Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8:44
This blows away the false newage concept of the "universal fatherhood" of God, meaning that God is everyone's father. To the contrary, we are all born into sin and only those who are reborn and become "sons of God" can call God our Father which art in heaven.
And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. Luke 11:2
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
name taken out of book of life
Revelation 22:19 - And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book
Jeremiah 27:20; 28:4 - Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim (Eliakim)
(note that Jeconiah is the son of Jehoakim, Jehoakim is the son of Josias)
Jeremiah 36:23 - And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
(Jehoiakim cut up and burned the scroll of Jeremiah's recording of the word of the LORD)
Matthew 1:11 - And Josias begat Jechonias (Jeconiah) and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon
(Note that Jehoiakim's name is missing from the geneology...)
Jeremiah 27:20; 28:4 - Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim (Eliakim)
(note that Jeconiah is the son of Jehoakim, Jehoakim is the son of Josias)
Jeremiah 36:23 - And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
(Jehoiakim cut up and burned the scroll of Jeremiah's recording of the word of the LORD)
Matthew 1:11 - And Josias begat Jechonias (Jeconiah) and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon
(Note that Jehoiakim's name is missing from the geneology...)
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
total depravity
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day - John 6:44
And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.” - John 6:65
God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance - 2Peter 3:9
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 1Tim 2:4
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life - John 3:16
God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith - Romans 12:3
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. - John 5:25
And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.” - John 6:65
God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance - 2Peter 3:9
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 1Tim 2:4
God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith - Romans 12:3
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. - John 5:25
Monday, December 28, 2015
the same god?
it is true when they say that they all worship the same "god" (2Cor 4:4)
but it is NOT the one true living God
but it is NOT the one true living God
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
in thy book all my members were written
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Saturday, December 19, 2015
having drunk old wine
Luke 5:36-39
And he spake also a parable unto them;
No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old;
if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, "The old is better."
(whilst drunk they cannot perceive the difference between the holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean Leviticus 10:9-10)
Tuesday, November 03, 2015
emotional manipulation
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Colossians 3:21
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4
Correction of children is a good thing. A child may not like correction, and they may even get angry when corrected, but this is not talking about this kind of anger.
However, emotionally manipulating children to get them to do something or change behavior does not accomplish intended results. Moreover, instead of training a child in the right way to go, it discourages the child from desiring to doing the right thing.
Emotional manipulation includes snarky comments, put-downs, name-calling, demeaning, humiliation, yelling/screaming, profanity, provocation, guilt, pleading, threatening, etc...
Children should feel conviction to do the right thing, and sorry/contrite for having done wrong - but not chided and have excessive guilt pushed on them.
Children should be embarrassed by their behavior, but not publicly humiliated and demeaned.
Children should be advised of consequences, but not screamed at with emotional threats that are never carried out.
As adults, we have to face consequences for our mistakes and bad behavior.
While parents should "buffer" consequences for children so that they are not permanently scarred, children should still experience consequences for bad behavior so that they learn this principal in a safe way. If they fail to learn the lessons while they have their parents as a covering, they stand to learn the lesson in a costlier way later on, even costing their life or the life of another.
Firm follow through on consequences is the nurturing response.
It actually makes children feel secure when children know their boundaries and know that their parents follow through in a measured controlled response without the unpredictability of emotional chaos and moving targets.
Not following through "rewards" and reinforces the bad behavior.
Children do not have to be taught bad behavior. They are born with it.
Children have to be trained in good behavior.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Prov 22:6
Training involves consistency and repetition. At first training may involve continual oversight and follow up, then eventually as the good behavior becomes a habit you can back off and trust them more and more.
Trust before training leads to disaster. Train first, then trust.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4
Correction of children is a good thing. A child may not like correction, and they may even get angry when corrected, but this is not talking about this kind of anger.
However, emotionally manipulating children to get them to do something or change behavior does not accomplish intended results. Moreover, instead of training a child in the right way to go, it discourages the child from desiring to doing the right thing.
Emotional manipulation includes snarky comments, put-downs, name-calling, demeaning, humiliation, yelling/screaming, profanity, provocation, guilt, pleading, threatening, etc...
Children should feel conviction to do the right thing, and sorry/contrite for having done wrong - but not chided and have excessive guilt pushed on them.
Children should be embarrassed by their behavior, but not publicly humiliated and demeaned.
Children should be advised of consequences, but not screamed at with emotional threats that are never carried out.
As adults, we have to face consequences for our mistakes and bad behavior.
While parents should "buffer" consequences for children so that they are not permanently scarred, children should still experience consequences for bad behavior so that they learn this principal in a safe way. If they fail to learn the lessons while they have their parents as a covering, they stand to learn the lesson in a costlier way later on, even costing their life or the life of another.
Firm follow through on consequences is the nurturing response.
It actually makes children feel secure when children know their boundaries and know that their parents follow through in a measured controlled response without the unpredictability of emotional chaos and moving targets.
Not following through "rewards" and reinforces the bad behavior.
Children do not have to be taught bad behavior. They are born with it.
Children have to be trained in good behavior.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Prov 22:6
Training involves consistency and repetition. At first training may involve continual oversight and follow up, then eventually as the good behavior becomes a habit you can back off and trust them more and more.
Trust before training leads to disaster. Train first, then trust.
Friday, October 16, 2015
broom of destruction
I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom [broom] of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts
Isaiah 14:23
Isaiah 14:23
13 things in the heart of man
Be careful when new-agers say "awaken what is inside of you"
John 2:25
And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.
Mark 7:20-23
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
John 2:25
And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.
Mark 7:20-23
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Sunday, October 11, 2015
How to recognize false convert
7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John 3:7-11
Thursday, October 08, 2015
that which is perfect
1 Cor 10-12
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Rev 22:4-5
And they shall see His face; and His name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Rev 22:4-5
And they shall see His face; and His name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever
Wednesday, October 07, 2015
departures from the faith
1. Deny fundamental truths of God's nature - deny trinity, false Christology, false Pneumatology, deny personhood of Holy Spirit, deny divinity of Christ
2. Have basis of doctrine on something other than scripture
3. Unrepentant immorality
4. Another Gospel - how can fallen man be justified before God
2. Have basis of doctrine on something other than scripture
3. Unrepentant immorality
4. Another Gospel - how can fallen man be justified before God
divers kinds
Leviticus 19:19
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
Deuteronomy 22:5,9-11
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together
Genesis 1 (excerpts)
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
Deuteronomy 22:5,9-11
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together
Genesis 1 (excerpts)
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
last days scoffers
2Peter 3
That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying,
Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying,
Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Curse of Cain
Cain and Abel is a picture of what happens to Jews when they reject/murder Jesus
Matthew 23:35; Luke 11:51
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
Genesis 4:9-15
And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper? And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand; When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me. And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
1. Crops would fail
2. Be a wanderer without a home
3. Fear for life
4. Marked as God's to deal with and woe to any that should kill him
Leviticus 26:14-17
But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
Deuteronomy 28:64-66
And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
Cain is a picture of what happens to Israel and the Jews. As Cain's sin was murdering Abel, the Jew's sin was murdering Jesus. God will deal with their rejection and sin by scattering them and them coming under persecution, but they are still marked and woe to those who touch them.
Matthew 23:35; Luke 11:51
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
Genesis 4:9-15
And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper? And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand; When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me. And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
1. Crops would fail
2. Be a wanderer without a home
3. Fear for life
4. Marked as God's to deal with and woe to any that should kill him
Leviticus 26:14-17
But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
Deuteronomy 28:64-66
And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
Cain is a picture of what happens to Israel and the Jews. As Cain's sin was murdering Abel, the Jew's sin was murdering Jesus. God will deal with their rejection and sin by scattering them and them coming under persecution, but they are still marked and woe to those who touch them.
when the crop permits
Mark 4:29
But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
When will the harvest come? When the fruit is brought forth...
Monday, October 05, 2015
vine of Sodom
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
Deuteronomy 32:31-33
For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
Deuteronomy 32:31-33
Thursday, September 24, 2015
leadership
Leadership is not about control.
Jesus said that if you wanted to be the greatest in His kingdom, you must be servant of all.
Fathers and husbands should not go on an ego trip saying things like "I'm your provider". When they do that, they are putting themselves in the place of God.
God is our provider.
Jesus said that if you wanted to be the greatest in His kingdom, you must be servant of all.
Fathers and husbands should not go on an ego trip saying things like "I'm your provider". When they do that, they are putting themselves in the place of God.
God is our provider.
Monday, September 21, 2015
there will be an apostacy
1 Tim 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils
2 Thess 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition
Matthew 24:10-11 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many (see also Mark 13:5-6; 11-12, Luke 21:8; 16-17)
2 Thess 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition
Matthew 24:10-11 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many (see also Mark 13:5-6; 11-12, Luke 21:8; 16-17)
that which is perfect
1 Corinthians 13:8-13
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. [See Revelation 22:4-6
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
That which is perfect (Jesus) is when we shall see HIM face to face... at THAT time prophecies, tongues, and knowledge will cease, what will endure will be faith, hope, and love.
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. [See Revelation 22:4-6
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
That which is perfect (Jesus) is when we shall see HIM face to face... at THAT time prophecies, tongues, and knowledge will cease, what will endure will be faith, hope, and love.
Monday, August 10, 2015
confidence trick
A confidence trick (synonyms include confidence game, confidence scheme, scam and stratagem) is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence, used in the classical sense of trust. Confidence tricks exploit characteristics of the human psyche such as dishonesty, honesty, vanity, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility, naïveté and greed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick
Monday, July 27, 2015
the old paths
Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Jeremiah 6:16
Jeremiah 6:16
Friday, July 24, 2015
the way of truth shall be evil spoken of
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
2 Peter 2:2
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
strengthening hands of evildoers
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 23:14
Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
Ezekiel 13:22
Jeremiah 23:14
Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
Ezekiel 13:22
Friday, July 10, 2015
Seven Spirits of the LORD
“The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him — the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of power, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.” - Isaiah 11:2
(1) Spirit of the LORD
(2) Spirit of wisdom
(3) Spirit of understanding
(4) Spirit of counsel
(5) Spirit of power
(6) Spirit of knowledge
(7) Spirit of the fear of the Lord
Revelation 1:4;3:1;4:5; and 5:6
(1) Spirit of the LORD
(2) Spirit of wisdom
(3) Spirit of understanding
(4) Spirit of counsel
(5) Spirit of power
(6) Spirit of knowledge
(7) Spirit of the fear of the Lord
Revelation 1:4;3:1;4:5; and 5:6
Wednesday, July 01, 2015
Monday, June 29, 2015
Meaningless
Mercy is meaningless if there is no judgment
Grace is meaningless if there is no need
Love is meaningless if there is no sacrifice
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Given over
Sodomite perversion is now the "law of the land".
Should we obey men or God? (Acts 5:29)
It is important to note that any clerk who wishes to defend their religious objections and who chooses not to issue licenses may well face litigation and/or a fine. (WND)
Now, all judges and employees of the court and/or government must accommodate sin.
They will either have to compromise their conscience or leave public service.
Despite some meager "assurances" that ministers and chaplains might be excused for not participating in sodomite ceremonies (for now... pentagon is already being urged to boot chaplains), judges and government employees have no such protection.
Bakers and other wedding services were just a warm up. Now any judges, clerks, or government employees with any moral character will be targeted.
There will now be no one left serving in a public capacity who is not compromised, corrupted, or outright antagonistic.
Also, polygamy, pedophilia, and every other imaginable perversion is pushing for legitimacy.
Also, polygamy, pedophilia, and every other imaginable perversion is pushing for legitimacy.
Tuesday, June 09, 2015
inside the cup
it does not matter how clean and pretty the cup is on the outside
it does not matter how clean the water is that you pour into the cup
if the inside of the cup is dirty, then whatever you put into the cup will come out dirty...
it does not matter how clean the water is that you pour into the cup
if the inside of the cup is dirty, then whatever you put into the cup will come out dirty...
something dirty
when something clean touches something dirty
the clean does not make the dirty clean
the dirty makes the clean dirty...
the clean does not make the dirty clean
the dirty makes the clean dirty...
Tuesday, June 02, 2015
preached unto the spirits in prison
Genesis chapter 40: Joseph went to prison and to the Cup Bearer he gave good news that he would go on to serve the King, and the Baker he revealed that he would be sentenced to death
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; and in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
Luke 16:19-31
And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Luke 23:42-43
And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Colossians 2:15
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
1 Peter 3:18-19
"Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick (living) and the dead. For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit."
1 Peter 4:5-6
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Rev 1:18
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; and in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
Luke 16:19-31
And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Luke 23:42-43
And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Colossians 2:15
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
1 Peter 3:18-19
"Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick (living) and the dead. For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit."
1 Peter 4:5-6
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Rev 1:18
Confessions
Fear - I'm not given a spirit of fear, God has given me a Spirit of POWER, LOVE, and a SOUND MIND (2Tim 1:7)
Condemnation - there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. I am a new creation in Jesus and old things have passed away. (Rom 8:1; 2Cor 5:17)
Not good enough - I don't have to be good enough, JESUS was good enough for me! I am now the righteousness of God in JESUS! (2Cor 5:21; 1Cor 1:30; Phil 3:9)
Failure - I can do ALL things through JESUS who STRENGTHENS me (Phil 4:13)
Under attack - GREATER is JESUS in ME than the enemy that is in the world, the same Holy Spirit that raised JESUS from the dead now DWELLS IN ME. I resist the devil and he MUST FLEE, he has no choice but to OBEY GOD's WORD IN JESUS's NAME! (1John 4:4; Rom 8:11; James 4:7; James 2:19; Phil 2:9-11)
Lies - the TRUTH is a weapon mighty to the pulling down the strongholds of lies and vain imaginations (2Cor 10:4-5)
Weak - I wait upon the LORD, my strength is renewed, I will mount up with wings as eagles; I will run, and not be weary; and I will walk, and not faint (Isaiah 40:31)
Confusion - God is NOT the author of confusion, God has given me a SOUND MIND. JESUS is renewing my mind. He gives me peace that passes all understanding. I have the MIND of CHRIST and the HOLY SPIRIT leads me into ALL TRUTH (1Cor 14:33; 2Tim 1:7; Rom 12:2; Phil 4:7; 1Cor 2:16; John 16:13)
Alone - I am never alone, JESUS will never leave me nor forsake me! Jesus has begun a good work in me and He will complete it! (Heb 13:5; Phil 1:6)
Condemnation - there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. I am a new creation in Jesus and old things have passed away. (Rom 8:1; 2Cor 5:17)
Not good enough - I don't have to be good enough, JESUS was good enough for me! I am now the righteousness of God in JESUS! (2Cor 5:21; 1Cor 1:30; Phil 3:9)
Failure - I can do ALL things through JESUS who STRENGTHENS me (Phil 4:13)
Under attack - GREATER is JESUS in ME than the enemy that is in the world, the same Holy Spirit that raised JESUS from the dead now DWELLS IN ME. I resist the devil and he MUST FLEE, he has no choice but to OBEY GOD's WORD IN JESUS's NAME! (1John 4:4; Rom 8:11; James 4:7; James 2:19; Phil 2:9-11)
Lies - the TRUTH is a weapon mighty to the pulling down the strongholds of lies and vain imaginations (2Cor 10:4-5)
Weak - I wait upon the LORD, my strength is renewed, I will mount up with wings as eagles; I will run, and not be weary; and I will walk, and not faint (Isaiah 40:31)
Confusion - God is NOT the author of confusion, God has given me a SOUND MIND. JESUS is renewing my mind. He gives me peace that passes all understanding. I have the MIND of CHRIST and the HOLY SPIRIT leads me into ALL TRUTH (1Cor 14:33; 2Tim 1:7; Rom 12:2; Phil 4:7; 1Cor 2:16; John 16:13)
Alone - I am never alone, JESUS will never leave me nor forsake me! Jesus has begun a good work in me and He will complete it! (Heb 13:5; Phil 1:6)
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
answering a fool in his folly
Answer not a fool according to his folly,
lest thou also be like unto him.
Answer a fool according to his folly,
lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Proverbs 26:4-5
This can seem confusing and contradictory, but is really a play on words. When you consider the following verses defining what a fool is, it unlocks the meaning:
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom:
and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Prov 9:10
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
They are corrupt, they have done abominable works,
there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14:1
The beginning of wisdom, or the starting point of any reasoning, is the reverence of God.
Someone who doesn't reverence God, has the wrong starting point. No matter eloquent an argument they might make, they will never reach the right conclusion because their starting point was wrong. This is why they are a fool who say there is no God, and why any arguments they make are a folly.
Man's wisdom is limited and faulty, and any reasoning that does not have God and God's word as a starting point (a biblical worldview) is self deluded conceit and will always go awry.
If you let a fool set the rules for the debate, such as "you can't use scripture to support your argument", you have already lost the debate and you are only joining the fool in his folly.
Instead of joining the fool in their folly, we need use God's word to expose the conceit of the fool embedded within their folly.
For example, if you get into a debate on "why sodomy is wrong", and you allow the fool to set the terms of the debate, the fool will always have some "exception" to every argument you throw at him. For example if you try to say that it is abusive for sodomites to adopt children, then they will pull out examples of very nice, respectable, peaceable, and "moral" sodomites who have raised perfectly normal children (they will of course refuse to acknowledge any and all examples to the contrary).
While sodomy is indeed harmful to families, children, health, and society these things will not do anything to change anyone's hearts or position.
Instead of trying to explain why sodomy is wrong using man's limited wisdom, we need to stand on the truth and use God's word to answer the fool -- that sodomy is wrong because God has said it is wrong. This reveals the conceit in the fool's folly, that the fool thinks he doesn't need God to know right from wrong.
lest thou also be like unto him.
Answer a fool according to his folly,
lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Proverbs 26:4-5
This can seem confusing and contradictory, but is really a play on words. When you consider the following verses defining what a fool is, it unlocks the meaning:
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom:
and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Prov 9:10
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
They are corrupt, they have done abominable works,
there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14:1
The beginning of wisdom, or the starting point of any reasoning, is the reverence of God.
Someone who doesn't reverence God, has the wrong starting point. No matter eloquent an argument they might make, they will never reach the right conclusion because their starting point was wrong. This is why they are a fool who say there is no God, and why any arguments they make are a folly.
Man's wisdom is limited and faulty, and any reasoning that does not have God and God's word as a starting point (a biblical worldview) is self deluded conceit and will always go awry.
If you let a fool set the rules for the debate, such as "you can't use scripture to support your argument", you have already lost the debate and you are only joining the fool in his folly.
Instead of joining the fool in their folly, we need use God's word to expose the conceit of the fool embedded within their folly.
While sodomy is indeed harmful to families, children, health, and society these things will not do anything to change anyone's hearts or position.
Instead of trying to explain why sodomy is wrong using man's limited wisdom, we need to stand on the truth and use God's word to answer the fool -- that sodomy is wrong because God has said it is wrong. This reveals the conceit in the fool's folly, that the fool thinks he doesn't need God to know right from wrong.
Jesus didn't need the religious leaders
Notice that Jesus did not need the religious leaders or the political leaders. Jesus did not need religious or political leaders to support and validate who He was.
Matter of fact, Jesus did not hesitate to shine the light of truth on the hypocrisy of the religious leaders.
These religious leaders were more interested in preserving their position and influence than pursuing the truth.
They knew the truth would expose them and threatened their power and influence.
Instead of testing to verify whether or not Jesus was the Messiah, they spent all of their time looking for excuses not to believe in Him and for reasons to kill him.
In contrast, the false messiah will flatter religious and political leaders as he will need their support and validation. He will promise them increased power and influence if they will support him in a "scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours" arrangement. He will appeal to them as an equal, and as a friend, then ultimately as their master. And like any abuser, he will dispose of them when they are no longer of use to him.
Matter of fact, Jesus did not hesitate to shine the light of truth on the hypocrisy of the religious leaders.
These religious leaders were more interested in preserving their position and influence than pursuing the truth.
They knew the truth would expose them and threatened their power and influence.
Instead of testing to verify whether or not Jesus was the Messiah, they spent all of their time looking for excuses not to believe in Him and for reasons to kill him.
In contrast, the false messiah will flatter religious and political leaders as he will need their support and validation. He will promise them increased power and influence if they will support him in a "scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours" arrangement. He will appeal to them as an equal, and as a friend, then ultimately as their master. And like any abuser, he will dispose of them when they are no longer of use to him.
have any of the rulers believed on Him?
John 7:44-51
And some of them [the temple guard] would have taken Him; but no man laid hands on Him.
Then came the [the temple guard] officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they [the religious leaders] said unto them [the temple guard officers], "Why have ye not brought him?"
The officers answered, "Never man spake like this man."
Then answered them the Pharisees, "Are ye also deceived? Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed."
Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,) "Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?"
"Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believe on him?" - this is basically saying that "you can't think for yourself, you have to depend on us religious leaders to think for you and reveal God to you". The Bible says that scripture is not of private interpretation (2 Peter 1:20), but the truth is spiritually discerned and available to all of us.
Notice that the one religious leader said "people who knoweth not the law are cursed".
This was followed up by Nicodemus (the one who actually did bother to try and get to know Jesus) who basically called them out in their hypocrisy. These religious leaders were themselves breaking the law by passing judgement on Jesus without hearing Him and giving Him a trial - and by doing so they have pronounced a curse on themselves in their hypocrisy.
And some of them [the temple guard] would have taken Him; but no man laid hands on Him.
Then came the [the temple guard] officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they [the religious leaders] said unto them [the temple guard officers], "Why have ye not brought him?"
The officers answered, "Never man spake like this man."
Then answered them the Pharisees, "Are ye also deceived? Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed."
Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,) "Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?"
"Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believe on him?" - this is basically saying that "you can't think for yourself, you have to depend on us religious leaders to think for you and reveal God to you". The Bible says that scripture is not of private interpretation (2 Peter 1:20), but the truth is spiritually discerned and available to all of us.
Notice that the one religious leader said "people who knoweth not the law are cursed".
This was followed up by Nicodemus (the one who actually did bother to try and get to know Jesus) who basically called them out in their hypocrisy. These religious leaders were themselves breaking the law by passing judgement on Jesus without hearing Him and giving Him a trial - and by doing so they have pronounced a curse on themselves in their hypocrisy.
division among the people
John 7:37-44
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet. Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? So there was a division among the people because of him. And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.
The difference and division was between two basic groups of people.
There were those who were asking questions to try and get to the truth, to find out if Jesus was the Prophet or the Messiah as prophesied in scripture.
The other group were those looking for excuses not to believe. They lit on the the "fact" that Jesus was from Galilee. If they were truly pursuing the truth they would have taken the time to ask if Jesus was a descendant of David or if He had always lived in Galilee, etc... They didn't really want to know the truth because they were suppressing the truth in unrighteousness.
We should always pursue truth to its end, not stop when we reach an answer that we want to hear.
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet. Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? So there was a division among the people because of him. And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.
The difference and division was between two basic groups of people.
There were those who were asking questions to try and get to the truth, to find out if Jesus was the Prophet or the Messiah as prophesied in scripture.
The other group were those looking for excuses not to believe. They lit on the the "fact" that Jesus was from Galilee. If they were truly pursuing the truth they would have taken the time to ask if Jesus was a descendant of David or if He had always lived in Galilee, etc... They didn't really want to know the truth because they were suppressing the truth in unrighteousness.
We should always pursue truth to its end, not stop when we reach an answer that we want to hear.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Bread of Life
Hey if you think it's great to get a free meal that will only last a few hours until you are hungry again, I've got something much better for you. If you eat of the Bread of Life you will gain eternal life and be resurrected in the last day.
John 6
Friday, May 08, 2015
blindness in part
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Romans 11:25
They are blind in part, not seeing Jesus in the Tanakh
Romans 11:25
They are blind in part, not seeing Jesus in the Tanakh
Thursday, May 07, 2015
A tested cornerstone, firmly placed
The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner
Psalms 118:22
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Isaiah 28:16
Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Matthew 21:42
This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
Acts 4:11
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Ephesians 2:20
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
1 Peter 2:5-7
Psalms 118:22
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Isaiah 28:16
Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Matthew 21:42
This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
Acts 4:11
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Ephesians 2:20
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
1 Peter 2:5-7
Monday, May 04, 2015
become brutish
For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered. - Jeremiah 10:21
they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Genesis 3:14-15
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Genesis 6:1-5
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. Genesis 6:11-12
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. - Daniel 2:43
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Jude 1:6-8
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Genesis 6:1-5
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. Genesis 6:11-12
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. - Daniel 2:43
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Jude 1:6-8
Sunday, May 03, 2015
natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; - 2 Peter 2:12
Saturday, May 02, 2015
Conspiracy of rulers against the Lord
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,
Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Psalm 2:2-3
Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Psalm 2:2-3
they that be drunken are drunken in the night
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober . For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:4-7
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober . For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:4-7
Thursday, April 30, 2015
God spared them not as an example of what happens to ungodly
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
2 Peter 2:4-6
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
2 Peter 2:4-6
strange children
Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children; Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. Psalm 144:7-8
Strange children in the great waters speaking vanity - Rev 13:1-8; Daniel 7:8; Daniel 11:36 beast out of the sea speaking blasphemy and boasting
Right hand of falsehood - raise right hand swearing falsely
Strange children in the great waters speaking vanity - Rev 13:1-8; Daniel 7:8; Daniel 11:36 beast out of the sea speaking blasphemy and boasting
Right hand of falsehood - raise right hand swearing falsely
thorns
Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you - Joshua 23:13
But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell - Numbers 33:55
Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you. - Judges 2:3
Disobedience to God yields harvest of thorns
Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan; Judges 3:1
not all the Canaanites were driven out of the land, some were left by the Lord to "prove" the following generations who inherited the land and had not fought for it. we are quick to defend something hard won, but just as quick to take for granted and loose something easily gained...
"And there will be no more for the house of Israel a prickling brier or a painful thorn from any round about them who scorned them; then they will know that I am the Lord GOD." Ez 28:24
other nations buffet Israel as a thorn in the side
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 2 Cor 12:7
the Lord may not remove all of the messengers of the enemy but leave some to "prove" us, keep us humble, and keep us in good spiritual shape and fighting readiness by giving us something for sparring and preparation for coming battles...
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? - Matthew 7:16
And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. - Luke 8:14
But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell - Numbers 33:55
Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you. - Judges 2:3
Disobedience to God yields harvest of thorns
Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan; Judges 3:1
not all the Canaanites were driven out of the land, some were left by the Lord to "prove" the following generations who inherited the land and had not fought for it. we are quick to defend something hard won, but just as quick to take for granted and loose something easily gained...
"And there will be no more for the house of Israel a prickling brier or a painful thorn from any round about them who scorned them; then they will know that I am the Lord GOD." Ez 28:24
other nations buffet Israel as a thorn in the side
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 2 Cor 12:7
the Lord may not remove all of the messengers of the enemy but leave some to "prove" us, keep us humble, and keep us in good spiritual shape and fighting readiness by giving us something for sparring and preparation for coming battles...
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? - Matthew 7:16
And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. - Luke 8:14
Friday, April 24, 2015
the dead cannot raise themselves
the dead cannot raise themselves
we are dead in our sins and can only be raised up by Jesus
we are dead in our sins and can only be raised up by Jesus
Thursday, April 23, 2015
fiery darts
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8:44
the enemy is not creative, the only thing he is the "father" of are lies and those who propagate lies..
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man 1 Cor 10:13
the enemy can only recycle the same old lies over and over in his efforts to steal, kill, and destroy... (John 10:10)
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. Eph 6:16
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. John 17:17
the truth is God's word
you fight off lies the same way Jesus did, with the truth (God's word)... (Matt 4:1-11)
faith is trusting the truth, and the truth quenches the fiery darts...
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. Luke 8:11
truth is a seed that, when planted in good soil and watered, it grows to bear good fruit (Luke 8:4-18)
lies are also a type of seed, but the seeds of lies only produce tares and thorns (weeds)...
you allow these weed seeds to get planted by repeating these lies to yourself...
lying to yourself no different than any other kind of lying, it is sin...
in the way
If you are bound and determined to drive over a cliff, I won't stand in your way...
However, I will tell you about the cliff and the consequences, and I won't be in the car with you when you go over...
However, I will tell you about the cliff and the consequences, and I won't be in the car with you when you go over...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
dirty on the inside
Matthew 23:25-26
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.
It doesn't matter how clean the outside of the cup is...
if the inside is dirty, then no matter how clean the water is that you put in the cup, the water will come out of the cup dirty.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.
It doesn't matter how clean the outside of the cup is...
if the inside is dirty, then no matter how clean the water is that you put in the cup, the water will come out of the cup dirty.
Thursday, April 16, 2015
broken cisterns
Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Deut 32:32-33
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
instead of using the word of God that has been given to us, mankind attempts to use their own broken wisdom... Jesus is our true vine and the Holy Spirit is the new wine.
John 15:1
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Matt 9:16-17
No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.
The false prophet will speak as a dragon:
Rev 13:11
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Deut 32:32-33
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
instead of using the word of God that has been given to us, mankind attempts to use their own broken wisdom... Jesus is our true vine and the Holy Spirit is the new wine.
John 15:1
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Matt 9:16-17
No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.
The false prophet will speak as a dragon:
Rev 13:11
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon
Sunday, April 12, 2015
warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life
Ezekiel 3:18-21
When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel 33:6
But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel 33:6
But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
Tuesday, April 07, 2015
except there come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed
Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
And to you who are troubled
rest with us,
when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven
with his mighty angels,
in flaming fire
taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
When he shall come to be glorified in his saints,
and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled,
neither by spirit,
nor by word,
nor by letter as from us,
as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come,
[What day? The day of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him!]
except
1) there come a falling away first,
2) and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2 Thessalonians 1:6-12
2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
And to you who are troubled
rest with us,
when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven
with his mighty angels,
in flaming fire
taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
When he shall come to be glorified in his saints,
and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled,
neither by spirit,
nor by word,
nor by letter as from us,
as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come,
[What day? The day of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him!]
except
1) there come a falling away first,
2) and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2 Thessalonians 1:6-12
2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
no pleasure in death of the wicked
Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live? Ezekiel 18:23
satan's five point plan
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
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:
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will be like the most High.
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Monday, April 06, 2015
pride and stubborness leads to blindness and chains
Jeremiah 52:1-11
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
For through the anger of the Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
2 Chronicles 36:10-21
And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the Lord.
And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel.
Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
Israel had done evil by worshipping other gods, sacrificing their children to molech, among other things. After many warnings God's judgement was to allow Babylon to overthrow Israel and rule over them.
Instead of repenting and turning to God for deliver them, they continued in their abominations, and stubbornly hardened their hearts against listening to or calling on God.
In times when Israel was in obedience to God, the children of Israel were able to overthrow the wicked inhabitants of the promised land. They were able to repel previous attempts at invasion. Had they been in obedience to God, then they well could have resisted even the Babylonian empire with God's help.
Instead of listening to the prophet Jeremiah's call to repentance, they ignored the word of the Lord and continued in their evil. Zedekiah instead listened to the "best life now" false prophets who said that God would bless them and give them victory.
This is no different than modern cheep grace, easy believism preachers who tell people that God will bless them no matter what they do.
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
For through the anger of the Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
2 Chronicles 36:10-21
And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the Lord.
And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel.
Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
Israel had done evil by worshipping other gods, sacrificing their children to molech, among other things. After many warnings God's judgement was to allow Babylon to overthrow Israel and rule over them.
Instead of repenting and turning to God for deliver them, they continued in their abominations, and stubbornly hardened their hearts against listening to or calling on God.
In times when Israel was in obedience to God, the children of Israel were able to overthrow the wicked inhabitants of the promised land. They were able to repel previous attempts at invasion. Had they been in obedience to God, then they well could have resisted even the Babylonian empire with God's help.
Instead of listening to the prophet Jeremiah's call to repentance, they ignored the word of the Lord and continued in their evil. Zedekiah instead listened to the "best life now" false prophets who said that God would bless them and give them victory.
This is no different than modern cheep grace, easy believism preachers who tell people that God will bless them no matter what they do.
weary themselves to commit iniquity
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. Jeremiah 9:5
Wednesday, April 01, 2015
Godhead not to be represented by symbols
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Acts 17:29
Acts 17:29
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
sin and death entered into the world through one man
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned .
For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Romans 5:12-22 (Excerpts)
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Colossians 1:20
For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Romans 5:12-22 (Excerpts)
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Colossians 1:20
16 Verses left out of the NIV
1. Matthew 17:21: "Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting."
2. Matthew 18:11: "For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost."
3. Matthew 23:14: "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation."
4. Mark 7:16: "If any man have ears to hear, let him hear."
5. Mark 9:44: "Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."
6. Mark 9:46: "Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."
7. Mark 11:26: "But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses."
8. Mark 15:28: "And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors."
9. Luke 17:36: "Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left."
10. John 5:4: "For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had."
11. Acts 8:37: "And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God."
12. Acts 15:34: "Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still."
13. Acts 24:7: "But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,"
14. Acts 28:29: "And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves."
15. Romans 16:24: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen."
16. I John 5:7: "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. Rev 22:19
2. Matthew 18:11: "For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost."
3. Matthew 23:14: "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation."
4. Mark 7:16: "If any man have ears to hear, let him hear."
5. Mark 9:44: "Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."
6. Mark 9:46: "Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."
7. Mark 11:26: "But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses."
8. Mark 15:28: "And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors."
9. Luke 17:36: "Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left."
10. John 5:4: "For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had."
11. Acts 8:37: "And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God."
12. Acts 15:34: "Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still."
13. Acts 24:7: "But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,"
14. Acts 28:29: "And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves."
15. Romans 16:24: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen."
16. I John 5:7: "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. Rev 22:19
God preserves His Word
The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
Psalm 12:6-7
Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
Psalm 12:6-7
Sunday, March 29, 2015
same source
There is a striking harmony in the way all false belief systems view truth. This is to be expected because all ideologies which are contrary to scripture originated from the same source -- satan.
Bob Larson
Larson's Book of Cults
Bob Larson
Larson's Book of Cults
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