<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rdf:RDF xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><channel rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/BlogRss.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898"><title>Some thoughts on Scripture - Blogit</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/</link><description>Brief exposition of thought in regard to a scripture verse or passage I read.</description><sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod><sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency><sy:updateBase>2000-01-01T12:00+00:00</sy:updateBase><items><rdf:Seq><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740435" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740387" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740349" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740288" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740238" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740193" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740141" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740087" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740037" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/739141" /></rdf:Seq></items></channel><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740435"><title>The Responsibility Is To Bring The Message</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740435</link><description>Ezekiel 18-19--"When I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740387"><title>Digesting What God Reveals</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740387</link><description>Ezekiel 2:8--"But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you." What God wants first from Ezekiel is that his heart will be open to Him. In other words, He wants Ezekiel's undivided attention while He reveals...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740349"><title>God's Omnipotence, Omnipresence, And Supreme Vision</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740349</link><description>Ezekiel 1:10, 16-18--"As for the likeness of their faces, each had the face of a man; each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, each of the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and each of the four had the face of an eagle.... The appearance of the wheels and their...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740288"><title>Joy That Ceases</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740288</link><description>Lamentations 5:15--"The joy of our heart has ceased; Our dance has turned into mourning." In other places in scripture, particularly in Psalms, the joy of the heart comes following a period or mourning and sorrow. In Psalm 30:5, weeping is described as persisting until the morning, when joy...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740238"><title>Greater Accountabilty For Authority Representatives</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740238</link><description>Lamentations 4:13--"Because of the sins of her prophets And the iniquities of her priests, Who shed in her midst The blood of the just." It states in other places in scripture that teachers have a greater accountability. I see prophets and priests in much the same mode. If their teachings or...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740193"><title>The Lord's Daily Mercies</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740193</link><description>Lamentations 3:22-23--"Through the L ORD 's mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. " In one's walk with the Lord, the way is not always merry and jolly. We go through hardships. The darkness of the world and the devil...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740141"><title>Uprooting</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740141</link><description>Lamentations 2:6-7--"He has done violence to His tabernacle, As if it were a garden; He has destroyed His place o fassembly; The L ORD has caused The appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion. In His burning indignation He has spurned the king and the priest. The L ORD has spurned His...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740087"><title>Contrition</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740087</link><description>Lamentations 1:13-14--"From above He has sent fire into my bones, And it overpowered them; He has spread a net for my feet And turned me back; He has made me desolate And faint all the day. The yoke of my transgression was bound; They were worven together by His hands, And thrust upon my neck. He...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740037"><title>The Last Straw</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/740037</link><description>Jeremiah 52:2-3a--"He [Zedekiah] also did evil in the sight of the L ORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. For because of the anger of the L ORD this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, till He finally cast them out of His presence..." The long-suffering and patience of the Lord is amazing...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/739141"><title>Babylon And Egypt: Carnality</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/739141</link><description>Jeremiah 51:53--" 'Though Bablyon were to mount up to heaven, And though she were to fortify the height of her strength, Yet from Me plunderers would come to her,' says the L ORD." Numbers 11:18--" 'Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.' " Revelation 17:5--"And on her...</description></item></rdf:RDF>