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My only thought is where in the Scripture does it say that governments are necessarily evil or demonic?
If Scripture does not designate governments this way, then we must take the view of Scripture. If governments are not so designated, then I would support the church taking the FEMA money as it is designed to help restore communities or make our communities more safe.
To your question about Adam and whether re received salvation or not.
After God confronted Adam with his sin and heard Adam's excuses, explained the consequences of his sin, and then promised the Redeemer o crush the enemy in Gen. 3:15, God sewed a garment of animal skins to cover his and Eve's nakedness.
Adam also taught Abel and Seth and most likely his other children to sacrifice to God and call on Him. He lived through 7 or 8 generations, and the Genesis account does not say much more about Adam, good or bad.
Paul contrasts Jesus to Adam in several of His epistles (Romans and 1 Corinthians 15 are two I know about off the top of my head) In these epistles, Paul was not saying that Adam was worse off than any other human, but that he was the one who brought sin and death into God's good creation.
My view is that Adam most likely received salvation. But we really do not know. Adam was not listed among the persons of faith in Hebrews 11 (it begins with Abel). We leave the salvation of each person up to God as far as whom He elects to salvation and how He judges each person.
We will find out when we get to heaven and meet those that make up that great cloud of witnesses spoken of in Hebrews 11:1
We are told in Romans 10:13, "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
That is a promise. If you call out to Him and cry out to Him for mercy and to save you, He will do it. And the evidence of that, especially for a Hebrew and Jewish person is that with their mouth they will be making confession that He is their personal Lord.
1 Corinthians 1:12 says that we cannot even call upon Him as our Lord Jesus without the Holy Spirit. A religious person can, but out of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, we cannot start talking to Jesus as our personal Lord without the Holy Spirit. We don't have that ability.
But the manifestation that we have that personal relationship, it's not working for it. It's by faith, receiving Him, and with our mouth, making confession, and with our heart believing that our Messiah was raised up from the dead. And there's no difference between Jew and Greek. Whoever will call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. That's a promise!
So please, if you have not already done so, call out to the Lord to have mercy on you and to save you. Romans 10:13 is a promise for all who call out to Him. He will save you, and He will give you His Spirit which will abide in you forever. Please call out to Him today to save you. Surrender your life to Him. Since none of us are guaranteed tomorrow, tomorrow may be too late.
If you feel God's Spirit drawing you to Christ, do not harden your heart to the call. Receive Him. Surrender your life to Him! ( Psalm 95:7-8).
So I am glad that you continue to ask for prayer. It would be good to know how to specifically pray for you and your family, but your prayer needs may be of a very personal nature, and I understand that.
If I'm understanding your question correctly, you are asking me about where Jesus said "when they deliver you up," and when this takes place, if the "deliver you up" time period proves that Jesus was speaking of the end-time tribulation period?
My answer is no, and here's why. In Matthew 10:16, Jesus says "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." Jesus is sending them out as sheep amongst wolves. He knows what's going to happen to them once they start preaching the gospel, and He tells them what's going to happen in Matthew 10:17-18. They are going to be "delivered up."
Jesus is not talking about the end-time tribulation period here. He is sending His disciples out and telling them that they will be delivered up to the councils (Jewish Councils). And then in Matthew 10:19, Jesus says "But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. (This is not talking about the end-time).
In Matthew 24:9, this is to the Jews, not the church.
In Mark 13:9, Jesus says "But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them."
What I notice are the words council and synagogues. The word council is literally Sanhedrin, the chief Council of the Jews. Jesus is talking to Jewish people. He is talking directly to His disciples. He is talking directly to His believers, (Jewish believers). Mark 13:11 tells us that they are going to be captured. As for Luke 21:12, this is also to the Jews, not the church.
When dealing with end-time prophecy I think the misunderstanding of the prophecies of the last days is based upon combining Luke's account with Matthew's and Mark's account as if they are the same message. They are not the same message.
Blessings to you!
I'm a bit confused regarding whom you are addressing your post. You DO mention Adam in regards to sleeping, which I brought up in my reply to you, Josephus. Then you said, and I quote, "You stated God created Adam and Eve the sixth day." You must be speaking about someone else, because I didn't say as such.
Respectfully, please consider mentioning the name of the person or persons you are directly speaking to in order to avoid confusion, as it is frustrating to be misquoted. And of course, if you are making a general statement not specifically directed toward someone specific, then it's not necessary.
Peace
You are right, that is the correct reading from the Greek Text, and it literally would read "The yet one under-remaining (one-enduring) into finish (consummation) this one shall be being saved. So, taking Matthew 24:13 literally from the Greek, this tells us that the one who is presently enduring will continue to endure to the finish or consummation. A true believer, one who has born of God's Spirit, will never stop enduring. And yes, the word HUPOMENO cannot be read on its own with the exact same meaning every time it is used as there are several different forms and transliterations of this one word. And the things you are saying make perfect sense. I have nothing to add to what you've already written.
Blessings to you!!!
It's thankworthy or commendable to endure injustice and suffering if you are doing right.
Such a backwards way of looking at things compared to the World's way of getting vengeance or 'social justice' now. This one will take a lot of practice and will need to trust the Lord that all justice will occur in the end.
Yes Jema, only through Christ.
.... If one is real the other must be false, for what is real denies its opposite. The Holy Spirit (Light) and the ego (darkness) are the only choices open to us. God created one, and so we cannot eradicate it. We made the other, and so we can. Only what God creates is irreversible and unchangeable. What we made can always be changed because, when we do not think like God, we are not really thinking at all. What we can decide between is fixed, because there are no alternatives except truth and what is NOT true. And there is no overlap between them, because they are opposites which cannot be reconciled and cannot both be true. Either darkness is real or light is real. Again, choose.
All of us are in an insane state of dissociation. Dissociation is a distorted process of thinking whereby two opposing thought systems of belief are both maintained. A healed mind cannot maintain a state such as this, simply because it has relinquished its faith that opposites can exist in reality, i.e. the Pure non dualistic Mind of God. Only then can we perceive with a right mind that God is ONLY Love, and NOTHING of Love's opposite; fear, which is hate. Now we can know and understand God with certainty, instead of confusion and bewilderment.
Blessings
Darkness is lack of light as sin is lack of love. Whenever light enters darkness, the darkness is abolished. Light abolishes darkness merely by showing us it (darkness) is not there; it does not exist. As with love and fear, the opposite of of light is darkness, but what is all encompassing (light and love) can have no opposite. It is impossible to conceive of light and darkness or everything and nothing as joint possibilities, because as joint possibilities, they would either be all true or all false. If they are not joint possibilities (and they aren't) then only one can be true (reality). We must choose which one is real, i.e. from God. This we must accept if we be sane; what contradicts one thought entirely can not be true, unless its opposite is proven false.
Nothing (darkness) and everything (light) cannot coexist. To believe in one is to deny the other. Darkness is really nothing and light is everything. Life and death, light and darkness, knowledge and perception, are irreconcilable. To believe that they (opposites) can be reconciled is to believe that God and His Son, which are One, not opposites, can NOT. God is incapable of creating darkness as the "devil" is of making light.
It is impossible to place equal faith in opposite directions. What faith we give to sin and darkness we take away from holiness and light. And what we offer holiness and light has been removed from sin and darkness. Light shines darkness away because, when they are brought together, the truth of one must make the falsity of its opposite perfectly clear. Choose; which one is true, which is false! Opposites must be brought together, not kept apart. For their separation is only in our mind, and they are reconciled by union, as we are. In union, everything that is NOT real must disappear, for truth IS union. We see the flesh and darkness or recognize the spirit and light. There is no compromise between the two......
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From the creation of Adam until the flood there were 1656 years based on the Masoretic text or 2256 years based on the Septuagint. Only 6 books in Genesis so there is so much that we have not been told. When the flood came all that was left were eight people, Gen. 7:13,23 and they were descendants of Adam and Eve, so all mankind today came from Adam and Eve, all the rest of the people were destroyed in the flood.
Tradition places Adam and Eve as the male and female on day six and Chapter 2 is a more in-depth description of day six. With an open mind to hear, and an honest deep study of Genesis 1 and 2 you may find the purpose of the first Adam was not to populate the world but was the figure of Him that was to come, Jesus. If you study this take note of the words earth and field will help.
When God formed Adam from the dust of the ground, He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and Adam became a living soul, God did not give Adam a soul. 1 Cor. 15:47, earthy means temporal, time-based, looks like mortal, we are appointed to die Heb. 9:27.
All mankind today are descendants of Adam and Eve the same blood, Acts 17:26, there is one flesh of mankind, 1 Cor. 15:39. If there were people before Adam and Eve this earth has only been created once, the word replenish, means fill not fill again.
Nonetheless, it will not change we only can obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, what the Bible is about.
The Bible does not contradict itself; man does. Speculations on things we have not been told create confusion and division, Satan's favorite tools.
God bless,
RLW
All of us need healing, whether it be from physical or emotional sickness, anger, vengeance, wrath, condemnation, hateful and fearful thoughts, fear of ourselves, others or God, drugs, bad habits, etc.
The world is so focused on healing symptoms and not the source of all the above, which is fear. Without fear none of them would exist.
All healing is release from the FEAR of awakening and the substitution of the decision to wake. The decision to wake is the reflection of the will to love, since ALL healing involves replacing fear with LOVE.
Please take note, that none of this has anything in common with the "woke" movement currently happening.
God Is
Peace
if you repent of your sins and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ
If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart, man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.- Romans 10:9-13.
God bless.