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I SAY UNTO ALL, WATCH
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“And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.” (Mark 13:37 KJV)
Great Blue Heron Watching young nearby by Lee at Viera Wetlands
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Tag Archives: Lord’s Return
Lee’s Four Word Thursday – 7/20/17
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HE FIND YOU SLEEPING
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“Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.” (Mark 13:36 KJV)
Scarlet-headed Blackbird asleep by Lee at National Aviary
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Lee’s Three Word Wednesday – 7/19/17
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WATCH AND PRAY
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“Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.” (Mark 13:33 KJV)
Paradise Riflebird-Australia-Birdway (Ian)
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Lee’s Six Word Saturday – 3/5/16
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BEHOLD I SHEW YOU A MYSTERY
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Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (1 Corinthians 15:51-52 KJV)
Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) ©Jullan Iondono
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Lee’s Four Word Thursday – 3/3/16
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I WILL COME AGAIN
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And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:3 KJV)
Dove Flying ©Flickr Ian Burt
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Lee’s Two Word Tuesday – 2/16/16
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A CROWN
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Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. (2 Timothy 4:8 KJV)
Black Crowned Crane (Balearica pavonina pavonina) (West African) Brevard Zoo by Lee
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Nuggets Plus – Watchout
Coppersmith Barbet (Megalaima haemacephala) by Clement Francis
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If the Coppersmith Barbet chicks
don’t return
to their nest early
their parents will not allow them in!
If we don’t return
in to the kingdom early
would Jesus take us in?
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. Mathew 25:13
Nuggets Plus – Watchout ~ by A J Mithra
Lee’s Addition:
What a beautiful bird, but also what a solemn warning.
The Coppersmith Barbet, Crimson-breasted Barbet or Coppersmith (Megalaima haemacephala), is a bird with crimson forehead and throat which is best known for its metronomic call that has been likened to a coppersmith striking metal with a hammer. It is a resident found in the Indian Subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia. Like other barbets, they chisel out a hole inside a tree to build their nest. They are mainly fruit-eating but will take sometimes insects, especially winged termites. They belong to the Megalaimidae – Asian Barbets Family.
I found AJ’s remark about the youngster failing to get back to the nest on time interesting and found these remarks on Wikipedia.
Coppersmith Barbet (Megalaima haemacephala) by MAMuin
Keeps solitary, pairs, or small groups; larger parties occasionally on abundantly fruiting Ficus trees. Fond of sunning themselves in the morning on bare top branches of tall trees, often flitting about to sit next to each other. The flight is straight, with rapid flaps.
They compete with other cavity nesting birds and frugivores. Megalaima asiatica have been noted to evict them from their nest holes, while Red-vented Bulbuls have been seen to indulge in kleptoparasitism, robbing the male of berries brought to the female at the nest.
The nest holes are also used for roosting and some birds roost alone in cavities and these often roost during part of the day. Immatures will roost with the parents but often return to roost early so as not to be prevented by the parents from entering the roost cavity.
Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise answered, saying, ‘Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’ And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour. (Matthew 25:1-13 ESV)
See:
Coppersmith Barbet – The Fruit-giver – by ajmithra
Birds of the World – Asian and African Barbets
Megalaimidae – Asian Barbets Family
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The Pompadour Cotinga – Concealed Incubators…
Pompadour Cotinga (Xipholena punicea) ©© Miami_Metrozoo male
The Pompadour Cotinga – Concealed incubators… ~ by a j mithra
The Pompadour Cotingas are South American birds from the Cotingidae family. They are found in Brazil, Columbia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
They reside in elevations to 1300 m which occur throughout Amazonia. The primary range extends from Columbia eastward to French Guiana and south to north-west Brazil. It is found in the canopy of humid forest and seems to be more numerous in areas of sandy soil forest.
Pompadour Cotinga (Xipholena punicea) ©©beautifulcataya Flickr
Sand is used most often as a symbol of countless multitudes; especially of the children of Israel and of God’s thoughts on us and also of the wisdom and understanding that God gave King Solomon..
- Is that the reason why these beautiful birds are more numerous in areas of sandy soil forest?
- They know that Their creator is so mindful of them…
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. (Psalm 139:17, 18)
During breeding season males gather to perform a ritualized flight display to attract a female. Two or three males will chase each other around a group of tree tops, keeping above the trees so that their white wings flashing against the dark foliage are visible for a great distance. The males are relatively easy to see even at a distance with their white wings flashing as they fly from tree to tree. Females sometimes join mixed canopy flocks but males appear to be more solitary…
Pompadour Cotinga (Xipholena punicea) female by AGrosset
It is not uncommon for the clutch to contain a single egg. The eggs are a greenish gray with drab spotting. Frail open nests of curly wood tendrils completely conceal the female while she incubates. Little is known about their breeding habits because it occurs high up in the forest canopy.
- God closed the door of the Ark and concealed Noah his family and the wildlife as well..
- God’s plan in our lives are planned high above in the heavens where no one can see..
- His ways are not our ways and our ways are not His..
Please read through Isaiah 39 and you will learn how King Hezekiah brought curse over his family when he showed off all his treasure to the envoys of Babylon so as to win favour from them..
- Do not show off God’s blessings over your life to the others to win favour but just conceal yourself like these birds..
- God has concealed us in His palm so wait until He shows us off to the world..
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: (I Peter 5:6)
The bride, the Church, needs to completely conceal itself while it incubates God’s will…
But you, when you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father which is in secret; and your Father which sees in secret shall reward you openly. (Mathew 6:6)
A considerable number of these birds are remarkable for the extraordinarily abnormal form of some of their wing-quills, and occasionally of their wing-coverts – a feature in the former case observable also among the Pipridae, and, where existing, generally confined to the male bird.
Pompadour Cotinga (Xipholena punicea) ©©holyknight33 Flickr
Many of them also are brilliantly coloured, and at least one, today known as the Pompadour Cotinga (Xipholena punicea) but known as the Pompadour Chatterer in the 19th Century (and had a latin name of Xipholena pompadora at that time) was given its 19th Century name by Edwards (Gleanings, ii. p. 275, pl. 341) after the celebrated Madame de Pompadour, to whom these birds and other birds were sent, when the ship that bore them from Cayenne fell a prize to a British cruiser.
The Pompadour Cotinga is of a hue scarcely to be seen in any other bird. The coloration of the Cotingas is from true pigmentation, not the more common prismatic feather structure. The males are a glistening wine red color with white flight feathers narrowly tipped in black. The elongated and stiff greater wing coverts are wine red with white shafts partly covering the flight feathers. The females are mainly gray and paler below. The throat and belly are grayish white, with the wings and tail dusky. Greater wing coverts and inner flight feathers are broadly edged in white. The juveniles are like the female but with dark eyes.
With glistening wine red color with white flight feathers, reminds us of the wine soaked garment of our Lord isn’t it?
My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. (Song of Solomon 5:10)
- About 2000 years back He came to redeem us and was battered and bruised made it look like His garment was soaked in wine…
- This time around He is going to come again to turn His garment into red..
- Not with His blood though…
Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment
For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. (Isaiah 63:1-4)
Are we ready to meet the King?
Have a blessed day!
Your’s in YESHUA,
a j mithra
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Birds – Watchers of Light
Birds – Watchers of Light ~ by a j mithra
American Golden Plover (Pluvialis dominica) at National Aviary by Lee
Changes in the
level of sunlight,
causes migratory birds
to migrate…
Are you ready
to migrate
to heaven?
Cos,
the darkness
is fast approaching
and
THE LIGHT
is on the way
to trigger the migration
for the last time…
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. Mathew (25:13)
A thought from a j mithra
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The Pacific Golden Plover is in the Charadriidae Family and a long distance migration bird.
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