I accidentally stumbled across a handful of scriptures the other night (most of them in Hebrews) that I realized must be used in my story. I am pretty sure the majority of these will show up in "As Angels Fall" but several might make it into "Silver Shadow" first. We'll see. This is exciting me a lot right now. I can't wait to write this stuff! And feel free to ask questions about the context of any of these verses, because I would love to give you the rundown on how they are going to be used in The Awakened.
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"My eyes fail, looking for my God." -Psalm 69:3
"How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of Grace?" -Hebrews 10:29
"It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God." -Hebrews 10:31
"Others were chained and put in prison. They were stoned; they were sawed in two; they were put to death by the sword. They went about...persecuted, destitute and mistreated. The world was not worthy of them." -Hebrews 11:36-38
"Without holiness, no one will see the Lord." -Hebrews 12:14
"You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire, to darkness, gloom and storm; to a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words that those who hear it begged that no further word be spoken to them because they could not bear what was commanded...But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the Living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks better than the blood of Abel." -Hebrews 12:18-24
There is also a reference to "the Day" (Hebrews 10:25) and "the ancients" (Hebrews 11:2) which I am going to heavily use in book four, and especially in the successive series to The Awakened Chronicles. Trust me when I say THAT is going to get fun.
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"My eyes fail, looking for my God." -Psalm 69:3
"How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of Grace?" -Hebrews 10:29
"It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God." -Hebrews 10:31
"Others were chained and put in prison. They were stoned; they were sawed in two; they were put to death by the sword. They went about...persecuted, destitute and mistreated. The world was not worthy of them." -Hebrews 11:36-38
"Without holiness, no one will see the Lord." -Hebrews 12:14
"You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire, to darkness, gloom and storm; to a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words that those who hear it begged that no further word be spoken to them because they could not bear what was commanded...But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the Living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks better than the blood of Abel." -Hebrews 12:18-24
There is also a reference to "the Day" (Hebrews 10:25) and "the ancients" (Hebrews 11:2) which I am going to heavily use in book four, and especially in the successive series to The Awakened Chronicles. Trust me when I say THAT is going to get fun.
