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https://christianforums.net/threads/a-vessel-of-honor.110278/
https://christianforums.net/threads/psalm-70-1-save-me-o-god-lord-help-me-now.108509/
Absolutely. They're thick and heavy in Texas and the founding thereof. That's why Texas children are allowed by a "conservative" Tx. state government to be harvested by the Episcopal Church into childhood sexual assault even though they're a liberal "church". The tie that binds? Freemasonry. Simple greed doesn't begin to explain this sickness going on. Something much more sinister is afoot. Evil is the right word. Satanic better sums it up.
I think on this possibility/probability much. We don't really know how we will react until that day. It took Peter until his 3rd time to submit.
I'd like to expound on this. Just because records are lost does not mean their is no known heritage. When I was doing my family tree my Great Grandfather and Great Grandmother were born in Hungry, but some documents had them living in Romania. Back during the civil wars between Hungry and Romania the borders were constantly changed. During these wars many Churches and Government offices were burned down and records destroyed.
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It's Jesus that calls us friends as He does know what everyone looks like inside and out. I have good friends here, but I do not know what they look like, but call them my friends.
I am now using an antiquated iPad that requires a smart phone to help track down all this.
www.opendoorsusa.org
Look back through the thread. Both Voice of the Martyrs and the U.S. government declare them to be hostile to Christianity. They don't care about Satanists.Who do the Jews persecute? I tried Googling it and all I got is how the Jews are the most hated and persecute people on earth through history. Nothing about jews squasing anybody. (Except their military).
The Jews did not make the list of Top 11 persecuters in the world. See here:
11 of the top persecutors around the world today - Open Doors USA
Christian persecution is on the rise, and these are some of the worst offenders and persecutors of Christians around the world.
So what are you talking about? Squashing religious liberty? What's that mean? That satanists are shot in Israel or something?
The abomination that causes desolation that will stand in the holy place, Matthew 24:15, is described in Daniel 7; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12, Rev 13 and 17. There is much debate who this lawless one is, but the holy place is where the Dome of the Rock sits now in Jerusalem on the very mount of God since 692AD. I'm not saying that the Muslims are the lawless one, but are involved with the lawless one in the end of days.
Ezekiel 28:2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
Ezekiel and Isaiah say nothing about Satan. The oracles you cite are explicitly said to be against Tyre and Babylon.Ezekiel 28:2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
Isaiah 14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
Satan was the one who claimed himself to be his own god and his kingdom (which is a lesser magnitude than Gods) is that of this world and who he works through in order to claim that he will sit in the seat of God (or rise above God and sit in His heavenly seat) and also sit upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north (Jerusalem).
Rev 13 the beast that rises from the sea gives power to the son of perdition that rises from the earth as being the false prophet. The son of perdition who is the false prophet will take his seat on the same ground where the Temple of God use to stand and his sanctuary as a government kingdom of nations on the sides of the north meaning taking over the seat of Jerusalem in that of a political, economic and religious power (NWO).
The Temple in the OT was the sanctuary of God here on earth as God from His heavenly throne (sanctuary) worked through those He chose to be His servants (priest) here on earth. In the NT Jesus spoke of the temple being his body and that he is the chief cornerstone, John 2:19-22. Eph 2:19-22; 1Peter 2:5. We who are in Christ indwelled with the Holy Spirit are now that temple of God not made of stone built by hand, but built of the foundation of Christ being our cornerstone, 1Cor 6:19; 2Cor 6:16. We are of the heavenly sanctuary where God's seat is from above as we reign with Christ here on earth.
There is no purpose or reason why an actual Temple would have to be built for the veil has been torn from top to bottom, Matthew 27:51, and God is no longer in a Temple of stone built by hands.
Another rebuilt temple is required only if you are a dispensationalist as they take what Daniel said in 9:27 and 12:11 to be a third Temple, but nowhere in these two verses does it speak of a third Temple.
Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Daniel 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
The Book of Daniel was written after Solomon’s temple had been destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C. (2 Kings 25:8–9; Dan. 1:1–2) and before the temple had been rebuilt by the returning exiles (Ezra 6:13–15). It was this post-exile rebuilt temple that was desecrated by Antiochus Epiphanes around 170 B.C. After a period of misuse and disuse, the temple was in need of repair. Herod the Great restored and enlarged this rebuilt second temple, a project that started around 20 B.C. and was completed just a few years before it was destroyed in A.D. 70. It was this same temple that Zacharias served in (Luke 1:9), that Jesus was taken to as an infant (2:27), that had been under construction forty-six years (John 2:20), that Jesus cleansed of the money changers (Matt. 21:12), that He predicted would be left desolate (Matt. 23:38; 24:2), and that was finally destroyed by Titus in A.D. 70.
Third-temple advocates find support for their position in Revelation 11:1–2. They begin by assuming that Revelation was written nearly three decades after the temple was destroyed. From this unproven assumption, they conclude that John must be measuring a rebuilt temple. The passage says nothing about a rebuilt temple. The words "shortly" and "near" (Rev. 1:1, 3) are used to describe the time when the events outlined in Revelation were to take place. These words are meaningless if the events have not taken place. The fact that John is told to rise and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and those who worship in it (11:1), is not evidence that the temple was still standing when John received the revelation. How could John have measured a temple that did not exist in his day?
Matthew 24:1,2 Jesus is speaking about a literal Temple, since in the context of the passage he is standing and looking directly at the second Temple. The same was true of John. He was told to measure the Temple that still had worshipers in it. If the temple was no longer standing, then John was measuring a "spiritual temple."
Mat 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand
(read this without the punctuation and the words spoken of by Daniel the prophet and run all the words that Jesus spoke in this chapter. you will see the events as they take place are that of a literal word.
When you therefore see the abomination of desolation stand in the holy place then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains.
Matthew 24:1-31 Jesus is speaking of a greater tribulation, not some 7 year "Great Tribulation" that is nowhere found in scripture, of that time when He walked the earth up until the time of His second coming for His Bride. The final abomination of desolation will be that of a one man (beast) rule of power given to him by the dragon Satan, Rev 13:11-18, that will be that of a one world government, economic, military, educational, environmental and religious power that everyone will be forced to bow down to just as King Nebuchadnezzar tried to force Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in Daniel 3:13-30. This abomination of desolation takes place in the holy place of Christ temple, John 2:19-22. Eph 2:19-22; 1Peter 2:5, and just like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego we need to stand in the faith of Christ to not bow down to this antichrist system as we need not fear that which has to take place before the day of the Lord, Rev 2:10; Matthew 10:28
John 14:30 comes to mind.
This is my understanding of Matthew 24:21.
What Jesus showed the disciples in Matthew 24 of things that must come first before His return takes us up to Rev 20 where we read of Satan being bound for a time before Jesus plants His feet on the Mount of Olives.
Margaret MacDonald in Port Glasgow, Scotland in the 1800’s had a vision of a pretrib rapture, but she felt that the vision felt dark and evil as an untruth. When telling others of her vision many preachers ran with it as being true and started teaching their theories on pretrib rapture. There theories were handed down to us through such men as J.N. Darby, Edward Irving, C.I. Lewis and many others to present day. Notice the word theory. Theory is just the carnal minds way of interpreting something.
Sorry, but not a proud statement, but the very words Jesus taught in what I understand Him to be saying without any of man's theories. I never ask anyone to agree with me, but read scripture for what has already been written apart from all the theories that are out there.
And there appeared a great wonder in HEAVEN (not in the SKY); a woman CLOTHED with the sun, and the moon UNDER HER FEET, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And she brought forth a MAN child, who was to rule all nations-REVELATION 11:v.15-18- with a rod of iron: and her child was CAUGHT UP UNTO GOD, and to His throne. (GOD's throne? Psalm 97:v.1-2:
