Blessed in the reading…

 Blessed….

I remember years and eons ago when I first read the Book of Revelations….verse 3 caught me…I would be blessed if I read these words aloud…so I did…

I have read this book many times, studied in church, Bible studies …I still do not understand it all, the imagery, all the pictures, etc…but, God wins…He is victorious…and that settles it for me…and reading aloud fills my senses with praise…and I am blessed…

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.

Rev.1.3

Blessed…..

religion : to hallow or consecrate by religious rite or word

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religion : to hallow with the sign of the cross

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: to invoke divine care for

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a

: PRAISE, GLORIFY

bless his holy name

b

: to speak well of : APPROVE

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: to confer prosperity or happiness upon, Merriam Webster…

When you look back through the Word, there are several times that it is read publicly…it causes conviction, praise, celebration, awe…

We still read it aloud in church and it still has those responses…it is living, convicting, praise worthy… 

Just imagine what is was like whenJesus read the Word in the Synagogue…He, who had been there from the beginning, who was the Word…reading out of the sacred scrolls about Himself…would our hearts burned with recognition, or rejection…and we still have the choice now, accept and believe, take heart….or reject and walk away……

 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,because he has anointed meto proclaim good news to the poor.He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisonersand recovery of sight for the blind,to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” 

Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. 

He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

Luke.4.16-21

 all the people came together as one in the square before the Water Gate. They told Ezra the teacher of the Law to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded for Israel. 

So on the first day of the seventh month Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, which was made up of men and women and all who were able to understand. He read it aloud from daybreak till noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate in the presence of the men, women and others who could understand. 

And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law. Ezra opened the book. 

All the people could see him because he was standing above them; and as he opened it, the people all stood up. Ezra praised the Lord, the great God; and all the people lifted their hands and responded, “Amen! Amen!” 

Then they bowed down and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground. 

Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. 

They celebrated the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day, in accordance with the regulation, there was an assembly.

Neh.8.1-3,Neh.8.5-6,Neh.8.18

 This is the message Jeremiah the prophet gave to the staff officer Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with Zedekiah king of Judah in the fourth year of his reign. Jeremiah had written on a scroll about all the disasters that would come upon Babylon—all that had been recorded concerning Babylon. He said to Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud. Then say, ‘Lord, you have said you will destroy this place, so that neither people nor animals will live in it; it will be desolate forever.’ When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the Euphrates. Then say, ‘So will Babylon sink to rise no more because of the disaster I will bring on her. And her people will fall.’”The words of Jeremiah end here.

Jer.51:59-64

Again…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.

Rev.1.3

The praise is Yours….

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