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Hi dear This is about the redemption of Israel.

The book of Isaiah is divided into several sections with different themes. Thanks for the reminder I have not reflected on it before. Ty God bless us all in the time He definitely things in His Order.

In Jesus Christ Holy Name. 2 Corintihans chapter 13 and 13.

We face many trials as human beings and they bring a lot of fear into our hearts. Sometimes we don't know what to do, and the only place we can turn is to our heavenly Father.

God knows that in this world we will face many trials but throughout His Word, He gives us encouragement and comfort in the scriptures.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.

It's normal to feel alone when all around you is falling apart and you see no hope of the end coming soon. With God, you can face any trial and overcome it because He gives you His power and strength.

He knows that trials can easily crush and destroy you if He does not intervene. Rest in the hope that God sees your situation and will help you.

Isaiah 43:2 was written when

God was comforting His people and reminding them that He was their redeemer, and would be with them just like He was when they left Egypt (bondage to sin).

1 Peter

5 for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

7 Casting all your care(s) upon him; for he cares for you.

8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:

Sometimes it helps me to pray if I pray the Lords prayer_and stop on each line and put in my own thoughts.

Like, Our Father who art in heavenI add my own thoughts of praise and worship of WHO HE IS in my sometimes, needy life. He is "our daddy". We are allowed to run to Father for our needs.

Jesus prayed, "Father forgive them; they know Not what they do." Jesus opened that place we can go to for refuge and help; comfort.

Take advantage of what was provided__through Jesus's shed blood. Honor the blood of that sacrifice.

Thank you dearest. We all are in need of prayer. The Lord give us one task. That we love eath other. Love u in Christ

2 Corinthians chapter 12 and 13. God bless us all in His Hy name Jesus.

While his body was in the tomb, he went to hell and preached delivery to the captives. He took the keys of death, hell and the grave away from Satan and opened all the doors and led the captives out.

He was seen (it as recorded in their news) in the streets leading those released down the streets. In the month following His Crucifixion, he was witnessed alive by over 500 people.

He went to where his Disciples were and revealed he was alive and in his transformed body. Thomas put a finger in the nail hole in his side. They spent some weeks together. Then they all saw his body ascend up into some clouds and out of sight. To reside as High Priest at the right hand of the Father; to ever live to make intercession for His saints (us). He is our Advocate when Satan accuses us, and much more. All we have to do is ASK anything according to his will for us.

It's up to us to get into the New Testament and find out what His Will is, for us. If we suffer_read Hebrews chapter 11 and count yourself blessed to suffer with the saints gone ahead, and the Disciples.

If you don't feel blessed, donate all those old sneakers in your closet and clear a space to sit in there under the clothes, sing songs to the Lord (use your phone to singalong to favorite hymns.) Ask the Holy Spirit to sit with you and Help you to pray your heart to Jesus.

Then sit quietly for a while in silence. The Holy Spirit may speak to your spirit. Listen with your spirit.

One time I was waiting in silence before the Lord, and I hear this song melody. It was "I walk the Line" by Johnny Cash!! I think WOW! After all Johnny did that was sinful, he was in heaven with Jesus! I had judged Johnny Cash. I asked forgiveness and started singing too. The song was showing me: To Walk the Line. A straight line with Jesus.

Even later the truth stayed with me. What and who else had I judged? We carry so much "flesh" around, we ought to get rid of that.

Mishael

A house divided against itself cannot stand. The egregious racial divide is the down fall of this country. God is no respect of person..

1 John chapter 3 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

That explains a lot. Hope you are feeling better.

Roman. Malachi 4:5. Do you think that Matthew 17:10-13 has something to do with that prophecy? Or, is there another fulfillment?

I'm with you wholeheartedly GiGi. What you wrote to the original poster made perfect sense, for anyone wanting to attempt responding to him/her. I was going to ask the same thing, but thought the statement given was nonsense & my reply then would be of equal value. Keep up the good work.

Hi Donna. You may get other views on this passage ( Matthew 3:13-15), & no, yours is a very good question & nothing to be ashamed of, because the reasons for His Baptism are not given, except that He had said that "it (this special baptism) becometh us to fulfil all righteousness".

So we see that both John the Baptist & Jesus are included in His statement. John too was involved in this great & mysterious act. I see several things that are in Jesus' Mind & it certainly wasn't that He needed to be baptized for repentance, as you wrote. As people who were conscious of their sins & in response to John's call came to be baptized, Jesus comes along as well. As people looked inwardly to their sin-sick hearts, Jesus was looking upward to doing His Father's Will & to prepare for the long road ahead that ultimately meant the securing of those people's salvation, by faith in Him.

So I see that Jesus' baptism was that first step - a public declaration to John & others present, receiving the Father's Approval & the Spirit's empowering, the water being the medium to signify His death & burial ( Mark 10:38), a vivid testimony to Himself that there was no turning back - the Cross was before Him, & for the institution of baptism for believers to declare this same testimony of death to self, a new life in the risen Christ, & a walk of faith till the end. At that moment in time, as John was using water towards repentance, Jesus was there using water towards salvation.

And as John was a witness to all these things, so all sinners coming to Jesus for salvation, must be witnesses to His offering of Himself (a witness from the Word and the Spirit). Many, for other reasons, come to Christ & do not truly believe in the full Personhood of Christ, even some Church ministers as we have read of. Unless every sinner coming to Jesus believes the Jesus as shown in the Word & confirmed deep in the heart by the Holy Spirit, then salvation is spurious & maybe just a wishful crutch to hang onto.

Hi Gigi.

I would like to note one more thing,

I stated to Brother Dan we have one word that separate our view and that word is "Requirement".

Every regular on the site knows my take on this and if myself and our friend agreed we wouldn't have a debate would we?

Hi Donna,

I wonder that also. It seems that Scripture does not really explain "why" other than to fulfill all righteousness. But then does not elaborate further. So, I guess, for me, where the Scripture is silent, I prefer not to present guesses unless I simply speculate and say it is speculation. I wish I knew the answer of this, but maybe someone else out there has some ideas to share.

Ok Steve,

point taken.

Hi Bob. As Adam as written, the Word of God cannot be changed at will. And it does us well to look at the matter more closely for clarification.

You shared from Ruth 2:2. When we look at the word in the original language, Hebrew, we see the word, 'shibboleth', which generally means 'grain', but is translated as 'corn', which was the generic name given to all types of grain (wheat, barley, rye, etc.), as used in 'ye olde England'.

And as a side note that may be of interest to some, and as a Bible reader, you might be aware of that word, 'shibboleth'. We see it in Judges 12:1-6; the story is given about the escaping Ephraimites (the enemy) who were trying to avoid Jephthah's annihilation of that army. They were trying to sneak past Jephthah (Israel's Judge) but were found. So Jephthah, in trying to ascertain their bloodline, whether they were imposters, asked them to say the word 'shibboleth', but they weren't able to pronounce the word correctly & said 'sibboleth'. So for a rather insignificant 'corny' word, many lives were lost as they failed the test.

And the same meaning is seen in the NT, eg. Mark 2:23, where the word for 'corn' is 'stachus' (= heads of grain) in Greek & for 'cornfields', the word is 'sporimos' (field of grain). So we should appreciate that sometimes when we read a word in the Bible, we need to understand it in terms of, in which period was it written & how was it understood by those readers. To bring every word into today's usage sometimes can present us with problems that can only be overcome by going back to the original languages.

After Jesus was resurrected from death where and what did He do?

Dear Richard, I am sorry that I have offended you. I was really wanting to know more of BADAZZ's thinking. Not trying to mother anyone. Sorry you take it that way. I am glad you shared your thoughts with me. I do think that this site is for anyone to speak their thoughts and to respond to posts as they feel led to do. But I will take your criticism under prayerful consideration. Have a good evening.

Richard, I am just like you, just looking to learn from Scripture, but I went through Genesis in November and December and wrote comments in the comments sections of those chapters. I like to go and read all of the comments on a chapter before I write mine so that I can better know what would be best to write about. If you haven't yet, you can click on the comments button at the bottom of the page for each chapter to read prior comments. I am learning as I go. I look things up online on ideas that I have questions about. That is how I found out about the two Abimelech's. Have a good evening.

Yes, I agree that we should pray for these folks.

Gigi.

I'm sorry but I don't agree with you on this one.

Here's why.

You said, "You think that this is a misrepresentation of what some are saying on here.

Most on here agree that we are made righteous by faith in Jesus; that His work of salvation, perfect life, and perfect sacrifice is all we need to trust in for our right standing with God."

And you said Most on here believe that it is through God's grace that we come to salvation; it is a gift from God and not earned. Most on here believe that being under grace frees us from the curse of the law and the need to try to attain righteousness by keeping the law.

For a full week I have been posting to an individual and he's been posting to me.

"Not most people as you stated!"

He made it clear as he always has!!

He has made it clear to you also.

We have been having this friendly debate off and on joined by others for some time now.

Here is a portion of his quote to you.

"I agree, but I also would like to add that Jesus tells us repeatedly throughout the scripture to follow the commandments, including this powerful scripture spoken by Jesus to Apostle John approximately 50 years after His ascension into Heaven. If the Commandments were nailed to the cross and are no longer viable as many try to argue, why is Jesus still telling us that following his commandments are necessary - 50 years after His crucifixion?"

Hear is a portion of his quote to me.

"In summary, we must follow Jesus/God's commands (10 Commandments) and work out our own salvation - if we expect to receive his favorable judgement."

Im not sure why you feel I've misrepresented anyone when they make it clear.

Again my post is to an individual as an answer to his reply to me.

Not most people.

God Bless.

Good evening S. Spencer

No, I was not accusing you of teaching this. I have read all of your posts.

In the early church, because of this teaching of Paul, antinomianism became a problem in the church because people thought that they did not need to live godly lives because they were free from the law, being under grace.

Antinomianism (sinning freely due to grace), is a problem today, also, because people do not take in the whole council of Paul's teaching across the Epistle letters concerning law and gospel. This is what I am speaking to, in general, not specifically in regards to your posts.

Hello Bob, I don't think people change text of a Bible because one day someone prefers something else. If you look at the original KJV Ruth 2:2 more than 400 years ago it said corn and if you look at the other translations on this site all of them say corn. So, you think the text of all KJV Bibles should be changed to "ears of barley" because you assume no one grew corn in their cornfields?

Mathew 12:1 (corn)

Mark 2:23 (corn)

Thank you so much for your response. I read the chapter and it helped.

Berder's

When, date?

What is meant by the rivers and fire in verse 2 here? they will not overflow thee or not be burned neither any flame kindle upon thee.

What does the bible say about spiritual oppression?

Thank you

Child, get off that backslide and come on over to the frontslide. Get yourself a new routine, like working out, self discipline. You can do it with God in your heart, you'll be OK.

( EXODUS 25:13-14). Later it is specified that of the Levites, it would be the job of the sons of Kohath to bear the ark and that no one was to touch the ark, not even the sons of Kohath, the result of doing so was to die (Num.4:15).

Yet, some might determine that would only apply to initially loading it upon some beast of burden or such. Yet, this is made clear when beasts of burden were donated to the priests, "But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders" ( Num. 7:9), the items making up the tabernacle. Now fast forward some four hundred years and the ark of the covenant has been captured by the Philistines and then returned to Israel, but not back to where the tabernacle was. David saw fit to have it brought back. It is recorded that, "they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart" ( II Sam. 6:3). At one point, "Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah: and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God" ( II Sam. 6:4). So, now what can we learn about how to transport an ark, or really to carry out any command of God?

Israel always says he's 6 months away, or is that Iran?

Hi Gigi.

I thought I was being accused of teaching it's ok to continue in sin on my reply to Kim.

God bless.

Amen Thanks for that clarity Adam.

That's why I refer to Romans 6:1-23.

God bless.