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then the king Belshazzar is greatly troubled, and his countenance is changing in him, and his great men are perplexed.
Daniel 5:9
The Lord # 48
48. 2. Since our life varies depending on our state, “spirit” means the variable attitude we take toward life. For example:
a. Living wisely.
Bezalel was filled with the spirit of wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge. (Exodus 31:3)
You shall speak to all who are wise at heart, everyone whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom. (Exodus 28:3)
Joshua was filled with the spirit of wisdom. (Deuteronomy 34:9)
Nebuchadnezzar said of Daniel that [the spirit of the holy gods was in him]. (Daniel 4:8)
[Belshazzar’s queen said of Daniel that] there was an excellent spirit of knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom in him. (Daniel 5:12)
Those who go astray in spirit will know intelligence. (Isaiah 29:24)
[2] b. Living [under the influence of some particular] inspiration.
Jehovah has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. (Jeremiah 51:11)
Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. (Haggai 1:14)
I am putting the spirit into the king of Assyria [to cause him] to hear a rumor and return to his own land. (Isaiah 37:7)
Jehovah hardened the spirit of King Sihon. (Deuteronomy 2:30)
What is rising up in your spirit will never happen. (Ezekiel 20:32)
[3] c. Living in a state of freedom.
The four beasts seen by the prophet, which were angel guardians, went wherever the spirit wanted to go. (Ezekiel 1:12, 20)
[4] d. Living in fear, sorrow, or anger.
... so that every heart will melt, all hands will slacken, and every spirit will recoil. (Ezekiel 21:7)
My spirit has fainted within me; my heart is stupefied inside me. (Psalms 142:3; Psalms 143:4)
My spirit is wasting away. (Psalms 143:7)
I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit. (Daniel 7:15)
The spirit of Pharaoh was disturbed. (Genesis 41:8)
Nebuchadnezzar said, “My spirit is troubled.” (Daniel 2:3)
I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit. (Ezekiel 3:14)
[5] e. Living in subjection to various evil mental states.
... who has no guile in his spirit. (Psalms 32:2)
Jehovah has mixed together in their midst a spirit of perversities. (Isaiah 19:14)
[The Lord Jehovih] says, “[Woe] to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit.” (Ezekiel 13:3)
The prophet is foolish; the man of the spirit is insane. (Hosea 9:7)
Keep watch over your spirit, and do not act treacherously. (Malachi 2:16)
A spirit of whoredom has led them astray. (Hosea 4:12)
There is a spirit of whoredom in their midst. (Hosea 5:4)
When a spirit of jealousy has come over him... (Numbers 5:14)
A man who is a wanderer in spirit and speaks lies... (Micah 2:11)
... a generation whose spirit was not constant with God... (Psalms 78:8)
He has poured a spirit of sleepiness over them. (Isaiah 29:10)
Conceive chaff and give birth to stubble. As for your spirit, fire will devour you. (Isaiah 33:11)
[6] f. Living in subjection to hell.
I will make the unclean spirit depart from the land. (Zechariah 13:2)
When an unclean spirit goes out of someone, it wanders through dry places, and then recruits seven spirits worse than itself, and they come in and live there. (Matthew 12:43-45)
Babylon has become a refuge for every unclean spirit. (Revelation 18:2)
[7] g. Then there are the hellish spirits by whom we are tormented: Matthew 8:16; 10:1; 12:43-45; Mark 1:23-28; 9:17-29; Luke 4:33, 36; 6:17-18; 7:21; 8:2, 29; 9:39, 42, 55; 11:24-26; 13:11; Revelation 13:15; 16:13-14.
Malachi 2
1
"Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.
2
If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of Armies, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.
3
Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.
4
You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says Yahweh of Armies.
5
"My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.
6
The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.
7
For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.
8
But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of Armies.
9
"Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
10
Don't we all have one father? Hasn't one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
11
Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
12
Yahweh will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of Armies.
13
This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.
14
Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
15
Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
16
For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says Yahweh of Armies. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.
17
You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'
