rambot said:

Oh! Good stuff!

And he got these billions for where precisely?

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The billions that the US sent which went missing.

Douggg said:

I am not Catholic, but I am not here to argue. But seeking information.

Does anyone have an online link of an English translation of....

In Sacrum Beati Ioannis Apostoli, & Evangelistiae Apocalypsin Commentarii,

I would like to read it. Thanks.

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I sit upon thy word that thou has written upon my heart, speak thy truth oh God unto the masses
let his glory be known through thy servant who waits and listens for thy treasured words let the heavens open upon this land and his righteousness be shown throughout his church. Oh heavenly father how I thirst for you, how deep the hunger the desire the longing let me see my Lord let me hear let me speak let me serve.

For so deep the desire for thy truth that I have not the words to utter let your spirit speak in my place let the king come into this place where your servants rest waiting for you and you alone. let the lost hear thy message let the found seek the lost of wonderful one let your truth be the light upon our eyes.

listen, listen he comes with his armies his rod at the ready he brings forth his wonder and brightness the heavens bust open and the treasures that it holds. the mysteries and beauty the hidden ones will rise the land shall be shaken and his words shall command thy land to shake and open. out from the pit arises the evil that is to befall a sinful world that mocks the king with their lust and evil ways.

But for his children his heart beats for them and will shelter them in his loving arms he comes to snatch them wuicvkly in an instant he will do his promise for those whose hearts have kept him
. listen listen can you hear it? can you feel it? his nearness he draws ever closer his voice is calling be ready and joyful for though his wrath shall come upon the world of sin his love and everlasting glory shall rain down upon us his mysteries unlocked his power bounless. even as I write my heart beats faster my fingers on fire my body is shaking for how powerful is he that comes in the name of the king he speaks to his children and whispers into their thoughts, oh breath of life come unto us truth of the light break forth listen well dear ones let the spirit speak to you let these words make your heart race something is on the way it draws ever closer creeping unto an unbelieving world yes even those that are his who do not believe it comes in the dead of night he comes soon he draws himself to us he is on the way waiting for the command and he will eagerly snatch up his beloved

But to you of faithless world beware of his justice for he has spoken

This is one of those passages of Scripture which is spoken more in figurative language and which we are to interpret on a spiritual level, kind of like the parables that Jesus spoke. For this is not about physical thirst, nor is it about physical water. And this is not about physical money and physical food. And “buying” is not about purchasing anything with physical money.

This is speaking to people who are spiritually bankrupt, who do not have the Spirit of God living within them, who do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. Even if they profess faith in Jesus Christ with their lips, they do not know the Lord because they have not died with him to sin and they are not now walking in obedience to his commands in holy living.

But this doesn’t mean that these people are aware of their spiritual emptiness. Many are those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, who are convinced that they are now saved from the punishment of sin, that all their sins are forgiven, and that heaven is now guaranteed them when they die. But they don’t realize that they are “wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked” (Revelation 3:17), spiritually speaking. So Jesus says to them:


And that passage of Scripture in Revelation 3 parallels this passage in Isaiah 55 – same basic message – all to be taken more figuratively and to be applied to our lives in a spiritual and not a physical sense.

So, what is the overall message to be gained by us here? When we are born into this world, we are born with sin natures, in the image of Adam, separate from God and not able, in ourselves, to attain salvation from sin and eternal life with God. There is not anything that we can do in our flesh to be approved by God and to be righteous in his sight. No amount of good works, on our part, will ever earn us salvation from sin and eternal life with God.

Only because of Jesus’ blood sacrifice on that cross for the sins of the world can any of us have salvation from sin and eternal life with God. And not one of us can come to faith in Jesus Christ unless God first draws us to Christ, i.e. unless we are first persuaded of God as to his righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to, by faith, die with him to sin and now walk in obedience to his commands. Even the faith to believe in Jesus comes from God and is not of our own doing, lest we should boast.

So, we have not the resources within ourselves to be saved from our sins and to have the hope of eternal life with God. Only by God’s grace through God-gifted faith in Jesus can we enter into genuine relationship with the Lord. But faith which comes from God results in us dying with Christ to sin and us now walking in obedience to his commands, in his power. And the grace of God is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives for the glory of God.

And I believe this is what it means that we buy without money, because believing in Jesus does not come from ourselves, but it is persuaded of God, and it is gifted of God, and is not of human flesh. Jesus paid the cost with his life in death on that cross so that we can now die with him to sin and walk in obedience to his commands. But he did not die just to forgive us our sins and to promise us heaven when we die, but in his death he put our sins to death with him, and he rose from the dead victorious over sin, so that by his grace we may now die with him to sin and walk in obedience to him.

For the covenant he makes with those of genuine faith in him is not just that he will forgive their sins and that heaven will be their eternal home, and even that is conditional upon us dying with him to sin and walking in obedience to his commands, by the Spirit, in the power of God. So, the covenant requires that we die with him to sin and that sin is no longer what we practice, but now obedience to our Lord and to his commands and holy living are what we practice, by his grace, in his power.

So, yes, it is by God’s grace, through God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in the Lord Jesus that we are saved and that we have the hope of heaven when we leave this earth. And this is not of our own doing, not of the flesh of humans. But.. God’s grace trains us and requires of us to renounce our sinful ways and to now live holy lives, pleasing to him, in walks of obedience to his commands. And by faith we must die with him to sin and walk in obedience to his commands, for that is why Jesus died on that cross. But if we refuse, and we continue to walk in sin, and not obedience, we have not life in Christ.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-21; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

Believe Him

An Original Work / July 15, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

My heart cries: Lord, won’t You hear me
Seeking You for the answers
To my heartache and questions
I have concerning my life?
Speak, Lord, to me right now.

“Oh, dear one, why don’t you trust Me
With your life’s circumstances?
Give your all on the altar
In submission of your will
To My purpose for you.

“Surrender your life completely
To your Lord and your Savior.
He has all things planned for you
For His glory and honor.
He’ll work all things for good.

“Believe Him. He will fulfill all
Of His promises to you
For your life and your future.
Trust Him. Rest in His love.
He’ll give you peace from above.”

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soldier of light said:

They normalize perversion.

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Still and always an abomination to God the Creator and not permitted to enter or even to see the kingdom of heaven.

The disciples of Jesus, having the thoughts of Jesus!,

do not go along with the crowd.

FireDragon76 said:

Through the prayers of all the saints, Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us.

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Amen!

Thank you for sharing!

God is good indeed! He doesn't keep a tally mark against us! Thank God for his grace and mercy!

jacks said:

Not surprising.

The most common male baby name in the UK as of 2023 is Muhammad. This name surpassed Noah to become the top choice for parents naming their baby boys, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)

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I find that really sad! Oh well. God is sovereign.

tonychanyt said:

I would distinguish modern prostitutes from modern casual sex. In Canada, running or working in a brothel is illegal but casual sex is legal.


Right, they are both sin.


Right.

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As believers we have to try to adhere to the local laws insofar they don't conflict with our faith duty.

Local laws can very enormously on these issues. ln Australia (and most of Europe) prostitution is legal. But in places like Malaysia or Dubai, even casual sex is illegal and can land you in jail (some tourist couples get themselves in trouble with this). In some European countries (e.g. Sweden) and also Israel, selling sex is legal, but buying isn't.

Yarddog said:

Waste, yes. There are weapons that the Pentagon said were not needed but Congress still pushed them through. Billions spent needlessly.

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I agree 100%. I saw it in the '80s when I was in the Army and throughout my career as a government contractor.

Eldeah said:

So after reading the first three chapters of Genesis, I came to the realization that the fall of Adam and Eve was meant to happen and here is why.
If Adam and Eve did not sin, we wouldnt have gained the image of G'd.

Genensis 3:22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”​

What do you think?

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I don't know that it was intentional, it was however known that it would occur.


1 Peter 1:19
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

Rev 13:7-8
And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Satan was before the Garden plotting.
Ezekial 28
Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealed up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

13 You have been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of your tabrets and of your pipes was prepared in you in the day that you were created.

14 You are the anointed cherub that covers; and I have set you so: you were upon the holy mountain of God; you walked up and down in the middle of the stones of fire.

15 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, till iniquity was found in thee.

16 By the multitude of your merchandise they have filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I will cast you as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty, you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I will cast you to the ground, I will lay you before kings, that they may behold you.

Satan must not have known that God knew of his plot and had implemented the perfect solution prior to creation.

Goodnight my friends
The night draws near
When soon my wake
Will disappear

Into the night
I’ll go to sleep
From me you will not
Hear a peep

The day was long
And I belong
Where I can get
Some good night rest

I’m tired now
This bod worn out
My mind needs rest
From many thoughts

‘Twas a good day
Had time to play
Relax a bit
And time to sit

Some family time
Had time to share
Of things we are
Now some aware

Time to reflect
On what’s in store
For all of us
At root of core

Some good, some bad,
But we will wait
To see what God
Has planned to date

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Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

mark46 said:

Russia will also getting its value from their new colony (Crimea and the Dunbass),

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Yes. I'm waiting for Putin to come in and settle the dispute between Trump (whom the KGB now GRU call Krasnov) and Zelenskyy. It's just wonderful to know who really rules the world.

bniffty24 said:

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3x10=30
30-5=25
25+3=28
2 dollar over that he kept for himself.

Dan Perez said:

And Revelation 13:8 says that Jesus was SLAIN before the foundation of the world !!

dan p

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That is because the event of the Cross while anchored in chronology is timeless in nature.

If Jesus didn't die for future sins there would be no one saved post Cross.

hedrick said:

The converse of a proposition is not necessarily true. What would be true is that anyone who is not a new creation is not in Christ. But as I keep pointing out, Paul is not writing propositions in symbolic logic. He is using rhetoric. Rhetoric can include things like hyperbole and other non literal expressions. The 2 Cor passage says nothing about non-Christians. Paul sees enemies, power and authorities as entrapping us in sin. It is certainly possible that he sees Christ freeing us now through faith, but that in the end Christ will finally defeat the enemies and free everyone.

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Is that the way Paul's first century audience would have understood it? "Rhetoric [which] can include things like hyperbole and other non literal expressions?" I wonder what truths Paul's audience would have understood from this passage? If a person is not "in Christ" will they be saved anyway? I did not say that the 2 Cor passage actually said anything about non-Christians. But it certainly implies something about them. Can you enlighten me with something from Paul which indicates he sees Christ freeing us now through faith, but that in the end Christ will finally defeat the enemies and free everyone?

Thanks be to God!

tonychanyt said:

Ac 28:


This ending feels open-ended. It does not resolve Paul's fate or the spread of the gospel beyond Rome westward. Why?

Luke’s goal was not to provide a biography of Paul but to document the growth of the nascent church and the spread of the gospel. Paul's arrival in Rome meant the gospel reaching the heart of the Roman Empire, fulfilling a crucial part of God’s plan to spread the gospel. Rome was singularly the most important Gentile city to be evangelized in Paul's time.

The open ending was intentional. It leaves the reader with a sense of ongoing momentum "without hindrance". The job is not finished. The mission of spreading the gospel is ongoing, and every generation has a role to play. It invites Christians to continue the story of Acts in our own lives, carrying the gospel forward to new generations and places. We are the sequels to the Book of Acts.

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There is one pastor who is also a lawyer who believes that Luke wrote both his gospel and Acts as "depositions" to a sympathetic Roman official who had a voice in Caesar's court. In that use, Acts ends where it necessarily would: At what was their present day. Some interesting characteristics of the writing lend some credence to that use, as Luke is very careful to characterize Paul's actions as law-abiding and politically non-threatening to Caesar's regime.

"Theophilus" might have been a proper name, but was more likely an honorific title.

This passage of Scripture begins sounding like someone is advising and encouraging another in what to do and in how to behave in his life, but it is not that at all. In truth, this is not an encouragement, but it is a warning. And this does not apply just to youth or just to males (men), but to all people, really. And the message intended is basically this which follows.

If we live to please ourselves, and if we follow the impulses (urges, desires) of our human hearts, and the desires of our eyes, i.e. the lusts of our flesh, instead of following our Lord in obedience to his commands, then we need to know the result. God will bring us to judgment for all these things. And the New Testament Scriptures teach the same exact truth over again.

So, what are we, thus, counseled to do? We are to remove worldly and fleshly lusts from our lives which, if we don’t, will result in the judgment of God against us if we do not repent and change our ways and now obey our Lord in practice. We are to leave childish and self-indulgent practices behind us which glorify the flesh and which separate us from the grace of God. And we are now to honor God with our lives in holy and righteous living.

We are also to remove worldly sorrow from our lives which does not result in genuine repentance and changed lives. For just saying that you are sorry, or just confessing with your lips that you sinned against the Lord, but then while you keep going back to the same exact sins deliberately and habitually, does not result in genuine salvation and forgiveness of sins. For Jesus said that not everyone who confesses him as Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING the will of God the Father (Matthew 7:21-23).

He also taught that if anyone would come after him he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin) and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and follow our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands, in surrender to his will and purpose for our lives, in the power of God living within us, then we have eternal life with God. For if we deny Jesus by how we live, he will deny us when he returns (Luke 9:23-26).

So, we cannot live our lives to please our flesh for our own entertainment, and to gratify the lusts of the flesh, and for it to have no impact on our lives for eternity. We are not saved from our sins and on our way to heaven by lip service only. Genuine faith in Christ results in us dying with Christ to sin and us now walking in obedience to his commands, in practice. And God’s grace instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we await our Lord’s return.

[Matt 7:13-14,21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 10:27-30; Ac 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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An Original Work / March 2, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

UK prime minister Starmer:

"We need to put Ukraine in its strongest position to negotiate and we will double down on our support."

From a weakened position, the more powerful can manipulate the situation to their own interest.

And as a Christian I must add that I don't intend to partake of the knowledge of good and evil, but we can see the truth in that statement from a more objective point of view.

Starmer seems to have a level head that is probably more free from offenses, or other such personal rhetoric.

Jo555 said:

I found it very interesting too when he spoke of name it and claim it without considering the will of God and such.

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I agree. I've been seeing the 'name it & claim it' theology in a lot of teachings. I think this is Prosperity Gospel. It boils down to this: "God will give you everything you want if you say a prayer b/c he loves you." Sometimes this Gospel hides very well. The Bible's Gospel in regards to prosperity is God will give you everything you need, & that's even better then what you want.

Some history: a lot of this incorrect look on Christian prosperity we see today like w/ Joel Osteen to give a more obvious example had its origins in preachers like Billy Graham who had Biblical teaching on other topics. I was paging thru a Charles Stanley book I was given once & see the same thing. Good teaching about God's character, who he is, & salvation, but an incorrect understanding of 'prosperity.' The modern church has taken those incorrect understandings & ran w/ it but tossed out the good teachings. Don't mean to derail the thread, but it's a big issue today, & I think maybe it is a bit relevant b/c this is why we don't put our trust in a preacher, b/c there's topics an indivdiual preacher can be wrong on.

Jo555 said:

We do know He has made promises to us and we can stand on those promises, but even then I believe we can put more faith in our own ability to believe instead of God empowering us there.

Was in a group once, large group, and remember a vision given to me while there. I was watching a lady from an "above" view. She has her bible, but there was also a witchcraft book, although she didn't know it was witchcraft.

There are religious books that can take the Word of God and teach witchcraft instead of the truth.

I took it in regard to things Graham spoke of in that department.

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The Lord's been teaching me a lot about witchcraft lately. That's exactly what 'name & claim it' is. What you saw was how it decieves best: putting it alongside the Bible. There's other manisfestations of witchcraft too. It's not like myths where the person is creepy looking & wearing a pointy hat: it's sweet & charming to lure people in, tho when you see more obvious manifestations of it, that's the end result. He's also been showing me all the witchcraft symbolism all over.

Tom Maccabeus said:

I think there is a good consensus that Emperor Antiochus Epiphanes IV (167 B.C.) is seen as the archetype of the antichrist. He fulfilled many of the prophecies in Daniel 11 and Daniel 8. In blasphemous pride Antiochus assumed the title "Theos Epiphanes" (god manifest) Daniel 11:36 states… he will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods" (also in 2 Thess. 2).
What do you think, any others ? BTW there is a reason I ask.
Tom

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Nimrod would be one of the first, who was building the Tower of Babel
the Pharaoh of Egypt in Exodus, not sure which one he is historically, but some think Ramses II
Goliath, and probably some of the other giants faced by Moses and Joshua before Israel was settled by Joshua.
Nebuchadnezzar with his golden idol that he forced people to worship or threw them into a furnace is definitely a type, though I think weirdly enough he might have gotten saved after losing his mind and not being restored until he acknowledged God, God did restore him, and he actually wrote a chapter of Daniel, which is astounding for him to have been so evil to be a type of Antichrist, but somehow redeemed.
Haman, a Persian King's advisor in the book of Esther which if you look past the surface level meaning has a LOT of Eschatological meanings, with the Persian King representing Christ, Esther representing the Church (the bride of Christ), Haman representing Antichrist, and Mordecai representing Israel.
That plus Antiochus covers the types that are found in the bible, outside of the bible, I'd have to say Adolf Hitler stands as definitely a type