"Beyond Reproach" - TO

"Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby." (Ecclesiastes 10:9 KJV)

  "The LORD is my strength and my song; he has given me victory. Songs of joy and victory are sung in the camp of the godly. The strong right arm of the LORD is raised in triumph. The strong right arm of the LORD has done glorious things! I will not die; instead, I will live to tell what the LORD has done. The LORD has punished me severely, but he did not let me die. Open for me the gates where the righteous enter, and I will go in and thank the LORD. These gates lead to the presence of the LORD, and the godly enter there. I thank you for answering my prayer and giving me victory! The stone that the builders rejected has now become the cornerstone. This is the LORD'S doing, and it is wonderful to see. This is the day the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it." (PSALM 118:14-24 NLT)

 Keep looking up, because things are beginning to get very interesting: The King is coming soon! As I was preparing for this morning, which actually happened to start at 4:00am, I turned on the news to see that the Fox and Friends foursome didn't look so happy, and some were shaking their heads; so, I needed to turn up the volume and listen to what was going on. 

 Within a few seconds, the footage of an event that happen yesterday morning was displayed, showing President Trump, with his entire family, as well as the Vice President and his family, attending a service the Washington National Cathedral. The bishop was to do a prayer service, but instead, put down the President for many of his executive orders and she declared that many of those orders, he signed, made many people fear for their lives. 

 That is just a quick picture of what I observed, because 4:00 is my prayer time, and as it was, this little distraction caused me to get a late start! However, it also caused me to see the special message that I believe God wanted me to see, and to understand. 

 One of the things I do anytime I start a new verse, no matter what Book of the Bible, is to check the Cross-references for each of the verses, which then shows me the verses in the Bible that are closely related to certain sections of any particular verse. It just so happened, this verse from Ecclesiastes has no references listed, in fact it says: "There are no entries for this verse!" 

 Anytime I see that, I since that there are some mysterious associations that pertain to the verse, and those who are interested need to discover them on their own. In other words, this takes us down a rabbit-hole where there are many different possibilities!

 Oh, and by the way, Jesus was a carpenter...

"Who has believed our message? To whom has the LORD revealed his powerful arm? My servant grew up in the LORD'S presence like a tender green shoot, like a root on dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him. He was despised and rejected - a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we though his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God's paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on him the sins of us all." (Isaiah 53:1-6 NLT)