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Recent content by Ben5708

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    Why does God allow suffering? Good suffering or bad suffering?

    "Why the pain?" "Why the suffering?" "Why does it have to be so hard," my aged father agonized with labored breath? I did not have an answer, I did not understand "the fellowship of His sufferings." … A Hillside Church: The Fellowship
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    Question for rapture people

    Paul in 1Co 15:51 is not “prophesying about what will happen at the Great White Throne Judgment.” Paul is “prophesying” about “a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.” Revelation 20:11-15 affirms that “all” standing before the great white throne will be judged “according...
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    Question for rapture people

    Regarding “a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed” (1Co 15:51) ─ it has the witness of Father, Son, and Spirit. Regarding Amo 3:7: “Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets [as He revealed this secret unto Paul].”...
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    Out of Due Time

    The words of Scripture are measured, never more than required ─ every one for a purpose. So, I am reluctant to say: “probably not relevant” then or now ─ but rather that I am yet to understand some marvelous new truth. “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand...
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    Out of Due Time

    … "where was the “Hebrew of the Hebrews” that first Passover when the Lord whom Saul was seeking, suddenly came to His temple (cf. Mal 3:1)? And where was Saul the “final” Passover three years later when “Jesus entered into the temple of God , and [again] cast out all that sold and bought in the...
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    An Expeditionary Force of One

    Thanks, but the title and article were not by Darby, with the exception of the exceptionally well written final four sentences.
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    An Expeditionary Force of One

    Thank you for your kindness. I felt the same when God opened my eyes some time ago when first confronted by the reality that the church in Paul’s final epistle was already was nigh to “ruin” ─ yet, how could that be? Then discovered that Darby had made the same observation almost 150 years...
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    An Expeditionary Force of One

    I believe the link below, from which the following excerpt is taken, contains an apt depiction of the history of the Body of Christ. Let me know what you think. “… The “consummate” mission, begin with an expeditionary force of “one” conscripted on the road to Damascus (cf. Act 9:15), baptized...