by Ted Dekker
Mark 12:17 “Jesus said to them, ‘Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.’ And they marveled at him.”
Chapter Twenty-Three
Luke 10:18–19 “And He said to them, ‘I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you.’”
Luke 10:20 “Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven.”
Matthew 19:26 “With God all things are possible.”
Luke 22:42 “Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.”
Hebrews 5:7–10 (NIV) “During the days of Jesus’ life on earth…Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.”
Luke 22:42 (NIV) “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”
Matthew 26:41 (ESV) “Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Chapter Twenty-Six
Luke 23:34 “Jesus was saying, ‘Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.’”
Matthew 27:46 (ESV) “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’ that is, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’”
Chapter Thirty-One
Genesis 3:4–5 “The serpent said to the woman, ‘You surely will not die! For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’”
Luke 3:38 “Adam, the son of God.”
John 1:29 “The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, ‘Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!’”
1 Corinthians 15:45 (ESV) “Thus it is written, ‘The first man Adam became a living being’; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.”
John 12:24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”
Chapter Thirty-Two
John 15:15 “No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.”
John 10:17–18 (ESV) “For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again.”
John 17:16 “They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.”
1 Corinthians 15:6 “After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep.”
John 14:9 “Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, “Show us the Father”?’”
Romans 8:38–39 “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
1 Corinthians 15:45 (ESV) “Thus it is written, ‘The first man Adam became a living being’; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.”
Romans 5:18 “So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.”
Revelation 13:8 (KJV) “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”
Ephesians 1:3–4 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him.”
Galatians 3:13 (NIV) “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.”
Galatians 2:20 (ESV) “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
Ephesians 2:6 “And raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 1:21 “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”
John 14:16–17, 20 (ESV) “I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth…In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.”
John 17:22–23 “The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one just as We are one, I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me and loved them even as You have loved Me.”
Matthew 11:25 “At that time Jesus said, ‘I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants.’”
Ephesians 1:18 “I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.”
2 Corinthians 5:17 (WEB) “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
Colossians 2:9–10 “For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete.”
Romans 8:1 “Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
Galatians 3:27 “For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.”
1 John 3:1 (NIV) “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!”
Galatians 4:6 “Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’”
Luke 17:20–21 “Now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming, He answered them and said, ‘The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed; nor will they say, “Look, here it is!” or, “There it is!” For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.’”
Romans 8:19 (NIV) “For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.”
1 Corinthians 13:12 (ESV) “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.”
Philippians 2:5–8 (ASV) “Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, existing in the form of God…emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; and being found in the fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.”
Matthew 6:33 (ESV) “But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”
Luke 9:48 (NIV) “For it is the one who is the least among you all who is the greatest.”
Matthew 20:16 “So the last shall be first, and the first last.”
Mark 12:31 “The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Matthew 25:45 (ESV) “Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’”
John 13:34 (ESV) “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.”
1 Corinthians 13:2–3 “If I have
the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge…but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.”
John 13:35 “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Chapter Thirty-Five
Matthew 7:22–23 (ESV) “On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’”
Matthew 24:5 (KJV) “For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.”
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
My Journey into A.D. 33
Map
Dedication
DUMAH Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
BETHANY Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
PETRA Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Chapter Thirty-Five
Author's Note
Appendix
Newsletters
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Copyright
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