“Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance” (Psalm 89:15).

“Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled” (Matthew 24:34).

“As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God” (I Peter 2:16).

“The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein” (Psalm 24:1).

“Wherefore He saith, When He ascended up on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that He ascended, what is it but that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? . . .)” (Ephesians 4:8,9).