BAFANA BAFANA FOR THE NELSON MANDELA CHALLENGE BATTLE AGAINST NIGERIA(WEDNESDAY,14 AUGUST) AT THE MOSES MABHIDA STADIUM IN DURBAN , SOUTH AFRICA. “…All the king’s officials and the people of the royal provinces know that for any man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned the king has but one law: that he be put to death. The only exception to this is for the king to extend the GOLD scepter to him and spare his life. But thirty days have passed since I was called to go to the king.” When Esther’s words were reported to Mordecai, he sent back this answer: “Do not think that because you are in the king’s house you alone of all the Jews will escape. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this ?”(Esther 4:1- 14)(NIV). Oh LORD our Heavenly Father and King, “Endow the king with your justice, O God, the royal son with your righteousness. He will judge your people in righteousness, your afflicted ones with justice. The mountains will bring prosperity to the people, the hills the fruit of righteousness. He will defend the afflicted among the people and save the children of the needy; he will crush the oppressor. He will endure as long as the sun, as long as the moon, through all generations. He will be like rain falling on a mown FIELD, like showers watering the earth. In his days the righteous will flourish; prosperity will abound till the moon is no more. He will rule from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth…”(Psalm72:1- 20)(NIV). “Let the FIELDS be jubilant, and everything in them. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy; they will sing before the LORD, for he comes, he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the World in righteousness and the peoples in his truth”(Psalm 96:12 – 13)(NIV). OUR HEAVENLY FATHER HAS PROMISED HIS LOYAL STARS A PEACEFUL NEW WORLD UNITED KINGDOM WHERE WAR WILL NOT EXIST(ISA.2:1- 4). “…There is a River whose streams make glad the City of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day. Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts. The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah . Come and see the works of the LORD, the desolations he has brought on the earth. He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear, he burns the shields with fire. “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah”(Psalm 46:1- 11)(NIV). “The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to man. It is not the dead who PRAISE the LORD, those who go down to silence; it is we who extol the LORD, both now and forevermore. PRAISE the LORD”(Psalm 115:16 – 18)(NIV). “…In the time of those kings, the God of HEAVEN will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever”(Dan.2:40 – 44)(NIV). “At the time of the end the king of the South will engage him in BATTLE, and the king of the North will storm out against him with chariots and cavalry and a great fleet of ships. He will invade many countries and sweep through them like a flood. He will also invade the Beautiful Land. Many countries will fall, but EDOM, Moab and the leaders of Ammon will be delivered from his hand. He will extend his power over many countries; Egypt will not escape. He will gain control of the treasures of gold and silver and all the riches of Egypt, with the Libyans and Nubians in submission”(Dan.11:40 – 43)(NIV). “In that day I will restore David’s fallen tent. I will repair its broken places, restore its ruins, and build it as it used to be, so that they may possess the remnant of EDOM and all the nations that bear my name,” declares the LORD, who will do these things…”(Amos 9:11 – 15)(NIV). “Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion ! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem ! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation…” “Then the LORD will appear over them; his arrow will flash like lightning. The Sovereign LORD will sound the trumpet; he will march in the storms of the SOUTH, and the LORD Almighty will shield them. They will destroy and overcome with slingstones. They will drink and roar as with wine; they will be full like a bowl used for sprinkling the corners of the altar. The LORD their God will save them on that day as the flock of his people. They will sparkle in his land like jewels in a crown. How attractive and beautiful they will be ! Grain will make the young men thrive, and new wine the young women”(Zech.9:9 -17)(NIV). “Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights in the day of BATTLE. On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving SOUTH. You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. On that day there will be no light, no cold or frost. It will be a unique day, without daytime or nighttime – a day known to the LORD. When evening comes, there will be light. On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half to the eastern sea and half to the western sea, in summer and in winter. The LORD will be King over the whole earth. On that day there will be one LORD, and his name the only name. The whole land, from Geba to Rimmon, SOUTH of Jerusalem, will become like the Arabah. But Jerusalem will be raised up and remain in its place, from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses. It will be inhabited; never again will it be destroyed. Jerusalem will be secure”(Zech.14:3 – 11)(NIV). THE PERSON OF JESUS IS A SUPERSTAR NOW TO APPEAR BEFORE THE PERSON OF GOD THE FATHER(MAT.28:16 – 20). “As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, JESUS sent two disciples…” “The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David !” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord !” “Hosanna in the highest !” When JESUS entered Jerusalem, the whole City was stirred and asked, “Who is this ?” The crowds answered, “This is JESUS, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee”(Mat.21:1- 11)(NIV). “…He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.” Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. I am going to send you what my FATHER has promised; but stay in the City until you have been clothed with power from on high”(Luke 24:36 – 49)(NIV). “After JESUS said this, he looked toward HEAVEN and prayed: “FATHER, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal Life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal Life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. And now, FATHER, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the World began…”(John 17:1- 26)(NIV). “And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and FATHER – to him be glory and power forever and ever ! Amen…”(Rev.1:5 – 18)(NIV). “…The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: “The kingdom of the World has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever”(Rev.11:1- 15)(NIV). “…The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath. They were trampled in the winepress outside the City, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 STADIA”(Rev.14:6 – 20)(NIV).
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