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Hi Joe, Heaven is the desire of everyone who believes in and trusts in Jesus as God the Son and Savior. We are told when we are resurrected, we will not have this sinful, mortal body, but a new incorruptible, immortal body like Jesus has. We will see Jesus and be able to talk and interact with Him as He will be the physical form of God in eternity. In Heaven, we will be eternally happy without sorrow, pain, or lack of love in all of the relationships we will have there. We will always do God's will forever. we will be able to interact with the holy angels. We will never view or experience anything wicked ever again .We will have pure worship of God and know pure truth as God reveals to us what He thinks is best for us to know. We will not know everything, only God has that attribute, but we will know all we will need to know to experience the fullness of our salvation in Jesus and to the fullness of what God has planned for our relationship with Him (within our human limitations). We will be wowed by the magnificent beauty of all of a restored creation and especially that of God Himself.

So, there is so much to look forward to when we get to heaven.

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Yes GiGi, I could not find your reply on site, I had to click on the email that was sent just to reply back to you.

God bless,

RLW

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I have not read the Apocrypha either, never had much desire, but seeing as it was included in bibles up until the late 1800's perhaps it has merit like other Christian writing, read cautiously and check to see if it lines up with the main canon of the Bible.

Thanks to all my prayer warrior may God bless you. I am a 46 year old woman waiting on a heart .My doctor said it maybe summer when I am able to get the heart . keep praying that God move on my behalf . Well for now I am praying that God move me off of the third floor . I've been in the same apartment for 22 years .Now that I have been dealing with heart issues I pray God move into a house . God can do anything but fail so I'm putting all my trust in him in Jesus name Amen.

Sorry this is happening to you. For me, my laptop screen is going on the fritz, so sometimes it works for some time and other times, it is a fight all day. Probably will have to send it in for repairs soon, so I have bought some second hand books on gardening, cookbooks to browse and other good reads for when it is out of my hands. Of course, the Word will always be my priority. I am home all day due to covid and retirement, so, there are a lot of days to be inside in the winter.

Hi Grace, I was wondering about you today, hoping you would post. Thanks for checking in. Much love.

You are right, that is a problem, too. So, perhaps the administrators can make adjustments on that issue.

Donna, You are right. We cannot expect to have comfortable, trouble free lives when living for Jesus. He will allow us to be "sifted" and "refined". Remembering that He is doing such things to make us more like Him can helps us endure with a heart open for correction, discipline, and maturation.

Yes, this verse tells us that Jesus grew up just like all of us, but was never sinful. He please the Father by always doing His will even as a child and teenager! He pleased men because He never wronged anyone by word or deed. I am pretty sure that He was eager to help and serve others through His growing up years and, in a culture that valued godly living, godly people could only speak well of Him. Wicked, rebellious people probably were uncomfortable around Him as His goodness and righteousness would be convicting for them. But perhaps His example turned some of these sinners back to God. We don't know much about His life between birth and age 30, so what we think or say is only reasoned speculation. But it is good to imagine how pure and holy Jesus was even as a child, youth, and young adult. I think it is easy for us to think that he was like other children with the foibles of bring young and not of the age of reason, but He was never disobedient His parents, or sassy, or crude, or mean to other children. He may have had a good sense of humor, but would not have used it to ridicule or embarrass others. He wasn't lazy, indolent, prideful, lustful, deceptive, or any other typical sinful propensity. Imagine growing up knowing someone like Him! Either you were drawn to Him or shrunk back away from Him depending on the condition of your heart before God.

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I like to be able to see if posts get replies. So, this new format works well for me.

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Amen Mishael!

Well spoken. To honor and respect and reverence God can lead to salvation.

God bless

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Hi Chinita.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1.

Faith rest in the word of God. We put our trust in Christ and his faithfulness. It's a fruit he imputes over unto us.

Faith comes by hearing the word, Romans 10:17. And I believe this is with the inner ear, which means hearing and believing and acting on it. It's not a leap in the dark, It is a substance and that substance is what God has to say and his faithfulness to carry his word through.

Stay in Gods word and pray often.

God bless.

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Jennifer, I will pray for you.

Dear Lord Jesus, Jennifer is seeking you for wisdom and guidance in her day to day life and in specific decisions she faces. She seeks your favor and blessing. We trust that You are willing and able to do all of this for her. Teach her to follow You no matter what comes to her in life. You bless us so much! But sometimes You try us with trials. Give us strength and faith to endure such trials to be found tried and true to You, having our hearts made purer for You as a result of Your testing.

We ask this in Your name, Jesus, Amen.

To speak further on Ch. 4, in verse 24 God is said to seek to kill Moses due to is son not being circumcised. Moses must have known to do this because His parents had circumcised him. But perhaps the customs of Midian had delayed circumcision to a later time in life. But just like Ishmael and Esau, the sons of Keturah (who with Abraham produced the Midianites) would have been circumcised. Did this practice continue in the ensuing generations or had it fell out of practice among these other descendants of Abraham? Obviously, Moses probably didn't know much about the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. His mother nursed him for 2-3 years and then when weaned, he went to live with the Egyptian princess. He may not have had a lot of contact with is family after that time. In Midian, under Jethro's instruction Moses may have learned some about God, but because the Midianites were not descendants of the promise from Abraham, they may have fallen away from relationship from Him. Jethro may have been one exception, and even then, he may not have known much about the life and times of Jacob and family. They lived a ways from the land of Canaan and Midian was isolated with the sea and mountains surrounding their land. Apparently, Zipporah knew why God rose up to kill Moses. She knew that her son's privates looked different from her husbands and perhaps Jethro had taught her about circumcision, but Moses refused to do it. So, Zipporah was a Godsend, along with Jethro, as we will later learn.

Moses took his family to Egypt. He must have known that there would be danger for them, but he must not have wanted to be separated from them or else God had instructed Him to take them. We know these children were under 40 years old, but we do not know if they were very young or young men. Imagine your mom taking a sharp stone and using it to circumcise you! Yikes.

Moses and Aaron learn obedience to God is very important in this event. I wonder how close God came to killing Moses?

Here in Ch. 4 God continues to speak with Moses and Moses continues to give reasons why he cannot fulfill what God is asking him to do. He doesn't yet realize that God is able to go beyond our strengths and weaknesses to accomplish His will. It says that God became angry with Moses. Let us remember that God never sins in His anger Moses needed to know to fear God as well as learn about God's miraculous power. This expression of anger will keep Moses reverent and humble when He leads the Israelites with miracles and is separated out to be wit God on Mt, Sinai.

God had already called Aaron to go to Moses. Had they seen one another in 40 years? Aaron was eloquent and respected by the Israelites. The Israelites did not know Moses well. So, God ad it all planned out that Moses AND Aaron would be the leaders of the Israelites, speaking with and for God, performing miracles with the "staff of God" and by other means. First, they had to be convincing to the Israelites who had not heard from God in a long time and who had defaulted to the idolatry learned in Egypt. But they still knew something about their special status with God through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They had just mixed true worship of the True God with idolatry and grew further and further from the truth of God and from Him personally. Surely, there were some among them that kept the faith, but as a whole, the Israelites had backslid from Him.

God speaks to Moses about what pharaoh will do in response to the requests he and Aaron will make of him on God's behalf. So, knowing ahead of time will help Aaron and Moses to trust in God more than if God did not foretell them these things. Moses and Aaron needed some time to build their faith and to have their faith be tried so they would be rightly prepared to lead the Israelites through many hardships, grumblings, uprisings, and setbacks.

Hi Chris; I appreciate your sincerity and desire to learn about truth, this has motivated me ever since I can remember, therefore I try to understand how to rightly divide the scriptures according to the three commandments in 11 Timothy 2:15 If you desire further thoughts about this subject, I am sure we can go deeper yet into the Old Testament and the old covenant. Stay blessed

My dear "Sean" in peace. Have you not read lengre? Then you have a lot to look forward to. The scripture you are referring to is found in Genesis 2:16-17. And becouse in Genesis 2:22 and 23 v. its vritten my friend. Genesis 2:22And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

after that the Lord took Adam's ribs and provided Adam with the woman. So now imagine that Eva HAD to be an incredibly awkward and naive woman! Who managed and tempted Adam with this fruit before she was made?

To get this right, we must also see here that it was Adam who was told not to eat of the fruit on the tree in the middle of the Garden of Eden. Result: Death was brought into the world. You probably also know that there might be something good in it at the end. Because it says that humans could be more than 100 years old. In fact, Enoch was 365 years old. Among many others, Genesis 5:13-32 please read.

It is very interesting reading. And do it dear you, never give up. Follow the references too :) Good reading in Jesus Christ's Holy Name.

My Internet has knocked me off site, multiple times since yesterday even while trying to answer questions & won't load account sign-in._..?..... Atleast this page loaded

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Not seeing the newest post, and not easy to follow a thread regardless of the subject. Cannot find conversations that were going on, loss of intimacy and keeping up with each other.

Not a fan,

RLW

God foretold to Abraham in Hebron before He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and one month before Sarah conceived Isaac that Abraham's people (descendants) would be 400 years out of the promised land. Since He is God, what He foretells always happens.

And so, Jacob and is family went into Egypt during a severe famine after discovering Joseph was in charge of all of Egypt under Pharaoh. They were they for a long time under blessing, and then at some time, with another Pharaoh who did not want the Israelites to continue to greatly multiply and prosper, he enslaved them and made their time of slavery miserable. Many generations had passed between Levi and Moses, but descendants were identified with the tribe of Jaconb they descended from, thus Moses' and his parents were spoke of as from Levi.

Dear Jocelynne, I will pray for you today.

Lord Jesus, Jocelynne is reaching out to You for help in believing Your Word in Scriptures and has many questions about how You brought Creation about so long ago. Bring her to information that will help explain some of what she reads in Scripture, perhaps in posts on this site or other sites. I trust that You will guide her searching and questioning to satisfying, truthful information. I ask this in your name today, Jesus. Amen.

Hi Donna, I will pray for these loved ones. Lord Jesus, Daniel and Amy need Your deliverance to overcome drug addiction. Send this deliverance miracle today. Help them with their temptations and craving for drugs. Release the hold of the devil on them and all addicts. They cannot help themselves, so it takes a miracle from You, which many have attested to You doing in their lives on this site. Lord, I ask You to stop the flow of drugs into communities on either side of the border and in nations across Your world. Destroy the plants and substances used to manufacture these addictive drugs and foil the endeavors of people to fabricate chemicals that can be used for addictive drugs. Any of these drugs that can be used truly for medical purposes, like opiates, I ask that You will put the cultivating of the plants and creation of chemicals into the hands of a responsible nation, government agencies, and farmers.

We ask this in Your name Jesus, Amen.

God is SO very faithful. He knows the innermost desire of your heart and He will make a way for you to give your personal first fruits to Him. Be watching ,listening. For the Holy Spirit to guide you as well.

Alex, I agree with you on this. Jesus took them as a whole, not parted out. And, since He is the Author of Scripture, both

OT and NT, I believe He was telling the Truth in saying "the Law and the prophets" without separating them apart.

God bless Here is the verse 2nd kings 18:4 He removed the high places,and brake the images,and cut down the groves,and brake the brasen serpent that Moses had made:for unto those day's the children of Israel did burn incense to it ,and called it Nehushtan.5:He trusted in the LORD GOD of Israel ;so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah,nor any that were before him.

Marco,

This is a good question.

For me, andho w I have been taught, fear of the lord is to reverence Him, realizing that He is the One True God and has all authority over you and creation to do as pleases according to His perfect character and will. Therefore, He has the perogative and power to bless or curse, give life or bring someone to death, raise up or bring low, bring calamity or spare one from harm, discipline someone or give them repentance, let them suffer the consequences of their choices or deliver them by grace, allow trials and tribulations or peaceful engagement with others. I could name much more. Being a Christian doesn't spare us from such action by God. However, in the end, we will be saved completely and enter eternal life with him. But in the mean time, we must serve Him with reverent fear knowing that disobedience, unbelief, and rebellion will most likely bring upon us such actions from God that we see as negative, as suffering, as tribulation. Sometimes we encounter such things despite being upright in our walk think about Job, the apostles, and martyrs).

Regular fear is the reaction of our beings to a real or perceived threat that will kill, harm, or influence our response in a situation. This fear is often spoken of as "fight or flight", but I think some people do just freeze and do nothing will being overtaken by the threat. In these situations we are to pray for God's help, deliverance, or to prepare us for impending death that will bring us into eternal life with Him.

Hope this helps.