{"id":2410,"date":"2021-05-10T12:07:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T12:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=2410"},"modified":"2021-05-10T12:07:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T12:07:52","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-monday-may-10th-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2021\/05\/10\/lectionary-readings-for-monday-may-10th-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Monday, May 10th, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Weekday Sabbath<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Book of Judgement Chapter 9<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">1. Remember thy Creator and the magnitude of his creations. Before Him thou art but an<br \/>\natom, and as only one small creature.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">2. Nevertheless, a multitude of people make a nation, with cities and hamlets.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">3. These are also graded by thy God, according to the ascendancy or the declension of the<br \/>\nwhole.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">4. If a city, then the grades of all the people shall be summed together in a scale of one<br \/>\nhundred.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">5. And if a nation, then the grades of the cities and hamlets, and of people of isolation,<br \/>\nshall be summed together in a scale of a hundred.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">6. And if half the people are above grade fifty, and half below fifty, the grade of that<br \/>\npeople shall be fifty.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">7. If one quarter only, then the grade of that people shall be twenty-five.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">8. On the basis of individual grades, shall be the grades of a city and of a nation.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">9. And the behavior of a city or a nation shall be graded in the same way, after the manner<br \/>\nof an individual.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">10. A certain nation built alms-houses and asylums sufficient for the needy, and, by its<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">tyranny, made an equal number of needy ones. That nation raised not its grade for the<br \/>\ngood it had done.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">11. Another nation built no alms-houses, but, by its wholesome laws, there were none<br \/>\nneeded. That nation raised its grade many-fold.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">12. And yet another nation maintained a standing army, in order to maintain itself. That<br \/>\nnation stood in grade one only.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">13. The place of this last nation, in entrance into the es world, shall be grade one, which is<br \/>\nthe animal region, which is on the earth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">14. Whoso dwelleth in such a land, though he have a good individual grade, shall suffer<br \/>\ndeduction in the ratio of the grades of different nations of the earth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">15. But whoso dwelleth in a nation, high in grade, shall be ascended in his own individual<br \/>\ngrade.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">16. As these grades are on earth, so have I made them in the heavens thereof. In all cases<br \/>\ndepending on what one doeth for the resurrection of others.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">17. If a city, or nation, or a kingdom in heaven do unto others in resurrection, then shall<br \/>\nthat nation be graded accordingly.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">18. But, if there be no gain in the good than any of these do, they shall receive no grade.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">19. But, if they increase in raising individual grade, then are such cities and nations rising<br \/>\nin grade.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">20. Consider thy nation, O man, one generation with another; and as the relative<br \/>\nproportion of individual grades rise or fall, so shalt thou determine whether thy nation is<br \/>\nascending or falling in grade. Number its paupers and criminals as to increase or decrease.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">21. Consider not its wealth, nor its ships, nor its armies, nor its great buildings. These all<br \/>\ntogether are only one grade, and are of no value as to the spiritual grade of its people.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">22. For the strength and life of thy nation depend on its spiritual grade. Pursue this,<br \/>\nand thou shalt prophesy truly as to the growth or the downfall of a nation.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">23. Pursue this also with regard to the nations of the earth, and thou shalt determine the<br \/>\nrelative place of thine own nation in the es world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekday Sabbath Book of Judgement Chapter 9 1. Remember thy Creator and the magnitude of his creations. Before Him thou art but an atom, and as only one small creature. 2. Nevertheless, a multitude of people make a nation, with cities and hamlets. 3. These are also graded by thy God, according to the ascendancy &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2021\/05\/10\/lectionary-readings-for-monday-may-10th-2021\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-2410","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\/2410","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=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}