Bethlehem Ephratah and He Wasn't Drunk

By S J Brown

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 16, 2009
• ISBN: 9781477168028

S J Brown

S. J. Brown was born and raised in Birmingham City, England in the UK. From a very young age she always had a thirst for reading books. After having to make necessary adjustments to her life, she decided to fulfil her time doing what she enjoyed the most and with that came the decision to have a go at releasing her first ever novel, Secret Lives.

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Bethlehem Ephratah and But He Wasn’t Drunk

S.J. Brown

Copyright © 2009 by S.J. Brown.

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Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1      Israel, The Prince With God

Chapter 2      Judah (Praise)

Chapter 3      Rahab, The Harlot

Chapter 4      Ruth, The Friend

Chapter 5      David, The King

Chapter 6      Adam, The First Man Made a Living Soul

Chapter 7      Jesus, The Last Adam a Quickening Spirit

But He Wasn’t Drunk

Scripture Reference

Introduction

Chapter 1      The Man

Chapter 2      The Women

Chapter 3      The Encounter

Chapter 4      Blessings Untold

Chapter 5      Obedience is Better than Sacrifice

Chapter 6      Deliverance is Sure

Chapter 7      Conclusion

References

Author Biography

Foreword

There are changing being made every day. Some changes are good, some changes seem to make thing worse and some changes seem not to be a change at all because everything seems to remain the same. The information contained in the two short treatises introduced this book are things in life that never change and the focal theme is that even though the Word of God never changes by accepting it you change have a change in your life here on earth that will last you throughout eternity.

I wrote these treatises because I had been called to the ministry and I was in prayer asking the Lord Jesus which direction that He wanted to take the ministry that He was introducing me to and the thought came to me that even though I was not currently doing a pulpit ministry that I could write and share my thoughts as to the things that Jesus had given me and that the writing of these papers would encourage and help others to know who Jesus was, what He did, and what He is currently doing. The way to Salvation is so plain we make it complicated and all takes in faith and trust in God’s Word by following the plan of Salvation as sit down in the book of Acts and other books after the establishment of the New Testament after the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Isaiah makes it very plain in 35:1-10 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God. Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there: And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

May we be willing to accept the sacrifice that was made by Jesus and the applying of his blood by being baptized in water in His name and being filled full of the Holy Spirit of God by speaking in another tongue as the Spirit of God gives the utterance.

The new birth isn’t hard. You didn’t determine who your original parents were or the date of your birth only Jesus can determine the original birth as well as the Spiritual transformation. Surrender to Him and become like the Apostle Paul by becoming blind to yourself so that you can receive the True and Living Light which will give you eternal sight.

But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. Micah 5:2 KJV

Introduction

We all live on a street, road, drive, etc., in a city, in a state, in a country. No matter where the location is in the world there is identifying information to help us go back and forth to our residence, to have others visit us, or to have deliveries made. No matter where it is, we identify with the location as a place of residence or home. We share these places with family, friends, loved ones, and even at times with enemies. But regardless of the location, we chose this location or someone chose it for us because we reside alone or with others in this place in which we abide.

Chapter 1

Israel, The Prince With God

Before the foundation of the world a Baby was chosen to be born in a town that did not exist, in a country that had not been established, and what is more important even before mankind sinned in a Garden that is called Eden, this Baby’s birth was known in the Heavenly achieves and that this Baby, whose name was predetermined and proclaimed by Angels at His birth, was and is God Himself. The amazing thing about this is that this world as we know it is not as the world that was originally created. In 2 Peter 3:4-7 it states And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. The former world was baptized in water by being covered over and under, thereby cleaning the world from the stain of sin, which mankind had performed; doing those things which were right in their own eyes and only eight souls where saved, that was Noah and his family, because he gained or secured favor and acceptance in the sight of the Lord (Genesis 6:8; 7:7).

The Baby’s parents were not born, his forefathers did not exist, there was no form of mankind existing anywhere throughout the universe, yet this Baby, who would be born in a stable, laid in a manger, in a town called Bethlehem Ephratah, in a city of Judah in a country called Israel preexisted before the foundation of the world. Bethlehem, which means the house of bread or