I wonder if you can provide biblical evidence for the term "high Sabbath? It seems to be referring to when the feast days fall on a 7th day Sabbath, but i see no direct biblical proof for this.
Also, on the first day of the week, the 2 disciples walked with Jesus and said: "today is the third day since these things were done". So a Wednesday crucifixion is impossible.
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Response:
You ask if there is biblical evidence for the term “High Sabbath.” Well there probably is not the actual term “High Sabbath” besides in St. John where it said, for this day was a “High Sabbath” but the proof lies and basic deduction.
The deduction or subtraction is that Jesus is the Passover and we can agree on that. And if Jesus is the Passover then he would have died on the 14th day of the first month, this being the Passover the year he died and was hung on the cross. So if Jesus died on the Passover, the very next day was a “High Sabbath,” and when we look in the Leviticus chapter 23 the day following the Passover was the feast of unleavened bread (first night), therefore by deduction or by common sense we can conclude that the high day referred to in St. John (chapter 19) is a High Sabbath day of the feast of unleavened bread.
As far as your question saying that the first day of the week two disciples walked with Jesus saying today is the third day since all these things were done and Wednesday crucifixion would be impossible; we will have to refer to what Peter said. The testimonies are stories recounting what took place during Jesus ministry. We have a more sure word of prophecy (2nd Peter 1 v19), meaning the prophecy that the prophets wrote to us is more sure, is more valid, is more concrete than the testimony from the Apostles, because the prophets wrote as they were moved by the Spirit of God.
So we need to understand that what the prophets wrote is more concrete and the prophets wrote that the Messiah (Jesus) would die in the midst of the week. The midst of the week or the middle of the week is Wednesday and three days and three nights from that is when he would rise from the grave.
This would validate Jesus as the Messiah from God because he would be in the grave three nights, Wednesday night Thursday night and Friday night; and Thursday day, Friday day, Saturday day in the grave rising just before sundown on Saturday before the dawning of the sun and so that's how we come to these conclusions.
Please, re-listen to the video and let me know if you have any other questions God bless you!
Hi Rai, your response is appreciated. We do understand that the Old Covenant is no different than the New Covenant. The only problem with the Old Covenant is that the children of Israel broke the covenant. If my old bottle of wine was broken, there was nothing wrong with the wine or the bottle, so I just have to go get a new bottle of wine. This is what Jesus did, made a New Covenant with the same children of Israel (Jeremiah 31 v31-33). Everything in the covenant remained the same (Hebrews 8 v7-13).
The clean and unclean separation was done before Moses and the children of Israel Rachel, so it is not ceremonial to Israel and the Old Testament, the animals have been sanctified (meaning set apart) by God since the beginning (see Genesis 7 v2, 8).
Where we seem to differ, is that you appear to only consider the distinction between Jew & Gentile as legitimate, as if the section prior to that regarding food is only a metaphor, unchanged and still in effect today. And if that's the case you, Damien McSwine, Rev. Joel Osteen and any others are certainly free to exercise your will and live accordingly!
I didn’t quite understand this paragraph by you Rai... my understanding of Jew and Gentile is that the Jew are a people and the Gentile are a people. They have/had different cultural practice and religious belief. But the Gentiles want and needed to adopt the spiritual religious practice of the Jew and that is what Cornelius was seeking from Peter. The Gentile (commonly known as our white/European brothers) were known to be without God in the world (Ephesian 2 v11-13). This is why Cornelius was seeking our brother Peter.
Rai, at the end of the day, we do what we believe we have to do. I admit all Old Testament scripture would be extremely hard to uphold; such as the cleanness and uncleanness of women during their menstrual, childbirth, and not eating newly planted trees for three years. There are many Christians who like to throw the hammer at others, but ignore the hammer swinging at them. We know we have those in the world.
We also know that Israel is not in its’ own nation any more...most people don’t even plant their stuff...they believe apples and oranges grow at the supermarket. But what we do know is that we can try. I understand a woman is unclean for 7 days of the month and to touch her is to make myself unclean, but look at the society we live in. Does this mean we don’t even try? That we break the 10 commandments, eat unclean foods, celebrate pagan holidays, etc.
I think it is time for real Christians to come together and try doing things according to the Bible. It does come down to love, humility, giving, but keeping of the commandments, the keeping of God’s ways will be the big pay off in the end (Revelation 22 v12-14).
Thank you for your side-note and reference; but I also did not come into this great dialogue with you from a position of confusion! I will use the reference Rachel, but this is the last thing I will point out... God will consume those who disregard His Dietary Provisional Laws. At the coming of our Lord Jesus, He will consume a lot of disobedient people, but among those included are those eating abominable unclean foods (Isaiah 66 v15-17). The reason why is because what He wrote at the end of the chapter on the Dietary Provisional Laws; Jesus told us to be holy because He is Holy (Leviticus 11v43-47). Jesus set a difference between clean and unclean to set a difference between His own and the worlds. The world eats the abominable unclean foods that God Himself set and made a difference on. If you eat it, being a Christian, what difference is there in you and the sinner. If you don’t keep the commandments as best you can, what difference is there between you and the sinner. If you said none, you are right. Rai, I write all this out of love; I really hope to make you know that, just as I believe you wrote all you’re writing out of love for me to help me. I simply have to warn people who are about to drink poison, that they are about to do so; just as you are doing and we are doing it according to our beliefs and knowledge. So I do love you! I left the scriptures below. And can you please show me where in Acts chapter 10 does it give you the inclination to think the dream or trance Peter was in referred both to man and food? Peter said that now he understood that he should not call any MAN common or unclean...not any animal or beast. I’d like to see how this referred to food also. Thank you! Genesis 7 2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, Jeremiah 31 31 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: 32 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: 33 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. Ephesian 2 11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: 13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. Revelation 22 12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. 13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. 14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. Isaiah 66 15 For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many. 17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord. Leviticus 11 43 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby. 44 For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 45 For I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. 46 This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth: 47 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
This Holy Week is coming upon us and I get two different messages from you sir, on Wednesday and on Sunday. On Wednesday, I hear, "we must move away from Catholic practices, the great whore, Mother of Harlots." Then comes Sunday and you are practicing the same things the Mother Harlot practices; this makes you in a way one of her daughters. I do not mean that in offense; but it should be brought to your attention because it can be confusing.
The council distorted much of the pure Christianity, by introducing many pagan rites that us Christians still practice to this very day. Such as this Holy Week
The Holy Week...let's look at this Holy Week
Matthew 21 verse 1-15 Jesus comes into Jerusalem the Jews thought they were saved now, what day was this? The scripture does not tell us in Matthew 21; but He came in and began to teach. If you follow it well; you'll see that He taught from chapter 21 in Matthew to chapter 26. Look through it...
Then in Matthew 26 it says...
1And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,
2Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
3Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
If you look at and read Matthew 21 Jesus got off the donkey went into the Temple (keep in mind it was after His Triumphant Entry); healed all the lame and sick folks who came to Him; and then He began to TEACH. By the time Matthew chapter 26 rolled around, JESUS had finished all these sayings that Matthew recorded and JESUS told His followers, "Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover..."
So Ideally, what Jesus is saying is, from the time He stopped teaching, He turned to the disciples and told them that after 2 days will be the Passover and the Son of Man, Himself, will be betrayed and killed!
We do not know when He entered the city; but we do know that from the time He stopped teaching, 2 days later would be the Passover and His death.
So let's take a look at the death and see when that happened; before we can do that we have to understand who Jesus is. In 1 Corinthians 5 verses 7 we see that even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. So Jesus is the PASSOVER. This is why we cover ourselves with His blood so that the Father will look at us and see the blood; and PASS-OVER our sins and not condemn us to the fire. Please deal with the capitalization of words as I want to drive home the vital points.
This looks like something done in the past... in Exodus chapter 12 we get the ordinance of the Passover. The Passover takes place in the first month of the God's year; not January 1, which is the Roman Catholic calendar new year. In the first month, which is usually the beginning of the spring season when things are renewed; on the 14th day of the month; is the Lord's Passover. This was a statue to be done forever.
The original Passover the Israelites had to put the blood over their door way; in other words; they had to be covered with the blood of the Lamb, in order to avoid the plague of death angel and first born.The lamb representing Jesus...
In Galatians chapter 3 verses 24; we see that the old testament practices, many of them, were our school master to bring us unto Christ. In other words, Jesus use the animal lamb to represent Him until He came because He was not going to do this, die, in every generation. So the Lamb represented Jesus; so why is this important?
Because, Jesus was our Passover, therefore, He had to be killed on the Passover day. We shall see if He indeed did this.
In Daniel chapter 9 verses 24 -27; an often debated few verses; but read carefully, Daniels dream is cleared and the Angel refers to Jesus, the Jews, and Jerusalem. Read carefully, it talks about no one else... at any rate, Jesus confirms the promises He made with the fathers (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob), and He does this by being cut off in the midst or middle of the week; and we know JESUS did not die for Himself; but for us. The middle of the week is when the Messiah (which Daniels 9 v24-27 speaks of), the Christ, the Anointed One, was cut off.
Jesus will verify this...
Matthew 12 verses 39-40
Keep in the mind the context of this conversation... the preachers and religious leaders asked Jesus for a sign to prove without a shadow of a doubt that He was indeed the Messiah/Christ/Anointed One and JESUS gave them a sign...
He said first off; evil people need a sign to believe in God... they need for God to shake the earth terribly, they need earth quakes in different places, they need to pledge money and see if God will give it back 10 fold, they can't just rely on the prayer Jesus taught saying give us THIS DAY our daily bread; they need to see someone speaking in tongues, they need to see a pastor pray for at least 4 hours before they may consider believing.
But the righteous do not need any sign at all; all we need is to read the Words of God; and we are straight or content. At any rate; Jesus said He'll give ONE SIGN; that He is the Christ that He is the One the Father sent; and that sign is; that when He is killed; He will be in the grave or heart of the earth for 3 days and 3 nights as Jonah the prophet was in the whale 3 days and 3 nights.
So if we want to see if Jesus of the Bible is an impostor fake; all we need to do is go see when He died and when He rose. If we get anything outside of three days and three nights; we know that He was not the Christ; but just another man claiming to be the One.
Mainstream, Roman influenced Christians say Jesus died on Good Friday and rose Sunday morning...
Dying Friday night would give you one night in Friday, one day in Saturday, two nights in Saturday night, and that is all we can get because He rose on Sunday. That would give us 1 day and 2 nights. Clearly showing us that the Roman Catholic Church is blatantly telling us that the Jesus of the Bible is not the Messiah. That is why this anti-Christ will step into the Temple and claim to be Christ at the end-time. The Romans, remember, set up the Good Friday theory...
Now let's visit it the way the Bible said it... in the midst or middle of the week.
That would be according to our modern day calendars; even the Roman ones; the middle of the week in hump day as it is popularly said in the work world. So Jesus would have been killed on Tuesday and put in the ground by Wednesday...
Now remember God's days start at evening and ends the next evening. Keep that in mind as you view the next set of scriptures. Jesus had been betrayed by Judas the evening of the Passover. John 13 tells how Jesus and His disciples, that evening, were sharing the Passover meal. John (18:3) shows that same evening; Jesus was betrayed and taken away. It was still nighttime when they took Jesus, because the men that came and took and bound Him and they had lanterns and torches.
Jesus was crucified the next day but it was still the Passover. Comfort your mind, God's days run from sundown to sundown. Jesus had been taken into custody the night of the Passover and the next morning which is the day time of the Passover, He was condemned and crucified. The following verses demonstrate how Pilate was willing to release Jesus the morning after he had been taken in to custody. It was still the Passover. We all know the Jews refused and Jesus was crucified.
(John 18:39) But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews? (40) Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
Comfort yourself again in Mark (15:42) Joseph craved the body of Jesus the evening of the Passover ending. Now one can see that this was towards the end of the Passover.
Address the 3 Days And 3 Nights
The scriptures explain how Jesus was in the earth 3 days and 3 nights just as He had foretold.
How It Really Happened
3 Days And 3 Nights SU M T W TH F S Days 1 1 1 Nights 1 1 1
Essentially, JESUS was taken into custody Tuesday night; tried all night; beaten, scourged and scorned all day Wednesday for our sins, killed; and buried in the heart of the earth by sun down Wednesday night (the middle of the week).
This example will allow Him to rightfully be our Savior, our Messiah and King...
Now back to the top; if He died on a Wednesday, which was the Passover day, then two days before this was when He was teaching, would have had to be Monday; so it is quite possible that He triumphantly entered the city on the first day of the week Sunday or it could have been Monday... there is no concrete way to know for sure; the point is two days after, which lands us on Wednesday when He was killed and buried, and He rose on Saturday just before or as the sun was setting...
We can read all of the Gospels; and not ONE disciple, who were with Jesus 3.5 years, who were with Him that night of His death, mentions anything about Lent, Holy Week, Palm Sunday, Easter, and resurrection Sunday. None of them did... the only one to come close to mentioning Easter was Paul who did not join the apostle-ship until later... and I'm not taking credit away from Paul; but the keys of the Kingdom were left with Peter.
So this Holy week; if kept the biblical way would have began today because on Saturday evening of this week; it will be the Lord's Passover, which the Jew-ish people still keep today and if it meant anything to Christians, they would have resurrection-day 3 days and 3 nights after the Passover and not two weeks later as it is.
You see, the Romans have Easter Sunday scheduled around the Saturnalia ... based on the sun
The Easter sunrise service, that is practiced in many Christian churches, can be traced back to the ancient pagan custom of welcoming the sun god at the vernal equinox - when daytime is about to exceed the length of the nighttime. It was a time to celebrate the return of life and reproduction to animal and plant life as well. Worship of the sun god at sunrise is the religious ritual condemned by the Lord Jesus as recorded in Ezekiel 8:15-18.
So I took the time to write this because Wednesday night bible study you hold is engaging; thought provoking, the people are learning, in affect cleaning up there lives for fear of living in the last days.
The same thing would occur when you use to write your blogs; because you were reading... but to do all this good reading and teaching; then only return on Sunday to practice the vanity, paganism, and Roman worship you vehemently speak against on Wednesday confusion, at least and as a fellow man of God in Jesus name, I adjure you to think about this, really consider the matter.
Are you a pastor for notoriety, or are you doing a service for God to help Him recover lost souls? If it is the latter like as for me, then let us bear our cross, and continue to expend the word of God together. It may not be immediately welcomed; but as you like to say, we have to stand in the gap for the Lord sometimes.
Sure, the people may be taken back when you tell them, your church no longer has a Good Friday Service nor a Easter Sunday worship; the people may run from you, criticize you, report you, condemn you, and more. Jesus told us to applaud any persecution we receive for His sake. Consider this please... it may be a slow process; but consider what the Lord has put in my heart to tell you today in this bible response.
1And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
the woman is the nation of Israel, which is the Church of God with all other nations being grafted into the Church, and the man child is JESUS Christ.
Gensis 37
9And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
10And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
That is the nation of Israel that JESUS Christ came through...
Revelation 12
5And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
JESUS Christ is to rule all nations with a rod of iron... see Luke 1 v31 -33(31And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
32He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
33And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.)
Revelation 12 6And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
the children of Israel and the church will flee into the wilderness once the "abomination of desolation" is placed - this is a repeat of what they did while in Egypt but God will guide them to the place of safety, which is the wilderness for 3.5 years to avoid the great tribulation.
13And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
the church has been under constant persecution from Satan since the beginning...
14And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
the church was given passage to the wilderness to be nourished there for 3.5 years from the face of the serpent.
17And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
The LORD JESUS got the church safely into the wilderness; and those who Satan couldn't get, he went and chased her seed, and these are people who keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of JESUS Christ. These are people who did not understand the fleeing to the wilderness; these are people who wait for a rapture, instead of getting to the wilderness.
We got this question in today so I will address it for the masses to gain understanding on.
Question: I need some clarification.... I still am like the remaining Sunday goers on this issue of body and soul and I have come across a few scriptures that further bring questions to my mind. However today's scripture is in Isaiah 10:18.
Hope you can shed some light.
Isaiah 10 v18
18And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.
So let us gain understanding on this scripture.Let's began in the book of Micah…
Micah 3 v9 says 9Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity
Okay without explanation let's move over to first Chronicles chapter 16 and read it
1st Chronicles 16 v13-14 says 13O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones. 14He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
Now let's move over to Exodus chapter 19 and read it…
Exodus 19 v3 says
3And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
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Now what does each of these scriptures say. They categorize the house of Jacob and the House of Israel and two different entities. It says the Children of Jacob and the children of Israel. The house of Jacob and the children of Israel are one of the same.
So, my point is that we have to pick up on how the Lord speaks. When He says Ephraim, we know He is still talking about Israel. When He speaks of Jacob, He is still speaking of Israel.So could it be when He says soul He is speaking body as well?
So now let's go to Genesis 2 v7 and it says 7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Man became a living soul and entity; so he is it. Now his body can be part of the entity but it is still part of the same. Before he was a "living soul" man was a dead soul.
So now let's read Isaiah 10 v18 agains, it says,
18And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.
Both children of Israel and house of Jacob, both soul and body speaking of the same to BE SURE that the reader understands however way they want to view it; I'm going to destroy the soul or if you call it body, the body.
Tell the children of Israel, and for those that don't think they are Israel, tell the children of Jacob. The Lord covered the bases for those that believe they are not Israelites but instead think they are children of Jacob or children of Ephraim and so forth.
The Lord in this scripture covers thoses that think body and not soul or think soul and not body.Isaiah 10 only tells how He will destroy them.
Remember the original, the Lord gave Moses everything face-to-face Exodus 33 v11 11And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.
Moses didn't dream this stuff; he got it like how I give it to you; like a man speaks to his friend. So if it says man became a living soul, man is the soul. His body is just the form he is in. We have flesh and blood bodies, God has a soul, and his body is a spirit body.
Isaiah 1 v14 says 14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
The Lord's soul hated what Israel was doing. Everyone has a soul and everyone has a body, your body determines what kind of being you are; human being or spirit being. Soul and body are one in the same. Please let me know if this was helpful or edifying. Peace and grace in the name of Jesus.
Thank you for your response; you appear to make sense but give me your take on the scripts below…and by the way; I was quoting St. John 10 v34…
You said
"The scriptures are not teaching that - also as far as GOD recreating himself.. I would disagree again."
In Genesis chapter 1 and 2 God created man and man was IMMORTAL until he disobeyed God, at that point death was brought into the picture, including the second death.God begins His recovery plan, or plan of salvation to continue to make this man completely like Him.
So please tell me how you would answer these scriptures
Psalm 82
1God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
2How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
3Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
4Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
5They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
6I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
7But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
God stands in the congregation of the mighty and judges among the gods.If there is only one God, who is God judging?Now He goes on to show the characteristics of a certain species, like they judge unjustly, they accept wickedness and don't defend the poor and fatherless.God says they don't understand and walk in darkness.Now this is what Jesus quoted in verse 6; God said that man are gods and are all children of the Most High (but because of sin) we are dying like men and falling like one of the princes (Satan).
Psalm 8
4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
King David ask why God is even concerned with man being that He made us a little lower than the angels in statue because the angels live forever; but God has crowned man with glory and honour.But the answer is that God made man to have dominion over the works of His hands and has put all things under our feet (really Jesus but soon us if we do it right).
What are the works of God's hands, well His hands created the sun, the moon, the universe, the nations, man, animals, etc, and so on. So we, man, is suppose to have dominion over all of these things.We should be able to do like Jesus when He told the storm to be still.Can we do this?No, not now, not yet because we fail; but Jesus is our redemption and we will be like Him at His coming.
If the sun is beaming down to hard, we are suppose to have the power to turn it down like a man turns down the heat in his home. At the very least pull a cloud in the way of the sun. We are suppose to judge well because in the future we will judge even angels as mentioned in 1st Corinthians 6 (v1-3).
Paul told us in Romans chapter 8 (v28-29), "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." Jesus is the first born from the dead, but He will have man brothers (this includes women remember in the Kingdom there is no male or female) among Him. If we will be His brothers, and He is God, WHAT DO WE have to be? God! The question then is, will you be one?
When Jesus came out of the grave, He told His disciples that all power was given to Him in Heaven and in Earth (Matthew 28 v16-17). And I got to tell you we will have this same power if we eat of the Tree of Life, which is to follow His commandments, keep His statutes, obey His laws, and love Him and our fellow brother.
These are some scriptures to think about.Let me know what you think about them; the bible is very conclusive on this topic.
You said… "He gave us some similarities, however.. even in our perfect state - Adam - we were not YAHWEH - We created nothing".....
Wasn't that the sinful attempt? tempted to be GOD? know good and evil... we didn't know of evil meaning we weren't all-knowing."
While this is true, now we have the opportunity to eat from the Tree of Life and avoid the lie that we will be like God knowing good and evil and not die; but we will be able to have Holy Knowledge, and not tainted knowledge of good and evil that was given by Satan (a fallen angel).
- Remember that they wanted to stone Jesus because He said He was the son of God.If He is the son of God that makes Him God, correct?Same thing today, if I say I'm a son of God, that makes me god, because I walk in the spirit of God, not that I have ALL POWER like God.Our day is coming…
I would love to rap with you about this via phone if you'd like, but I hope this edifies you my brother.Peace in Jesus name.
Question: Is Paul a Jew or Gentile. I thought he was a Gentile because he was from Tarsus; a Turkish province?
- Response: The literal answer is that Paul is neither a Jew or a Gentile. However, he'd be under the banner of a Jew more than anything else. Why I say this is below...Paul was an Israelite. Because God speaks to the world through His chosen people which are His priest, Paul had to be an Israelite (sometimes put under the banner of Jews).So there is an advantage to being a Jew or Israelite
- Romans 3
1What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
2Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
3For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
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So we see God gave the Israelite the answers of God. Paul had to be a Jew (Israelite) to get the answers of God in order to teach. Furthermore...
Listen to Paul's prayer here
Romans 9
1I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
2That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
3For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
4Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
5Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Paul says he wish he could be cut off from Christ if his brothers would be saved...his brothers in the flesh (not spirit) who are Israelite.
So this let's us get closer to the fact (if it is not a fact already) that Paul was an Israelite...
Romans 11
1I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Paul was an Israelite, originally named Saul after the first flesh king of Israel, King Saul. The Gentiles gave him the name Paul. However, Paul was a Benjamite; which are not Jews. Jews come from the son Judah, however, Benjamites and Jews lived together in Southern Israel and were clumped together under the banner Jew because Judah was the Kingdom.
This the last scriptural reference...
in Philippians chapter 3
3For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
4Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
5Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
6Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Paul let's the people know he is a real deal Hebrew, he was circumcised on the 8th day, from the stock of Israel, the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews, he kept the law, nearly blameless, even was a Pharisee. So there we have it. Paul was no Gentile, he was just chosen among the priest of God to teach the Gentiles.
