S. Spencer, these verses do not teach dispensationalism nor fully encompass the theory.
Yes, God will do this for Israel. We do not know exactly when He will do this, perhaps pre-tribulation or earlier or perhaps just after the tribulations starts. We just don't know. But dispensationalist have pigeon holed this into their system in ways that are not explicitly stated in Scripture as to when this will happen.
As far as Ezekiel,
This is a figurative prophecy of God regathering all of Israel (Both houses) by resurrecting them to life when Jesus returns after the Tribulation is over. Or perhaps figuratively re-establishing Israel to the land that they have long been away from and we do not know exactly when that will be (the second option)
S. Spencer, it seems that you have listened to many dispensational teachers and so you are convinced of dispensational premillennialism, but have you every truly studied it: its origins, development in the 1800's, who Darby was like, what he taught. Did you know that said think Jesus atoned for sin on the cross. He said that Christians should not say the Lord's Prayer because it says 'forgive us our trespasses' and believers do not need to confess their sins to God, seek forgiveness and repent. So this is basically antinomianism. He said that the Plymouth Brethren Church in England was the only true church in all of Britain and denounced every denomination as being invalid. Did you know these things about the person whose tenets you follow?
so he needed to invent more doctrines such as multiple resurrections of the saints in order to find agreement in Scriptures. And so on and so on this continued until we today have a very convoluted and unsound theological system all to protect the pre-trib rapture doctrine Darby started with.
I believe Darby to be a false teacher whose system is heretical in many ways. For me, anyone who adheres to dispensational premillennialism follows Darby's doctrines. So, one should find out more about the person whose ideas they have adopted to be sure they are not following a false teacher. One wouldn't follow Joseph Smith who also was pre[trib rapture person, or Charles Taze Russell (JW) or the founder of the Seventh day Adventists. These all emerged at the time of Darby, and Darby and all of the others are false teachers whose doctrines one should not adhere to in any way.
I say all this to warn people to study about this. There is so much that is not right about Darby dispensational premillennialism.
For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
NOTICE VERSE 32.
Vs 32. Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
NOW REWIND A FEW VERSES AND READ Ezekiel 36:21-23.
WAS THIS FULFILLED IN THE NEWTESTAMENT? NO! ISRAEL COMMITTED ABOMINATIONS IN THE OT ON INTO THE NT AND STILL DOING IT TODAY.
WILL GOD FULFILL HIS UNCONDITIONAL COVENANT? YES.
WHEN? IN THE MILLENNIUM!
DID YOU NOTICE THE LOCATION THIS COVENANT WILL BE FULFILLED? EARTH.
( THAT IS DISPENSATIONALISM.)
We take those promises literal.
One of the worst and most dangerous heresies is to call God a liar and subscribe to replacement theology.
In the Jn. 3 passage, Jesus was speaking of being born again, Not a redo of physical birth, which cannot happen. Flesh gives birth to flesh just once in one's life when they are physically born in the flesh. But Jesus was speaking of the rebirth as a spiritual rebirth, a coming back alive of our spirit and soul to become spiritually alive to God through Christ. This is why He said flesh gives birth to flesh and spirit gives birth to spirit. Things done in the flesh to please God and gain acceptance is not possible; one must be spiritually reborn by the Holy Spirit's work. So, He is saying that the Jn 6 is that it is truly only the Spirit who can impart eternal life and regenerate to life sinners dead in their sins. The flesh is profitless because won cannot use the flesh to reconcile oneself to God because we are dead in sin and our flesh is corrupted as much as our soul and spirit. We cannot bring anything of ourselves to God for acceptance. Only through the death and resurrection of Jesus in the flesh can we be redeemed.
And yes, God is Spirit from all eternity. Jesus was God from all eternity and with the Father and the Holy Spirit are spiritual in the One Being of the Godhead.
But, as the Scriptures I gave you, Jesus did come in actual flesh. Mary gave birth to a baby of flesh, bones, and blood. This was Jesus, God coming in a body of flesh. As the eternal Son of God, He is Spirit, but in His humanity, He is flesh.
This explanation does not align with your religious philosophy, so you reject it because you desire to fit Scripture into your religious mindset. Yet, by refusing to believe Jesus came in the flesh, then you are an antichrist and not a believer.
The good news is, you can always submit yourself to the truth of Scriptures and believe that Jesus was God in flesh, two natures in one Person who was crucified in the flesh, shedding physical blood and suffering physically emotionally and spiritually to save us who believe on Him.
It's not a Scripture It's God's plan/program. described by a word.
Here is a portion of what you asked for.
Jeremiah 31:31-37.
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of ISRAEL, AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH:
( NOT according to the covenant that I made with their fathers ) in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
SOME APPLY THESE VERSES TO US BECAUSE IT FITS, BUT IT IS REALLY TO ISRAEL.
THAT'S WHY THE ONLY OTHER PLACE IN THE NT WE SEE THIS VERSE IS IN HEBREWS.
Has this been fulfilled in (ISRAEL AND JUDAH) ? NO.
He uses both names here to single out a point.
WILL IT BE ? You bet it will look at verse 36 and 37.
Vs 36. If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
vs 37. Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
Agree with GiGi here. This is not at all well written Alex. You get to explain a little better.
When Jesus was here on Earth, He was not bound. The Holy Spirit was bound to Jesus. Because He Himself says. It is for your benefit that I pass away. Then He will send the Comforter to us. Thru? John 16:7
What He had to do was to be obedient to Our Father God. Don't you think Jesus suffered during His time here on earth? In Gethsemane just before He was captured. Prayed He so earnestly that He sweated blood. Mark 14:35-36Luke 22:44 Those Jews who are not in Israel but scattered around the times of World War II and before it. These were collected at least in Europe as the attackers made ghettos. All of these had free will to accept Jesus. And get the Holy Spirit. Just like us these days. So neither you nor I know if it was right Jesus saved people in the concentration camps. It's entirely possible it was. Yet they praised the Lord in their hearts, minds, and bodies. Even though hunger took them and famine was in the midst of those with diseases and worse, they had their faith in God. The Jews are God's people and have never lost sight of God. It is also why we should pray for them, pray for peace, and so on. It is our duty Alex. Our ministry is actually preaching the gospel also to Jews and not always just other Gentiles.
If it hadn't been for the Jews, we wouldn't have gotten the Bible, the Word that came alive to us. Praise be to the Lord Jesus Christ who managed to be obedient all His days! Hallelujah Amen. Thank you dear Jesus, And not just a man but one who also overcame death! Hence Christ.
Hope you can figure this out and not spread falsehoods in here on the web. Jesus himself spoke of the wheat. The wheat is the best grain true. There we can get nice good bread. Making beautiful cakes and biscuits. Sauces and porridges. Maybe even get fat. Matthew 13
Please Repent and come back to the truth. Luke 1 chapter. Stay strong in the word of God and never give up. gbu
GiGi It would seem we should be asking them some questions now GiGi, since Spencer's 5 page post to Chris. Mainly about something they both agreed that they do believe tonight. Its on page 5, and it says "I use a consistent, literal, face-value method of interpretation and understanding the entire Word of God, including prophecy. In other words "God says what He means, and means what He says" so I can take what He says at face value". Spencer and Chris believe in the literal interpretation of the Word of God yet if I'm not mistaken they both believe Jesus will come back like a thief in the night, a (secret rapture) when ( 1.Thes.4:16 ) is very clear He comes with a SHOUT, with the voice of the archangel, and with the (TRUMP OF GOD.) How can one say I believe in the literal interpretation of the Word of God and think this is a silent return? What about "God says what He means, and means what He says"? What about so I can take what He says at face value? I do agree with those words completely, EVERY WORD OF GOD IS PURE!! I'm sorry and certainly don't mean to offend anyone here but to say you take the Word of God literally and you believe God says what He means, and means what He says. And you both defend a pre-tribulation rapture as strongly as you do with absolutely zero verses that literally say the rapture, the return of Jesus in the clouds to gather His church is before the tribulation! And many just like 1.Thes.4:16 being a silent return, which just makes no sense at all. And you could say is almost the opposite of literal. You are saying you take the Words literally, but your beliefs are not in alignment with your words. I'm pointing this out with love as we are all children of God, please don't be offended. But please consider my words. Gal.6:1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Blessings.
Jesse Thanks for the reply. First I would like to ask you if you believe the KJB is the preserved Word of God? Ps.12:6-7 is Gods promise to preserve His Word forever. We do have that preserved Word today or those verses would be a lie, God cannot lie. Now the focus has been on Luke.17:37 which you say the word (body) could mean either a living body, or a dead body or corpse. The word (body) in that verse is #4983; it means the body (as a sound whole) "safe" to save, i.e. deliver or protect, save. So this (body) spoken of here is "safe" saved, delivered. It doesn't mean a living body, or a dead body like you said Jesse. If you look at Luke.17:37 you see that its just ((after))the verses that say "one shall be taken, and the other left". And the meaning of (body) is "safe" to save, deliver or protect, save. This is not speaking of a carcass that the fowl of the air will be filled with their flesh. Does it? Those taken are safe, saved, delivered! Where you are confusing the word carcass with the word (body) is in Mt.24:28 where it says "For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together. But if we look at this verse it happens during the tribulation because the next verse says "Immediately after the tribulation". The verses that say "one shall be taken , and the other left" in Mt.Ch.24 comes AFTER this, which would be AFTER the tribulation. Now if we add the meaning of the word (taken) from Mt.24:40-41 (taken) it is #3880; it means to receive near, i.e. associate with oneself (in a familiar or ((intimate)) act or relation) So the (body) of those taken in Lu.17:37 are "safe" saved. delivered or protected. And the word (taken) in Mt,24:40-41 it means to receive near, intimate act or relation. Jn.14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF; that where I am, there ye may be also. The meaning of (taken) has the word (intimate) means a familiar friend, does that sound like a carcass to you? Blessings
'ye are gods". Your interpretation and Nocal's are wrongly dividing the word of truth and the belief you both ascribe to is heresy and evilly false.
Ruby, are you willing to believe what God says that He alone is god and there will be no gods created after Him? If you will not, then you are a deceiver and a false teacher.
And, as a reminder, I will wait for your answer on whether you are Earl Bowman or not.
Please know I write all of this in love, love for you, but more so, love for the truth of God in His Word an for the Love of God.
I have answered to your post using Scripture, as you asked. Please do not respond with a hyper allegorically Scripture twisting response. Just deal with the Scriptures as written without embellishing or inserting your thoughts within the Scripture to make it seem like the verse is actually saying what you are adding. That is deceptive and dangerous to those who may be led away into your error.
We see this in Revelation 12:11 which reads "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death."
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony;
Through Christ's shed blood on the cross, He purchased us, and died for our sins. We are now the overcomers because Christ overcame Satan at the cross.
That's why John says in 1 John 4:4 that greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world, and that we have already overcome the spirit of antichrist.
So they overcame him, in the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony. And they loved not their lives unto death.
I think that's interesting. How far along do I love my life? Well, I'm willing to give it up right up to death. I mean, that might be a little too far.
In the book of Acts, as Paul was traveling towards Jerusalem, there were different prophecies given along the way that if Paul was going to go to Jerusalem, he was going to be persecuted and taken captive there.
And so the prophecies didn't say don't go. The prophecies just said you're going to face trouble. You're going to be imprisoned. You're going to be chained.
Because of those prophecies, the Christians tried to stop him from going. But Paul says to them "I don't count my life dear to myself. God has told me to go. If that's what awaits me, so be it!"
I think it is interesting that he says I don't count my life dear to myself. But that's the way we have a tendency to interpret some things that happen to us. That's because we love our lives too much.
Just think if someone came knocking on your door and asked are you a believer in Christ, and you said yes, and they said come on out here, you're next to be put to death. They do not love their lives unto death.
Plz don't be upset with me....But the very fact that 6.5 million Jews died in Hitlers death camps proves we have no H.G. as a restrainer at this time....Remember Jesus said he wd be in prison...and naked and hungry....He is in bondage to the Tares satans seed....Thats y we cannot worship him till the kingdom comes....We must endure to the end.....Simply b/c we are in that time of bondage...I am the light of the world but the nite comes when NO MAN CAN WORK...Which is that time of the great falling away.
Ya gotta realize all this is a war raging with in us....The wheat and the Tares are sown with in us....Yes the wheat is the kingdom but the wheat is under seige to the Tares till the Tares are gathered and burned.
Its Kingdom against Kingdom....The Wheat are against the Tares....But we have to keep in mind Isaiah 3:7....I will not be healer in that day....Thats when the wheat and the Tares are at war....There is no bread in my house....The Churches have fallen away to money and materialistic things....Jesus is in Prison spiritually speaking....to the Tares ...Satans seed...Thats y we must endure to the end.....Its a time of the great falling away....Its the Tares that are trying to restrain the Kingdom from coming.... Rev 12 :5.....Remember the dragon is trying to kill the woman and her Child....And the dragon is satans seed...The Tares...The marriage supper of the lamb is when our old adamic nature is consumed by his lake of fire....As our God is a consuming fire...Which is when we are baptised with his H.G. and fire thats y Jesus said he was gona bring FIRE on all the world....I come to bring fire on the EARTH....TY Jesus thats what we need....His H.G and fire baptism...
This chapter is a great example of how our gifting through the love of God should be to fellow Christians that there be no lack and that equality exist among all Christians. God help us!
Thankyou for this and all your other excellent posts . I have been reading them for a long time now . My belief is that the Sabbath is yet to come , that the one thousand year reign of Christ on earth is the true Sabbath .
Yes ! I have always believed that we ( humans ) are the anti-Christ , from the moment we disobeyed Him and bit into that apple we have been at variance to Him as we all are this day . What is the fruit of humanity ? What have we as a species done / created ? Technology that's what . We have not changed ourselves , we are no better than we ever been , treating each other so disgustingly bad ,however we have altered our , no God's ! planet , with our fruits . Science denies the existence of God as it seeks to glorify itself and it's proponents . The word science is mentioned twice I think in the New testament , and it's not a favourable judgement . Ask most commited atheists why they don't believe in a God and they will mutter something about evolution or scientific discoveries and explanations . The curtain will eventually be pulled aside and the wizard of Oz will be exposed , may Christ return ever so soon , when it is God's will .
God's peace everyone, you are precious and the Lord Jesus loves you, for He sent us the Holy Spirit. This is how we can always be with the Lord and carry the kingdom of God in us. Remember what you who do not understand. We walk with the Lord every day, some get milk and some get solid food. One day we will understand because today we will get piecemeal and shared. Because if we were to get all the knowledge in an instant, it would be too much for us. And we would have gotten lost in God's Word that is. We know that we have a soul a spirit and a body. This is a teaching in itself. And there's already in here on the web. Distinguish this we cannot do.
Just the day when we're going to die, Jesus said Luke 23:43 Then we let go of our body, then the spirit has no obstacle anymore. This is where we detach ourselves from the body. So in Paradise there are no bodies. As we live and have the body, we are also bound with it in soul and spirit.
Hope this can help someone. Know that God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, with His consultation, have complete control over matters large and small. Pray for visdom and understanding.
Love u all in Christ. John 3 Chapter Stay strong in the word everyday.
Thank you brother S. Spencer - I fully agree with your thoughts of the all encompassing Work of the Holy Spirit, not only in the believer, but also in His restraint of evil in the World, preventing its full manifestation. So we see His restraining Work, not only in the revelation of the anti-Christ, but for mankind, in the most part, to still hold onto proper behavior, mainly by the workings of his conscience & the laws set by governments. Once the Holy Spirit relinquishes His influence upon the World through His Presence in Christ's Church, evil would know no bounds, and consciences "seared with a hot iron" giving way to all manner of wickedness. And their chief architect, Satan himself in anti-Christ, will rightly receive the world's worship, for this is their god that draws their hearts, syncs with their evil consciences, & fulfils all their pleasure & lusts.
But how the Holy Spirit will still be in the world, with the absence of the Church, I'm unable to settle on & reconcile in my mind. I would have to leave that thought awaiting the Spirit's further help & direction. Will connect with you & others again after three weeks when I hope to return from vacation. Blessings.
The word says we were crucified with Christ and we were resurrected with Christ.
Yes, I believe I died on that cross 2000 years ago, before I was even born, I was raised a new creation 2000 years ago, that why works has nothing to do with salvation.
There is ONLY of God, and FATHER of all other gods, his children.
Is not Christ a SON, a child of God the father.
If we died with Christ and were resurrected with Christ, then we are also SONS OF GOD, just like Christ, since Christ is a god, by inheritance we are a god.
Ephesians 4:6 .... ONE GOD ....and Father of ALL ... above ALL .... through ALL ....and IN YOU ALL .....
If God is IN ALL, then all are gods
Why is this so hard to believe, these are God's WORDS.
Are you saying you better than Judas, and you are not a son of perdition.
If the son of perdition is describing a single antichrist; then the antichrist was Judas, and the antichrist has already come; IF 2 Thessalonians 2:3 ....the son of predition is also describing antichrist; then there would be 2 antichrist.
The son of perdition is describing all the antichrist, NOT JUST ONE.
2 John 1:7 ....ye have heard that antichrist shall come, EVEN NOW there are many ANTICHRIST ----sons of perdition ---
2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceiver you by any means: for THAT DAY --- 2 Thessalonians 2:8 ---the day the lord consumes you ---destroys YOU --- the son of perdition --- with the brightness of HIS COMING ---his PRESENCE IN YOU ---and there first must come a FALLING AWAY ---what have you got to fall away from ----- your deception ---- an repent of what you believe --- the son of perdition is not someone else IT'S YOU ---- it's any person reading God's word --- the word's of God are for whoever is reading those words --- it's about revealing the KINGDOM to the person reading.
If you judge yourself by GOD'S WORD, you want be judged with the world.
Antichrist is any and everything that isn't Christ --- the word of God --- all the beliefs contrary to God's word.
2 John 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who CONFESS NOT Jesus is COME in the FLESH, this is a deceiver and an a antichrist.
Have you confessed that Christ is come, by HIS resurrection, and now lives IN YOU --- YOUR flesh ---- or are you still deceived and an antichrist needing to have your carnal mind destroyed.
Philippians 2:13 For it is God that WORKETH IN YOU (your flesh) both TO WILL and TO DO his good pleasure.
Are YOU:
2 Thessalonians 2:4 ... so that he (the son of perdition) sitteth in the temple of God ---- YOUR the temple of God ----so whose on the throne ---Christ, or the son of perdition ----If it's YOU then get back on the cross.
Do you believe this is a metaphor or do you actually believe you were physically crucified with Christ around 2,000 years ago.
John 15:5 says Jesus is the vine and "ye are the branches." Do you believe you are actually just a branch? And do you believe Jesus is literally a vine and nothing else?
If those are the metaphors they obviously are, why do you assume ye are gods is not a metaphor in Psalms 82:6? Isn't that cherry picking something to suit your chosen narrative? In the same sentence it also says ye are children, so if this was honestly applied you would then be a literal child? Otherwise its just cherry picking the gods metaphor which could be considered intellectually dishonest. Are Gods children? Do you really believe there's more than one God, despite what so many other scriptures say?
Even the same author of Psalms only 4 chapters later says there's only one God in Psalm 86:10 "thou art God alone". Do you believe this verse just as much the other one you like? How about all the other verses that clearly say there's only one God like 1 Corinthians 8:6, 2 Samuel 7:22, Deuteronomy 4:39, 1 Chronicles 17:20. Why would someone ignore all these but only focus on believing a metaphor in half of one verse is not one instead?
Shouldn't we be using discernment and reading the Bible with an open heart to what God is teaching us rather than the other way around? Just like kings and rulers are called lords (lowercase to show context), gods does not mean God. Anyone who cherry picks and claims they are a god is really deceived and this comes from satan. Satan loves deceiving people in this way and it has his signature all over it. God bless.
In the Hebrew scriptures, there is NO UPPER case letters, all the places god occurs; it occurs as god, lower case, even referring to god the father, I am not being sneaky, the translators added the capital letters, they are the sneaky ones.
oops, I meant that Darby said that Jesus did not atone for our sins on the cross.
I guess I did add quite a bit more info. But there is so much more!
It is late. I'm off to bed. Talk more tomorrow.
Yes, God will do this for Israel. We do not know exactly when He will do this, perhaps pre-tribulation or earlier or perhaps just after the tribulations starts. We just don't know. But dispensationalist have pigeon holed this into their system in ways that are not explicitly stated in Scripture as to when this will happen.
As far as Ezekiel,
This is a figurative prophecy of God regathering all of Israel (Both houses) by resurrecting them to life when Jesus returns after the Tribulation is over. Or perhaps figuratively re-establishing Israel to the land that they have long been away from and we do not know exactly when that will be (the second option)
S. Spencer, it seems that you have listened to many dispensational teachers and so you are convinced of dispensational premillennialism, but have you every truly studied it: its origins, development in the 1800's, who Darby was like, what he taught. Did you know that said think Jesus atoned for sin on the cross. He said that Christians should not say the Lord's Prayer because it says 'forgive us our trespasses' and believers do not need to confess their sins to God, seek forgiveness and repent. So this is basically antinomianism. He said that the Plymouth Brethren Church in England was the only true church in all of Britain and denounced every denomination as being invalid. Did you know these things about the person whose tenets you follow?
so he needed to invent more doctrines such as multiple resurrections of the saints in order to find agreement in Scriptures. And so on and so on this continued until we today have a very convoluted and unsound theological system all to protect the pre-trib rapture doctrine Darby started with.
I believe Darby to be a false teacher whose system is heretical in many ways. For me, anyone who adheres to dispensational premillennialism follows Darby's doctrines. So, one should find out more about the person whose ideas they have adopted to be sure they are not following a false teacher. One wouldn't follow Joseph Smith who also was pre[trib rapture person, or Charles Taze Russell (JW) or the founder of the Seventh day Adventists. These all emerged at the time of Darby, and Darby and all of the others are false teachers whose doctrines one should not adhere to in any way.
I say all this to warn people to study about this. There is so much that is not right about Darby dispensational premillennialism.
Continued.
Ezekiel 36:24-32.
For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
NOTICE VERSE 32.
Vs 32. Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
NOW REWIND A FEW VERSES AND READ Ezekiel 36:21-23.
WAS THIS FULFILLED IN THE NEWTESTAMENT? NO! ISRAEL COMMITTED ABOMINATIONS IN THE OT ON INTO THE NT AND STILL DOING IT TODAY.
WILL GOD FULFILL HIS UNCONDITIONAL COVENANT? YES.
WHEN? IN THE MILLENNIUM!
DID YOU NOTICE THE LOCATION THIS COVENANT WILL BE FULFILLED? EARTH.
( THAT IS DISPENSATIONALISM.)
We take those promises literal.
One of the worst and most dangerous heresies is to call God a liar and subscribe to replacement theology.
Romans 11:25-26. is DISPENSATIONALISM.
God bless.
In the Jn. 3 passage, Jesus was speaking of being born again, Not a redo of physical birth, which cannot happen. Flesh gives birth to flesh just once in one's life when they are physically born in the flesh. But Jesus was speaking of the rebirth as a spiritual rebirth, a coming back alive of our spirit and soul to become spiritually alive to God through Christ. This is why He said flesh gives birth to flesh and spirit gives birth to spirit. Things done in the flesh to please God and gain acceptance is not possible; one must be spiritually reborn by the Holy Spirit's work. So, He is saying that the Jn 6 is that it is truly only the Spirit who can impart eternal life and regenerate to life sinners dead in their sins. The flesh is profitless because won cannot use the flesh to reconcile oneself to God because we are dead in sin and our flesh is corrupted as much as our soul and spirit. We cannot bring anything of ourselves to God for acceptance. Only through the death and resurrection of Jesus in the flesh can we be redeemed.
And yes, God is Spirit from all eternity. Jesus was God from all eternity and with the Father and the Holy Spirit are spiritual in the One Being of the Godhead.
But, as the Scriptures I gave you, Jesus did come in actual flesh. Mary gave birth to a baby of flesh, bones, and blood. This was Jesus, God coming in a body of flesh. As the eternal Son of God, He is Spirit, but in His humanity, He is flesh.
This explanation does not align with your religious philosophy, so you reject it because you desire to fit Scripture into your religious mindset. Yet, by refusing to believe Jesus came in the flesh, then you are an antichrist and not a believer.
The good news is, you can always submit yourself to the truth of Scriptures and believe that Jesus was God in flesh, two natures in one Person who was crucified in the flesh, shedding physical blood and suffering physically emotionally and spiritually to save us who believe on Him.
You'll find Dispensationalism from
Genesis ch 1 - Revelation 22.
It's not a Scripture It's God's plan/program. described by a word.
Here is a portion of what you asked for.
Jeremiah 31:31-37.
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of ISRAEL, AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH:
( NOT according to the covenant that I made with their fathers ) in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
SOME APPLY THESE VERSES TO US BECAUSE IT FITS, BUT IT IS REALLY TO ISRAEL.
THAT'S WHY THE ONLY OTHER PLACE IN THE NT WE SEE THIS VERSE IS IN HEBREWS.
Has this been fulfilled in (ISRAEL AND JUDAH) ? NO.
He uses both names here to single out a point.
WILL IT BE ? You bet it will look at verse 36 and 37.
Vs 36. If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
vs 37. Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
Continuing.
When Jesus was here on Earth, He was not bound. The Holy Spirit was bound to Jesus. Because He Himself says. It is for your benefit that I pass away. Then He will send the Comforter to us. Thru? John 16:7
What He had to do was to be obedient to Our Father God. Don't you think Jesus suffered during His time here on earth? In Gethsemane just before He was captured. Prayed He so earnestly that He sweated blood. Mark 14:35-36 Luke 22:44 Those Jews who are not in Israel but scattered around the times of World War II and before it. These were collected at least in Europe as the attackers made ghettos. All of these had free will to accept Jesus. And get the Holy Spirit. Just like us these days. So neither you nor I know if it was right Jesus saved people in the concentration camps. It's entirely possible it was. Yet they praised the Lord in their hearts, minds, and bodies. Even though hunger took them and famine was in the midst of those with diseases and worse, they had their faith in God. The Jews are God's people and have never lost sight of God. It is also why we should pray for them, pray for peace, and so on. It is our duty Alex. Our ministry is actually preaching the gospel also to Jews and not always just other Gentiles.
If it hadn't been for the Jews, we wouldn't have gotten the Bible, the Word that came alive to us. Praise be to the Lord Jesus Christ who managed to be obedient all His days! Hallelujah Amen. Thank you dear Jesus, And not just a man but one who also overcame death! Hence Christ.
Hope you can figure this out and not spread falsehoods in here on the web. Jesus himself spoke of the wheat. The wheat is the best grain true. There we can get nice good bread. Making beautiful cakes and biscuits. Sauces and porridges. Maybe even get fat. Matthew 13
Please Repent and come back to the truth. Luke 1 chapter. Stay strong in the word of God and never give up. gbu
You will find this in Acts 4:10-12 which itself is the confirmation Matthew 21:42 and Psalm 118:22-23 and 1 Peter 2:6-7
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The difference in severity can be taken from above.
If Christ is that Stone (which he is), then even common sense teaches that it is far better to fall on a stone than for a stone to fall on you.
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'ye are gods". Your interpretation and Nocal's are wrongly dividing the word of truth and the belief you both ascribe to is heresy and evilly false.
Ruby, are you willing to believe what God says that He alone is god and there will be no gods created after Him? If you will not, then you are a deceiver and a false teacher.
And, as a reminder, I will wait for your answer on whether you are Earl Bowman or not.
Please know I write all of this in love, love for you, but more so, love for the truth of God in His Word an for the Love of God.
I have answered to your post using Scripture, as you asked. Please do not respond with a hyper allegorically Scripture twisting response. Just deal with the Scriptures as written without embellishing or inserting your thoughts within the Scripture to make it seem like the verse is actually saying what you are adding. That is deceptive and dangerous to those who may be led away into your error.
We see this in Revelation 12:11 which reads "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death."
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony;
Through Christ's shed blood on the cross, He purchased us, and died for our sins. We are now the overcomers because Christ overcame Satan at the cross.
That's why John says in 1 John 4:4 that greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world, and that we have already overcome the spirit of antichrist.
So they overcame him, in the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony. And they loved not their lives unto death.
I think that's interesting. How far along do I love my life? Well, I'm willing to give it up right up to death. I mean, that might be a little too far.
In the book of Acts, as Paul was traveling towards Jerusalem, there were different prophecies given along the way that if Paul was going to go to Jerusalem, he was going to be persecuted and taken captive there.
And so the prophecies didn't say don't go. The prophecies just said you're going to face trouble. You're going to be imprisoned. You're going to be chained.
Because of those prophecies, the Christians tried to stop him from going. But Paul says to them "I don't count my life dear to myself. God has told me to go. If that's what awaits me, so be it!"
I think it is interesting that he says I don't count my life dear to myself. But that's the way we have a tendency to interpret some things that happen to us. That's because we love our lives too much.
Just think if someone came knocking on your door and asked are you a believer in Christ, and you said yes, and they said come on out here, you're next to be put to death. They do not love their lives unto death.
Hope this helps!
Ya gotta realize all this is a war raging with in us....The wheat and the Tares are sown with in us....Yes the wheat is the kingdom but the wheat is under seige to the Tares till the Tares are gathered and burned.
Its Kingdom against Kingdom....The Wheat are against the Tares....But we have to keep in mind Isaiah 3:7....I will not be healer in that day....Thats when the wheat and the Tares are at war....There is no bread in my house....The Churches have fallen away to money and materialistic things....Jesus is in Prison spiritually speaking....to the Tares ...Satans seed...Thats y we must endure to the end.....Its a time of the great falling away....Its the Tares that are trying to restrain the Kingdom from coming.... Rev 12 :5.....Remember the dragon is trying to kill the woman and her Child....And the dragon is satans seed...The Tares...The marriage supper of the lamb is when our old adamic nature is consumed by his lake of fire....As our God is a consuming fire...Which is when we are baptised with his H.G. and fire thats y Jesus said he was gona bring FIRE on all the world....I come to bring fire on the EARTH....TY Jesus thats what we need....His H.G and fire baptism...
What do you believe the KINGDOM of God is, and how do you have a part in that that kingdom, and what is your part in that kingdom?
Just the day when we're going to die, Jesus said Luke 23:43 Then we let go of our body, then the spirit has no obstacle anymore. This is where we detach ourselves from the body. So in Paradise there are no bodies. As we live and have the body, we are also bound with it in soul and spirit.
Hope this can help someone. Know that God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, with His consultation, have complete control over matters large and small. Pray for visdom and understanding.
Love u all in Christ. John 3 Chapter Stay strong in the word everyday.
But how the Holy Spirit will still be in the world, with the absence of the Church, I'm unable to settle on & reconcile in my mind. I would have to leave that thought awaiting the Spirit's further help & direction. Will connect with you & others again after three weeks when I hope to return from vacation. Blessings.
The word says we were crucified with Christ and we were resurrected with Christ.
Yes, I believe I died on that cross 2000 years ago, before I was even born, I was raised a new creation 2000 years ago, that why works has nothing to do with salvation.
It's a GIFT, BY THE GRACE OF GOD.
God Bless YOU!
There is ONLY of God, and FATHER of all other gods, his children.
Is not Christ a SON, a child of God the father.
If we died with Christ and were resurrected with Christ, then we are also SONS OF GOD, just like Christ, since Christ is a god, by inheritance we are a god.
Ephesians 4:6 .... ONE GOD ....and Father of ALL ... above ALL .... through ALL ....and IN YOU ALL .....
If God is IN ALL, then all are gods
Why is this so hard to believe, these are God's WORDS.
God Bless YOU!
Are you saying you better than Judas, and you are not a son of perdition.
If the son of perdition is describing a single antichrist; then the antichrist was Judas, and the antichrist has already come; IF 2 Thessalonians 2:3 ....the son of predition is also describing antichrist; then there would be 2 antichrist.
The son of perdition is describing all the antichrist, NOT JUST ONE.
2 John 1:7 ....ye have heard that antichrist shall come, EVEN NOW there are many ANTICHRIST ----sons of perdition ---
2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceiver you by any means: for THAT DAY --- 2 Thessalonians 2:8 ---the day the lord consumes you ---destroys YOU --- the son of perdition --- with the brightness of HIS COMING ---his PRESENCE IN YOU ---and there first must come a FALLING AWAY ---what have you got to fall away from ----- your deception ---- an repent of what you believe --- the son of perdition is not someone else IT'S YOU ---- it's any person reading God's word --- the word's of God are for whoever is reading those words --- it's about revealing the KINGDOM to the person reading.
If you judge yourself by GOD'S WORD, you want be judged with the world.
Antichrist is any and everything that isn't Christ --- the word of God --- all the beliefs contrary to God's word.
2 John 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who CONFESS NOT Jesus is COME in the FLESH, this is a deceiver and an a antichrist.
Have you confessed that Christ is come, by HIS resurrection, and now lives IN YOU --- YOUR flesh ---- or are you still deceived and an antichrist needing to have your carnal mind destroyed.
Philippians 2:13 For it is God that WORKETH IN YOU (your flesh) both TO WILL and TO DO his good pleasure.
Are YOU:
2 Thessalonians 2:4 ... so that he (the son of perdition) sitteth in the temple of God ---- YOUR the temple of God ----so whose on the throne ---Christ, or the son of perdition ----If it's YOU then get back on the cross.
God Bless YOU!
Do you believe this is a metaphor or do you actually believe you were physically crucified with Christ around 2,000 years ago.
John 15:5 says Jesus is the vine and "ye are the branches." Do you believe you are actually just a branch? And do you believe Jesus is literally a vine and nothing else?
If those are the metaphors they obviously are, why do you assume ye are gods is not a metaphor in Psalms 82:6? Isn't that cherry picking something to suit your chosen narrative? In the same sentence it also says ye are children, so if this was honestly applied you would then be a literal child? Otherwise its just cherry picking the gods metaphor which could be considered intellectually dishonest. Are Gods children? Do you really believe there's more than one God, despite what so many other scriptures say?
Even the same author of Psalms only 4 chapters later says there's only one God in Psalm 86:10 "thou art God alone". Do you believe this verse just as much the other one you like? How about all the other verses that clearly say there's only one God like 1 Corinthians 8:6, 2 Samuel 7:22, Deuteronomy 4:39, 1 Chronicles 17:20. Why would someone ignore all these but only focus on believing a metaphor in half of one verse is not one instead?
Shouldn't we be using discernment and reading the Bible with an open heart to what God is teaching us rather than the other way around? Just like kings and rulers are called lords (lowercase to show context), gods does not mean God. Anyone who cherry picks and claims they are a god is really deceived and this comes from satan. Satan loves deceiving people in this way and it has his signature all over it. God bless.
In the Hebrew scriptures, there is NO UPPER case letters, all the places god occurs; it occurs as god, lower case, even referring to god the father, I am not being sneaky, the translators added the capital letters, they are the sneaky ones.
God Bless YOU!