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URGENT PRAYER REQUEST: please pray for Gianna and her family, food and gas prices has gone up, it has been hard on Gianna's mother, she is running out of money from paying the bills and high food prices. please keep them in your prayers, its urgent.

Please keep in touch and let us know how you are getting on . So many people just disappear from this site and I go crazy wondering what has happened to them . God bless you and all your family .

Your not crazy . You are full of faith . Don't ever be afraid , God will never leave you . May God bless you and all your loved ones , through Jesus Christ Amen .

My pleasure , I just go by what I have read in the Bible , it's the best way I believe . We have an almost identical surname is your pops Irish ?

Hello, my comment was in context of this thread and not some wide sweeping generalization as you may have assumed. Someone posted fiction towards the person with the question and my comment was to be careful if its not scriptural.

Learning the Bible and was told to start in Matthew not understanding who God ,Jesus the Father of christ

Please pray for Alice and Butch. They have suffered unimaginable grief and heartache with the loss of their 20 year old daughter as she was a murder victim 4 weeks ago. Pray for relief of the pain in their hearts, pray for relief from anxiety and pray for justice for their daughter. Thank you. God bless.

Luke,

Accusing someone of being ignorant of scripture sounds a little harsh. If someone is not in agreement with you, does that make them ignorant? I am not going to accuse you of being ignorant, but I do believe you are mistaken about John 8:44-45.

You ask, "Who was John speaking of, that's right CAIN, because HE was the first Murderer he MURDERED HIS BROTHER."

First of all, John was not speaking of anyone. Those were Jesus' words, not John's. Secondly, Jesus is speaking of Satan being a murderer from the beginning. If Jesus was referring to Cain, He would have shifted from His description of Satan and mentioned Cain by name.

Wow! I had no idea anyone had responded to my post, but praise God that my desperate rambling was used to speak to anyone at all. I doubted it would ever even be read by an actual person.

Thank all of y'all who were guided to respond. It means so much to me to feel heard. I appreciate any prayer for my life, my health, my restoration, and please go on.. but if I may ask for specific prayers for my young twin daughters? Their names are Bonnie and Baylee, and they are 8 years old. Beautiful, smart and tender hearted, and so far they love Jesus! Unfortunately we lost their daddy and my husband in a car accident when they were only 15 months old. It hasn't been easy, and I know it might be a long while until there are better times ahead. All because of the clarity the Lord gave me throughout yesterday and today, I am finally beginning to really really be at peace with God's purpose for my life, and wether he restores my health or ends my life on earth I will rejoice in His promises because now I KNOW Jesus is using my life to glorify His name, and I pray it can be used so others can receive Jesus like I have!, I just pray PLEASE Lord, that my girls see Christ through me. I can't say how much it would mean to me that anyone would see fit to lift up my daughters in prayer at my request. And I ask for this of anyone who will, because I am the best at forgetting to focus on Jesus and not on myself. And I fall back to being a poor example of the Living Gospel of Jesus Christ. There is no more time for me to be a lukewarm Christian. They have to know their mommas life was made rich complete because of God's goodness!I'm still rambling like a crazy person, and I thank y'all for not laughing or judging how desperate I am in my spirit for God's grace to continue this raining on me. Thank you God for being ALMIGHTY and POWERFUL. Jesus ALONE is worthy of praise. Amen.

Amen !! so true so true.

lol...at first I read this and was like, manifest..We need to get out of our own imagination and get into Gods word more. then I realized the word "against" was in the sentence so..ya, Amen! we as humans imagine all we want yet stay in His reality for so many ppl are in their own imagination God has turned from them. One can imagine their future and work toward that Yet in the end, God is in control and His will for you may be different from what you want so don't waist to much time and stay open minded to His will for your life and not your own!

Protecting children, why does this seem so hard or ambiguous

You ever think to leave out the eyes? If you don't feel God has answered you and the eyes are all that's left for it to be complete, try leaving them out and see what that does. After all most the world is bling to Him anyway. Heavenly Father thank you for your son Jesus. I ask that you be with Christina guiding her hand giving it the style you need for your glory. In Jesus name Amen! always pray before doing anything..

Amen sister !

Trump is the most pro-Christian president we've had in decades. He openly gives credit to God and Jesus Christ, has had pastors pray over Him, has held more prayer groups, and has involved more Christians than any other president. His opponents hate this. He's imperfect like everyone else. His choices of justices helped stop the evil abortion spree and may save millions of lives, even though some democrat bullied states will still mass murder babies and enjoy it. This is the sickest evil happening today, to destroy innocent life God created. A day of reckoning will come where people will weep uncontrollably over this in the face of God, including those who didn't actually commit the acts, but supported it through money or votes.

Obama was raised Muslim and still is. He quoted the Quran many times in his speeches while demeaning Christians, released Muslim terrorists so they can kill more Americans. Biden is senile and I don't know what his actual beliefs are and maybe he doesn't know either, but he's promoted evil- through increasing violence, increasing baby killing, increasing drugs, increasing human trafficking through open borders, letting prisoners go free, while imprisoning innocent people who stood in a public park to listen to speeches. More evil under the current admin than ever seen in this country.

I think its time to start exposing evil more and calling it what it is. Satan is deceiving and controlling a lot of people in government, the media, and everywhere it seems.

Thanks prophecy!!

Good Day and God Bless.

Please pray for me to be able to breathe normal again and please pray for me that God will take the thing out of my right hand, that was put there when I shook a hand, many years ago. Thank you, Anthony

Haley,

Your words have truly ministered to my heart. You have shared with us a perfect example of what it means to place one's complete trust in Jesus Christ. You have reminded me of what it means to remain under our circumstances, no matter how hard those circumstances might be, and knowing that the Lord oftentimes places hardships in our lives in order to teach us how to trust in Him. You've demonstrated that trust. I can't see how anyone reading your words would not be blessed by them. Your words have caused me to examine my own walk with Christ, and for that I say thank you. My prayers are with you as you deal with cancer. I lift you up to the Lord and pray for His will to be done in your life. May He continue to strengthen you and guide you in every path that He sets before you.

Dorothy,

It was not a dilemma for the apostle Paul. In Philippians 1:21, Paul's philosophy was that for him, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. I like that!



Paul says in Philippians 1:22, but if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. (That is, I do not know).

In Philippians 1:23-24, he says, "For I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more necessary for you.

Reading through Verses 25 & 26, what Paul seems to be saying is that he really would like to go be with the Lord. Paul's life was not the kind of life that you want to stick around for, you know? Unless you like being in prison and creating riots, like Paul.



But Paul says I really would like to go be with the Lord. It has much more priority for me and desire than here.



Some of us have trouble giving up our life here for Christ because this life means "so much" to us.



And Paul says for me to live is Christ. If I have to stay here, then that's what my life is going to be about, Jesus Christ, and to minister to those so that they can have a furtherance, or advancement, and satisfaction of faith.



So he says in that you would rejoice in Christ for me coming to you again.

Hi Luke.

I haven't followed this post or many others due to out of town business.

I think you are spot on. Jesus was resurrected a spiritual body and you gave good supporting scripture.

1 Corinthians 15:44. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

Jesus was sown ith our iniquities on him, He wouldn't be raised that same sinful body and go into the presence of the Father. When Jesus took on our sins he cried out MY LORD MY LORD WHY HAS THOU FORSAKEN ME!

I believe the misunderstanding is defining a spiritual body. It's still a body! It's a body no longer weighed down by our sin. If he was sown a natural body and raised a natural body then he wasn't quickened by the Spirit, and we are still in our sins.

We are baptized into Christ resurrection, Christ is the first fruit and the head of the body!

1 Corinthians 15:20.

Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, ( Hebrews 2:9 ) Afterwards there's no need of the natural body!

1 Corinthians 15:54-55

1 Corinthians 15:43. It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: ( This is talking about the body!

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 1 Corinthians 15:45

We wait to be changed like Christ resurrected body and be redeemed from corruption.

2 Corinthians 5:4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

Romans 8:23. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

Thank God for the first fruit because we shall be raised like him.

God bless.

Dear Dorothy, I will pray for Ava tonight.

Dear Heavenly Father, we come to You tonight and ask int eh name of Your Son Jesus that You will allow for this surgery to go smoothly without any complications, fear, or worry on Ava's or family members. Keep her well sedated so that she does not remember any of the surgery and allow her to wake up quickly from the anesthesia. Thank You for the care You give us and the healing You will bring to Ava. We thank You for the medical knowledge and expertise to do such treatment for ailments to our bodies. Amen.

Please pray for me I'm under daily attacks from the enemies of the Cross of Christ. Also please pray for our children and family's under attacks from the devil and his workers. My prayer is for all Christians to be vigilant and let our Lord Jesus guard their hearts and minds in Jesus name amen.

Hi Cliff. King Solomon is generally ascribed to being the author of Ecclesiastes, though he is not mentioned by name. The following reasons can be given for it: 1:1 (son of David, king of Jerusalem); 1:16 (his unrivalled wisdom); 2:4-6 (extensive building works); 2:7-9 (unequalled wealth). These references generally point to Solomon, since no other descendant of David measured up to such criteria. Even Jewish tradition holds to him as the author. Some have stated that this book was written by an unknown author (post-exile) who used Solomon as his central character. However, no evidence has been found to support this theory.

Brother Jeff:

Yes, the earth will always be inhabited; this is where God's kingdom will be.

Isaiah 45:18 For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it; he created it not in vain, he formed it to be INHABITED: I AM the Lord, and NONE ELSE.

Ephesians 4:4 ONE Spirit (the Father, God) ...ONE Body (man's body) ...

Ephesians 4:6 ONE Father of ALL (bodies of man).... above ALL (bodies of man)).... through ALL (bodies of man)... and IN YOU ALL (bodies of man).....

1 Corinthians 15:28 .....that God may be ALL in ALL ....

God's earth "WILL BE" PERFECTLY INHABITED.

God Bless YOU, Christ's body.

Just to add to Delilah's good answer about Lot's wife being inquisitive, Albert. I sense that her heart was still there in Sodom; her home, friends, delights, etc. can make her hesitant to leave it all behind. Though she may have believed the angel's warning to not look back, maybe a thought of 'that one last look at what was my life's joys be forever gone', could have been on her heart.

And we remember Jesus' Own Words in Luke 17:31,32, "In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. Remember Lot's wife", when Jesus spoke of His second Coming. We can appreciate His warning about attending to the coming of the Lord & one's own readiness, and not engaging in thoughts about preserving earthly possessions for the future.

When our eyes are fully on Jesus with our longing to be with Him, nothing of this world should distract us & captivate our hearts away from Him. The question that is often on my heart is, 'am I willing to leave everything I have, or accomplished, or planning for, just to be with the One Who loves me & gave His all for me?' And that is one way I try to measure my life's real worth. Maybe, Lot's wife couldn't get to that point of obedience to God's Word & her love was both misdirected & diluted.

Who wrote Ecclesiastes?

Hi Peter. 2 Peter 1:20,21, "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."

I believe this Scripture points to the fact that prophecy given in the Old Testament did not come from man's Will & determination, but the words were directly from God through those whom God chose to share it. With today's biblical commentaries, or even in preaching or teaching in a Fellowship (or even here on KJBO), it is people's understanding of what a passage of the Bible is speaking of & its application to personal life. This is not, nor should be, a re-inventing of God's Word to suit a person's beliefs, but should be based on what the Word says & then to expound on it, using other Scriptures in support. If we get "five different interpretations", it is how people understand the Word & they share their thoughts. But we can be convinced of what they say, when the Scriptures shared & the Light the Spirit gives, then become Truth to us. We need to be discerning & study from the Word & not simply rely on how persuasive a commentary or argument can be, even from the pulpit. Yes, there can only be a single Truth given by God from the Holy Scriptures, but we don't stand condemned for not understanding it or being uncertain when a comment is given, but are condemned for wilfully mishandling it to suit our own ends.

Revelation 6:12-17 Sixth seal.

If indeed there was praise everywhere as stated after the Rapture in Revelation 5:13 there wasn't anymore. Fear was apparently for all members of society (v. 15) when they tried to hide in vain in the caves of the earth from God and Christ's wrath. For those who would say that this is a parallel passage to the bowl judgments or trumpet judgments are not dividing the Word very carefully. By the bowl judgments men are trying literally to fight against Christ; and are continually blaspheming His name; making no attempt to veil either their bodies or attitudes from God. The demons have succeeded in total control; no doubt aided by the intoxicating power behind Satan's mark of the Beast.

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. ( Prov. 9:10; etc.) Some will learn from this and repent such as seen in Psalm 64:9. There is a time when it is too late however such as in Psalm 18:41-42. That is in God's hands. For some at the sixth seal it probably is too late; all those not in the Book of Life will worship the Beast ( Rev. 13:8) and be damned ( Rev. 19:15).

That will no doubt encompass many who continue in sin even after one third of the earth is destroyed and men are tormented by demons ( Rev. 9:21).

I pray that as this study continues as an unworthy servant to reflect the Spirit of God in my words and to have the strength to undertake discussion of these awful realities which are to come upon the earth. May someone even one soul take it to heart and be led to repentance and may readers be as Jeremiah states in chapter 20 verse 9 that His Word is fire in our bones. The enemy does not want our minds to be opened to see what is shortly to come to pass. The apocalyptic day which is worse than any that was and will come ( Jeremiah 30:7; Mark 13:19; Matt. 24:21) is at hand. May we all have a "reality check" and be ready for His return to escape all these things ( Luke 21:36; Rev. 3:10).

This is interesting; I hadn't looked into that book before. There are two intersting facts; apparently the author himself stated that the Hebrew canon was complete and therefore this writing wasn't to be placed in that material. There is practical wisdom that seems ok and tied into scripture except for the lack of belief in judgment in the afterlife. Thus; they were apparently like the Sadducees not believing in the Resurrection.

The clearest verse in scripture is "absent from the body is to be present with the Lord." ( 2 Cor. 5:6). There are other verses such as Hebrews 9:27 stating that we are destined to die once then face the judgment. The distinction needs to be made between the body "qeber" in the original language describing the BODY and it's passions sleeping in the dust of the earth and "sheol" which is the underworld where all those who died used to go to until Psalm 68:18 and other verses show that "captivity was made captive."

Christ's sacrifice allowed the souls of the rightous to leave the pleasant side of Sheol (such as seen with the parable of Lazarus and the rich man in Luke 16:19-31) and go to heaven ( 1 Peter 3:18-20). His preaching to the wicked was a declaration or show of victory along with the righteous souls released; many of which appeared after His Resurrection. ( Matt. 27:53). This was a sort of "first" of the firstfruits of whom we will be a part after our living Head Christ went first bodily to heaven.

There are many other verses that could be quoted as well. Soul sleep just isn't scriptural.

Agape; Rich P.

Sixth Seal: Revelation 6:9-11

Our pastor was discussing this verse with others this morning on the awareness of those who have passed from this earthly tabernacle to heaven before they get their Resurrected bodies.

Some of the Post-Mil camp seem to indicate this is describing all the martyrs of church history.

It could be said that they also are aware of these things; but the SPECIFIC method of beheading seems to be indicated in Revelation 20:4 as well as the clue in verse 11 to be "killed as they were". There is also a distinct time frame "a little while" in verse 11 as well.

Several inferences can be made from this information. First; it is clear that there is anger and probably blame for what is going on from those who still cling tenaciously to the witness of Christ while others are dying in this manner. The resulting event in the sixth seal immediately following shows the awareness of God and the Son and judgment impending.

Secondly; there is no mention yet of the mark of the Beast or even the two prophets at this point. Certainly martyrdom will continue after a pause (possibly being prevented for a large part during the ministry of the 144,000 when the great multitude comes to faith). Since the woman riding the Beast characterizes this time in Rev. 17:7 the false religion of the world is the likely culprit for most of these killings; later Antichrist destroys this system to get all worship for himself then starts his own killing campaign. ( Rev. 17:16). It appears the 5th Trumpet brings the demonic entity that energizes the Antichrist bringing him to life from an apparent deadly wound ( Zech 11:17). All things in their due time.