To Adam he said, As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. “Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children. Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned. “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. As King he LORD is sits enthroned and forever over the flood. He increases His people strength and gives the strength of the weak. He gives power to the faint enthroned for even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall. / The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him and whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.” So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!” Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the number of worshipers there. But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months. And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These witnesses are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near. The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life. He blesses His people those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength with the peace they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
Revelation 1:3
Isaiah 30:20-22
John 10:9
Proverbs 27:17
Revelation 11:1-4
Romans 5:12
Hosea 4:6
Genesis 3:17
Isaiah 40:29-31
Psalms 29:10,11
John 6:63
