CROSS BOW

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2. SCRIPTURE READING • Rev 6:1  And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.  • Rev 6:2  And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. 

3. SCRIPTURE READING

4. MAN OF WAR • What do you think of when I say, “Man of War?” • What comes to your mind’s eye? • Describe this “Man of War”.

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7. The “Man of War” – Character. • Exo 15:3  The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name. 

8. The “Man of War” – Character. • Isa 59:16  And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.  • Isa 59:17  For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke. 

9. The “Man of War” – Character.

10. The “Man of War” – Character.

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12. The “Man of War” – Character. • Isa 42:13  The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. • Isa 42:14  I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. • Isa 42:15  I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. • Isa 42:16  And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

13. The “Man of War” – Character. • Rev 6:1  And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. • Rev 6:2  And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. 

14. The “Man of War” – Character. • Rev 19:11  And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. • Rev 19:12  His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. • Rev 19:13  And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

15. The “Man of War” – Character. • Rev 19:14  And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. • Rev 19:15  And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. • Rev 19:16  And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

16. The “Man of War” – Character. • Psa 45:3  Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. • Psa 45:4  And in thy majesty ride prosperouslybecause of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. • Psa 45:5  Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. • Psa 45:6  Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. • Psa 45:7  Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

17. What does the rider in Revelation 6:1-2 have in his hand? • a Bow

18. What does the rider in Revelation 6:1-2 have in his hand?

19. Let’s look at a “bow” in scripture. • Jer 9:3  And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. 

20. Let’s look at a “bow” in scripture. • Zec 9:9  Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. • Zec 9:10  And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth. • Zec9:11  As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

21. Let’s look at a “bow” in scripture. • Zec9:12  Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; • Zec 9:13  When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man. • Zec 9:14  And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.

22. Let’s look at a “bow” in scripture. • Zec9:15  The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar. • Zec 9:16  And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land. • Zec 9:17  For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.

23. Let’s look at a “bow” in scripture. • Hab 3:9  Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. • Hab 3:10  The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high. • Hab 3:11  The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

24. Let’s look at a “bow” in scripture. • Job 29:20  My glorywas fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. 

25. Let’s look at a “bow” in scripture. • Lam 3:12  He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. • Lam 3:13  He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. 

26. What is God’s Bow?What is it made of? • Let’ take a look.

27. God’s Bow is – LIGHT! • Gen 9:8  And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,  • Gen 9:9  And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; • Gen 9:10  And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. • Gen 9:11  And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

28. God’s Bow is – LIGHT! • Gen 9:12  And God said, This isthe token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: • Gen 9:13  I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. • Gen 9:14  And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

29. God’s Bow is – LIGHT! • Gen 9:15  And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. • Gen 9:16  And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. • Gen 9:17  And God said unto Noah, This isthe token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

30. God’s Bow is – LIGHT! • Eze 1:22  And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above. • Eze1:23  And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies. • Eze1:24  And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings. • Eze1:25  And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings. 

31. God’s Bow is – LIGHT! • Eze1:26  And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.  • Eze1:27  And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.  • Eze1:28  As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake. 

32. God’s Bow is – LIGHT!

33. What are the parts of the Bow? • Let’s take a look.

34. What is the part that is pulled? • The String

35. What is the part that is pulled?

36. The “Stringed” Bow • Did you know that our voice is both a wind and “stringed” instrument? • It is both “pipes” and “cords”. • Can we use our voices for evil and good? • Mat 12:34  O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. • Luk6:45  A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

37. The “Stringed” Bow – the Wicked • Psa 11:2  For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. 

38. The “Stringed” Bow – the Wicked • Eze 28:13  Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wastcreated. • Eze28:14  Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. • Eze28:15  Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. • Eze28:16  By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

39. The “Stringed” Bow – the Righteous • The sweet sound of the Gospel Call. • Psa 33:2  Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. • Psa92:3  Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound. • Psa144:9  I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee. • Ten – For the Whole “duty” of man (Adam) (Exo.20:1-17; Ecc. 12:13-14), for even our voices are to glorify God in all things.

40. The “Stringed” Bow – the Righteous • The sweet sound of the Gospel call. God pulls the strings of the heart – praise comes forth! • Mar 7:31  And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis. • Mar 7:32  And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him. • Mar 7:33  And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; • Mar 7:34  And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

41. The “Stringed” Bow – the Righteous • The sweet sound of the Gospel call. God pulls the strings of the heart – praise comes forth! • Mar 7:35  And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spakeplain. • Mar 7:36  And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it; • Mar 7:37  And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.

42. What is the word for ‘pulling’ the (Heart) String? • DRAW

43. What is the word for ‘pulling’ the (Heart) String?

44. How does God “Draw” the Bow of Light? • Son 1:4  Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee. 

45. How does God “Draw” the Bow of Light? • Hos 11:4  I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. 

46. How does God “Draw” the Bow of Light? • Joh 6:44  No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. 

47. How does God “Draw” the Bow of Light? • Joh 12:32  And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. 

48. Can Satan also draw us with Lie-ght? (Counterfeit) • Rev 12:4  And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.  • Act 5:37  After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.  • Zep 3:2  She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God. 

49. What is at the Head of an Arrow of God? • An Arrow Head • a Rock • a sharp pointed stone • a cutting message

50. What is at the Head of an Arrow of God?