Jamdoc
Watching and Praying Always
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That only scratches the surface of what I begin to see as I study his word by the otiot.
I pray that he gives me eternity for continued study.
Wouldn't you rather.. talk to the Word of God face to face and receive teaching directly, rather than indirectly through Inspiriation?
It is the Word of God, but it's also written down by human authors, and pieces of them come with the scripture. A lot of times, the human authors, rather than dictated word for word what to write, saw a vision, and wrote down what they saw. The Vision was from God, but sometimes required Angels just to interpret them. That comes into play a lot in the prophetic books in particular.
Sometimes there's just "Thus sayeth the Lord" but sometimes the Lord makes the prophet do some sort of action to illustrate something, like making Hosea marry a prostitute to depict the relationship between God and Israel, or Jeremiah and his funky belt to show that Judah had become marred and fit for nothing. The Lord always needs to explain what the meaning of these exercises is, or He'll show a vision, and it utterly confuses the prophet, so an angel explains.
Sure, you could study the scriptures forever.
But you'll also have the face to face access to Jesus, which isn't that even better?
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