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Christianity is strong here. The churches in South Africa are very active. In my town alone, there are around 30 churches representing several denominations, including Dutch Reformed, Lutheran, etc. Not only does active evangelism happen, but I know a few churches in South Africa that actively send out mission teams to other parts of Africa and the rest of the world. One church has sent mission teams to places like China, Syria, and Pakistan.

Yes. This is a very encouraging thing. It's as if everything will turn back to the way it was before sin. And I'd be happy that God is merciful to me and I see this new earth, we will all come to the knowledge of the truth, so there will be no doctrinal division amongst brethren. What will we do at that point? ( A hearty LOL).

Well, I have thought that if Adam and Eve could fall, where they were . . . and because of the way they were . . . I would not want to go "back" to that, where I could fail and fall. I would want to be changed into the likeness of Jesus who can not fail. And right now I think of this > that river was on earth. The end river comes from Heaven. And we have scripture about how the first Adam was human and living. The last Adam is Jesus who is not only living, but "life-giving". 1 Corinthians 15:45 So, if the first Adam could be different than the last Adam, the first river might not be the same as the coming one.

Most people argue about where that comma in the verse is supposed to be. Let's forget about the comma. If it was Jesus's intention to communicate that the thief would be in his kingdom eventually in the future, he likely would have said "You will be with me in paradise", which of course, doesn't designate when. However, Jesus used "TODAY" because that is exactly what he meant. Jesus told him "You'll be with me in paradise TODAY"!

Some of the tattoos use an ink that works like a chip.

Nice posting. Fair answer. Death "REIGNED" .... Death is the last and great enemy of the living God. Death is proof of sin. Death is proof that God's will must still be brought to earth. If we measure the great trial of the ages in death, then there is presently only one valid observation - "As IN Adam ALL die ... ". This beautiful world is a great graveyard.. Man's most cherished aspirations always end in a rotting body. Thank the Lord for Jesus. In His capacity of "Firstborn from the dead" ALL - yes, ALL are made alive - 1st Cor.15:22

The revealing of Jesus Christ.

Hamas should give up and return the hostages!

Never occurred to him? How does someone get to the head of the FBI and not know something that's common knowledge?

A river and the tree of life in the beginning of the Bible and the end. And this: "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the scripture has said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living waters." John 7:37-38

They may be Marxist now. They did not start out that way. It stands for the African National Congress. It was founded in 1912.

According to my Net research, right now, the Hebrew scripture word for Pleiades is pronounced kee-MAW. So, this could have been arrived at independently of the Greeks' later observing and naming of Pleiades. And the Hebrew pronunciation of their word for Orion is kes-EEL. It was there for them to see, and to name, before the Greeks came along. And the Hebrews' and Job's use of constellations would likely have been for navigation, or at least for realizing how God had arranged the stars, even, with a poetic touch. And because "God is love," (in 1 John 4:8&16), He has things poetic with His love purposes. The stars have organization so they can help to navigate. And I have seen how God even has people named and streets named in a way which rhymes with other people's and streets' names, showing how He is the Master of all people and things, for loving. And there can be a message, even. Orion might remind us of putting on the whole armor of God. Pleides, if it is a cluster, might mean how we can have more in sharing with one another. And, yes, it is called The Seven Sisters . . . perhaps sharing as family like we do in Jesus. And they shine blue light. I take blue to be symbolic of Heaven, and seven is our perfect number, right? So there can be poetry with love meaning, done by God, not only poetry of words. One street in my lady friend's town has her name. And across from her named street is another street with "el" in it > and "El" is a name for God. So, this symbolizes how in Jesus she has God in her, now. And across from where she lives we have a street named after a woman I used to be crazy about > it ends at a swamp! Its habitations are maybe charming but isolated, with only one person or family in each one, or more or less so. But my lady friend is across from that road, in a residential area where ones have connected apartments and can share with one another readily. So, God has poetry of the stars and of people and their names, with His love meaning.

We don't age date uranium itself, but measure the ratio of parent to daughter elements that in a sample.

In Acts ten we have Peter's words, from the time he enter the house of Cornelius till the time when Jesus baptized them with the Holy Spirit and till that time Peter had said nothing about the Holy Spirit. Peter's words are written down and there is nothing in them to Justified your wishful thinking that Jesus needed the words of Peter for faith to be built in the people if not Jesus could not baptized them with the Holy Spirit. Peter said they were baptized by the same Spirit as we were baptized on the day of Pentecost. They were unbaptized and they had only believed and Jesus did something of his own to teach Peter and everyone a lesson. That Jesus can baptized believers with the Holy Goast who are not baptized in water. Nothing can stopped him or the water or the water baptism cannot stopped him. To require someone to be water baptized first before he seek the baptism of the Holy Spirit is not correct. Paul was teaching the same thing and he did not baptized people with water. To believe in Jesus Christ that's the only prerequisite for the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

English is a relatively new language that commonly appropriates terms from other languages. That means terms (such as "Orion") are English (even though the etymological origin is undeniably Greek). That is, the word "Orion" is technically also an English word - since it is the word used in English communication to describe this particular constellation. Therefore, if you are reading an English translation of the Bible, you find the English word (even though historically, the word's origin is Greek). As with the rest of the English Old Testament, the Hebrew terms have been translated into their 'English' equivalents.

Psalm 139:7-8

Thanks, @lrs68. Reminds me of Philippians 2.5-11.....

Hi @LastDaysJames It also fits well with Philippians 1.6: 'He that hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'.

Yes, and even on towards day 6, which I think lasted 300-350 million years, on page 22 placed my 8-10 year old blog up again, explaining how Creation and Gen. chapter 1 jibe, to the best of my ability in simple form. Day 7 of course has been ongoing for 6000 years now. When other stars form God did not pause His "rest" the order just came forth 13.7 billion years ago. Correct, He did not just order matter to go forth, He ordered it to go forth in an orderly manner, he used Math to calculate His orders. Math comes from God, intelligent speech also comes from God. My answer to all this is God lives in all time, so why would He ever have to speed up time? They can never answer that. True, but it costs us souls imho, young people or learned men hear that and scoff at what they see as blind people living in a fantasy world. We can not reach them because they see us as lightweights who will buy anything.

Great verse there........

Do you have a phone in your pocket? It's causing 100x more cancer than a tiny RFID chip. I think it's the ultra processed dog food killing all our dogs young, not the chips. The future is going to get interesting very quickly. Imagine what it will be like when Neuro link becomes a household product. It will be impossible to compete with anyone using Neuro link. They will have instant access to all of the knowledge on the internet. Anyone without it will seem as smart as the family dog. It will open a magic genie in your mind. You will be able to go anywhere and experience anything you ever dreamed of in virtual reality, and you will not be able to tell what is real and what is fake. It will literally be like the Matrix. This is what really scares me. I think most people will turn away from God with this kind of power. Imagine how addicting this would be. It's like the passage about the camel passing through the eye of a needle easier than a rich man going to heaven. Everyone with a chip will be a "rich man". You won't need to actually own anything; you could live in a mansion in your mind. This is where "have nothing and be happy" comes into play.

Hey. Thanks for asking me. I hope I can help. From the moment this situation started reaching the international news, I've been hesitant and have stayed away from discussing it here. I am distinctly aware that my point of view won't be popular here. So I'm only answering with my best knowledge and according to what I believe. I don't really want to talk about the political/ideological points. I'm not going to discuss the political philosophy behind this in detail. Here is what I will say: The crime situation in South Africa is deplorable. And I do admit that farmers in many areas are in danger. There have been horrific cases. They could use better security. The ANC, especially since the time Zuma came into power, has been the big problem in South Africa. They deliberately keep racial tension going because this gives them excuses for bad decisions. They are not interested in running the country properly. They have, through negligence, incompetence and corruption, destroyed everything that was working well. They are as corrupt as they come. So they need to be removed as soon as possible. I believe the tide is turning, slowly but surely. There are also lots of positive things happening in this country. One positive point is that the ANC and others like them are losing support, even among their traditional power base. They might eventually lose enough support to lose power completely. They lose power, there are opposition parties that could really make a difference. Where I live, we still feel quite safe and everything is working quite well.

they were not very hot when all that snow covered them and the nest

@lrs68 Excellent advice, indeed............

I think Sunny the oldest about to fly the nest they stay close by after couple months later they "leave their nest" to make nest of their own Jackie and Shadow are pretty popular in SO CAL they are IT Eagle couple they are hottest LA couple

Not what I meant in any way. The political system is nothing but a congregation of men and women whose desires are worldly, whose convictions waffle, and whose idol is their political ideology. Tell me: do you trust Jesus when he said "there are no good men", and when he said "give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's"? If you do, how can you trust that being entrenched in the western man-made political system is at all in line with what Jesus advocated?

I think that 99% of people actually have no idea what is really going on in Gaza. Don't believe every story you see in the media. Most of what comes out of Gaza is Hamas propaganda. Hamas will intentionally keep people starving just to make Isreal look bad.

Revelation 7 15 “Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence. 16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat. 17 For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

How right you are. What would Christianity be like if we all had her attitude? And yet there is a deeper lesson that is taught. It was not the poor she met - but the House of God. There is service to our families. Then there is service to the poor. But greater and deeper is the gift when it is for the Father's House. The "Treasury" was for the Temple. This woman displayed a deep vision of the house of God on earth. It was worth her all. In that she honored God to the uttermost. His House was before her living. And in doing so she doubly honored Him because her living then became His responsibility. This was Abraham's strength. he refused the spoils of the defeated kings for he said in his heart - they will say that the world made me rich. He was content to make God his supply. And years later, he refused the field of Machpelah as a gift - even though God had promised him ownership of all the Land. He was saying, let me pay the over inflated price that the Canaanite charges me lest they say that they are my source. In this he put his trust in God and shunned the world's supply. He doubly honored God by trusting Him. Did the woman of Luke 21 go hungry that day? You decide! Will the God who can direct Peter to catch the one fish, of all the fish in Galilee, with a coin in its mouth for the same treasury, let the woman reach her place among the homeless empty? Will the God of twelve baskets full of left overs let her fall asleep that night empty? Can a heathen Gentile woman's oil never run out and this child of Abraham starve? I think not. Shall the Savior Who wept over Jerusalem let one of His subjects who honored the Father's House miss another meal? And finally, let us not despise those rich ones who contributed. They did not give proportionately what the woman gave, but 400 years earlier Judah and Benjamin, with many Levites - probably around two million Israelites - were freed by Cyrus, king of the world. They were at the end of 70 years in Babylon and God's House in Jerusalem lay in ruins. The book of Esther records this people and shockingly 97% of them refused to return to the Land God gave them for the sake of building God's House. And God does not identify with them. Neither His Name nor Title ever appears in Esther. Their hearts were in Babylon - not Jerusalem. The rich givers to the treasury of Jesus' day did not match the woman, but they gave. Jehovah does not demean them or accuse them. They were there and they gave. And God honors all. He will not forget your smallest contribution - but oh what rewards for any sacrifice for His House. See 1st Corinthians Chapter 3.

the law required burial that makes it a given

This is an interesting question that I never noticed before. I have always assumed Job was a very early book by an unknown author. Based on God's questions to Job, I surmise that enormous dinosaurs and ice-age glaciers still lingered around, and Job witnessed them. It seems God asks Job what he sees, not what was. You are correct, the Greeks named the Pleiades and Orion after their myths, which poses an interesting dilemma. According to sources I checked, it is estimated that the Greek empire came into existence somewhere around 800 B.C.E.. The time of Job's life and the composition of the Book of Job may shed some light on the question as mentioned below: The exact date of the Book of Job's composition remains uncertain, with scholars proposing various timeframes. While some suggest it could have been written as early as the time of Moses or by Job himself, there is no solid evidence for these claims[1]. Conservative scholars often place its writing around 950 BC, during King Solomon's reign, which was considered the golden age of biblical Wisdom Literature[1]. However, linguistic evidence points to a later date, possibly in the 6th century BC or after[2]. The book's events are believed to have occurred much earlier, possibly around 2000 BC during Abraham's time[1][3]. The earliest known mention of Job in ancient literature appears in the book of Ezekiel, written in the early 6th century BC, indicating that the story was known by then, at least in oral form[3]. Some scholars argue for a post-exilic date (after 538 BC) based on linguistic features and theological concepts[2][3][4]. Despite the range of proposed dates, the book's author remains unknown[1][3]. [1] Ronald F. Youngblood, F. F. Bruce, and R. K. Harrison, Thomas Nelson Publishers, eds., Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Dictionary (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1995). [2] James L. Crenshaw, "Job, Book of," in The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary, ed. David Noel Freedman (New York: Doubleday, 1992), 863. [3] John D. Barry et al., Faithlife Study Bible (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2012, 2016). [4] Elmer B. Smick, "Job," in The Expositor's Bible Commentary: 1 & 2 Kings, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, ed. Frank E. Gaebelein, vol. 4 (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1988), 851.

Jesus died and he went in the paradise of Abraham ahead of Dismas who died right after him. Jesus body from the Cross was place in the tomb. Who said buried? Was John or Perer or one of the women or Jesus Christ. Sorry I see the reference to Paul. My apologies.

Who can't ballance its budget, and can't keep businesses there.

Daniel 12:2 "And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt."

2 Peter 1 21 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Realizing that our desire for self-gratification in a perverted pleasure of fulfillment and what it cost God should have brought repentance of what we were, spiritually dead soulish creatures... The fact that God loved us to provide newness of life became in us a new man by entrance of Holy Spirit into our being... if no such repentance occurred should bring concern Mark 2:17 (KJV) [17] When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Acts 11:18 (KJV) [18] When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life. Acts 26:20 (KJV) [20] But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance. 2 Corinthians 7:10 (KJV) [10] For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. 2 Timothy 2:25 (KJV) [25] In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; etc.

I think Romans 10 has the best description of what to do. Believe God raised him from the dead, and confess that he is your lord. I know people who say they believe, but don't seem to turn everything over to his lordship. I worry about and pray for those folks for I was once that way myself.

1Co 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 1Co 15:2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 1Co 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 1Co 15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: The things to believe are pretty simple. What may be difficult is that the word in Greek (pistis) for believe means more than an acknowledgement of a historical fact. There is a trusting that grows in one as one is more and more convinced of the truth of what Jesus did Being able to see truth is a key to humility. Humility can allow faith to grow.