3/28/20 RIGHTEOUSNESS LIFTS UP, SIN TAKES DOWN

DREAM AND HEARD

I dreamed that a Christian man I know had lower back pain I was watching him bend his back and bow low.  When he bowed he expelled sulphur fumes which was offense to me. When I woke I heard, Righteousness exalts a nation.

Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

This was an interesting Word study.  I found the above scripture meaning to be: Moral and just rightness lifts a nation up.  But the offense of sinful habits causes a people to bow low.  The Word study was pretty straight forward until I came to the word Reproach.  In almost all cases, it means to bend low in kindness, which didn’t make sense to me. When I went to the foundation words, it can mean to reproof and even curse and I could see that sin can bring a curse, but still didn’t understand the connection to the dream and the verse.  

So I prayed about this and suddenly my eyes were opened to the contrast of being lifted up vs of bending low, as I saw in the dream.

WORD STUDY

RIGHTEOUS – Rightness, justice

Strong's Hebrew Dictionary
6666. צְדָקָה tsedaqah (tsᵉdâqâh)
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צְדָקָה tsᵉdâqâh, tsed-aw-kaw'

from H6663; rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity):—justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness).

feminine noun

EXALTS – To be high or raised up

Strong's Hebrew Dictionary
7311. רוּם ruwm (rûwm)
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רוּם rûwm, room

a primitive root; to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively):—bring up, exalt (self), extol, give, go up, haughty, heave (up), (be, lift up on, make on, set up on, too) high(-er, one), hold up, levy, lift(-er) up, (be) lofty, (× a-) loud, mount up, offer (up), presumptuously, (be) promote(-ion), proud, set up, tall(-er), take (away, off, up), breed worms.

Verb

SIN – a habitual offense

Strong's Hebrew Dictionary
2403. חַטָּאָה chattaah (chaṭṭâʼâh)
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חַטָּאָה chaṭṭâʼâh, khat-taw-aw'

or חַטָּאת chaṭṭâʼth; from H2398; an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender:—punishment (of sin), purifying(-fication for sin), sin(-ner, offering).

feminine noun

REPROACH – kindness ????

Strong's Hebrew Dictionary
2617. חֶסֶד checed (cheçed)
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חֶסֶד cheçed, kheh'-sed

from H2616; kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subjectively) beauty:—favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-) kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.

masculine noun

FROM TO BOW THE NECK

Strong's Hebrew Dictionary
2616. חָסַד chacad (châçad)
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חָסַד châçad, khaw-sad'

a primitive root properly, perhaps to bow (the neck only [compare H2603] in courtesy to an equal), i.e. to be kind; also (by euphemistically [compare H1288], but rarely) to reprove:—shew self merciful, put to shame.

verb

FROM TO CURSE GOD

Strong's Hebrew Dictionary
1288. בָּרַךְ barak (bârak)
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בָּרַךְ bârak, baw-rak'

a primitive root; to kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a benefit); also (by euphemism) to curse (God or the king, as treason):—× abundantly, × altogether, × at all, blaspheme, bless, congratulate, curse, × greatly, × indeed, kneel (down), praise, salute, × still, thank.

verb

WORD TO PONDER: RIGHTEOUSNESS LIFTS UP, SIN TAKES DOWN 3/28/20

Dear ones, when you find your nation bowing low and in pain, it is time to repent.  My promise was that if My People repented of their wicked ways I would heal their land.  I was not speaking to the wicked who walk in evil ways.  I was speaking to My own who are called by My Name and walk in agreement with wicked ways.  Do you understand the difference?  Precious ones, YOU are the salt of the earth.  If you lose your salt, how will your land be preserved?

Dear ones, turn around and change your mind.  Change your votes to vote leaders of righteousness into office.  Turn your backs on wicked leaders who use their power to promote wickedness in the earth.  Turn away from spending money on entertainment that lifts up wickedness, evil and sin. Repent and change for you all must appear before the judgement seat and be recompensed for actions done whether good or bad. 

Come into agreement with Me and My Word, not the carnal and wicked ways of those who do not belong to Me.  If you repent and change, I will forgive you, lift your nation up, heal your land.  Precious people, do not lose your salt.

2 Chronicles 7:13-14 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; 14 If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may be recompensed for the things done in his body, according to what he has done, whether it be good or bad.