Why the Shulamite was praised as “terrible as an army with banners”. What is the importance of this to us?

In Song 6:4,10, Shulamite was considered terrible as an army with banners. This sounds like antic to a woman. If it was an encomium to the husband, this would be very comprehensible, for this would denote boldness, strength, wisdom.

Nonetheless, an army with banners is an army which, although made up of several tribes, all of them are perfectly organized and united in one manner of thinking and feeling (1Cor 1:10).

But, why not only one banner (that is to say, only one tribe)? Because the purport of the Creator never was only one person reigning over millions of people. Recollect that, since the beginning, the Creator enjoined people to go all around the world (Gen 1:28). The idea was people spreading along all the Earth, with many people leading few people (and not the opposite) and each people respecting the other peoples and cooperating with them in Christ Jesus.

Try to fancy a great army comprised of several peoples and they caring for each other in a perfect organization and harmony. This brings terrors to everyone who yearn for making some harm to the people who are under the protection of this army.

So, if the wife can welcome all of those who Jesus brings to her husband and copes with them as a general who knows every soldier, knows the right position of everyone (as well as the suitable weapons to each one) and is able to make them organized in an intimate family, she will look terrible to the attacks of Ha-Satan and his servants. Her home will be secure and a blessing.

It's good to recall that Deborah overcame the war when she welcomed all Israel’s people (most of them were part of Israel’s army) as her children (Judge 5:7). It’s not in vain that Paul said:

• 1Ti 2:15 -> “Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.”.

So, have a good day welcoming all different people in Christ Jesus and seeking harmonizing them so that, together, you all can seek Jesus:

• 1Jn 1:3 -> “That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.”.

Hi all,
it's that time when we turn our gaze back and ask what interpretations of Revelation predicted something big in 2022 and failed to pass?

How strident or 'enthusiastic' were the promoters of that view?

Could we all learn a little humility about our predictions given every year various end-times-tables fail spectacularly?

A Happy New Year to one and all !

What is your self affirmation this 2023? Today and everyday, I choose to be happy. Be inspired with this video Login to view embedded media .

Here is mine. Its got a good bass line tho

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Here's last year's.

As they start to get posted online in video or audio format, post the link to any prophecies about what's going to happen in 2023.

Hey y'all I'm new to this forum. Been a Christian for a couple of years only. God called me and saved me from myself, from Satan, from drug abuse, from suicide and hell. If only I will endure to the end, I want to be saved. God's mercy is the most important thing in my life. His forgiveness is all I desire. His love is my real food and real drink.

I'm a visual artist.

To get to know me just visit my playlist of songs I've collected when I'm thinking about God and meditating on Him, His joy, His love, my love for Him and love for all of you and the whole of humanity, and contemplating temptations and how to overcome.

Here's the playlist. I believe all these artists and these sings, although "secular" by definition are inspired in some way.

Saltlamp's Vibes

Rock on bruhs and sisses
Praise the Father and the Lamb!

What is the best church?

Many people think that the Creator delights in seeing many believers meeting in one place to praise Him. Nonetheless, since the outset, the Creator designed that the men spread on the Earth and fill it.

And Jesus confirmed this, enjoining the believers to go abroad preaching the gospel to all creature (Mat 28:18-20; Mark 16:15).

When someone tried to get together people in one place in order to glorify the Creator and reach the heaven, the aftermath was the confusion of tongues (Gen 11:4).

You can think: what is the problem with great religion institutions? To exemplify, try to imagine a religion institution of 5.000 members. How many active members are there? About ten (the pastor, the musicians and some helpers). Nevertheless, and if these 5.000 members met in 500 houses in groups of ten? Certainly, all the ten will be active, as it was in Corinth:

• 1Co 14:26 -> “How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.”.

Not to mention that, all of these 10 members would know each other very well and, with the unction of the Holy Spirit, they would have condition of being a perfect and united family, while in mega religion institutions, people go to there and, most of the times, they not even know the person who sit at their side. Although thousands of people can be together, there is no communion and compassion between them.

The idea is that we can be the Holy Spirit’s temple (1Cor 3:16; 6:19; 2Cor 6:16) and people that Jesus brings to us, the stones that will make up Jesus’ Church in us (1Peter 2:5-8).

These people in our life should accompany us along the day (not only two or three times a week tonight). In other words, each man should work in Christ with their wife, children and these believers, as a united family, until they get the maturity in faith (see Eph 4:11-16). When this day arrives, each one of these believers will become Jesus’ Church with their members and Jesus will send newborns in faith in order to get their discipleship.

And each man, with his family and believers working together in perfect harmony (similar to what we can read in Acts 4:32) to supply their needs makes up the true Church of Christ.

So, have a good day being Jesus’ city edified on the mount (Mat 5:14-16).

Hi Brethren and fellow Saints. I have a question firstly I still live at home with 1 family member and 1 relative. I'm pretty consistently accused by the 1 relative and the 1 relative pretty regularly is tough with me and holds past behavior against me calling it "holding me accountable" and sets nice little snares for me in the name of asking for help and also loses patience somewhat regularly. This has gone on for about 5 or more years is it just time to get out from this place? To me this is behavior from someone who does not have The Holy Spirit and is really making me miserable.

My belief is old acquaintances should be forgotten? Paul says forgetting the past and pressing on to the mark of the high calling.

I have started to do barefoot walking in the woods... It feels great to be so in touch with nature.
Do you find a sense of God's presence in nature? Maybe it's easier to find God in the earth than in the sky?

I want to evangelize and spread the gospel without forcing Christianity on people.

There is a movement afoot for taking back our Land from those who oppose God.

You can watch this video here.
Basically it comes down to warring against the DS, those pushing the NWO.

Seems they like doing things at certain times to strengthen their (Satan's) power.

The New year (secular) coming up is 2023

Now if you take out the zero you get 223. When read backwards it's 322

Some may be familiar with this as it's the number used by secret societies.

Supposedly the propaganda about this is:


While that may be partially true we need to be aware.

But getting off track.

Please check this out and be ready to blow your Shofar or any other horn you have
@ 5 minutes to midnight tonight.

The Call of the TRUMPETS​

The Call of the TRUMPETS. This is God's Calling to us and the FINAL BATTLE FOR PLANET EARTH. Like Gideon that was the Trumpeter for GOD'S ARMY we will with FAITH and PERSEVERANCE can PREVAIL. The WAR is being waged on the Battlefield of our Hearts and Minds. And this is for our FUTURE.. and our Children and Grand Children's FUTURE. We have been conned by the Deep State with images and frequency that we can see now for what we know! Magnify the BREATH of LIFE. With the Sound of the HORN. We go to Battle together.

The charts do not lie.

Whats is everybody doing for New Years eve?

Here is a picture of some of my bunnies.

DENVER (AP) — A man accused of tampering with a voting machine during Colorado’s primary election is mentally incompetent and cannot continue with court proceedings, a judge ruled Thursday.

Background:

Judge orders competency exam for Pueblo man charged with election tampering, issues gag order

Patton, a registered Democrat, is charged with felony election tampering. He appeared in court Wednesday but did not speak.

Authorities allege that Patton pulled out a USB port and tampered with a security seal on the bottom of a voting machine in Pueblo on June 28, according to an affidavit filed against him.

Patton was arrested last week, then released on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond. He is the registered agent for Botan Investigations and Process Service LLC, according to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office. The company was created in 2019.

A shame we may never learn any more about how this came about. It's curious. Was he hired? What were his motivations?

Before I say anything else, I want to make clear I care about and love my part-time Pastor. I do want him to succeed, do well,
be healthy, be respected, and treated with love. But here is the questions I have.

He's not a seasoned pastor/veteran. He's in his early 40s, this is his first pastoral gig, but he has experience in leading worship
and obviously having his MDiv from seminary.

His sermons are not "inspirational" but they do have its purposes in that he gives good historical and contextual information about the Scriptures.
He doesn't use any personal anecdotes that reflects or shares the works of God in his life. So he does lack that sort of inspirational content
and think of him more like a "bookworm" of the Bible. His sermons are more like lectures and seminars of bible study than say motivational/inspirational
sermons. Of course there is nothing wrong with different styles of sermons. They all have their usefulness. Sometimes too much topical sermons without
much biblical content is poor and the flipside, only giving historical/contextual info and exposition of the text but not imparting any inspiration or
revelatory transformation can become very dull and mundane.

His personality is also not the kind of pastor who greets people, initiates anyone, and in curious or inquisitive. In fact, he's the opposite. He keeps to himself,
comes to church to give the sermon and leaves with very little interaction with anyone. There is no "shepherding" or "pastoral care" per se. But then again,
he's also a "part-time" position so some might say "what do you expect from a part-time salary?" Of course it doesn't give him the license to be lazy
and uninvolved with his ministry. But he doesn't seem to do or has any interest to do anything more than his requirements which is just to prepare a sermon
each sunday, attend pastoral staff meetings and functions. That's it.

Now, I still love this guy. I care about him. I want to befriend him, get to know him more, and encourage him, but he's the pastor and I'm just a congregant.
How do we tell a pastor that maybe he's not really a good pastor but he's a good biblical scholar? Do we just tell him openly and honestly that he's just
not a good pastor and we have to let him go?

How did complex systems emerge from chaos? Physicist Sean Carroll explains. 6 min — with Sean Carrol

Undercurrents in the church: The ever-widening gap between the institution and laity.

Like a sofa; one size fits all. Or so it would seem.
Many "parishioners" are finding their own way spiritually in a church that is stuck on "old time religion".

I'm a Christian Universalist. There are no churches in my area that support that view. Where should I go?
The current CF topic discussion on Christian Mysticism focuses on yet another largely unrepresented segment of Christianity.
There are probably other spiritual beliefs and practices that are either not supported, or actually not condoned.

FIVE QUESTIONS:
1) Does your church support your personal beliefs?
2) Have you left the church due to doctrinal, or Christian practice issues?
3) Do you have to keep your mouth shut about certain subjects at church?
4) Are you feeling alienated by the church?
5) Do you feel guilty at church about your differences?

--- EDIT ---

I imagine that personal issues like gender identity and sexual orientation will be a huge undercurrent issue in the near future.

Did Historical protestant churches like Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican, etc... and their founders identify themselves as lowercase "catholic"(Universal in sense) in their founding years? or the Catholic - catholic difference came from branch theory later?

Memory eternal.

Rest in peace, God speed..

Take your father by the hand.

Let him take his father by the hand.

Let him take his father by the hand.

Do so all the way back to the sixth day the earth had been in existence, and what do you have?

Adam, a mature human being, made from the ground.

Only six days after time itself started in 4004 BC.

Let an ape take his father by the hand, etc and so on.

What do you have?

A mature ape, made from the ground.