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THE burden against Nineveh. The book of vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. God is jealous, and the LORD avenges; the LORD avenges and is furious. The LORD will take venegeance on His adversaries, and He reserve wrath for his enemies; The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked. The LORD  has His way in the whirlwind and in the strom, and the cloudsare the dust of His feet. He rebukes the sea and make it dry, and dry up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts. The mountains quake before Him, the hills melt, and the earth heaves at His presence, yes, the world and all who dwell in it. Who can stand before His indignation? and who can endure the fierceness of His anger! His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by Him. The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and He knows those who trust in Him. But with an overflowing flood He will make an utter end of its place, and darkness will persue His enemies. What do you conspire against the LORD? He will make an utter end of it. Affliction will not rise up a second time. For while tangled like throns, and while drunken like drunkards, they shall be devour like stubble dried.  From you comes forth one who plots evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor / the man of sin. Thus says the LORD: "Though they are safe, and likewise many, yet in this manner they will be cut down when he passes through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more; For now I will break of his yoke from you, and burst your bonds apart." The LORD has given a command concerning you: "Your name shall be perpetuated no longer. Out of the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the molded image. I will dig your grave, for you are vile." Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who bring good tidings, who proclaims peace! O Judah, keep your appointed feasts, perform your vows. for the wicked one shall no longer pass through you; he is utterly cut off. NAHUM 1:1-15 

                                                  THE burden which the prophet Habakkuk saw. O LORD, how long shall I cry, and You will not hear? Even cry out to You, ''Violence!" And You will not save. Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to see trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; there is strife, and contention arises. Therefore the law is powerless, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surrond the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds. ''Look among the nations and watch - be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days which you would not believe, though it were told you. For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans, a bitter and hasty nation which marches through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not their. They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and more fierce than evening wolves.Their chargers charge ahead; their cavalry comes from afar; they fly as the eagle that hastens to eat. They all come for violence; their faces are set like the east wind.They gather captives like sand. They scoff at kings, and princes are scorned by them.They deride every stronghold, for they heap up earthen mounds and seize it. Then his mind changes, and he transgress; he commit offense, ascribing this power to his god. Are You not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, You have appointed them for judgment; O Rock, You have marked them for correction. You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal tracherously, and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a person more righteous than he? Why do You make men like fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler over them? They take up all of them with a hook, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their dragnet. Therefore they rejoice and are glad. Therefore they sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their dragnet; because by them their share is sumptuous and their food plentiful. Shall they therefore empty their net, and continue to slay nations without pity? HABAKKUK 1:1-17

                                             Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, Not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one decieve you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed / a wicked counselor, the son of perdition. Who opposes and exalt himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is  according to working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,  And with all righteous deception among those who perish, because they did not recieve the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie. That they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. But we bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit  and belief in the truth, To which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, brethen, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by  word or our epistle. Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, Comfort your  hearts and establish you in every good word and work. 2 THESSALONIANS 2 1-17

                                                         "While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept ; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that Scripture might be fulfilled. John 17:12