At Agape Vespers, I noticed someone from years ago in the pews. I went to high school with them and was nearly moved to tears to find out he is on the path to Orthodoxy, after asking where the Bible came from and looking into the Ecumenical Councils. Christ is Risen!

I am thankful for the faithful witness of Seventh Day Adventist Desmond Doss.

Can someone bring me up to date on the current state of the pacifist witness in SDA church. Does it receive much attention or affirmation these days?

https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Pacifism-Fruit-Narrow-ebook/dp/B005RIKH62/ref=pd_rhf_dp_p_t_1

Can someone bring me up to date on whether the SA still holds strongly to Wm. Booth's witness?

For Booth quote, see here, (below Moody and Spurgeon Quotes) Pacifist Quotes

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We will abandon it all for the sake of the call
No other reason at all but the sake of the call
Wholly devoted to live and to die for the sake of the call

Nobody stood and applauded them
So they knew from the start
This road would not lead to fame
All they really knew for sure
Was Jesus had called to them
He said "come follow Me" and they came
With reckless abandon, they came

Empty nets lying there at the water's edge
Told a story that few could believe
And none could explain
How some crazy fisherman agreed to go where Jesus went
With no thought to what they would gain
For Jesus had called them by name
And they answered

We will abandon it all for the sake of the call
No other reason at all but the sake of the call
Wholly devoted to live and to die for the sake of the call
The sake of the call

Drawn like the rivers are drawn to the sea
There's no turning back, for the water cannot help but flow
Once we hear the Savior's call, we'll follow wherever He leads
Because of the love He has shown
And because He has called us to go
We will answer

We will abandon it all for the sake of the call
No other reason at all but the sake of the call
Wholly devoted to live and to die

Not for the sake of a creed or a cause
Not for a dream or a promise
Simply because it is Jesus who called
And if we believe we'll obey

We will abandon it all for the sake of the call
No other reason at all but the sake of the call
We will abandon it all for the sake of the call
No other reason at all but the sake of the call
Wholly devoted to live and to die for the sake of the call
For the sake of the call
We will abandon it all for the sake of the call
No other reason at all
We will abandon it all
No other reason at all
We will abandon it all

Hey, folks. I am not the type of guy for fast food, but I have seen a few Red Robins in my state and in the Midwest. So, here goes nothin'. A locally run, private AI on my laptop wrote a fictional verse about a restaurant. @crazypotatoe7 might like this one, as he made a fictional verse on Burger King: Remember this classic bible verse?

Disclaimer: This is all in good humor, and God tells us not to add or subtract either to the Bible.

Mistral 7B AI:

And lo, in the land of Abundance, there stood a beacon of sustenance, known as the Red Robin, a sanctuary of succulent meats and golden fries. Verily I say unto thee, When thou art weary from thy labors or seeketh solace from the storm, flee unto the Red Robin's embrace. There, thou shalt find comfort in its Gourmet Burger heaven, and the sweet nectar of its bottomless stein shall quench thy thirst. Let not thy faith falter, for the Red Robin shall sustain thee, body and soul. Amen. - Kegan 19:16

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PARASHA “Achrei Mot” (after the death) LEV 16:1-18:30;


This Parashah speaks of the solemn Moed (appointed day) of Yom Kippur. The “Day of Redemption” is also known as the “Day of Coverings” (Yom HaKipurim). It was the only day of the year when the High Priest could enter into the “Most Holy Place” (Kadosh HaKadoshim) the “Holy of Holies”. This is where the “Aron HaKodesh” (Ark of the Covenant) was kept and where the “Shekinah” (Glory of YHVH) hovered over the “Kaporet” (the covering of the Ark of the Covenant, looking down upon the Mercy Seat. This Parasha starts with;

“Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the Ark, lest he die.”

Was this perhaps the reason why Nadab and Abihu died? Because they went into the Holy of Holies with their own fire? That is another thought. The high priest had to put on a special tunic, all white, of fine linen. Thus, today it is customary during Yom Kippur to wear all white, symbolic of how YHVH views us through Yeshua our Messiah, but ONLY through Yeshua, can we be viewed as “Holy unto the LORD”

Inside the "Holy of Holies," the high priest came as a repentant sinner before a Holy and Righteous God, thus the color white symbolizes repentance and coming with a pure heart. When he left the Holy of Holies, he took off the white garments and put on his garments of royal colors, (blue, purple, scarlet, gold,) and approached the people representing Adonai who is KING of all.

The High Priest had to sacrifice a bull and a ram for the sin and burnt offering. The bull could signify the “strength” of G-d, representing Aaron and his family. and the ram, which reminds us of the ram sacrificed instead of Isaac on “Mt. Moriah”. The ram symbolizes YESHUA who took our place on the cross of “Mt. Calvary”

Two goats were also present; one served as a “scapegoat” and the other the “sacrificial goat”. We see Yeshua symbolized in both goats. One was sacrificed as a sin offering, symbolizing Yeshua as our “sacrifice of sin” because we are sinners. The other goat carried away our sins (symbolically) and was sent off into the desert, (Azazel) as “Yeshua took our sins away from us”, and as far as the East is from the West, so our sins will be separated from us.

Aaron then took a censor of hot coals from the brazen altar, and he took incense and put the incense on the hot coals, then, with the smoking incense, he went into the Holy of Holies and put blood on the Mercy Seat. We see our Messiah Yeshua in all of this. To have fellowship with our creator, we need to start at the cross, where our sins were judged. This is the brazen altar. The incense symbolizes our prayers that go up before our Heavenly Father, through our prayers, we have fellowship with HIM.

The blood that is sprinkled on the mercy seat symbolizes the blood of Messiah, which was shed for all of our sins. Under the mercy seat are the commandments that were given on Sinai. Our rebellion broke these, and the blood of Messiah “covers” the sins of us all, BUT, more than that, they have been REMOVED, once and forever.

Chapter 17 speaks on the “HaDam Kodesh” The sanctity of blood. Since blood symbolizes life, then, YHVH has prohibited the drinking of blood. One of the reasons that carnivorous animals are not kosher to eat is because they eat flesh, and flesh contains blood. “You shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood” 17:14

Chapter 18 deals with sexual sins, there is no need to go over them since they are self-explanatory, much is common sense, yet in today’s societies, there is a perverse sexual expression, and philosophy of “if it feels good, do it” this is a lie straight from the pit of hell, straight from HaSatan! Sex should be expressed in the bond of matrimony and in this sense, it is entirely holy and sacred, because there is a commitment between the husband and wife, which (should) last a lifetime. And this is where the enemy attacks, Satan hates families, that’s a fact.

We see today, as in ancient pagan practices, men trying to become women, and women trying to become men, men with men, and women with women. Today it is called "alternate lifestyles" God calls it "abominations." Today with perverted medical advances, men can change their sex to become women and women and do that same, "externally' yet their DNA never changes. Despite their exterior looks, they will ALWAYS be what God intended them to be at birth.

We need to realize that now there is no barrier between our fellowship with Adonai and a time when we cannot come before Him. We can come anytime, day and night, 24-7, and confess our sins before a forgiving Heavenly Father. We are not bound by goats and only a "once a year" ritual. When Messiah was crucified and stated; "It is Finished" He was saying the payment for sin was paid in full, and the curtain in the temple that separated the Holy of Holies was rent in two, down the middle. This was proof that the payment was made, justification made, redemption completed, and unlimited access now and for all people.

Is there a time that is "too late?" Yes, a second after you die, so don't die lost, don't die in your sins because the price has been paid in full.

Have a blessed week.

I suppose I'm treading on determinism grounds that have been explored, but I had my own idea about the timeline with respect to light. I have no idea whether this has been considered by others. Too lazy to try to track it down on the internet.

In relativity, one of the fun things about light is that it doesn't experience spacetime from its own perspective. Although we see a photon take time to get to its destination, from its perspective it takes no time at all to arrive. It experiences no distance. As far as the photon is concerned, it's at its origin and destination at the same time.

Now I'll go into crackpot theory stuff. Let's say that all this implies that the photon has to have a destination. It has to be going to some particle of matter somewhere. It can't just radiate off into empty space, because that would create a conflict between traveling infinitely and seeing no distance.

Consider that light from the Sun takes eight and two-thirds minutes to get here. Light that is leaving the Sun right now has already arrived as far as the light is concerned. The light knows where we're going to be more than eight minutes in the future so it can hit us. Light from a star 20 light years away is now targeting people on Earth where they'll be 20 years from now. And there are photons from a star 20,000 light years away that are leaving right now with a firm destination where the Earth will be 20,000 years in the future.

If all this holds up, the timeline is set, possibly from beginning to end. Is all this a reasonable idea? Naturally I have my doubts, being a skeptic and all.

If this thread doesn't belong here please let me know and I'll move it. Let's praise the Lord in scripture, psalms, poems, testimony and praise. We can pray for each other. We can share burdens.

Remember that we are sorrowful yet rejoicing (2 Corinthians 6:10)

We weep with those weep and we rejoice with those who rejoice. (Romans 12:15)

I praise thr lord that I am alive and i have hope. My soul laments but I rejoice in being new. I died and my life is hidden. (Colossians chapter 3)

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Years before the burning bush, Exodus 2:

22 Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”

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Perhaps Moses circumcised Gershom, but Zipporah, a Midianite, didn't like it.

A 2nd son was born sometime later, and Zipporah didn't let Moses circumcise him.

Then Moses met God at the burning bush.

Exodus 4:

19 And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.” 20 So Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey

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"sons", plural, probably two sons.

24 At a lodging place on the way the LORD met him and sought to put him to death.

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for failing to circumcise his 2nd son

25 Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it

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"son's" singular

Now, Zipporah realized that the Lord was serious about circumcision. So she took it upon herself to perform the circumcision quickly without further debate with Moses and put the foreskin at Moses' feet. "See now, my husband. Here it is."

and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!” 26 So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.

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Zipporah finally accepted the price of marrying a Hebrew son of Abraham.

Before Moses returned to Egypt to deliver the Israelites, God wanted Moses' house to be clean. Years later, Joshua circumcised the Israelites before he started the conquest of Canaan.

I obey Paul's tradition in scripture. I don't follow man's church tradition however. If the church wants to follow Paul's tradition then they should be poor and be dressed in rags like the apostles were. See 1 Corinthians chapter 4

They should have a messenger of Satan torment them like Paul did. They should be out of their own minds for God somtimes as the apostles were.

They should carry death in their bodies as the apostles did. That's tradition.

Not tradition in some of the churches but all of the churches. Note the scripture below

1 Corinthians 4:16 Therefore I urge you, imitate me. 17 For this reason I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.

Wysox Township Supervisor Victor Franklin, 63, was arrested for intentionally and knowingly viewing and possessing child [sexual imagery].


The tip that was made regarded an “image file,” uploaded on Sept. 16, 2023, which “depicts a prepubescent female,” according to the criminal complaint.

[After warrant and examination of hard drive:]

The officer claims to have “identified numerous images/videos depicting child XXX,” and that “a number of the images/videos depicted sexual contact with prepubescent and pubescent children,” according to the criminal complaint.

Colangelo's role in the Trump prosecution has raised questions among some in the GOP about the alleged politicization of the case. His transition from a senior role at the Biden Justice Department to Bragg's team, and the subsequent charges brought against Trump, have been viewed with suspicion.

Not a surprise.

Of course if "good people" do nothing in the face of egregious evil

Are they really "good," ?

What if no one had ever stood with the Blacks against slavery? What if no one had ever bothered to pen the words

All men are created equal?

I am glad people in our history got involved.

It is wrong to say that Christians should not get involved in public life. Not getting involved has led us to this hideous moral decay we have

Life is full of miseries, heartaches, and disappointments. It has its ups and its downs. Life is not always fair, either. Everything is not equal, even if they say it is. Everyone is not who they say they are, either. There is so much deception in the world and within the gatherings of “the church.” And many people are looking for answers and for hope and for healing for their wounded hearts. But not all of them are finding the truth.

So, God is saying to his people throughout the world that we are not to fear what others are doing, and we are not to be looking to humans for our answers, or for our salvation, but that we are to look to God, instead of to men (or to women) to save us. For God is our only hope for what ails us.

Look to God

An Original Work / November 11, 2016

Fear not. Look to God.
He will strengthen you. He is your Rock.
He’ll meet all your needs.
Rest in Him, and be filled with His peace.
When sorrow fills your life, pray to the Lord.
Believe His promises. Trust in His Word.
He’ll lead you each day.
Give your life to Him. Follow His ways.

Lean on Him today.
He will comfort you. Trust Him always.
Read His Word and pray.
Tell the world of His love and His grace.
When trials come your way, be not afraid.
God watches over you. Be not dismayed.
He’ll work all for good,
For the called of God. Jesus, they love.

Sing songs. Praise your Lord.
Lift your voice to Him. Shout out His Word.
He forgave your sins,
Cleansed your heart. You are made new within.
When you are faced with temptation to fear,
Remember God will be with you. He’s near.
He’ll take care of you.
He will keep you in His love, tis true.

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By Andrew Murray, from "With Christ in the School of Prayer" 1885.

In spirit and truth.’​

Or, The True Worshippers.​

‘The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be His worshippers. God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.’—John iv. 23, 24.

THESE words of Jesus to the woman of Samaria are His first recorded teaching on the subject of prayer. They give us some wonderful first glimpses into the world of prayer. The Father seeks worshippers: our worship satisfies His loving heart and is a joy to Him. He seeks true worshippers, but finds many not such as He would have them. True worship is that which is in spirit and truth. The Son has come to open the way for this worship in spirit and in truth, and teach it us. And so one of our first lessons in the school of prayer must be to understand what it is to pray in spirit and in truth, and to know how we can attain to it.

To the woman of Samaria our Lord spoke of a threefold worship. There is first, the ignorant worship of the Samaritans: ‘Ye worship that which ye know not.’ The second, the intelligent worship of the Jew, having the true knowledge of God: ‘We worship that which we know; for salvation is of the Jews.’ And then the new, the spiritual worship which He Himself has come to introduce: ‘The hour is coming, and is now, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth.’ From the connection it is evident that the words ‘in spirit and truth’ do not mean, as is often thought, earnestly, from the heart, in sincerity. The Samaritans had the five books of Moses and some knowledge of God; there was doubtless more than one among them who honestly and earnestly sought God in prayer. The Jews had the true full revelation of God in His word, as thus far given; there were among them godly men, who called upon God with their whole heart. And yet not ‘in spirit and truth,’ in the full meaning of the words. Jesus says, ‘The hour is coming, and now is;’ it is only in and through Him that the worship of God will be in spirit and truth.

Among Christians one still finds the three classes of worshippers. Some who in their ignorance hardly know what they ask: they pray earnestly, and yet receive but little. Others there are, who have more correct knowledge, who try to pray with all their mind and heart, and often pray most earnestly, and yet do not attain to the full blessedness of worship in spirit and truth. It is into this third class we must ask our Lord Jesus to take us; we must be taught of Him how to worship in spirit and truth. This alone is spiritual worship; this makes us worshippers such as the Father seeks. In prayer everything will depend on our understanding well and practising the worship in spirit and truth.

‘God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him, must worship Him in spirit and truth.’ The first thought suggested here by the Master is that there must be harmony between God and His worshippers; such as God is, must His worship be. This is according to a principle which prevails throughout the universe: we look for correspondence between an object and the organ to which it reveals or yields itself. The eye has an inner fitness for the light, the ear for sound. The man who would truly worship God, would find and know and possess and enjoy God, must be in harmony with Him, must have the capacity for receiving Him. Because God is Spirit, we must worship in spirit. As God is, so His worshipper.

And what does this mean? The woman had asked our Lord whether Samaria or Jerusalem was the true place of worship. He answers that henceforth worship is no longer to be limited to a certain place: ‘Woman, believe Me, the hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father.’ As God is Spirit, not bound by space or time, but in His infinite perfection always and everywhere the same, so His worship would henceforth no longer be confined by place or form, but spiritual as God Himself is spiritual. A lesson of deep importance. How much our Christianity suffers from this, that it is confined to certain times and places. A man, who seeks to pray earnestly in the church or in the closet, spends the greater part of the week or the day in a spirit entirely at variance with that in which he prayed. His worship was the work of a fixed place or hour, not of his whole being. God is a Spirit: He is the Everlasting and Unchangeable One; what He is, He is always and in truth. Our worship must even so be in spirit and truth: His worship must be the spirit of our life; our life must be worship in spirit as God is Spirit.

‘God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.’ The second thought that comes to us is that the worship in the spirit must come from God Himself. God is Spirit: He alone has Spirit to give. It was for this He sent His Son, to fit us for such spiritual worship, by giving us the Holy Spirit. It is of His own work that Jesus speaks when He says twice, ‘The hour cometh,’ and then adds, ‘and is now.’ He came to baptize with the Holy Spirit; the Spirit could not stream forth till He was glorified (John i. 33, vii. 37, 38, xvi. 7). It was when He had made an end of sin, and entering into the Holiest of all with His blood, had there on our behalf received the Holy Spirit (Acts ii. 33), that He could send Him down to us as the Spirit of the Father. It was when Christ had redeemed us, and we in Him had received the position of children, that the Father sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts to cry, ‘Abba, Father.’ The worship in spirit is the worship of the Father in the Spirit of Christ , the Spirit of Sonship.

This is the reason why Jesus here uses the name of Father. We never find one of the Old Testament saints personally appropriate the name of child or call God his Father. The worship of the Father is only possible to those to whom the Spirit of the Son has been given. The worship in spirit is only possible to those to whom the Son has revealed the Father, and who have received the spirit of Sonship. It is only Christ who opens the way and teaches the worship in spirit.

And in truth. That does not only mean, in sincerity. Nor does it only signify, in accordance with the truth of God’s Word. The expression is one of deep and Divine meaning. Jesus is ‘the only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.’ ‘The law was given by Moses; grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.’ Jesus says, ‘I am the truth and the life.’ In the Old Testament all was shadow and promise; Jesus brought and gives the reality, the substance, of things hoped for. In Him the blessings and powers of the eternal life are our actual possession and experience. Jesus is full of grace and truth; the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth; through Him the grace that is in Jesus is ours in deed and truth, a positive communication out of the Divine life. And so worship in spirit is worship in truth; actual living fellowship with God, a real correspondence and harmony between the Father, who is a Spirit, and the child praying in the spirit.

What Jesus said to the woman of Samaria, she could not at once understand. Pentecost was needed to reveal its full meaning. We are hardly prepared at our first entrance into the school of prayer to grasp such teaching. We shall understand it better later on. Let us only begin and take the lesson as He gives it. We are carnal and cannot bring God the worship He seeks. But Jesus came to give the Spirit: He has given Him to us. Let the disposition in which we set ourselves to pray be what Christ’s words have taught us. Let there be the deep confession of our inability to bring God the worship that is pleasing to Him; the childlike teachableness that waits on Him to instruct us; the simple faith that yields itself to the breathing of the Spirit. Above all, let us hold fast the blessed truth—we shall find that the Lord has more to say to us about it—that the knowledge of the Fatherhood of God, the revelation of His infinite Fatherliness in our hearts, the faith in the infinite love that gives us His Son and His Spirit to make us children, is indeed the secret of prayer in spirit and truth. This is the new and living way Christ opened up for us. To have Christ the Son, and the Spirit of the Son, dwelling within us, and revealing the Father, this makes us true, spiritual worshippers.

‘LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY.’

Blessed Lord! I adore the love with which Thou didst teach a woman, who had refused Thee a cup of water, what the worship of God must be. I rejoice in the assurance that Thou wilt no less now instruct Thy disciple, who comes to Thee with a heart that longs to pray in spirit and in truth. O my Holy Master! do teach me this blessed secret.

Teach me that the worship in spirit and truth is not of man, but only comes from Thee; that it is not only a thing of times and seasons, but the outflowing of a life in Thee. Teach me to draw near to God in prayer under the deep impression of my ignorance and my having nothing in myself to offer Him, and at the same time of the provision Thou, my Saviour, makest for the Spirit’s breathing in my childlike stammerings. I do bless Thee that in Thee I am a child, and have a child’s liberty of access; that in Thee I have the spirit of Sonship and of worship in truth. Teach me, above all, Blessed Son of the Father, how it is the revelation of the Father that gives confidence in prayer; and let the infinite Fatherliness of God’s Heart be my joy and strength for a life of prayer and of worship. Amen.

Now, I am going to admit upfront here that I am not well-versed in this subject of divine healing, so I am just going to share here with you what I believe the Lord Jesus is sharing with me as I read these words, and I am not going to debate this issue with anyone. For I believe the Scriptures give us both examples of those God/Jesus healed and those he did not heal. And God has his reasons for both, for he heals us in so many different ways.

The first instruction here is that if we are suffering that we should pray. Amen to that! And if we are cheerful, we should sing praise, even if we don’t have good voices or if our voices are nearly shot due to old age. And then it instructs us to call for the elders if we are sick and to let them pray over us, and the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. But then why did God not heal Paul when he prayed in faith?

Okay, so I am looking at the Greek Interlinear on these words at biblehub.com so that I have a better biblical understanding of what this is teaching. And this word “sick” is defined as “to be ill, without strength; to languish; to be weak (physically, morally), feeble.” And to languish is to suffer, weaken, fail, decline, etc., so it appears that this covers a broader subject than just physical illness.

With regard to calling upon the elders, many “church” congregations do not even have elders, but they have deacons, or they regard their pastor(s) as the elder(s). And in our day and age, many of these men are voted into these positions by the congregation based on popularity and not on spiritual biblical qualifications. So just because someone has the title of “elder,” “pastor,” “deacon,” or “clergy,” it does not mean he is a biblical elder.

But what I want to focus on here is “the prayer of faith.” For faith comes from God, it is authored and perfected by Jesus Christ, it is gifted to us by God, it is persuaded of God, and it is not of our own doing – not of the will nor of the flesh of man. But it has to be exercised by us, i.e. we have to be the ones to put that faith into practice. But we do so in the power of God and in his strength, and according to the will of God.

[Heb 12:1-2; Eph 2:8-10; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; Rom 6:1-23]

And do you remember Jesus’ prayer in the garden right before he was arrested and put to death on a cross? “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.” And what was that cup? It was the cup of suffering he was about to endure on that cross, which was necessary for the salvation of human lives. For in his death he put our sins to death with him so we might die to sin and live to righteousness.

And the apostle Paul said this in 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 ESV:


Now, Paul’s weakness was not sin in his life, like many people like to claim (for other writings on this subject see links at end of this). And God does not refuse to heal us of sin, for Jesus died that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. And God’s power is not perfected in our sins, and Paul would not be boasting of his sins, if sin was his “thorn in the flesh.” That would be absolutely contrary to the teachings of Christ and of his NT apostles.

Yet it appears that Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” was some kind of physical suffering, which could have been his blindness, but we don’t know for sure. And there is no mention of him calling for the elders, but he went directly to God in prayer, and God’s answer to him was “No,” basically. For whatever this physical weakness was, God was going to use it in Paul’s life to keep him humble and so that God could display His power through the life of Paul.

And a modern-day example of this might be, but not an exact parallel, the life of Joni Eareckson Tada, who had an accident when she was a teenager which left her a quadriplegic the rest of her life, and she and I are the same age (74), so a very long time. She prayed for healing, too, but God had other plans for her life, for he displays his power in her weaknesses, I believe, too, and she has ministered God’s grace to so many people’s lives.

So, my belief on this subject is that it is the prayer of faith which heals, and that faith comes from God, and we need to pray according to the will of God. And sometimes his answer to us is “No” because he is going to use our physical ailments in our lives to humble us, and so that he can use us in ways we might not have ever thought would be possible if he had healed us physically, as we had hoped.

But is God still in the healing business? Absolutely!! I am a firm believer in divine healing, and that God still heals according to his will and purpose. He had me stop taking medicine sixteen years ago, and I have remained pharmaceutical independent since then, all glory to God, regardless of pain and suffering. But he carries me through it all. And he does not promise us lives free from suffering, either. But he heals us in so many different ways!

Hear My Cry

By G. M. Eldridge

When my soul is worn and weary
And my eyes are filled with grief,
When my hands in desperation
Reach to heaven for relief,

Would I find the words there waiting
If I had the strength to start?
Could a mortal tongue interpret
All the sorrow of a heart?

Spirit, search me in my weakness,
And discern this growing gray.
Intercede in understanding,
Hear the things I cannot say.

Hear my cry, heav’nly Father,
You have known my ev’ry pain.
You have seen all my sorrow,
Hear my cry once again.

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(1) Was Paul a Hypocrite? II
(2) Paul said, “Be Imitators of Me”

When I make a Chapel it will be called this:

I may use different font, but something like this:



I'm going to put up scriptures on the walls, and these are the first ones that came to mind. There will be more.

Isaiah 45:8
Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it.

Deut 33:13-17
And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills, And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren. His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

(גבעות עולם is technically "Everlasting Hills' - it is from this verse I get the name, as these are ancient mountains and everlasting hills)

Job 28:3
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death

Matthew 18:11 & 14,
For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

Revelation 3:19-22
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

1 John 5:11-12
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

Zechariah 9:14 & 10:12,
And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 44:23,
And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Zephaniah 3:17,
The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

Psalm 119:108
Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.

Isaiah 43:11 & Acts 4:12,
I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour.
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Yahweh in Yeshua
יהוה ביהשוע

I’ve been studying the seventy sevens in Daniel and have found a way of separating the times that hasn’t been discussed before. It’s funny how when something like this has been discussed so much that what people have said about it becomes as if it were written in the scripture itself. That leaves no room for discussion outside of the established norms. Ive read dozens of PHD dissertations, the early church fathers and modern eschatology teachers alike. There is something they all have missed. This view goes back to the reason the Masoretic Text put a Mark of separation between the periods of seven sevens and 62 sevens. That Mark is there to denote these are two separate periods of time. Not just separate but not to be added together. But that’s exactly what every single interpretation does. Most people won’t even say seven and 62. They just say 69. There is not only no basis in the text to do so, there is an indication not to. They don’t run consecutively. There is a place they run consecutively, sort of. It’s on the calendar of Jewish holidays. The day after Pesach starts the counting of the Omer. Seven weeks or seven sevens. When the 49th day is reached the count ends. The next day is Shavuot. Not part of the counting. That is the day we mark as the day when the commandments were given at Sinai. The day after Shavuot starts a 62 day count to Tisha Ba’av. That’s the day when the first AND second temples were destroyed. The seven sevens happened first in history and they are first on the calendar. Let’s take a look at the prophecy and see if we can apply that history tp this prophecy.

In verse 25 we see that the periods of time are from a decree to a coming. It tells us when to expect the coming if we can spot the decree.

25 “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’

Now as to the division of the sevens, we see in the prophecy that there are also two people named in the verse with the two numbers of sevens. That would be the Anointed One and the ruler. Virtually all of the interpreters have these both as speaking of Jesus. They say both are titles and he is both of them.

But later in the prophecy it tells us what the outcome of the coming of “the ruler who will come” will be.

The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him

And we also see what the outcome of the coming of the Anointed One will be in verse 26.

26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing.

You can’t really deny that it tells us about two different people in the whole of the prophecy. That is unless you believe that Jesus will set up an abomination in the third temple and is telling us in Matthew 24 that he is going to set it up as a sign for those in Judea and Samaria to flee.

If you believe that the Abomination of Desolation is set up by the Antichrist, then this prophecy is definitely about two people. If the “He” that starts verse 27 is a normal reference to the antecedent “the ruler who will come” in verse 26, then we have that ruler identified as the Antichrist. If that is true, why would the ruler in verse 25 not be the same person. Both are said to come. And we have the outcome of the coming of “the ruler who will come”.

That begs the question “so how do you tell which time leads to which coming?” That’s very simple.


26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing.

Does it say that his death is on the last day of the 62 sevens? Not exactly. It says his death is after the end of the 62 sevens. Remember, the very first part of this prophecy is telling us that once a certain decree is issued, there will be a period of time that will end with a coming. A death and a coming are not the same thing. Indeed the prophecy uses both words separately. This is Jesus we are talking about as the Anointed One. It would be hard to argue that his death was his coming. Was he not God in the flesh from conception?

Matthew 1:18 This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about[d]: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. 19 Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet[e] did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly. 20 But after he had considered this, an angelof the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,[f] because he will save his people from their sins.” 22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23 “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel”[g] (which means “God with us”).

So God was with us from conception. Here is the story of the shepherds from Luke.
2:8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. 11 Today in the town of David a Saviorhas been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. 12 This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

The next step is also very simple. If both periods of time are from a decree to a coming, and the anointed one’s death is after the 62, then the coming of the “ruler who will come will” be seven sevens after a decree.

I believe what I have just showed you is the purest way of dissecting the verse. But I knew when I saw it that it would be a tough sell. At that time I just put my hands on my bible and looked up to God and asked him for a sign so that I would know if it was true. I said it would be difficult to convince people that what they were teaching was wrong. And I said I don’t want to bring a message to anyone that isn’t correct, especially something this important.

Immediately I was caught up and in darkness. Then I saw a city below me. It was NYC. A voice in my head said “Very soon there will be major terrorist attacks on NYC and Washington DC. Also in one smaller out of the way place that won’t amount to as much”. I asked what the attack would be. He said “it will not be nuclear, biological or chemical.” He said “it will be something you haven’t seen before.” I could see two glowing spots down between the buildings on one end of Manhattan the whole time he was speaking. Then, when he finished speaking I could see a different view. Much lower and in the daytime. I could see great clouds of smoke billowing between the buildings. I could see people running and the smoke o retaking them. I cringed in fear thinking that the smoke was hurting them, that the smoke was the weapon. He sensed what I was thinking for he said “the smoke isn’t hurting them.” Then I was back at my desk with my hands on my Bible. I was stunned to say the least. I told my wife all about it. I told my parents too. I am ashamed to admit that I was scared, even after all of that, to really tell what I saw. I hinted around about it hoping that would be enough with some coworkers. Only my wife got the full story. That day was Sept 6, 2001.

Ever since that day I have been working on figuring out how to apply this vision to the world events. It is way too long to post it here. Theseventysevensofdaniel.com has the rest of the story. God bless anyone who reads it. And even those that don’t.

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I have read many book about the Simpson murder trial. True, that was years ago so maybe I am not going to remember a lot of what I read but I read the book written by Marcia Clark, prosecutor, and also the one by Darden, fellow prosecutor and then I read others I can't recall the authors of.

So yeh, I have read up on the evidence and .. long story short:

That dude did it in my pov.

I mean, I would just simply say He did it, but since he wasn't convicted, I probably shouldn't put it that way.

So yeh... you get a bunch of bad jurors (they were mostly Black. How did that happen?) and you're not going to get justice...


So, all you who think that the Steal is unreal... or maybe you think that Trump is obviously guilty though not convicted yet...

maybe you should consider that there is DEEP division, politically, in our world and that all judges cannot be trusted to do the right thing. All a judge has to do is show his prejudice against a defendant by ruling against him (his lawyers in the courtroom) more than he or she does the prosecution and

voila..... the jury gets the message and often acts accordingly. After all, the judge has clout; people respect judges...