Truths

[DragonFox91]

Today we were discussing Mormons. I'm clicking thru their website right now. It's interesting how often "Be married forever!" is all over, like they're trying to sell you on that. I'm not sure if there is marriage in the Age to Come, I think the teaching on it can go either way in the Bible, but it's a red flag in my spirit that that's all over their website.

There's some other things on their website are off but wanted to bring up this one specifically b/c my thread is about being married

 

[DragonFox91]

"If Providence tarry, tarry till Providence comes"

 

[DragonFox91]

Yesterday when I was out I met a fellow gentleman. We talked about the Gospel some. He says the only thing that matters is Jesus Christ & he prays every day. I told him he wouldn’t be there right now if it weren't for God. He goes to a big megachurch by me. I don’t fully trust that megachurch, but he said message that day was on the Blood of Christ. I told him that’s great, there’s a lot of ways it gets distorted so glad to hear it was on the atoning work of Christ’s blood, & to meditate on that. We talked about some shelters downtown, how the big one most churches donate to aren’t great but the smaller one that gets less $$$ is really good. We also talked about being married some. He said he’s hoping his 27-year-old son has a child. I told him I think the marriage ship sailed for me but he said I might still. I see him occasionally but this was the first we talked so maybe we’ll be able to talk more again.

 

[DragonFox91]

I used to get sad on Valentine's Day. Now it's like, it's just another man-made holiday. Didn't phase me at all today. Plus I want to get married everyday, what difference does the day make

 

[DragonFox91]

You hear rumors of what gets said by people in the class & it's depressing.

It is what it is -

What the Lord has ordained, he has ordained

 

[DragonFox91]

Last night we watched a message on what we love & what loves s/ get priority. Sometimes I feel like family love is overprioritized.

 

[DragonFox91]

It will just be a struggle for me

 

[DragonFox91]

I am going to have to start praying to not want to get married. It's not healthy to want to when you can't.

It doesn't seem right to do that but it's not healthy wanting to when you can't.

 

[DragonFox91]

I think the marriage boat left w/out me. I can't even really say the Lord's getting me ready for marriage, he's just getting me ready for him, I suppose

 

[DragonFox91]

I have been really struggling. I wish I could say 'you'll be married when you're older' is true, well, it's not true for everyone

 

[DragonFox91]

"The time is coming when I will make a New Covenant because they broke my Covenant tho I was a husband to them. I will put my law into their minds & write it into their hearts. I will remember their sins no more."
Jeremiah 31

 

[DragonFox91]

I’ve been thinking it’s common for men to be more attracted to more conservative denominations & women more attracted to more liberal denominations. I kind of got pulled into discussions about that.

So there’s a problem.

& no, I'm not referring to just dating & marriage, although that being disrupted is a byproduct. It disrupts the mission of the church & God's design for things.

 

[DragonFox91]

We've been discussing John 4. A man goes to Jesus & asks Jesus he heal his son. Jesus says he will. The town the man is from is a long ways from where he met Jesus. The man has to walk back a long ways to get to his son. When he's on his way, he's told his son has healed & he was healed at the time he spoke to Jesus.

We're discussing that there's delays in seeing the fruit of a prayer request. Many miracles Jesus performs happen right in front of the eyes of the people & seemingly instantaneous. This one did not. It did not seem to be instantaneous. There was an apparent delay. The man was probably hoping Jesus would come w/ him. He had to go back alone. It says he believed, but he was probably also wondering if his son would really be healed. But he did not know his son was already healed on his way back. & it did not happen after Jesus healed him, even a moment later, but during the time he was talking to Jesus. It had already happened. In the spirit realm it was already done, but more than that, it was done in the physical realm too & before he knew it.
Let me say that again: it was done even before he knew it.

Apparent delays in the prayer & the answer are frequent in the Bible. I recently posted here the big one is the promised Messiah & the people anxious about that. But to God, there are no delays. His timing is perfect. He's not running late, he's not lost, he didn't forget, he's not incompetent, he's not doing it to be mean & b/c he's a tyrant or you're too sinful, he's doing it his way b/c his way is the best way for him & for you both.

Can you think of examples in your life you thought there was a delay but the timing was perfect? Were the pieces in motion for that long even before & you didn't realize it? How does that happen so well? How does it 'just work out' like that? Do we set limits on our windows of delay? How long is too long for us? 2 years? 10 years? How about 50 years? Is a window of delay the same thing as a denial? How can we be sure we are in a denial & it's not a window?

 

[DragonFox91]

“The world's spirit of deception emphasizes being positivite. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth, it emphasizes the truth.”

 

[DragonFox91]

The Lord has been teaching me about the Tower of Babel.

In Genesis you get a good deal on Creation & the Fall & a good deal on the Flood & then the rest is a lot on Abraham & his children. Sandwiched between all this taking up very really little space is the Tower of Babel.

We talk about Creation & the Fall a lot, & the Flood, but very little on the Tower of Babel, but the Tower of Babel is super important. The world was unified in one false belief system. So God scatters them. It was from this false belief system all the false belief systems of today can traced back to, they are really a continuation of this one unified false belief system, & when it comes down to it, they are really the same as this false belief system. In the world we have God’s truths & we have this false belief system. When God ‘confuses’ their language, what he’s really doing is disrupting this false belief system & scattering it all over the world so the false belief system is broken up. It’s not just a story of why we have different languages. That’s what the lost say, it’s just a story trying to say why we have different languages. It’s a lot more than that.

There was likely a lot of self-worship at the Tower of Babel, prostitution, sacrifice, drugs, slave labor, etc. I recently learned they were likely trying to attain an enlightenment as well. & things that seem less nefarious but are incorrect as well like self-righteousness. I think there's significance in the shape of it being a tower itself.

I post this here b/c it seemed like lies were going to win but Truth prevailed

One additional note, for a really long time I used to think God handled it incorrectly & it made him look weak. They’re doing something he doesn’t like & all he does is scatter them? He recently showed me what it was is his mercy.

 

[venksta]

The Lord has been teaching me about the Tower of Babel.

In Genesis you get a good deal on Creation & the Fall & a good deal on the Flood & then the rest is a lot on Abraham & his children. Sandwiched between all this taking up very really little space is the Tower of Babel.

We talk about Creation & the Fall a lot, & the Flood, but very little on the Tower of Babel, but the Tower of Babel is super important. The world was unified in one false belief system. So God scatters them. It was from this false belief system all the false belief systems of today can traced back to, they are really a continuation of this one unified false belief system, & when it comes down to it, they are really the same as this false belief system. In the world we have God’s truths & we have this false belief system. When God ‘confuses’ their language, what he’s really doing is disrupting this false belief system & scattering it all over the world so the false belief system is broken up. It’s not just a story of why we have different languages. That’s what the lost say, it’s just a story trying to say why we have different languages. It’s a lot more than that.

There was likely a lot of self-worship at the Tower of Babel, prostitution, sacrifice, drugs, slave labor, etc. I recently learned they were likely trying to attain an enlightenment as well. & things that seem less nefarious but are incorrect as well like self-righteousness. I think there's significance in the shape of it being a tower itself.

I post this here b/c it seemed like lies were going to win but Truth prevailed

One additional note, for a really long time I used to think God handled it incorrectly & it made him look weak. They’re doing something he doesn’t like & all he does is scatter them? He recently showed me what it was is his mercy.

There was a sermon or short message I saw about the Tower of Babel, and two things I took away has stayed with me. First was they wanted to make a name for themselves by building the tower and being exalted. Only one name is great above all else, yet even today, ambitious men try to exalt their own names.

Genesis 11:
"Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. 3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

The rulers were also leading the people against God's will. After God saved Noah and his family, God instructed them to fill the earth. However, during the Tower of Babel, humans stayed together. By confusing their language, God's will went on for men to fill the earth.

Genesis 9:7: "As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”

 

[DragonFox91]

Today I made my family tree chart but w/ the denominations they were / are.
I saw the patterns of the denominations they marry into or out of (or are if not married).
I saw significance in the names. A lot of time the initial in their name matched the initial of the denomination they married. Sometimes those w/ Biblical names seemed (to me) genuine Christian. The Bible places great emphasis on people's names, I don't think this went away.

I don't know if this is a form of divination & "endless geneologies" that we're not supposed to do or not, but this is stuff I think about & can see w/ my own 2 eyes, I just put it into a visual chart for the first time. What is the Lord doing in my family tree.

 

[DragonFox91]

Dating & marriage has been so far off my mind. My internal struggle lately has been the salvation of men. That is so much more important. How valuable must even one soul be to him. We can't just be living like we're not concerned for the salvation of others. People try to tell you 'oh don't worry about it, it's between them & Jesus', it's like, no, this isn't a game, it's a big reason (but not the only reason) we're here.

 

[DragonFox91]

I’m not really sure where to post this but there’s a new hospital system here that bought all the other ones. They put their billboards all over. Something seemed really off to me about it. And it wasn’t necessarily all the other hospitals had been bought out & their billboards were everywhere you looked, but I couldn’t place my finger on it, it was their logo more than anything.
Now it makes sense:
Their logo is 2 half moons locked together
I don’t trust them.

 

[DragonFox91]

One of the things he’s been teaching me is every time there’s a problem w/ his people, he fixes it. Sometimes it takes generations. Every time an individual or society strays, he rights it.

Another thing I’ve been thinking about is when they were in Egypt, it was not due to his judgement, he was actually helping them. I think we discussed in church once this was to teach them when they got their own land, they did not want the world’s gods, it was to wean them off the world’s gods. Sometimes it can seem like ‘well why didn’t they get the land right away, why did they have to spend so much wasted time in Egypt, he must not’ve known what he was doing.’ No, he knew what he was doing.