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How did your surgery go? I hope you are recovering well.
The history of redemption of mankind was spoken by several. The reason Jesus, who is God's Son, became a man was emphasized repeatedly. The account of His sinless life and sacrificial death was heralded. The victory of His resurrection was attested to. The sureness of His second coming was expressed. And the purpose of God in creation was explained.
The gospel was heard yesterday at that solemn memorial. I read that over 100 million viewers heard the gospel! The influence God gave to Charlie in his life was greatly increased through his horrible assassination and the gracious, loving words of his wife reflected the love and grace of our Savior.
This is so good to have happened! Praise the Lord.
Let us keep Erika and those who knew and loved Charlie in our prayers. We can pray for protection for those leaders who stood up and professed Christ to the world, for our President, who is a work in progress, for sure, and for others who voice viewpoints that go against the grain of this current wicked generation.
We just got back from a 4 day road trip, and I was thinking on the way back (before I read of these speeches) of how so many people speak about how sinful Trump is. But to my mind came, "it is true that Trump is deeply sinful, a wretch, thinks too much of himself, and all. His sinful ways have been seen and spoken about publicly. But we must remember, when we look at Trump and see how sinful he is, we must realize that we are truly looking at ourselves in a mirror, seeing the truth of how sinful each of us truly are before God. If God can bring you or others to salvation, He can bring Trump as well, so pray for him often and believe that God is at work in His heart and soul. Someone who is opposed to God would not have participated in a memorial such as for Charlie Kirk knowing how Jesus will be the center of attention."
I will continue to pray for your mother, you and your family.
Her name is Elfe.
well, up and about.
Be blessed!
God can chastise a nation and for a season give the land to others or He can judge a nation and take that land from the 'native' population and give it to others for ever .
Isreal was not given the land because of their righteousness but because of the exceeding wickedness of the inhabitants .
You have to wonder how the UK a little island on the edge of the Western Hemisphere couid ruoe and govern an empire covering a third of the globe?
It was not because of our righteousness but God was using the British to chastise other nations .
It shouild be understood that Great Britain is being chastised by the Lord for its turning away from God and like the time of Gidion has been impoverished for doing so .
IT can get far worse if we are not very careful and the people of God do not seek Gods face and " humble themselves.."
It is written of Assyria that God raised them up to be a "scourge to the children of Isreal AND the gentiles"
If anyone cared to go to the British museum and to the Assyrian section they will see the past walking in the oresent.
For the same conditions apply now here and there as they did then .
For His own names sake .
They will be saved in a day .
I do know that Christians shouild have mercy on them and not side with their enemies , The scriptures also say we will "make them jealous"
I do not pretend to understand it all but Romans 9 is it when Paul expresses how he saw things and finishes up full of wonder and awe at the wisdom and might I of God and if with the Holy Spirits help we follow his thinking in that chapter we just might get a little awestruck ourselves .
GB
Nay in all things we are more than things, we are more than conquerors through him that love us- Romans 3:23
"As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire." The bread is among treasures God has hidden from understanding of man. In v.6 we have two articles mentioned without which holiness of God cannot be expressed adequately. "The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold." Gold of Ophir, signifies faith
In the vision of Ezekiel the throne was set in sapphire. "And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it." (Ezek.1.26; Heb.1.14) God made angels spirits and the four living creature 'ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation ." Between the throne of sapphire and the face of the water we have yet another face, the firmament called heaven. It is a sign as essential as the heart of the earth which is made to appear. Before the hills were brought forth Wisdom, the feminine principle was, "The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old./I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was." (Prov.22-23) All substance of was in the heart of the earth to which the Psalm refers,"My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth." (Ps.139.15) What do these two faces signify? heaven and the earth are they not? (Ps.85.10-11)
These posts were warranted to explain the ark of Noah would not exceed the face of heavn. "Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered." Without abiding in the Son we shall never enter into the God's rest, the face or mid-ar where 3x5 gives us the sum.
Redemption of our souls, "Mercy and truth are met togher; righteousness and peace have kissed each other."
Please add this line to it. It is symbolic or his glory. (Job.28.5)
"and on this wise shewed he himself."
The risen Christ came to the disciples who has toiled all night and caught nothing. "But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus." Compare this with the two disciples on the way to Emmaus,"But their eyes were holden that they should not know him." The Spirit is in control and he set s the 'face'. "And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them./And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight"( Lk. 24.16,30-31) In the gospel of John the risen Christ was there on a working supper to instruct what their roles would be in the new earth. "Feed my Lambs' was the theme over the working supper. (21.15-17)Thrice he refers to his charge signifying what did the number Three meant. The significance never changes neiner the anointing he received in heaven shall continue after he has risen as well. "Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men./(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?"(Eph.4.8-9)
This lower part refers to the heart of the earth. "Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine." This brings us to the question, Who supplied the bread? The disciples need not have asked, knowing it was not an appartion but the risen Christ in his glory. No mention of the nail marks or the gash to which Jesus had asked Thomas to examine himself. The Spirit set up the face between Christ in his glory and the everyday life of his disciples. "So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?" "Follow me" is the charge to all. "Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.(v.22). They were all 12 apostles of the Lamb and not of Jesus. (Mt.19.28)
"But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name."
The names the Christ and the Son of God prepares us for the First Supper as transfiguration of Jesus is hinged on the verse."Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom."(Mt.16.28) The chapter 17 begins by this clue,'And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart," Seven days refers to the Law and what the three disciples are taken apart from their every day world to the 'face' where the glorified body of the Son of man would be what awaited them in the new earth. Thus the day Seven is the revealation of entering in the God's Rest. Jesus 'I am the way' shows his body of flesh as the door,. In short 'apart' serves as the face, in the same sense as the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. (Gen.1.2) Throughout the God document whereever spiritual instruction is warranted, face has only one meaning. In the context of a covenant with Abner David laid one condition, "" (2 Sam.3.13) The context is obvious and it is between man to man. By face we are concerned with the word of God setting up a face where faith is prerequisite..Cain as a vagabond would have not part. In Ps.139.7-12 we have locus classicus on the term 'face.'
The Spirit set the tag seven days where it is Law of the Spirit making Son of man as distict from the Son of God and the Christ. Likewise the Spirit uses the 'eight 'days to indicate the 40 days as transition between old and new body. Jesus invites Thomas " and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side."( Jn 20,26-27) Eight refers to heart of the earth as five refers to Christ abiding in our heart. 'And after eight days again' tell how the numbers gives clarity to the text
another one stated satans envy,led to the introduction of deth into the world as he sought to undermine the perfect creation
through his desire of there downfall,resulted in sin and death.Serpent was a Cunning creature that Induced them to Disobey Gods command
Gospel of John gives a short schrift to the Last Supper with this phrase 'And supper being ended' in ch.13.v.2 gives us instead an entire chapter to the First Supper We shall focus on it as it helps us under stand the spiritual understanding to the new earth. Faith is what connects the world unseen with the world made to appear so the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ ushers for believers a new awareness of the word, "The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times." (Ps.12,7) The Law of the Spirit is implied in the whole number Seven and whosever is sanctified by 'thy word is truth' and believes has faith. The earth abides forever because the Son is the heir of all things and has a face. So every heart may grow in the knowledge (2 Cor.4.6) There is only one speech there, "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech."
Speaking of the sign of Jonah we have from the ministry of Jonah a new Nineveh that shall sit on judgment over this generation. As was with the old world so shall this generation going to their perdition. It helps us give a context to the resurrection of Jesus who shares supper with the disciples who just had come in. "As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread." ( Jn 21.9)
Where did the bread and the fire come in? In the book of Job we have this clue, "As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire." As a book end to the mount of transfiguration here we have the significance of the land as new earth. The Holy Spirit instructs us to the significance of the new earth by isolating their everyday world. Similar to the temptation of Jesus by isolating the every day world so there is a face in both cases, Satan tempted Jesus who was famished after his fasting but the word of God,'purified by seven times.' Who set up the fire of coals, and bread?
I ask for prayers to go out for my daughter-in-law who is 7 months pregnant now. The pregnancy has gone well this time.
But she is facing two things in these final weeks:
1) She is anemic with her iron level being very low. Please pray that this gets corrected before labor begins. She may need iron infusions to bring her iron count up substantially.
2) The placenta has been in a low position for much of the pregnancy. She goes in in a week or so for a scan to determine the position of the placenta, checking to see if it has risen up more in her uterus. If not, she will need a c-section to avoid placenta previa where it is birthed before the baby due to its low location. This would be catastrophic for both mom and baby.
Pray that all is well. If a c-section is needed, then my prayer is that it takes place before she goes into labor, probably a few weeks before her due date.
We are excited to welcome out our second grandbaby, a boy-Isaac. Rosie was so cute at library baby time last week. She plopped herself down next to a young infant (4 months) and gently patted the baby on the tummy and took his hand in hers and held it gently. She will do well with her new cousin.
Amen!
Are we not all looking through a glass darkly " but not so dark that we can't have faith in the present and hope for the future .
The trouble with text is misunderstandings can easily occur . Due perhaps in not being skilled enough in expressing our thoughts or omitting things . Either way if patient with one another and don't jump to conclusions we surely with Gods help grow in our understanding of the scriptures and above all of Him who inspired them .
For I hold to the fact that even as the Holy Spirit was needed to write the scriptures then the same Holy Spirit Iand in the same measure is needed to understand what is written .I also believe and relight on the Lords promise that "He will lead US into all truth " So as long as we are seeking the kingdom of God and HIS righteousness rather than trying to establish our own we can be assured that He will do so .
And if we go astray a little He will tell us that truth also and put us right .
When I was a small child for a little while I thought putting my fingers under the running hot water tap and moving my fingers in the water that made it go hot . Because clearly every time I did it ,the water went hot!
If we jump to conclusions we rarely arrive at the truth .
1 John . Little children . Young men . " ye fathers you know Him who is from the beginning "
It cannot be said that a BORN child of God does not know their father . But I warrant not as much as " ye fathers "
I have not said there are two people of God as in children of God born again etc .
What I do say is as Paul does they were first given the oracles of God and as far as they know hold up those scriptures as the Word of the living God . Despite them not keeping it .
It is God who has kept them for HIS sake and for His own honour and glory .
And will ALWAYS keep a remnant. For out of that remnant will come a people as sands on the beach
But the Lord is going to physically in the same body as He left with come back to this earth and his feet will once again stand on the mount of Olives .He will first come FOR His bride to the air ;some of which will not see death. Then after the marriage of the Lamb will come WITH His Bride to the earth .
I don't know how God will do it . But this is certain when all things are brought into subjection and under Christs feet He Himsef will submit Himself to the Father so "that God will fill all in all ".
This will be something quite different from the beginning.For there that creation was corruptible.
If God filleth all in all that will not be so .
And even death will die being the last enemy .
For death will be swallowed up in victory .
For the whole of creation groaneth writhing for the manifestation of the sons of God .
Even as the Spirit groaneth .
As also the Church of God .
The earth is in the convulsions of child birth .
And will not God bring it to birth?
That " new covenant " which was to replace the old one was FIRST given to the Jews . It is their birthright though they know it not . It is ALWAYS to the Jews first then the gentiles.
The Holocaust will in the light of what the scriptures foretells is coming on the gentiles will be seen as a great mercy in that light .
For we are fast approaching the end of the " time of the gentiles" who in their turn are rejecting the gospel.
But by no means all .
The gentile ' believers ' are we not grafted into the 'natural' ?
The if the salvation of the gentiles by their ( jews ) unbelief was and is so glorious how much the salvation of the Jews it will be like " the riding of the dead" says Paul .
There have only bern two peoples in Gods eyes . Jews and gentiles .
God chose Noah out of his generation .
Out of his generation God chose Abraham .
Out of his generation came Jesus Christ .the "last Adam" .
And God will make of Twain one new Man .
In Rev 3/4 the Lord said they who overcome " I will make to sit IN my throne even as I overcame and sit IN my Father's throne".
It is a very " high calling":to which all believers are called to .
The church has made the wilderness years the Christian norm . Jordan death and the promised land heaven . Not so.
Going through the wilderness was meant to be but boot camp where we learnt that " Man shall not live by bread alone but by every Word that cometh from the mouth of God" .
It took them only just over 2 years I think to go from Egypt to the banks of Jordan .
Paul warns us all " not to be like them who entered not in because of unbelief "
Unbelief is not just not believing God its also actually believing the wrong message .
Even as did Eve .
GB
I have 'heard' a sermon of his on John 17 on yiu tube and clearly by that his understanding grew .
But lutherans thought at some point " let us make a nane for ourselves and stay here and build us a tower."
Thinking that his revelation like Peter's was the whole truth . And when the Lord began to reveal more he rejected it as it did not 'fut' his theological revelation . So God found someone outside the camp so to speak . Calvinists being persecuted by the lutherans But when God brought more light asvto baptism the Calvinist's persecuted them in their turn.
John Wesley brought sanctification . The then Quakers something of the Holy Spirit.
And so it has gone on .I will build MY church " says the Lord " and the gates of hell shall not ire wil against it " gates attack no one .There will be no more denominations nor need of one . But that church which is His body needs to repent of her unbelief and come out of the wilderness not leaning upon her own understanding but on the arm of her beloved .
" Terrible as an army with banners"
Not a bunch of ex slaves arguing with each other about" who is the greatest " and jockeying for position .
The promised land is not heaven nor Jordan death though it is like baptism symbolic of it .meaning descender .
We can't know much about " the power of His resurrection" if we're not also " made conformable with His death "
Thanks again . GB
I am again reminded. That " No prophecy is of man's own private interpretation " Yet man consistently subjects the scriptures to his thinking and reasoning than subjects his reasoning to the Holy Spirit who is the only one who " knoweth the things of God".
Augustine has had a red flag in my thinking almost since I became a Christian by the grace of God ..
I confess I don't know why but you have in some measure given some reason for it .
I've learnt that the Spirit in me can grasp the truth far more quicker than my mind and what the Holy Spirit understands and bares witness to in my spirit takes a while for my mind to catch up so to speak .
The mind must always be ' satisfied' in that it is brought into conformity with the mind Christ . And in so doing our ,ice is transformed .
When I got saved my evangelical pastor once said that to being BORN again everyone is in agreement but as for anything else exoecialky about the last days there are as many opinions as there are pastors .
Wether he shouid have told me that at the time is a moot point . But you have in part shown it to be true .
How is it that " when the Holy Spirit shall come He will lead you into all truth" yet there is so much opinion but Beverly little truth .Truly the Spurit is outside the church knocking on the door ".
I will say this though. God did divorce Isreal because of her spiritual adultery . Which is why the Bride of Christ will be made up predominantly of Gentiles though not exclusively so .
But God has not forsaken them and as you put it Romans 9 biblical argument of Paul proving it shouid be the end of the matter .to any spiritually minded person but never will be to a carnal minded one .
The Roman church has always been at the root of antisemitsm for she has replaced Christ and exalted man where The Lord should be . And put Mary where she never was .
The knocking on the church door ( Rev 3/4) is a call to the whole church to repent . Revival
Philippians 2:3 "Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves."
Blessings
I will be praying for everyone you mention here.
Keep me posted so I can know how all are doing and how to continue to pray for them.
This is a very serious infection having gone into her bloodstream. I will be praying for her this week, as it can take a while for antibiotics to clear up such an infection and at the same time one's body is being compromised from the infection and response to the infection.
Please keep me updated on her condition so I can know to continue to pray for her until she is well.
I hear you on this matter. Went through one of my siblings wanting to by my Mom's house for much less than what it would sell for. We denied her. She was mad about it and tried to get back at us But my Mom's will and repeated statements that she does not want any of her children or grandchildren to buy the house. Instead, she wanted the house sold and the money divided equally with all ten of us children.
If this man tries to push you again on this topic, tell him that if your neice or he were to purchase the home for much less than what it is worth it would be stealing from the inheritance of the other heirs and that is not right to do.
Since she is a neice and not a child of your mother's, her share in the estate would not be the same as those who are children of your mom unless her will stated otherwise. Stand firm against this money grabbing.
These matters that come up when a loved one dies are sad and distressing for other family members. It always surprises me how siblings and relatives rise up to complicate matters in selfish ways, willing to detriment other heirs for their gain.
I will be praying for you. Being an executor is a hard job, but at least you have the legal right to refuse this demand outright.
Our righteous God exercised his chastening as mentioned in Leviticus 26:1-41
And our faithful God who keeps his promises shows his faithfulness in Leviticus 26:42-46. (Please Pay attention to verse 45.)
"Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
45) But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
Verse 45 says, "But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
One of those unfulfilled promises is 2 Samuel 7:10-16.
This is not fulfilled in the Church!
The prophecy of Christ coming through the line of Abraham has never been a debated topic between the Theologies.
Christ fulfilled that but there are still a Davidic throne and Kingdom and restoration for the Nation of Israel that has not.
Deuteronomy 29:21-19 through Deuteronomy 30:1-9 gives a description of Israel history on into the future.
It's getting late Goodby for now.
Blessings
Covenant Theology.
The way the Replacement Theologist interpret the end times concerning the promises made out to Israel.
Gabriel's promise to Mary about Jesus inheriting the throne of his father David points to a literal political throne, not just a heavenly one. Since that throne did not exist during Christ's first coming, its establishment must be future.
A consistent, literal hermeneutic leads to a premillennial, dispensational view of prophecy. In contrast, the more one leans towards allegorical interpretation, the more one is likely to favor amillennial or other less-literal views.
Some Covenant Theologist say Israel lost their prominent position in Gods program because of the rejection of their Messiah.
However, when you mention the faithfulness of God and his holy name at stake then they say "No where does Paul state that ethnic Israel is the inheritor of the promises and covenant made to Abraham.
The rebuttal to that is that same Paul said in Romans 9:3-4
"For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
However, Israel unfaithfulness throughout history never altered Gods plans of redemption for the nation because he is a God that cannot lie.
God has done to Israel what he said he would do to them in Leviticus 26:1-41.
See part 4.
I've mentioned before throughout history Satan has tried to annihilate the Jews. Ethnic Israel!
This would destroy the promises of God and attack his name.
Today it's done with Replacement Theology.
This is spearheaded by some who are Covenant Theologist.
They prescribe the word elect in certain passages that is for Israel to the Church.
They say these promises in the OT is fulfilled in the Church.
This is replacement theology!
The majority of Reformed churches and theologians hold an amillennial view of eschatology, which interprets the millennium of Revelation symbolically and sees the present age as a spiritual reign of Christ. While not universally held, amillennialism is considered the traditional Reformed position, having been affirmed by the Reformers who largely accepted the amillennial views of Augustine.
Augustine views originated from the allegorical hermeneutics of Origen a 3rd-century theologian.
Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire under Constantine, Missler said that preaching a physical, future return of Christ to overthrow earthly rulers became politically unpopular. This led to a "spiritualizing" of the message.
Augustine formalized this allegorical approach into a system of belief that defined the Millennium not as a literal 1,000-year earthly reign of Christ, but as Christ's spiritual reign in the hearts of believers during the current Church Age.
The Roman Catholic Church adopted Augustine's amillennialism, and, as most Protestant denominations later inherited this view, despite other disagreements with Roman theology.
By spiritualizing the Old Testament prophecies, amillennialism accuses God of not keeping his unconditional covenants with the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and makes God to be a covenant breaker!
See part 3.