling-place like clear heat upon herbs, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
5 For before the harvest, when the blossoming is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning-knives, and take away and cut down the branches.
6 They shall be left together unto the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the earth; and the birds of prey shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
7 In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts of a people scattered and ravaged, and from a people terrible from their existence and thenceforth, a nation of continued waiting and of treading down, whose land the rivers have spoiled, … to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.
— Isaiah 18 | Literal Emphasis Translation (LET)
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Cross References: Genesis 10:8-9; 2 Samuel 23:4; 2 Kings 19:9; Psalm 49:1; Psalm 68:29; Proverbs 19:12; Isaiah 17:10-11; Isaiah 20:3; Isaiah 23:3; Isaiah 27:11; Isaiah 26:11; Isaiah 46:11; Luke 10:19; Acts 8:27
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