{"id":903,"date":"2020-01-15T00:28:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T00:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=903"},"modified":"2020-01-15T09:59:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T09:59:56","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-wednesday-january-15th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/01\/15\/lectionary-readings-for-wednesday-january-15th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Wednesday, January 15th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Weekday Sabbath<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Book of Sethantes Chapter 21, Chapter 22<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Chapter 21<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">1. When the ceremonies were ended, Onesyi said: Soon, now, in the name of the Father<br \/>\nwill we rise and go a long journey; and that ye may be apprised and consorted in love, I<br \/>\nproclaim the freedom of the hour in Jehovih&#8217;s name.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">2. And the people went and mingled with each other, rejoicing and saluting. And Ha&#8217;jah<br \/>\nand God and Etisyai greeted one another, and the Lords came forward, and were also<br \/>\ngreeted; and then the marshals and the es&#8217;enaurs and all long-serving laborers. And lastly,<br \/>\nall that had redeemed any man or woman from darkness to light, came also, and were<br \/>\nsaluted and duly honored.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">3. And for the space of one hour all the angels indulged in revelry, reunion and fullness of<br \/>\nheart; but no book could relate the thousandth part of the questions asked and love<br \/>\nassurances expressed.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">4. When the hour was ended, Onesyi signaled the proper officer, and he sounded the<br \/>\ngavel thrice, whereupon all was hushed and still. Onesyi said:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">5. As Jehovih bestoweth a newborn child, so also doth He take the father and the mother<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">away to the es world. As Jehovih sent Etisyai, my sister, to establish the lower heaven, so<br \/>\nhave I come by His command to bear hence this harvest to His everlasting kingdom. As a<br \/>\nchild bewaileth the loss of its father and mother, so will ye that remain bewail the loss of<br \/>\nthis rich harvest of archangels.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">6. It is Jehovih&#8217;s will that ye drink deep of the sorrow of parting, for by this bondage will<br \/>\nye be again reunited in the heavens still above. The progress of the soul of man is forever<br \/>\nonward, and in steps and plateaux; and the glory of the resurrection of him that goeth<br \/>\nbefore is equally great as is the sorrow of him that remaineth behind. But the love that<br \/>\nbindeth together is as a chain outstretched across the universe; nor time nor distance shall<br \/>\nprevail against the inventions thereof.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">7. Swift messengers, well trained to course the vault of heaven, will pass between you,<br \/>\ncarrying the tidings of your soul&#8217;s delight. And as Jehovih giveth summer to follow<br \/>\nwinter, and the winter the summer, so also shall the time again and again, forever, in<br \/>\nwhich ye shall mingle and part; again labor together, but in broader fields, and again part<br \/>\nfor a season.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">8. Behold the wisdom of Jehovih in placing far apart the places of the souls of men; for<br \/>\nall things abiding near together equalize themselves. Even as there is glory in a new birth,<br \/>\nso is there glory in death; as there is sorrow in death, so is there joy in resurrection. The<br \/>\ntime is now come when these that ye see, ye shall not see for a long season; but ye shall<br \/>\nrejoice in this hour of parting, for they rise as Brides and Bridegrooms to Jehovih.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">9. The es&#8217;enaurs sang an anthem of praise in which all the hosts united, and great was the<br \/>\nglory thereof. And now Onesyi arose, saying:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">10. J<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">EHOVIH, <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">A<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">LMIGHTY AND <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">E<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">VERLASTING! <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">H<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">OLY, <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">H<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">OLY <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">C<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">REATOR, <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">R<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">ULER AND<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">G<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">IVER <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">F<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">ORTH<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">! L<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">OOK UPON THIS <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">T<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">HY SON, <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">H<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">A\u2019JAH<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">! O F<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">ATHER, IN <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">T<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">HY <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">N<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">AME AND BY<br \/>\nVIRTUE OF <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">T<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">HY <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">P<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">OWER IN ME VESTED, DO <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">I <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">PERPETRATE AND CROWN HIM <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">G<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">OD OF<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">H<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">EAVEN AND <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">E<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">ARTH<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">11. Ha&#8217;jah, now God, said: T<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">HY WILL BE DONE<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">, O J<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">EHOVIH<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">! Then Onesyi turned to the<br \/>\nfive chief Lords of the five divisions of the earth, and bestowed them in like manner.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">12. And Onesyi stretched forth her hand, saying: Give me a crown, O Jehovih, for<br \/>\nThy Son, God of heaven and earth! And there descended etherean substance into her<br \/>\nhand, and she raised it up, and lo, it became a crown of great beauty, and she put<br \/>\nin on God&#8217;s (Ha&#8217;jah&#8217;s) head. Then in like manner did she crown the Lords of the earth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">13. And Etisyai and Onesyi came down and sat at the foot of the throne.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">14. God (that had been Ha&#8217;jah) came down and Waga and Jud with him, and stretching<br \/>\nforth their hands, they said to Etisyai, Onesyi and Sethantes, the retiring God: Arise, O<br \/>\nGoddess\u2026.. Arise, O Goddess\u2026. Arise, O God\u2026. and go thy way!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">15. And they rose up and marched forth. The proper officers had already prepared the<br \/>\nship for its etherean journey; and soon as Etisyai and Onesyi had entered the central star,<br \/>\nall the people that were to ascend went into the places assigned to them.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">16. God (that had been Ha&#8217;jah) and the Lords returned, in tears, to the throne, and now the<br \/>\nplateau of everlasting light began to ascend. Music sprang from every side, glorifying<br \/>\nJehovih and the magnificence of His bountiful worlds.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">17. And those of the lower heaven were as the echo of the music above; and the light of<br \/>\nthe ascending ship of fire made all else as a shadow. But higher and higher it arose, in the<br \/>\nform of a crescent, slowly turning on its upright axis, turning and rising, higher and<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">higher, and the music faded away in the distance.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">18. In a little while the meteor-like ascending ship of heaven looked like a star, till farther<br \/>\nand farther off it disappeared in the distance.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">19. Thus ascended to the emancipated heavens in etherea the first harvest of angels born<br \/>\nof the earth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">CHAPTER XXII.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">1. God said: Arise, O Lords of my realm, and go to the kingdoms of earth, which ye<br \/>\nreceived from Jehovih&#8217;s hand; and may His wisdom, love and power be with you all!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">2. And the Lords departed, they and their attendants, and went to their kingdoms over<br \/>\nmortals.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">3. And this was the beginning of the second dispensation of the first cycle of the Eoptian<br \/>\nage of the earth. And the lower heaven was well established in habitations, angels and<br \/>\nofficers, and in all the requisites for the upraised souls of mortals.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">4. And God dispensed laws and government after the manner of his predecessor,<br \/>\nenlarging all the places according to the increase in the number of spirits rising up from<br \/>\nthe earth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">5. And the voice of Jehovih was with God; and as the first kingdom had been called<br \/>\nHored, so was the second called Hored, signifying the place of God.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">6. And as it had been with the Lords of the earth in their places, so continued it with the<br \/>\nnew Lords, and they enlarged their places also, even according to the increase in the<br \/>\nnumber of inhabitants of the earth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">7. And as it had been of old, that messengers went constantly from Hored to the Lords&#8217;<br \/>\nplaces, so did they also continue to do; and by this means all the affairs of the lower<br \/>\nheaven were kept in harmony, Lords and God.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">8. And God ruled in Hored four hundred years, and Hored spread over all the lands of the<br \/>\nearth.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekday Sabbath Book of Sethantes Chapter 21, Chapter 22 Chapter 21 1. When the ceremonies were ended, Onesyi said: Soon, now, in the name of the Father will we rise and go a long journey; and that ye may be apprised and consorted in love, I proclaim the freedom of the hour in Jehovih&#8217;s name. &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/01\/15\/lectionary-readings-for-wednesday-january-15th-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-903","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\/903","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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}