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Amen Giannis.

Well stated.

God bless you and all youdo.

Hi Momsage.

You stated, "The Old Testament is the foundation; the NT builds on that foundation.

Testament means covenant.

Here I will highlight some verses in Hebrews 9:1-28.

8) The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:

9) Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

10) Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

11) But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

23) It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

24) For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

Verse 11 says, "not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building.

I will use that verse to springboard us onto the foundation which we build on that was prophesied in the OT but was rejected because of Israel blindness.

Isaiah 8:14

1 Peter 2:6-8

1 Corinthians 3:11

Ephesians 2:20

Romans 9:31-33.

When a building is being erected the corner stone is the first stone layed and where everything is squared and leveled.

Those who was saved in the OT also rested on this foundation.

God bless.

God's people are "the bride", there are only two camps. In Christ, or not. 490 years were given to "finish the transgression".. Dan 9.. Galations tells us that all who come to Christ through faith are "heirs" to the promise, also says that the Jerusalem (in Arabia) is represented by Hagar, "cast out the bondwoman", and that Jerusalem that is above is free, and is the mother of us all Gal 4:26. The Jerusalem that is above.. Rev 21:2.. John saw the city new Jerusalem coming down from heaven..This "literal" Israeli thing is a snare. A falsehood of satan. There are only "two camps".. wheat or tares, sheep or goats, wise virgins, unwise virgins.. "in Christ.. or not.

Thanks Jema. We remain disciples/students for our whole lifetime, we are learning all the time and hopefully stop doing the same mistakes. Have a blessed week.

Hi Jema.

The book of Daniel is the key to end time prophesy.

Daniel's vision of four beasts concerning four kingdoms represents "the times of the Gentiles," Chapter 7

Daniel's vision of seventy weeks concerning the nation Israel, Chapter 9

The book of Daniel gives us a Preview of Israel in latter days; Great Tribulation; resurrections; rewards; final word about the end times, Chapter 12

The Book of Daniel. From Chapter 2, verse 4, through Chapter 7, Daniel is in Aramaic, the Gentile and diplomatic language of Daniel's day. (This portion has the Gentiles in focus.)

This section deals exclusively with "the times of the Gentiles." (PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE)

The remainder of the book correlates the nation Israel with this program. The Book of Daniel deals with Gentiles and Jews.

(The church is totally excluded.)

Daniel gives us a mathematical prophecy to the very day of the coming of our Lord in Daniel 9.

Also, Daniel 4 should humble any nation or individual. Daniel 4:34-37. Isn't it amazing how a gentile pagan king/ruler of the world can be humbled and write such a thing.

Nebuchadnezzar was just an instrument God used to judge his People. "Those that walk in pride he is able to abase"

This goes for Indvidual's as well as nations.

God bless.

Sorry I made a mistake, it is Ephesians 1:3-14.

Hello Momsage

My opinion about Israel.

God chose Israel for a unique purpose. He wanted, and so He created a nation through Abraham, in order to preserve through them the faith to the true God until the Savior appears on earth. At that point their mission as a nation ended and the church took in charge. In the church all nations and people all over the world are included, including Hebrews, that little remnant that accepted and still accepting Christ. The purpose of the church is very different from that of Israel's. We have to bring the gospel of salvation to all people all over the world, that was not what Israel was expected to do, it wasn't their mission. So who is God's chosen people? Both, for different reasons. Israel for bringing the Savior to the world and the church for bringing Him all over the world. But we must know that Israel 's mission has ended 2th years ago and it is now the church that has a mission. If Israel had accepted Christ they would have been the most honourable and important nation in the church, but they didn't and they have been cut off the olive tree. But God preserves them for a reason. Because He knows that under the pressure of antichrist they will turn to Him that they crucified and so they will be saved at the end. But we must know that they are not saved now (neither for the past 2 th years) and if they end their lives in sin they will not go to Heaven. I don't know how God is going to judge them, according to their faith or according to their works/conscience? ( Romans 2:11-26). But it is going to be really tough for them in the Judgement for as long as they are not receiving Christ as their Savior.

Ephesians 2:3-14, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:Having predestinated us unto the adoption .."

To continue study of our Great God for the letter "P"

He is our Prince of Peace

Is. 9:6 " For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace."

Acts 5:30-31 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. Him hath God exalted with His right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins."

Jesus is our Prince. He does not rule as earthly princes do, but is humble, though mighty, sacrificial for us, not greedy, with us, not stand offish.

He give peace to His people, as He did for Israel in the land under David and Solomon. Not only is Jesus the Prince of Peace but the eternal King of Kings also.

Ps. 29:10-11 "the LORD sitteth King forever, The Lord will give strength unto his people, the LORD will bless His people with peace."

Jn 14:27 "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."

Rom. 16:20 "And the God of peace will soon bruise Satan under your feet shortly."

He is our peace who has absolute power over the enemy and the Peace that unifies the church.

Eph. 2:14-15 "for He is our peace who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us." (between Jewish believers and Christian believers)

Hebrews 13:20-21 "Now may the God of Peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to Whom be glory forever and ever, amen."

1 Th. 5:23 "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly,"

The peace of God is transcend all other types of peace. It is above and beyond what we is of the world

"The OT is the foundation; the NT builds on that foundation." Mark Spence

God Bless :)

Oops, I didn't mean pray TO Israel I meant pray FOR Israel.

So does mine so I understand but I do feel we should response to what we feel is something said in a discussion that is wrong against us. God Bless :)

Hello Bennymkje

Although my comment was about Judas and I just wanted to explain what probably had happened to him using an experience of mine, I must say that none of us have walked that road before, so we are learning along the way. We must grow up and start eating meat, not milk all the time. Christ is a life experience not just mere knowledge. There are many scholars and theologians that know the gospel perfectly well, more than any of us do, but they don't know Christ personally. Our relationship with our God is personal, it is not adequate to know about God but one has to know God Himself. A Christian that never ever had any personal experiences with God is lacking in many marvelous things like joy and peace and comfort. I wish you have a blessed week.

We do need to pray to Israel that they will wipe out Hamas and end this, but the world says: "lets give Hamas a break so they can regroup during the cease fire, and, of course, Hamas isn't just satisfied with returning hostages, which is imperative, but also demands more then twice the number of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for hostages to be released. I know as God's people Israel will never be wiped of the face of the earth, as the Palestinians so dearly want to happen.

We also need to be sure we are praying for the Jews to find the Lord. There are organizations like One For Israel that provide food, clothing and companionship for the elderly Jews and their families are seeing this. It gives them a great opportunity to, not only tell them of the Lord, but show them also. They are also helping the soldiers and their families with support and supplies. I pray for the soldiers and their families, the healing of the hostages. I pray for peace but only what is best for Israel. I hope they won't relent until all of Gaza is freed from the terrible hold Hamas has on it.

I don't believe this is for sure a sign of the end times because as this quote says: "Conflict in Israel has been a reality whenever Israel has existed as a nation. . . .attempts to completely destroy Israel will always fail. The Persecutors of Israel will come and go, but the persecution will remain until the second coming of Christ. As a result, conflict in Israel is not a reliable indicator of the soon arrival of the end Times." Got Questions: "What is Israel's role in the end?" God Bless :)

These are God's people and He definitely has their souls in His hands also the terrorists need salvation so I am praying for them also. God Bless :)

Jema,

we are called to be holy and virtue (2 Pe.1:5) and it takes time. The Spirit gives us examples. God named Jacob as Israel but confirmed it later. Peter and disciples would go back to fishing but the risen Christ changed their restless spirit. ( John 21.) We are living according to earth time I am nearing 81 but my life had begun in God's will before the worlds began. Having died to the world our lives hidden with Christ is everlasting life. How often we tend to forget it. With joy and peace,

One of your best posts . I agree , at the age of 56 I'm just starting to understand how I must submit , to the will of God and to the trials of this life . Submission , obedience and humility . We must rest in and trust in him totally . This world and the things of it are nothing to us , our hearts are elsewhere . No matter how hard it may seem , we must all always do what is right in His sight , remembering that His ways are not our ways , so our ways should not be the ways of this world and the people of it , we must be different , we must keep our eyes on our Saviour and look to him for guidance all the time . He will keep us on the straight and narrow path that leads to his arms and his Father's Kingdom . May all on here rejoice together in those awesome days .

Please pray that God's Will be done in the lives of the children he has given unto me (especially Tyrone), . . . in Jesus name I thank the Heavenly Father in advance (Amen Amen Amen)

please remember me and my family today in your prayers

I'm looking forward :) .

Hi Giannis,

it occurred to me that a point that I left unsaid in my reply. You cited your own case which I can well appreciate.

In everyday walk among the worldly a quarrel is over one's self-esteem. At any cost to make the other lose his argument or his face, so my self worth is shown in better light. When we have died to the world and to sin what self- worth are we talking about? Christ is the head. No glory of this world can match his? "For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God./Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord."(Ro.6:10-11)

When we are living unto our Lord we bear our cross, and smarting under a false accusation or called names, so we do not put obstacles in our path. That takes time and only now I am beginning to understand what it means to be mature Christians. Our glory is in our faith. When Christ who is our life shall appear we shall be with him in glory. Joy and peace in Him

"Convocation"

Holy convocation for Israel was restricted to specific days, which is not how Christians are enjoined to observe. Total sanctification is to be conformed to the image of Christ not by fits and starts but a continual process of walking the talk.(2 C0.3:18),

The cross we take in order to follow Christ is about death and life. We identify with his death as well as live in heavenly places. Unity of the Spirit is to guide every believer 'evening and the morning' without break leading us to the day of Regeneration that is the rhythm of abundant life in Christ. (Ge.1:5)

(See entry above-Continual)

" Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him."(Ro.6:8)

"For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you./ Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?"(2 Co.13:4-5)

Certainly will Adam.

Dear Adam and April,

My prayers go up to our Father for you and April and Paul and will not stop. You are not alone and your faith will bring you through this.

In love God bless,

RLW

Amen. Jesus Christ is coming soon.

Please pray for our heavenly Father to heal our son Paul Terrell Webb. He was born premature at 24 weeks on 12/28/2023 .

Paul's lungs are under developed he also had bleeding on his brain and a tiny hole in his heart but God has already healed up the hole and stopped the brain bleed. I know that our heavenly Father does all things well and all of the praise honor and glory goes to him but please remember my son in your prayers because our heavenly Father hears the cries of his children and he is faithful to us even when we are not faithful to him.

The mercy and grace of our heavenly Father knows no bounds.

Hi Jema.

Sorry for a late response.

Today is my wife birthday!

We didn't do anything special but I told her we will go and do anything she wants.

Today I have been to places I didn't even know existed.

However, To answer your question,

I'm not sure what book is my favorite.

We could probably break it down by new and old testament or perhaps by author.

Isaiah and Daniel would probably be my favorite OT books.

The new testament I would have to rate my favorite by Author. Maybe John, Peter and Paul.

Tomorrow I will give my reason why I find the book of Daniel so fascinating.

God bless you Jema.

May God bless you for your honest confession , we need more of that on here . Much love in Christ .

As Believers, we know that the LORD JESUS CHRIST is our only answer for the trials and troubles we are going through today in the Middle East and in our nation here in the USA. Let us, as saints, be faithful, diligent, and obedient to HIS Word.

Hebrews 2:

1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

GOD bless our leaders in DC with the mind of CHRIST through HIS salvation. The LORD to shine HIS face on our state and local leaders in CHRIST name. Bless our pastors and true believers to lift up HIS name at all times through our conversation, witness and testimony.

January 13, 2024 Galatians 5:16

Giannis,

thanks of the advice.

One contractor I have already met. He remodeled the home next to us for his daughter to live in. One of my colleagues at work at the time knew him and also said that he does good work.

The other one we do not know other than a recommendation from the insurance adjuster.

Hi Giannis,

Feeling remorse is not restoring peace with God. Judas did not turn to God for it. He responded to his remorse in a manner as man does, cursing himself out of frustration or hanging (an extreme case). Esau also responded to his folly in giving away his birthright so cheaply. "For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears."(He.12:7) David did a terrible thing but he found grace. He had to pay the price for it. His family life was ruined what with Absalom turning against it. His contrition was backed with genuine remorse. Ps.51 is a study in the manner he came back into the fold.

Having a quarrel with brethren "Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift." You have to respond to what the Spirit has shown you as your lapse and not leave for the other.

Praise the Lord

Hi Bennymkje

About Judas a lot has been written by many. The usual question is: why didn't God forgive Judas since he "repented"?

But did he repent? The answer is no, he didn't. He merely felt bad about what happened, and he never went to God to ask for forgiveness.

Firsty in greek the verb used in Matthew 27:3 is not the same as in other places in the Bible where repentance is mentioned. The grk here shows that somebody feels bad/sad for something that has occured and wishes that it hadn't occured. So does that mean that they repent? To answer that I will go to what happened to me, not long ago. One Sunday morning after the church service I quarreled with a fellow dear brother (never mind who started it). I spoke to him very badly infront of almost the whole church. In the evening as I was sitting in my house and was thinking about it and feeling very bad about the whole incident, I asked myself one question. Was I feeling bad because I hurt my brother's feelings or was I feeling bad because I made myself a fool infront of the church and created a bad situation in the church? To be honest it was the second case. So did I really repent? No I didn't, I just wished it never happened not because I hurt my brother but because I created a bad impression of me in the congregation.

So lets go back to Judas. Judas was just feeling bad because of all that happened and most probably everybody figured him as his master's trator. So a whole bad situation occured about him. Probably everybody started avoiding him, nobody likes and approves betraying. But he didn't realy care about Jesus. He said to the Pharisees that he betrayed an innocent blood. But he knew that before betraying Jesus, didn't he? Maybe he didn't expect that they wanted to kill Jesus? But he knew that they wanted to do that, it was obvious from the beginning.

So he didn't actually repent, that is why he never asked for forgiveness. He was only thinking of his own situation, not Jesus'

Just an opinion. GBU.