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I am actually doing very well now. The paxlovid has worked extremely well. I finish it up on Sunday. So will see what it is like without this medication but my hope is that I keep getting better. Thanks for asking.
Please continue to pray for my nephew. He was asked to go back into the psyche ward on a voluntary admittance today. I don't know how long he will be there, but they want him to stay there until his medication regime begins to be effective for him since he was admitted a month ago for trying to commit suicide 6 times in a month. It is so difficult for him and he is so young and his lie has been full of trauma from severe neglect by his mother, his dad being absent from his life from 18 months of age to 18 years old. and he has been with his dad since then. he is 30 and disabled due to severe allergies and asthma that prevents him from working.
I hope you are doing well. Being down this week has given me lts of time to pray for others.
As with anything that comes into our minds, whether to lie, lust or whatever, when we it begins to take hold, to affect our minds & consciences, we must deal with it speedily, in the power of the Spirit lest it becomes sin & we offend our Heavenly Father. Yet, there is forgiveness if we earnestly repent of it & seek to cast it aside ( 1 John 1:9).
I hope you are doing well.
I'm praying for you.
God bless.
" Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world"
"When the Son of man shall come in his glory," v.31 must be understood in its correct setting. Jesus in his humanity emptied himself of the glory so in all things he shall like men, -namely of the seed of Abraham. Matt.1:1 so begins as the son of Abraham; "Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people"(He.2:17) Nevertheless the Holy Spirit enumerates generation of Jesus as following those of heavens. (Ge.2:4)
Here we shall examine the glory factor related to the Alpha Omega aspect of the Son. In his prayer to his Father he speaks of it. "And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was."( John 17:5). This glory is based on the word. "As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him./And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." The cloud of witnesses were thus part of his glory. and sanctified by truth. So Jesus prays, "Sanctify them by truth: thy word is truth" (John17:10)
In his transfiguration on the mount the three disciples were present. Jesus wanted them to hold it a secret till he had completely perfected the will of his Father. From the above we see how man trivializes this glory by playing to the gallery and for the praise of men? In our Savior we are assured of life eternal. "that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." Instead of truth how false teachers make Jesus with limited salvation. Such doctrine of man shall do much worse. "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold."
Please help Your child with understanding and learning the new job. I pray for peace and joy in the house. On the authority of Your Word, Jesus, all spiritual attacks are defeated.
From the crown of Child of God's head to the soles of Your child's feet we claim protection. We believe in miracles.
Blessed be Your Holy Name. Amen
In our time and place we endure temptation and are ridiculed and treated as fool but nevertheless we are enduring these for righteousness sake. It is thus Jesus Christ who of God has become righteousness connects us into his Alpha Omega aspect.
"then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory"
When we received Jesus Christ as our savior we heard the knock on the door. Supping with him signaled heavenly places (Re.3:20) and abiding life would mean that at one level Alpha mode of the Son, we were assured of life everlasting. God telling the Son " rule thou in the midst of thine enemies" was included as well. (Ps.110:1-2). When the enemies came down like a flood the Spirit raised the standard or the emblem. The bow in heaven signified it.(Is.59:19-20)
As with other emblems mentioned earlier we have the bow in heaven associated with the throne of the Lamb. " And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones."(Re.21:18) These 12 stones are to be seen from the new earth. This serves as rainbow. Science would it as a bow owing to gravitation lensing. The main point that New Jerusalem is hung up aloft in midair serving as sign for the everlasting covenant.
"And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it:."(Re. 21:24)
What do we make of nations? Alpha aspect of the Son separated light from darkness. (Ge.1:4) The White Throne Judgment casts out the children of disobedience (goats) from children of light (sheep).
"Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."(v.34)
"And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goat."
It is remarkable that there is a time appointed and several other events also should occur in conjunction with it. "When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:"(v.31) The cloud of witnesses come into their own because the apotheosis of Jesus Christ means the emblem which was in the divine Will of the Father has become the throne of glory. The slain Lamb before the foundation of the world was an emblem. (Re.13:8). Right hand of the most high mentioned in the epistle to the Hebrews is no long determined by left or right but by the throne. "My Father and I are one" Jesus said in his humanity. It also shall be established. Thus we have the Throne of God and of the Lamb.(Re.22:1)
Jesus promised his disciples, "And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me." While he delivered the doctrine of his Father against the backdrop of 'a mountain' as witness he stated, "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."(5:3; Luke 22:29). All the promises of God are yea in the Son. We are looking at the Alpha and Omega aspect of the Son so the word spoken before the worlds establish the beginning and in him was fulfilled in every case. Similarly God blessed us before the worlds began. (Ep.1:3-4) The holy angels in v.31 refer to what St Paul refers," 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." We have been held in the Alpha aspect from the beginning. Because we endured with him in his temptations we have set throne. " Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."(5:10; 1 Pe.5:10)
The mind of the Lord lent his capital to the wicked servant in good faith but wickedness of the servant was his reasonable faculties took the line of least resistance. The Lord envisioned, as in the fable of the Collier and the Fuller, a clean environment while the servant was letting out the grounds for colliery. It is thus faith and reason are ever at odds when we consider the kingdom building.
Has Christianity made the name of Jesus Christ redound to glory of God since St Paul took leave of the elders of Ephesus?
"Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock./Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them./ Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears./ And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified. (Ac.20:28-32)
Sects allowing only limited salvation and honor as a teacher denying his deity in full measure are sign of the times. Overseers which preach another Jesus is laying out another gospel. Blasphemy against Holy Ghost St Paul warned then. The single culprit for this is the manner the false teachers have cherry picked the word of God to impose doctrines of men rather.
25:28-29 speaks of a church that is so feeble that they fall upon nationalism as their last refuge.
The Parable is with regards to managing the kingdom of God. "And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability." The Lord entrusted his goods to his servants in a casual haphazard manner but with careful manner. In his estimation he made manifest his grace. "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith./For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office." (Ro.12:3-4).
The servants who prospered added five talents and two talents respectively tapped on their understanding of the Lord's way of doing business and made use of his contacts and traded on his behalf. So they were concerned with pleasing their Lord acording to the measure of faith. Faith is power and its increase is in applying the skills learned in their association with their master. Whether five or two their industry brought joy unto him. "His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord."
The servant who was given one talent was called to account in his turn. He used his reason than faith which made the Lord make available 'as though his hands' were for him the initial capital to the market place. It was as good as gold, his liquid assets ready to work. His rational faculties made him fear. Returning the one talent back he said, "And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine."(v.25)
His wickedness was to think with his reason where faith was required. Injury he did to 'the hand of the lord' by hiding it in the ground. He calls him therefore, "Thou wicked and slothful servant."
" Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh."
The driver is "faith" which activates his body, spirit and soul and when God breathed into the nostrils of man so no one may say he is an exception. The parable of the foolish virgins inform their failure was in quenching the spirit, the oil in their lamps. Without trimming the wick and all other motions are waste of time. Either they replenished their store or let it go waste. They were like the unprofitable servant who simply did not put the one talent he was entrusted with, to work for the glory of his Lord. The wise virgins gathered with the Lord were blessed to be found ready. "For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath."(13:12)
The bride hath made herself ready. The bride is distinct from the five foolish virgins who shall be shut out from the joy in heaven. "Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us./But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. "(vv.11-12) "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready."(Re.19:7)
Either Or is rooted in the very first separation. "And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness." (Ge.1:4) Based on this your labor in your field or at home shall not deliver you. Jesus refers to the antediluvian world
" But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."
But selection shall follow the divine Will (Ge.1:4)
"Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left./ Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left./ Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come."(24:37-42)
Israel was presented with righteousness which is Person specific. "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption."(1 Co.1:30). Jesus in his discourse makes clear that righteousness is the path to life eternal.
Consider the last parable where this passage is enjoined upon all. "Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me./ Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:/For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink." In the present crisis Israel reducing the entire Gazan population to starvation and death is an indictment against them. Nations which help them have blood in their hands." Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me."(25:40-46)
Chapters 24 and 25 should be taken as one: two aspects of the Gospel to indicate election and damnation invested with Jesus Christ, " I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death."(Re.1:18). In short Gospel of St Matthew presents us his generation He is the son of Abraham as well as the son of dead. The latter indicates his humanity while his Omega aspects tells us,"For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end."( Luke 22:37). Matthew presents an aspect of Jesus Christ while Lucan gospel gives us the ending. It is thus Alpha aspect has to meet the condition: what 'is written must yet be accomplished in me.' Each gospel presents us likewise an insight into the inestimable riches God holds for us in his Son.
The body prepared for his Son has similarly given us, "we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."( 2 Co. 5:1) And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal..5:1) According to the Omega aspect we are called to part of this body to which he is the head also has its counterpoise in Alpha which refers to the stone laid in Zion and the House with seven pillars. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth and what does the ending tells us? "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea." God's handiwork declares his glory so there shall no more any diminishment or correction. Instead we became new creation in Christ. In his Omega aspect we became new. It is to this Jesus refers," And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." (v.46).
Righteousness was revealed to the nation of Israel. (1 Co.1:30)
v.30 "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory."
The sign of the Son of man appearing in heaven is distinct as the Son of man appearing in the clouds of heaven. In the first it is what the Spirit raises aloft. The bow in heaven declares what Isaiah referred in 59:19. The war in heaven has its consequence on earth. In the preceding verse full armor of God is referred to and we can understand the connection it has with the vision of St John,"And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer."(Re.6:2). The Spirit is referring to the bow in heaven. It has a bearing on Noah as well as for us."When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him."
The second part deals with the Son of man appearing in heaven to collect his saints. These are in a series after their order."even so in Christ shall all be made alive./ But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming./Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power."(1 Co.15:22-24). Remember that God is the God of the living.
" And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.:(v.31)
It is to this these verses refer, "I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree."(Re.7:1) For the left out church time has come to redeem itself and through much tribulation. And a remnant of the Jews shall be saved.
v.29 "and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken." In Re. Ch.12 we see the reason why."And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,/And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven."(Re.12:7-8) Jesus had warned, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand."(12:28) This war result in Satan cast down. "for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time."(Re.12:12b.) Jesus ses it happening." And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven."( Luke 10:18) These seventy other disciples indicate the latter end of 'everlasting gospel' mentioned in Re.14:6-8). Jesus is on the earth and yet he see what must yet happen! In the passage one angel speaks 'his hour of judgment is come. In the next verse the second angel announces, "Babylon is fallen' which in chapters 17 and 18 are in detail shown. To our intent and purpose the discourse of Jesus in vv.29-51 cover Babylon, both Jews and the Gentiles. vv.16-20 owe to the Roman army almost at the doors.(v.33)
"'This generation shall not pass' refer to the generation of Jesus Christ. (Matt.1:1) It covers both Abraham and David. Son of Abraham sets him as the Word become flesh. (Before Abraham was, I am- John 8:58) We shall explain the shortening of Great tribulation from this logos aspect. Heaven and earth is set in terms of time on a single scale of Alpha Omega aspect. "that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.(2 Pe.3:8) As the lord from heaven Jesus sends the twelve disciples must integrate the everlasting gospel preached by the 70 other disciples as well. The war in heaven casts out Satan to the earth and he knows 'that he hath but a short time.'. Great tribulation is on reconstituted time vv.21-22
Please pray for healing for my neck. I have been having spine and muscle pains in my neck and I have also been under a lot of stress. Pray that I am able to learn my new job and adjust to the learning curve. Also please pray for peace in my home I have been under serious spiritual attack. It is getting increasingly worse. Thank you and God bless.
John 14:8: I will not leave you comfortless: I will come
to you.
2 Thess 3:16: Now the Lord of peace himself give you
peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.
Thanks for sharing and reaching out Preston.