If ‘The Past Is Not Finished With You’ Know This. . .

“Look!

All of them are a delusion.
Their works are nothing.

Their metal images are wind and unreality.” Isa. 41:29.

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““Present your case,”
says Jehovah.

“Produce your arguments,””
““Produce evidence

and tell us the things that will happen.

Do tell us about the former things,
So that we may reflect on them

and know their outcome.

Or declare to us the things that are coming.
Tell us what will happen in the future,

So that we may know that you are gods.

Yes, do something,
good or bad,

So that we may be amazed
when we see it.

Look!

You are something nonexistent,
And your achievement is nothing.

Anyone who chooses you is detestable.” Isa. 41:21-24.

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“Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field,
they cannot speak;

They have to be carried,
for they cannot walk.

Do not fear them,
for they can do no harm,

Nor can they do any good.”” Jer. 10:5.

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Yet, my people: “”They challenged me,
though they had seen my works.”

Ten plagues. A parted sea–Red.

“For 40 years
I felt a loathing toward that generation,

and I said:

“They are a people who always go astray
in their hearts;

They have not come to know my ways.”
So I swore in my anger:

“They will not enter into my rest.”” Ps. 95:9-11.

Even today.
Promised to those
who constantly put Him to the test.

Isaiah did say to a people gone astray:

““The former things I told you long ago.
From my own mouth they went out,

And I made them known.

Suddenly I took action,
and they came about.

Because I knew how stubborn you are
—That your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead is copper—

I told you long ago.
Before it came about, I caused you to hear it,
So that you could not say,

‘My idol did this;
My carved image and my metal image commanded this.’

You have heard and seen all of this.

Will you not declare it?

From now on I am announcing new things to you,

Guarded secrets
that you have not known.

Only now are they being created,
and not long ago,” these prophesies
as a light brighter shown:

“Things that you never heard before today,
So that you cannot say,

‘Look! I already know them.’”

“For look!
I am creating new heavens
and a new earth;

And the former things
will not be called to mind,

Nor will they come up into the heart.” Isa. 65:17.

“And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes,

and death will be no more,
neither will mourning nor outcry
nor pain be anymore.

The former things have passed away.”” Rev. 21:4.

“Look!
I am doing something new;

Even now it is springing up.

Do you not recognize it?

I will make a way through the wilderness
And rivers through the desert.” Isa. 43:19.

“I will make rivers flow on the bare hills
And springs in the valley plains.

I will turn the wilderness into a reedy pool of water
And the waterless land into springs of water.” Isa. 41:18.

“This is what Jehovah says,”

““I, Jehovah, am your God,
The One teaching you to benefit

yourself,

The One guiding you in the way
you should walk.

If only you would pay attention to my commandments!
Then your peace would become just like a river

And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.”

“There is no peace,”
says Jehovah,

“for the wicked.”” Isa. 48:17, 18, 22.

Flee a treacherous past!
Make it a profitable… fading memory.

Then promised
forever you can stay:

“The righteous will possess the earth,
And they will live forever on it.” Ps. 37:29.

You can prepare now for the better world soon to come The Paradise New World That Is Near!
https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/watchtower-no2-2021-may-jun/new-world-paradise/

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