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Proverbs 25:2-3

²It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.
³As the heavens are high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

Psalm 77:13-19

¹³Your ways, God, are holy. What god is as great as our God?
¹⁴You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples.
¹⁵With your mighty arm you redeemed your people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.
¹⁶The waters saw you, God, the waters saw you and writhed; the very depths were convulsed.
¹⁷The clouds poured down water, the heavens resounded with thunder; your arrows flashed back and forth.
¹⁸Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
¹⁹Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen.

Job 12:13-25

¹³“To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.
¹⁴What he tears down cannot be rebuilt; those he imprisons cannot be released.
¹⁵If he holds back the waters, there is drought; if he lets them loose, they devastate the land.
¹⁶To him belong strength and insight; both deceived and deceiver are his.
¹⁷He leads rulers away stripped and makes fools of judges.
¹⁸He takes off the shackles put on by kings and ties a loincloth around their waist.
¹⁹He leads priests away stripped and overthrows officials long established.
²⁰He silences the lips of trusted advisers and takes away the discernment of elders.
²¹He pours contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.
²²He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings utter darkness into the light.
²³He makes nations great, and destroys them; he enlarges nations, and disperses them.
²⁴He deprives the leaders of the earth of their reason; he makes them wander in a trackless waste.
²⁵They grope in darkness with no light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

Romans 1:81-25

¹⁸The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, ¹⁹since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. ²⁰For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

²¹For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. ²²Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools ²³and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

²⁴Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. ²⁵They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

Psalm 107:24-31

²⁴They saw the works of the Lord,
his wonderful deeds in the deep.
²⁵For he spoke and stirred up a tempest
that lifted high the waves.
²⁶They mounted up to the heavens and went down to the depths;
in their peril their courage melted away.
²⁷They reeled and staggered like drunkards;
they were at their wits’ end.
²⁸Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
and he brought them out of their distress.
²⁹He stilled the storm to a whisper;
the waves of the sea were hushed.
³⁰They were glad when it grew calm,
and he guided them to their desired haven.
³¹Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love
and his wonderful deeds for mankind.

John 9:6-7

⁶After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. ⁷“Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam”. So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.

John 9:39-41

³⁹Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.” ⁴⁰Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?” ⁴¹Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”

Psalm 53:2

God looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.

Job 37:3

He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth.

Psalm 97:4

His lightning lights up the world; the earth sees and trembles.

Matthew 24:27

For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

John 1:1-5

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²He was with God in the beginning. ³Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. ⁴In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. ⁵The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Psalm 84:10

Better is one day in your courts
    than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
    than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

Proverbs 8:33-35

Listen to my instruction and be wise;
    do not disregard it.
³⁴ Blessed are those who listen to me,
    watching daily at my doors,
    waiting at my doorway.
³⁵ For those who find me find life
    and receive favor from the Lord.

Acts 14:27

 On arriving there, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

Acts 16:26

Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose.

Revelation 3:7-8

⁷To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:

These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. ⁸I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.

Revelation 3:19-20

¹⁹Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.
²⁰Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.

Matthew 24:3-14

⁴Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. ⁵For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. ⁶You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. ⁷Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. ⁸All these are the beginning of birth pains.”

⁹“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. ¹⁰At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, ¹¹and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. ¹²Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, ¹³but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. ¹⁴And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.”

2 Thessalonians 2:6-12

⁶And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. ⁷For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. ⁸And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. ⁹The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, ¹⁰and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. ¹¹For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie ¹²and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

Psalm 34:14

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

John 14:27

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

Isaiah 26:3-7

³You will keep in perfect peace
those whose minds are steadfast,
because they trust in you.
⁴Trust in the Lord forever,
for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.
⁵He humbles those who dwell on high,
he lays the lofty city low;
he levels it to the ground
and casts it down to the dust.
⁶Feet trample it down—
the feet of the oppressed,
the footsteps of the poor.
⁷The path of the righteous is level;
you, the Upright One, make the way of the righteous smooth.

1 Corinthians 13

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/09/presidential-message-on-the-feast-of-saint-michael-the-archangel