Apostolic Preachers

EZRA 9:1-9). Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass. And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonished. Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonished until the evening sacrifice. Ezra's Prayer of Confession. And at the even

Blessed is the Nation whose God is the Lord (Ps 33:12) A nation that honours the one true God will be the head and not the tail, (Deut 28:13) Above and not below. Lenders to many and not borrowers from all. The people are blessed and so are its sons and daughters after then. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Similarly cursed is the nation that seeks after foreign gods. A nation looses its prosperity and power when it serves other god's but gains prosperity when it serves the true God. They have moved me to anger by their foolish idols (Deut 32:21). .. I will set on fire the foundations of the mountains (v22NKJV) There shall be terror within (v25)...it is the LORD who has done all this (v27). 1.The Nation whose God is the Lord is protected by the Lord (Deut 33:10-12). The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated ( Deut 28:7). The Lord your God will set you on high above all nations of the earth (Deut28:1). 2.A nation that abandons God expos

I've started ready a book "Prophetc lifestyle and the Celtic way" Andy and Jane Fitzgibbon. I live in Wales and keen on history. This book provoked interest, onthe prophetic lifestyle of the celts. Here are my own thoughts on on the "snippets of history" chapter. There are two groups of interest to me maybe we can learn a few simple thigns about these movements God used in their day and time The Anabapatists . They were a  People on the fringe as they say. They valued religious freedom, the seperation of church from state.  The idea of the church as a gathering of believers who were free to unite together as they will. to read the bible without a priest or pastor. They believed in the inspiration of God's word, the bible and did not seek after extra biblical revelation as some think.  The Anabaptists were quick to confirm that the immediate revelation was never in contradiction to the written revelation. The two belonged together. It was sometimes referr