It would seem that at that time , the Israelites referred to the Word of the Lord , spoken through His prophets as a burden to them . God was always trying to help them by giving them good advice and guidance on how to live their lives in ways that would benefit them and be acceptable to Him . He wanted them to live happy safe lives in His love . They were a bit more inclined towards worldly pleasures I think , making money on the Sabbath , drinking excessively , marrying the heathen around them , the usual kind of trouble that any of us can get into , smiley face , they seemed to think that God just wanted to spoil their fun and so His Words became a burden to them .
There are definitely some strange things going on in the OT: God made Ezekiel eat human dung cakes.
( Ezekiel 4:12) And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. Then says to make them with cow dung.
vs 15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
God made Isaiah walk naked and barefoot for 3 years.
( Isaiah 20:2-4)
2 At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
3 And the Lord said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
I believe Isaiah 20 may reveal to us that we must be want and be willing to obey the Lord. For three years Isaiah walked naked and without shoes because he was told to do so by the Lord. How he must have been judged by people! Isaiah was doing the Lord's will. Likely he was judged unhinged, possibly belittled maybe shunned, uncomfortable physically without his sackcloth and shoes but this work of Isaiah was deemed to be written in the inspired word of God so we should learn from it. This somewhat reminds me of Job's ordeals. We do not know the reason for our trials. I believe Isaiah's time was roughly 750 years before Christ.
Peace to all. Please pray for His will to be done and effort to accept it.
Greetings in the name of JESUS. I have some words of encouragement. Testimonial. When was the last time , If you ever had yourself a one on one conversation with your Lord and Savior, JESUS CHRIST...It's so important to have yourself a serious relationship with your JESUS !. JESUS is the way. The only way. Call on his name. To what ever storms you are facing in your life. Give your heaviness to your Lord and Savior. He knows everything about you. And what you are facing. JESUS is waiting for all of you who reads this. That he wants you to take your prayers to the next level. Like may I have taught. And gave them a DARE. I dare you to try JESUS. YES !. It is so simple . Now I am sharing with you to what my Lord and Savior revealed to me. GO into your secret place. Also offer JESUS a taste of coffee, (JESUS can taste the coffee through you ) Don't laugh. Just try it. It is like me telling you. Hey sister or brother. I would like to talk with you. May I offer you a cup of coffee. I call this FELLOWSHIP. Yes Fellowship . Say JESUS please sit down with me. I need to talk with you. Their is something heavy in my heart. NOW !, I am going to give you the KEYS. JESUS knows your pain and trials. BUT !. he wants to hear it from your lips. Through this DARE. I've Converted and Baptized, Hindu's , Monk's and Muslims to JESUS CHRIST. Seriously JESUS wants a one on one relationship with us. To draw closer to him. You'll be bless in JESUS name. Can I get an Amen. try It. For I already now the results are great. Hello...
Victor, that is a wonderful story! He preformed a miracle on me one time that no one on earth would have know I needed and he did it 5 min. I am not just some old man that is talking out of his head either I hung up the phone and prayed to God to help me and in 5 min I called back and everything I asked for was fixed and after that I could feel his presents in my bed room at night and it was the most wonderful feeling I have ever had so my friends he is real! He fixed a serious problem for me in 5 min and I will never forget it!
You can do a search right here on this KJB site for the word "worship". A quick check shows that it appears 188 times, including its past tense, present participle, etc.
It's a shame the KJV has been used by many cults , they always devise doctrine that is contrary to the scriptures them selves . Being led by spirits of Antichrist. Stick with the Bible and Gods given wisdom , ask of God if you lack it
I can't respond to what you've said by quoting from the Word, as it remains silent on a subject that I understand was not Church practice at that time. However, I believe you're correct in your thoughts about these 'Christian' holidays which have their roots in paganism.
Of the early Church, which should have made much ado about their Saviour's birth, death & resurrection by commemorating them on particular days, I note that the Word remains noticeably quiet. Yet, in the meaning & practise of the Lord's Supper, I tend to believe that they acknowledged Jesus' coming & work on the Cross at this time, without the need for the allocation of special days (which days they too, like us, may not be certain of).
Like you, I was very pedantic on this subject when I first came to Christ, as I was, with many other beliefs & practises of Christians. I only wanted to follow the teaching from the Word & not the teaching & traditions of men. Over the years, I have quietened & softened over the matter, taking comfort that at least the ungodly world can on these two occasions in the year, receive something of the glorious message of God. That they may know that this holiday time is not just a happy celebration of loved ones coming together in fellowship, but to consider the yearning of God to have fellowship & intimacy with all of them through His Son.
So how does God view the Christian's observance of these holidays? Again, I note that the Apostle Paul went to any length to be able to win souls for Christ. 1 Corinthians 9:20-23: He "became a Jew under the Law once again" (though not turning to Judaism) & to the "weak" (in faith & in mind), he became like them (in understanding their faithlessness), just so that by his identification with his hearers, he may be able to create open hearts to receive the Gospel which sets men free from the burden of the Law & is the trigger to receiving saving faith. We can use these occasions, any occasions, to share Christ's Love to all.
Here we are at Christmas time again. I struggle with Christmas, as I do Easter. I find it very hard to accept either holiday and believing that God is happy with "Christians" as many support these holidays, which have roots to pagan gods. Please reply based on God's Word. Thank you.
Praise God for His mighty working in your life to bring you to the point of realizing your own worthlessness in the light of the great worth & call of a loving Saviour to you. A mighty testimony indeed you shared. As I read it, I thought of Gen. William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army (1829-1912) who too was a mighty man of God & shared some great insights to the plight of mankind & their needs. Quotes such as:
"Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell for five minutes. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry."
"If you want to change the future, then you are going to have to trouble the present."
"I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!"
"I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell."
"Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for souls."
"The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender."
"Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again--until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other."
"Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help."
"Some of my best men are women!"
"Go straight for souls, and go for the worst."
You may read his other great quotations by googling Quotations by Gen. William Booth. May the Lord bless you in your ministry, using you to pull out many from the fires of hell.
Amazing Testimony my brother Victor. Thank you very much for sharing it with us. May our Father in Heaven Bless you on your mission in Jesus Christ. Amen.
BUT GOD GRACE AND MERCY. To GOD be the Glory. Thank You JESUS. An encounter with GOD and JESUS. My Testimonial !. Must Read ! WOW !. I am a Vietnam Vet. This is very powerful. For I myself travel down this lonely road. The hurt , pain, sorrows, and no where to lay my head. over 20 years homeless, Lost everything:, Wife & Families. Gave up on life. Till one day GOD knock me down on all fours. ended up 3 months in a hospital. With gangrene .Leg to be amputated . A hospital Chaplin came and prayed over me. For the very 1st. time I tasted DEATH !. GOD showed me the bottomless pit. Never hit bottom; For it was bottomless, I was then lifted up by the right hand of GOD. From where I fell , I look across and saw 100s of people falling in to the bottomless pit. It was like a bad dream. BUT it was no dream. As I was going up toward the light, I felt a mist of running waters. Suddenly the pain on my leg left me, All of my sorrows vanish, It was a wonderful felling. NOW I WAS FRIGHTEN !. I look all around myself. A brightness like no other. To my left , 12 shadows of men putting my business out. Judgement Day. Judgement Day is no joking mater. To where yout own soul is your prosecutor. I was Guilty. Behind these men came a large ball of fire, Bright as the sun. I back up and looked into the fire. Just to see a man in the fire. IT WAS JESUS CHRIST !. Before me. in his full GLORY !. Trust me All knees will bow !. I threw myself on the floor. So ashamed of myself. Afraid to even to look and gaze upon his presents. Look down on the floor: Jesus came up to me. Place his feet under my face. WOW ! . JESUS is very real. Jesus shook his right finger down at me and chastised me. Then spoke these very WORDS to me ! YOU NOW WORK FOR ME.!. He love me so much that he forgave me. JESUS said to me . GO BACK AND TELL THE WORLD TO WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN .When I woke up, I was healed 100% . Doctors were baffle. Today I am on a mission for JESUS CHRIST as a pastor. It was the love of my savior. GRACE.
i had a dream of this scripture and I have always keep it in heart, I told a Pastor of it but
he could not explain it to me. now this same scripture has come up again in a different way,
I know the Lord will make a way for me. Thank you Jesus.
We have to realize that prophecy reveals what happened to a particular people in a generation and who disobeyed and what will happen to a generation of people who will do the same thing in respective of where they are. The bible stories was written to guide our lives and reveal to us consequences and many curses that followed many nations and generations countries and present predicament in such areas and what may happen to many nations who may repeat the same mistakes in other words keeping track with us on the benefits of obedience and consequences of sin. May the good Lord help us in Jesus name Amen.
I BEIEIVE WHAT WAS SPOKEN HERE REALLY HAPPEN, AND I ALSO BELIEVE THE REASON SO MANY OF OUR YOUNGER GENERATION IS WALKING AROUND NOW WITH THEIR BUTTOCKS SHOWING IS BECAUSE THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY BEING HELD CAPTIVE!
My question is, did this event really happened or was the writers of the King Version trying to justify what occured during the 14th century to African people and the transatlantic slave trade. Because if the Isaiah 20:4 did happened it ment that God put African people through the same experience the second time.
They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
2 Samuel 19:3 | View whole chapter | See verse in context
And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
Hebrews 2:11 | View whole chapter | See verse in context
For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
Isaiah 33:9 | View whole chapter | See verse in context
The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
1 John 2:28 | View whole chapter | See verse in context
And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
Micah 3:7 | View whole chapter | See verse in context
Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
Ezekiel 36:32 | View whole chapter | See verse in context
Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
Hebrews 11:16 | View whole chapter | See verse in context
But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Genesis 2:25 | View whole chapter | See verse in context
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Job 6:20 | View whole chapter | See verse in context
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
Isaiah 20:5 | View whole chapter | See verse in context
And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
There are definitely some strange things going on in the OT: God made Ezekiel eat human dung cakes.
( Ezekiel 4:12) And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. Then says to make them with cow dung.
vs 15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
God made Isaiah walk naked and barefoot for 3 years.
( Isaiah 20:2-4)
2 At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
3 And the Lord said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Peace to all. Please pray for His will to be done and effort to accept it.
Of the early Church, which should have made much ado about their Saviour's birth, death & resurrection by commemorating them on particular days, I note that the Word remains noticeably quiet. Yet, in the meaning & practise of the Lord's Supper, I tend to believe that they acknowledged Jesus' coming & work on the Cross at this time, without the need for the allocation of special days (which days they too, like us, may not be certain of).
Like you, I was very pedantic on this subject when I first came to Christ, as I was, with many other beliefs & practises of Christians. I only wanted to follow the teaching from the Word & not the teaching & traditions of men. Over the years, I have quietened & softened over the matter, taking comfort that at least the ungodly world can on these two occasions in the year, receive something of the glorious message of God. That they may know that this holiday time is not just a happy celebration of loved ones coming together in fellowship, but to consider the yearning of God to have fellowship & intimacy with all of them through His Son.
So how does God view the Christian's observance of these holidays? Again, I note that the Apostle Paul went to any length to be able to win souls for Christ. 1 Corinthians 9:20-23: He "became a Jew under the Law once again" (though not turning to Judaism) & to the "weak" (in faith & in mind), he became like them (in understanding their faithlessness), just so that by his identification with his hearers, he may be able to create open hearts to receive the Gospel which sets men free from the burden of the Law & is the trigger to receiving saving faith. We can use these occasions, any occasions, to share Christ's Love to all.
"Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell for five minutes. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry."
"If you want to change the future, then you are going to have to trouble the present."
"I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!"
"I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell."
"Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for souls."
"The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender."
"Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again--until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other."
"Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help."
"Some of my best men are women!"
"Go straight for souls, and go for the worst."
You may read his other great quotations by googling Quotations by Gen. William Booth. May the Lord bless you in your ministry, using you to pull out many from the fires of hell.
he could not explain it to me. now this same scripture has come up again in a different way,
I know the Lord will make a way for me. Thank you Jesus.
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