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Salvation Through BORN AGAIN ming in and going out. 16 Can anyone do anything ei- ther in the sky or the seas or on the earth by hiding from My ey- es? I am the One who answers the prayers. Am I not the One who gives answers to the que- stions? 17 President, I, Myself, God, the consuming fire, yet speaks with you from My glorious throne and My angels. Listen to My words. 18 Your walls are always before Me. My words are with full of life and gives you the power. It will show a way to life for those who get it. 19 The idols of the nations are silver and gold made by the hands of men. 20 They have mouths but can’t speak; they have eyes but can’t see; they have ears but cannot hear, nor is there talk in their mo- uths.They have noses but cannot smell, they have hands but can- not handled, nor cannot walk. 21 Those who make them will be like them and so will all who trust in them. There is no breath in their nostrils. All those who do them and trust in them will be 220 The Salvation Is The GIFT Of GOD equal to them. 22 Therefore, with whom do you compare Me, God, the consum- ing fire? What form or appeara- nce can you make equal to Me? 23 The designer makes the form or appearance by looking at the idol. The goldsmith pours the Gold around the form and puts the silver chains. 24 The poor candidate,who can’t offer the costly things, makes a tree,which is not deca- yed as idol. Call the skillful man to establish the unshakable idol. 25 All those who make idols and all those who worship them will be in deception. The idols are useless. 26 They are the witnesses for that. On that Day, they will be ashamed because they can’t understand and know it. 27 II All those who make usele- ss idols and exhibit them as gods will be thrown definitely in hell. 28 Behold, all those who wor- ship them will be ashamed. Tho- se designers are like the water bubble. 29 Verily, they will be destroyed. On that Day, thy all will be gathered before My white throne Salvation Through BORN AGAIN judgment for eternal judgment” - this is the Word of God, the con- suming fire CHAPTER 110 GOD, the consuming fire, speaks yet. That is – “Blacksmith sharpens the axe and works with the burning coals. He will make a form by using the hammer. He will make it by his strength. 2 When he feels hungry, his stre- ngth is deteriorated. He will be- come weak without drinking water. The carpenter measures with a line and makes an outline with chisels and marks it with compasses. 3 They will make the beautiful human forms so that it may be installed in one place. 4 He hews down cedars for him- self, and takes the cypress and the oak; he secures it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a pine and the rain nouris- hes it. 5 Then it shall be for a man to burn, for he will take some of it and warm himself, yes, he kin- dles it and bakes bread, indeed he makes a god and worships it, he makes it a carved image, and falls down to it. 221 The Salvation Is The GIFT Of GOD 6 He burns half of it in the fire, with this half he eats meat, and he roasts a roast,and is satis- fied.He even warms himself and says, oh! I am warm, I have seen the fire. 7And the rest of it he makes into a god, his carved image. He falls down before it and worships it, prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god.” 8 They do not know nor under- stand, for He has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand. 9And no one considers in his heart, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned half of it in the fire,yes, I have also baked bread on its coals, I have roasted meat and eaten it, and shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?” 10-11 No one thinks. I burnt half of the wood in fire. I made breads by its fire. I cooked meat by it and ate nicely. But no one thin- ks did I make a god with the remaining half of the wood? Do I worship the wood? No one has the wisdom and