{"id":1304,"date":"2020-05-12T21:56:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T21:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2020-05-12T21:56:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T21:56:19","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-wednesday-may-13th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/05\/12\/lectionary-readings-for-wednesday-may-13th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Wednesday, May 13th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weekday Sabbath<\/em><\/p>\n

Book of Wars Against Jehovih Chapter 17, Chapter 18<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 17<\/span><\/p>\n

1. God, in Craoshivi, bewailed heaven and earth. He said: Great Jehovih, how I have
\nfailed in Thy kingdom! Behold, Thou gavest into my keeping the earth and her heavens,
\nand they have gone astray!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Jehovih said: Behold the plan of My government; which is, to come against nothing in
\nheaven or earth; to seize nothing by the head and turn it round by violence to go the other
\nway.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Though I am the power that created them, and am the Ever Present that moveth them
\nalong, I gave to them to be Gods, like Myself, with liberty to find their own direction.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. I created many trees in My garden, the greatest of which is the tree of happiness. And I
\ncalled out unto all the living to come and dwell in the shade of that tree, and partake of
\nthe fruits and its perfumes. But they run after prickers and they scourge themselves; and
\nthen, alas, they fall to cursing Me, and accusing Me of shortness in My government.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. I confined them in their mother’s womb for a season, showing them there is a time for
\nall things. But they ran forward hurriedly, desiring speedy happiness and wisdom, without
\nhalting to observe My glories by the road-side.<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>6. I said unto them: Even as I have given liberty unto all My people, so shall ye
\nnot impress into your service your brothers and sisters. But the self-assuming Gods
\nmake slaves of their fellows; they build roads round about, and station armies
\nof soldiers to prevent My newborn from coming to My most glorious kingdoms.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. They go down to the earth and inspire kings and queens, and rich men, to do the same
\nthings. And they portion out to their servants, saying to them: Serve ye me, and I will do
\nfor you. They little think that their servants will become as thorns, and stones, and chains,
\nand spears against them in the far future. They build up a justice of their own, saying:
\nAs much as my servants labor for me, so will I render unto them. But I have said unto
\nthem that no man shall serve another but for love, which shall be his only recompense.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. The king and the queen of the earth, and the rich man, shut their own eyes against Me,
\nthinking by that means I cannot see them; they flatter themselves that in heaven they will
\ngive the slip to their servants. But I sowed a seed of bondage in My garden, and I said:
\nWhosoever bindeth another, shall himself be bound. And behold, when they are risen in
\nheaven, their servants and their soldiers come upon them; their memory is as a troubled
\ndream that will not away from them.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Nevertheless, with these great examples before them, still there are angels in hada that
\nhave not profited therein. For they say unto themselves; I will build a great kingdom in
\nheaven; I will become the mightiest of Gods; millions of angels shall serve me; I will shut
\nout the Great Spirit and His far-off heavens; I will wall my place around with an army of
\nsoldiers, and with fire and water.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. As a libertine stealeth an unsuspicious damsel to abuse her; and, in time, she waketh
\nup to the matter but to curse him, so do the false Gods steal upon the inhabitants of My
\nplaces and carry them into bondage. But the light of My understanding dwelleth in the
\nsouls of My little ones; it waiteth for the spring sun; and it will spring up and grow into a
\nmighty tree to accuse these Gods.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. God inquired concerning warfare?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Jehovih said: I answer all things by good. To the good at heart I give good thoughts,
\ndesires and holy observations. To the perverse of heart I hold up My glories and the
\nbeneficence of virtue and peaceful understanding. To them that practice charity and good
\nworks unto others, laboring not for self, I give the highest delight. Though they be
\npricked in the flesh with poverty and wicked persecutions, yet their souls are as the
\nwaters of a smooth-running river. Amongst them that practice evil, and destruction, and
\nwar, I send emissaries of benevolence and healing, who have plenteous words of pity.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. These are My arrows, and spears, and war-clubs, O God: Pity, gentle words, and the
\nexample of tenderness. Soon or late, these shall triumph over all things in heaven and
\nearth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. Behold, these wars in hada and on the earth will continue more than a thousand years.
\nAnd the inhabitants will go down in darkness, even to the lowest darkness. For
\nwhich reason, thou and thy successors shall provide not hastily, as if the matter were
\nto change with the wind. But thou shalt organize a new army of deliverers for My
\nFaithists, and it shall have two branches, one for the earth and one for hada. And the
\nbusiness of thy army shall be to rescue My people from them that seek to destroy them.
\nAnd as to the spirits of the dead who were Faithists on the earth, provide thou means of
\ntransportation and bring them to thy new kingdom, which thou shalt call At-ce-wan,<\/span>
\nwhere thou shalt provide a sub-God, and officers, and attendants, hundreds of millions.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. And in At-ce-wan, thou shalt provide the sub-God all such places and nurseries,
\nhospitals, factories, schools, colleges and such other houses and places of instructions
\nrequired, in the kingdoms of My Lords in hada.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. And when thou hast this matter in good working order, thou shalt speak before thy
\nHoly Council; in My name shalt thou say to them after this manner: Two hundred
\nthousand hath Jehovih called; by Him am I commanded to find them; and they shall be
\nwise and strong and without fear. For they shall be angel-preachers in Jehovih’s name to
\ngo down to Hored, the place of De’yus, the Lord God the false, and to the kingdoms of his
\nGods; and their labor shall be to preach and proclaim the Father and His glories in the
\netherean worlds.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. And my preachers shall not say one word against the Lord God nor his Gods;
\nbut rather the other way; by majesty of Jehovih’s love, be loving towards them and
\ntheir officers and subjects. For by this means shall my preachers have peaceful dwellings
\nin these warring kingdoms; and thus their voices shall have great weight. For the greatest
\nwisdom of a great diplomatist is not to be too opposite or too vehement, but conciliating.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. Jehovih said: And thy preachers shall travel constantly in the lowest kingdoms,
\nteaching and explaining My boundless worlds, sowing the seed of aspiration with the
\nwise and with the ignorant, and especially with the enslaved.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. And to as many as become converted, and desire to ascend to Craoshivi, thou shalt
\nsay: Go ye to the border of your kingdom, whither the Father’s laborers have a ship to take
\nye to His kingdom. But thy preachers shall not go with them to excite suspicion or hate,
\nbut continue on preaching and inciting the slaves to ascend to higher and holier heavens.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. Then God, of Craoshivi, fell to work to carry out the commandments of Jehovih.
\nAnd his Council labored with him. At-ce-wan was established and Yotse-hagah
\nwas made the sub-God, with a Holy Council of one hundred thousand angels, with
\na thousand attendants, with fifty thousand messengers. He was provided with a
\ncapital, and throne, and with ship-makers and builders of mansions, one million angels.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

21. After that God and the Council of Craoshivi organized all the armies as commanded
\nby Jehovih. And there were in these armies, all told, seventeen hundred millions, and two
\nhundred and eight thousand five hundred and sixty, all of whom were above grade fifty,
\nand some as high as ninety.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

22. And it so turned out that these organizations were completed and in working order
\ntwo days prior to De’yus and his hosts beginning their war on the earth. But the Faithist
\nangels were distributed mostly in hada and the regions above. So that whilst De’yus’hosts
\nof two thousand millions were gone down to the earth, there were of Faithist angels for
\nthe same place but four hundred thousand, save the ashars who were in regular service.
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>Chapter 18<\/span>
\n<\/span>OF THE BATTLES OF THE GODS FOR THE <\/span>DOMINION OF THE EARTH AND THE
\nLOWEST HEAVENS; AND THESE WERE CALLED BATTLES OF A THOUSAND YEARS.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

1. De’yus was no slow hand; not a dull God. He had two thousand seven hundred years’
\nexperience, and his soul quick and strong in mighty works. He rushed not in without first
\nmeasuring the way, most deliberately and in great wisdom.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. At first he felt his way along, to humor the populace, doing as if by proxy Jehovih’s<\/span>
\ncommands, till safely fell into his dominion and power his flattered Gods and officers,
\nthen boldly launching forth: I, the Lord God, command!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. The very audaciousness of which overtopped his friends’judgment, and made them
\nbelieve for a fact that De’yus was the foremost and greatest, mighty God. To do whose
\nwill, and reverently applaud his name, was the surest road to home laurels.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. To win great majesty to himself, and after having sworn to havoc the whole earth in
\norder to establish the name De’yus, and Lord God, he called to his side his five chiefest
\nfriends: the Gods, Hikas, falsely named Te-in; Wotchissij, falsely named Sudga; Che-lemung, falsely named Osiris; Baal, and Ashtaroth. And thus in dignity De’yus spake to them:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. It is well, my Gods, ye stand about and see the battles; but let your generals and high
\ncaptains go forth and mingle in the bloody work. In your kingdoms be constantly
\nupraising your magnificence, and in times sallying forth to the earth valiantly, as when
\nkings and queens and prophets are to win a victory, or be plunged into mortal death,
\nto show how your august presence turned the tide of battle. Then hie ye back in dignity
\nto your thrones, leaving your officers and inspiring hosts to go in the game of mortal
\ntragedy.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Then spake Osiris, falsely named, saying: To exalt thy name, O De’yus, thou Lord God;
\nand to persuade mortals that thou, of all created beings, can stand in Hored, and by thy
\nwill control the victory to whomsoever applaudeth thee and praiseth thy name, be thou to
\nme the bond of my solemn oath, so will I lose or win battles on the earth accordingly
\nas they shall honor thee and despise the Great Spirit, or any other God or Lord.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Then Te-in, also falsely named, said: To keep mortals in constant war for a thousand
\nyears; to teach them that battles are won or lost according to the loudest call and praise
\nto thee, O De’yus, under thy thigh will I be as an oath renewed from everlasting to
\neverlasting.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Sudga, the false, said: By all my parts, to shape the arms and legs of the unborn in
\ncomeliness, shall my legions drum into the ears of enceinte women a thousand years,
\nswearing them to thy name, O De’yus; or, if refusing, to curse with crookedness all their
\nprogeny. And when these mothers sleep, my legions shall find their souls in their dreams,
\nand give them delight or torment, accordingly as they, when awake, applaud thee, my
\nmost might Lord God.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Baal said: To overturn the oracles of Jehovih, and to make the prophets and seers
\nreceive and announce thy name, O’De’yus, thou Lord God of heaven and earth, have I
\nalready sworn more than ten thousand oaths.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Ashtaroth said: The work of my legions shall be to deal death to thy enemies, O
\nDe’yus. To them that raise the name Jehovih, or Ormazd, or Great Spirit, my legions shall
\ncarry foul smells to their noses whilst they sleep. And for thy enemies, who may win a
\nbattle against thy people, my legions shall carry inoculation from the rotten dead; in the
\nair shall they carry the virus to the breath of them that will not bow down to the name,
\nLord God!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. De’yus answered them, saying: So spoken, so shall these things be; I, the Lord your
\nGod, command. Send forth your generals and high captains thus decreed; to each and
\nevery one sufficient armies to make patent these, our high resolves. Into three great
\narmies shall my legions be divided for the earth battles: one to Jaffeth, one to Vind’yu,<\/span>
\nand one to Arabin’ya and the regions lying west and north. Of the latter, thou, Osiris, shalt
\nhave chief command; and thou, Baal, and thou, Ashtaroth, ye twain, so linked in love and
\none purpose, shall be the earth managers to Osiris’will. For your efficient service, behold,
\nI have given you these high-raised generals and captains: Jah, Pluton-ya, Apollo-ya,
\nPetoris, Hi-ram, T’cro-no, Egupt, Ares, Yube, Ali-jah, Afro-dite, Ar-ti-mis, Ben, Aa-ron,
\nArgo, Atstsil, Nadar and Oyeb, besides Peter, Yact-ta-roth, Haur, Abel, Said, Josh and
\nWab, who shall be the conquering spirits to play on both sides in battles, urging stubborn
\nmortals on to religious feud till both sides fall in death, or till one, to me and my
\nGods, boweth down in fear and reverence. And they shall sing their names in mortal ears
\nday and night, and teach them to live in praise of the Lord, your God, the De’yus of
\nheaven and earth, and to be most daring in the overthrow of Jehovih, most hated of Gods.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. To thee, Te-in, another third of my legions is committed, to deal with the land of
\ngiants, and urge them on in the same way, to greatness or to death, doing honor and
\nreverence to me and my kingdoms. High raised are thy generals: Wah-ka, Ho-jou-ya,
\nOke-ya-nos, Thu-wowth, Haing-le, Gochin-woh-to-gow, and Eurga-roth, besides Yamyam, Hi-rack-to, Kacan-cat, Isaah, Lutz-rom and Le-Wiang, and others of high grade and power.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. And to thee, O Sudga, in like manner have I given another third of my legions to play
\nbattles with mortals for a thousand years. Like Osiris and Te-in, to set mortals up in war,
\nand move them one way and then another, and thus plunge them into each other’s bloody
\narms and death. That they may learn to know of a truth they are but machines and
\nplaythings in the hands of angels and Gods; that they are worked like clay in a potter’s
\nhand, till they cry out: Enough! I will bow my head to God, who is Lord over all, great
\nDe’yus. Yea, more, I will fight for him and drink even my brother’s blood, if De’yus but
\nprosper me and mine in slaying Faithists, fool-worshippers of Ormazd, the Unseen and
\nScattered Wind. To him, in likeness of a man, with head, and legs, and arms in boundary
\nand size of a man, sitting on a throne in Hored; to him, the great Lord God, will I ever
\nbow in reverence.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. And thou, O Sudga, shalt play war in Vind’yu, with the most, highest learned people
\nof the earth. For which purpose thou shalt have these, my high-raised generals and
\ncaptains: Asij, Gaeya, Naiswichi, Samen, Yube, Sol Mung-jo, Don, Hefa-yis-tie, Lowtha,
\nDaridrat, Udan, Brihat, Bogir, Eshong, Weel, Vanaiti, Plowya, Vazista, Kiro, Cpenista,
\nVisper, Cpenta-mainyus and Urvasta, and many others, most determined to rescue the
\nearth from the dominion of far-off Gods.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. De’yus continued: Go forth, ye Gods, and in majesty build your thrones; in great
\nsplendor ornament your high places, that even the magnificence shall be as a million
\npreachers’tongues proclaiming the heavens’well-chosen Gods. And as fast as mortals fall
\nin battle, gather the spirits of the dead into groups, not suffering them for pity’s sake
\nto lie in chaos, but bring them to your kingdoms in easy riding ships. And when
\nthus housed, apply your physicians and nurses diligently, to restore them to their senses
\nand new condition; and when they wake up in heavens, beholding the great glory of
\nyour thrones and kingdoms, initiate them by solemn rites and ceremonies to sworn
\nservitude to yourselves and to me, your Lord God, to inherit such bounteous kingdoms.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. And as ye shall thus despoil those of earth, to make them know my power and yours,
\nso shall ye pursue those newly-arrived in heaven, to make them swear solemnly against<\/span>
\nJehovih, the Great Spirit, the Ormazd, and against all other Gods; but if they stubbornly
\nrefuse, though in heaven, even as they did on earth, take them before my son, Anubi, who
\nshall further examine them; but if still they refuse, Anubi, with his strong guard and
\nbrands of fire, shall send them down in hell.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. I, the Lord God, have spoken; my commandments are gone forth in heaven and earth;
\nwhosoever praiseth and glorifieth me, with everlasting service for the exaltation and glory
\nof my kingdoms, shall enter into everlasting happiness; but whosoever will not bow down
\nto me shall be cast into everlasting torments.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weekday Sabbath Book of Wars Against Jehovih Chapter 17, Chapter 18 Chapter 17 1. God, in Craoshivi, bewailed heaven and earth. He said: Great Jehovih, how I have failed in Thy kingdom! Behold, Thou gavest into my keeping the earth and her heavens, and they have gone astray! 2. Jehovih said: Behold the plan of … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[46,40,39,34,36,35,38,33,41,31,32,47,50,48,44,45,43,42],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-lightofgod","4":"post-1304","6":"format-standard","7":"category-lectionary-readings","8":"post_tag-calendar","9":"post_tag-daily-readings","10":"post_tag-eloih","11":"post_tag-faithism","12":"post_tag-faithist-church","13":"post_tag-faithists","14":"post_tag-jehovih","15":"post_tag-kosmon-era","16":"post_tag-lectionary-readings","17":"post_tag-oahspe","18":"post_tag-oahspe-bible","19":"post_tag-observances","20":"post_tag-religion-of-light","21":"post_tag-sabbath","22":"post_tag-united-covenant","23":"post_tag-united-covenant-of-light","24":"post_tag-yeshua","25":"post_tag-yoshu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}