Psalm 118 - Because His mercy is everlasting

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It meets me where I am at in my distress and lifts me to rejoice in simplicity.</div> <div> This is generally agreed to be the last psalm about Christ. </div> <div> Verses <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#5_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">6</A>, <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#22" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">22-23</A> & <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">25-26</A> are quoted by the New Testament.</div> <bR> <div> This was Martin Luther's favorite Psalm:</div> <div> "This is my own psalm which I specially love. Though the entire Psalter and the Holy Scriptures are indeed very dear to me as my sole comfort and my very life, yet I have come to grips with this psalm in a special sense, so that I feel free to call it my very own. For it has done me great service on many an occasion and has stood by me in many a difficulty when the emperor, kings, wise men and clever, and even the saints were of no avail ..."</div> <bR> <div> Many scholars (John Owen, Matthew Henry, Jonathan Edwards, David Brown, Alexander Hodge, John Broadus) believe that this is the psalm that the Lord sang with His disciples at the end of the Last Supper in <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#matt26_30" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Matt 26:30; Mark 14:26</A>. </div> <div> Psalm 118 is the last hymn of the great Hallel, consisting of psalms 113-118, which were sung by the Jews during the Passover according to the Talmud (<A HREF="http://www.puritanboard.com/showthread.php/82973-The-Lord-Jesus-sings-Psalm-118-with-His-disciples" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.puritanboard.com/showthread.p">ref</A>). It makes sense that Jesus would choose this Psalm for His last supper, particularly as its verses predict His crucifxion, resurrection and result.</div> <bR> <div> If this was the psalm that the Lord sang with His disciples, and I think it was, then I think they sung it in rounds as indicated by parts to be sung by Israel, the house of Aaron, and those fearing the Lord.</div> <bR> <div> I think this was also the psalm they sang when the foundation of the temple was rebuilt (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#ezr3_10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Ezra 3:10-12</A>).</div> <bR> <div> <U>Christ in this psalm:</U></div> <div> 1. the gate that leads to the Lord (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#20" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v20</A>)</div> <div> 2. my salvation (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#20" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v21</A>)</div> <div> 3. the head cornerstone of God's building (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#20" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v22</A>)</div> <div> 4. the incarnated feast sacrificed on the horns of the altar (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v27</A>)</div> <bR> <div> <U>Repeated phrases in this psalm:</U></div> <div> 1. "Because His mercy is everlasting" 5x (vv<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">1-4</A>, <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#28" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">29</A>)</div> <div> 2. "The nations turned around to Me" 4x "in the Lord's name because I cause them to be circumcised" 3x.  (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">vv 10-12</A>)</div> <div> 3. "The Lord's right hand" 3x "does valiantly" (2x) (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">vv15-16</A>)</div> <div> 4. "The Lord is for me" 2x (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">vv 6-7</A>)</div> <div> 5. "It is better to take refuge in the Lord than" 2x (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#5_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">vv 8-9</A>)</div> <div> 6. "The Lord is become my salvation." 2x vv<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">14</A>, <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#20" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">21</A></div> <bR> <div> <U>Speakers in this psalm:</U></div> <div> Verses <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">10-12</A> & <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">19</A> must be the Messiah Himself speaking and probably also in <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">vv 13</A> & <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">17</A>.  </div> <div> Verses 23-27 must be God's people speaking because of the 1st person plural pronouns.</div> <div> All the other 1st person singular pronouns in this psalm could be the Messiah or the psalmist. I take them all as the Messiah speaking except for vv 21-22 which I include with vv23-27 as God's people speaking.</div> <bR> <div> <U>Overview of Narrative in this Psalm:</U></div> <div> This psalm contains mostly praise, observations, exhortation & revelation, but there is also a little narrative. </div> <div> 1. Jah answers the Messiah's distress bringing him into Jah's spacious place. <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#5_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v5</A></div> <div> 2.  The Gentiles turn and turn again and again to the Messiah in the Lord's name, and the Messiah grafts them into God's people in <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">vv 10-12</A>. </div> <div> 3. The Messiah's death and resurrection are in <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v13</A>. and <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">17-19</A>.</div> <div> 4. <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#22" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"> </A><A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#22" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v22</A> foretells the Messiah's rejection by Israel and His becoming the Head cornerstone joining the Gentiles and Jews in God's building, the church.</div> <div> 5. <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">vv25-26</A> tells of the Jewish people receiving the Messiah, which was fulfilled superficially at His first coming and will be actually fulfilled at His 2nd coming.</div> <div> 6.<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#27" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"> v27</A> is a prayer by God's people to the Triune God for the Messiah to be incarnated and shed His blood on the altar so that we all can enjoy His everlasting mercy.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="n1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" ><U>Verse by verse:</U></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v1</A> - The reason we are thankful for the goodness of the Lord is "because His mercy is everlasting".  If not for His everlasting mercy, the Lord may be extremely good, but that doesn't mean much to me.</div> <bR> <div> The words mentioned in <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#ezr3_10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Ezra 3:10-11</A> are the first and last sentences of this Psalm, and we therefore conclude that the people chanted the whole of this sublime song; and, moreover, that the use of this composition on such occasions was ordained by David, whom we conceive to be its author." - C. H. Spurgeon</div> <bR> <div> "Those who only praise God because he does them good should rise to a higher note and give thanks to Him because He is good. " - Spurgeon</div> <bR> <div> 'Mercy is a great part of his goodness, and one which more concerns us than any other, for we are sinners and have need of his mercy. Angels may say that He is good, but they need not his mercy and cannot therefore take an equal delight in it; ... but man, deeply guilty and graciously forgiven, beholds mercy as the very focus and centre of the goodness of the Lord. The endurance of the divine mercy is a special subject for song: notwithstanding our sins, our trials, our fears, his mercy endureth for ever. The best of earthly joys pass away, and even the world itself grows old and hastens to decay, but there is no change in the mercy of God; He was faithful to our forefathers, He is merciful to us, and will be gracious to our children and our children's children. ... The Lord Jesus Christ is the grand incarnation of the mercy of God. ' - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v2</A>-4 - The reason for everything positive in our lives is "because His mercy is everlasting." This mercy reaches us wherever we are and at all times. This is possible because of the Messiah's sacrificial death (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#27" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">vv13, 17, 27</A>).</div> <bR> <div> His everlasting mercy is not just a reason behind everything in our lives, but we should also <B>say </B>this. When someone asks us how we can be happy, say, "Because His mercy is everlasting." When someone asks you how you were able to joyfully do something, say, "Because His mercy is everlasting."</div> <bR> <div> "Those who fear the Lord" is last rather than 1st to tell us that we never graduate from fearing the Lord. God's people and priests need to fear the Lord (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#1pet2_17" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">1 Pet 2:17; Acts 9:31</A>). </div> <bR> <div> The 1st 4 verses of this Psalm are like a warmup for everyone to proclaim because they believe it, "Because His mercy is everlasting." Unless you appreciate His mercy to you, you will not enjoy the riches of the rest of the psalm.</div> <bR> <div> These 1st 4 verses are a warmup, but much more than a warmup because the psalm also closes with the same words.</div> <bR> <div> Let not the reader pass on to the consideration of the rest of the Psalm until he has with all his might lifted up both heart and voice to praise the Lord, "for His mercy endureth for ever."  - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#5_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v5</A> - <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#339900" FACE="Tahoma" >"Prayers which come out of distress generally come out of the heart, and therefore they go to the heart of God. It is sweet to recollect our prayers, and often profitable to tell others of them after they are heard. Prayer may be bitter in the offering, but it will be sweet in the answering. The man of God had called upon the Lord when he was not in distress, and therefore he found it natural and easy to call upon him when he was in distress. He worshipped, he praised, he prayed: for all this is included in calling upon God." - Spurgeon</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Verses 5-9 are very encouraging to me in my present distress. They meet me where I am at and bring me into Jah's spacious place to be able to enjoy the revelation of the rest of the psalm. "Jah" is short for Jehovah. "Jah" is used 6 times in this psalm, far more than in any other place in the Bible.</div> <bR> <div> The phrase "in Jah's spacious place" is unique. Most translate it as "Jah answered me in a spacious place", but the word "Jah" is at the end of the sentence, immediately following "spacious place", which makes it mean "the spacious place of Jah". </div> <div> I think that vv 5-9 foretell the Messiah in distress, praying in the garden of Gethsemane. </div> <div> It probably also applies to the psalmist: Jah brought him into Jah's spacious place to see the enlarging revelation of this psalm, that the Messiah would become the Head of the corner in God's house (v 22) to bring in the gentiles (vv 10-12). The psalmist did not understand what this meant because he did not have the New Testament (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#eph3_3" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Eph 3:3-6)</A> revelation yet to explain it.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n6_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#5_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v6</A> - <A NAME="n6_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A> quoted in Hebrews <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#heb13_5" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">13:6</A></div> <div> "He does not say that he should not suffer, but that he would not fear: the favor of God infinitely outweighed the hatred of men, therefore setting the one against the other he felt that he had no reason to be afraid. He was calm and confident, though surrounded with enemies, and so let all believers be, for thus they honour God. What can man do unto me? He can do nothing more than God permits; at the very uttermost he can only kill the body, but he hath no more that he can do." - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#5_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v7</A> - The Lord helps us through many kinds of people in many ways (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#1cor3_21" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">1 Cor 3:21-22, Rom 13:4</A>). This is different than trusting in man or in princes. The Lord is there helping us, but usually not in an outwardly miraculous way.</div> <div> This statement shows great appreciation for those who are helping him.</div> <bR> <div> I shall look at those who hate me means that I neither fear them nor have animosity toward them.</div> <bR> <div> ' "Therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me. The words, "my desire, "are added by the translators; the Psalmist said, "I shall look upon my haters: I shall look upon them in the face, I shall make them cease from their contempt.' - Spurgeon</div> <bR> <div> I shall look in such a way at those who hate me that my look says, "It is better to trust the Lord than to trust in man or even princes."</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n8"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#5_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v8</A> - The revelation of what the Lord will do in this psalm is something no man could think of. The Lord wondrously exceeds our expectation.</div> <div> "to trust in man tends to make us mean, crouching, dependent; but confidence in God elevates, produces a sacred quiet of spirit, and sanctifies the soul." - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v9</A> - It is better to trust in the Lord for help than in the best government.</div> <div> "These should be the noblest of men, chivalrous in character, and true to the core. The royal word should be unquestionable." Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">vv 10 -12</A> - No one translates these verses as they are written. Every translation that I have consulted, even the most literal, translates these 3 verses to mean that the nations surrounded me as enemies, but I destroyed them in the name of the Lord. The inspired words and structure of these verses unambiguously prohibit this meaning.</div> <bR> <div> 1st, it is clear that what the nations did here, they did "in the name of the Lord". "In the name of the Lord" unambiguously modifies the action that the nations did, not what "I" did because there is the conjunction "because" in between them. Since "in the name of the Lord" is repeated 3 times, this is really in the name of the Lord, not a pretense.</div> <bR> <div> 2nd, the Hebrew verb, <I>muwl</I>,  for what I will do to the nations does not mean "destroy". The verb is the causative form of the word "circumcised", which means "cause to be circumcised". The verb is used 34 times in the Bible and is always translated "circumcised" except for the 3 uses in this Psalm. If the Holy Spirit wanted to say "destroy" or "cut off" there are a number of Hebrew words that could be used. The meaning here should be consistent with all the other uses of this verb, which is "circumcise". Spiritually this means to cut off the flesh and its natural strength to graft them into God's people. Circumcision separated Israel from the rest of the nations. For the Messiah to cause the gentiles to be circumcised is to graft them into God's people (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#rrom11_17" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Rom 11:17-14</A>).</div> <bR> <div> The Hebrew verb, <I>sabab</I>, for what the nations did here, means to turn around, encircle or change direction.  Normally in the Old Testament, when the subject is the nations, it means to encircle as in war. But that meaning is impossible here because it is "in the name of the Lord" (repeated 3 times) and it is "because I cause them to be circumcised", (also repeated 3 times).</div> <div> <I>"sabab </I>also characterizes the turning of one’s mind so as to give attention to thorough investigation. {<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#eccl7_25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Ec 7:25</A>} It describes a changed mind or attitude, occasionally in great sorrow. {<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#eccl7_25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">1Ki 21:4 2Ki 20:2</A>} This changed mind can involve a changed condition before God, whether for evil {<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#eccl7_25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">2Ch 29:6</A>} or good. {<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#eccl7_25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Ezr 6:22</A>} From this, it becomes associated with repentance and restoration to favor after apostasy. {<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#eccl7_25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">1Ki 18:37</A>} " - Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT)</div> <bR> <div> Although it is written in the Old Testament that the Gentiles would become part of God's chosen people, the understanding of this was not given until the New Testament (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#eph3_3" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Eph 3:3-6</A>). Hence the LXX did not translate these verses correctly. Thus, it is not wise to rely on the LXX translation too much when the Old Testament prophesy is regarding the church or the Triune God (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#8" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">vv8-9</A>).</div> <div>  <A NAME="n11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v11</A> - "They turned around to Me" is repeated 4 times. Many gentiles would turn to the Lord in many places and times. Each individual needs to turn to the Lord again and again. By our turning to Him again and again, He circumcises us, cutting off our sinful nature and natural strength, which makes us more a functioning member of HIs Body, the church.</div> <div>  <A NAME="n12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v12</A> - Like verses 10-11, this verse also literally says "because I cause them to be circumcised." </div> <div> Bees have stingers, and thorns have pricks for self defense. These are characteristics of fallen human beings. The Gentiles who came to the Lord were like this. They came to the Lord just as they were. Some things the Lord deals with right away, like quenching fire in thorns, such as violence, fornication and foul language. But we are still prickly thorns and stinging bees. We need the cross of the Lord to deal with these things in our nature through many turnings around to Him and by experiencing His cross, which is His causing us to be circumcised (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#col2_11" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Col 2:11-13; Philip 3:3; Rom 2:28-29</A>).</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v13</A> - "You" is singular, and thus must be God. The only singular "You" addressed in this Psalm is God. It was God who put the Messiah to death (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#isa53_10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Isa 53:10</A>). Some translators think it is not allowed to have God addressed as "You" followed closely by "the Lord", but this is not rare (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#ps18_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"> Ps 18:1-2</A>).</div> <bR> <div> If God thrusts hard at someone for the purpose that he would die, then that person will surely die. Why would God cause someone to die violently, and then help him and become his strength and song and salvation? This can only apply to the death and resurrection of the Messiah.</div> <bR> <div> The Hebrew word for "die violently" is literally "fall". This word in Hebrew has the meaning to die a violent death (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#jud20_44" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Jud 20:44, etc.</A>).</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v1</A>4 - Jah always was Christ's strength and song. By resurrecting Christ, Jah became Christ's salvation.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v16</A> - The Lord's right hand, repeated 3 times, is God's main action, the central will of God (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#deu33_2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Deu 33:2, etc.</A>). What you do with your right hand is what you are focused on, your primary action (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#jud7_20" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Jud 7:20, etc.</A>).</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v17 </A>- Lit. I shall not die because I shall live and retell the works of Jah. This means that after His death and resurrection (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">vv13-14</A>), the Messiah would never die. The works of Jah are what the Messiah retells in the next verse.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n18"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v18</A> - Jah punished the Messiah for our sins (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#1pet2_21" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">1 Pet 2:21, etc.</A>). God put Him to death (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v13</A>) for our sins, but did not give Him over to death to remain there (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#ps16_9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Ps 16:9-10</A>).</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n19"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v19</A> - The Messiah is the only man that could command, "Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter through them." </div> <div> The gate of righteousness was the law.  Only Jesus fully kept the law. So only He could enter in by the door. The Pharisees twisted the law and pretended that they kept it. This is to climb up another way (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#jn10_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">John 10:1-3</A>). </div> <div>  <A NAME="n20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#20" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v20</A> - "The gate that leads to the Lord" is Jesus the Messiah (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#jn14_7" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Jn 14:7; Eph 2:18</A>).  Through His death and resurrection (vv<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">13</A>, <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">17-18</A>; <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#jn10_16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Jn 10:11,17-18</A>) Jesus opened the way for us to come to the Father. He took the punishment for our sins upon Himself (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v18</A>) so that we could be righteous and come to the Father, God.  No longer the law is the gate. </div> <div> Jesus is the gate for us to enter into the New Covenant and be saved (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#jn10_6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Jn 10:7-11</A>). When a Jew enters into the New Covenant (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#jer31_31" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Jer 31:31-34</A>), he goes out of the Old Covenant. He cannot leave the Old Covenant without entering the New Covenant first (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#jn10_9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Jn 10:9</A>).</div> <div>  <A NAME="n21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#20" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v21</A> - We know that in v23 the speaker has changed from the Messiah's speaking to God's people's speaking because the 1st person pronoun becomes plural. I believe that in this verse the speaker first changes from the Messiah to the psalmist, who represents each one of us individually, and then to God's people in v22. Jesus, the Messiah, has become to each one of us salvation. Jesus heard each of our prayers to be saved and has become our salvation. </div> <div> "You have become to me salvation" is repeated from<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"> v14</A>. There is a lot of repetition in this psalm, but all the other repetition is consecutive except for the closing verse which repeats the 1st verse. In <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v14</A> "You have become to Me salvation" means that the Father has become Jesus' salvation by resurrecting Him. Here in <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#20" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v21</A> it means that Jesus has become my salvation by His becoming the gate that leads to the Father through His death and resurrection.</div> <div>  <A NAME="n22"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#22" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v22</A> - <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" >Lit. The Stone which the builders refused is become the Head of the corner. </FONT></div> <div> At this point, the speaker changes from the psalmist to God's people, the church. Salvation in v21 is individual, but the building of God's house is corporate. </div> <div> The Messiah as the gate to the Father is the cornerstone of God's building, the church. The cornerstone joins the 2 parts of the building, the Jews and the Gentiles (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#eph2_11" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Eph 2:11-21</A>). </div> <div> Even though this is written in the Old Testament in a number of places (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#zec11_10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Zec 11:10; etc.</A>), it was not understood until the New Testament revelation was given (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#eph3_3" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Eph 3:3-6</A>). </div> <bR> <div> As the Jewish builders did, so builders of a Christian religious organization will have a tendency to refuse Christ, the cornerstone, because He is not for our organization, but for God (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#josh5_13" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Josh 5:13-14</A>).</div> <div> ref. <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#jer5_5" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Jer 5:5</A></div> <bR> <div> I am a Jew and my wife is a Gentile Christian. I wanted to name our firstborn child, a daughter, Cornerstone according to <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#eph2_11" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Eph 2:20</A> and <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#ps144_12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Psalm 144:12</A>. My wife wouldn't allow for that, nor for Cornerstone as a middle name, but she suggested that it could be her 2nd middle name so that's what we did.</div> <div> When people would ask the baby's name, my wife would answer, "Ruth Elizabeth Cornerstone Miller. Christ is the cornerstone who joined the Jews and the gentiles together. My husband is a Jewish Christian and I am a gentile Christian."</div> <bR> <div> "Thus he has joined the two walls of Jew and Gentile into one stately temple, and is seen to be the binding cornerstone, making both one. This is a delightful subject for contemplation. " - Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="n23"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#23" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v23</A> - This is the church composed of Jewish and Gentile believers speaking. </div> <div> "Marvelous" means it is beyond human understanding, but we can enjoy it in our spirit (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#isa9_6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Isa 9:6; 29:14, etc.</A>). </div> <div>  <A NAME="n24"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#24" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v24</A> - This is the day that the Father made Christ the Head of the church. This is the day of Christ's resurrection, which we remember every Lord's Day. Every Lord's Day we remember that the Father raised Christ from the dead to be the Head of the church, and we rejoice and are glad in it.</div> <div> NIV Psalm 118:24 The LORD has done it this very day; let us rejoice today and be glad.</div> <div>  <A NAME="n25"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v25</A> - This is the only occurrence of <I>Hosanna </I>in the Old Testament. <I>Hosanna </I>is two separate words in Hebrew, <I>Hoshea</I>, the masculine singular imperative of "save", and <I>Na</I>, meaning "please" or "be pleased to". </div> <bR> <div> The verse literally says, </div> <div> "I pray, Lord be pleased to save. </div> <div> I pray, Lord be pleased to send prosperity."</div> <bR> <div>  This verse and v26a are quoted by the people when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and a donkey's colt, by which He openly proclaimed Himself to be the Messiah King (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#mt21_21" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Matt 21:1-9,15; Zech 9:9</A>). </div> <bR> <div> 'Prayer should always be an entreating and beseeching. O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity. Let the church be built up: through the salvation of sinners may the number of the saints be increased; through the preservation of saints may the church be strengthened, continued, beautified, perfected. Our Lord Jesus himself pleads for the salvation and the prosperity of his chosen; as our Intercessor before the throne he asks that the heavenly Father would save and keep those who were of old committed to his charge, and cause them to be one through the indwelling Spirit. ...</div> <div> [The church] never pants so eagerly for prosperity as when she sees the Lord's doings in her midst, and marvels at them. Then, encouraged by the gracious visitation, she sets apart her solemn days of prayer, and cries with passionate desire, "Save now, "and "Send now prosperity." ' - Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="n26"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v26</A> - This verse was quoted by the people with v25 when Jesus rode into Jerusalem (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#mt21_21" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Matt 21:1-9,15; Zech 9:9</A>). It also will be quoted by the Jewish people at Jesus' 2nd coming (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#lk13_35" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Lk 13:35</A>). </div> <bR> <div> The "you" here is plural. The Lord's house is the church of which Christ is the Head of the corner (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#20" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v22</A>). </div> <div>  <A NAME="n27"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v27</A> - <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#339900" FACE="Arial" >"We have received light, by which we have known the rejected stone to be the head of the corner. ... With the light of knowledge has come the light of joy; for we are delivered from the powers of darkness and translated into the kingdom of God's dear Son. Our knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ came not by the light of nature, nor by reason, nor did it arise from the sparks which we ourselves had kindled, nor did we receive it of men; but the mighty God alone hath showed it to us." - Spurgeon</FONT></div> <bR> <div> The 2nd half of the verse says literally,</div> <div> "Bind the feast with cords until the horns of the altar." </div> <div> The feast is the Messiah Himself (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#jn6_51" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Jn 6:4,51-58</A>), who is our Passover (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#1cor5_7" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">1 Cor 5:7</A>). Passover is the name of the feast holy day and it also refers to the lamb sacrificed on Passover and eaten (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#ex12_21" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Ex 12:21, etc.</A>; .<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#jn1_29" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Jn 1:29; etc.</A>). </div> <div> To bind the feast with cords means for God to be incarnated as a man to be the Messiah (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#hos11_4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Hos 11:4; etc.</A>). His physical body was a great bondage to Him, limiting Him in space and time (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#phil2_5" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Phil 2:6-8; etc.</A>) and having necessities and suffering. </div> <div> This bondage of the physical body would last "until the horns of the altar". The horns of the brass altar of burnt offering (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#ex19_12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Ex 29:12; etc.</A>) and the horns of the golden altar of incense (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#lev4_7" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Lev 4:7; etc.</A>) are where the blood of the sin offering was ultimately put. When Jesus shed His blood for our consummate sin offering, His blood went to the horns of the altar in the heavens (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#heb8_5" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Heb 8:5; etc.</A>)  to pay the price for every one of our sins. </div> <bR> <div> The preposition "until" in "until the horns of the altar" prohibits the meaning of tying the sacrifice to the altar.  Sacrifices were never tied to the altar except in the case of Isaac by Abraham and the Messiah to the cross, but that is not the meaning here.</div> <bR> <div> The verb "bind" is 2nd person plural imperative. The speaker here is still the church since verse 23. I believe that the "You" who is being commanded to "bind the feast with cords" must be the Triune God. The incarnation and human living of Jesus is such a fantastic miracle that it requires the whole Triune God (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#lk1_35" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Lk 1:35; etc.</A>).</div> <bR> <div> The word translated "cords" can also be translated as thick branches (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#eze19_11" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">only in Ezekiel</A>, where it is used symbolically of men), but when this word is used with the verb "bind", the meaning should be "cords" (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#jud15_13" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Jud 15:13; etc.</A>) . </div> <bR> <div> Some translate the word "feast" as "festival procession", but the word never has that meaning. </div> <bR> <div> Orthodox Judaism practices a tradition called <I>isru chag</I> which is to add an extra day to the holy feasts in the Old Testament. </div> <div> <I>Isru chag </I>is the words "bind the feast" taken from this verse.  To add an extra day to the feasts proscribed in the Bible cannot possibly be the intended meaning of "bind the feast with cords until the horns of the altar".  This shows that the mysteriousness of the meaning of this verse was striking to the Jewish readers of this verse. </div> <div> This psalm is read in the synagogues on <I>Isru Chag</I> Passover, that is the 8th day of Passover, which Biblically should be 7 days.</div> <div>  <A NAME="n29"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#28" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">v29</A> - After all the high revelation of this psalm, we must never forget how good is the Lord's mercy. The Holy Spirit wanted to leave us with the same thought that He started with (<A HREF="psalm_118_m.htm#rom9_16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">Rom 9:16, 23, etc.</A>). </div> <bR> <div> "The Psalmist would have risen to something higher, so as to end with a climax, but nothing loftier remained. He had reached the height of his grandest argument, and there he paused. The music ceased, the song was suspended, the great hallel was all chanted, and the people went every one to his own home, quietly and happily musing upon the goodness of the Lord, whose mercy fills eternity. " - Spurgeon</div> <bR> <div> -updated 8/16/2015</div> <div> -copyright Steve Miller 2/12/2009</div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=355 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Psalm 118 </B></div> <bR> <div> <I>(tune: "</I><A HREF="http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/c/4" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/c/4"><I>This is the Day that the Lord has Made</I></A><I>" 4.4.5.5.4.4.5.5.9.9.4.4.5.)</I></div> <div>  <embed src="HTMLobj-634/ThisIsTheDayThatTheLordHathMade.mp3" autostart="true" loop="true" width="145" height="70">  </div> <div> music file from hymnal.net</div> <div>  <A NAME="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Kids board game" >1 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">1</A> Give the Lord thanks,</div> <div>      <I>Give the Lord thanks,</I></div> <div>          because good is He,</div> <div>      <I>    because good is He,</I></div> <div>     for His mercy,</div> <div>     <I>for His mercy,</I></div> <div>          is everlasting,</div> <div>   <I>       is everlasting.</I></div> <div>       <I>Give the Lord thanks because good is He</I></div> <div> <I>      for His mercy is everlasting.</I></div> <div> <I>    Give the Lord thanks</I></div> <div> <I>    for His mercy </I></div> <div> <I>         is everlasting.</I></div> <div>  <A NAME="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Kids board game" >2 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n2" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">2</A> <I>House of I</I>srael, </div> <div>     be pleased to say, </div> <div>         "Because His mercy </div> <div>          <A NAME="3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A> is everlasting."</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n2" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">3</A>    House of Aaron,</div> <div>     be pleased to say, </div> <div>         "Because His mercy</div> <div>           is everlasting." </div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n2" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">4</A>  Be pleased to say, you, fearing the Lord,</div> <div>      "For His mercy is everlasting." </div> <div>     <I>Be pleased to say,</I></div> <div> <I>    "For His mercy</I></div> <div> <I>          is everlasting."</I></div> <div>  <A NAME="5_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Kids board game" >3 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n5" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">5</A> Out of distress</div> <div>     I called on Jah.</div> <div>         He did answer me</div> <div>         <A NAME="6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A> in Jah's spacious place.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n6_1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">6</A>    The LORD's for me.</div> <div>      I will not fear.</div> <div>         What can mankind do</div> <div>          <A NAME="7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><I>to do harm</I> to me?</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n7" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">7</A> The LORD's for me in those that help me,</div> <div>      <A NAME="8"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>and I shall look at those who hate me.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n8" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">8</A>    <I>It is </I>better</div> <div>     to trust the LORD </div> <div>          than to trust in man.</div> <div>  <A NAME="9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Kids board game" >4 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n9" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">9</A> <I>It is</I> better </div> <div>     to trust the LORD </div> <div>          than to trust princes.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n10" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">10</A>    All the nations turned</div> <div>     around to Me </div> <div>     in the Lord's name</div> <div>          because I cause them</div> <div>          to be circumcised.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n11" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">11</A><A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n11" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"> </A>They turn around <I>and round </I>unto Me,</div> <div>       also around <I>and around</I> to Me</div> <div>     in the Lord's name </div> <div>     for I cause them</div> <div>           to be circumcised.</div> <div>  <A NAME="12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Kids board game" >5 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n12" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">12 </A>They turned around</div> <div>     to Me like bees,</div> <div>          quenched as fire in thorns</div> <div>          in name of the Lord</div> <div>     because I do</div> <div>     circumcise them.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n13" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">13</A>     You thrust sore at Me </div> <div>           to die violently,</div> <div>        but LORD helped Me. <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n14" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">14</A>  Jah's My strength and song </div> <div>        and is become to Me salvation.</div> <div> 15    Shoutings of joy </div> <div>     and salvation</div> <div>           in tents of righteous.</div> <div>  <A NAME="16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> 6<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > The Lord's right hand </FONT></div> <div>          does valiantly.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n16" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">16</A>     The Lord's right hand is</div> <div>           <I>highly </I>exalted.</div> <div>     The Lord's right hand </div> <div>     does valiantly.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n17" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">17</A>     <I>So </I>I shall not die, </div> <div>           but shall testify</div> <div>       the works of Jah: <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n18" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">18</A>  Jah sore chastened Me,</div> <div>       but unto death, He's not given Me.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n19" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">19</A>    Open to Me </div> <div>     gates of the just.</div> <div>           I'll enter through them.</div> <div>  <A NAME="20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Kids board game" >7 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n20" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">20</A> This is the gate, </div> <div>            <I> this is the gate</I></div> <div>          that leads to the LORD,</div> <div>         <I> that leads to the LORD.</I></div> <div>          I will thank Jah.</div> <div> <I>         I will thank Jah.</I></div> <div> <I>         Righteous enter it.</I></div> <div>          Righteous enter it.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n21" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">21</A>    I will praise You</div> <div>     because You heard me,</div> <div>          and You've become salvation to me</div> <div> <I>         This is the gate,</I></div> <div> <I>          this is the gate</I></div> <div> <I>          that leads to the LORD.</I></div> <div>  <A NAME="22"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Kids board game" >8 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n22" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">22</A> <I>This is </I>the Stone,</div> <div> <I>      this is the Stone </I></div> <div> <I>      </I>the builders refused,</div> <div> <I>      the builders refused.</I></div> <div>       It's become Head,</div> <div>  <I>     It's become Head</I></div> <div>       of gentiles and Jews,</div> <div>    <I>   of gentiles and Jews. </I></div> <div> <I>      This, the stone which the builders refused</I></div> <div> <I>      </I> <A NAME="23"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><I> has become Head of gentiles and Jews.</I></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n23" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">23</A>    This came from the</div> <div>     Lord. Marvelous</div> <div>           it is in our eyes.</div> <div>  <A NAME="24"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Kids board game" >9 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n24" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">24</A> This <I>is</I> the day,</div> <div>     <I>this is the day</I></div> <div>          <I>that </I>the Lord did it,</div> <div>         <I> that the Lord did it.</I></div> <div>     We will rejoice,</div> <div> <I>    we will rejoice</I></div> <div>          and be glad in it,</div> <div> <I>         and be glad in it.</I></div> <div> <I>     This is the day that the Lord did it.</I></div> <div> <I>     We will rejoice and be glad in it.</I></div> <div> <I>    This is the day,</I></div> <div> <I>    This is the day,</I></div> <div> <I>         that the Lord did it.</I></div> <div> <I> <A NAME="25"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Kids board game" >10 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n25" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">25</A> Hosanna Lord!</div> <div>     <I> <A NAME="27"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I>Make prosperous!</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n26" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">26     </A>He who comes in name</div> <div>          of the Lord is bless'd.</div> <div>     We have blessed you </div> <div>     from the Lord's house.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n27" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">27</A>     The Lord, <I>He is</I> God </div> <div>           and shined light to us. </div> <div>      The <I>sacrifice which is for this</I> feast,</div> <div>      bind it with cords <I>un</I><I>til </I><I>altar it meets.</I></div> <div>     <I>Bind it with cords,</I></div> <div>     until the <I>horns</I>,</div> <div>          horns of the altar.</div> <div> <I> <A NAME="28"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I></div> <div> 11 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >28 You are my God, </FONT></div> <div>     and I thank You,</div> <div>          My God, I extol,</div> <div>          <I>I will extol</I> You. </div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n29" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast">29</A>    Give the Lord thanks </div> <div>     for good <I>is He</I></div> <div>          because His mercy </div> <div>          is everlasting. </div> <div> <I>     Give the Lord thanks because good is He</I></div> <div> <I>     for His mercy is everlasting.</I></div> <div> <I>    Give the Lord thanks</I></div> <div> <I>    for His mercy</I></div> <div> <I>         is everlasting.</I></div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="zec11_10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n22" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Zechariah 11:</B></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n22" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>10</B></A> </FONT>And I took My staff Beauty and cut it asunder, that I might break My covenant, which I <I>then </I>made with all the peoples. </div> <div> 2:11  And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.</div> <div> 6:12  And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:</div> <div> 13  Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.</div> <div> 14  And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the LORD.</div> <div> 15  And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.</div> <div> Romans 15:8  Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:</div> <div> 9  And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.</div> <div> 10  And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.</div> <div> 11  And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.</div> <div> 12  And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.</div> <div> Psalm 18:43 You saved Me from the contentions,</div> <div> of the people.</div> <div> You made Me Head of the nations,</div> <div> a people whom I had not known.</div> <div> They shall serve me</div> <div> 44 upon the hearing of the ear.</div> <div> They shall obey, submit to me,</div> <div> sons of strangers to me falsely. </div> <div> 49 Therefore to Thee, Lord, thanks I give</div> <div> in <I>the midst of </I>the nations.</div> <div> Unto Your name psalms I will sing,</div> <div> 50 great salvations unto His king,</div> <div> and to His Messiah mercy,</div> <div> unto David and to his seed forever.</div> <div> Deuteronomy 32:43  (AV) Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people. </div> <div> Psalm 117:1  O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.</div> <div> Isaiah 11:10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. </div> <div> Psalm 2:8  Ask of Me, and I shall give Thee</div> <div> Thine inheritance, the nations,</div> <div> and the uttermost parts of earth </div> <div> <I>shall be for</I> Thine <I>own</I> possession.</div> <div>  <A NAME="ezr3_10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Ezra 3:10</B></A><B> </B>And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Jehovah, they set the priests in their apparel, with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise Jehovah according to the directions of David king of Israel.</div> <div>  11 And they sang alternately together in praising and giving thanks to Jehovah: For he is good, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout to the praise of Jehovah, because the foundation of the house of Jehovah was laid.</div> <div>  <A NAME="gal6_16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> Ga 6:16  And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Tahoma" >Israel of God.</FONT></div> <div> Zech 11:14 Then I broke My other staff, Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" > Israel</FONT>. </div> <div>  <A NAME="rrom15_16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> Rom 15:16  to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >as a priest </FONT>the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.</div> <div> Lu 24:47  and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.</div> <div>  <A NAME="1pet2_17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n2" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>1 Peter 2:17</B></A>  Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >Fear God</FONT>. Honor the king.</div> <div> Acts 9:31  Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >in the fear of the Lord</FONT>, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.</div> <div>  <A NAME="rom1_4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> Ro 1:4  And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >resurrection </FONT>from the dead: </div> <div> 6:5  For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >resurrection</FONT>:</div> <div> Php 3:10  That I may know him, and the power of his <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >resurrection</FONT>, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;</div> <div> 1Co 15:42  So also is the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >resurrection </FONT>of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:</div> <div> Mt 22:30  For in the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >resurrection </FONT>they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.</div> <div> Lu 20:35  But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >resurrection </FONT>from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: 36  Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >resurrection</FONT>.</div> <div> Re 20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >resurrection</FONT>: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.</div> <div>  <A NAME="eph3_3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n5" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Ephesians 3:3 </B></A> that by revelation the mystery has been made known to me, (according as I have written before briefly,</div> <div> 4  by which, in reading it, ye can understand my intelligence in the mystery of the Christ,)</div> <div> 5  which in other generations has not been made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the power of the Spirit,</div> <div> 6  that they who are of the nations should be joint heirs, and a joint body, and joint partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus by the glad tidings;</div> <div>  <A NAME="heb13_5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n6_2" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Hebrews 13:5</B></A><A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n6_2" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"> </A> Your life should be free from the love of money. Be satisfied with what you have, for He Himself has said, I will never leave you or forsake you. </div> <div> 6  Therefore, we may boldly say: </div> <div>      The Lord is my helper; </div> <div>     I will not be afraid. </div> <div>     What can man do to me? </div> <div>  <A NAME="rrom11_17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n10" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Romans 11:17</B></A>  But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and became a fellow partaker of the root of fatness of the olive tree,  18  Do not boast against the branches; but if you boast, remember that it is not you who bear the root, but the root you.  19  You will say then, Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.  20  Rightly said: they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be high-minded, but fear;  21  For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you.  22  Behold then the kindness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but on you, the kindness of God, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.  23  And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to  graft  them in again.  24  For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree and were grafted contrary to nature into the cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree! </div> <div>  <A NAME="eccl7_25"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n10" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Ecclesiastes 7:25</B></A>  (Darby) I <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#009900" FACE="Arial" ><B>turned</B></FONT>, I and my heart, to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom and reason, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness;</div> <div> 1 Kings 21:4  (Darby) And Ahab came into his house sullen and vexed because of the word that Naboth the Jizreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he lay down on his bed, and <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#009900" FACE="Arial" >turned away</FONT> his face, and ate no bread.</div> <div> 2 Kings 20:2  (AV) Then he <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#009900" FACE="Arial" ><B>turned </B></FONT>his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,</div> <div> 2 Chronicles 29:6  (AV) For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#009900" FACE="Arial" ><B>turned </B></FONT>away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs. </div> <div> Ezra 6:22  (AV) And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#009900" FACE="Arial" ><B>turned </B></FONT>the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.</div> <div> 1 Kings 18:37  (AV) Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#009900" FACE="Arial" ><B>turned </B></FONT>their heart back again.</div> <div>  <A NAME="eph2_11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n22" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Ephesians 2:11</B></A>  Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, those who are called uncircumcision by that which is called  circumcision  in the flesh made by hands,  12  That you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.  </div> <div> 13  But now in Christ Jesus you who were once far off have become near in the blood of Christ.  14  For He Himself is our peace, He who has made both one and has broken down the middle wall of partition, the enmity,  15  Abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances, that He might create the two in Himself into one new man, so making peace,  16  And might reconcile both in one Body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity by it.  17  And coming, He announced peace as the gospel to you who were far off, and peace to those who were near,  </div> <div> 18  For through Him we both have access in one Spirit unto the Father.  19  So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,  20  Being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#009900" FACE="Arial" >cornerstone</FONT>;  21  In whom all the building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord; </div> <div>  <A NAME="col2_11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n12" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Colossians 2:11</B></A><A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n12" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"> </A> In Him also you were  circumcised  with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,  12  Buried together with Him in baptism, in which also you were raised together with Him through the faith of the operation of God, who raised Him from the dead.  13  And you, though dead in your offenses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our offenses; </div> <div> Philippians 3:3  For we are the  circumcision , the ones who serve by the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh, </div> <div> Romans 2:28  For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is  circumcision  that which is outward in the flesh.  29  But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and  circumcision  is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, whose praise is not from men, but from God.  3:1  What then is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the profit of  circumcision ?  2  Much in every way. First, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.</div> <div>  <A NAME="isa53_10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n13" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Isaiah 53:10</B></A> But the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting {Him} to grief; If He would render Himself {as} a guilt offering, He will see a seed, He will prolong {His} days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.</div> <div>  <A NAME="ps18_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n13" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Psalm 18:1</B></A> I'm in love <B>with You</B>, Lord, my Strength.</div> <div> <A HREF="2sam22_2n.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="2Samuel 22 The Lords 2nd Coming">2</A>  <B>The Lord is</B> my Rock and Fortress</div> <div>  <A NAME="jud20_44"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n13" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Judges 20:44</B></A>  And there <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >fell </FONT>of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valor.</div> <div> 1Chronicles 20:8  These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >fell </FONT>by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.</div> <div> Genesis 25:17  And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people. 18  And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >fell </FONT>in the presence of all his brethren. </div> <div>  <A NAME="deu33_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n16" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Deuteronomy 33:2</B></A>  And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >his right hand</FONT> went a fiery law for them. </div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Psalm 17:7 </FONT>Show wondrously Your <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >right hand of mercy</FONT>.</div> <div> Save those who trust from those who self-raise.</div> <div> Psalm 20:6  Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >his right hand</FONT>.</div> <div> Psalm 98:1  «A Psalm.» O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvelous things: <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >his right hand</FONT>, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.</div> <div> Psalm 110:1  «A Psalm of David.» The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >my right hand</FONT>, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.</div> <div> Isaiah 62:8  The LORD hath sworn by <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >his right hand</FONT>, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast labored: </div> <div> Jeremiah 22:24  As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >my right hand</FONT>,  <A NAME="jud7_20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>yet would I pluck thee thence;</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n16" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Judges 7:20 </B></A> And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >right hands</FONT> to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.</div> <div> Psalm 16:8  I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >right hand</FONT>, I shall not be moved.</div> <div> Psalm 121:5  The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >thy right hand</FONT>.</div> <div> Isaiah 41:13  For I the LORD thy God will hold thy <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >right hand</FONT>, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.</div> <div> Isaiah 45:1  Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >right hand</FONT> I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; </div> <div>  <A NAME="1pet2_21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n18" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>1Peter 2:21 </B></A> For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: {for us: some read, for you}</div> <div> 22  Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:</div> <div> 23  Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: {himself: or, his cause}</div> <div> 24  Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. </div> <div> 3:18  For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:</div> <div> 4:1  Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;</div> <div> Isaiah 53:4  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.</div> <div> 5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. {wounded: or, tormented} {stripes: Heb. bruise}</div> <div> 6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. {laid…: Heb. made the iniquity of us all to meet on him}</div> <div> Romans 4:25  Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.</div> <div> 5:6  For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. {in due time: or, according to the time}</div> <div> 7  For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.</div> <div> 8  But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.</div> <div> 2Corinthians 5:21  For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.</div> <div> Galatians 1:4  Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:</div> <div> 3:13  Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:</div> <div> Ephesians 2:16  And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: </div> <div> Colossians 1:21  And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled {in…: or, by your mind in}</div> <div> 22  In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:</div> <div> Hebrews 9:26  For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.</div> <div> 28  So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.</div> <div> <I> <A NAME="ps16_9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n18" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Psalm 16:9</B></A></FONT><A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n18" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><I><B> </B></I></A>Therefore my heart is glad, and</div> <div> my glory does excel.</div> <div> E'en, my flesh shall rest in hope,</div> <div> 10 For You will not abandon my </div> <div> soul in Sheol <I>to be</I>.</div> <div> Your godly One, You'll not suffer</div> <div> corruption <I>thus </I>to see.</div> <div>  <A NAME="jn10_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n19" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>John 10:1</B></A> Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >by the door</FONT> into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.</div> <div> 2  But <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.</FONT></div> <div> 3  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >To him the porter opens</FONT>; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.</div> <div> 4  And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.</div> <div>  <A NAME="jn10_6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>5  And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.</div> <div> 6  This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n20" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>7</B></A>  Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.</div> <div>  <A NAME="jn10_9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>8  All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n20" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>9</B></A>  I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.</div> <div> 10  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that  <A NAME="jn10_16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>they might have it more abundantly.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n20" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>11</B></A><B> </B> I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.</div> <div> ...</div> <div> 16  And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.</div> <div> 17  Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.</div> <div> 18  No man taketh 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. This commandment have I received of my Father.</div> <div>  <A NAME="jn14_7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n20" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>John 14:7</B></A>  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.</div> <div> Ephesians 2:18  For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.</div> <div>  <A NAME="jer31_31"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n20" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Jeremiah 31:31</B></A>  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:</div> <div> 32  Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: {although…: or, should I have continued an husband unto them?}</div> <div> 33  But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.</div> <div> 34  And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.</div> <div>  <A NAME="ps144_12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n22" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Ephesians 2:20</B></A> built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" >the cornerstone</FONT>,</div> <div> Psalm 144:12  (AV) That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >that our daughters may be as corner stones</FONT>, polished after the similitude of a palace: </div> <div>  <A NAME="isa9_6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n23" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Isaiah 9:6</B></A>  For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and they shall call His name <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >Wonderful</FONT>, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.</div> <div> 29:9  Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. {cry ye…: or, take your pleasure, and riot}</div> <div> 10  For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. {rulers: Heb. heads}</div> <div> 11  And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: {book: or, letter}</div> <div> 12  And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.</div> <div> 13  Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:</div> <div> 14  Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >marvelous</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >work </FONT>among this people, even a <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >marvelous work </FONT>and a <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >wonder</FONT>: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. {proceed: Heb. add}</div> <div> 15  Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?</div> <div> Judges 13:18  And the Angel of Jehovah said to him, How is it that thou askest after my name, seeing it is <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >wonderful</FONT>?</div> <div> Job 5:9  Which doeth great things and unsearchable; <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >marvelous things</FONT> without number: {unsearchable: Heb. there is no search} {without…: Heb. till there be no number}</div> <div> 9:10  Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >wonders </FONT>without number.</div> <div> 37:5  God thundereth <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >marvelously </FONT>with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.</div> <div> 14  Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >wondrous </FONT>works of God.</div> <div> 42:3  Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >wonderful </FONT>for me, which I knew not.</div> <div> Psalm 72:18  Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" > wondrous things</FONT>.</div> <div> 119:18  Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >wondrous things</FONT> out of thy law. {Open: Heb. Reveal}</div> <div> 27  Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >wondrous </FONT>works.</div> <div> 139:6  O knowledge too <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >wonderful </FONT>for me! it is high, I cannot attain unto it.</div> <div> 14  I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >marvelous </FONT>are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. {right…: Heb. greatly}</div> <div> Proverbs 30:18 There be three things which are too <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >wonderful </FONT>for me, yea, four which I know not:</div> <div> 19  The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the heart of the sea; and the way of a mighty man with a virgin.</div> <div>  <A NAME="mt21_21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Matthew 21:1</B>  And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,  2  Saying to them, Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied and a colt with her; untie them and lead them to Me.  3  And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, The Lord has need of them; and immediately he will send them.  </div> <div> 4  Now this took place in order that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled, saying,  5  "Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your King is coming to you, meek and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, a foal of a beast of burden.''  </div> <div> 6  And the disciples went and did as Jesus directed them,  7  And led the donkey and the colt. And they put their garments on them, and He sat upon them.  8  And most of the crowd spread their own garments in the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them in the road. </div> <div> 9  And the crowds who went before Him and those who followed cried out, saying, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >Hosanna  to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!  Hosanna  in the highest! </FONT></div> <div> 15  But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonders that He did and the children who were crying out in the temple and saying,  Hosanna  to the Son of David, they were indignant.</div> <div> Zechariah 9:9  Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and saved; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.</div> <div>  <A NAME="lk13_35"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> Lu 13:35  Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord</FONT>.</div> <div>  <A NAME="1cor3_21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n7" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>1 Corinthians 3:21</B></A>  So then let no one boast in men, for  all  things  are   yours ,  22  Whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come;  all   are   yours ,  23  But you  are  Christ's, and Christ is God's. </div> <div> Romans 13:1  Let every person be subject to  the  authorities over him, for there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are ordained by God.  2  So then he who resists  the  authority opposes God's ordination, and those who oppose will receive judgment to themselves.  3  For  the  rulers are not a terror to  the  good work, but to  the  evil. Do you want to have no fear of  the  authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from him;  4  For he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, fear; he does not bear  the   sword  in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who practices evil. </div> <div>  <A NAME="1cor5_7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n27" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>1 Corinthians 5:7</B></A><B> </B> Purge out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened; for <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >our  Passover , </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <A NAME="ex12_21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >Christ</FONT>, also has been sacrificed. </div> <div> Exodus 12:21  Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >kill the passover</FONT>. </div> <div> 27  That ye shall say, It is <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >the sacrifice of the LORD’S passover</FONT>, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.</div> <div> 34:25  Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >the sacrifice of the feast of the passover </FONT>be left unto the morning.</div> <div> Deuteronomy 16:2  Thou shalt therefore <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >sacrifice the passover</FONT> unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.</div> <div> 5  Thou mayest not <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >sacrifice the passover</FONT> within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:</div> <div> 6  But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >sacrifice the passover</FONT> at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.</div> <div> 2Chronicles 30:15  Then they <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >killed the passover</FONT> on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.</div> <div> 18  For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >eat the passover</FONT> otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one</div> <div> 35:1  Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >they killed the passover</FONT> on the fourteenth day of the first month.</div> <div> 6  So <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >kill the passover</FONT>, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.</div> <div> 11  And they <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >killed the passover,</FONT> and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.</div> <div> 13  And they <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >roasted the passover</FONT> with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.</div> <div> Ezra 6:20  For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >killed the passover</FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>for  <A NAME="jn1_29"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.</div> <div> John 1:29  The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >Behold, the  Lamb  of God,</FONT> who takes away the sin of the world! </div> <div> Acts 8:32  Now the passage of Scripture which he was reading was this: "As<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" > a sheep He was led to slaughter; and as a  lamb </FONT> before its shearer is dumb, so He does not open His mouth.  33  In His humiliation His judgment was taken away. Who shall declare His generation? For His life is taken away from the earth.'' </div> <div> Isaiah 53:7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep</FONT> before her shearers is dumb, so he opens not his mouth. 8  He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people the stroke was on them. 9  And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither [was any] deceit in his mouth. 10  Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >1 Peter 1:18  Knowing that it was not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, that you were redeemed from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers,  19  </FONT>But with precious blood, as of a  Lamb  without blemish and without spot, the blood of Christ;<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >  20  Who was foreknown before the foundation of the world but has been manifested in the last of times for your sake, </FONT></div> <div> Revelation 7:14  And I said to him, My lord, you know. And he said to me, These are those who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >in the blood of the  Lamb</FONT> . </div> <div> 12:11  And they overcame him <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >because of the blood of the  Lamb</FONT>  and because of the word of their testimony, and they loved not their soul-life even unto death. </div> <div>  <A NAME="rom9_16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n29" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Romans 9:16</B></A>  So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >of God who shows  mercy</FONT> . </div> <div> 23  In order that He might make known the riches of His glory <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >upon vessels of  mercy</FONT> , which He had before prepared unto glory,  </div> <div> 24  Even us, whom He has also called, not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles? </div> <div> 11:30  For just as you once disobeyed God, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >but now have been shown  mercy</FONT>  because of their disobedience,  </div> <div> 31  So these also now have disobeyed, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >so that because of the  mercy  shown to you they also now may be shown  mercy </FONT>.  </div> <div> 32  For God has shut up all in disobedience <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >that He might show  mercy  to all.</FONT>  </div> <div> 33  O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and untraceable His ways! </div> <div> 15:8  For I say that Christ has become a servant of the circumcision for the sake of God's truthfulness, to confirm the promises given to the fathers,  </div> <div> 9  And that the Gentiles should <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >glorify God for His  mercy</FONT> , as it is written, "Therefore I will extol You among the Gentiles, and I will sing praise to Your name.'' </div> <div> 1 Corinthians 7:25  Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord, but I give my opinion <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >as one who has been shown  mercy  by the Lord to be faithful</FONT>. </div> <div>  <A NAME="jn6_51"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n27" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>John 6:4</B></A>  Now the  Passover , the feast of the Jews, was near.</div> <div> 51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever; And the bread which I will give is My  flesh , given for the life of the world.  52  The Jews then contended with one another, saying, How can this man give us His  flesh  to eat?  53  Jesus therefore said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless you eat the  flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life within yourselves.  54  He who eats My  flesh  and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day.  55  For My  flesh  is true food, and My blood is true drink.  56  He who eats My  flesh  and drinks My blood abides in Me and I in him.  57  As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me.  58  This is the bread which came down out of heaven, not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread shall live forever. </div> <div>  <A NAME="hos11_4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n27" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Hosea 11:4</B></A> I led them with cords of a man, with <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >thick cords</FONT> of love, And I became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws; And I bent down. I fed them.</div> <div> Ecclesiastes 12:6  Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. <I>(referring to death. different Hebrew word for "cord" than Ps 80:27. It is the same as the 1st word for "cord" in Hos 11:4. Also used synonymously in Isa 5:18)</I></div> <div> John 1:14  And the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >Word became flesh and  tabernacled  among us</FONT> (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality. </div> <div> 1 John 4:2  In this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit which confesses that <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >Jesus Christ has come in the  flesh</FONT>  is of God,  3  And every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God; and this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming and now is already in the world. </div> <div> Colossians 1:22  He now has reconciled <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >in the body of His  flesh  through death,</FONT> to present you holy and without blemish and without reproach before Him; </div> <div> 1 Timothy 3:16  And confessedly, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >great is the mystery of godliness:</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >He who was manifested in the  flesh </FONT>, Justified in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, Taken up in glory. </div> <div> Hebrews 2:14  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >Since therefore the children have shared in blood and  flesh , He also Himself in like manner partook of the same</FONT>, that through death He might destroy him who has the might of death, that is, the devil,  15  And might release those who because of the fear of death through all their life were held in slavery. </div> <div> 1 Peter 4:1  Since Christ therefore <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >has suffered in the  flesh </FONT>, you also arm yourselves with the same mind (because he who has suffered in the  flesh  has ceased from sin),  2  No longer to live the rest of the time in the  flesh  in the lusts of men, but in the will of God.  3  For the time which has passed is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having gone on in licentiousness, lusts, debaucheries, carousings, drinking bouts, and unlawful idolatries. </div> <div> Romans 8:3  For that which the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >God, sending His own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin </FONT>and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh,  4  That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the spirit. </div> <div>  <A NAME="phil2_5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n27" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Philippians 2:5</B></A>  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,  6  Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God a treasure to be grasped,  7  But emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming in the likeness of men;  8  And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of a cross. </div> <div> Luke 12:50  But I have a  baptism  to be baptized with, and how I am pressed until it is accomplished! </div> <div> 2 Corinthians 5:1  For we know that if our earthly tabernacle dwelling is taken down, we have a building from God, a dwelling not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.  2  For also in this we groan, longing to be  clothed  upon with our dwelling place from heaven,  3  If indeed, being  clothed , we will not be found naked.  4  For also, we who are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened, in that we do not desire to be unclothed, but  clothed  upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. </div> <div> Philippians 1:21  For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.  22  But if I am to live in the  flesh , if this to me is fruit for my work, then I do not know what I will choose.  23  But I am constrained between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for this is far better;  24  But to remain in the  flesh  is more necessary for your sake. </div> <div>  <A NAME="eze19_11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n27" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Ezekiel 19:11</B></A>  And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >thick branches</FONT>, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.</div> <div> 31:3  Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >thick boughs.</FONT></div> <div> 10  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >thick boughs</FONT>, and his heart is lifted up in his height;</div> <div> 14  To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >thick boughs</FONT>, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.</div> <div>  <A NAME="jud15_13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n27" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Judges 15:13</B></A>  And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >bound </FONT>him with two new <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >cords</FONT>, and brought him up from the rock. 14  And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >cords </FONT>that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >bands </FONT>loosed from off his hands.</div> <div> 16:11  And he said unto her, If they <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >bind </FONT>me fast with new <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >cords </FONT>that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. 12  Delilah therefore took new <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >cords</FONT>, and <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >bound </FONT>him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.</div> <div> Ezekiel 3:25  But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >cords </FONT>upon thee, and shall <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >bind </FONT>thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:</div> <div>  <A NAME="ex19_12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n27" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Exodus 29:12</B></A>  And thou shalt take of the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar </FONT>with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.</div> <div> Leviticus 4:25  And the priest shall take of the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering,</FONT> and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.</div> <div> 30  And the priest shall take of the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering</FONT>, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.</div> <div> 34  And the priest shall take of the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering</FONT>, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar:</div> <div> 8:15  And he slew it; and Moses <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar </FONT>round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.</div> <div> 9:9  And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar,</FONT> and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar:</div> <div>  <A NAME="lev4_7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n27" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Leviticus 4:7</B></A>  And the priest shall put <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense </FONT>before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.</div> <div> 18  And he shall put some of the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >blood upon the horns of the altar which is before the LORD</FONT>, that is in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.</div> <div> 16:18  And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar </FONT>round about.</div> <div>  <A NAME="heb8_5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n27" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Hebrews 8:5</B></A>  Who serve the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >example and shadow of the  heavenly  things</FONT>, even as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to complete the tabernacle; for, "See,'' He said, "that you make all things according to the pattern that was shown to you in the mountain.'' </div> <div> 9:11  But Christ, having come as a High Priest of the good things that have come into being, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by hands, that is, not of this creation</FONT>,  12  And not through the  blood  of goats and calves but through His own  blood , <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >entered once for all into the Holy of Holies,</FONT> obtaining an eternal redemption.  13  For if the  blood  of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who are defiled sanctifies to the purity of the flesh,  14  How much more will the  blood  of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God? </div> <div> 22  And almost all things are purified by blood according to the law, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.  23  It was necessary therefore for the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >examples of the things in the heavens</FONT> to be purified by these, but <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >the  heavenly  things themselves</FONT>, by better sacrifices than these.  24  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >For Christ did not enter into a holy place made by hands, a figure of the true, but into heaven itself</FONT>, to appear now before the face of God for us;  25  Nor in order that He might offer Himself often, just as the high priest enters into the Holy of Holies year by year by the blood of other creatures;  26  Since then He would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested for the putting away of sin through the sacrifice of Himself.  27  And inasmuch as it is reserved for men to die once, and after this comes judgment,  28  So Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time to those who eagerly await Him, apart from sin, unto salvation. </div> <div> 10:14  For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.  15  And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after having said,  16  "This is the covenant which I will covenant with them after those days, says the Lord: I will impart My laws upon their hearts, and upon their mind I will inscribe them,''  17  He then says, "And their sins and their lawlessnesses I shall by no means remember anymore.''  18  Now where forgiveness of these is, there is no longer an offering for sin.  19  Having therefore, brothers, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >boldness for entering the Holy of Holies in the  blood of Jesus,  20  Which entrance He initiated for us as a new and living way through the veil, that is, His flesh</FONT>, </div> <div> 13:10  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >We have an altar from which they who are serving the tabernacle have no right to eat.</FONT>  11  For the bodies of those animals whose  blood  is brought into the Holy of Holies for sin by the high priest are burned up outside the camp.  12  Therefore also Jesus, that He might sanctify the people through His own  blood , suffered outside the gate.  13  Let us therefore go forth unto Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.  14  For we do not have here a remaining city, but we seek after the one to come.  15  Through Him then let us offer up a sacrifice of praise continually to God, that is, the fruit of lips confessing His name.  16  But do not forget doing good and sharing with others, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.</div> <div> Re 8:2  And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.  3  And another <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >Angel came and stood at the  altar</FONT> , having a golden censer, and much incense was given to Him to offer with the prayers of all the saints <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >upon the golden  altar  which was before the throne.</FONT>  4  And the smoke of the incense went up with the prayers of the saints out of the hand of the Angel before God.  5  And the Angel took the censer and <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >filled it with the fire of the  altar  and cast it to the earth</FONT>; and there were thunders and voices and lightnings and an earthquake. </div> <div> 9:13  And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >from the four horns of</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >the golden altar which is before God</FONT>,</div> <div> 11:19  And <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >the temple of God which is in  heaven  was opened, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple</FONT>; and there were lightnings and voices and thunders and an earthquake and great hail. </div> <div> 13:6  And he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme His name and <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >His tabernacle, which tabernacle in  heaven </FONT>.</div> <div> 14:17  And <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven</FONT>, he also having a sharp sickle.  18  And another angel came out of the  altar , he who has authority over fire, and he cried with a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, Send forth your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripened.</div> <div> 15:5  And after these things I saw, and <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in  heaven  was opened</FONT>,  6  And the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple, clothed in clean bright linen and girded around the breasts with golden girdles. </div> <div> 16:7  And <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >I heard the  altar  saying</FONT>, Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments. </div> <div>  <A NAME="lk1_35"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n27" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Luke 1:35</B></A>  And the angel answered and said to her, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >The Holy Spirit </FONT>will come upon you, and the power of the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >Most High</FONT> will  overshadow  you; therefore also the holy thing which is born will be called the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >Son of God</FONT>. </div> <div> Matthew 1:18  Now the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >origin of</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >Jesus Christ </FONT>was in this way: His mother, Mary, after she had been engaged to Joseph, before they came together, was found to be <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >with child of the Holy Spirit</FONT>.  19  And Joseph her husband, being righteous and not willing to disgrace her openly, intended to send her away secretly.  20  But while he pondered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife, for that which <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >has been begotten in her is of the Holy Spirit</FONT>.  21  And she will bear a son, and <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >you shall call His name Jesus</FONT>, for it is He who will save His people from their sins.  22  Now all this has happened so that what was <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >spoken by the Lord</FONT> through the prophet might be fulfilled, saying,  23  "Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >bear a son</FONT>, and they shall call His name <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >Emmanuel</FONT>'' (which is translated, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >God with us</FONT>).</div> <div> 3:16  And having been baptized, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >Jesus</FONT> went up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >Spirit of God</FONT> descending like a  dove  and coming upon Him.  17  And behold, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is My Son, the Beloved</FONT>, in whom I have found My delight. </div> <div> Mark 1:9  And in those days <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >Jesus </FONT>came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized in the Jordan by John.  10  And immediately, coming up out of the water, He saw the heavens being parted and <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >the Spirit as a  dove  descending upon Him</FONT>.  11  And <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >a voice came out of the heavens: You are My Son, the Beloved</FONT>; in You I have found My delight. </div> <div> Luke 3:21  Now when all the people were baptized and as <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >Jesus </FONT>was baptized and was praying, heaven was opened,  22  And <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form as a  dove  upon Him. And a voice came out of heaven: You are My Son, the Beloved</FONT>; in You I have found My delight. </div> <div> John 1:31  And I did not know Him, but in order that He might be manifested to Israel, for this reason I came baptizing in water.  32  And John testified saying, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >I beheld the Spirit descending as a  dove  out of heaven, and He abode upon Him</FONT>.  33  And I did not know Him, but <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >He who sent me to baptize in water, He said to me</FONT>, He upon whom you see <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >the Spirit descending and abiding upon Him</FONT>, this is He who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.  34  And I have seen and have testified that <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >this is the Son of God</FONT>. </div> <div> 1 Tim 3:16  And confessedly, great is the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" >mystery of godliness: He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the Spirit</FONT>, Seen by angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, Taken up in glory.</div> <div> <I> <A NAME="josh5_13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n22" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Joshua 5:13</B></A>  And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?</div> <div> 14  And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?</div> <div>  <A NAME="matt26_30"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Matthew 26:30</B> And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives. (Mat 26:30 KJV)</div> <div> Mark 14:26 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives. (Mar 14:26 KJV)</div> <div>  <A NAME="jer5_5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_118_l.htm#n22" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 118 Because His mercy is everlast"><B>Jeremiah 5:5</B></A> I will go unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God; but these have altogether broken the yoke, have burst the bonds.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> -copyright Steve Miller updated 3/27/2010</div> </td> </tr></table></body>