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Father in Heaven we are instructed to pray one for another therefore I come in the name of Christ Jesus with Nicole Thomas asking for your hand of protection. Give Nicole godly counseling and wisdom for every situation by your Holy Spirit. Let your angel of protection be around this family night and day. I ask this in Christ Jesus our Lord and King. Amen

Father in Heaven me and Tova Harrison come to you in the name of Christ Jesus to ask you for your peace in Tova heart, to help Tova heal from this past relationship. Help Tova to connect to you find true joy and peace, I ask in the name of your Holy Son. Thank you Father in Heaven. Amen

Yes Cindy, it does help. I have been struggling with celebrating Christmas for years. I barely celebrate it now.

I raised my kids celebrating it with them but looking back I never had peace about it. It was always very burdensome. Now my kids tell their kids there's a Santa and they celebrate it.

I did not lie to them about Santa. Instead I lied to them and told the it was Jesus birthday? I can't find that date in the Bible or the commandment to celebrate it. I got in trouble for telling my grandkids Santa wasn't real.

I love what you said about Jesus saying to take communion and to remember His death and resurrection Now that's truth. And it feels right.

It's just a commercialized pagan holiday. How sad. I need to be an example to my family.

Thank you.

Anthony, I agree that the great tribulation is not the wrath of God spoken out. I think also, that His wrath comes upon the earth when he returns to bring judgment upon the earth and mankind. Notice the cataclysmic events that are mentioned. The earth could not endure in a life-sustaining way if the heavenly objects fall and melt, if mountains are laid flat and the sky roll back like a scroll, etc.

The great tribulation will be terrible, indeed, brought on by the wickedness of man, the utter evil intentions of Satan, and what God allows to happen during that time.

I don't think that Christians will be evacuated with a pre-trib rapture with the reasoning being that God would not let His church go through such terrible events. I do not hold to this reasoning because God has allowed the church to go through great tribulations, persecutions, slaughters even in the first few centuries after Jesus ascended to sit at the right hand of God. And because I agree with you that the church will be caught up with Jesus when he comes the 2nd time after the tribulation, as Matthew 24 seems to say. Thank you for your explanation.

Dear Sally, You are right. God does not have a mouth or other physical characteristics like we have because He is Spirit and is not made of matter like us. Genesis clearly shows how God made man out of matter, (dirt). So this dirt image is not the "image of God". I have heard it taught that the image is such that, like God:

we are self-aware and aware of others;

we have emotions, as God does;

we have thoughts and the ability to reason, as God does;

we have a will, as God does;

we have are interpersonal, like God is.

There are probably other ways that we are "in God's image" but I think that these mentioned may help you in your understanding of how we are created in His image.

Lori:

Do you understand what it means to produce after their own kind?

God said let us make man in our image.

God is Spirit, if we are (Re)created in his image, we also become Spirit (God, in a glorified body, just like Christ)

Psalms 82:6 For I have said, Ye are gods, the children of the most high.

John 3:6 ... that which is born of Spirit (God) is Spirit (God).

John 17:21 That they all may be one, as thou Father, art in me, and I IN THEM ....

Colossians 1:27 ...this mystery ....Christ IN YOU .....

Romans 8:29 ....predestinate to be conformed to the IMAGE of his Son ....

Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be IN YOU, which was also in Christ Jesus:

Philippians 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.

Philippians 2:13 For it is God that worketh IN YOU both TO WILL and TO DO his good pleasure.

You must be born again: do you understand what awaits us when we leave this body of flesh.

1 Timothy 6:16 Who (Christ) only hath immortality, dwelling in the light ....

1 Corinthians 15:53 ...this mortal shall PUT ON immortality (Christ only hath immortality, we put on Christ).

God bless you.

Brother Anthony:

There is not two separate revelations in Revelation, it's one revelation, the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ .......

Revelation is not addressed to the seven churches, but to the angel of the seven churches.

Revelation 2:1 Unto the ANGEL of the church at Ephesus write ....

Revelation 2:8 Unto the ANGEL of the church at Smyrna write .....

Revelation 2:12 Unto the ANGEL of the church at Pergamos write ......

Revelation 2:18 Unto the ANGEL of the church at Thyatira write ....

Revelation 3:1 Unto the ANGEL of the church at Sardis write ......

Revelation 3:7 Unto the ANGEL of the church at Philadelphia write .....

Revelation 3:14 Unto the ANGEL of the church at Laodiceans write .....

Mark !3:24 But in those days (the wrath of God that was poured out on Christ), after the tribulation (that wrath of God, poured out on Christ) , the sun shall be darkened, and the moon (symbolic of Christ) shall not give her light,

Mark 13:25 And the stars of heaven shall fall .....

Revelation 12:4 And his tail drew a third part of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth .....

Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness (the sun was darkened) over all the earth unto the ninth hour.

And the moon (symbolic of Christ) turned to blood, and covered the sins of creation.

God Bless you in the quest for TRUTH ( John 14:6 ...I AM TRUTH....I AM LIFE)

Beautiful ,beautiful beautiful, our father who art in heaven, hallowed, hallowed, hallowed, be ( thy name)

When you are wondering about something in The Bible, you go to where the word or phrase has been first mentioned to find the meaning. In their own kind is correlating with yielding something mostly. God created in order, cattle made before man? Plants before cattle? Stars before the plants?

He is guiding us to the understanding of His order of creation that yields growth.

That is what He is doing, forming a Kingdom so it can grow and produce their own kind accordingly. Plants, Cattle, Man and more that we haven't mentioned.

I love relaxing in Genesis chapters 1-3. What a miraculous beginning of not only His Kingdom but also the journey that all of man will have to take!

I need to get over a bad relationship and I need to find my self again and I need to find peace in my life and get my life back in order

Luke 3, Genesis 5,

Interesting years don't seem as significant to GOD as they are to man. Isaiah 55:8-11

Events, seem to be the significant time table to GOD, Genesis 15:13-16, Revelation 6:9-11, 2Peter 3:8-11, Romans 16:25, Revelation 10:7,

It almost seems like you're asking because of a Biblical study question

Sally Quinn,

Great you're reading the Bible! Romans 10:17, 2Timothy 2:15,

James 1:5,

Genesis 1:26,27, compare to; John 1:1-4, Job 38,

One GOD: 1Timothy 2:5, Galatians 3:20,

Food in Heaven = Psalms 78:24,25, Revelation 22:2, Luke 22:16, Matthew 26:29, Revelation 19:9, Luke 14:16-24,

Hopefully these are helpful

Hellow Anthony.

Let me clear up something dear brother. When we say God's wrath we don't always specifically mean the Day of Judgement, or the day of punishment of people that accepted the mark of the beast like during the fight of Armagedon or after.

The great tribulation during the time of antichrist will be caused by God's wrath (call it anger, judgement or anything else if you like) to the sinful world. Famine, physical catastrophies like the eartquakes, like the water becoming blood, like that star that fell off the sky, like the sun and moon stopped giving their light etc are caused by angels pouring God's anger on earth to the sinful people. The horses, the wars, the seals opened by angels, the trumpets, the woes, the hail, the fire mixed with blood, the third of all living creatures including people dying etc etc are all done by God through His angels. Rev 7:2 "And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,", Rev 9:15 "And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men."

As I said before I cannot think that God will be doing all that while His church is still on earth so we, His children, will suffer famine, wars, catastrophies, death together with the sinful world. All of which (and this is very important) are due to His anger for the sinning world which He will surrender to satan and his man, the antichrist. It doesn't sound logical to me. What for? The saints suffer together with sinners? Die together with sinners? That is not what happened to Noah and Lot. They first left and then God punished the sinners. They didn't suffer, they escaped all that. Protection during the great tribulation is only offered to the Jewish people that are going to believe to Jesus. These are the ones that are sealed in their foreheads, Rev 7:3, Rev 9:4

GBU

Genesis 3:14,15, just like then, the trick & deception was within twisting the WORDs. Genesis 3:1-4,

Woman's seed = Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:23, Luke 1:26-37,

Son of wickedness = 1Samuel 25:17, John 8, Luke 22:3, John 13:2,

Matthew 4, Matthew 9:32-33, Matthew 23:25-39,

Don't be in fear. 1John 4:18, Luke 12:5, Psalms 34:9, Exodus 20:20, James 4:7,

The enmity Jesus faced: John 19:6,

* Matthew 12,

Hello Giannis

If you read Revelation you will see that john received two separate revelations. One which was specifically dealing with the seven churches and what would be their fate in the near future.

The second revelation begins in Rev 4:1 and is not specific to the seven churches who are addressed in chapters 2and 3.

We cannot build sound doctrine on assumptions or conjecture so we must not add to what has been said in revelation bearing in mind the warnings for those who add or take away from what has been written in Revelation.

If you read Rev 6:12, onwards, you will see events that correlate with Christ's description of his second coming as recorded in mat 24. which Christ says will happens after the great tribulation. And if you read on down to Rev 6:17 you will see the day of wrath is mentioned. So, the day of wrath happens when Christ returns after the great tribulation. The great tribulation is not the day of wrath.

You will notice the angels recued Lot on the very same day that God poured out his wrath on the unbelievers. There was no delay. And so it will be when Christ returns after the great tribulation. He will send his angels at the sound of the trumpet to gather his elect before pouring out his wrath on the unbelievers. This is the rapture and it happens on the day of wrath.

Hello Giannis

If you read Revelation you will see that john received two separate revelations. One which was specifically dealing with the seven churches and what would be their fate in the near future.

The second revelation begins in Rev 4:1 and is not specific to the seven churches who are addressed in chapters 2and 3.

We cannot build sound doctrine on assumptions so we must not add to what has been said in revelation bearing in mind the warnings for those who add or take away from what has been written in Revealtion.

If you read Rev 6:12 onwards you will see events that correlate with Christ's description of his second coming as recorded in mat 24. which Christ says will happen after the great tribulation. And if you read on down to Rev 6:17 you will see the where the day of wrath is mentioned. So the day of wrath happens when Christ returns after the great tribulation.

If you read all my comments below it might help you understand my thoughts on this very important subject.

The great tribulation is not the day of wrath.

You will notice that the angels recued lot on the very same day that God poured out his wrath on the unbelievers. There was no delay. And so it will be when Christ returns after the great tribulation. He will send his angels at the sound of the trumpet to gather his elect before pouring out his wrath on the unbelievers.

I'm asking The Lord to be in the midst of your family day. He knows all about it and I pray He'll make it a special healing time and that you'll all be bound together in love in Christ.

Dear Donna; thank you for your question. First let me say that I am a born-again believer; and I celebrated Christmas every year until a few years ago. God convicted me; questioning me one year while I was busy strewing the house inside and out with all kinds of 'decorations', "WHY are you doing all of this?" And it hit me; it made me think DEEPLY about WHY, REALLY I was doing all of that. Then one of my siblings; some time after that; told me that the Lord had led her into a study about Christmas and its origins. I looked deeply into it myself and I was shocked to find out that, first of all; God says NOTHING in His Word to indicate He WANTS us to celebrate Jesus' birth. Jesus; during 'the last supper' with His disciples; told them that in communion; we are celebrating His DEATH and His RESURRECTION; NOT His BIRTH. Though I KNEW that God never told us in His Word to celebrate Jesus' birth; I was SO INDOCRINATED by CULTURE; that I LEFT OFF being obedient to God's Word! I chose CULTURE over CHRIST!

No; we are not to celebrate 'Christmas', Jesus is NOT 'the reason for the season'. The reason for the season is paganism.

We can not 'clean it up' by celebrating it as Christians. Our Christianity cannot purge the evil out of the roots of celebrating Christmas; it must simply be avoided. It can be hard; we might lose family members and friends; but we GAIN the APPROVAL in that way from GOD; which is the MOST important thing.

I NEVER condemn ANYONE who DOES celebrate Christmas; I look to see (In Christians) if there is any GOOD fruit in their lives outside of them celebrating Christmas. I just believe it's BEST to avoid celebrating it; helping us to 'beat down our flesh DAILY' as we should. And I NEVER get haughty around anyone who does still celebrate Christmas; I am no better than they are. By God's grace; I try to remain HUMBLE; as I SHOULD.

I hope this helps you Donna. Take care.

Hello,

"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."

Does it mean something that God says there will be enmity between the serpent and the woman, but leaves out "man"?

Also, "between thy seed" is worrisome. If the serpent is supposed to represent the devil (correct?) then this suggests that the devil can have children, can create other "devils". How is this typically interpreted?

Just curious.

Sally

This is my first time reading the Bible even though I was raised Catholic. Never too late. But I've lots of questions.

Why does God use plural pronouns like "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness"? Why wouldn't he say "Let me make man in my image"? It would seem to imply more than one God.

Also, in "my image" is interesting. Is this to be taken literally? Could it be a translational issue? I wonder because I don't see why God would need a mouth to eat or have a digestive system. Does He eat? I don't mean to sound contrary, I'm just curious. When I think of God, I see Light. I don't see Him looking like us.

Thanks.

Sally

How many generations from Adam to Abraham? and how many years a generation? Thank you.

I always have to remind myself of the truth of Scripture when I meditate and ponder the passages I am reading and praying for wisdom from the LORD. I always must remember 2 Timothy 3: 16, 17 "All scripture is given by inspiration of God..."

The Scriptures teaches us that JESUS never sinned in HIS heart or in action. Every thing HE did glorified the FATHER'S name. As far as 12 yr old JESUS addressing Mary, and 30 yr old Jesus addressing her as "woman" it was acceptable and not considered as a sin nor disrespectful.

In my culture, presently all the children address their parents as mom/dad or the equivalent. Prior to the 1970's, we called our parents by their first names. This was not considered as disrespectful or ill-mannered, it was part of our culture and social norm. We should never try to press the narrative to fit our own thinking or our life style.

The bottom line is when scripture indicates a truth, then it is the truth for all times.

The LORD shine HIS face upon us all. Keep praying for our nation's leadership and the coming mid term elections. 1 Timothy 2:1-3

Praying also for our first responders and the lost.

September 24, 2022

JOY, wondrous JOY from the LORD in my family's midst together on family day tomorrow//time ahead. Wisdom, healing to flow, peace like a river, FREEDOM IN CHRIST together. The JOY of the LORD in us.

God bless you for praying with me.

Please Lord Jesus Christ enrich Victoria with spiritual wisdom and the Holy Spirit to be an efficient and effective mother, wife and friend for Your Will to be done through her and those in her life. Please protect her family and bring prosperity, peace and perseverance to them I pray in Jesus Christ name!!

Please consider meditating on 1 Chronicles 4:9-10, Matthew 6:33-34, Psalms 23:4.

It helpful to provide verse or verse's, or give some examples maybe?

And said O Lord God of lsrael why is this came to pass in lsrael that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel

I meant to say their ascension CAN'T be replicated although it could somehow be fabricated....

As with anything else; Hebrews 9:27 makes a plausible argument; but it isn't worth quibbling about. The nature of the unique ministry is quite remarkable; as there will clearly and at long last be an undeniable "signs and wonders" ministry that will dwarf anything seen before. This will; of course involve a prophetic contest between the truth and a lie; with fire coming down; a mark or seal; and a Resurrection being mimicked by the Beast immediately after these witnesses have completed their misistry (although their ascension can be replicated).

I tend to emphasize the same concept as Christ preaching to the spirits of disobedience in hades. This is; along with likely the 144,000 primarily if not exclusively a DECLARATORY message of judgment rather than the Gospel as it stands today; since by the sixth seal ALL of mankind will know about God and Christ as well as the beginning of judgment. I would say this probably can be defined as the completion of the "Gospel of the Kingdom" ( Mark 1:14-15). The Gospel was said not to be given to all the cities of Israel before Messiah returns ( Matthew 24:14). There are certain verses about preaching to kings and having the Holy Spirit give the words which seem to be dual prophecies for the Apostles as well as the end time saints; as much of the generation that is described that will not pass until all these things come to pass seems to be describing later on in verse 34 of the same chapter.

It does seem that there is a lag time between the Rapture and the appearance of the 2 witnesses. Since certain judgments on the earth are held back before the 144,000 and likely the 2 witnesses coinciding with that time frame; it would seem that time is needed (they say 6 months or so) for the Temple to be constructed and for most of the seal judgments to transpire first.

That in my mind would also all ow the so called " Psalm 83" war to take out Israel's surrounding nations and their threats to come first before Ezekiel 38.

Such is wisdom in the state of affairs particularly related to international affairs but as well for the godly individual that is rarely heeded to today. Man wants to trust in governments; their own resourcefulness; riches; or even family members to support them rather than God. In the same token the wisdom about things as worldly possessions causes many to bring about their own early demise financially because of foolish spending and putting themselves in the bondage of debt. Many try to bypass the admonition that if "you don't work you don't eat."

Thanks for sharing. Agape; Rich P

This Psalm goes through an early life experience of David; commentators state that the man mentioned verse 1 is one of Saul's "henchmen."

The Psalm asks for God's judgment in verse 6; hence is "impreccatory" in some ssense. It is more of a declaration of David's innocence and proclamation that if he has done anything amiss that he wished his enemies to overtake him (verses 3-5). Those sentiments made David a "man after God's own heart" ( 1 Samuel 13:14) at first; until the infamous Bathsheeba incident.

We should learn well from David's life as his own wishes for enemies to overtake him if he was at fault was part of the judgment after condemning Uriah an innocent man to death to get the woman he wanted.

Verses 11 through 16 show the general state of the wicked who are ensnared by their own sins (verse 15) as well as being judged by God (v. 13); the most extreme example of course being at Armageddon.

The last verse is praise according to God's attribute of righteousness. David was quick not only to repent with a "contrite and broken spirit" ( Psalm 51); but also praised God and even danced for him ( 2 Samuel 6:14-15). This sort of abandon seems unique among rulers in Israel and really cannot happen in a genuine manner without a heart that is of pure motive and open to the Lord's presence. That is a lesson we should take heed to as well.