Hello again, people absolutely have the choice of who to follow and everyone has complete responsibility for their own actions. God is a fair judge. Some use an "I can't help it" excuse so they don't feel so guilty committing sin and following the world (satan).
The last 5 sentences you wrote I don't know what you are referring to- it doesn't sound like that's from the Bible.
Hello, I'm inami. I can't log in. Regarding your answer, I agree with you partly. You know, not everyone has the chance to choose who he will follow. A typical example is those who are born before Christ, mentioned in 'Divine Commedia', Dante. He saw these poor guys in the hell. They did nothing wrong. I think they would follow God if they had a chance. But God didn't forgive them. Why?
Hello anonymous, are you the same person who posted the original question or someone else?
Your question has a snuck premise like the other question I answered had. This time you assume God "abandoned" someone. A more accurate question is why do people abandon God? And when people abandon Him, why would they also expect to receive VIP service from God. God is not a genie in a magic lamp to serve people. Some are very selfish and want everything their own way even to the point where they think they are a god.
Another snuck premise I notice in the question is that God created "anti-Gods." Not really. God created people and allows people to have freewill- freedom of choosing God or evil. People are responsible for their own choices, you can't have someone commit murder then blame it on God for creating them. That's silly. People often blame God for others having freewill, just like a cult of people in the US are currently complaining about freedom of speech- not their own, but others they don't like. But if that was taken away then the same people would instead complain about not having freedom. So, you can't have it both ways. If you want true freedom, then people will do evil. If there is such a thing as evil, then good must exist. Hope this is helpful.
The time period of the Tribulation fits in to Daniel 9:24-27 where there is a period of 70 "weeks" of years. In these verses we see how a covenant made is broken; and the last half of the Tribulation lasting 1260 days is mentioned at the end of Daniel 12. The 1335 days mentioned would likely be the period when Christ arrives and the whole campaign of Armageddon is fought likely also encompassing the time of the Ezekiel 38 war. This would show the sequence from Zechariah 12 when the remaining Jews finally recognize Christ as Messiah; through Zechariah 14 where half of the city is taken; and Christ goes out to fight against the enemies. The end of that last chapter in Zechariah gets into the Millennium. 2 Thessalonians 2:11 gets into the belief in "The Lie"; also see 1 Thessalonians 5:3 about everyone talking about "peace and safety or security." The covenant with "death and hell" is also seen in Isaiah 28:18 where the nation of Israel deliberately makes an agreement with Antichrist.
The seven year period apparently is also stated in the Koran someplace about their version of the 12th Imam or world ruler which is the length of time that leader is supposed to rule. Of course; we don't know if the Tribulation begins immediately after the Rapture. It is at that time that the Restrainer; or function of the Holy Spirit in the church is removed ( 2 Thess. 2:6-7). For now; the gates of hell cannot prevail against the church. ( Matthew 16:18). According to Daniel in the time of trial for His people the saints WILL be overcome by the Beast or Antichrist ( Daniel 7:25). We see how the boastful words there are a parallel to what is going on in Revelation 13.
It is a theory of mine that if you make each seal; trumpet and bowl a period of months and add it up you get 7 years. (1+2+3+4+5+6+7) X 3. That is; 28 X 3 months or 84 months is equal to 7 years. Daniel uses 360 day years. Revelation 11:1-2 describes the 2 witnesses likely the first half of the Trib.
After completing all of these offerings, Aaron turned, raised his hands and spoke a blessing over the people, (most likely the Aaronic blessing Num. (6:23-27) and then came down from the place of offering the sacrifices. Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting together and came out and blessed the people again.
Then the glory of YHWH appeared to all of the people (they all saw and experienced it together) and fire came out from YHWH to the altar and completely consumed all of the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. This showed that He accepted the sacrifices and also brought to the people what these sacrifices signified. The people shouted fell on their faces.
We are not told what the glory of the LORD was like, nor what they shouted.
This was one continuous ceremony from start to finish. It must have taken all day for it to be finished. And then Aaron would be beginning the evening sacrifice at sundown that day. Verse 1 said that it was on the 8th day. (of which month?)
In regards of the foreshadowing of Christ in this lengthy ceremony that initiates the priestly morning and evening sacrifices day in and day out. Perhaps it foreshadowed the length of time Jesus was on the cross. But it may be showing that before we can thank God for saving us and having communion with him, Jesus needed to be the sin and burnt offering on the cross first. He not only had our sins taken upon himself on the cross, but he also was the only perfect burnt offering, wholly giving himself to the Father' will until the preordained purpose for and work of the cross was completed. When it was finished, then we can bring a thank offering and celebrate a peace offering.
In this chapter, Aaron as the newly consecrated High Priest and his newly consecrated sons begin their priestly duties of offerings and sacrifices for themselves and for the people. Moses served as the priest for these offerings and sacrifices during the 7 days of consecration of the priestly family. But now, his priestly work is completed and the duty shifts to the Aaronic lineage.
The order of the offerings/sacrifices is interesting in that it is somewhat of a reversal of how these were described in Leviticus Ch. 1-6. In these chapters the order was: burnt offering, grain offering, peace offering, sin offering, trespass offering. In Chapter 9 the order is: sin offering, burnt offering, peace offering, grain offering. This order must be significant.
The sin offering for Aaron was first. It was for the atonement of his own sins. Then the burnt offering for himself and his sons. This was for the imputation of their sins onto the sacrifice. Then they offered the sin offering for the people and then the burnt offering. Next, Aaron offered the meat offering (grain) as a symbol of thanksgiving and gratitude to God for being merciful and gracious in removing their sins. After these offerings were done (indicating that their sins had been forgiven and removed from them), Aaron offered the peace offering, offering the breast and the right thigh were lifted towards the altar and back toward them as a wave offering, perhaps indicating that the offering was first given to God and then received back again to the Priests for their holy meal eaten in the tabernacle of meeting only. The peace offering symbolized that peace had been acihieved with YHWH and they could now have Him appear to them in the tent of meeting.
All of these offerings were done according to how YHWH had instructed Moses and Moses, in turn, instructed a demonstrated for the priests and people during the time of consecration of the priesthood.
I would like to share a reply posted by a dear brother of ours on this same question.
Jesus said if any man will come after me, and that is the word behind. And here is the decision-making process. When somebody surrenders to Jesus Christ, they are surrendering to come behind Him. Every single person has a calling to come behind Jesus. That's it!
If any man will come behind me, and there are three things, or principles I would like to share with you.
Principle number 1: Let him deny himself.
Now the word deny, ARNEOMAI, means to reject. This is what it means in the Greek. But first I'll tell you what it doesn't mean.
It doesn't mean that you are to deny yourself an ice cream cone after church or after bible study. It means to reject yourself, period!
The next phrase says, "and take up his cross." And some think that means whatever hardships I go through today. But that's not what it means.
You see, according to Romans Chapter 6, when Jesus died on the cross, He died my death. Therefore I have died, and every day my flesh is nailed to the cross and I'm to carry that cross.
And thirdly He says "follow me." Do you see what He's saying here?
He is saying "Follow me," meaning that the position is behind Him.
A good text would be Galatians 2:20, where Paul says I have been crucified in Christ, and the life that I now live, he says I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.
You see, he has died. I don't live any more. I don't do what I want to do because I don't live, I died. Paul says I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And the life that I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.
He just said it all in one verse. Reject yourself!
I have had a conviction for a long time that our struggle every day in life is more against God than it is against Satan. Why? Because our flesh is continually trying to get down off that cross and trying to get away from the struggles of life.
This is one of those questions that gets asked a lot. As to whether or not a person can lose their salvation, some say yes and some say no. Both sides present scripture to support their view and oftentimes accuse those who disagree with their view as taking scripture out of context. Both sides pick out verses that support their view.
I can only speak for myself when I say that I am completely secure in my salvation. My salvation cannot be lost. The first question I have to ask myself is am I really saved? The Bible says that all who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. It doesn't say they might be saved. It is a promise to those who truly and with a sincere heart call upon Jesus to save them.
Again, I can only speak for myself. Jesus Christ has saved me. He has sealed me with His Spirit. And He has promised to never leave me. That's where I find my comfort and security. It's in Christ. When it comes to salvation, a person has to decide who they are going to trust. Are they trusting in themselves to keep themselves saved? Or, are they trusting in Jesus Christ, the one who has promised to never leave us, and the one who will keep us saved until the day of redemption, the day He comes to redeem His purchased possession.
I know who I am trusting. If I'm counting on myself to keep myself saved, I will fail. There's only one whom I can trust to keep me saved.
MG, you will have to decide for yourself who you are going to trust for your own salvation, Christ or yourself?
We don't go to heaven by being good, nor in just believing in the existence of God. One would have to recognize his sinful and lost state and have faith in Gods plan of redemption.
God is Holy and there is nothing man can do to reconcile himself to God.
Romans 3:10-11 says "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
The wages of sin is death, we're all sinners and sin have to be paid for, so I don't like to say Christ done away with sin on the cross but rather "Christ paid the penalty for our sin on the cross". He was the sacrificial lamb, He died in our place. Jesus was sinless and when the Lord took upon our sin God the father didn't spare him.
There is no way to the father but through the son. John 14:6.
You asked "Is it right to put a good man into hell because he doesn't believe in God?
No one is good but God as shown here in Mark 10:18 "And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
thanks for reply. I don't read the bible so often, so forgive me. But since God is perfect and merciful, why does he abandon those who do not believe in him. After all, it is God who creates all of us, including those Anti-Gods. Is the belief so important to him?
No , but we are in the last days . prophesy is yet to be fulfilled for Joel 2:32 such as the northern army is yet to appear and turn the ungodly into stubble . the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. then comes the restoration of the years eaten by the locusts . the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
In other words , the great tribulation has not here yet .
Yeah , no one is good if they don't have the only one that "Is good" with them . Emmanuel God with us is the only way any of us are good . and for the man who doesn't believe in God , only his flesh body goes to hell which is the grave , his spirit body will get another chance during the mileniuum .
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: (dikai) Having been Justified : The believer is "made righteous/justified" by the Lord, cleared of all charges (punishment) related to their sins .
Having been cleared of all charges , we have peace with God the Father thru Jesus .
Jesus' perfectly sinfree life justified Him before God. But we can never live the life He lived. Yet the work of the cross by Jesus takes away all of our sins and instead of us standing before God condemned in our sinfulness, we stand before God justified in the righteousness of Jesus. This is how we are justified by faith. God always judges justly any and all men.
I recommend reading Romans all the way through. This will be helpful to you.
I would like to speak to your question concerning what is justified by faith.
The Bible, especially in the letters of Paul to the Romans, speak that no person can ever be justified before God by being good enough. This is because, even if we wish to do what is right, we will also do what is wrong. This is because we have a fallen nature called the sinful nature, (Paul often refers to it as the "flesh" but he is not referring to our physical flesh). This sinful nature is passed to each person at conception from their parents and this inherited nature goes all the way back to Adam and Eve who first sinned against God and lost their innocence and goodness before God.
Paul also speaks in Romans that everyone has sinned and so we fall short of God's glory (that is not being perfect before God). He also says that the wages of sin is death (both spiritually and eventually, physically for every person). This death that we earned is first spoken about in Genesis 3 with the commandment and warning of God to Adam and Eve.
Paul also speaks about Abraham and how it was his belief and trust in God that made Him to stand justified before God even though a sinner. God had shared the Gospel with Abraham about a coming Messiah who would save mankind from sins. Abraham believed this gospel. So, Abraham's justification was not because he obeyed God alot, but because He believed God and this belief was based on the Gospel. He looked to being saved from his sins in the saving work of the Messiah to come.
Paul goes on to say that the just shall live by faith. This means that we are justified by the righteousness of Jesus (who lived a perfect life and took our sins upon the cross to free us from the curse of sin (the wages=death) and arose from the dead to give us life in Him. Those who believe this and entrust their lives to Jesus in faith are justified before God because our sinfulness was exchanged for Jesus' perfect righteousness..... continued
Alex1939...In Matthew 24:3-8...When they asked Jesus what shall be the sign of thy coming and the end of the world He replied Sorrows (Birth pains)...The Woman in Rev. 12. is in Birth pains....Which is a spiritual pregnancy...And the Woman is the best example of Faith...The very Kingdom of God comes for this Woman...Which is humanity...Rev.12:10....Now is come Salvation and the Kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ (the child) is the H.G....The Kingdom is the manchild the H.G. That is gona rule all nations with his rod of iron..the words of the book that has been opened...The new covenant...An intimacy a knowledge....He wants to know everybody...Its gonna cover the earth as the waters cover the seas.
And remember Bro. Paul speaks of the whole Creation in Travail n birth pains...becoming incorruptible simply we are all gonna be bornagain of an incorruptible seed.... Romans 8:21...ok gtg..Gbu...And this Woman keeps the commandments..b/c her child cannot sin....That new born babe desiring the sincere milk of the word is the H.G. that Paul speaks of is the Child of PROMISE..Our new innerman the H.G...The very gift of God.
I'm going to shift your post a little and see if this interests you. Speaking of Revelation 12, specifically Revelation 12:6 & Revelation 12:14: The woman represents the 144,000 sealed saints ( Revelation 7:4), BOTH are protected for a thousand two hundred and threescore days. Only the saints are officially sealed. It is a continued allegory describing the saints vs the man of sin, end-times, etc.
The saints are so unbelievably important, yet underrated. They are the first fruits, set apart from the 5.5 billion day of the Lord survivors. The saints are the ONLY first resurrection participants, tasked with healing people, the earth and administering to Christ. The rest sleep till called at the second resurrection.
The saints are featured in 7 Chapters of Revelation, hidden in allegory, and referred to. People then add characters to the narrative and always miss that the sealed saints in Revelation 7:4, before the sixth trumpet, are the same saints in heaven at the seventh trumpet, Revelation 7:9-14. "They came out of the great tribulation". AND this occurs at the exact same time God calls up the two witnesses, Revelation 11:12. The saints and the two witnesses are one and the same!!! You will not see the saints without the witnesses from BOTH houses of Israel (Israel & Judah). Don't get the "two men" allegory wrong. Forget about Moses and Elijah or Enoch, that is a tired excuse for filling in the answer with anything that will suffice. After Solomon, Israel was split in two nations, hence, two men. The two candlesticks and two olive trees that stand before God are God's pride and joy, the whole house of Israel.
Prophesy is unfolding rapidly, it never stopped and can be identified. Acquaint yourself with the prophets, what Jesus says in Matthew 24 and Luke 17. The prophets were shown our future, and this coming sixth trumpet, day of the Lord, scared them deeply, Ezekiel 21:7, Isaiah 13:8-9.
Christian's aren't scared because they weren't taught the proper tenants of the Bible, they think God will unconditionally protect them, no matter how badly their elected leaders behave. Will America will always sit a queen? Isaiah 47:7-11
The Bible is limited in its 1-4 trumpet descriptions. It is the last 3 end-time trumpets, 5, 6 & 7, that matter for this "last generation" (according to the signs). Half of Revelation 9 is dedicated to the fifth trumpet, the other half to the sixth trumpet. The sixth trumpet army smashes the fifth trumpet army to dust!!! Esau smashes Jacob, Obadiah 1. The king of the north smashes the king of the south, Daniel 11:40. The sixth trumpet is about one third of end-time prophesy; there's much written about it, enough for you to see prophesy unfolding in our time. Not many see what they read, let alone admit God is against backsliding America, Ezekiel 21:12.
Here's a big prophesy come to light in our time, but I don't expect it to fit in someone else's narrative:
Revelation 9:1-11 was 9-11-01, America is the fifth trumpet army, running a 20 year war on terror.
Revelation 9:4 America killed those men who did not have the seal of God in their foreheads (Muslims), and were told not to harm any green tree, and nothing green grows in the desert.
Revelation 9:6 The Muslims who were tortured at Abu Ghraib prison were seeking death, and couldn't find it.
Today's verse of the day is one that is very meaningful to me. As believers we are crucified with Christ.
I have been thinking these past few days about what Jesus meant when He told the disciples to take up their cross and follow Him ( Matt 10:38). It is very clear that none of us are have a cross like Jesus'. The "cross" He had was one of suffering and death for the sins of the world. In Gethsemane when forseeing the cross lived out, He was sorrowful unto death. His cross was always to do the will of the Father, and the Father's will was for Jesus to sacrifice His life as a sin offering to expiate our sins and propitiate the wrath of God on sin. This is not a cross we have. So, I was thinking, what is our cross then?
My thoughts are that, like Jesus, our cross is to do the will of the Father in our lives, even unto death. This does not mean that we seek martyrdom, but that persecution and martyrdom may be ahead for some of us. Also, the cross is symbol of death, so today's verse seems to fit in with what Jesus said. As, Paul spoke, it is a dying to self and self-will and living for God and His will.
Then I consider this in light of what Jesus had said about casting all of our burdens upon Him because His yoke is easy and HIs burden is light. Matt 11:29830. So He calls us to take up His yoke upon us and learn from Him. He says that He will give rest to our souls. So I am wondering how this factors into His words about taking up cross and following Him.
I would appreciate reading what others think about this as it has been on my mind this past week and, now, today, the verse speaks of being crucified with Christ.
Hello, I can offer an answer to your second question. God is a fair judge. It sounds like you, the creation, are questioning the morality of the Creator- that is dangerous ground. A more accurately phrased question is if someone who defiantly and blatantly denies God should be allowed to spend eternity with Him?
Anti-God deniers want their cake and to eat it too. Wanting all the benefits of a Christ follower, with grace, heaven, but don't want to follow God or believe in Him, want to ignore God's word, and still desire to follow satan and hurt others while on earth. That's totally evil and a ridiculous expectation.
A false premise in the question is "good man." No one is good except God. Someone who rejects the truth and denies God is hardly "good." All are sinners. Romans 3:23.
Alex N...I just wanted to explain myself about Faith being a spiritual pregnancy....27 times in the O.T. the prophets saw the world in travail and birth pains...Thus there has to be a spiritual pregnancy to obtain salvation the New Birth ...Thats y he wants to sow his precious seed in our hearts...As Faith comes by hearing his words his seeds etc initiating a birth of Christ in us...Which is the H.G. the Children of Promise....An Israel of God ..That was the great Promise that Christ wd be multiplied as the stars of heaven..Thats y he has to know us..Thats when the good seed is sown in our hearts initiaing a spirutal pregnancy.
....Thats y we must be bornagain. We must birth a baby Christ the Child of Promise the H.G...Thats y Jesus is saying Unless you receive the Kingdom of God as a lil Child...( a Heavenly Birth,..a spirutal baby,..an infant...That New Born Babe Paul was talking about ) you will in no wise enter there in...But all this requires a spiritual pregnancy from his good seed the Words of the new Covenant...Thats y scrip. is saying in Christ Jesus nothing availeth anything but a New Creature which is our new born the H.G. The Child of Promise the H.G....Not Circumcision nor uncircumcision only that new creature the H.G. Which answers to our new heart and new spirit..In John 16 :20 he said b/c i have spoken these words ( his seeds ) sorrows (a pregnancy) has filled your hearts....A woman when she is in travail has sorrows but after the Child comes ( the H.G. ) her sorrows are turned into joy...The H.G. is the Kingdom...In Rev. 12 :10 The Kingdom comes after the Woman births the Child...But she had to go thru a spiritual pregnancy 1 st...ok lemme go...The Woman is humanity...The Prophets saw the whole world in travail and birth pains...If i be lifted up i will draw ALL men unto me....Jesus our lord said that....
If one wanted to look up or do a word study in Greek, would you recommend King James study bible/strongs translation?
My reason for asking is you said J Vernon Mcgee translation of the word substance you didn't agree with but it's what I find when I look the verse up and the translation of what is being used. However, the conclusion and understanding parallel.
I know there is different forms of Greek but what form of Greek is the King James drawn from?
Greek:
Transliteration: hupostasis
Pronunciation: hoop-os'-tas-is
Definition: From a compound of G5259 and G2476; a setting under (support) that is (figuratively) concretely essence or abstractly assurance (objectively or subjectively): - confidence confident person substance.
Dear Heavenly Father, Arlene is seeking You for her son's healing and recovery. We ask You, Father, in the name of Jesus, to bring deliverance from alcoholism to Arlene's son. Bring him to seek rehab and desire to put an end to drinking for good. Empower him to say "no" in every circumstance where he is tempted to drink. Also, we ask that You take care of Parkinson's in him. He has an awful lot to deal with and we trust You to show him compassion and mercy. Amen.
Such an uplifting post. I do hope that things are going better for you and your loved ones. I am glad you continue to ask for prayer. I am always glad to do so.
The last 5 sentences you wrote I don't know what you are referring to- it doesn't sound like that's from the Bible.
Your question has a snuck premise like the other question I answered had. This time you assume God "abandoned" someone. A more accurate question is why do people abandon God? And when people abandon Him, why would they also expect to receive VIP service from God. God is not a genie in a magic lamp to serve people. Some are very selfish and want everything their own way even to the point where they think they are a god.
Another snuck premise I notice in the question is that God created "anti-Gods." Not really. God created people and allows people to have freewill- freedom of choosing God or evil. People are responsible for their own choices, you can't have someone commit murder then blame it on God for creating them. That's silly. People often blame God for others having freewill, just like a cult of people in the US are currently complaining about freedom of speech- not their own, but others they don't like. But if that was taken away then the same people would instead complain about not having freedom. So, you can't have it both ways. If you want true freedom, then people will do evil. If there is such a thing as evil, then good must exist. Hope this is helpful.
The seven year period apparently is also stated in the Koran someplace about their version of the 12th Imam or world ruler which is the length of time that leader is supposed to rule. Of course; we don't know if the Tribulation begins immediately after the Rapture. It is at that time that the Restrainer; or function of the Holy Spirit in the church is removed ( 2 Thess. 2:6-7). For now; the gates of hell cannot prevail against the church. ( Matthew 16:18). According to Daniel in the time of trial for His people the saints WILL be overcome by the Beast or Antichrist ( Daniel 7:25). We see how the boastful words there are a parallel to what is going on in Revelation 13.
It is a theory of mine that if you make each seal; trumpet and bowl a period of months and add it up you get 7 years. (1+2+3+4+5+6+7) X 3. That is; 28 X 3 months or 84 months is equal to 7 years. Daniel uses 360 day years. Revelation 11:1-2 describes the 2 witnesses likely the first half of the Trib.
After completing all of these offerings, Aaron turned, raised his hands and spoke a blessing over the people, (most likely the Aaronic blessing Num. (6:23-27) and then came down from the place of offering the sacrifices. Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting together and came out and blessed the people again.
Then the glory of YHWH appeared to all of the people (they all saw and experienced it together) and fire came out from YHWH to the altar and completely consumed all of the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. This showed that He accepted the sacrifices and also brought to the people what these sacrifices signified. The people shouted fell on their faces.
We are not told what the glory of the LORD was like, nor what they shouted.
This was one continuous ceremony from start to finish. It must have taken all day for it to be finished. And then Aaron would be beginning the evening sacrifice at sundown that day. Verse 1 said that it was on the 8th day. (of which month?)
In regards of the foreshadowing of Christ in this lengthy ceremony that initiates the priestly morning and evening sacrifices day in and day out. Perhaps it foreshadowed the length of time Jesus was on the cross. But it may be showing that before we can thank God for saving us and having communion with him, Jesus needed to be the sin and burnt offering on the cross first. He not only had our sins taken upon himself on the cross, but he also was the only perfect burnt offering, wholly giving himself to the Father' will until the preordained purpose for and work of the cross was completed. When it was finished, then we can bring a thank offering and celebrate a peace offering.
In this chapter, Aaron as the newly consecrated High Priest and his newly consecrated sons begin their priestly duties of offerings and sacrifices for themselves and for the people. Moses served as the priest for these offerings and sacrifices during the 7 days of consecration of the priestly family. But now, his priestly work is completed and the duty shifts to the Aaronic lineage.
The order of the offerings/sacrifices is interesting in that it is somewhat of a reversal of how these were described in Leviticus Ch. 1-6. In these chapters the order was: burnt offering, grain offering, peace offering, sin offering, trespass offering. In Chapter 9 the order is: sin offering, burnt offering, peace offering, grain offering. This order must be significant.
The sin offering for Aaron was first. It was for the atonement of his own sins. Then the burnt offering for himself and his sons. This was for the imputation of their sins onto the sacrifice. Then they offered the sin offering for the people and then the burnt offering. Next, Aaron offered the meat offering (grain) as a symbol of thanksgiving and gratitude to God for being merciful and gracious in removing their sins. After these offerings were done (indicating that their sins had been forgiven and removed from them), Aaron offered the peace offering, offering the breast and the right thigh were lifted towards the altar and back toward them as a wave offering, perhaps indicating that the offering was first given to God and then received back again to the Priests for their holy meal eaten in the tabernacle of meeting only. The peace offering symbolized that peace had been acihieved with YHWH and they could now have Him appear to them in the tent of meeting.
All of these offerings were done according to how YHWH had instructed Moses and Moses, in turn, instructed a demonstrated for the priests and people during the time of consecration of the priesthood.
...continued
I would like to share a reply posted by a dear brother of ours on this same question.
Jesus said if any man will come after me, and that is the word behind. And here is the decision-making process. When somebody surrenders to Jesus Christ, they are surrendering to come behind Him. Every single person has a calling to come behind Jesus. That's it!
If any man will come behind me, and there are three things, or principles I would like to share with you.
Principle number 1: Let him deny himself.
Now the word deny, ARNEOMAI, means to reject. This is what it means in the Greek. But first I'll tell you what it doesn't mean.
It doesn't mean that you are to deny yourself an ice cream cone after church or after bible study. It means to reject yourself, period!
The next phrase says, "and take up his cross." And some think that means whatever hardships I go through today. But that's not what it means.
You see, according to Romans Chapter 6, when Jesus died on the cross, He died my death. Therefore I have died, and every day my flesh is nailed to the cross and I'm to carry that cross.
And thirdly He says "follow me." Do you see what He's saying here?
He is saying "Follow me," meaning that the position is behind Him.
A good text would be Galatians 2:20, where Paul says I have been crucified in Christ, and the life that I now live, he says I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.
You see, he has died. I don't live any more. I don't do what I want to do because I don't live, I died. Paul says I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And the life that I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.
He just said it all in one verse. Reject yourself!
I have had a conviction for a long time that our struggle every day in life is more against God than it is against Satan. Why? Because our flesh is continually trying to get down off that cross and trying to get away from the struggles of life.
God bless
This is one of those questions that gets asked a lot. As to whether or not a person can lose their salvation, some say yes and some say no. Both sides present scripture to support their view and oftentimes accuse those who disagree with their view as taking scripture out of context. Both sides pick out verses that support their view.
I can only speak for myself when I say that I am completely secure in my salvation. My salvation cannot be lost. The first question I have to ask myself is am I really saved? The Bible says that all who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. It doesn't say they might be saved. It is a promise to those who truly and with a sincere heart call upon Jesus to save them.
Again, I can only speak for myself. Jesus Christ has saved me. He has sealed me with His Spirit. And He has promised to never leave me. That's where I find my comfort and security. It's in Christ. When it comes to salvation, a person has to decide who they are going to trust. Are they trusting in themselves to keep themselves saved? Or, are they trusting in Jesus Christ, the one who has promised to never leave us, and the one who will keep us saved until the day of redemption, the day He comes to redeem His purchased possession.
I know who I am trusting. If I'm counting on myself to keep myself saved, I will fail. There's only one whom I can trust to keep me saved.
MG, you will have to decide for yourself who you are going to trust for your own salvation, Christ or yourself?
We don't go to heaven by being good, nor in just believing in the existence of God. One would have to recognize his sinful and lost state and have faith in Gods plan of redemption.
God is Holy and there is nothing man can do to reconcile himself to God.
Romans 3:10-11 says "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
The wages of sin is death, we're all sinners and sin have to be paid for, so I don't like to say Christ done away with sin on the cross but rather "Christ paid the penalty for our sin on the cross". He was the sacrificial lamb, He died in our place. Jesus was sinless and when the Lord took upon our sin God the father didn't spare him.
There is no way to the father but through the son. John 14:6.
You asked "Is it right to put a good man into hell because he doesn't believe in God?
No one is good but God as shown here in Mark 10:18 "And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
God Holiness is above our comprehension.
Isaiah 55:6-9.
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And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
In other words , the great tribulation has not here yet .
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: (dikai) Having been Justified : The believer is "made righteous/justified" by the Lord, cleared of all charges (punishment) related to their sins .
Having been cleared of all charges , we have peace with God the Father thru Jesus .
To continued.
Jesus' perfectly sinfree life justified Him before God. But we can never live the life He lived. Yet the work of the cross by Jesus takes away all of our sins and instead of us standing before God condemned in our sinfulness, we stand before God justified in the righteousness of Jesus. This is how we are justified by faith. God always judges justly any and all men.
I recommend reading Romans all the way through. This will be helpful to you.
I would like to speak to your question concerning what is justified by faith.
The Bible, especially in the letters of Paul to the Romans, speak that no person can ever be justified before God by being good enough. This is because, even if we wish to do what is right, we will also do what is wrong. This is because we have a fallen nature called the sinful nature, (Paul often refers to it as the "flesh" but he is not referring to our physical flesh). This sinful nature is passed to each person at conception from their parents and this inherited nature goes all the way back to Adam and Eve who first sinned against God and lost their innocence and goodness before God.
Paul also speaks in Romans that everyone has sinned and so we fall short of God's glory (that is not being perfect before God). He also says that the wages of sin is death (both spiritually and eventually, physically for every person). This death that we earned is first spoken about in Genesis 3 with the commandment and warning of God to Adam and Eve.
Paul also speaks about Abraham and how it was his belief and trust in God that made Him to stand justified before God even though a sinner. God had shared the Gospel with Abraham about a coming Messiah who would save mankind from sins. Abraham believed this gospel. So, Abraham's justification was not because he obeyed God alot, but because He believed God and this belief was based on the Gospel. He looked to being saved from his sins in the saving work of the Messiah to come.
Paul goes on to say that the just shall live by faith. This means that we are justified by the righteousness of Jesus (who lived a perfect life and took our sins upon the cross to free us from the curse of sin (the wages=death) and arose from the dead to give us life in Him. Those who believe this and entrust their lives to Jesus in faith are justified before God because our sinfulness was exchanged for Jesus' perfect righteousness..... continued
You say some things I don't understand, so if I point them out, will you respond? Reply back?
Daily chapter breakdowns aren't debated enough.
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And remember Bro. Paul speaks of the whole Creation in Travail n birth pains...becoming incorruptible simply we are all gonna be bornagain of an incorruptible seed.... Romans 8:21...ok gtg..Gbu...And this Woman keeps the commandments..b/c her child cannot sin....That new born babe desiring the sincere milk of the word is the H.G. that Paul speaks of is the Child of PROMISE..Our new innerman the H.G...The very gift of God.
I'm going to shift your post a little and see if this interests you. Speaking of Revelation 12, specifically Revelation 12:6 & Revelation 12:14: The woman represents the 144,000 sealed saints ( Revelation 7:4), BOTH are protected for a thousand two hundred and threescore days. Only the saints are officially sealed. It is a continued allegory describing the saints vs the man of sin, end-times, etc.
The saints are so unbelievably important, yet underrated. They are the first fruits, set apart from the 5.5 billion day of the Lord survivors. The saints are the ONLY first resurrection participants, tasked with healing people, the earth and administering to Christ. The rest sleep till called at the second resurrection.
The saints are featured in 7 Chapters of Revelation, hidden in allegory, and referred to. People then add characters to the narrative and always miss that the sealed saints in Revelation 7:4, before the sixth trumpet, are the same saints in heaven at the seventh trumpet, Revelation 7:9-14. "They came out of the great tribulation". AND this occurs at the exact same time God calls up the two witnesses, Revelation 11:12. The saints and the two witnesses are one and the same!!! You will not see the saints without the witnesses from BOTH houses of Israel (Israel & Judah). Don't get the "two men" allegory wrong. Forget about Moses and Elijah or Enoch, that is a tired excuse for filling in the answer with anything that will suffice. After Solomon, Israel was split in two nations, hence, two men. The two candlesticks and two olive trees that stand before God are God's pride and joy, the whole house of Israel.
Prophesy is unfolding rapidly, it never stopped and can be identified. Acquaint yourself with the prophets, what Jesus says in Matthew 24 and Luke 17. The prophets were shown our future, and this coming sixth trumpet, day of the Lord, scared them deeply, Ezekiel 21:7, Isaiah 13:8-9.
Christian's aren't scared because they weren't taught the proper tenants of the Bible, they think God will unconditionally protect them, no matter how badly their elected leaders behave. Will America will always sit a queen? Isaiah 47:7-11
The Bible is limited in its 1-4 trumpet descriptions. It is the last 3 end-time trumpets, 5, 6 & 7, that matter for this "last generation" (according to the signs). Half of Revelation 9 is dedicated to the fifth trumpet, the other half to the sixth trumpet. The sixth trumpet army smashes the fifth trumpet army to dust!!! Esau smashes Jacob, Obadiah 1. The king of the north smashes the king of the south, Daniel 11:40. The sixth trumpet is about one third of end-time prophesy; there's much written about it, enough for you to see prophesy unfolding in our time. Not many see what they read, let alone admit God is against backsliding America, Ezekiel 21:12.
Here's a big prophesy come to light in our time, but I don't expect it to fit in someone else's narrative:
Revelation 9:1-11 was 9-11-01, America is the fifth trumpet army, running a 20 year war on terror.
Revelation 9:4 America killed those men who did not have the seal of God in their foreheads (Muslims), and were told not to harm any green tree, and nothing green grows in the desert.
Revelation 9:6 The Muslims who were tortured at Abu Ghraib prison were seeking death, and couldn't find it.
I have been thinking these past few days about what Jesus meant when He told the disciples to take up their cross and follow Him ( Matt 10:38). It is very clear that none of us are have a cross like Jesus'. The "cross" He had was one of suffering and death for the sins of the world. In Gethsemane when forseeing the cross lived out, He was sorrowful unto death. His cross was always to do the will of the Father, and the Father's will was for Jesus to sacrifice His life as a sin offering to expiate our sins and propitiate the wrath of God on sin. This is not a cross we have. So, I was thinking, what is our cross then?
My thoughts are that, like Jesus, our cross is to do the will of the Father in our lives, even unto death. This does not mean that we seek martyrdom, but that persecution and martyrdom may be ahead for some of us. Also, the cross is symbol of death, so today's verse seems to fit in with what Jesus said. As, Paul spoke, it is a dying to self and self-will and living for God and His will.
Then I consider this in light of what Jesus had said about casting all of our burdens upon Him because His yoke is easy and HIs burden is light. Matt 11:29830. So He calls us to take up His yoke upon us and learn from Him. He says that He will give rest to our souls. So I am wondering how this factors into His words about taking up cross and following Him.
I would appreciate reading what others think about this as it has been on my mind this past week and, now, today, the verse speaks of being crucified with Christ.
Anti-God deniers want their cake and to eat it too. Wanting all the benefits of a Christ follower, with grace, heaven, but don't want to follow God or believe in Him, want to ignore God's word, and still desire to follow satan and hurt others while on earth. That's totally evil and a ridiculous expectation.
A false premise in the question is "good man." No one is good except God. Someone who rejects the truth and denies God is hardly "good." All are sinners. Romans 3:23.
....Thats y we must be bornagain. We must birth a baby Christ the Child of Promise the H.G...Thats y Jesus is saying Unless you receive the Kingdom of God as a lil Child...( a Heavenly Birth,..a spirutal baby,..an infant...That New Born Babe Paul was talking about ) you will in no wise enter there in...But all this requires a spiritual pregnancy from his good seed the Words of the new Covenant...Thats y scrip. is saying in Christ Jesus nothing availeth anything but a New Creature which is our new born the H.G. The Child of Promise the H.G....Not Circumcision nor uncircumcision only that new creature the H.G. Which answers to our new heart and new spirit..In John 16 :20 he said b/c i have spoken these words ( his seeds ) sorrows (a pregnancy) has filled your hearts....A woman when she is in travail has sorrows but after the Child comes ( the H.G. ) her sorrows are turned into joy...The H.G. is the Kingdom...In Rev. 12 :10 The Kingdom comes after the Woman births the Child...But she had to go thru a spiritual pregnancy 1 st...ok lemme go...The Woman is humanity...The Prophets saw the whole world in travail and birth pains...If i be lifted up i will draw ALL men unto me....Jesus our lord said that....
This scripture may be exactly what you were looking for: 1John 5:13,14, in context 1John 5, continued from 1John 4,
I thank the LORD, showing me today.
Hopefully this is helpful
If one wanted to look up or do a word study in Greek, would you recommend King James study bible/strongs translation?
My reason for asking is you said J Vernon Mcgee translation of the word substance you didn't agree with but it's what I find when I look the verse up and the translation of what is being used. However, the conclusion and understanding parallel.
I know there is different forms of Greek but what form of Greek is the King James drawn from?
Greek:
Transliteration: hupostasis
Pronunciation: hoop-os'-tas-is
Definition: From a compound of G5259 and G2476; a setting under (support) that is (figuratively) concretely essence or abstractly assurance (objectively or subjectively): - confidence confident person substance.
Thanks in advance and God bless.
Dear Heavenly Father, Arlene is seeking You for her son's healing and recovery. We ask You, Father, in the name of Jesus, to bring deliverance from alcoholism to Arlene's son. Bring him to seek rehab and desire to put an end to drinking for good. Empower him to say "no" in every circumstance where he is tempted to drink. Also, we ask that You take care of Parkinson's in him. He has an awful lot to deal with and we trust You to show him compassion and mercy. Amen.
Such an uplifting post. I do hope that things are going better for you and your loved ones. I am glad you continue to ask for prayer. I am always glad to do so.