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[11] In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
[12] And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
2 Peter 3:8-12 (NKJV)
[8] But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
[9] The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
[10] But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
[11] Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
[12] looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
Song of Solomon 3:1-3 (NLJV)
[1] By night on my bed I sought the one I love;
I sought him, but I did not find him.
[2] “I will rise now,” I said,
“And go about the city;
In the streets and in the squares
I will seek the one I love.”
I sought him, but I did not find him.
[3] The watchmen who go about the city found me;
I said,
“Have you seen the one I love?”
Daniel 5:3-5 (NKJV)
[3] Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of God which had been in Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.
[4] They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
[5] In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
AND
[25] “And this is the inscription that was written
MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
[26] This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it;
[27] TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting;
[28] PERES: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
Romans 5:16-21 (NKJV)
[16] And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification.
[17] For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
[18] Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.
[19] For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.
[20] Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more,
[21] so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Isaiah 10:1-4 (NKJV)
[1] “Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees,
Who write misfortune,
Which they have prescribed
[2] To rob the needy of justice,
And to take what is right from the poor of My people,
That widows may be their prey,
And that they may rob the fatherless.
[3] What will you do in the day of punishment,
And in the desolation which will come from afar?
To whom will you flee for help?
And where will you leave your glory?
[4] Without Me they shall bow down among the prisoners,
And they shall fall among the slain.”
For all this His anger is not turned away,
But His hand is stretched out still.
Exodus 16:9-16 (NKJV)
[9] Then Moses spoke to Aaron, “Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come near before the Lord, for He has heard your complaints.”
[10] Now it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.
[11] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
[12] “I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. And you shall know that I am the Lord your God.”
[13] So it was that quail came up at evening and covered the camp, and in the morning the dew lay all around the camp.
[14] And when the layer of dew lifted, there, on the surface of the wilderness, was a small round substance, as fine as frost on the ground.
[15] So when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was.
And Moses said to them, “This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat.
[16] This is the thing which the Lord has commanded: ‘Let every man gather it according to each one’s need, one omer for each person, according to the number of persons; let every man take for those who are in his tent.”