{"id":1991,"date":"2020-12-29T22:35:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T22:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2020-12-29T22:35:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T22:35:50","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-wednesday-december-30th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/12\/29\/lectionary-readings-for-wednesday-december-30th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Wednesday, December 30th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Full Moon, Memorial Sabbath<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Book of Discipline Chapter 11<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">GOD SHOWETH THAT THE RENUNCIATION OF THE UZIANS IS NECESSARY.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">1. Hearken, O man, to the discourse of thy God upon the second resurrection in<br \/>\nheaven, and apply thou these principles to founding Jehovih&#8217;s kingdom on earth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">2. Many come to my holy place, saying: Hear me, O God, I am weary of the first<br \/>\nresurrection and of the earth. Open the gates of paradise unto thy servant.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">3. And I say unto them: Whoso will put aside all that is below, shall dwell in this heaven;<br \/>\nbut whoso cannot in heart, and mind, and soul renounce all that is below is not prepared<br \/>\nto enter.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">4. Hath not Jehovih said on earth: Husband and wife shall be the model and key of My<br \/>\nkingdom?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">5. As woman forsaketh father, mother, brother and sister and becometh one with her<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">husband, so do they of the first resurrection forsake all the earth and the lowest heaven in<br \/>\norder to become one with the kingdom of thy God.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">6. For, save the mind and heart be one with my holy place, the love of improvement will<br \/>\nalso depart out of that man&#8217;s soul.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">7. Isolation belongeth below the second resurrection, but unity is within it.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">8. He who hath disciplined himself to be honest in his own sight may be in error; he who<br \/>\nstriveth to do good on his own account may be in error as to an ultimate good; and in all<br \/>\ncases man alone is weak.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">9. Yet no man can practice the highest whilst living with those who are inclined<br \/>\ndownward.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">10. In the second resurrection the angels are relieved of individual responsibility, all<br \/>\nmatters being under the wisdom of the Holy Council, whose head is thy God.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">11. First on earth, monarchies, then republics, then fraternities, the latter of which is now<br \/>\nin embryo, and shall follow after both the others.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">12. Behold, how hard it is for an ignorant man to conceive of a state without a master, or<br \/>\nfor the people of a republic to understand a state without votes and majorities, and a chief<br \/>\nruler. Yet such shall be the fraternities.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">13. Have they not resolved their colleges into teachers and pupils? By their superior<br \/>\nknowledge do these heads receive their places, yet not as rulers, but teachers.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">14. Have they not resolved jurisprudence so that testimony governs the rulings?<br \/>\nAccording to evidence adduced and the knowledge of the judge, so shall he decide, and<br \/>\nnot according to his own volition.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">15. Out of the wisdom of the college and the court shalt thou discover the rules of<br \/>\nfraternity, and by relieve-watch preserve the brotherhood against caste and dictatorship.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">16. See to it then, in departing out of Uz, that thou take with thee only things that have<br \/>\nproved good, the rest leave behind.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">17. As Jehovih gave woman to man, and the twain became one in their aspiration, hope<br \/>\nand labor, and especially with reference to their offspring, so shall the members of the<br \/>\nfraternity be such as having renounced all the world, can become one with one another,<br \/>\nand especially for raising up the young to become the Father&#8217;s edifice on earth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">18. As the husband is the representative head of the family, yet he shall not tyrannize over<br \/>\nthem, nor by his rulings make himself a separate entity from the rest.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full Moon, Memorial Sabbath Book of Discipline Chapter 11 GOD SHOWETH THAT THE RENUNCIATION OF THE UZIANS IS NECESSARY. 1. Hearken, O man, to the discourse of thy God upon the second resurrection in heaven, and apply thou these principles to founding Jehovih&#8217;s kingdom on earth. 2. Many come to my holy place, saying: Hear &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/12\/29\/lectionary-readings-for-wednesday-december-30th-2020\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/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-1991","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\/1991","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=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1992,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}