Y’all be patient then, siblings, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
“Y’all be glad then, children of Zion, and y’all rejoice in YHWH, your* God; for ʜᴇ gives you the early rain in just measure, and ʜᴇ causes the rain to come down for y’all, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.
then I will give the rain for y’all’s land in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, that you may gather in your grain, new wine, and fresh oil.
They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear YHWH our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
Let’s acknowledge YHWH. Let’s press on to know YHWH. As surely as the sun rises, YHWH will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
For whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since our ancestors fell asleep, everything continues as it was from the beginning of the creation.”
But the seed that fell on the excellent ground, these are the ones who have an honest and excellent heart, who hear the word, hold it tightly, and through perseverance, produce fruit.
So the saying went out among the siblings that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, only that, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”
Y’all must not speak against one another, siblings. Anyone who speaks against a sibling and judges them, speaks against the law, and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
Y’all’s gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against y’all and eat y’all’s flesh like fire. Y’all have hoarded wealth in the last days.