Psalm 130:6
King James Version
6 My soul waiteth for the Lord
more than they that watch for the morning:
I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
A believer in JESUS has a watchman ministry.
As born again, our work is three-fold.
We watch over ourselves, that we live right by GOD.
We watch over the LORD's sheep, that you come to no harm.
We watch for the LORD's coming.
It is an honor to be a watchman.
It takes great love, dedication, and vigilance.
It takes great love for the LORD, to serve Him.
It takes great love for you, that we do this task.
All because SPIRIT and Scripture taught us about JESUS.
JESUS tells us what it means to be a watchman:
Matthew 26:41
King James Version
41 Watch and pray,
that ye enter not into temptation:
the spirit indeed is willing,
but the flesh is weak.
Matthew 26:40-41
King James Version
40 And he cometh unto the disciples,
and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter,
What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
41 Watch and pray,
that ye enter not into temptation:
the spirit indeed is willing,
but the flesh is weak.
Mark 13:37
King James Version
37 And what I say unto you
I say unto all,
Watch.
Mark 13:32-34
King James Version
32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man,
no, not the angels which are in heaven,
neither the Son, but the Father.
33 Take ye heed, watch and pray:
for ye know not when the time is.
34 For the Son of Man is as a man
taking a far journey, who left his house,
and gave authority to his servants,
and to every man his work,
and commanded the porter to watch.
Mark 13:35-37
King James Version
35 Watch ye therefore:
for ye know not
when the master of the house cometh,
at even,
or at midnight,
or at the cockcrowing,
or in the morning:
36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
37 And what I say unto you I say unto all,
Watch.
Luke 21:29-33
King James Version
29 And he spake to them a parable;
Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;
30 When they now shoot forth,
ye see and know of your own selves
that summer is now nigh at hand.
31 So likewise ye,
when ye see these things come to pass,
know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
32 Verily I say unto you,
This generation shall not pass away,
till all be fulfilled.
33 Heaven and earth shall pass away:
but my words shall not pass away.
John 10:11-13
King James Version
11 I am the good shepherd:
the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd,
whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming,
and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth:
and the wolf catcheth them,
and scattereth the sheep.
13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling,
and careth not for the sheep.
John 10:14-15
King James Version
14 I am the good shepherd,
and know my sheep,
and am known of mine.
15 As the Father knoweth me,
even so know I the Father:
and I lay down my life for the sheep.
These verses tell us more about being a watchman.
2 Kings 9:17
King James Version
17 And there stood a watchman
on the tower in Jezreel,
and he spied the company of Jehu as he came,
and said, I see a company.
And Joram said, Take an horseman,
and send to meet them, and let him say,
Is it peace?
Nehemiah 4:9
King James Version
9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God,
and set a watch against them day and night,
because of them.
Nehemiah 7:1-3
King James Version
7 Now it came to pass,
when the wall was built,
and I had set up the doors,
and the porters and the singers
and the Levites were appointed,
2 That I gave my brother Hanani,
and Hananiah the ruler of the palace,
charge over Jerusalem:
for he was a faithful man,
and feared God above many.
3 And I said unto them,
Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened
until the sun be hot;
and while they stand by,
let them shut the doors, and bar them:
and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
every one in his watch, and every one
to be over against his house.
Proverbs 8:34-35
King James Version
34 Blessed is the man that heareth me,
watching daily at my gates,
waiting at the posts of my doors.
35 For whoso findeth me findeth life,
and shall obtain favour of the Lord.
Isaiah 21:5-6
King James Version
5 Prepare the table,
watch in the watchtower,
eat, drink: arise, ye princes,
and anoint the shield.
6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me,
Go, set a watchman,
let him declare what he seeth.
Isaiah 21:7-9
King James Version
7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen,
a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels;
and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
8 And he cried, A lion:
My lord, I stand continually
upon the watchtower in the daytime,
and I am set in my ward whole nights:
9 And, behold,
here cometh a chariot of men,
with a couple of horsemen.
And he answered and said,
Babylon is fallen, is fallen;
and all the graven images of her gods
he hath broken unto the ground.
Isaiah 21:11-12
King James Version
11 The burden of Dumah.
He calleth to me out of Seir,
Watchman, what of the night?
Watchman, what of the night?
12 The watchman said,
The morning cometh, and also the night:
if ye will enquire, enquire ye:
return, come.
Isaiah 52:7-8
King James Version
7 How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings,
that publisheth peace;
that bringeth good tidings of good,
that publisheth salvation;
that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice;
with the voice together shall they sing:
for they shall see eye to eye,
when the Lord shall bring again Zion.
Isaiah 62:6-7
King James Version
6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem,
which shall never hold their peace day nor night:
ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence,
7 And give him no rest, till he establish,
and till he make Jerusalem
a praise in the earth.
Jeremiah 1:9-10
King James Version
9 Then the Lord put forth his hand,
and touched my mouth.
And the Lord said unto me,
Behold,
I have put my words in thy mouth.
10 See, I have this day set thee
over the nations and over the kingdoms,
to root out,
and to pull down,
and to destroy,
and to throw down,
to build,
and to plant.
Jeremiah 31:6
King James Version
6 For there shall be a day,
that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry,
Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion
unto the Lord our God.
Jeremiah 51:11-13
King James Version
11 Make bright the arrows;
gather the shields:
the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings
of the Medes:
for his device is against Babylon,
to destroy it;
because it is the vengeance of the Lord,
the vengeance of his temple.
12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon,
make the watch strong,
set up the watchmen,
prepare the ambushes:
for the Lord hath both devised and done
that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters,
abundant in treasures,
thine end is come,
and the measure of thy covetousness.
Ezekiel 3:8-9
King James Version
8 Behold,
I have made thy face strong against their faces,
and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
9 As an adamant harder than flint
have I made thy forehead:
fear them not,
neither be dismayed at their looks,
though they be a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 3:16-18
King James Version
16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days,
that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
17 Son of man,
I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel:
therefore hear the word at my mouth,
and give them warning from me.
18 When I say unto the wicked,
Thou shalt surely die;
and thou givest him not warning,
nor speakest to warn the wicked
from his wicked way, to save his life;
the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity;
but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezekiel 3:19
King James Version
19 Yet if thou warn the wicked,
and he turn not from his wickedness,
nor from his wicked way,
he shall die in his iniquity;
but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel 3:20
King James Version
20 Again,
When a righteous man doth turn
from his righteousness, and commit iniquity,
and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die:
because thou hast not given him warning,
he shall die in his sin,
and his righteousness which he hath done
shall not be remembered;
but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezekiel 3:16-21
King James Version
21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man,
that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin,
he shall surely live, because he is warned;
also thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel 33:7
King James Version
7 So thou, O son of man,
I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel;
therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth,
and warn them from me.
Habakkuk 2:1-3
King James Version
2 I will stand upon my watch,
and set me upon the tower,
and will watch to see what he will say unto me,
and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
2 And the Lord answered me, and said,
Write the vision,
and make it plain upon tables,
that he may run that readeth it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time,
but at the end it shall speak, and not lie:
though it tarry, wait for it;
because it will surely come,
it will not tarry.
2 Corinthians 11:27-28
King James Version
27 In weariness and painfulness,
in watchings often,
in hunger and thirst,
in fastings often,
in cold and nakedness.
28 Beside those things that are without,
that which cometh upon me daily,
the care of all the churches.
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