- it seems we are indeed missing some references to where the quotes came from , and it would indeed be nice to be able to check them out oneself , maybe our friend will oblige sometime
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that one. never heard of some of those.
now that i think about how things happened before jesus came and reading PKD..
i'm starting to believe that when king solomon was king, that he sent a bunch of wisdom to a bunch of cultures and it kind of planted some seeds even if only to a few people.
then i remember that daniel was in babylon and then we have that dude that wrote ecclesiasticus. anyways i think towards the end when about the time jesus came to this world that the jews were already so trapped in their law of sin and death that it is no wonder why so many other books that are not included in their canon were spread abroad into different parts of the world.
and some people think that a certain apostle went to the other side of the earth and there is some plausible evidence for that. also that the Holy Spirit and his helpers is able to raise up from "those stones sitting over there"n in any culture people who will speak about the unknown God and are indeed known of God.
or I can take another good example that is very easy to see and say that the seraphim and ect drop down things to people, it is no wonder they cry out that "the earth is full of the glory of the Lord of Spirits". and things like that.
no doubt that those magi that visited the baby jesus had some divine wisdom.
Well, it started long before that it seems, for all their idol-worship, the lost nation, the House of Israel spread tales of the escape from Egypt of God's chosen people to all the world :-
Deuteronomy 28:64 And the LORD shall scatter thee
among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods,
which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
the 'Jews' [House of Judah] were always a separate minor 'sect' within Israel , utterly outnumbered and incompatible religiously with the to-them-utterly-'heretic' House of Israel ' [whom most Jews to this day still deny, but scripture records that they never accepted God, never accepted Judaism, never merged with the Jews, but became gentiles by all but birth... in effect then today they are the vast majority of Israel butare 'gentiles', live as gentiles , believe they are gentiles, do not worship God until a saint arrives to tell them who they really are , for God has not forgotten His promise to the descendants of Jacob , sent Jesus ONLY to find the lost House of Israel's descendants living as gentiles amongst the gentiles :-
Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
but, seriously, it essentially is only relevant when God wants to prove that these are Israel [genetically?] to show His power to prophesy the end from the beginning, to say who will be the priests of the new covenant [Jer 31:31-34] who are the kings and priests of the kingdom come in the new earth and heavens :-
Exodus 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a
kingdom of priests, and an
holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the
children of Israel.
Ezekiel 37:22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and
one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations,
neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
well Israel is still divided into two nations and does not have one anointed king [Messiah, Christ] uniting them into a holy nation of kings and priests under the king of those kings, high priest of those priests of teh order of Melchisedec, Jesus , king of Israel [anointed by Mary , thus this is sign of the TRUE gospel of the true Christ of Israel ,not taught by sinners of mass religion] :-
Matt 26:13 Verily I say unto you,
Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
So we have yet another sign from Jesus of his prophecy of apostasy of mass religion coming true today -Rev 13:3-8, 2Thess 2 and a sign of his second coming [which some lclaim has occurred ,but clearly the sign has not]
but what did Jesus say about the Truth, how it would come to men... this is the REAL point ... that the new covennant says God will teach all who are under grace , NOT MEN ... so frankly it matters not what has been said by ANYONE except the few saints and Jesus who reveal that
the Truth comes DIRECT fron God ONLY to EACH saint , to every man who stops sinning...
this IS the new covenant of grace [Jer 31:31-34, Heb 8:8-12] that reveals that mass religion of sinners and the endless hearsay religions of men are all hot air signifying NOTHING , because
God will teach His OWN Himself
saints do NOT teach anyone under grace because god does soHeb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the
house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord;
I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and
they shall be to me a people:
11 And they shall
not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for
all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and
their iniquities will I remember no more.
the only work of saints is to wake up [mostly gentile] sinners to seek God by ceasing sinning , it is God who baptises with His spirit, not men... so all the words, othere than the ones saints preach to sinners to cause them to stop sinning, are IN VAIN , and it really matters not at all what sinners say worldwide in countless churches, sects, denominations, cults, mass religions...
without spirit baptism no-one gets the Truth, no-one enters the kingdom of God
The House of Israel's descendants , those whose fathers broke the old covenant [Heb 8:8-12] and were rejected ... the 'children' are now accepted in a new covenant, and it says who it is with... no need to pretend it is with everyone ...
WHY ? - because NO-ONE knows who is of the house of Israel any longer , all gentiles look like gentiles , none can say which are of Israel thousands of years ago ... unlike the Jews who REMEMBER ... but then only a FEW saints are Jews [from Jesus' figures perhaps 20,000 or so of the 144,000 saints, the tens of thousand sof Jude 1:14 [showing it is literaly only tens of thousands saved at Jesus' return, not a billion and more 'Christian sinners' of mas religion ... the FEW [Matt 7:14, Jude 1:14, Rev 7:3-8]
so all one has to do to receive God's Truth is just stop sinning, but FEW will... SIMPLE unless one is committed to sin for life ...
2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this
seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ
depart from iniquity.
John 16:13 Howbeit
when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into
all truth...and he will shew you things to come.