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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Saturday Sabbath REQUIRES a Friday Passover in the year 31 AD, the year of Christ's death, in order to be valid. It can be proven that Passover fell on a Tuesday in the year 31 AD. This is why Catholicism and some Protestants make the claim for Christ's death to occur in 33 AD, because they believe 33 AD had a Friday Passover. But I will show that that can be proven false as well. The bottom line is that the lunar Sabbath is the ONLY way to satisfy and harmonize all the facts. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">1) Christ died in the year 31 AD. <b>(PROVEN FACT)</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">3) The 7th day Sabbath followed the day of Christ's death. <b>(</b></span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">PROVEN</span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> FACT)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">4) The Passover in 31 AD fell on a Tuesday. <b>(</b></span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">PROVEN</span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> FACT)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">Conclusion: The ONLY way for the 7th day Sabbath to follow Passover in the year 31 AD is if the Sabbath day is reckoned by the new moon. This is 100%, conclusive proof for the lunar Sabbath. The Saturday Sabbath is biblically IMPOSSIBLE.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b style="background-color: white;">FACT #1 - Christ died in the year 31 AD</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><i><b style="background-color: white;">Proof 1: Daniel 9 Prophecy of 70 weeks</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The prophecy in <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/clintsworldview/what-we-believe/is-prophecy-a-mystery/daniel-9-prophecy" style="color: rgb(209, 0, 0) !important;">Daniel 9</a> proves that Christ died in the year 31 AD. Please click on the link for further <a name='more'></a>explanation. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">70 weeks in prophetic time is 490 years. Christ was “cut off” in “the midst of the week” – in the middle of the final week, he was crucified. The decree to restore and build Jerusalem went forth in 457 BC. Count 490 years(or 70 weeks) forward and you come to 34 AD when Stephen was stoned and then the gospel went out to the Gentiles. Count 483 years(or 69 weeks) forward and you come to 27 AD when Christ was baptized and his ministry began. Christ was prophesied to die in the middle of 27 AD and 34 AD. Therefore, Christ died in the year 31 AD.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">7th Day Adventists(Saturday keepers) are especially tied to these dates. Their 1844 doctrine depends on the year 31 AD as the year of Christ's death. While I am not in agreement with their 1844 doctrine, they are correct in their interpretation of Daniel 9's 70 week prophecy and Christ's death in the year 31 AD. The SDA leadership is well aware of this discrepancy of Friday not lining up with the year 31 AD's Passover, but they have chosen to blindly ignore this and continue with their tradition of Saturday Sabbath due to fear of the consequences of changing. That is their choice, but what will your choice be?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Your lamb shall be <b>without blemish</b>, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: And ye shall <b>keep it up until the fourteenth day</b> of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall <b>kill it in the evening</b>. Ex. 12:5-6 <b>(Just as the lamb was to be without blemish, Christ was without sin. Also notice that the lamb is kept until the 14th day before being killed. So the Passover lamb can't be killed before the 14th, and therefore the Passover meal can't be before the 14th. At close examination, being killed in the evening is more properly said to be killed "between the evenings." The Hebrew calendar has 12 hours in the day. The first evening is in the 6th hour, when the sun first begins its descent from its highest point in the sky. The second evening is at sunset at the 12th hour. So "between the evenings" means that the Passover lamb was killed at the 9th hour. The 9th hour, on the 14th day, on Passover is the exact time that Christ died.)</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth </span><b style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">until the ninth hour</b><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, </span><b style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">he gave up the ghost</b><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">. Luke 23:44-46 <b>(The passover lambs were being slaughtered at the exact time of Christ's death.)</b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span><div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">For even </span><b style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Christ our passover</b><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">is sacrificed for us: 1 Cor. 5:7 <b>(Christ is directly linked as our passover sacrifice.)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Now <b>before the feast of the passover</b>, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. And <b>supper being ended</b>, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him; Mark 13:1-2 <b>(The Last Supper had already ended, and this time is described as being before the feast of the passover. That's because the Passover meal was for the following night on the 14th.)</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him,<b>Buy those things that we have need of against the feast</b>; or, that he should give something to the poor. John 13:29 <b>(The disciples didn't understand what Jesus was telling Judas at the Last Supper. They thought Jesus was telling him to buy things for the upcoming Passover meal. This tells you that they didn't perceive the meal they had just eaten as the Passover meal. It was perceived to be the next night on the 14th.)</b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but </span><b style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that they might eat the passover</b><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">. John 18:28 <b>(If Jesus and the disciples ate the Passover meal the night before at the Last Supper, then these people wouldn't be concerned with keeping themselves clean for the upcoming passover that had not yet occurred.)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all. But <b>ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover</b>: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews? Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber. John 18:38-40 <b>(Pilate is saying that this day that followed the Last Supper, was the Passover.)</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and <b>gave up the ghost</b>. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The Jews therefore, because it was </span><b style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the preparation</b><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">, that the </span><b style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day</b><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">, (for </span><b style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that sabbath day was an high day</b><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. John 19:30-31</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">There laid they Jesus therefore because of the <b>Jews' preparation day</b>; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand. John 19:42</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">And now when the even was come, because it was <b>the preparation</b>, that is, the <b>day before the sabbath</b>, Mark 15:42</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">And that day was <b>the preparation</b>, and the <b>sabbath drew on</b>. Luke 23:54</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This is pretty clear and straight forward. <b>This is the truth, proved through scripture, that Christ died on Passover.</b> But if you have gotten caught up in the confusion of the "Passover discrepancy" or supposed contradiction, then please click on this link below and I'll clear it up for you as best as I can. The gospel books of Matthew, Mark, and Luke all appear to say that the Last Supper, eaten on the night before the 14th of the Passover, was the Passover meal. This has caused much confusion but <b>it really bears no consequence to the point of this page, because either way, the Passover in 31 AD was not on a Friday.</b> But for those that like further Bible study, I've provided my take on that subject in the link below.</span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">FACT #3 - </span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The 7th day Sabbath followed the day of Christ's death</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The scriptures are clear that the Sabbath followed the day of Christ's death. Although some people will argue that it wasn't the weekly Sabbath, but the annual Sabbath of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. But I will PROVE, that not only was it the annual Sabbath, it was ALSO the weekly 7th day Sabbath that followed the day of Christ's death. And that is why it is important for Saturday Sabbath keepers to show a Friday crucifixion. The Sabbath that followed Christ's death was called a "high day." The Jews will tell you that a high day Sabbath occurs when the annual and weekly Sabbaths fall on the same day. Some will try to argue that a high day Sabbath is simply certain special annual Sabbaths. But Jewish history and tradition says otherwise. I am big on history, but not so much on tradition, so I will prove my case another way.</span></div>
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall <b>reap the harvest</b> thereof, then ye shall <b>bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest</b> unto the priest: And he shall <b>wave the sheaf</b> before the LORD, to be accepted for you:<b>on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it</b>. And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he <b>lamb without blemish</b> of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of<b>fine flour</b> mingled with <b>oil</b>, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of <b>wine</b>, the fourth part of an hin. And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto </span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. Lev. 23:9-14</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Firstfruits spoken of in Lev. 23 speaks of reaping the harvest. The sheaf is harvested as first of the firstfruits. This is a clear representation of Christ and his resurrection from the dead. A lamb without blemish is sacrificed on this day, which again is a clear representation of Christ who was pure and sinless. The fine flour represented the beating that Christ took from the Romans on the day of his death. The oil represented the Holy Spirit in which Christ possessed. The wine represented the blood poured out by Christ during the day of his death. Everything about the wave sheaf points to Christ and his resurrection from the dead because that is what this day represents. Now let's determine when this day took place and see what conclusions can be drawn.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Firstfruits occurs the day after the Sabbath. After which Sabbath does this occur, the weekly 7th day Sabbath or the annual Sabbath of Unleavened Bread? Well again, it is both. How do I know this other than the fact that scripture says this was a high day? </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: white;">Now <b>upon the first day of the week</b>, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. Luke 24:1-3</i></span><div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Some people will argue the point that Christ rose on the 7th day Sabbath. This can not be true because the wave sheaf offering occurred the day after the Sabbath, which is the first day of the week. I will further show how this works in the links provided below.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Another natural objection to this is that people can not then reckon how the 3 days and 3 nights works in which Christ was in the tomb. I will show you how all of this harmonizes on another page. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The following links tie into this subject and are important to understand in relation to this. </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/clintsworldview/what-we-believe/does-god-have-a-calendar/when-does-a-day-begin" style="color: rgb(209, 0, 0) !important; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">When Does A Day Begin?</a> <span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">page establishes that a</span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> biblical day begins at sunrise. This is important because it helps us harmonize all the dates of scripture. Harmonizing the scriptures can not be achieved when you falsely conclude that a biblical day begins at sunset as the tradition of the Jews teaches today. I recommend understanding that principle 1st before reading the next link. </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/clintsworldview/what-we-believe/does-god-have-a-calendar/the-sign-of-jonah" style="color: rgb(209, 0, 0) !important; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Sign Of Jonah</a><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">page</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> will then explain how the count of 3 days and 3 nights works.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">FACT #4 - </span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Passover in 31 AD fell on a Tuesday</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It is not difficult to know the day on which the Passover fell in the year 31 AD. We know that the Passover is always on the 14th day from the 1st new moon of the biblical year. The conjunction new moon is easily traced back through history. You simply count forward 14 days from this new moon and that is when the Passover occurred for that year. It is a fact that the Passover occurred on a Tuesday in the year 31 AD. <a href="http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/data-services/spring-phenom" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(209, 0, 0) !important;">The United States Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department</a></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> shows that the conjunction in the year 31 AD occurred on Monday, April 10th. This causes new moon day to be on Tuesday, April 11th. Passover is counted 14 days forward to Tuesday, April 24th.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Let me briefly address why some argue that Passover occurred on Wednesday, April 25th instead of Tuesday, April 24th. This is because some people falsely reckon the biblical new moon to be reckoned by the sighting of the 1st visible crescent. Please see my page <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/clintsworldview/what-we-believe/does-god-have-a-calendar/conjunction-new-moon" style="color: rgb(209, 0, 0) !important;">Conjunction New Moon</a> to explain this further. Also some people will distort the concepts of the crescent new moon and try to explain how a Friday crucifixion was possible because the dark moon can be present for up to 3 days in some cases. They will try to claim that it is possible that the crescent wasn't sighted for the entire 3 days and that would make possible a Friday crucifixion. But even though the crescent moon is a false reckoning to start with, this is still an invalid argument because there can not be 3 days of dark moon from the conjunction. 3 days can only be counted from the last visible crescent. So you can never count 3 days from the April 10th conjunction. The most you could ever count is 2 days from April 10th. So a best case scenario would only allow for a Thursday Passover in 31 AD. But I don't want to focus too much on that because the crescent moon reckoning is a false idea to begin with. I just want to show that even if you used the crescent moon, you still can't make the argument for a Friday crucifixion. And with the conjunction new moon reckoning, their is only 1 scenario, and that is for the Passover in 31 AD to occur on Tuesday, April 24th.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>These facts deal a death blow to the Saturday Sabbath. The Saturday Sabbath is biblically impossible because the facts can not be harmonized with it. The ONLY way for the Passover in the year 31 AD to be a day before the weekly 7th day Sabbath is by using lunar Sabbaths.</b> Lunar Sabbaths always occur on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th of the month. And since the 15th is always a Sabbath, and the Passover always occurs on the 14th, then it harmonizes no matter what year it is. <b>This is 100% PROOF that the Sabbath is reckoned by the new moon</b>, not according to the Roman calendar's continuous cycle of weeks.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951583178189597031.post-72720817664800062642013-04-28T14:57:00.002-07:002013-04-28T15:00:09.810-07:00Death, Resurrection, Judgment, Salvation<br />
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back to life? What is judgment? Is salvation only available in this present
life? What happens to all the people that never knew Jesus Christ, to the
babies that were aborted, to the children who died at a young age, to the
people that were purposefully blinded by God, or to those that rejected their
calling by God? Does the Bible give us the answers to these questions? I will
show that the Bible does reveal the answers to these questions. Let’s start
with the 3 pilgrimage feasts of God which depict the harvesting of souls in
their appointed order and time.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">Three times thou
shalt keep a feast unto me in the year</span></b><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Thou shalt keep <b>the
feast of unleavened bread</b>: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as
I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou
camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And <b>the feast of
harvest</b>, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field:
and <b>the feast of ingathering</b>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>which is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> in the end of the year, when thou
hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the
Lord GOD. Ex. 23:14-17 <b>(There are
3 agricultural harvests depicted in the 3 feasts of God. These 3 feasts depict
3 spiritual harvests of souls, or resurrections to salvation or judgment.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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HARVEST = FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD = CHRIST AS FIRST OF THE FIRSTFRUITS<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">But <b>now is Christ risen from
the dead,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><b><i>and</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> become the firstfruits of them that
slept</span></b>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>For since by man<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>came</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> death, by man<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i>came </i>also the
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> of the dead.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made
alive.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they
that are Christ's at his coming.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Then<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>cometh</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> the end</span></b>, 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.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his
feet.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The last enemy<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>that</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> shall be destroyed<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i>is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> death.</span> 1 Cor. 15:20-26 <b>(Christ is first of the firstfruits
depicted by the 1<sup>st</sup> feast of unleavened bread. There is also an
order in which all mankind will be brought back to life.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;">The</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="name"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;">said to Moses, “Speak to the Israelites and say to them:
‘When you enter the land I am going to give you and you <b>reap its harvest</b>, <b>bring to
the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest. He is to wave the sheaf before
the</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span></span><span class="name"><b><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;">so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to
wave it on the day after the Sabbath</span></b><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;">.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;">On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt
offering to the<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span><span class="name"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;">a lamb a year old without defect, together with its grain
offering of two-tenths of an ephah</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;">of the finest flour mixed with olive oil—a food offering
presented to the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span><span class="name"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></span><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;">, a pleasing
aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;">of wine.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;">You must not eat any bread, or
roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God.
This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you
live. Lev. 23:9-14 <b>(The
firstfruit sheaf of the grain is a picture of the resurrection of Christ. There
is no leaven in this offering as there is with the wheat harvest. And leaven
pictures sin, therefore Christ had no sin, or leaven.)</b></span><span style="background-color: #fffefd; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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HARVEST = PENTECOST, FEAST OF WEEKS, OR FEAST OF HARVEST = THE SAINTS AS THE
FIRSTFRUITS OF GOD, THE FIRST RESURRECTION<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority
to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their
testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> had not worshiped
the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or
their hands. <b>They came to life and
reigned with Christ a thousand years.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><b>(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand
years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Blessed and holy are those who share in the first
resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests
of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years. Rev.
20:4-6<b><span style="background-color: #fffefd; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">John answered them all, “I baptize you with</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> water. But one
who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not
worthy to untie. He will baptize you with</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> the Holy Spirit
and fire.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing
floor and to <b>gather the wheat into his
barn, but he will burn up the chaff</b> with unquenchable fire.” Luke
3:16-17 <b>(The wheat, or the saints will
be harvested at Christ’s return.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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said,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="red">“<b>This is what the
kingdom of God is like</b>. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the
seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain—first the
stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="red"><b>As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because
the harvest has come</b>.”</span> Mark 4:26 -29 <b>(God is a farmer who plants his seeds. The good seeds will grow and
then be harvested at the proper time.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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harvest is plentiful</b>, but the workers are few. Ask the <b>Lord of the harvest</b>, therefore, to <b>send out workers into his harvest field</b>. Luke 10:2 <b>(God is in the business of planting,
growing, and harvesting his crops.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Jesus told them another parable:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="red"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“<b>The kingdom
of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field</b>.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="red"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But while everyone was sleeping, <b>his enemy came and sowed weeds</b> among
the wheat, and went away.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="red"><span style="line-height: 115%;">When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the
weeds also appeared.</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span class="red"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir,
didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span class="red"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“‘An enemy did this,’ he replied.</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span class="red"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and
pull them up?’</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span class="red"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling
the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="red"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Let
both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters:
First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the
wheat and bring it into my barn</span></b></span><span class="red"><span style="line-height: 115%;">.’</span></span><span class="red"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="red"><span style="line-height: 115%;">” Matt. 13:24-30<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Then
he left the crowd and went into the house. His disciples came to him and said,
“Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.” He answered,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="red" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="red" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">The
field is the world</span></b></span><span class="red" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom. The weeds are
the people of the evil one,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="red" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">and the enemy who sows them is the devil. <b>The harvest is the end of the age, and the
harvesters are angels</b>.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span class="red" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“As <b>the
weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age</b>.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="red" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they
will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="red" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">They will throw them into the blazing furnace,
where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="red" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Then
the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom</span></b></span><span class="red" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">
Matt. 13:36-43</span><br />
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ABOUT THE REST OF MANKIND? ARE THEY LOST FOREVER WITHOUT HOPE?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="red"><b><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;">“No one can come to me unless
the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. It
is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><span class="red"><b><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;">Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him
comes to me.</span></b></span><span class="red"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;"> No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God;
only he has seen the Father. Very truly I tell you, <b>the one who believes has eternal life</b>. I am the bread of life. John
6:44-48 <b>(The Father does not draw, or call
everyone to him in this life. Many are called and therefore judged at the 2<sup>nd</sup>
resurrection.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">And as it is <b>appointed unto men
once to die, but after this the judgment</b>:</span> Heb. 9:27 <b>(What is the judgment? Is that the same as
the sentencing? Or is the judgment when they are judged according to their
works, and then comes the sentencing? The dead in Christ have died once, and so
those that have been called are being judged now. The vast majority of mankind
are not dead in Christ, but will die, then be resurrected for their calling and
judgment at the 2<sup>nd</sup> resurrection for their first opportunity at
salvation.)</b><span class="red"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="woc"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who
are in the tombs will hear his voice</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="woc"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">and come out, those who have done good
to the <b>resurrection of life</b>, and
those who have done evil to the <b>resurrection
of judgment</b>. John 5:28-29 <b>(Some
translations say the word “judgment” is “condemnation” or “damnation” but “judgment” is the correct interpretation
according to the greek meaning of the word “krisis”. The resurrection of life
is the 1<sup>st</sup> resurrection of the saints. The resurrection of judgment
is the 2<sup>nd</sup> resurrection of the rest of mankind.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: #fffefd; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">The Lord is not
slow in keeping his promise</span></b><span style="background-color: #fffefd; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">, as some understand slowness. Instead <b>he is patient</b> with you, <b>not
wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance</b>. 2 Peter 3:9 <b>(If this is true, then God will give
everyone an opportunity to come to repentance and receive salvation. Although,
not everyone will make the right choice.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fffefd; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">For the time<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is come</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that <b>judgment must begin at the house of God</b>: and if<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>it</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>first<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>begin</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>at us, what shall the end<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>be</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of them that obey not the gospel of
God? 1 Peter 4:17 <b>(The saints receive
our judgment in this life because we are dead in Christ. Judgment does not come
on the rest of the world until the 2<sup>nd</sup> resurrection.)</b></span><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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GREAT FALL HARVEST = THE FEAST OF INGATHERING, OR FEAST OF TABERNACLES = THE
GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT FOR THE REST OF MANKIND, THE 2<sup>ND</sup>
RESURRECTION<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
fall harvest season is much larger than the wheat harvest, indicating that this
resurrection will include a much larger group of people. The various fruits
harvested during this time depicts the diversity of people being resurrected.
The feast of Ingathering is celebrated for 7 days depicting the 7000 years
mankind dwells in fleshly bodies. The Israelites dwelled in tents in the
wilderness and God protected and provided for them in these temporary dwellings.
The final day of the feast depicts the great white throne judgment which is
when the 2<sup>nd</sup> resurrection takes place. Then what happens?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"<b>On the
last and greatest day of the festival</b>, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice,
“<b>Let anyone who is thirsty come to me
and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living
water will flow from within them</b>.” John 7:37-38 <b>(Is it any coincidence that Jesus says that anyone who is thirsty may come
to him on this last and greatest day of the feast that pictures the great white
throne judgment? This is the last day of the feast of Ingathering which depicts
the great fall harvest.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The
earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>And <b>I saw the dead,
great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another
book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to
what they had done as recorded in the books.</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades
gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to
what they had done.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The
lake of fire is the second death.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life
was thrown into the lake of fire. Rev. 20:11-15 <b>(This is the 2<sup>nd</sup> resurrection. The books being opened, the “biblios,”
are the scriptures being learned for the first time with sound doctrine by
those in this resurrection. THEN the book of life is opened to them and they
are offered salvation for the first time. The prophet Ezekiel reveals that
these people are given the gift of the Holy Spirit and are restored to their
land. They will likely be given a certain amount of time to live and they will
be judged according to their works.)</b><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So too, <b>at the
present time</b> there is a <b>remnant
chosen by grace</b>. And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it
were, grace would no longer be grace. What then? <b>What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. The
elect among them did</b>, but the others were hardened, as it is written: “<b>God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that
could not see and ears that could not hear, to this very day</b>.”</span><span class="nivfootnote"><b><i><sup><span style="color: #0066aa; line-height: 115%;"> </span></sup></i></b></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">And
David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a
retribution for them. May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their
backs be bent forever.”</span><span class="nivfootnote"><b><i><sup><span style="color: #0066aa; line-height: 115%;"> </span></sup></i></b></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Again
I ask: <b>Did they stumble so as to fall
beyond recovery? Not at all!</b> Rather, because of their transgression,
salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. But if their
transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the
Gentiles, <b>how much greater riches will
their full inclusion bring</b>! I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am
the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">in
the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them.
For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, <b>what will their acceptance be but life from
the dead</b>? If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the
whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches. If some of the
branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been
grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive
root, do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you
do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. You
will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” Granted.
But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be
arrogant, but tremble. For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will
not spare you either. Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God:
sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in
his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. And if they do not persist
in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for <b>God
is able to graft them in again</b>. After all, if you were cut out of an olive
tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a
cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches,
be grafted into their own olive tree! I do not want you to be ignorant of this
mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has
experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come
in, and in this way</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">all Israel will be saved</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">.
As it is written: “The deliverer will come from Zion; <b>he will turn godlessness away from Jacob</b>. And this is</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">my
covenant with them <b>when I take away
their sins</b>.” As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your
sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the
patriarchs, for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Just
as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a
result of their disobedience,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">so
they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">receive
mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you. For <b>God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy
on them all</b>. Rom. 11:5-32 <b>(At this
present time there is a remnant chosen by grace, but all Israel will be saved
in the end. All Israel will be grafted back into the olive tree, forgiven their
sins, and shown mercy. The blindness that was placed on them in their past life
will be lifted and they will be restored by God. God will show his great mercy
and love to all of Israel, but only in due time. We must stop thinking that God’s
plans for us are only fulfilled in our present lives. We will be resurrected
and God’s plan for us will continue on from there.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The hand of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="name"><span style="color: #001320; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">was
on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="name"><span style="color: #001320; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">and
set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">He
led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of
the valley, bones that were very dry.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">He
asked me, “Son of man, <b>can these bones
live</b>?” I said, “Sovereign</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="name"><span style="color: #001320; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">,
you alone know.” Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them,
‘Dry bones, hear the word of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="name"><span style="color: #001320; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">!</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">This
is what the Sovereign</span><span class="name"><span style="color: #001320; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">says
to these bones: I will make breath</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">enter
you, and you will come to life.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">I
will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with
skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know
that I am the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="name"><span style="color: #001320; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">.’</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">”</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> So I prophesied as I was commanded.
And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones
came together, bone to bone.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">I
looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there
was no breath in them. Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy,
son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="name"><span style="color: #001320; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">says:
Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may
live.’</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">”</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">So
I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; <b>they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army</b>. Then he
said to me: “Son of man, <b>these bones are
the people of Israel</b>. <b>They say, ‘Our
bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off</b>.’</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Therefore
prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="name"><span style="color: #001320; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">says:
My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will
bring you back to the land of Israel.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Then
you, my people, will know that I am the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="name"><span style="color: #001320; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">,
when <b>I open your graves and bring you up
from them.</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">I
will put my Spirit in you and you will live</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">, and <b>I will settle you in your own land</b>.
Then you will know that I the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="name"><span style="color: #001320; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">have
spoken, and I have done it, declares the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="name"><span style="color: #001320; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">.’</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">”</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Ezek. 37:1-14 <b>(This prophecy depicts the 2<sup>nd</sup> resurrection of all the rest
of Israel that is unsaved. They will be brought back to life, given the Holy
Spirit, resettled into their land, and live, and their sins will be wiped
clean. These people thought that all hope was lost, that they had been cut off,
but God has mercy on them. But what about the Gentiles? Will they also be
brought back too?)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">“</span><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">‘However, <b>I will restore the
fortunes of Sodom and her daughters and of Samaria and her daughters, and your
fortunes along with them,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><b>so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you
have done</b> in giving them comfort.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters,
will return to what they were before; and you and your daughters will return to
what you were before.</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>You would not even mention your sister Sodom in the day of
your pride,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>before your wickedness was uncovered. Even so, you are now
scorned by the daughters of Edom<span class="apple-converted-space"> and all her neighbors and the daughters of the
Philistines—all those around you who despise you.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b>You will bear the consequences
of your lewdness and your detestable practices</b>, declares the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="name"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span>. Ezek. 16:53-58 <b>(All
the Gentile peoples will also be resurrected in this 2<sup>nd</sup> resurrection
and returned to what they were before.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty
works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have
repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>But
I say unto you, It shall be <b>more
tolerable</b> <b>for Tyre and Sidon at the
day of judgment, than for you</b>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And
thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell:
for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom,
it would have remained until this day.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>But
I say unto you, That it shall be <b>more
tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee</b>.
Matt. 11:21-24 <b>(These people lived in
different time periods, but here they are brought back to life in the day of
judgment. This time will be more tolerable for some than others. This is more
evidence that the Gentile peoples will be resurrected as well, restored and
judged. Salvation will be open to them as well. I suspect that they too will be
offered the gift of the Holy Spirit and afforded the knowledge in the books,
the biblios. Then the book of life will be opened to them as well.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <b>men of Nineveh shall rise
in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it</b>: because they
repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>here.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>The
queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and
shall condemn it</b>: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to
hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>here. Matt.12:41-42 <b>(More evidence to show that people from
different time periods will be resurrected and restored in the 2<sup>nd</sup>
resurrection. They too will be brought back to their lands and live in the day
of their judgment.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE
EIGHTH DAY<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">“Say to the Israelites: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="name"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span>’s Festival of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven
days. The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work. For seven days
present food offerings to the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="name"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span>, and <b>on
the eighth day hold a sacred assembly</b> and present a food offering to the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="name"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span>. <b>It is the closing
special assembly; do no regular work</b>. Lev. 23:34-36 <b>(What does this eighth day represent?)</b><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Then I saw “<b>a
new heaven and a new earth</b>,”</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">for
the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer
any sea.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">I saw the Holy City, the new
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully
dressed for her husband.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">And
I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! <b>God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with
them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their
God</b>.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">‘He will wipe every tear from their
eyes. There will be no more death’</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">or
mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” He
who was seated on the throne said, “<b>I am
making everything new</b>!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are
trustworthy and true.” He said to me: “<b>It
is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the
thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life</b>.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Those
who are victorious will inherit all this, and <b>I will be their God and they will be my children</b>.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">But
the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral,
those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be
consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.” Rev.
21:1-8 <b>(The 8<sup>th</sup> day of the
feast depicts the new heaven and new earth when everything is made new and it
is the new beginning for the rest of all eternity.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived
seed, and born a man child: then <b>she
shall be unclean seven days</b>; according to the days of the separation for
her infirmity shall she be unclean.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>And in <b>the eighth day
the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised</b>. Lev. 12:2-3 <b>(All flesh will be cut off on the eighth
day. This is a day that represents a new beginning. There will no longer be any
unclean, fleshly beings that had existed the last 7000 years, but all flesh
will either have died on turned into spirit beings at this point.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">IN CONCLUSION: You
can have peace of mind that God does have a plan and is very merciful and
patient with us. If you have a loved one that has died without Jesus Christ as
their Lord and Savior, there is hope for them. They will be resurrected back to
life, Satan will be bound, God will pour out his spirit on all flesh and offer
them an opportunity for eternal life. Now as far as eternal rewards goes, that
is a different story, but that is for God to give as he so chooses. Most people
are not called by God and drawn near by the Father in this life. God’s purpose
in this life is to make ready those that will rule with him in his kingdom.
This life is going to be one big history lesson for mankind that Satan’s way
only leads to destruction. With these lesson firmly planted in our minds, along
with our sorrows for falling short, we will finally give our allegiance to God
with joy and stop our rebellion. We will be filled with his Spirit which will
enable us to do this as our fleshly bodies are cut off. God’s mercy and grace
will be on display in the end. Mankind has been rebellious and God’s wrath and
anger will be triggered, but he will restore us because of his love for us.
Only those that willfully reject his call will be cast into the lake of fire
with Satan, the beast, and the false prophet. </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Remember the former things of old: for I</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">am</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">God,
and</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">there is</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">none
else;</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">I am</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">God,
and</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">there is</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">none
like me, <b>Declaring the end from the
beginning</b>, and from ancient times</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">the
things</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">that are not</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">yet</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">done,
saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Isa. 46:9-10 <b>(So from the very beginning, creation, God
DECLARED the end. The creation account is prophetic.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: #fffefd; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat
of it: for <b>in the day that thou eatest thereof</b>
thou shalt surely die.</span> Gen. 2:17 <b>(Either
God lied or this “day” is referencing a thousand year period. Adam lived 930
years. So he did indeed die that “day.”)</b><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fffefd; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">For <b>a thousand years</b> in thy
sight<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>are but</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>as
yesterday</b> when it is past, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>as</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a watch in the night. Psalm 90:4<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that <b>one day<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is</i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with the Lord <b>as a thousand years</b>, and <b>a
thousand years as one day</b>. 2 Peter 3:8<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fffefd; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And it shall come to pass <b>in
the last days</b>, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: Acts
2:17 <b>(On Pentecost, Peter describes them
as living “in the last days.”)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many
times and in various ways,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>but <b>in these last days</b> he has spoken to us
by his Son, Heb. 1:1-2 <b>(Even the days of
Jesus were known as the last days.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">Does the 7 days of
creation prophecy a 7000 year plan of redemption for mankind? The 7<sup>th</sup>
day is the Sabbath day of rest. Christ will rule with the saints for a 1000
years when he returns. So will he return at the end of 6000 years? Does the
Bible tell us the age of the earth? What year are we in? Are we close to the
return of Christ? Is the starting point from creation or from the fall of man
when Adam and Eve sinned in the garden? Let’s take a look…</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">And Adam lived<b>
an hundred and thirty years, </b>and begat</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">a
son</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">in his own likeness, after his image;
and called his name Seth...<b>(0+130=130yrs)
<br />
</b>And Seth lived<b> an hundred and five
years, </b>and begat Enos…<b>(130+105=235yrs)
</b><br />
And Enos lived <b>ninety years</b>, and
begat Cainan…<b>(235+90=325yrs)</b><br />
And Cainan lived <b>seventy years</b>, and
begat Mahalaleel…<b>(325+70=395yrs)</b><br />
And Mahalaleel lived <b>sixty and five
years</b>, and begat Jared…<b>(395+65=460yrs)</b><br />
And Jared lived <b>an hundred sixty and two
years</b>, and he begat Enoch…<b>(460+162=622yrs)</b><br />
And Enoch lived <b>sixty and five years</b>,
and begat Methuselah…<b>(622+65=687yrs)</b><br />
And Methuselah lived <b>an hundred eighty
and seven years</b>, and begat Lamech…<b>(687+187=874yrs)</b><br />
And Lamech lived <b>an hundred eighty and
two years</b>, and begat a son: And he called his name Noah…<b>(874+182=1056yrs)<br />
</b>Gen. 5:3-29<br />
<b>1,056 YEARS FROM CREATION TO THE BIRTH
OF NOAH</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><b><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">After</span></b><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> Noah was <b>500 years old</b>, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Gen.
5:32</span><b><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> (Either Noah’s sons were triplets, or this
verse is simply stating that Noah started having his sons at age 500 and Shem
isn’t necessarily the oldest just because he is listed first. Let’s see if we
can find some more clues.)</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">In the <b>six hundredth year</b> of Noah’s life, on
the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the
great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And rain fell on the earth forty days
and forty nights. Gen. 7:11-12<br />
<b>Two years after the flood</b>, when Shem
was <b>100 years old</b>, he became the
father<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of Arphaxad. Gen. 11:10 <b>(So if Shem was 100 years old 2 years after
the flood and Noah was 600 years old when the flood came, we can conclude that
Shem was born when Noah was 502 years old.)</b> <b>(0+502=502yrs)</b></span><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Shem
<i>was</i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">an
hundred years old</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">, and begat Arphaxad…<b>(502+100=602yrs)</b><br />
And Arphaxad lived <b>five and thirty years</b>,
and begat Salah…<b>(602+35=637yrs)</b></span><span class="reftext"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">And
Salah lived <b>thirty years</b>, and begat
Eber…<b>(637+30=667yrs)</b></span><span class="reftext"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">And
Eber lived <b>four and thirty years</b>,
and begat Peleg…<b>(667+34=701yrs)</b></span><span class="reftext"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">And
Peleg lived <b>thirty years</b>, and begat
Reu…<b>(701+30=734yrs)</b><br />
And Reu lived <b>two and thirty years</b>,
and begat Serug…<b>(734+32=766yrs)</b></span><span class="reftext"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">And
Serug lived <b>thirty years</b>, and begat
Nahor…<b>(766+30=796yrs)</b></span><span class="reftext"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">And
Nahor lived <b>nine and twenty years</b>,
and begat Terah…<b>(796+29=825yrs)</b><br />
And Terah lived <b>seventy years</b>, and
begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Now these</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">are</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">the
generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of
the Chaldees. And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">was</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Sarai;
and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of
Milcah, and the father of Iscah. But Sarai was barren; she</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">had</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">no
child. And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son,
and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with
them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto
Haran, and dwelt there. And <b>the days of
Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran</b>. Gen.
11:10-32 <b>(At first glance it looks as
though Terah was 70 years old when he begot Abram but let’s look at Acts 7:2-4
and Gen. 12:4)<br />
</b></span><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">So Abram went, as
the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="name"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>had told him; and Lot went with him. <b>Abram was seventy-five years old when he
set out from Harran</b>. Gen. 12:4</span><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">The God of glory appeared to our
father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> ‘Leave your country and your people,’
God said, ‘and go to the land I will show you.’ “So he left the land of the
Chaldeans and settled in Harran. After <b>the
death of his father</b>, God sent him to this land where you are now living. <span style="background: #F9FDFF;">Acts 7:2-4 <b>(His
father died at age 205, this is when Abram left for Harran and ultimately Eygpt.
Abram was 75 when he left. Therefore Terah was 130 years old when he begot
Abram, not 70 years old. Haran was the older brother of Abram and was the one
born when Terah was 70.) (825+130=955yrs) (955+1056=2011yrs)<br />
955 YEARS FROM THE BIRTH OF NOAH TO THE BIRTH OF ABRAM<br />
2,011 YEARS FROM CREATION TO THE BIRTH OF ABRAM<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="name"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>had said to Abram, “Go from your
country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. “I
will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name
great, and you will be a blessing.</span><span class="nivfootnote"><b><i><sup><span style="color: #0066aa; line-height: 115%;"> </span></sup></i></b></span><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">I will bless those who bless you, and
whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed
through you.”</span><span class="nivfootnote"><b><i><sup><span style="color: #0066aa; line-height: 115%;"> </span></sup></i></b></span><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">So Abram went, as the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="name"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>had told him; and Lot went with him.
Abram was <b>seventy-five years old</b>
when he set out from Harran. Gen. 12:1-4 <b>(0+75=75yrs)</b><br />
<b><span style="background: #F9FDFF;">The
promises were spoken to Abraham</span></b><span style="background: #F9FDFF;"> and
to his seed. Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but
“and to your seed,”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>meaning one
person, who is Christ.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>What I
mean is this: <b>The law, introduced 430
years later</b>, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God
and thus do away with the promise. Gal. 3:16-17<b><br />
</b>Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>was</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>four
hundred and thirty years</b>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And
it came to pass at the end of the <b>four
hundred and thirty years</b>, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all
the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. Ex. 12:40-41 <b>(75+430=505yrs)<br />
</b>And it came to pass in the <b>four
hundred and eightieth year</b> after the children of Israel were come out of
the land of Egypt, <b>in the fourth year of
Solomon's reign</b> over Israel, in the month Zif, which<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the second month, that he <b>began to build the house of the LORD</b>. 1
Kings 6:1 <b>(505+480=985yrs)</b></span></span><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">And the time that
Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>was</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>forty
years</b>. 1 Kings 11:42 <b>(985-4+40=1021)
1,021 YEARS FROM THE BIRTH OF ABRAM TO THE END OF SOLOMON’S REIGN.<br />
3,032 YEARS FROM CREATION TO THE END OF SOLOMON’S REIGN<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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yrs</span></b><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<b>Rehoboam</b> <b>Judah</b> <b>1
Kings 14:21</b> <b>17 years 17
years 0</b><br />
Jeroboam Israel 1 Kings 14:19-20 22 years 22
years 0<br />
<b>Abijah</b> <b>Judah</b> <b>1
Kings 15:1-2 3 years 20 years 0<br />
Asa</b> <b>Judah</b> <b>1 Kings 15:9-10 41 years 60
years 1</b><br />
Nadab Israel 1 Kings 15:25 2 years 22
years 2<br />
Baasha Israel 1 Kings 15:33 24 years 45
years 1<br />
Elah Israel 1 Kings 16:8 2 years 46
years 1<br />
Zimri Israel 1 Kings 16:15 0 years(7 days) 46
years 1<br />
Omri Israel 1 Kings 16:23 12 years(+3) 61
years 0<br />
Ahab Israel 1 Kings 16:29 22 years 78
years 5<br />
<b>Jehoshaphat</b> <b>Judah</b> <b>1
Kings 22:41-42 25 years(+4) 89 years 0</b><br />
Ahaziah Israel 1 Kings 22:51 2 years(+2) 82
years 0<br />
<b>Jehoram</b> <b>Judah</b> <b>2
Kings 8:16-17 8 years 92
years 5</b><br />
Joram Israel 2 Kings 3:1 & 1:17 12 years 93 years 1<br />
<b>Ahaziah</b> <b>Judah</b> <b>2 Kings 8:25-26 1 year 93
years 0</b><br />
Jehu Israel 2 Kings 10:36 28 years 121
years 0<br />
<b>Athaliah</b> <b>Judah</b> <b>2
Kings 11:1-3 6 years 99 years 0</b><br />
<b>Joash Judah 2 Kings 12:1 40 years 139
years 0<br />
</b>Jehoahaz Israel 2 Kings 13:1 17 years 138
years 0<br />
Jehoash Israel 2 Kings 13:10 16 years 151
years 3<br />
<b>Amaziah Judah 2 Kings 14:1-2 29 years 165
years 3</b><br />
Jeroboam II Israel 2 Kings 14:23 41 years 191
years 1<br />
<b>Azariah Judah 2 Kings 15:1-2 52 years(+10) 227
years 0<br />
</b>Zechariah Israel 2 Kings 15:8 ½ year(+21) 213
years 0<br />
Shallum Israel 2 Kings 15:13 one month 214
years 0<br />
Menahem Israel 2 Kings 15:17 10 years 223
years 1<br />
Pekahiah Israel 2 Kings 15:23 2 years(+1) 226
years 0<br />
Pekah Israel 2 Kings 15:27 20 years 246
years 0<br />
<b>Jotham Judah 2 Kings 15:32-33 16 years 243
years 0</b><br />
<b>Ahaz Judah 2 Kings 16:1-2 16 years 258
years 1</b><br />
Hoshea Israel 2 Kings 17:1 9 years(+7) 262
years 0<br />
<b>Hezekiah Judah 2 Kings 18:1-2 29 years 284
years 3<br />
Manasseh Judah 2 Kings 21:1 55 years 339
years 0<br />
Amon Judah 2 Kings 21:19 2 years 341
years 0<br />
Josiah Judah 2 Kings 22:1 31 years 372
years 0<br />
Jehoahaz Judah 2 Kings 23:31 three months 372
years 0</b><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Jehoiakim Judah 2 Kings 23:36 11
years 383 years 0</b><br />
<b>Jehoiachin Judah 2 Kings
24:8 three months 383 years 0</b><br />
<b>Zedekiah Judah 2 Kings 24:18 11 years 394
years 0<br />
<br />
While I came up with the number of 394 years, I had limited information after
Hoshea King of Israel to Zedekiah King of Judah in regards to co-regencies or
gaps in kingship. Ezekiel 4 tells us that this time period is 390 years, not
394 years. So it still goes to show that my calculation was off by only 4 years
with a few possibilities for error. I will go with the exactness of Ezekiel
over my own calculations that included a few assumptions. <br />
EZEKIEL 4 PROPHECY = 390 YEARS FROM REHOBOAM TO THE LAST YEAR OF ZEDEKIAH<br />
3,422 YEARS FROM CREATION TO THE LAST YEAR OF ZEDEKIAH<br />
<br />
</b></span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">This whole country will become a desolate wasteland,
and <b>these nations will serve the king of
Babylon seventy years</b>. “But <b>when the
seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation</b>,
the land of the Babylonians,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">for
their guilt,” declares the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="name"><span style="color: #001320; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">,
“and will make it desolate forever. Jer. 25:11-12<br />
</span><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">For thus saith the
LORD, That <b>after seventy years be
accomplished at Babylon</b> I will visit you, and perform my good word toward
you, in <b>causing you to return to this
place</b>.</span> Jer. 29:10<br />
In the <b>first year of Darius</b> the son
of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of
the Chaldeans;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>In the first year of his reign I <b>Daniel understood</b> by books the number of the years, whereof the
word of the LORD came to <b>Jeremiah the
prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem</b>.
Dan. 9:1-2<br />
<span style="background-color: #fffefd; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">In the <b>first year of Cyrus</b> king of Persia, in
order to <b>fulfill the word</b> of the
LORD <b>spoken by Jeremiah</b>, the LORD
moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his
realm and also to put it in writing:</span> Ezra 1:1<span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> <b>(projected 609bc to 539bc)</b></span><b><span style="background-color: #fffefd; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: #f9fdff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">Also I in the <b>first year of
Darius the Mede</b>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i>even</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> I, stood to confirm and to strengthen
him.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, <b>there shall stand up yet three kings in
Persia; and the fourth</b> shall be far richer than<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>they</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> all: and by his strength through his
riches he shall <b>stir up all against the
realm of Grecia</b>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>And <b>a mighty king
shall stand up</b>, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to
his will.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And when he shall stand up, <b>his kingdom shall be broken</b>, and shall be <b>divided toward the four winds</b> of heaven; Dan. 11:1-4 <b>(While we don’t have exact years from
scripture alone given from Darius the Mede to the 4<sup>th</sup> King of Persia,
we do know how many kings there will be. And we have recorded history to give
us a rough estimate at the very least. So Darius the Mede began his reign in
539bc, Xerxes was the 4<sup>th</sup> king, Artaxerxes followed with the decree
to rebuild Jersusalem in his 7<sup>th</sup> year. 539bc-457bc</b></span></div>
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END OF ZEDEKIAH TO DECREE OF ARTAXERXES = 129 YEARS</b><span style="background-color: #fffefd; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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- 487 YEARS FROM CHRIST’S DEATH(31AD) FROM THE DECREE TO REBUILD JERUSALEM by
Artaxerxes= 457BC<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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- 40 YEARS FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE IN 70AD= CHRIST’S DEATH AT 31AD<br />
<br />
CREATION TO NOAH = 1,056
YEARS<br />
NOAH TO ABRAM = 955
YEARS<br />
ABRAM TO END OF SOLOMON = 1,021
YEARS<br />
END OF SOLOMON TO END OF ZEDEKIAH = 390
YEARS<br />
END OF ZEDEZIAH TO DECREE OF ARTAXERXES = 129
YEARS<br />
DECREE OF ARTAXERXES TO TO DEATH OF CHRIST = 487
YEARS<br />
DEATH OF CHRIST TO DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE(70AD) = 40 YEARS =
4,078 YEARS<br />
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THERFORE CREATION OCCURRED IN APPROXIMATELY =4,008 BC (approx.)<br />
CREATION TO YEAR 2013 = =
6,021 YEARS<br />
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So is Christ 21 years late in his return? Keep in mind that God’s 7000 year
plan is the plan of redemption. So if the 7<sup>th</sup> millennium is the 1000
year reign of Christ, the 6000th year is not marked from creation, but the fall
of man when Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden. So in what year did the
fall of man take place? How long was Adam and Eve in the garden? <br />
<br />
The Bible does not say, but so far it need only be approximately 21 years (and
counting until Christ returns) for the 7000 year plan of redemption to hold
true. We can be sure that it was less than 130 years because Adam was 130 years
old when Seth was born outside the garden. If year 2130 comes around we can
then be sure that this whole 7000 year plan stuff is bogus. But Cain sinned
when he killed Able outside the garden, and Seth replaced Able according to
Gen. 4:25. So if we guestimate Cain was 20 years old when he killed Able, and
Seth was born immediately after, then the maximum amount of time that they
could have spent in the garden was around 105 to 110 years. Many believe Adam
and Eve sinned very soon after being created and spent very little time in the
garden. Anywhere from 7 years, to a couple of years, to a week, or even to a
couple of days. But there is no evidence to support that theory. There is
however minimal evidence that they spent a decent amount of time in the garden
before eating the forbidden fruit. My personal guess would be between 25 to 70
years. I really don’t know for sure other than it being less than approximately
110 years. But think about this. Perhaps Adam was not created as a full grown
man as depicted in most all visual aids. Perhaps he was created as a 12 year
old boy(for example) that had to grow up and learn just like the rest of us.
Adam must have spent time naming all the animals, learning how to tend the
garden, learning how time is kept in the heavens, or perhaps many other things.
Gen. 3:20 says that Eve was MOTHER of all the living just before they were cast
out. If it was only Adam and Eve in the garden, then who was “all the living”
talking about? And why would Eve be called a “mother” if it was only her and
Adam present? God told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply. Did they wait
to have kids until after they were cast out of the garden? Was Cain and Able
their first children? Was Seth their 3<sup>rd</sup> child? Gen. 3:16 says that
God would INCREASE the pains of childbearing for Eve. Does this mean that Eve
understood the original, less painful childbearing that possibly had already
occurred in the garden? Gen. 4:13-17 gives some interesting clues in regards to
Cain. Cain was afraid of being killed by “someone” because God made him a
wanderer on the earth due to killing Able. Who was Cain afraid of? God even
placed a mark on Cain so that these other people, whoever these people are,
will not kill him. Are we to believe that these other people were merely Adam
and Eve his parents? Cain then all of a sudden has a wife and is building a
city. So these other people had to have been his other many brothers and
sisters. All I’m saying is that there is much to be speculated about in regards
to the first years of mankind. There is plenty of room to suggest that Adam and
Eve spent more than 21 years in the garden since we are in year 6021(approx.)
since creation. Ultimately I believe that the lesson here is that the return of
Christ is very near. Do not be surprised at all if it occurs in your lifetime.
Be ready and keep watch. This is just one of many indications that the time of
this age is coming to a close. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Of every <b>clean beast</b> thou shalt take to thee by
sevens, the male and his female: and of <b>beasts
that are not clean</b> by two, the male and his female. Gen. 7:2 <b>(Before the law of clean and unclean
animals was given to the Israelites, Noah knew God’s law. Noah knew which
animals were clean and unclean. It wasn’t just for the Israelites, it was for
all mankind. It is an issue of obedience, health, and holiness. Eating an
unclean animal has physical health consequences that God wants us to avoid. God
also calls us to be holy in regards to our bodies. Eating unclean meats is an
unholy act.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Every moving
thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given
you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof,
shall ye not eat. Gen. 9:3-4 <b>(God gave
Adam and Eve animals and plants for food. But some plants are poisonous and are
meant for other purposes. So too are some animals unclean and meant for other
purposes. Also, we are not to eat meat with the blood still in it. This is
God’s creation and He knows better than anyone what animals he intended to be
for food.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Ye shall <b>eat the blood of no manner of flesh</b>:
for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be
cut off. Lev. 17:14 <b>(God knows the blood
carries in it things which will harm us if eaten.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye <b>eat neither fat nor blood</b>. Lev. 3:17 <b>(God also knows that the fat also carries
in it things which will harm us if eaten.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep,
or of goat. Lev. 7:23 <b>(Even the fat of
clean animals is not in our best health interest, so says the creator.)</b></span></span></div>
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nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the
things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. If any man
have ears to hear, let him hear. And when he was entered into the house from
the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable. And he saith unto
them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever
thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him; Because it
entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the
draught, purging all meats? And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that
defileth the man. Mark 7:15-20 <b>(Is Jesus
saying all meats are clean? No, the proper context of this account is about the
disciples eating food with unwashed hands mentioned in verse 2. The Jews had
extra rules and traditions apart from God’s law that involved all kinds of
washing of hands and dishes before eating. The words “purging all meats” is not
apart of the original Greek text and should not be there.) </b>And when they
saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with
unwashen, hands, they found fault. For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except
they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. And
when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other
things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and
pots, brasen vessels, and of tables. Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him,
Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat
bread with unwashen hands?</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> Mark 7:2-5 <b>(Jesus is
responding to the accusation of his disciples not washing their hands before
eating and thus defiling themselves. Jesus explains that dirt from unwashed
hands does not make them unclean. This account has nothing to do with clean and
unclean meats.)</b></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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things which defile a man: <b>but to eat
with unwashen hands </b>defileth not a man. Matt. 15:20 <b>(At the end of Jesus’ response in the Matthew account, he also puts his
words in proper context. He is speaking about eating with unwashed hands, not
clean and unclean meats.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour: And he became very hungry, and
would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, And saw
heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great
sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: Wherein were <b>all manner of fourfooted beasts of the
earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air</b>. And
there came a voice to him, <b>Rise, Peter;
kill, and eat</b>. But Peter said, <b>Not
so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean</b>. And
the voice spake unto him again the second time, <b>What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common</b>.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> Acts 10:9-15 <b>(Does Peter’s vision show that God has cleansed
all meats? No, if you read further, verse 28 reveals the meaning of the vision.
God is showing Peter that Gentiles are now made clean by God and are able to
receive salvation. Notice Peter’s response to God’s command to kill and eat
unclean meat. Well after Christ had died, Peter refuses to eat unclean meat and
says that he has never done so. This shows what Peter believed about clean and
unclean meats even after Christ’s death.) </b></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And he said unto them, Ye know
how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or
come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call <b>any man</b> common or unclean. Acts 10:28 <b>(The vision was not about clean and unclean
meats, but about salvation being opened to Gentiles. If all meats were cleansed
at Christ’s death, Peter didn’t know it, and God would not have been able to
use the analogy of unclean meats to get his message across.) </b>Then Peter
opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of
persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is
accepted with him. The word which God sent unto the children of Israel,
preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> Acts 10: 34-36 <b>(The vision was to show that Jesus Christ
is Lord of all, Jews and Gentiles.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">I know, and am
persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to
him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. Rom. 14:14 <b>(Is Paul claiming nothing is unclean, thus
all meats are good for food? Once again, no he is not. The word “unclean” in
this verse is the Greek word <i>koinos</i>,
and should be translated as “common” or “defiled” just as it was in Matthew 15,
Mark 7, and Acts 10. So nothing is defiled of itself. Paul is not talking about
clean and unclean meats. He is speaking in the context of those being weak in
the faith in regards to foods sacrificed to idols. I Corinthians 8 also speaks
about those weak in the faith because of foods sacrificed to idols. Those weak
in faith, felt that eating food sacrificed to idols made the food unclean and
thus defiling themselves. In I Corinthians 8, Paul explains that these idols
are not real, that there is only 1 God, and so these foods are still good for
food. But for the strong in the faith be mindful of those without this
knowledge, and not cause those weak in the faith to stumble.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Him that is
weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. For one
believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. Rom.
14:1-2 <b>(Here is the proper context for
above verse. Paul is addressing those weak in the faith. Paul says those who
are weak eat herbs, or are vegetarians. They became vegetarians to avoid eating
meats sacrificed to idols and thus defiling themselves. Meats sacrificed to
idols were not entirely used, and were then taken and sold on the open market.
So there was no way of knowing for sure if meat you were buying in the market
place was formerly sacrificed to idols. I Corinthians 8 explains that this is
not an issue in and of itself. This verse also shows those not weak in the
faith believe that they may eat all things. This is true, but they may eat all
things that are of course clean. These verses are not talking at all about
clean and unclean meats, but about meats sacrificed to idols.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Now the Spirit
speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in
hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry,
and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received
with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature
of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
I Tim. 4:1-4 <b>(Every creature is good,
including the parasites, maggots, and tapeworms, but that does not mean every
animal is good for food. Many other animals simply have other purposes other
than for food. Abstaining from meats or becoming a vegetarian is called a
doctrine of devils. Demons understand that meat contains certain proteins vital
for the proper development of the brain and that mental weakness invites their
influence.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Know ye not
that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If
any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God
is holy, which temple ye are. I Cor. 3:16-17 <b>(We are not our own. God dwells in us and He does not want us defiling
ourselves with unclean meats that will cause disease and sickness.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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gardens, following the one in the midst of <b>those
who eat the flesh of pigs and rats and other abominable things</b>--they will
meet their end together," declares the LORD. Isaiah 66:17 <b>(Eating pig is put in the same sentence and
category of eating “rats and other abominable things.”)</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Read Lev. 11 and Deut. 14, it tells of God’s laws concerning clean
and unclean animals. Most of it common sense today. Of course the Israelites
didn’t have all the health knowledge we have today, so it was more of an
obedience issue for them, although it is still an obedience issue today as well.
Pig is the only major sacrifice that our society would need to make to adhere
to the laws on clean and unclean meats. There are few other seafood items as
well such as crab and lobster and a few other rarely eaten animals. We need to
realize that the creator of the world knows better than we do for which animals
are good for food and which animals serve other purposes. All it takes is a
little research on the animals that are deemed unclean to understand that God
really does know what he is talking about and what he is doing.</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951583178189597031.post-5394376891343675292012-03-25T15:13:00.000-07:002012-03-25T15:13:00.659-07:00Judging Others Misconception<br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same
way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will
be measured to you. "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your
brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you
say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time
there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, <b>first</b> take the plank out of your own eye, and <b>then</b> you will see clearly to <b>remove
the speck from your brother's eye</b>.</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Matt.
7:1-5 <b>(This is possibly the most often
quoted, mistranslated, misinterpreted verse in the Bible. Christians and non-Christians
alike both love to quote this verse to escape any kind of accountability from
their actions or words. Once they quote this verse, you can no longer correct
anything that they say or do. The first phrase’s meaning is lost in
translation. I will show that it contradicts the rest of scripture, so it must
be interpreted another way because the Bible doesn’t contradict itself. The KJV
translation is: Judge not, that ye be not judged. It is more clearly understood
if you read it as follows: That ye be not judged, judge not. So unless you have
been judged yourself FIRST by either yourself or someone else, you are
instructed not to judge others. BUT if you have been judged and have repented
and been forgiven of all your past sins, then you are authorized to judge
others of faith. After this first phrase it explains how we should judge
mercifully because if we judge harshly, then we too will be judged that way.
Then the emphasis is on hypocrisy. We are not to judge others if we ourselves
are unrepentant and thus still unforgiven of our own sins. BUT if we have
repented and been forgiven of our past sins, THEN we are authorized to remove
the speck from our brother’s eye. It doesn’t say that we should NEVER judge or
NEVER remove the speck from our brother’s eye, Jesus is simply specifying to
judge ourselves FIRST and not be hypocrites. You will see in the following verses
that it is our duty as Christians to judge others of faith so long as it is
done mercifully, righteously, gently, not hypocritically, not to unbelievers,
not to disputable matters, and in truth. Jesus doesn’t condemn judging others,
it is who we judge, who is authorized to judge, and how we judge that is
emphasized.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous
judgment. John 7:24 <b>(This is a
commandment to judge, the emphasis is on how we judge.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; <b>correct, rebuke</b> and encourage--with
great patience and careful instruction. II Tim. 4:2 (NIV)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">But <b>he that is spiritual
judgeth all things</b>, yet he himself is judged of no man. I Cor. 2:15</span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law
before the unjust, and not before the saints? <b>Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world
shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye
not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?</b>
If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge
who are least esteemed in the church. I speak to your shame. Is it so, that
there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge
between his brethren? But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before
the unbelievers. I Cor. 6:1-6 <b>(Paul is
condemning the idea of taking disputes to unbelievers. If we are unable to
judge small matters pertaining to this life, how will we be able to judge the
world at Christ’s return?)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Gal. 6:1 (NIV) <b>(This is a call to action
to restore our brother in sin. The point is about how we go about doing this,
which is that we should do it gently.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Even though I am not physically present, I am with you in
spirit. And <b>I have already passed
judgment</b> on the one who did this, just as if I were present. I Cor. 5:3
(NIV) Don't you know that a little yeast (sin) works through the whole batch of
dough? Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast--as
you really are. I Cor. 5:6-7 (NIV) <b>(Paul
makes no apologies for passing judgment on this particular sinner in the
church. He goes on to explain that we must cut off sin from among us. So if the
sinner refuses to repent when confronted of his sin, they must be expelled from
the church so that they do not influence the rest of the church. This is a very
serious warning that few churches today listen to. Many churches today rely on
their own understanding and chose to “love” the sinner and not expel him as God
commands. No wonder many of our churches are apostate. The unrepentant sinner’s
influence spreads to the rest of the church like yeast on bread. We are to
“love” the sinner, but hate the sin, but that doesn’t mean we should allow the
unrepentant sinner to remain among us.)</b> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but
rather expose them. Eph. 5:11 (NIV) <b>(In
order to discern the fruitless deeds of darkness we must judge others fruit.
And if they have bad fruit, we are commanded to expose them.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing,
but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits.
Matt. 7:15-16 <b>(This requires judgment of
others. We must judge them by their fruit. If we do not judge, these false
prophets would never be exposed.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall
not know peace. Isaiah 59:8 <b>(These
future people know no peace because they refuse to judge as God commands.
Perhaps they have accepted Satan’s lie that we are to NEVER judge.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and [that] there be no divisions
among you; but [that] ye be perfectly <b>joined
together in the same mind and in the same judgment</b>. I Cor. 1:10 <b>(Why would Paul say that if judging is
wrong?)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou
canst not bear them which are evil: and <b>thou
hast tried them</b> which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast <b>found them liars</b>: Rev. 2:2 <b>(God was pleased with these Christians for
judging the false apostles among them and finding them liars. To find someone a
liar requires judgment.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. I Cor.
11:31 <b>(We are commanded to judge
ourselves.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment <b>on disputable matters</b>. Rom. 14:1
Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your
mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother's way. Rom.
14:13 <b>(Paul is not saying to NEVER pass
judgment. The context of this verse is condemning passing judgment on
disputable matters.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Open thy mouth, <b>judge
righteously</b>, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. Prov.31:9<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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judgment</b> and discernment, do not let them out of your sight; Prov. 3:21<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">The mouth of <b>the
righteous</b> speaketh wisdom, and his tongue <b>talketh of judgment</b>. Psalm 37:30<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil
of [his] brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and
judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but
a judge. There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art
thou that judgest another? James 4:11-12 <b>(This
verse is referring to judging one’s salvation. God is the only judge of our
salvation. This is not in reference to judging the fruit of others.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. And yet if I judge, my
judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me. John
8:15-16 <b>(I believe we have to
differentiate judging on right/wrong and judging on salvation. Jesus is saying
that the Father is the only judge of our salvation. This is not referencing
judgment between right and wrong.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and
said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at
her. John 8:7 <b>(Jesus is condemning the
act of stoning the woman. He doesn’t condemn righteous judgment. In this case,
the Pharisees are hypocrites and therefore their judgment of the woman is
condemned by Jesus. True Christians are authorized to judge righteously. The
Pharisees were not true Christians. At the end of this story, Jesus tells the
woman to leave her life of sin. Jesus judged the woman’s behavior as sinful. In
no way did Jesus excuse the woman’s sin. He addressed it, but stoning her was
not the answer.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone
else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, <b>because you who pass judgment do the same
things</b>. Now we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is
based on truth. So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on them <b>and yet do the same things</b>, do you
think you will escape God’s judgment? Rom. 2:1-3 <b>(Read the previous verses for the proper context. Paul is speaking
about those that do evil and are passing judgment on others at the same time.
He is condemning the hypocrites that are judging others, not believers that
judge believers. The hypocrites are doing the very same things that they are
judging others for.)<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951583178189597031.post-41876835832605383762012-03-24T15:07:00.000-07:002012-03-24T15:07:00.146-07:00Deception Warnings From The Bible<br />
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saying, I am Christ; and <b>shall deceive
many</b>. Matt. 24:4-5 <b>(This is not
talking about people that claim themselves to be the Messiah, because “many” are
not deceived that way. This is talking about those that profess Christ to be
the Messiah, these are the people we should beware of because “many” will be
deceived by these false teachers.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Christs, and false prophets</b>, and shall shew great signs and wonders;
insomuch that, if<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>it were</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>possible, <b>they shall deceive the very elect</b>. Matt. 24:24<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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3:13<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">For such<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>are</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>false
apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of
Christ</b>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And no marvel; for <b>Satan himself is transformed into an angel
of light</b>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Therefore<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>it is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>no great thing if <b>his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness</b>;
whose end shall be according to their works. 2 Cor. 11:13-15 <b>(Satan and his ministers do not look like
bad, evil people. They present themselves as righteous people and Satan as an
“angel of light.”)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">How art thou fallen from heaven, <b>O Lucifer</b>, son of the morning!</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">how</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">art
thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said
in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the
stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides
of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; <b>I will be like the most High</b>. Is.
14:12-14 <b>(Satan doesn’t reveal himself
as the “bad guy.” He reveals himself as being the most High. Only he is not,
but will be “like the most High.” He will be a counterfeit to the real thing.
But many will follow after him deceived into believe they are worshipping the
God of the Bible. Satan seeks worship in place of the most High.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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also among the people</b>, even as <b>there
shall be false teachers among you</b>, who <b>privily<i>(secretly)</i></b> shall bring in damnable
heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves
swift destruction.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And <b>many shall follow their pernicious ways</b>;
by reason of whom the way of <b>truth shall
be evil spoken of</b>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And through
covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: 2 Pet.
2:1-3 <b>(These false prophets and teachers
are not just out among the secular world, but also among the people of God and
“many” will follow after them.)</b></span></div>
<a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that
antichrist shall come, <b>even now are
there many antichrists</b>; whereby we know that it is the last time. 1 John
2:18<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Be not deceived</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">; God is not
mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Gal. 6:7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Beloved, <b>believe not every
spirit</b>, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because <b>many false prophets</b> are gone out into
the world. 1 John 4:1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully;
but by manifestation of the truth</b> commending ourselves to every man's
conscience in the sight of God.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them
that are lost:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>In whom the god of this
world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not</b>, lest the light of
the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
2 Cor. 4:2-4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Woe unto them that
call evil good, and good evil</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">; that put darkness for light, and light for
darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20 <b>(In the last days, good will be regarded as
evil, and evil as good. Only a large deception could accomplish that.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Beware of false
prophets</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are
ravening wolves. Matt. 7:15<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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grace of Christ unto <b>another gospel</b>:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Which is not another; but there be
some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>But though we, or an angel from
heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto
you, let him be accursed.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>As we
said before, so say I now again, If any<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>man
</i>preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be
accursed. Gal. 1:6-9 <b>(If deception was
not a concern, there would be no need to give this very serious warning about
knowing and preaching the one and only true gospel.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">For I know this, that <b>after
my departing</b> 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. Acts 20:29-30 <b>(These “wolves” have indeed entered in the church and not spared the
flock just as Paul warned would happen.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Beware</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> lest any man
spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after
the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Col. 2:8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and <b>Satan, which deceiveth the whole
world</b>: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with
him. Rev. 12:9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Now <b>the serpent was</b> more <b>subtil</b> than any beast of the field which
the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, <b>hath God said</b>, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And the woman said unto the serpent,
We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>But of the fruit of the tree which<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in the midst of the garden, <b>God hath said</b>, Ye shall not eat of it,
neither shall ye touch it, <b>lest ye die</b>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And <b>the serpent said</b> unto the woman, <b>Ye shall not surely die</b>:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>For
God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened,
and <b>ye shall be as gods</b>, knowing
good and evil.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And when <b>the woman saw that the tree<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>was</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>good</b> for food, and that it <i>was</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>pleasant
to the eyes</b>, and a tree <b>to be
desired</b> to make<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>one</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>wise, Gen. 3:1-6 <b>(Satan makes you question “did God really say?” Did God really say you
must observe the Sabbath or his Holy Days? Did God really say his law was good
and to be obeyed? And Satan’s way will appear good by sight, feelings, and
experience, but we are to follow God’s word.)</b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951583178189597031.post-61675555049116848822012-03-23T14:59:00.000-07:002012-03-23T14:59:00.319-07:00Bible "Conspiracy Theories"<br />
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all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And the devil said unto him, All this
power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me;
and to whomsoever I will I give it.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>If
thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. Luke 4:5-7 <b>(Satan currently has power over all the
kingdoms of the world and was able to give it to Jesus right then and there if
he would just worship Satan. So why is it so far fetched to believe that Satan
would have a global conspiracy plotted for mankind?)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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is in the world</b>. 1 John 4:4 <b>(Who “is
in the world” that God is greater than? Answer: Satan. So does Satan have the
power to deceive and manipulate world events?)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, 2 Cor. 4:4 <b>(Satan is described as “the god of this
world.” As the god of this world, is it that far fetched to believe that the
human rulers of the world would be controlled by Satan?)</b></span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">The kings of
the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD,
and against his anointed,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>saying</i>,
Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. Ps. 2:2 <b>(All of Psalms 2 reveals a global
conspiracy against the Lord and his anointed by the kings and rulers of the
earth.) <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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of the wicked</b>; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity: Psalm 64:2
<b>(The wicked work in secret.)</b></span></div>
<a name='more'></a><b><o:p></o:p></b><br />
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verses are examples of real conspiracies in the Bible. Conspiracies seemed be a
common occurrence in the Bible days. Why would conspiracies today be so quickly
dismissed as “conspiracy theory.” The term has become a negative term that
makes people immediately dismiss possible real conspiracies as false from the
outset without any further investigation. The JFK and Lincoln assassinations
would just be another conspiracy of many if today was recorded for future
generations. I can only imagine all the “conspiracy theory” talk among the
people of the Bible days in regards to how and why their King was killed. I’m
sure the conspirators lied to the people of the Bible days just as they do
today to cover up their plots.</span></b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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they <b>conspired</b> against him to slay
him. Gen. 37:18 <b>(Joseph’s brothers
conspired to kill him.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And the <b>conspiracy</b> was strong; for the people
increased continually with Absalom. And there came a messenger to David,
saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And David said unto all his servants
that<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>were</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let
us flee; for we shall not<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>else</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>escape from Absalom: make speed to
depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the
city with the edge of the sword. 2 Sam. 15:12-14 <b>(Absalom conspired with others to kill David.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second
year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.<span class="reftext"><b> </b></span>And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and
walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to
sin.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And Baasha the son of
Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, <b>conspired</b>
against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>belonged</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to the Philistines; for Nadab and all
Israel laid siege to Gibbethon. 1 Kings 15:25-27 <b>(Baasha killed Nadab in a conspiracy.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son
of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And his servant Zimri, captain of half<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>his</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>chariots, <b>conspired</b> against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk
in the house of Arza steward of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>his</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>house in Tirzah.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And Zimri went in and smote him, and
killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in
his stead… And the people<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>that
were</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>encamped heard say,
Zimri hath <b>conspired</b>, and hath also
slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king
over Israel that day in the camp. 1 Kings 16:8-10,16 <b>(Zimri killed Elah in a conspiracy.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the
son of Nimshi <b>conspired</b> against
Joram… And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and
said to all the people, Ye<i>be</i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">righteous: behold, I <b>conspired</b></span><span style="background: #F9FDFF;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">against my master,
and slew him: 2 Kings 9:14 & 10:9 <b>(Joram
was killed in a conspiracy.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And his servants arose, and made a <b>conspiracy</b>, and slew Joash in the house
of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of
Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; 2 Kings 12:20 </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">So
they executed judgment against Joash. And when they were departed from him,
(for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants <b>conspired</b> against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the
priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city
of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And
these are they that <b>conspired</b>
against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of
Shimrith a Moabitess. 2 Chron. 24:24-26 <b><span style="background: #F9FDFF;">(Joash was killed in a conspiracy.)</span></b><span style="background: #F9FDFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Now they made a <b>conspiracy</b> against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but
they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there. 2 Kings 14:19 Now after the
time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD they made a <b>conspiracy</b> against him in Jerusalem;
and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.
2 Chron. 25:27 <b>(Amaziah was killed by a
conspiracy.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">In the thirty and eighth year of
Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in
Samaria six months.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And he did</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">that which was</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he
departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to
sin.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And
Shallum the son of Jabesh <b>conspired</b>
against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his
stead… And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his <b>conspiracy</b> which he made, behold, they</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">are</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. 2 Kings 15:8-10,15 <b>(Zachariah was killed through a
conspiracy.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of
Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>and reigned</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>two years. And he did<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>that which was</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>evil in the sight of the LORD: he
departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to
sin.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>But Pekah the son of
Remaliah, a captain of his, <b>conspired</b>
against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with
Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him,
and reigned in his room. 2 Kings 15:23-25 <b>(Pekahiah
was killed by a conspiracy.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in
his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. 2 Kings 15:30 <b>(Pekah was killed by a conspiracy.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his
servant, and gave him presents.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And
the king of Assyria found <b>conspiracy</b>
in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no
present to the king of Assyria, as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>he
had done</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>year by year:
therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison. 2 Kings
17:3-4 <b>(Shalmaneser stopped Hoshea’s
conspiracy plot against him.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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against him, and slew the king in his own house. 2 Kings 21:23 And his servants
<b>conspired</b> against him, and slew him
in his own house. 2 Chron. 33:24 <b>(Amon
was killed by a conspiracy.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they
should kill David. 1 Sam. 19:1 <b>(Saul and
his servants conspired to kill David, but failed.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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and sent<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>it</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by the hand of Uriah.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And he wrote in the letter, saying,
Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him,
that he may be smitten, and die.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And
it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a
place where he knew that valiant men<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>were</i>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And the men of the city went out, and
fought with Joab: and there fell<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>some</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of the people of the servants of
David; and Uriah the Hittite died also. 2 Sam. 11:14-17 <b>(Uriah was killed by a conspiracy between David and Joab.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:<span class="reftext"><b> </b></span>And I will come upon him while he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>weary and weak handed, and will make
him afraid: and all the people that<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>are</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with him shall flee; and I will smite
the king only:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And I will bring
back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>as if all returned:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>so</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>all the people shall be in peace.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And the saying pleased Absalom well,
and all the elders of Israel. 2 Sam. 17:1-4 <b>(Here a conspiracy is set up to kill David.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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worshippers of Baal died in a conspiracy against them.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And the men of his city,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>even</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the elders and the nobles who were the
inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>and</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>as it<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>was</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>written in the letters which she had
sent unto them.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>They proclaimed a
fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And there came in two men, children of
Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>even</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>against Naboth, in the presence of the
people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him
forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. 1 Kings
21:11-13 <b>(Naboth was killed in a
conspiracy.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">When Herod the king had heard<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>these
things</i>, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And when he had gathered all the chief
priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ
should be born… And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord
appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his
mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for
Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. Matt. 2:3-4,13 <b>(There was a conspiracy to kill Jesus when
he was born.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to
betray him unto them.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And when
they heard<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>it</i>, they were
glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently
betray him. Mark 14:10-11 <b>(Judus and the
chief priests conspired to betray and arrest Jesus in order to kill him.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in
Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him. John 7:1 <b>(There was a conspiracy to kill Jesus among the Jews.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth
of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee. 1
Kings 22:23 <b>(A lying spirit controlled
400 false prophets. This is evidence of unseen forces at work deceiving mankind
through human agents. It can happen.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in thy power; only upon himself put
not forth thine hand… And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen
were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And the Sabeans fell<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>upon them</i>, and took them away;
yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am
escaped alone to tell thee… While he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>was</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>yet speaking, there came also another,
and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and
have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword;
and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. Job 1:12,14-15,17 <b>(The Sabeans and Chaldeans were controlled
by Satan to murder Job’s servants and steal his possessions. More evidence of
unseen forces dictating real world events.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>come</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>out of the mouth of the dragon, and
out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>For they are the spirits of devils,
working miracles,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>which</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>go forth unto the kings of the earth
and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God
Almighty. Rev. 16:13-14 <b>(More evidence
of spiritual forces dictating human events in the future.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of
his prison,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And shall go out to
deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog,
to gather them together to battle: the number of whom<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>as the sand of the sea.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And they went up on the breadth of the
earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and
fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. Rev. 20:7-9 <b>(More evidence of spiritual forces
dictating human events in the future.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">For we wrestle
not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness
in high places. Eph. 6:12 <b>(Our battle is
not against so called bad people, but against Satan and his demons, who are in
“high places” in this world. Why is it so far fetched to believe that high
level government people could be involved in a global conspiracy with this
being the case?)</b></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951583178189597031.post-14209291063709671882012-03-22T14:52:00.000-07:002012-03-22T14:52:00.410-07:00Should You Follow Your Heart?<br />
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Following your heart
is actually a satanic law. This is actually the law of the satanic bible and
also the world. “Do what thou wilt, shall be the whole of the law.” Think of
all the countless songs written and sang today that advocate following or
listening to your heart, doing what you want, your way, and by your own inner
strength. If it feels right or will make you happy, then it must be right and
you should do it. This is not what God’s word teaches. How much destruction has
this way of thinking caused in our world? We are not to follow our own way, nor
follow our feelings, nor even trust our own experiences IF it doesn’t line up
with God’s word. These are the ways in which Satan deceives us. Even if we are
well intended, that is not a barometer for righteousness and pleasing God. Our
ONLY defense against this is God’s word and the guidance of the Holy Spirit. We
are to trust in and follow God; and make sure we listen to him and obey him. If
you trust in yourself, you are following Satan’s lies. Let’s see what God says…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: Prov. 28:26 <b>(Ouch!)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">The heart<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>deceitful</b>
above all<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>things</i>, and
desperately <b>wicked</b>: Jer. 17:9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>are</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the ways of death. Prov. 14:12<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Trust in the LORD <b>with</b> all
thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. Prov. 3:5</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">My thoughts
are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,' says the LORD. 'For as the
heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My
thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Thy word</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">is</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my
path. Ps. 119:105<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">But he answered and said, It is written, <b>Man shall</b> not <b>live</b> by
bread alone, but <b>by every word</b> that
proceedeth out of the mouth <b>of God</b>.
Matt. 4:4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not
live by bread alone, <b>but by every word
of God</b>. Luke 4:4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">All scripture</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: II Timothy 3:16 <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And that from
a child thou hast known the <b>holy
scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation</b> through faith
which is in Christ Jesus. II Timothy 3:15<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Prove all things</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">; hold fast that which is good. I Thess. 5:21 <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he
counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Who was before a blasphemer, and a
persecutor, and injurious: but <b>I
obtained mercy, because I did<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>it</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ignorantly in unbelief</b>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And the grace of our Lord was
exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>This<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a faithful saying, and worthy of all
acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I
am chief. 1 Tim. 1:12-15 <b>(Paul obtained
mercy because his sins were done out of ignorance.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Hear, O heavens! Listen, O earth! For the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">has
spoken: “I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against
me. <b>The ox knows his master, the donkey
his owner’s manger,</b> <b>but Israel does
not know, my people do not understand</b>.” Is. 1:2-3 NIV<b>(This is not open defiance, but ignorance, a deceived people who do not
know or understand.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Surely the [idolatrous] commotion on the hills and
mountains is a <b>deception</b>; Jer. 3:23 <b>(These people were not openly in defiance
of God. They were deceived in the things they were doing. We should keep that in
mind and not allow that to be the situation for us today.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And <b>that servant, which knew
his lord's will, and prepared not<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>himself</i>,
neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>stripes</i>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>But he that knew not, and did commit
things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>stripes</i></b>. For unto
whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have
committed much, of him they will ask the more. Luke 12:47-48 <b>(Mercy is given to those that sin in
ignorance, but punishment is still given nonetheless.)</b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951583178189597031.post-62638878010926257792012-03-21T14:47:00.000-07:002012-03-21T14:47:00.349-07:00Is The Sabbath Day Still Holy?<br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And God
blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested
from all his work which God created and made. Gen. 2:3 <b>(God blessed and sanctified the 7<sup>th</sup> day at the creation,
well before Mt. Sinai)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And he said
unto them, <b>The Sabbath was made for man</b>,
and not man for the Sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath.
Mark 2:27-28 <b>(The Sabbath was not just
for Jews or for Israel, but for man. And Jesus is not Lord of Sunday, but Lord
of the Sabbath.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and do all thy work: [10] But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy
God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy
manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is
within thy gates: [11] For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea,
and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed
the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. Ex. 20: 8-11 <b>(The 4<sup>th</sup> commandment is directly linked to the creation when
God rested on the 7<sup>th</sup> day. God wants us to “remember” who is the
creator of all things.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And he(Jesus)
came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as <b>his custom was</b>, <b>he went into
the synagogue on the Sabbath day</b>, and stood up for to read. Luke 4:16 <b>(It was Christ’s custom to observe the
Sabbath)</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my
salvation</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">is</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">near
to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. </span></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Blessed</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">is</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">the man</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">that</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">doeth
this, and the son of man</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">that</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">layeth
hold on it; <b>that keepeth the sabbath</b>
from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. Neither let the
son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The
LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say,
Behold, I</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">am</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">a
dry tree. For thus saith the LORD <b>unto
the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths</b>, and choose</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">the
things</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">that please me, and take hold of my
covenant; Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place
and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an
everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. <b>Also the sons of the stranger</b>, that join themselves to the LORD, to
serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one <b>that keepeth the sabbath</b> from polluting
it, and taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain,
and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their
sacrifices</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">shall be</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">accepted
upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all
people. Isaiah 56:1-7 <b>(The Sabbath is
commanded to the eunuchs and the sons of the stranger, not just the Israelites
or the Jews.)</b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">If thou turn
away thy foot from <b>the Sabbath</b>, from
doing thy pleasure on <b>my holy day</b>;
and call <b>the Sabbath a delight</b>, the <b>holy</b> of the LORD, <b>honourable</b>; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor
finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: [14] Then shalt thou
delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places
of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the
mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. Isaiah 58:13-14 <b>(God describes the Sabbath as HIS holy day, a delight, holy, and
honourable. And then gives blessings for those who keep it.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">For whosoever
shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
[11] For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if
thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of
the law. James 2:10-11 <b>(The 10 commandments
are referenced when talking about the law, because that is what the law is.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Moreover also
I gave them <b>my Sabbaths</b>, <b>to be a sign</b> between me and them, that
they might know that I am the LORD that <b>sanctify
them</b>.</span></span><span class="Heading3Char"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">But the house of Israel
rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they
despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and <b>my Sabbaths</b> they greatly polluted: then
I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. Ezek. 20:12-13 <b>(God’s Sabbaths is the sign that sets apart his people from everyone
else. God’s people keep God’s Sabbaths.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Speak thou
also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily <b>my Sabbaths</b> ye shall keep: for <b>it
is a sign</b> between me and you <b>throughout
your generations</b>; <b>that ye may know
that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you</b>. Ex. 31:13<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Wherefore the
children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to <b>observe the Sabbath throughout their generations</b>, for a <b>perpetual covenant</b>. [17] <b>It is a sign</b> between me and the
children of Israel <b>for ever</b>: for in
six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and
was refreshed. Ex. 31:16-17 <b>(A
“perpetual covenant” doesn’t sound like something that would be done away
with.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And it shall
come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to
another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD. Isaiah
66:23 <b>(So the Sabbath was observed in the
Bible days and the Sabbath will be observed at His return. So why would it be
done away with in our day?)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And they went
into Capernaum; and straightway on the Sabbath day he entered into the
synagogue, and taught. Mark 1:21 <b>(Christ
and his disciples taught in the synagogues on the 7<sup>th</sup> day of the
week, not Sunday.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">In those days
saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in
sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of
burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I testified
against them in the day wherein they sold victuals. [16] There dwelt men of
Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the Sabbath
unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem. [17] Then I contended with the
nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and
profane the Sabbath day? [18] Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God
bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon
Israel by profaning the Sabbath. Nehemiah 13:15-18 <b>(God’s wrath came upon Israel for not observing the Sabbath command.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">But if ye will
not hearken unto me to hallow the Sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even
entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a
fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it
shall not be quenched. Jeremiah 17:27 <b>(God’s
wrath would come if the Sabbath command was not obeyed.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And he shall
speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the
most High, and think to change times and laws: Dan. 7:25 <b>(The Catholic Church changed the time of God’s Sabbath to Sunday, thus
also changing God’s law. And “times” were also changed in that the calendar was
changed and caused God’s people to lose knowledge of the time of his Sabbaths
and Holy Days.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">But when they
departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and <b>went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day</b>, and sat down. [15] And
after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent
unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for
the people, say on. Acts 13:14-15 <b>(Paul
and Barnabus teach on the Sabbath to the Jews.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And when the
Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words <b>might be preached to them the next Sabbath</b>.
[43] Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious
proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to
continue in the grace of God. [44] And <b>the
next Sabbath day came</b> almost <b>the
whole city</b> together <b>to hear the word
of God</b>. Acts 13:42-44 <b>(Paul and
Barnabus teach on the Sabbath to the Gentiles.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">For Moses of
old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues <b>every Sabbath day</b>. Acts 15:21<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And <b>on the Sabbath</b> we went out of the city
by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake
unto the women which resorted thither.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> Acts 16:13<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And <b>he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath</b>,
and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> Acts 18:4 <b>(Paul attended “Church” on the 7<sup>th</sup>
day of the week. And taught not just Jews, but Greeks also.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And Paul, <b>as his manner was</b>, went in unto them,
and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, Acts 17:2 <b>(It was Paul’s custom to observe the Sabbath.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Be ye
followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. I Cor. 11:1 <b>(Following Paul would include observing the Sabbath as he did.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And they(both
Marys) returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the Sabbath day
according to the commandment. Luke 23:56<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">There
remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. Heb. 4:9 <b>(Almost all translations clarify this as a Sabbath-rest. This is the
new testament verse that people say doesn’t exist. Or they will spiritualize
away the verse making it still mean the Sabbath rest doesn’t remain for the
people of God even though the verse clearly says otherwise.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on
the sabbath day: Matt. 24:20 <b>(Jesus is
talking about a future time when the Sabbath day is still in effect. It doesn’t
matter if you interpret this verse to be referring to the destruction of the
temple in 70ad or for the end times, either way Jesus is referring to a future
time after his death when the Sabbath is still to be obeyed.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>if it were of</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a garden: he hath destroyed his places
of the assembly: <b>the LORD hath caused
the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion</b>, and hath despised
in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. Lam. 2:6 <b>(Out of discipline and anger, He caused His
people to forget His solemn feasts and Sabbaths.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new
moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. Hosea 2:11 <b>(In the Lord’s anger and discipline, He
caused His people to lose knowledge of these things.)</b><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-size: 7.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951583178189597031.post-60045675684456276212012-03-20T14:45:00.000-07:002012-03-20T14:45:00.568-07:00The Church VS Israel<br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Wherefore remember, that ye<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>being</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in time past <b>Gentiles in the flesh</b>, who are called Uncircumcision by that which
is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>That <b>at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth
of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise</b>, having no hope, and
without God in the world:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes
were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ</b>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>For he is our peace, <b>who hath made</b> <b>both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>between us</i></b>;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Having abolished in his flesh the
enmity,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>even</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the law of commandments<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>contained</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in ordinances; for <b>to make in himself of twain one new man</b>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>so</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>making peace;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And <b>that he might reconcile both unto God in one body</b> by the cross,
having slain the enmity thereby:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And
came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>For
through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Now therefore ye are no more strangers
and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God</b>;
Eph. 2:11-19 <b>(They were formerly “Gentiles
in the flesh.” Now they are made apart of the one body of Christ. So now
spiritual Israel has grafted in the Gentile converts to be made one new man and
included as heirs to the promises.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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understand my knowledge in <b>the mystery
of Christ</b>)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Which in other
ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his
holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>That
<b>the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and
of the same body, and partakers of his promise</b> in Christ by the gospel:
Eph. 3:3-6 <b>(The mystery of Christ is
that Gentiles are now offered the opportunity to be fellowheirs and partakers
of the promises of spiritual Israel.)</b></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Cometh</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">this
blessedness then upon the circumcision</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">only</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">,
or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham
for righteousness. How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in
uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. And he received the
sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">he
had yet</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">being uncircumcised: <b>that he might be the father of all them
that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed
unto them also</b>: And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the
circumcision only, <b>but who also walk in
the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">he had</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">being</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">yet</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">uncircumcised</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">.
For <b>the promise, that he should be the
heir of the world</b>,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">was</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">not
to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of
faith. For if they which are of the law</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">be</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">heirs,
faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: Because the law
worketh wrath: for where no law is,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">there
is</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">no transgression. Therefore</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">it
is</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">of faith, that</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">it
might be</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">by grace; to the end <b>the promise might be sure to all the seed</b>;
not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of
<b>Abraham; who is the father of us all</b>,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">(As
it is written, I have made thee <b>a father
of many nations</b>,) Rom. 4:9-17 <b>(Abraham
was made the father of MANY nations, not just the faithful of physical Israel
but also the faithful of the Gentile converts. Also notice that the promise was
the Abraham and his seed would be heir of the world, not simply a small strip
of land called Canaan, or Palestine.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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church in the wilderness</b> with the angel which spake to him in the mount
Sina, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>with</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>our fathers: who received the lively
oracles to give unto us: Acts 7:38 <b>(Moses
was in what was called “the church in the wilderness.” The church is the chosen
people of God and it existed before Pentecost.)</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">I ask then: <b>Did God reject his people? By no means!</b> I am an Israelite myself, a
descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.</span><span class="reftext"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">God did not reject
his people</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">, whom he foreknew… </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Again I ask: <b>Did they stumble so as to fall beyond
recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has
come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. But if their transgression means
riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much
greater riches will their fullness bring!</b> I am talking to you Gentiles.
Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I make much of my ministry</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">in
the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them.
For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their
acceptance be but life from the dead? If the part of the dough offered as
firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are
the branches. If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a
wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the
nourishing sap from the olive root, do not boast over those branches. If you
do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. You
will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” Granted.
But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be
arrogant, but be afraid. For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will
not spare you either. Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God:
sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in
his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.<b> And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for
God is able to graft them in again.</b> After all, if you were cut out of an
olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a
cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches,
be grafted into their own olive tree! I do not want you to be ignorant of this
mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: <b>Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the
Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved</b>, as it is written: “The
deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. And
this is</span><span class="nivfootnote"><b><i><sup><span style="color: #0066aa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></sup></i></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">my covenant with them when
I take away their sins.”<b> As far as the
gospel is concerned, they are enemies on your account; but as far as election
is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, for God’s gifts and
his call are irrevocable. Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God
have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience,</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">so they too have now become
disobedient in order that they too may now</span></b><span class="nivfootnote"><b><i><sup><span style="color: #0066aa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></sup></i></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">receive mercy as a result of God’s
mercy to you. For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that he may
have mercy on them all</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">. <span style="background: #F9FDFF;">Rom.
11:1-2; 11-32 <b>(The Gentiles were now
given the opportunity to be saved and grafted into the body of Christ. Ancient
Israel will be grafted back in later on after the full number of Gentiles has
come in. These verses display God’s mercy to all parties of disobedience.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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if he is only one outwardly</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>No,</b>
<b>a man is a Jew if he is one inwardly</b>;
and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the
written code. Rom. 2:28-29 <b>(There are
physical Jews by blood, and there are spiritual Jews by faith.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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God by faith in Christ Jesus</b>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>For
as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>There
is neither Jew nor Greek</b>, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither
male nor female: <b>for ye are all one in
Christ Jesus.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And if ye<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>be</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed,
and heirs according to the promise</b>. Gal. 3:26-29 <b>(Faith in Christ is what makes you apart of spiritual Israel or the
church of God, or Abraham’s seed, or heirs to the promise, not bloodlines.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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God unto <b>salvation to every one that
believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek</b>. Rom. 1:16 <b>(Salvation was 1<sup>st</sup> offered to
Israel, then to the Gentiles.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">For <b>they</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">are</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither,
because they are the seed of Abraham,</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">are they</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed
be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">are </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">not the children of God: but the
children of the promise are counted for the seed</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">. For
this</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">is</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">the
word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son. And not only</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">this</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">;
but when Rebecca also had conceived by one,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">even</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">by
our father Isaac; (For</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">the
children</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">being not yet born,
neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to
election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto
her, <b>The elder shall serve the younger. As
it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated</b>. What shall we say
then?</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Is there</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">unrighteousness
with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will
have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">it
is</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">not of him that willeth, nor of him
that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. For the scripture saith unto
Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my
power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. Therefore
hath he mercy on whom he will</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">have
mercy</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">,
and whom he will he hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find
fault? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that
repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">it</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">,
Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the
same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?<i> What</i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">if
God, willing to shew</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">his</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">wrath,
and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of
wrath fitted to destruction: And <b>that he
might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had
afore prepared unto glory,</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Even us, whom he hath called, not of
the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> As he saith also in Osee,
<b>I will call them my people, which were
not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to
pass,</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">that</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">in the place where it was said unto
them, Ye</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">are</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">not my people; there shall they be
called the children of the living God.</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> Esaias also crieth
concerning Israel, <b>Though the number of
the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved</b>:
Rom. 9:6-27<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">There is</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">one body, and one Spirit</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">, even as ye are called in one hope of
your calling;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>One Lord, <b>one faith, one baptism</b>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>One God and Father of all, who<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>above all, and through all, and in you
all. Eph. 4:4-6 <b>(Spiritual Israel and
the church are the same. There are not 2 separate people of God as
dispensationalists claim.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">For as <b>the body is one</b>, and
hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are <b>one body</b>: so also<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Christ.<span class="reftext"><b> </b></span>For
<b>by one Spirit are we all baptized into
one body, whether<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>we be</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Jews or Gentiles</b>, whether<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>we be</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>bond or free; and have been <b>all made to drink into one Spirit</b>. 1
Cor. 12:12-13 <b>(Again, there is only one
chosen people of God and one body and one spirit through which salvation is
given. Spiritual Israel and the church are the same.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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unto them, <b>If ye were Abraham's
children, ye would do the works of Abraham</b>. John 8:39 <b>(The Pharisee’s may have been blood descendants of Abraham, but they
were not apart of “spiritual Israel” because of their lack of faith and lack of
obedience. They are told that their father is the devil.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">For it is written, that <b>Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
But he</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">who was</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">of the bondwoman was born after the
flesh; but he of the freewoman</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">was</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">by promise</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">.
Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the
mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount
Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage
with her children. <b>But Jerusalem which
is above is free, which is the mother of us all</b>. For it is written,
Rejoice,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">thou</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">barren
that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for <b>the desolate hath many more children than
she which hath an husband</b>. Now <b>we,
brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise</b>. But as then he that
was born after the flesh persecuted him</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">that
was born</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">after the Spirit, even so</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">it
is</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">now. Nevertheless what saith the
scripture? <b>Cast out the bondwoman and
her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the
freewoman. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the
free</b>. Gal. 4:22-31 <b>(So not all of
Abraham’s descendants are heirs to the promise. Hagar is the bondwoman that
bore Ishmael and Sarah is the freewoman that bore Isaac.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Then Peter opened<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>his</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>mouth, and said, <b>Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>But in every nation he that feareth
him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him</b>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The word which<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>God</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>sent unto the children of Israel,
preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (<b>he is
Lord of all</b>:) Acts 10:34-36</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and
they shall be my people.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And <b>the heathen shall know that I the LORD do
sanctify Israel, when</b> my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for
evermore. Ezek. 37:27-28 <b>(At Christ’s
return, Israel will be set apart from the heathen nations. So does this include
the Gentile converts in the body of Christ? Are they set apart as well and
considered apart of “spiritual Israel?” Yes the answer is yes. So the Gentile
church was grafted in and made apart of spiritual Israel.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision,</b> <b>but a new creature</b>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And
as many as walk according to this rule, peace<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>be</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on them, and mercy, and <b>upon the Israel of God</b>. Gal. 6:15-16 <b>(It’s not about being Jewish or Greek, but
about being one new creation in Christ, which is referred to as “the Israel of
God.” I suppose it could also be called “the church of God.”)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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chosen people of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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God no long deals with ancient Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And
the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and
understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of
the fear of the LORD; And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of
the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove
after the hearing of his ears: But with righteousness shall he judge the poor,
and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth
with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the
wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness
the girdle of his reins. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the
leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the
fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall
feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw
like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the
weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. They shall not hurt nor
destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge
of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. <b>And
in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of
the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. And
it shall come to pass in that day,</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">that</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">the Lord shall set his hand again the
second time to recover the remnant of his people</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">,
which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from
Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of
the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the
outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four
corners of the earth. The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the
adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah
shall not vex Ephraim. But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines
toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay
their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. And
the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his
mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the
seven streams, and make</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">men</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">go
over dryshod. And <b>there shall be an
highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like
as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt</b>.
Is. 11:1-16 <b>(In what day was the remnant
gathered? CLEARLY this is AFTER the return of Christ, not before. The current
state of Israel formed in 1948 can’t be the regathering prophesied in
scripture.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my
miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now
these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; Surely <b>they shall not see the land which I sware
unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it</b>: But
my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me
fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall
possess it. (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To
morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea. And
the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, How long</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">shall
I bear with</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">this evil congregation,
which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel,
which they murmur against me. Say unto them,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">As
truly as</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">I live, saith the LORD, as
ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: <b>Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness</b>; and all that were
numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and
upward, which have murmured against me, <b>Doubtless
ye shall not come into the land,</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">concerning</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">which I sware to make you dwell
therein</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son
of Nun. But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring
in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. But</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">as
for</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">you, <b>your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness</b>. And your
children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms,
until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. After the number of the days
in which ye searched the land,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">even</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">forty
days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">even</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">forty
years, and <b>ye shall know my breach of
promise</b>. I the LORD have said, <b>I
will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together
against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die</b>.
Num. 14:22-35 <b>(The unfaithfulness of the
Israelites caused them to not be able to enter the promise land. So would an
unfaithful Jewish people of today be claimed by God as his people in the mist
of their rebellion and rejection? No, therefore the state of Israel is not the
Israel the Bible speaks of.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you and you take them to heart wherever the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>your God disperses you among the
nations,<b> and when you and your children
return to the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>your God and obey him with all your
heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, then
the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>your God will restore your fortunes<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and have compassion on you and gather
you again from all the nations where he scattered you.</b> Even if you have
been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>your God will gather you and bring you
back. He will bring you to the land that belonged to your fathers, and you will
take possession of it. <b>He will make you
more prosperous and numerous than your fathers</b>.<b> The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>your God will circumcise your hearts
and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your
heart and with all your soul, and live</b>. The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>your God will put all these curses on
your enemies who hate and persecute you.<b>
You will again obey the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and follow all his commands I am
giving you today. Then the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>your God will make you most prosperous
in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your
livestock and the crops of your land. The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>will again delight in you and make you
prosperous, just as he delighted in your fathers,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>if you obey the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>your God and keep his commands and
decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>your God with all your heart and with
all your soul</b>. Deut. 30:1-10NIV <b>(Obedience
is a condition of being returned to the land and receiving the blessings and
prosperity of God. The Jewish state today called Israel does not meet the
criteria of obedience; instead they reject the Messiah and are therefore not
the Israel of the Bible.) <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord:</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">“Listen
to <b>the terms of this covenant</b> and
tell them to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Tell
them that this is what the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">the
God of Israel, says: ‘<b>Cursed is the man
who does not obey the terms of this covenant—</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">the terms I commanded your forefathers
when I brought them out of Egypt</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">, out of the iron-smelting
furnace.’ <b>I said, ‘Obey me and do
everything I command you, and you will be my people, and I will be your God.</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Then I will fulfill the oath I swore
to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey’—the land
you possess today</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">.” I answered, “Amen,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord.”</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> The</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">said
to me, “Proclaim all these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem: ‘<b>Listen to the terms of this
covenant and follow them.</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">From the time I brought your
forefathers up from Egypt until today, I warned them again and again, saying,
“Obey me.”</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">But they did not listen or pay
attention; instead, they followed the stubbornness of their evil hearts. So I
brought on them all the curses of the covenant I had commanded them to follow
but that they did not keep.</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">’” Then the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">said
to me, “There is a conspiracy among the people of Judah and those who live in
Jerusalem.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">They
have returned to the sins of their forefathers, who refused to listen to my
words. They have followed other gods to serve them. Both the house of Israel
and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their forefathers.</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Therefore this is what the</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">says: ‘I will bring on them a disaster
they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">The
towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to
whom they burn incense, but they will not help them at all when disaster
strikes.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">You have as many gods as you have
towns, O Judah; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful
god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’ “Do not pray for this people
nor offer any plea or petition for them, because <b>I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their distress</b>.
“What is my beloved doing in my temple as she works out her evil schemes with
many? Can consecrated meat avert [your punishment]? When you engage in your
wickedness, then you rejoice.” <b>The</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">called you a thriving olive tree with
fruit beautiful in form. But with the roar of a mighty storm he will set it on
fire, and its branches will be broken. The</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Almighty, who planted you, has decreed
disaster for you, because the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done
evil and provoked me to anger</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> by burning incense to
Baal. Jer. 11:1-17 <b>(The terms of the
covenant was obedience. Would a disobedient Jewish state called Israel receive
God’s blessing? No, they do not accept the Messiah, therefore they are not the
Israel spoken of in the Bible.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to give their forefathers</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">, and they took possession of it and settled there. The <span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>gave them rest on every side, just as
he had sworn to their forefathers. Not one of their enemies withstood them; the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>handed all their enemies over to them.
<b>Not one of all the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span>’s good promises to the house
of Israel failed; every one was fulfilled</b>. Joshua 21:43-45<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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heart and soul that <b>not one of all the
good promises the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord </span></span>your
God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed</b>.
But <b>just as every good promise of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>your God has come true</b>, so the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>will bring on you all the evil he has
threatened, until he has destroyed you from this good land he has given you. <b>If you violate the covenant of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>your God, which he commanded you, and
go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span>’s anger will burn against
you, and you will quickly perish from the good land he has given you</b>.”
Joshua 23:14-16<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river,
the Euphrates— the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and
Jebusites.”Gen. 15:18-21<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These countries
brought tribute and were Solomon's subjects all his life. 1 Kings 4:21<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. 2 Chron. 9:26<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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out of Ur of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham. You found his heart faithful
to you, and you made a covenant with him to give to his descendants the land of
the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites and Girgashites. <b>You have kept your promise</b> because you
are righteous. Neh. 9:7-8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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faith,</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> <b>not having received the
promises</b>, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>them</i>, and embraced <i>them</i>,
and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth… And these all, having obtained a good report
through faith, <b>received not the promise:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>God having provided some better thing
for us, that they without us should not be made perfect</b>. Heb. 11:13,39-40<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And I will establish my covenant between me and thee
and thy seed after thee in their generations for <b>an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after
thee. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein
thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and
I will be their God</b>. And God said unto Abraham, <b>Thou shalt keep my covenant</b> therefore, thou, and thy seed after
thee in their generations. This</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">is</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">my
covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; <b>Every man child among you shall be
circumcised</b>. And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and <b>it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt
me and you</b>. Gen. 17:7-11 <b>(Circumcision
was a sign of the covenant and represented the cutting off of sin from your
life. Those circumcised, yet walking in sin were not right with God. So the
covenant was dependant on obedience.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth
the fruits thereof</b>. Matt. 21:43<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring
you back into your own land. <b>I will
sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all
your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a
new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a
heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my
decrees and be careful to keep my laws.</b> You will live in the land I gave
your forefathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God. I will save
you from all your uncleanness. <b>I will
call for the grain and make it plentiful and will not bring famine upon you. I
will increase the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field, so that you
will no longer suffer disgrace among the nations because of famine. Then you
will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves
for your sins and detestable practices.</b> I want you to know that I am not
doing this for your sake, declares the Sovereign</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Be
ashamed and disgraced for your conduct, O house of Israel! “‘This is what
the Sovereign</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="nivsmallcaps"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 115%;">Lord</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">says:
On the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will resettle your towns, and <b>the ruins will be rebuilt. The desolate
land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass
through it.</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">They will say, “This land that was
laid waste has become like the garden of Eden</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">; the cities that
were lying in ruins, desolate and destroyed, are now fortified and inhabited.”
Ezek. 36:24-35 <b>(This doesn’t sound like
the present Jewish people of “Israel.” They still reject the Messiah.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Then let them which are in Judaea flee
to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let
not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>For these be the days of vengeance</b>,
that all things which are written may be fulfilled.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>But woe unto them that are with child,
and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in
the land, and wrath upon this people.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And
they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into
all nations: and <b>Jerusalem shall be
trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled</b>.
Luke 21:20-24 <b>(God is not regathering
his people at this time as Zionists claim. When the armies surround Jerusalem,
it is time to flee and get out of dodge, not be where the destruction takes
place. Also, Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles until the times of
Gentiles be fulfilled, and that has not yet fulfilled. Therefore, the Jews
gathering to the Jewish state called Israel today, are not God’s people.
Jerusalem is still being trodden down by the Gentiles.)</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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kingdom of God will be taken away from you</b> and given to a people who will
produce its fruit. Matt. 21:43 <b>(This was
not directed at Israel as a whole, but to the Pharisees(vs 45) who were of
course Jewish. The Pharisees were not obedient to God’s law, but their own law,
and so they were no longer considered apart of God’s chosen people, even though
they were still Israelites by race.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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he</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">the God of the Jews only?</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">is he</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the
Gentiles also</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">: Seeing</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">it
is</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">one God, which shall justify the
circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. Do we then make void
the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. Rom. 3:29-31<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951583178189597031.post-33520018331879594182012-03-19T13:57:00.001-07:002012-03-19T13:58:52.056-07:00BREAKING NEWS: Ron Paul Winning Nomination (Either Way)!<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">It's either Ron Paul or Barack Obama for 2012 President. So why not back Ron Paul if you aren't already. Romney or Santorum have no chance because Ron Paul delegates are loyal and won't compromise their principles. They won't back the nominee no matter what. This has never before been the case. That's why the GOP is obsessed with Ron Paul running 3rd party, because they know they are done if he does. Many Obama supporters that are sick of Obama will turn to Ron Paul. Ron Paul beats Obama in the head to head polls. These primary shenanigans and media black out on Ron Paul won't work. The only solution for the establishment at this point may be an assassination attempt of Ron Paul. But that would only add fuel to the fire of this revolution. This will be interesting to see how this plays out. But you can thankfully forget about a possible Romney or Santorum presidency. It's just not going to happen.</span> </span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IU2AvSwzuok?fs=1" width="459"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951583178189597031.post-979641017666742402012-03-10T21:00:00.001-08:002012-03-10T21:02:43.157-08:00Barack Obama Admin Cites 'Int'l Permission,' Not Congress, As 'Legal Bas...They are just throwing it in our faces. It would be bad enough for Obama to announce himself a dictator, but claiming that they get there orders from the United Nations and NATO is even worse. People will laugh and call you a conspiracy theorist for claiming there is a world government, but that is exactly what we have and this video is one of many proofs of that. If we had a free press, this would be headline news, but sadly we don't. Just look at the arrogant and smug look on the face of the General in the background. The Congressman is baffled by the openness in which they claim Congress as irrelevant and say that their legal basis for war is gained through an international body such as the United Nations. The Congressman is like...Hey we are war mongers too and banker funded. We'll give you the authorization for war, but we want the power. I'm only upset because I'm losing my power. Panetta says...no we don't care what you say or what the constitution says, we will follow orders handed down to us from the United Nations and will let you know what was decided. The founders are rolling over in their graves.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LZ0RZWz7uXM?fs=1" width="459"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951583178189597031.post-22008889421690578412012-02-28T15:12:00.000-08:002012-02-28T15:12:00.289-08:00Which Is More Important: Truth or Unity?<br />
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8:31-32 <b>(If the truth frees us, wouldn’t
God make it available to us to know? Yes, it says “we shall know the truth,” IF
ye continue in my word. What does the truth free us from? The following verses
reveal that the truth frees us from the bondage of sin. So I’d say that makes
truth quite important.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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truth</b>, is come, he <b>will guide you
into all truth</b>: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall
hear,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>that</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>shall he speak: and <b>he will shew you things to come</b>. </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">John 16:13 <b>(The Holy Spirit as your guide and counselor is the key to knowing ALL truth
and understanding prophecy.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">Ask, and it shall
be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>For every one that asketh receiveth;
and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Or what man is there of you, whom if
his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Or
if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>If
ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much
more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask
him? Matt. 7:7-11</span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For God is not
the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. I Cor.
14:33 <b>(The confusion in the churches
isn’t God’s doing. Satan is present among the churches causing the confusion.)</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Knowing this
first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. II
Peter 1:20 <b>(The Bible interprets the
Bible. We have no authority to interpret scripture however we want or feel
like.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that
perish; because <b>they received not the
love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send
them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be
damned who believed not the truth</b>, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">But we are bound
to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God
hath from the beginning chosen you to <b>salvation
through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth</b>:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Whereunto he called you by our gospel,
to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Therefore, brethren, <b>stand fast, and hold the traditions which
ye have been taught</b>, whether by word, or our epistle.</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> II
Thess. 2:10-15<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My little children, let us not <b>love</b> in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and <b>in truth</b>. I John 3:18<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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does not delight in evil but <b>rejoices
with the truth</b>. I Cor. 13:6<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He must <b>hold firmly to
the trustworthy message</b> as it has been taught, so that he can <b>encourage others by sound doctrine and
refute those who oppose it</b>. Titus 1:9<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You must teach what is in accord with <b>sound doctrine</b>. Titus 2:1<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">For the time will come when they will
not endure sound doctrine</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">; but after their own lusts shall
they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away
[their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. II Timothy 4:3-4<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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unto thyself, and <b>unto the doctrine;
continue in them</b>: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them
that hear thee. I Timothy 4:16<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If anyone teaches <b>false
doctrines</b> and does not agree to the <b>sound
instruction</b> of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, he is conceited
and understands nothing. I Timothy 6:3-4<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge
of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the
fulness of Christ: That we [henceforth] <b>be
no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of
doctrine</b>, by the sleight of men, [and] cunning craftiness, whereby they lie
in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all
things, which is the head, [even] Christ: Eph. 4:13-15<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that ye all <b>speak the same thing</b>,
and [that] there be no divisions among you; but [that] ye be perfectly joined
together in the <b>same mind</b> and in the
same judgment. I Cor. 1:10 <b>(Yes, we
should be unified, but we should be unified under the truth, speaking the same
things with the same mind. It doesn’t say to not be concerned about truth so
that we can be unified. It says just the opposite, we should be concerned about
truth, about sound doctrine, being of the same mind and spirit IN ORDER for us
to be unified under these truths.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">,
that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing <b>thou
hast forgotten the law of thy God</b>, I will also forget thy children. Hosea 4:6<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Do not be conformed to this world</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">, but be transformed by the
renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God,
what is good and acceptable and perfect. Rom. 12:2<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I do not ask
that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They
are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.<b> Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth</b>. As you sent me
into the world, so I have sent them into the world. John 17:15-18<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">Love not the world, neither the
things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the
Father is not in him.</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> For all that [is] in the world, the
lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of
the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust
thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. I John 2:15-17<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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thou art beside thyself; much learning <b>doth
make thee mad</b>.<span class="reftext"><b> </b></span>But he said, I am not mad,
most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. Acts
26:24-25 <b>(Paul was viewed as a mad man
for speaking the truth. How would truth tellers be viewed today?)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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LORD," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely?
Jer. 8:8 <b>(This verse describes scribes
having “lying pens” and handling scripture falsely. So we should be on guard
against false interpretations and false translations. This is a big way in
which Satan is able to deceive by subtly twisting scripture to lead people into
disobedience.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thy righteousness<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>an everlasting righteousness, and <b>thy law<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the truth</b>… Thou<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>art</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>near, O LORD; and all <b>thy commandments<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>are</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>truth</b>… <b>Thy word<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>true</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>from</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the beginning: and <b>every one of thy righteous judgments<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>endureth</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for ever</b>. Psalm 119:142,151,160</span><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951583178189597031.post-24092519800318660552012-02-27T15:02:00.000-08:002012-02-27T15:02:00.453-08:00Is Heaven The Reward Of The Saved?<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Blessed are
the meek: for they shall <b>inherit the
earth</b>. Matt. 5:5</span></span><span class="Heading3Char"><span style="line-height: 115%;">
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But the meek
shall <b>inherit the earth</b>; and shall
delight themselves in the abundance of peace. Psalms 37:11<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And hast made
us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall <b>reign on the earth</b>. Rev. 5:10<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And he that
overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give <b>power over the nations</b>: Rev. 2:26<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To him that
overcometh will I grant to sit with me in <b>my
throne</b>, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in <b>his throne</b>. Rev. 3:21 <b>(The Father’s throne is in Heaven. But
where is Christ’s throne? Earth?)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He shall be
great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give
unto him the throne of his father David: Luke 1:32 <b>(David’s throne was on earth)</b></span></span></span></div>
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Men and
brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch <b>David</b>, that he is <b>both dead
and buried</b>, and his sepulchre is with us un<b>to this day</b>. Acts 2:29 <b>(David
is not in Heaven, he is dead to this day, awaiting the resurrection.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For <b>David is not ascended into the heavens</b>:
but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
Acts 2:34 <b>(This is consistent with the
above verse.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Then said the
Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. <b>Abraham is dead, and the prophets</b>; and thou sayest, If a man keep
my saying, he shall never taste of death. [53] Art thou greater than our father
<b>Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets
are dead</b>: whom makest thou thyself? John 8:52-53 <b>(</b></span></span><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Abraham and the prophets are not in Heaven. They too are dead in
their graves awaiting the resurrection.)</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And the LORD
said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes,
and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward,
and westward: [15] For <b>all the land</b>
which thou seest, to thee <b>will I give it</b>,
and <b>to thy seed for ever</b>. Gen.
13:14-15 <b>(Abram and his seed was
promised “all the land” not Heaven)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For the
promise, that he should be the <b>heir of
the world</b>, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through
the righteousness of faith. Rom. 4:13 <b>(An
“heir” is someone that has not yet inherited. His inheritance is the world.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Little
children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said
unto the Jews, <b>Whither I go, ye cannot
come</b>; so now I say to you. John 13:33 <b>(Christ
went to Heaven, and he tells us that we can not go there)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And no man
hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of
man which is in heaven. John 3:13 <b>(Jesus
appears to plainly say that no man has ascended to Heaven expect himself, which
came from there. This is also consistent with the fact that we can not go there)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And many of
them that <b>sleep in the dust of the earth</b>
shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting
contempt. Dan. 12:2 <b>(Daniel understood
that the dead are asleep in the dust of the earth, not in Heaven.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And I John saw
<b>the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming
down</b> from God <b>out of heaven</b>,
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. [3] And I heard a great voice out
of heaven saying, Behold, <b>the tabernacle
of God is with men, and he will dwell with them</b>, and they shall be his
people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. Rev. 21:2-3 <b>(Christ comes to earth and dwells with us,
not the other way around.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The righteous
shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth. Prov. 10:30
<b>(This verse dispels many theories as
false.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now if Christ
be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no
resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is
Christ not risen: And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and
your faith is also vain. I Corinthians 15:12-14 <b>(This is Paul’s response to those that didn’t believe in the
resurrection. Perhaps they merely thought the dead went to Heaven.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And he said
unto Jesus, Lord, <b>remember me when thou
comest into thy kingdom</b>. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee,
To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. Luke 23:42-43 <b>(The original Greek doesn’t use commas. They were inserted later by
translators. This comma is misplaced and changes the entire meaning. Jesus was
merely saying, I say to you today, or right now, you will be with me in
paradise when I come into my kingdom. Jesus doesn’t come into his kingdom until
his return at the resurrection)</b> Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for <b>I am not yet ascended to my Father</b>: but
go to my brethren, John 20:17 <b>(Also,
Jesus tells Mary after his resurrection that he had not yet ascended to Heaven.
So the thief couldn’t have gone to Heaven that same day.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blessed are
ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of
evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for <b>great is your reward in heaven</b>: for so
persecuted they the prophets which were before you. Matt. 5:11-12 Blessed be
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant
mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that
fadeth not away, <b>reserved in heaven for
you</b>, I Peter 1:3-4 And, behold, <b>I come</b>
quickly; and <b>my reward is with me</b>,
to give every man according as his work shall be.<b> </b>Rev. 22:12<b>(Our reward is
“reserved” in Heaven, which later comes with the Lord at his return)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In my Father's
house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to
prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, <b>I will come again</b>, and receive you unto
myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. John 14:2-3 <b>(Our reward is in Heaven being prepared by Christ, which he brings with
him at his return to earth at the resurrection.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Behold, the <b>Lord GOD will come</b> with strong hand,
and his arm shall rule for him: behold, <b>his
reward is with him</b>, and his work before him. Isaiah 40:10<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jesus
answered, <b>My kingdom is not of this
world</b>: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that
I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
John 18:36 <b>(Christ’s kingdom is in
Heaven, which comes with him at his return to earth)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And there was
given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and
languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which
shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. Dan.
7:14<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Until the
Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High;
and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. Dan. 7:22</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951583178189597031.post-1199421579241575782012-02-26T14:58:00.000-08:002012-02-26T14:58:00.136-08:00Is Hell A Place Of Eternal Torture?<br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheol, Hades,
and Gehenna are all translated as “Hell.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Sheol</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">= “the grave,” this is the Hebrew word used in the OT<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Hades</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">= this is the NT Greek word for Sheol, which means “the grave”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Gehenna</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">=</span></span><span class="Heading3Char"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="Heading3Char"><span style="line-height: 115%;">the
Valley of Hinnom, a geographic location just outside of Jerusalem</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> used to burn the bodies of
criminals who had suffered capital punishment. Pagan deities were worshiped
there and it became a garbage dump and a place of abomination where fire burned
continuously. Gehenna became synonymous with “a place of burning.” Most of the
occurrences of the word 'hell' in the New Testament refer to this 'place of
burning' outside of Jerusalem. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And fear not
them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear
him which is able to <b>destroy</b> both
soul and body <b>in hell</b>. Matt. 10:28 <b>(to “destroy” something isn’t to
continually torture)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let the
sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let <b>the wicked be no more</b>. Psalms 104:35<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But <b>the wicked shall perish</b>, and the
enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into
smoke shall they consume away. Psalms 37:20</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then shall he
say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into <b>everlasting fire</b>, prepared for the
devil and his angels: Matt. 25:41 And these shall go away into <b>everlasting punishment</b>: but the
righteous into life eternal. Matt. 25:46 <b>(The
punishment of death is everlasting)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">And if thy
hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed,
than having two hands to go into <b>hell(gehenna)</b>,
into the <b>fire that never shall be
quenched</b>: [44] Where <b>their worm
dieth not</b>, and the <b>fire is not
quenched</b>. [45] And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for
thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into <b>hell(gehenna)</b>, into the <b>fire that never shall be quenched</b>: [46]
Where <b>their worm dieth not</b>, and the <b>fire is not quenched</b>. [47] And if thine
eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom
of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into <b>hell fire(gehenna)</b>: [48] Where <b>their
worm dieth not</b>, and the <b>fire is not
quenched</b>. Mark 9:43-48 <b><i> (</i>Gehenna
is an<i> </i></b></span></span><em><b><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">actual place outside of Jerusalem called “The Valley of Hinnom.” It is
referenced in Neh. 11:30, II Kings 23:10, and Jer. 19:6. The people Jesus was
speaking to knew of this place and understood what Jesus was saying. So a study
of this place is required to understand what Jesus was saying.)</span></b></em><em><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Even as <b>Sodom and Gomorrha</b>, and the cities
about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going
after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, <b>suffering</b> the vengeance of <b>eternal
fire</b>. Jude 1:7 <b>(But those cities are
obviously not still burning today. Their destruction was eternal. They are
still gone to this day. But they are not still burning.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">And the sea
gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead
which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
[14] And <b>death and hell</b> were <b>cast into the lake of fire</b>. <b>This is the second death</b>. [15] And
whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of
fire. Rev. 20:13-15 <b>(All who enter this
lake suffer permanent death. They suffer complete destruction—a final
punishment that is</b></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><em><b><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">everlasting</span></b></em><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">—</span></b></span><em><b><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">eternal</span></b></em><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">—</span></b></span><em><b><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">permanent</span></b></em><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">! It is not</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><em><b><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">punishing</span></b></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> </span></i></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">but is rather</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><em><b><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">punishment </span></b></em><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">that is everlasting.
Christ understood this just as anyone that knew of the fires in the Valley of
Hinnom recognized that the bodies of criminals and animals thrown there</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><em><b><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">burned up</span></b></em><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">.)<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">In certain places the Bible actually translates Sheol as “the
grave.” But if they were to insert “hell” as they do in other places, the verse
would not make sense if we think of hell as the eternal destination of the
wicked. Here is one example of many: </span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">If only you would hide me in</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 115%;">the grave</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">and conceal me till your anger has
passed! If only you would set me a time and then remember me! Job 14:13 Job is asking God to send him to
hell to avoid God’s wrath, in hopes that he would be remembered at the
resurrection. This only makes sense if we understand what hell truly is.</span></b></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951583178189597031.post-36150443363404816142012-02-25T14:55:00.000-08:002012-02-25T14:55:00.107-08:00What Happens When We Die?<br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For the <b>wages of sin is death</b>; but the gift of
God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For God so
loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth
in him should not <b>perish</b>, but have <b>everlasting life</b>. John 3:16 <b>(“perish” seems to contrast with eternal
life in hell)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And the LORD
God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life; and <b>man became a living
soul</b>. Gen. 2:7 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt
not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof <b>thou shalt</b> surely <b>die</b>.
Gen. 2:17 <b>(We are a soul, and we can
die.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">the soul</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> that sinneth, it <b>shall die</b>.
Ezek. 18:4 <b>(the soul can die)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And fear not
them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear
him which is <b>able to destroy</b> both <b>soul</b> and body in hell. Matt. 10:28 <b>(A destroyed soul seems to contrast with
eternal life in hell)</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For, behold,
the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all
that do wickedly, <b>shall be stubble</b>:
and the day that cometh <b>shall burn them
up</b>, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall <b>leave them neither root nor branch</b>. [2] But unto you that fear my
name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye
shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. [3] And ye shall tread down
the wicked; for they <b>shall be ashes
under the soles of your feet</b> in the day that I shall do this, saith the
LORD of hosts. Mal. 4:1-3 <b>(These words
in bold seem to contrast eternal life in hell.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For as ye have
drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea,
they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they <b>shall be as though they had not been</b>. Obadiah 1:16<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Put not your
trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. [4] His
breath goeth forth, he <b>returneth to his
earth</b>; in that very day <b>his thoughts
perish</b>. Psalm 146:3-4<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For the living
know that they shall die: but <b>the dead
know not any thing</b>, neither have they any more a reward; for <b>the memory of them is forgotten</b>.
Ecclesiastes 9:5<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For that which
befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as
the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man
hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. [20] All go unto one
place; <b>all are of the dust, and all turn
to dust again</b>. Ecclesiastes 3:19-20<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">The dead</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> praise not the LORD, neither any that <b>go down into silence</b>. Psalm 115:17 <b>(silence is quite a contrast to wailing and screaming in agony in a
burning furnace forever or going to heaven and singing and playing harps)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For <b>in death there is no remembrance of thee</b>:
in the grave who shall give thee thanks? Psalms 6:5<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Marvel not at
this: for the hour is coming, in the which <b>all
that are in the graves</b> shall hear his voice, [29] And <b>shall come forth</b>; they that have done good, unto the resurrection
of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> John 5:28-29 <b>(Jesus tells of the 2<sup>nd</sup>
resurrection, and to marvel not.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">O that thou
wouldest <b>hide me in the grave</b>, that
thou wouldest <b>keep me secret</b>, <b>until thy wrath be past</b>, that thou
wouldest appoint me a set time, and <b>remember
me</b>! [14] If a man die, shall he <b>live
again</b>? all the days of my appointed time will <b>I wait, till my change come</b>. [15] Thou shalt call, and I will
answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands. Job 14:13-15 <b>(Job seems to have a good understanding
about the matter. And to “live again” seems to contrast with immortal souls.
And why would Job need to be “remembered” if he were to go to Heaven when he
dies?)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Behold, I shew
you a mystery; <b>We shall not all sleep</b>,
but <b>we shall all be changed</b>, In a
moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall
sound, and <b>the dead shall be raised</b>
incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption,
and <b>this mortal must put on</b> <b>immortality</b>. So when this corruptible
shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality,
then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up
in victory. I Cor. 15:51-54 <b>(This verse
should dispel the immortal soul doctrine.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Then shall </span><b style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">the dust return to the earth</b><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> as it was:
and </span><b style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">the spirit shall return unto God</b><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">
who gave it. Ecclesiastes 12:7 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward,
and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? Ecclesiastes 3:21
And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, </span><b style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">receive my spirit</b><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">. [60] And he kneeled
down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And
when he had said this, </span><b style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">he fell asleep</b><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">.
Acts 7:59-60 </span><b style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(Our body and soul goes to
the grave, our spirit returns to God. These will reunite at the resurrection at
Christ’s return. Our spirit returns to God in Heaven, but we do not.</b><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">)</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951583178189597031.post-53403068278819965002012-02-24T14:48:00.000-08:002012-02-24T14:48:00.076-08:00Was Jesus Created or Begotten or Always Existed?<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the
word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do
appear. Hebrews 11:3 <b>(</b></span></span><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">God
created the heavens, earth, angels, plants, trees, animals, man, woman, and
everything else. All that was created came from nothing that pre-existed. To be
begotten means the opposite of created, you must come from an already </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">existing
source. Jesus was the only begotten Son of God.)</span></b><em><b><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></em></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By the word of
the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; font-variant: small-caps; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">Lord</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>were the
heavens made; And all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathereth
the waters of the sea together as an heap: He layeth up the depth in
storehouses. Let all the earth fear the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; font-variant: small-caps; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">Lord</span>: Let all the inhabitants of the
world stand in awe of him. For he spake, and it was<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">done</span></em>; He commanded, and it stood fast. <i>Psalm
33:6-9 </i><b>(The creation was spoken into
existence. Nothing pre-exiting was used to create.)</b><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy
conception; in sorrow thou shalt <b>bring
forth</b> children; and thy desire</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><em><span style="line-height: 115%;">shall be</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">to
thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. Gen. 3:16 <b>(The Hebrew word for “bring forth” is the same used for “beget.” So
children are not created, but begotten of their parents. Jesus was not a
created being, but he was begotten of Father God.)</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made
by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> John
1:1-3 <b>(Jesus was the Word and the
creator. “In the beginning” of what? Since God the Father has no beginning, he
existed from eternity. Jesus at minimum existed before the beginning of
creation, since he was the creator. But did he also exist from eternity like
God the Father? Also, God is a uniplural word like family, team, or group. Ex…John was with Smith(father), and John was Smith(son). So me and my father are
of the same family, but we are two separate beings.)</b></span></span><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><em><span style="line-height: 115%;">Yet</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">out
of thee shall he come forth unto me</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><em><span style="line-height: 115%;">that is</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">to
be ruler in Israel; Whose goings forth</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><em><span style="line-height: 115%;">have been</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">from
of old, from everlasting. Micah 5:2 <b>(Jesus
came from God. And this happened “from of old, from everlasting.” Jesus was the
creator of all things, so this happened at some point before the creation. But
if Jesus came out of the Father, he must not have always existed. Although once
he was begotten of the eternal Father, the Son became eternal as well.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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for <b>I proceeded forth and came from God</b>;
neither came I of myself, but he sent me. John 8:42 <b>(Jesus proceeded forth from and came from God.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">No man hath seen God at any time; <b>the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father</b>, he hath
declared</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><em><span style="line-height: 115%;">him</span></em><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">. John 1:18<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For God so loved the world, that he gave his <b>only begotten Son</b>, that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 <b>(Most other translations leave out the important word “begotten” and
change the meaning of the verse to say “God’s only Son” or “one and only Son.”
This is a false translation. Jesus is not the only Son of God, but he is the
only begotten Son of God. Christians will be adopted sons and daughters of God.
At conversion we are spiritually begotten of God. We are to grow spiritually in
this life just as a begotten fetus grows in its mother’s womb. At the
resurrection, we are born again of the spirit just as the fetus is physically
born of the flesh at birth.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld
his glory, the glory as of <b>the only
begotten of the Father</b>,) full of grace and truth. John 1:14<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Being made</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> so
much better than the angels, as he hath <b>by
inheritance</b> obtained a more excellent name than they. Heb. 1:4 <b>(Jesus was clearly begotten, not created by
God the Father. This verse seems to say that Jesus was “made.” This doesn’t
contradict with “begotten.” So Jesus is eternal, but he has not always existed
just like God the Father has.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Who is the image of the invisible God, the <b>firstborn of every creature</b>: Col. 1:15 <b>(Christ is the firstborn of every creature. How plain is that? This
occurred before the creation of all things because Christ was the creator. Just
as we are born in the image of our parents, we will also bear the image of the
heavenly at the resurrection just as Christ did. Christ was begotton of the
Father. The Father was begotten of nobody. That’s what blows the mind.)</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951583178189597031.post-38115391063836136792012-02-23T14:21:00.001-08:002012-02-23T14:21:20.871-08:00Is Christ Himself The Gospel Or The Messenger Of It?<br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I marvel that
ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto <b>another gospel</b>: [7] Which is not
another; but there be <b>some</b> that
trouble you, and would <b>pervert the
gospel of Christ</b>. [8] But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any <b>other gospel</b> unto you than that which
we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. Gal. 1:6-8 <b>(There is clearly only 1 true gospel. But this verse also shows that
there are other false gospels among us. And anyone that preaches the wrong
gospel is cursed. It is serious then that we know the true gospel amongst the
false gospels.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Behold, I will
send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and <b>the LORD</b>, whom ye seek, shall suddenly
come to his temple, even <b>the messenger
of the covenant</b>, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD
of hosts. Mal. 3:1 <b>(Jesus was “the
messenger of the covenant.” But was this message about himself or something
else?)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The law and
the prophets were until John: since that time <b>the kingdom of God</b> is preached, and every man presseth into it.
Luke 16:16 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And he went
into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing
and persuading the things concerning <b>the
kingdom of God</b>. Acts 19:8 <b>(Paul
preached about “the kingdom of God.” But what is the kingdom of God?)</b></span></span></span></div>
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And now,
behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching <b>the kingdom of God</b>, shall see my face
no more. Acts 20:25 <b>(Paul obviously
preached the kingdom of God. What is the kingdom of God?)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Paul dwelt
two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,
[31] Preaching <b>the kingdom of God</b>, and
teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence,
no man forbidding him. Acts 28:30-31 <b>(Paul
differentiates the kingdom of God and “those things which concern the Lord
Jesus Christ.”)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But when they
believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the
name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. Acts 8:12 <b>(Philip differentiates the kingdom of God
and the name of Jesus Christ.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For if he that
cometh preacheth <b>another Jesus</b>, whom
we have not preached, or if ye receive <b>another
spirit</b>, which ye have not received, or <b>another
gospel</b>, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. II Cor.
11:4 <b>(Be sure you accept the right
Jesus, the right spirit, and the right gospel. There are obviously false,
counterfeits of all of these that we must be aware of.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Moreover</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">, brethren, <b>I declare unto
you the gospel</b> which I preached unto you, <b>which also ye have received</b>, and wherein ye stand; [2] By which
also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye
have believed in vain. [3] <b>For I
delivered unto you first</b> of all that which I also received, how that <b>Christ</b> died for our sins according to
the scriptures; [4] And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third
day according to the scriptures: I Cor. 15:1-4 <b>(Paul delivered “first” the message of Christ. And “moreover” they then
“also received” the gospel. So this scripture IS consistent with the others
that differentiate between Christ and the gospel.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For so an
entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom
of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. II Peter 1:11 <b>(Peter also preached about the kingdom.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Repent ye
therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the <b>times of refreshing</b> shall come <b>from the presence of the Lord</b>. [20] And
he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: [21] Whom the
heaven must receive until the <b>times of
restitution of all things</b>, <b>which God
hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets</b> since the world began.
Acts 3:19-21 <b>(All the prophets preached
about the kingdom of God.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Enoch
also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord
cometh with ten thousands of his saints, [15] To execute judgment upon all,
Jude 1:14-15 <b>(Enoch, who was before Noah,
preached the same message of Christ’s 2<sup>nd</sup> coming to establish his
kingdom, the kingdom of God.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And the
scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith,
preached <b>before the gospel unto Abraham</b>,
<b>saying, In thee shall all nations be
blessed</b>. Gal. 3:8 <b>(God preached the
gospel to Abraham. And all nations will be blessed because of this gospel. And
the gospel is about the kingdom of God being established on earth by Christ and
his saints.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">For unto us
was the gospel preached, as well as unto them:</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Hebrew 4:2 <b>(The context of this verse is that the
Israelites that Moses lead were in fact preached the gospel. IF the gospel was
about Christ dying for our sins, how did this gospel exist before Christ had
even arrived to die for our sins? The answer can only be that Christ is not the
gospel. The gospel is about God’s kingdom.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For unto us a
child is born, unto us a son is given: and the <b>government shall be upon his shoulder</b>: and his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of
Peace. <b>Of the increase of his government</b>
and peace there shall be no end, <b>upon
the throne of David</b>, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it
with judgment and with justice from henceforth even <b>for ever</b>. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. Isaiah 9:6-7
<b>(The gospel of the kingdom of God is the
government of Christ on earth forever.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Behold, the
days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and
<b>a King shall reign</b> and prosper, and
shall execute judgment and justice <b>in
the earth</b>. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely:
and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Jer. 23:5-6 <b>(Christ will be a King that
reigns on the earth.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And in the
days of these kings <b>shall the God of
heaven set up a kingdom</b>, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom
shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all
these kingdoms, and <b>it shall stand for
ever</b>. Dan. 2:44 <b>(God reveals his
plans to Daniel, to set up his kingdom forever in the earth. This is the
gospel.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">And Jesus went</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues,
and <b>preaching the gospel of the kingdom</b>,
and every sickness and every disease among the people. Matt. 9:35 <b>(Jesus taught the gospel of the kingdom.
This gospel was not about himself, but about his government on earth at his 2<sup>nd</sup>
coming.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then he called
his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils,
and to cure diseases. And <b>he sent them
to preach the kingdom of God</b>, and to heal the sick. Luke 9:1-2<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jesus
answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world,
then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but
now is my kingdom not from hence. John 18:36 <b>(Jesus’ kingdom comes from Heaven to earth at his 2<sup>nd</sup>
coming. Jesus is talking about HIS kingdom, so IF the gospel of the kingdom of
God has to do with Christ himself, this verse doesn’t make any sense.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jesus answered
and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again,
he cannot see the kingdom of God. John 3:3 <b>(Many
people not born again saw Jesus, therefore Jesus is not the kingdom of God.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now this I
say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither
doth corruption inherit incorruption. I Cor. 15:50 <b>(The kingdom of God is something that is inherited. We do not inherit
Jesus, therefore Jesus is not the kingdom of God.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But the saints
of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even
for ever and ever. Dan. 7:18<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Until the
Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High;
and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. Dan. 7:22<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And the
kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of <b>the
kingdom under the whole heaven</b>, shall be given to the people of the saints
of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions
shall serve and obey him. Dan. 7:27 <b>(The
kingdom is not Heaven, but “under heaven.”)</b></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951583178189597031.post-40711132959687430442012-02-14T13:01:00.000-08:002012-02-14T13:02:38.046-08:00The Speech That an Honest American President Would Give<div>Thank you Mr. President for finally telling us the truth. </div><div><br /></div><iframe width="459" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bZOSjUHzKuE?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951583178189597031.post-73702591941042075432012-02-10T10:24:00.000-08:002012-02-10T10:24:09.499-08:00Were the 10 Commandments or God's Law Done Away With or "Nailed to the Cross?"<br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For <b>this is the love of God</b>, <b>that we keep his commandments</b>: and his
commandments are not grievous. I John 5:3 <b>(People
always talk about loving God. This verse plainly tells us how to do this. And
the last part of this verse shows that his commandments are not a burden as
many people claim them to be.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 115%;">This is love</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 115%;">,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">that we walk according to His commandments. II John 6</span></em><span class="apple-style-span"><b><i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">The law</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> of the LORD <b>is perfect</b>,
converting the soul. Psalm 19:7 <b>(Would
God, that changes not, abolish a perfect law?)</b></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let us hear
the conclusion of the whole matter: <b>Fear
God</b>, and <b>keep his commandments</b>:
for <b>this is the whole duty of man</b>.
Eccl. 12:13 <b>(If there was ever one
single verse that sums it all up, this is it.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">O that there
were such an heart in them, that they would <b>fear me</b>, and <b>keep all my
commandments always</b>, that it might be well with them, and with their
children <b>for ever</b>! Deut. 5:29<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He that
turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be
abomination. Prov. 28:9<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For <b>not the hearers</b> of the law are just
before God, <b>but the doers of the law
shall be justified</b>. Rom. 2:13</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whosoever
committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for <b>sin is the transgression of the law</b>. I John 3:4 <b>(This verse plainly tells us the definition
of sin.)</b><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">For until the
law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Romans 5:13 <b>(Sin entered the world with Adam and Eve,
thus the law must have been in effect.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Because the
law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. Romans 4:15 <b>(And without transgression of the law,
there is no sin, and thus no need for a savior.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What shall we
say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law:
for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Romans
7:7 <b>(God’s law is the 10 commandments)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But seek ye
first the kingdom of God, and his <b>righteousness</b>;
and all these things shall be added unto you. Matt. 6:33 “For <b>all Your commandments are</b></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><em><b><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">righteousness</span></b></em><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">.” Psalm 119:172 Know ye not,
that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, <b>his servants ye are to whom ye obey</b>; whether of sin unto death, or
of <b>obedience unto righteousness</b>?
Romans 6:16 <b>(Righteousness is obeying
God’s commandments, and thus becoming God’s servant. Sin is not obeying God’s
commands, and thus being the servant of someone or something else)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Because that <b>Abraham</b> obeyed my voice, and <b>kept</b> my charge, <b>my commandments</b>, my statutes, and <b>my laws</b>. Gen. 26:5 <b>(This
verse shows that the God’s law preceded Moses.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And, behold,
one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may
have eternal life? [17] And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there
is none good but one, that is, God: <b>but
if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments</b>. [18] He saith unto
him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit
adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, [19] Honour
thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Matt.
19:16-19 <b>(If there is any doubt as to
what God’s commandments are, Jesus tells us by quoting from the 10
commandments.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The LORD is
well pleased for his righteousness' sake; <b>he
will magnify the law, and make it honourable</b>. Isaiah 42:21 <b>(This seems to contrast abolishing it by
“nailing it to the cross”)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For this is
the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel <b>after those days</b>, saith the Lord; I will put <b>my laws</b> into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will
be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. Heb. 8:10 <b>(God’s laws seem to be in effect in a
future time “after those days” for Israel.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The fear of
the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a <b>good
understanding have all they that do his commandments</b>: his praise endureth
for ever. Psalm 111:10 <b>(God grants
understanding to those that obey his laws.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Think not that
I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am <b>not</b> come to <b>destroy</b>, <b>but</b> to <b>fulfil</b>. Matt. 5:17<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Love worketh
no ill to his neighbour: therefore <b>love
is the fulfilling of the law</b>. Romans 13:10 <b>(Jesus came not to destroy the law, but to fulfil. And this verse tells
us the definition of love, which is to fulfil the law. Would God “nail love to
the cross?”)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and
comest thou to me?<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And Jesus
answering said unto him, Suffer<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>it
to be so</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>now: for thus it
becometh us to <b>fulfil</b> all
righteousness. Matt. 3:14-15 <b>(IF we no
longer need to obey the law because Christ fulfilled it, then we also no longer
need to be baptized because it was also “fulfilled” when Christ was baptized by
John.)</b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wherefore the
law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Romans 7:12 <b>(This description doesn’t sound like
something God would want to abolish.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And we are his
witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given
to them that <b>obey</b> him. Acts 5:32 <b>(We must “obey” in order to qualify for
receiving God’s Spirit)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not every one
that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; <b>but he that doeth</b> the will of my Father
which is in heaven. Matt. 7:21<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And why call
ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Luke 6:46<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is the
patience of the saints: here are they <b>that
keep the commandments of God</b>, and the faith of Jesus. Rev. 14:12<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And the dragon
was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, <b>which keep the commandments of God</b>, and
have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Rev. 12:17<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 115%;">Circumcision
is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i></span><em><span style="color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">but <b>keeping the commandments of
God is what matters</b>. I Cor. 7:19 <b>(There
are some things from the old covenant such as circumcision that are no longer
binding, but keeping God’s commandments is not done away with.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 115%;">Now by this
we know that we know Him,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i></span><em><span style="color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">if we keep His
commandments. <b>He who says, 'I know Him,'
and does not keep His commandments, is a liar</b>, and the truth is not in him.
I John 2:3-4<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth
the chaff,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>so</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>their root shall be as rottenness, and
their blossom shall go up as dust: <b>because
they have cast away the law of the LORD</b> of hosts, and despised the word of
the Holy One of Israel. Isaiah 5:24 <b>(Punishment
is given in the last days for casting away the law of the Lord.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it
is written, <b>Cursed<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>every one that continueth not</b> in
all things which are written <b>in the book
of the law to do them</b>. Gal. 3:10<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For <b>had ye believed Moses, ye
would have believed me</b>: for he wrote of me. But <b>if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?</b> John
5:46-47<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith
unto them, <b>If ye were Abraham's
children, ye would do the works of Abraham</b>. John 8:39</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">And when they heard<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i>it</i>, they glorified
the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews
there are which believe; and <b>they are
all zealous of the law</b>: <b>They
have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to
turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live
according to our customs.</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>What shall we do? They will certainly hear that you have
come,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>so do what we tell you. There are four men with us who have
made a vow.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay
their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. <b>Then everybody will know there is no truth in these reports about you,
but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law</b>. Acts 21:20-24
<b>(The Jews that were zealous for the law were
troubled by the rumors that Paul was teaching the Gentiles to turn from the
law, but Paul says these reports are not true.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9fdff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Deut. 28 <b>states the blessings
and curses of obeying or disobeying God’s commands. The present condition of
the world today seems to suggest that we are receiving the curses and is thus
evidence of God’s Laws being broken and still being in affect. </b></span></span><em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.5pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951583178189597031.post-32741057804969085392012-02-09T07:16:00.000-08:002012-02-09T07:17:18.463-08:00Obama's Convenient Tyranny<div>Sometimes people need someone to get in their face and yell at them. Grab them by the shoulders and shake them out of their slumber. If we the people allow the Obama administration to dictate mandates on religious institutions even against their own doctrine, then we are willfully giving away our religious freedom. It is a slippery slope, and once you start sliding down, it's hard to stop sliding. And here we go.</div><div><br /></div><iframe width="459" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Vm3vgXLM4A8?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951583178189597031.post-44899713969341802992012-02-08T11:03:00.000-08:002012-02-11T21:41:49.662-08:00Is The Trinity Doctrine Biblical?<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">But to us
there is but </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">one God, the Father, of
whom</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> are all things, and we in him; and </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> are all things, and we by him. I
Cor. 8:6 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(Where is the mention of the
Holy Spirit? One God and one Lord, that doesn’t leave any room for the Holy
Spirit as a person or being. It says Jesus is “by whom” are all things because
He is the creator. And the Father is “of whom” are all things because Jesus was
begotten of the Father and then went on to create all things.)</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">But I would
have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman
is the man; and the </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">head of Christ is
God</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">. I Cor. 11:3 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(The hierarchy of
authority is established in this verse. How could the Father be the head of
Christ if Christ is an equal third of the trinity? And where is the Holy Spirit
in this hierarchy?)</b></div>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">My Father</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">, which gave them me, <b>is
greater than all</b>; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
John 10:29 <b>(This doesn’t sound like an
equal trinity if the Father is greater than all.)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">I go unto the
Father: for </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">my Father is greater than I</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">.
John 14:28 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(How can the Father be
greater than Jesus if they are of an equal trinity.)</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Let this mind
be in you, which was also in Christ </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Jesus</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">:
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">equal with God</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">: Phil. 2:5-6 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(How do you reconcile this verse with John
10:29 and John 14:28 above? Christ is “equal” with God in the sense that He too
is also a God being or of the God kind, but with lesser authority. I am equal
with my father in the sense that I too am also a human being or of the human
kind, but he has a higher authority in the family hierarchy.)</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Verily,
verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">neither he that is sent greater than he
that sent him</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">. John 13:16 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(Jesus was
sent by God the Father, so the Father is greater than the Son who He sent. This
is not an equal trinity.)</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">And about the
ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?
that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Matt. 27:46 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(Why would Jesus say this if He was a third
of the trinity? How could Jesus possibly forsake Himself? And is He suggesting
that the Father forsook Him, but the Holy Spirit did not? Of course not.)</b></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">And this is
life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, <b>and</b> Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. John 17:3 <b>(If the “only true God” is the trinity,
which would include Jesus Christ, why then would Jesus have to be mentioned
separately? And why was the Holy Spirit</b></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">not </span></b></em><span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">mentioned?)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Jesus saith
unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my
brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">my
Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">. John 20:17 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(Jesus’ Father and God is the same as ours.
It is not himself, but God the Father.)</b></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">And God said,
Let <b>us</b> make man in <b>our</b> image, after our likeness: Gen.
1:26…</span></span><span class="Heading3Char" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">And the LORD God said, Behold,
the man is become as one of <b>us</b>, to
know good and evil: Gen. 3:22…</span></span><span class="Heading3Char" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">
</span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Go to, let <b>us</b> go down, and there confound their
language, that they may not understand one another's speech. Gen. 11:7 <b>(These verses reveal more than one being
talking together. Unless God is talking to Himself…I don’t think so, it says
“us, our” not “me, my.”)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">In the
beginning was the Word, and </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">the Word was
with God</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">, and the Word was God. John 1:1 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(Again, this verse reveals two God beings. The word God(Elohim) is a
uniplural word, collective noun, like family, team, or group. For example it
could be said that John was with Smith(Father) and John was Smith(Son).)</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">I saw in the night
visions, and, behold, one like </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">the Son
of man</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> came with the clouds of heaven, and </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">came to the Ancient of days</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">, and they brought him near before him.
Dan. 7:13 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(Daniel’s vision pictures two
different God beings. The Son of man being brought to or came near to the
Ancient of days.)</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">For there are
three that bear record </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">in heaven, the
Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are
three that bear witness in earth,</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> the Spirit, and the water, and the blood:
and these three agree in one. I John 5:7-8 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(The
words in bold are nothing but man’s added words to the Bible. The translators
had preconceived beliefs in the trinity and felt it was justified to better
explain it. Most, if not all translations have a footnote explaining this fact.
The NIV footnote explains that these words are found nowhere in any manuscripts
until the 16<sup>th</sup> century.)</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">I can of mine
own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">I seek not mine own will, but the will of
the Father</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> which hath sent me. John 5:30 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(God the Father and God the Son have two separate wills, but Jesus
seeks His Father’s will. And Jesus also claims He can do nothing by His own
self.)</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">For there is </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">one God</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">, and </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">one mediator</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; I Tim. 2:5 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(God the Father is the one true God. Jesus
Christ is God’s Son, of the God family, was begotten of the Father, is the one
mediator between the Father and men, he is our high priest. Jesus is still God,
or of the God family, but the Father has greater authority. But where is the
mention of the Holy Spirit?)</b></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">The LORD said unto my Lord</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">, Sit thou on my right hand,
till I make thine enemies thy footstool? Matt. 22:44 <b>(Two Lords exists here. One Lord is in all capital letters indicating a
different Hebrew word.)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Go ye
therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and
of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Matt. 28:19 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(Just because the Holy Spirit is given a name doesn’t mean that it is a
person or being. The Holy Spirit is the power God uses to do his work in us.
The Holy Spirit is not a person or being, but is a power or an “it.” Lets see
if the rest of scripture is consistent with that interpretation.)</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">The Spirit </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">itself</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> beareth witness with our spirit,
that we are the children of God: Romans 8:16 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(So just as God has a Spirit, we also have a spirit. But we don’t say
that our human spirit is a separate person inside of us. Also notice that the
Spirit is referred to as an “it” by the word “itself.”)</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Nevertheless I
tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not
away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">him</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> unto you. John 16:7 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(Here the Holy Spirit is referred to as a
“him.” But Greek language nouns and pronouns are often times assigned gender
whether it be a person or not. There are other places in the Bible where this
occurs. But the same Greek word used can also be translated as “it” or “itself”
as it is in Rom. 8:16. There are other examples of non beings or persons being
assigned gender when it is obviously an “it.” Rev. 1:16 refers to the sun with
the pronoun “his.” Isaiah 13:13 refers to the earth with the pronoun “her.” And
Matt. 24:29 refers to the moon with the pronoun “her.” So referring to the Holy
Spirit as “him” does not qualify it as a person or being.)</b></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Whosoever is
born of God doth not commit sin; for his <b>seed</b>
remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. I John 3:9 <b>(The Greek word for “seed” is</b></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">sperma</span></b></em><span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">, from which comes the
English word “sperm.” The Holy Spirit is the “sperm” or “seed” of God. We don’t
consider our sperm as a separate person or being from ourselves.)</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Cast me not
away from thy presence; and <b>take not thy
holy spirit from me</b>. Psalms 51:11 <b>(The
Holy Spirit is not a person, but a power that God can give and take away as He
pleases. David is asking God to not take this gift of power away from him. Luke
19:11-26 is the parable of the pounds. The pounds given represent the Holy
Spirit given to us. We must increase this power within us and use it and not
let it go to waste. This power can come and go from us throughout our lives. It
is our duty to seek it out, ask God for it, and increase it within ourselves.
Sin separates us from God and reduces the power of the Holy Spirit within us. That
is the life long battle of a Christian.</b></span></span><span class="reftext" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">And if the Holy Spirit is a personal being why wouldn’t David ask
the Holy Spirit directly to stay with him as opposed to asking the Father not
to take it from him?)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">And when Simon
saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he
offered them money, Saying, </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Give me also
this power</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought
that the gift of God may be purchased with money. Acts 8:18-20 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(Simon refers to the Holy Spirit as a
“power.” Peter doesn’t correct him.)</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Now the God of
hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope,
through </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">the power of the Holy Ghost</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">.
Romans 15:13…But ye shall receive </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">power</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">,
after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: Acts 1:8 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(Here are two more verses referring to the power that is the Holy
Spirit.)</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">I and my
Father are one. John 10:30 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(Does this
mean they are the same person? Or could it mean that they are one in purpose
and unity? The only way to know for sure is to see which interpretation lines
up with the rest of scripture. And what about the Holy Spirit in this verse?)</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">…he that hath
seen me hath seen the Father; John 14:9 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(Does
Jesus and the Father look identical in appearance or are they the same person?
Does Jesus again fail to include the Holy Spirit? Perhaps Jesus appears similar
to the Father as most father and son relationships do. And perhaps Jesus also
mirrors the Father by his actions. Which interpretation lines up with the rest
of scripture?)</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Holy Father,
keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">that they may be one, as we are</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">. John 17:11 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(This verse explains perfectly how the Father and son are one. They are
not the same person. They are one in purpose and unity. All Christians are not
one and the same person, but are to be one in purpose and unity. This analogy
Jesus gives makes this clear.)</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Neither pray I
for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their
word; </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">That they all may be one; as thou,
Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">: that the
world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I
have given them; </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">that they may be one,
even as we are one</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">: John 17:20-22 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(This
verse should make it perfectly clear that the Father and Son are one in purpose
and unity, not as in being the same person.)</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">For what man
knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so
the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. I Cor. 2:11 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(Man has the spirit of man in him, just as
God has the Spirit of God, or Holy Spirit in him. Does this mean that man has a
second person living inside of them? Of course not, so how do we claim that
God’s Holy Spirit is a separate being of the trinity?)</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Believest thou
not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto
you I speak not of myself: but </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">the
Father that dwelleth in me</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">, he doeth the works. John 14:10 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(So was it the Father or the Holy Spirit
that dwelled in Jesus? It was the Father’s Spirit which is called Holy, or Holy
Spirit. The Father is a separate being from the Son, but the Holy Spirit is not
a being at all, it is an “it”, it is the power of God. That power is what
dwelled in Jesus and is what Christians receive from God as a gift.)</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">And the angel
answered and said unto her, </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">The Holy
Ghost</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> shall come upon thee, and </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">the
power of the Highest</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing
which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. Luke 1:35 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(The Holy Spirit is called “the power of
the Highest.”)</b></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But while he
thought on these things, behold, the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a
dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy
wife: for that which is <b>conceived in her
is of the Holy Ghost</b>. Matt. 1:20…</span></span><span class="Heading3Char" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">
</span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">And the Word
was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of
the only <b>begotten of the Father</b>,)
full of grace and truth. John 1:14 <b>(These
verses contradict each other if you believe in the trinity. Was Jesus begotten
of the Father or conceived of the Holy Spirit? These verses only make sense if
the Holy Spirit is not a separate being, but a power that is God’s Spirit.)</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Paul, a
servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of
God,…</span></span><span class="Heading3Char" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">To all that be in Rome, beloved
of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace <b>from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ</b>. [8] First, <b>I thank my God through Jesus Christ</b> for
you all, Romans 1:1,7-8 <b>(Paul’s greeting
to the Romans mentions God the Father and Jesus Christ, but strangely fails to
mention the Holy Spirit. Is Paul disrespecting and committing heresy against
the Holy Spirit by failing to mention his name? Paul also does the exact same
thing in the greetings of his other letters in the books of I & II
Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, I & II
Thessalonians, Philemon, Titus, and I & II Timothy. If Paul believed in the
trinity, he would have mentioned the Holy Spirit along with God the Father and
Son.)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Hear, O
Israel: The LORD our God is </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">one</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">
LORD: Deut. 6:4 </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">(There are multiple ways
this verse could be interpreted. The word “one” comes from the Hebrew word
“echad” and is the key word in this verse. Trinitarians say this verse is
referring to the nature of God and that the trinity is “one” God. The word
“echad” is found in other places of the Bible and is also translated as “alone”
such as in Isaiah 51:2. The context of the verse is about obedience toward God
alone and not other gods. So it seems logical that the meaning of this verse is
that “The Lord our God is Lord alone.” We are not to worship or obey any other
god except the true God and Him alone. Or if it is supposed to be “one,” then
the word God(Elohim) is uniplural like family, and so the family of God is one
family or we are to obey the family of God and that family alone. Either way, this
verse doesn’t contradict the rest of scripture.)</b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7