Justice 2025
12/8/24 11:31 AM
Lloyd Immanuel Acree
I asked the Lord what is coming for the year 2025. He gave me the simplest reply:
“JUSTICE.”
“Woe to the transgressor! evils shall happen to him according to the works of his hands.
O my people, your exactors strip you, and extortioners rule over you: O my people, they that pronounce you blesses lead you astray, and pervert the path of your feet.
But now the Lord will stand up for judgment, and will enter into judgment with his people.
The Lord himself shall enter into judgment with the elders of the people, and with their rulers: but why have ye set my vineyard on fire, and why is the spoil of the poor in your houses?
Why do ye wrong my people, and shame the face of the poor?”
Isa 3:11-15
“Evil men will not understand judgment: but they that seek the Lord will understand everything.”
Proverbs 28:5
“Now then hearken to me, and I will advise thee, and God shall be with thee: be thou to the people in the things pertaining to God, and thou shalt bring their matters to God.
And thou shalt testify to them the ordinances of God and his law, and thou shalt shew to them the ways in which they shall walk, and the works which they shall do.
And do thou look out for thyself out of all the people able men, fearing God, righteous men, hating pride, and thou shalt set over the people captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens.
And they shall judge the people at all times, and the too burdensome matter they shall bring to thee, but they shall judge the smaller cases; so they shall relieve thee and help thee.
If thou wilt do this thing, God shall strengthen thee, and thou shalt be able to attend, and all this people shall come with peace into their own place.”
Exodus 18:19-23
“Thou shalt not receive a vain report: thou shalt not agree with the unjust man to become an unjust witness.
Thou shalt not associate with the multitude for evil; thou shalt not join thyself with a multitude to turn aside with the majority so as to shut out judgment.
And thou shalt not spare a poor man in judgment.”
Exodus 23:1-3
“And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear causes between your brethren, and judge rightly between a man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
Thou shalt not have respect to persons in judgment, thou shalt judge small and great equally; thou shalt not shrink from before the person of a man, for the judgment is God’s; and whatsoever matter shall be too hard for you, ye shall bring it to me, and I will hear it.”
Deuteronomy 1:16-17
“Therefore ye shall circumcise the hardness of your heart, and ye shall not harden your neck.
For the Lord your God, he is God of gods, and the Lord of lords, the great, and strong, and terrible God, who does not accept persons, nor will he by any means accept a bribe:
executing judgment for the stranger and orphan and widow, and he loves the stranger to give him food and raiment.
And ye shall love the stranger; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt cleave to him, and shalt swear by his name.
He is thy boast, and he is thy God, who has wrought in the midst of thee these great and glorious things, which thine eyes have seen.”
Deuteronomy 10:16-21
“Thou shalt justly pursue justice, that ye may live, and go in and inherit the land which the Lord thy God gives thee.”
Deuteronomy 16:20
“And if a matter shall be too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgment in your cities;
then thou shalt arise and go up to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and thou shalt come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days, and they shall search out the matter and report the judgment to thee.”
Deuteronomy 17:8-9
“If thy neighbour owe thee a debt, any debt whatsoever, thou shalt not go into his house to take his pledge:
thou shalt stand without, and the man who is in thy debt shall bring the pledge out to thee.
And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge.
Thou shalt surely restore his pledge at sunset, and he shall sleep in his garment, and he shall bless thee; and it shall be mercy to thee before the Lord thy God.
Thou shalt not unjustly withhold the wages of the poor and needy of thy brethren, or of the strangers who are in thy cities.
Thou shalt pay him his wages the same day, the sun shall not go down upon it, because he is poor and he trusts in it; and he shall cry against thee to the Lord, and it shall be sin in thee.
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, and the sons shall not be put to death for the fathers; every one shall be put to death for his own sin.
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the stranger and the fatherless, and widow; thou shalt not take the widow’s garment for a pledge.”
Deuteronomy 24:12-19
“Cursed is every one that shall pervert the judgment of the stranger, and orphan, and widow: and all the people shall say, So be it.”
Deuteronomy 27:19
“Attend, O heaven, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words out of my mouth.
Let my speech be looked for as the rain, and my words come down as dew, as the shower upon the herbage, and as snow upon the grass.
For I have called on the name of the Lord: assign ye greatness to our God.
As for God, his works are true, and all his ways are judgment: God is faithful, and there is no unrighteousness in him; just and holy is the Lord.
They have sinned, not pleasing him; spotted children, a froward and perverse generation.
Do ye thus recompense the Lord? is the people thus foolish and unwise? did not he himself thy father purchase thee, and make thee, and form thee?
Remember the days of old, consider the years for past ages: ask thy father, and he shall relate to thee, thine elders, and they shall tell thee.
When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God.
And his people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, Israel was the line of his inheritance.”
Deuteronomy 32:1-9
“Behold, behold that I am he, and there is no god beside me: I kill, and I will make to live: I will smite, and I will heal; and there is none who shall deliver out of my hands.
For I will lift up my hand to heaven, and swear by my right hand, and I will say, I live for ever.
For I will sharpen my sword like lightning, and my hand shall take hold of judgment; and I will render judgment to my enemies, and will recompense them that hate me.”
Deuteronomy 32:39-41
“Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth; but let him that boasts boast in this, to understand and know the Lord, and to execute judgment and justice in the midst of the earth. The Lord has gone up to the heavens, and has thundered: he will judge the extremities of the earth, and he gives strength to our kings, and will exalt the horn of his Christ.”
1 Samuel 2:10
“Take good heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, and with you are matters of judgment.
And now let the fear of the Lord be upon you, and be wary, and do your duty: for there is no unrighteousness with the Lord our God, neither is it for him to respect persons, nor take bribes.”
2 Chronicles 19:6-7
“But know that the Lord will not cast off an innocent man: being mighty in strength of wisdom,
he will not by any means save alive the ungodly: and he will grant the judgment of the poor.
He will not turn away his eyes from the righteous, but they shall be with kings on the throne: and he will establish them in triumph, and they shall be exalted.”
Job 36:5-7
“Therefore the ungodly shall not rise in judgment, nor sinners in the counsel of the just.”
Psalm 1:5
“The swords of the enemy have failed utterly; and thou hast destroyed cities: their memorial has been destroyed with a noise,
but the Lord endures for ever: he has prepared his throne for judgment.
And he will judge the world in righteousness, he will judge the nations in uprightness.
The Lord also is become a refuge for the poor, a seasonable help, in affliction.
And let them that know thy name hope in thee: for thou, O Lord, hast not failed them that diligently seek thee.”
Psalm 9:6-10
“Hope in the Lord, and do good; and dwell on the land, and thou shalt be fed with the wealth of it.
Delight thyself in the Lord; and he shall grant thee the requests of thine heart.
Disclose thy way to the Lord, and hope in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noon-day.
Submit thyself to the Lord, and supplicate him: fret not thyself because of him that prospers in his way, at the man that does unlawful deeds.
ease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself so as to do evil.
For evil-doers shall be destroyed: but they that wait on the Lord, they shall inherit the land.”
Psalm 37:3-9
“For the end, among the Hymns, a Psalm for Asaph; a Song for the Assyrian. God is known in Judea: his name is great in Israel.
And his place has been in peace, and his dwelling-place in Sion.
There he broke the power of the bows, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Pause.
Thou dost wonderfully shine forth from the everlasting mountains.
All the simple ones in heart were troubled; all the men of wealth have slept their sleep, and have found nothing in their hands.
At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, the riders on horses slumbered.
Thou art terrible; and who shall withstand thee, because of thine anger?
Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,
when God arose to judgment, to save all the meek in heart.”
Psalm 76:1-9
“Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do righteousness at all times.”
Psalm 106:3
“Thou hast brought to nought all that depart from thine ordinances; for their inward thought is unrighteous.
I have reckoned all the sinners of the earth as transgressors; therefore have I loved thy testimonies.
Penetrate my flesh with thy fear; for I am afraid of thy judgments.
I have done judgment and justice; deliver me not up to them that injure me.”
Psalm 119:118-121
“The saints shall rejoice in glory; and shall exult on their beds.
The high praises of God shall be in their throat, and two-edged swords in their hands;
to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments among the peoples;
to bind their kings with fetters, and their nobles with manacles of iron;
to execute on them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.”
Psalm 149:5-9
Lloyd Immanuel Acree
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