Filament Ezekiel.Pdf

Welcome! Thank you for joining me on this journey into exploring God’s Word more fully using the Filament Bible and app. On the following pages, you’ll see some of my favorite verses that you can use to go deeper in your experience with the Bible using Filament. So grab your phone or tablet and follow the instructions below to get started. —Phylicia 1 2 3 4 Get the App Print or View Scan a Page Explore Search “Filament Bible” Print out these pages The app will walk you Check out all that in the App Store or or pull them up on through how this works Filament has to offer, Google Play. your computer. using the sample pages including study resources, in this booklet. interactive maps, videos, devotionals, and more. LuK E 1 LuKE 1 19 41 Then the angel said, “I am Ga bri el! I stand in the very presence of Eliz a beth. At the sound of Mary’s greeting, Eliz a beth’s child leaped 20 God. It was he who sent me to bring you this good news! But now, within her, and Eliz a beth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 since you didn’t believe what I said, you will be silent and unable to Eliza beth gave a glad cry and exclaimed to Mary, “God has blessed 43 speak until the child is born. For my words will certainly be fulfilled you above all women, and your child is blessed. Why am I so hon‑ 44 at the proper time.” ored, that the mother of my Lord should visit me? When I heard 21 45 Meanwhile, the people were waiting for Zech a ri ah to come out your greeting, the baby in my womb jumped for joy. You are blessed START 22 of the sanctuary, wondering why he was taking so long. When he because you believed that the Lord would do what he said.” HERE finally did come out, he couldn’t speak to them. Then they realized Unlock the from his gestures and his silence that he must have seen a vision in The Magnificat: Mary’s Song of Praise 46 Filament app the sanctuary. Mary responded, by scanning 23 When Zech a ri ah’s week of service in the Temple was over, he page number 24 returned home. Soon afterward his wife, Eliz a beth, became preg “Oh, how my soul praises the Lord. 1654 below. 25 47 nant and went into seclusion for five months. “How kind the Lord How my spirit rejoices in God my Savior! is!” she exclaimed. “He has taken away my disgrace of having no 48 For he took notice of his lowly servant girl, children.” and from now on all generations will call me blessed. 49 The Birth of Jesus Foretold For the Mighty One is holy, 26 In the sixth month of Eliz a beth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Ga and he has done great things for me. 27 50 bri el to Naz a reth, a village in Gali lee, to a virgin named Mary. She He shows mercy from generation to generation was engaged to be married to a man named Jo seph, a descendant of to all who fear him. 28 51 King Da vid. Ga bri el appeared to her and said, “Greetings,* favored His mighty arm has done tremendous things! 1654 woman! The Lord is with you!*” He has scattered the proud and haughty ones. 1655 29 52 Confused and disturbed, Mary tried to think what the angel He has brought down princes from their thrones 30 could mean. “Don’t be afraid, Mary,” the angel told her, “for you and exalted the humble. 31 53 have found favor with God! You will conceive and give birth to a He has filled the hungry with good things 32 son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be very great and will and sent the rich away with empty hands. be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the 54 He has helped his servant Israel 33 throne of his ancestor Da vid. And he will reign over Is ra el* forever; and remembered to be merciful. 55 his Kingdom will never end!” For he made this promise to our ancestors, 34 Mary asked the angel, “But how can this happen? I am a virgin.” to Abraham and his children forever.” 35 The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the 56 power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the baby to be born Mary stayed with Eliza beth about three months and then went 36 will be holy, and he will be called the Son of God. What’s more, your back to her own home. relative Eliza beth has become pregnant in her old age! People used to say she was barren, but she has conceived a son and is now in her sixth The Birth of John the Baptist 37 57 month. For the word of God will never fail.*” When it was time for Eliz a beth’s baby to be born, she gave birth to a 38 58 Mary responded, “I am the Lord’s servant. May every thing you son. And when her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had have said about me come true.” And then the angel left her. been very merciful to her, every one rejoiced with her. 59 When the baby was eight days old, they all came for the circumci‑ Mary Visits Elizabeth sion ceremony. They wanted to name him Zech a ri ah, after his father. 39 60 A few days later Mary hurried to the hill country of Ju dea, to the But Eliz a beth said, “No! His name is John!” 40 61 town where Zech a ri ah lived. She entered the house and greeted “What?” they exclaimed. “There is no one in all your fam i ly by 62 that name.” So they used gestures to ask the baby’s father what 1:28a Or Rejoice. 1:28b Some manuscripts add Blessed are you among women. 1:33 Greek over 63 the house of Jacob. 1:37 Some manuscripts read For nothing is impossible with God. he wanted to name him. He motioned for a writing tablet, and to 42_Luke_Filament_NLT.indd 1654 6/6/2018 3:09:30 PMFilament_NLT.indb 1655 5/25/2018 8:58:32 AM EzEKIEL 37 EzEKIEL 37 28 9 “And you will live in Is ra el, the land I gave your ancestors long Then he said to me, “Speak a prophetic message to the winds, son 29 ago. You will be my people, and I will be your God. I will cleanse of man. Speak a prophetic message and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign you of your filthy behavior. I will give you good crops of grain, and I Lord says: Come, O breath, from the four winds! Breathe into these 30 will send no more famines on the land. I will give you great harvests dead bodies so they may live again.’ ” 10 from your fruit trees and fields, and never again will the surrounding So I spoke the message as he commanded me, and breath came 31 nations be able to scoff at your land for its famines. Then you will into their bodies. They all came to life and stood up on their feet— a remember your past sins and despise yourselves for all the detestable great army. 32 11 things you did. But remember, says the Sovereign Lord, I am not Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones represent the people doing this because you deserve it. O my people of Is ra el, you should of Is ra el. They are saying, ‘We have become old, dry bones— all hope 12 be utterly ashamed of all you have done! is gone. Our nation is finished.’ Therefore, prophesy to them and 33 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I cleanse you from say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: O my people, I will open your sins, I will repopulate your cities, and the ruins will be rebuilt. your graves of exile and cause you to rise again. Then I will bring you 34 13 The fields that used to lie empty and desolate in plain view of every- back to the land of Isra el. When this happens, O my people, you will 35 14 one will again be farmed. And when I bring you back, people will know that I am the Lord. I will put my Spirit in you, and you will say, ‘This former wasteland is now like the Garden of Eden! The aban- live again and return home to your own land. Then you will know doned and ruined cities now have strong walls and are filled with that I, the Lord, have spoken, and I have done what I said. Yes, the 36 people!’ Then the surrounding nations that survive will know that Lord has spoken!’ ” I, the Lord, have rebuilt the ruins and replanted the wasteland. For I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do what I say. Reunion of Israel and Judah 37 15 16 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am ready to hear Is ra el’s Again a message came to me from the Lord: “Son of man, take a 38 prayers and to increase their numbers like a flock.

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