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First of all ONLY A QUARTER? And second of all just try to find a phone booth or public phone now.

Pope Clement IV declared that the shroud was a fraud 600 years ago. So, even The Vatican acknowledges that this shroud is fraudulent, and this declaration is rather old as well. The shroud of Turin is widely recognized as a medieval forgery. The last forensic examination of this item occurred in 2018; researchers discovered that the blood patterns on the shroud were contrived. In order to arrive at the so-called blood stains on the shroud, the individual would have had to have been in two radically different poses simultaneously.

Here's the bottom line, John. It takes NO medical research, no "duplication", no journal articles..... ALL it takes to prove the shroud is a fake is to read the Bible about the description of Jesus' dead body. The Bible prophesies that Jesus' beard would be pulled out. [Isaiah] The shroud shows a full and manicured beard. Fake. The Bible says that Jesus' face was beaten "over and over " by the Roman soldiers with a staff. [Mark 15:19]. The face on the shroud shows no broken/bloodied nose, no hematomas, no swollen areas, no nothing to show a face beaten multiple times. The Bible says that Pilate ordered Jesus to be flogged before the crucifixion. [Mark 15:15] Flogging by Romans was almost a death sentence. A scourging, whether with bits of metal and such tied to multiple cords or with one cord, would leave severe marks on a body and multiple places where skin, ears, lips, and other flesh was ripped off. Why do you think that Jesus was unable to carry his own cross? Flogging, many times, lead to death. There are NO signs of flogging on the shroud. Fake. The Bible prophsies that the crucified Jesus would not even look human after his abuse. [Isaiah] The face and body on the shroud show no signs of that kind of abuse. Fake.

"For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren." (Romans 8:29) "rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God." (1 Peter 3:4) "Love has been perfected among us in this: that we might have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4:17) "Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain." (Philippians 2:13-16) "But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts." (Romans 13:14) "be clothed with humility" (in 1 Peter 5:5) "I am gentle and lowly in heart" (in Matthew 11:29)

This is where we see the absolute travesty of a mish mash of apocalyptic Christian theology woven into modern politics.

I don't know if I we'll ever understand that view of Trump. All I see is a grifter and narcissist.

"Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence." (1 Timothy 2:1-2)

The first strange is about the Pharisee boasting in his own self righteousness... This is by taking a look in himself and finding himself righteous that he has done this or that...but all that was not for the forgiveness of his sins, but rather not to do sins...his good behavior prevented him to do more sins... But it was not all about himself...he did not acknowledge the Priesthood and the Lord of the Priesthood and the Lord who gave them the Law and the Day of the Atonement... On that day the people had their sins forgiven by the blood of the Lamb of the Atonement provided to them by the Priesthood at no cost to them... He forgot to acknowledge and thank God for that, and without that he would be in his sins...he forgot he had forgiveness of sins...he justified himself , without mentioning the Day of the Atonement.. By Judging others, believing that they were excluded and he was included...thinking that God wants to have children and he was the better and only choice...thinking that without him God will not have any children.... The same thing happens today with a lot of Christians, looking at others and say where is their fruit, sure they are deceived to think that they are also belong to Jesus or that they believe...God does not accept them without their Fruit, like the Fharisse who was boasting in his plenty of Fruit...thinking that he is in the vine of the Lord, if not how he can have plenty of fruit... Same thing happens to day, those with plenty of fruit they are severely Judging those without fruit according to them, which by the way is not according to Jesus Christ. But it is not about the abundance or the lack of fruit, it is about what Jesus has done, that when we believe in him we are in the forgiveness of sins in his name shake... And whether we have or do not have fruit we in the forgiveness of sins because we believe, by faith alone...in any state we find ourselves in...this is the power of the love of Jesus Christ for the world...to everyone who believes, this is it, Jesus is not going to condemn anyone who is under his blood...he cannot, no matter how we Judge the unworthy believers and how we call them with derogatory names and Judge them as unbelievers, and we see them lost, perhaps lost in their ways... but not lost to Jesus who knows they are his because he died for the forgiveness of their sins... When you hear someone that has judged himself self as worthy expect to hear how he will next Judge the other sheep of Jesus who he believes they are not worthy...look at the derogatory names he has for them....but to Jesus they are his and not the Devils, and he will never disown them...no matter what we say about them...we say about them...

Note: This prologue is a theoretical hypotheses of Israel’s eschatology, and is what I think (and all the Plymouth Brethren) is probably truth; and let us be aware that regardless of what may be considered, it is not essential doctrine, same for any growth truth that has no effect on one’s salvation (i.e. whether or not if one believes salvation is permanent does not affect being saved.) The Lord has come and many Gentiles have received Him, but still not many of God’s people have received Him; but this will come later, after they see Him (Jhn 20:29). There are those among “God’s people” who presently believe in God (Jn 14:1 – “believing Israel”), but not in is Son. These He has surly saved (still in union but presently out of fellowship), for what is there to be said of the years God has and is dealing with believing Israel; which is saying much more than not believing at all, which has always been the state of the majority of the world. Otherwise a vast majority of the Jews would be lost! There have always been those who believe in God who love Him, thus is the love to them to be finally shunned? God has always returned their hearts to Him and will yet do so one more time—and it will be permanent. Many I’m sure are not familiar with the fact that God has saved the Israelites who believe in Him, by the same method of Christ’ Blood efficacy, as it was “paid forward” (Act 2:2; Rom 3:25; Heb 9:15-22). The only time that remains for the return to fellowship of believing Israel (to fellowship, not union which has never been broken) is during the Millennium, when they shall finally see Him and believe (but no son-ship in Christ, just a people of God); and this is when they and the Christians will take part in the “first resurrection” (Rev 20:5). The Lord and those with Him will teach Israel what God has prepared for them. Israel now believing in Christ will be the New Earthly representative, with Christ and those who are His instructing Israel (Mat 19:28; Luk 22:30). The prophecies of Jerimiah and Ezekiel do not be refer to the present covenant of the Christians, because it is a covenant with man; for the present and “everlasting Covenant” is between the Father and the Son, in that the Father raised the Son from the dead after expiating their sins (Heb 13:20, et al). Thus Christians are not in a covenant with God (Benefactor), but are recipients (beneficiaries) of the “Covenant of Redemption”! Whether or not this is just theory or truth, it thankfully is not essential doctrine, and cannot effect salvation either way it is believed. NC The Three Covenants “Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. (Heb 13:20, 21). Here we have the word “covenant” (which is so frequently mentioned in chapters 8, 9, 10, 12) and an eternal covenant. It is here we find “the God of peace bringing again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the Great Shepherd of the sheep”—how? “With the Blood of an eternal covenant.” That is, in accordance with the terms of an agreement between the Father and the Son, which terms are seen to be a promise from the Father that if the Son would become “a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death” (Heb 2:9), shedding His Blood for us, the Father would bring Him again from among the dead. The Son came to earth, and became “obedient unto death,” and the Father indeed brought Him again from among the dead. The eternal covenant was kept (“Covenant of Redemption”). Before we go further, it will be well to look back over the Scripture teaching as to covenants. To make a covenant effective, the parties thereto must be able to fulfill the conditions undertaken. But with fallen man, such fulfillment is unthinkable, impossible. For: a) Man is a creature, and all the ability must be supplied by God. b) Man is a fallen creature, and unable to put away his guilt. Therefore the legal covenant of Sinai was, as 2Cor 3:7, 9 says a “ministration of death … condemnation.” It revealed to man his helplessness, but it supplied no strength (yet forgiveness was granted to the obedient, which manifested faith – e.g. Num 15:24-31—NC). We are removed, then, in our consideration of Hebrews 13:20, both from the legal covenant of chapters 8 and 9, and from the future “new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah” (Heb 8:8) because: a) “The Law (with its covenant) made nothing perfect” (Heb 7:19), and was “disannulled,” “because of its weakness and unprofitableness” (v 18). b) The “new covenant” to be made with Israel and Judah at our Lord’s return to earth, we have seen is all grace—God’s operation instead of their response (Jer 31:31-24; Ezek 36:24-27; 37:12-14, 21, 23, 25-28). Therefore the “new covenant” which the Hebrew believers to whom Paul was writing had explained to them, was not yet on, nor will be until Christ’s return to earth; and then it will apply to “the house of Israel and the house of Judah,” as God says, in the land of Palestine, with the peculiar earthly blessings described in Scripture. But—there is yet an eternal covenant, detailed in Hebrews 13:20, in which and according to which Paul knows that all believers may be made perfect in “every good work.” This eternal covenant, in which the God of peace and our Lord Jesus are the Benefactors, and the sheep are the beneficiaries—this covenant is the only covenant which believers should keep in mind as already and eternally fulfilled in its conditions (sacrifice has been made—NC), and available to all. This is the covenant that was revealed to Paul: “The Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread … in like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in My Blood: this do, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of Me.” This is the Eternal Covenant of which the Lord Jesus is said to be “the Mediator” (9:15), and which is celebrated in the Lord’s Supper, in view of His death, by those benefited forever thereby! —William R Newell (1868-1956) MJS devotional excerpt for July 29 “There are various ways in which as saints we are tried, but through all circumstances God is threading our way, occupying Himself with us, our particular characters, etc., to instruct and develop us. What we want is to realize that our Father loves us so much that He has taken such pains to make us ‘partakers of His holiness’ (Heb. 12:10). We are apt not to believe the activity of His love. Some trouble comes on us; our Father has been watching us individually for weeks, months, years; watching us to bring this trouble which He sees is needed.” –Henry Hugh Snell (1817-1892) “How varied are the ways in which our Father bringeth down and lifteth up! We have to learn the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ in the bright day as well as in the sorrowful day. If He is everything to me in my brightest day there is no fear, but He will be my chief joy in the day of sorrow.” –MJS http://www.abideabove.com/hungry-heart/

So do you believe all your research of all this cool stuff you have 'discovered' from those modern scientist is valid? Do you believe all the bible? Do your ears itch?.........

Hearing aids don't really help in noisy restaurants. Everything gets mumbled up so you can't understand the words. I am probably one of the most social people you would know, but I can't understand you in a crowd where everyone is talking. Cracker Barrel is one of the worst places to meet me. We usually pick places that are quite to eat out. and where they don't play music. Yes, I do wear hearing aids and they are blue toothed to my phone so if you want me to understand you in a busy place just call me on the phone and I will hear better, but texting is better.

They aren't the same thing. "Microevolution" is evolution within a species. "Macroevolution" is the evolution of new taxa. But it's a functional definition. It happens that "microevolution" can retroactively become "macroevolution." Would you like me to show you how that happens? Even most YE creationists now realize that they do: As creationists, we must frequently remind detractors that we do not deny that species vary, change, and even appear over time. ... Before the time of Charles Darwin, a false idea had crept into the church—the belief in the “fixity” or “immutability” of species. According to this view, each species was created in precisely the same form that we find it today. The Bible nowhere teaches that species are fixed and unchanging. https://answersingenesis.org/natural-selection/speciation/ Most creationists have admitted the fact of speciation, since observed examples can't be denied: Genetics, 01 Jul 1935, 20(4):377-391 Drosophila Miranda, a New Species. That's a big problem with traditional creationism. AiG and ICR have "solved" this by backing up a bit and admitting the fact that new species and genera arise from older groups. They just don't want to admit that it can go farther. It's the best they can do with the data being what it is.

You didn't research it good enough.

The cult of Donald Trump is our concern, not political support of the man. It's possible to participate in the political process without falling prey to that cult, or any other cult for that matter. There's a miasma of false teaching and false prophecy swirling around that peculiar personality cult. Let's see scriptural proof that Mr. Trump is the savior of the world, the best thing since sliced bread, the truth, the restrainer, et. al.

That's in reference to Jesus' legs not being broken as was the custom of those hastening the crucifixion. Soldiers broke the legs of those dying on crosses to speed things up. They did not do that to Jesus. But, let's put that aside. Is that all you got from my post? Don't you see know how this piece of cloth is a fake? It does not match the Bible account of Jesus' dead body at all. Do you see that now?

Our faith does not rely on the Shroud of Turin but on the written Word of God.

Thanks ... and yes, not only do we have a gospel that is too much for the human mind, but we have been given a revelation of God's purpose with EARTH. Our Lord's prayer is; "Thy kingdom COME (to earth), Thy will be done ON EARTH as it is in heaven:" The problem is not in heaven, but on earth. Man is made to subdue and rule EARTH. In heaven there is the golden altar of incense, but on earth the journey to God starts at the brazen altar of blood. A little quoted verse is so profound that it needs a deep appreciation just to speak it. "The blood of sprinkling which speaks better things than that of Abel" (Heb.12.24) Abel's blood required a just God to meet this affront and injustice. Thorns and thistles and failed harvests are the dwellers of earth's portion. It took the sinless blood and the most agonizing death of both body and soul of the Darling of heaven to give His Father the judicial right to lift this curse. Does this not make the EARTH a most valuable PRIZE. Is not the earth's beauty and wealth far surpassed by it being bought by Christ's blood? Shall not the Man Who set the legal requirements of this same just God, dwell on His PRIZE? Is not the story of earth far more glorious than that of heaven? Psalm 8:1–9 1 To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. 2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. 6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: 7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; 8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. 9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! It is man's glory to be chosen to rule this glorious corner of the vast universe.

As I have repeatedly said, my nephew deals with that and is certainly not demonically oppressed. Maybe this person in the video never actually had Tourette's but perhaps something that manifested similarly? Was he officially diagnosed as such? A diagnosis of Tourette's is based on a psychologist - has that been confirmed? I think you might understand that implying Tourette's or any autism spectrum disorder is demonically influenced could affect a large number of people who may think they are also under the same oppression. You even said earlier that you don't know. Don't be casual with your claims. Make sure they are right.

so people believe that of the millions of people alive at that time..... this face imprinted had to be Jesus and it happned to resemble the classic European art portrayals of Jesus too??? More crazy people are outside of the asylums than in......

My dear sister, It is our freedom and right to answer another how we like, and I am the first to uphold that right. But if we are intent in getting to the truth of a matter we are constrained to answer what is written. I have posted my answer and your answer together so that you, and the readers you mentioned, may see if you addressed my points. 1. Where is the "mound of evidence" for men going to heaven, staying there and ruling from there? 2. Why did you avoid the many and plain scriptures that give the earth to men? 3. Why have you singled out the Pharisees as those who have the Kingdom of God ripped from them when the context was "The Vine of Israel" and the new recipients an "ethnos" in the Greek. Strong gives the meaning as "a people, company or nation of the same genus". That is, this second people CANNOT be Israelites. This is a people of another "genus". This is born out in that in the Millennium Israel is ruled by Christ, David (a Christian) and the Twelve Apostles (Christians). The "genus" of the new royal nation is the Holy Spirit (Jn.3:3), not Jacob. Instead, you have taken verses outside of the context and wrested them together to form a picture that does not exist. My tendency is to wait till you answer my posting, but out of respect for the fine Christian that you are, I will answer your posting. You use Ephesians 1:20-22 but in doing so you have contradicted yourself. How can our Lord be confined to the Father's throne - heaven, but at the same time say that it cannot contain Him? How can you confine Christ to the father's throne when there are double the amount of prophecies compared to His first advent, that He returns to earth? You have annulled Revelation 4 and Matthew 25 which have Him in His OWN throne. You have denied the councils of God Who put a man on an imperfect earth in the first place TO SUBDUE. To your points: 1. YES! Christ will replace Lucifer in the same place. In Luke 4 Lucifer claims the Kingdoms of this world. Our Lord dos not deny this. That it is true is shown in that He was "tempted". If it had not been true what test was there?. In Revelation 11 these Kingdoms become those of Christ. 2. YES! The obedient angels will be WITH Christ (Matt.25:31). the disobedient angels will be confined on earth since the Lake of Fire was "made for the Devil AND his angels". Until then, the Devil and his angels are held in Tartaroo in the "bottomless pit adjacent to Hades (2nd Pet.2:4, Rev.20:1-3) 3. YES! Satan pollutes God's glorious earth. A Man replaces him. This is nothing new. The Canaanites dwelt in Canaan. They polluted the Land by sexual offense, murder, idol worship and bruning their children alive to Molech. Some time later, as you have testified, God dwelt in Canaan in Solomon's Temple 4. YES. God commanded the tabernacle be built and He dwelt there between the Cherubim. When the Good Land was subdued, Solomon built God a fixed House "in that place HE CHOSE to put His name". Jesus called Zerubbabel's Temple "His Father's House" in John 2. The Church is on earth - the "House of the living God". New Jerusalem, the Tabernacle of God, comes down to earth. The earth and all that is in it belongs to the Lord. God so loved the world (kosmos) that He gave His only begotten Son ... ". That is the price God put on the earth. I personally would not belittle it. That God dwells in unapproachable light in heaven is not disputed. That God fills the universe to overflow is not disputed. That God dwells in the spirits of Christians is not disputed. That God dwells in the Church is not disputed. That God is omniscient is confirmed. But that men will be transported to heaven, remain there and rule from there has no place in scripture. Nice swapping ideas with you. Go well.

suddenly mine looks much better as pythons cannot dig

I agree there, and I think proof in the form of things like the shroud run a bit counter to God's intentions for us. We're called on to have faith. If we get things that constitute hard evidence of something supernatural we'd end up like Thomas, believing because we saw. Jesus said blessed are those who have not seen but believed anyway.

The whole event was recorded where multiple people received deliverance. The guy is still Tourette free, him and his wife are plugged into a church.

I dont know where you got your image from but that does not look like the image I saw being reproduced. This isnt that big a deal for me. You can believe in it or not. I was just refuting your comment that no one has produced an image that matches it. I was skeptical at first when I saw it demonstrated, but after watching the artist/historian create the image using techniques from medieval/renaissance times, I was convinced the shroud is merely a fake. For unbelievers in Christ, no proof (artifacts like the shroud) is enough or even needed since it is by faith that folks are saved. For Christians, no proof is necessary.

Shalom, Keras. Actually, Heaven is NOT "God's home." God is OMNIPRESENT! There is nowhere where He is not! It's the New Jerusalem that is "God's tent": Revelation 21:1-3 (KJV) 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven (Greek: ek tou thronou = "out of-the throne") saying, "Behold, the tabernacle (Greek: hee skeenee = "the tent") of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God." 4633 skeenee σκηνή, ῆς, ἡ (skay-nay'). Apparently akin to skeuos and skia; a tent or cloth hut (literally or figuratively): -- habitation, tabernacle. But, I understand what you are trying to say. This assumes that there IS a separation between "heaven" and earth. However, when one realizes that the word for "heaven" is the Greek word "ouranos," then they're not as separated as one might think. Revelation 21:1 (KJV) 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth (Greek: ouranon kainon kai geen kaineen = "a-sky new and an-earth new"): for the first heaven and the first earth (Greek: ho gar prootos ouranos kai hee prootee gee = "the <-> for first sky and the first earth") were passed away; and there was no more sea. The word "ouranos" means the "sky," but we would also give it the name "atmosphere" today. The air of the atmosphere is most concentrated close to the ground, and it thins out as one ascends into the sky. It's this ATMOSPHERE which we find made new for the New Earth. But again, I agree with what you are saying in general, for verse 3 goes on to say, "he [God] will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God." Yes, and I like to add Luke 1:30-33 where Gavri'eel ("Gabriel") says, Luke 1:30-33 (KJV) 30 And the angel said unto her, "Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. 31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. 32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: 33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end." While I quite agree with you on the general truths here, "spiritual" should not be used for a "world," or "realm," or "dimension," or whatever! The word "spiritual" does NOT mean something "not physical." Paul (in 1 Corinthians 15:44-46) used the two Greek words psuchikos and pneumatikos regarding a body (sooma). They were TRANSLATED in the KJV as "natural" and "spiritual," respectively, but their MEANINGS are "air-breathing" and "air-blasting (like a wind)." These adjectives come from their noun counterparts, "psuchee" (an "air-breathing creature") and "pneuma" (a "wind"). You're right about His body. I like to add Luke 24:39 where He tells His disciples, "39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have." He then eats before them where they met with Him. However, He is a body of "flesh and bones," which is indeed a "spiritual body!" That is, "an air-blasting body!" This is talking about His STRENGTH, not the composition of His body! When He comes, we shall be like Him for we shall see Him as He is! So, during His reign, both during the 1,000-year Millennium and in the Eternal State on the New Earth, we too shall be living with Yeshua` ("Jesus") as "air-blasting bodies" or "spiritual bodies." Absolutely correct. Again, this is correct. Well said! Right on the money!

About 30 yrs ago I saw someone duplicate the shroud of turin using a technique known in medieval/renaissance times. The duplicate was uncanny. An exact copy.

I believe in the power of the Holy Spirit, and the gifts He gives to spread the precious life giving Gospel. He still heals, He still speaks, He still moves. I see it. I've seen blind eyes see, deaf ears open, food multiply as we were serving the homeless, and many get free from demons. If you go by the bible alone you would come out with that same conclusion, His power is for today.

Yes; God comes out of heaven, to dwell with mankind for Eternity. Revelation 21:3

God bless, and I really mean that.

And cell phone are obsessive.

as well as they should. Pay phones were nasty.

Got it. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

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This is a good post, a posting with a vision.

Interesting factoid about the Queen: She was so service oriented that she insisted she would serve during WW2. She was trained to be a mechanic and could fix and rebuild entire engines. Perhaps over the years this is why you often saw the Queen driving vehicles around like the Rover in the attached article. Queen military truck driver and mechanic

I would say it's indeed possible. I would place myself in the first category for many years, until I was roughly 30 years old and God opened the eyes of my heart to be able to truly understand and receive the gospel. I would say to think about the implications of it if they are "set for life" categories; that would mean that anyone who does not truly and fully receive the gospel and experience true saving faith the very first time they hear a gospel presentation are doomed to never be able to receive it ever. Surely we know this is not true and that many people who initially reject it for whatever reason or reasons do eventually come to know the truth and give their lives to God.

I would point out first and foremost that Jesus ate with his disciples multiple times after his resurrection with his glorified, perfected, physical human body. Also, Jesus said "Assuredly, I say to you, I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the Kingdom of God" at Passover (Mark 14:25). Ultimately we do not know. But since the question stemmed from a general sense of "I love doing this thing and I'm concerned we may not be able to do it for eternity," the real point in all of this is that, if there is anything that we love in this life, it will either be present in the next life, or it will be replaced by things so much better and more wonderful that we would not want to participate in it anymore anyway.

I'm still convinced I'm right Joe.

This idea is not Biblical. Heaven is God’s home. Earth is our home. The Lord Jesus, as the Son of God and the Son of man will eventually make Heaven and Earth as one. Ephesians 1:10…everything in heaven and earth will be brought together under one Head; Jesus Christ. Just as the separation between heaven and earth will be forever demolished through Jesus, so too will the separation between God and mankind be removed. Revelation 21:3 Now: the dwelling of God is with men and He will live with them. Zechariah 9:10 The Lord will banish all the things of war, He will proclaim peace to the nations and His rule will extend to the ends of the earth. God’s plan is to make all things as one, to remove the separation between the spiritual and the physical worlds. This is the ultimate plan of God and the finale of secular history. When God walked with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, it was then a part of heaven, but when they sinned, angels with flaming swords kept mankind out and we await its re-establishment on earth. Revelation 21 to 22 Will those who will live with Jesus during His Millennial reign, have spiritual bodies? No, because there will be many still alive at His Return, Matthew 24:31 and when He was resurrected, He still ate and drank in a body suited for earthly living. John 21:12 Revelation 20:4-6…the souls of those who were killed for their faith in God, were resurrected and they will reign with Christ for 1000 years… On earth! People who think there is a rapture to heaven, where they believe they will have heavenly, spiritual bodies have failed to understand that God’s purpose from the beginning of humankind, was to establish a place and a people who would display His glory and to share eternal life with Christ. Hebrews 2:14-15, Revelation 22:14 For now, we face daily challenges in our lives and on the world scene, but the knowledge that a regenerated earth is coming should reassure us and give us the right perspective. There is a purpose in all that happens, the injustices and suffering will not last, they are part of the testing process we all must go through. God will make everything right, rewarding those who stood firm and trusted Him in all the trials and temptations of this world. 1 Corinthians 16:13 The people who will live with Jesus in the Millennium period, are being prepared now. Remember, it may not be the proud and self-promoting people who will be chosen, it’s the meek who will inherit the earth. Matthew 5:5 Those people will then be under the benevolent government of the resurrected saints, with Jesus as King. Will it be boring to be good all the time? It is wrong to assume sin is exciting and righteousness isn’t. That is the Devil’s lie, his basic strategy, but the reality is that sin robs us of fulfilment, sin doesn’t expand life, it shrinks it and sin’s emptiness inevitably leads to boredom. Where there’s fulfilment, where there’s beauty, where we won’t have to struggle for existence and as God’s mysteries unfold to us, that is the ultimate human utopia: ON EARTH.

This is unbiblical John.

We are thankful for what the Lord gives to us, remembering that whatever befalls us is according to the will and purpose of God. I never asked the Lord to heal me of a single thing. I didn't ask Him for a home; I didn't ask Him for a family, and I didn't ask Him to make me wealthy (or poor). Here's what I asked of the Lord: "Lord, tell me what it is I must do. Serving You is the greatest honor a man could ever aspire to in this life, and You have blessed me beyond measure. You have revealed Yourself to me!" I was poor, and I didn't worry about the next meal. I was alone, but I wasn't lonely. I was afflicted but not forgotten, and I waited upon the Lord alone. I trust Him even though He slays me. I asked Him for nothing except death so when He raised me up from ruin, I was speechless. I was destitute so when He gave me an income, I was astonished. I wandered without a home for 20 years so when my Lord gave me a house and said, It is yours, I wept. I was an outcast and outsider for all of my days until the Lord declared, Behold, you have more mothers, brothers, and sisters than you can number. I was stunned. The Lord straightened my spine, correcting a deformity I was born with. The Lord restored my eyesight and the muscles in my legs which atrophied from muscular dystrophy, something else I was born with. Muscular dystrophy was the cause of both. The Lord did all of these things according to His good pleasure, but I'll tell you the truth: I could still be destitute, homeless, and afflicted and still sing praises to His name. The greatest gift my Lord Jesus Christ gave to me is Himself. I am more than content... He has blessed me beyond measure!

I'll start here for clarities sake, then I'll answer the other portions. There is only one true Covenant, between God and Abraham, which represents all Israel, and all the world for that matter via prophecy which says the whole world would be blessed through "Faithful Abraham". The Law was added 430 years later (Gal. ch. 3) Paul said, because of sin. Sure there are other Agreements (Covenant in Hebrew simply means Agreement) between God and other men, but only one that pertains to Salvation, and its not between Jesus and God, they is just one, its between God and Abraham, and by extension Israel, and by extension, the whole world, because Jesus was birthed by Mary, a daughter of Abraham. God prophesies that He will save Israel for His names sake, not because of anything they do, and thus He is referring unto His promise to Abraham. Jesus states there will be many people who think they are going to heaven who will not make it, saying Lord Lord did we not do this, this and this in your name and Jesus says Depart from me for I never knew you. Believing without repentance and obedience is worthless, Satan believes and trembles. So, God will not save anyone who does not come unto Him by Faith alone, the difference is most Gentles come unto God before the Rapture, and most Jews come unto God just before the Middle of the Week/Day of the Lord God's Wrath and scriptures prove this. The Jews who come to Christ must come by faith alone, just like the Gentiles and Abraham did. Why would Jesus show up and save 1/3 of his people but not all? He wouldn't, all men must come unto Christ Jesus by faith alone. Zechariah 13:8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God. {{{ So, God protects the 1/3 of the Jews in the Petra/Bozrah area, that equals about 5 million Jews who repents just before the Day of the Lord God's Wrath falls on mankind. Elijah AND (IMHO) Moses preaches unto them, and the Jews have already seen the Rapture of the Church where 1 billion or so Christians all pass away at the exact same time, going to be with the Lord in spirit, as 1 Cor. 15 says we do. Remember, 5 of the 10 virgins do not make the wedding call or Rapture. So, there are 2 billion Christians on earth, only 1 billion are raptured, the others will go through the 70th week tribulation period were many probably repent, but many others will be to weak to make it.}}} Zechariah 14:1 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. {{{ The above is the Day of the Lord (1260 event/Middle of the Week) where Israel/Jerusalem is conquered by the Anti-Christ...................BELOW is Jesus returning as he sets foot on the mount of Olives and defeats the Anti-Christ and all of his armies of thugs. Notice, the Jews come unto Christ in Zech. 13:8-9 JUST BEFORE the Day of the Lord arrives. Malachi 4:5-6 also shows this to be true. SEE BELOW. }}} Zechariah 14:3 Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. 4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. So, in both passages we see Israel repents JUST BEFORE the Day of the Lord so they come back unto God by Faith alone, not by the sight of Jesus Christ. God never changes. See above: AND I will add this, There is indeed a first and second resurrection, one of the Righteous in Christ and then the ones who are of Satan are resurrected a 1000 years later, but just like a ball game has 4 quarters or 2 half's the First Resurrection doesn't have to happen at all the same time, nor does it. We have a pre trib rapture, then as the Jews are rescued from the final assault on them whilst in the Petra/Bozrah area, the Jewish Saints of old are raised at that time, just as Daniel was told in Dan 12. The Jews of old were married unto God, thus they can't marry the son Jesus, of course those Messianic Jews will be a part pf Jesus' bride.

I do not know a single cancer patient who chose to have cancer. My husband did not choose to have poverty when he was young, nor did his parents. His baby sister did not choose to die in a car accident. Some things are not choices.

Jesus said that the man who beat on his chest in frustration of.his sinful life is better off than the guy who said " at least I ain't as bad as that guy."

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1 Jesus, thy blood and righteousness my beauty are, my glorious dress; mid flaming worlds, in these arrayed, with joy shall I lift up my head. 2 Bold shall I stand in that great day; who can a word against me say? Fully absolved through these I am from sin and fear, from guilt and shame. 3 Lord, I believe your precious blood, which at the very throne of God pleads for the captives' liberty, was also shed in love for me. 4 Lord, I believe, were sinners more than sands upon the ocean shore, you have for all a ransom paid, for all a full atonement made. 5 When from the dust of death I rise to claim my mansion in the skies, this then shall be all my only plea: Jesus has lived and died for me. 6 Jesus, be worshiped endlessly! Your boundless mercy has for me, for me and all your hands have made, an everlasting ransom paid. 7 O let the dead now hear thy voice; Now bid thy banished ones rejoice; Their beauty this, their glorious dress, Jesus, thy blood and righteousness. Nicolaus L. von Zinzendorf (1700-1760) Translated by John Wesley (1703-1791)

The blood of Christ does cleanses is if we sin. Not only when we were first saved. Repentance is a daily task. We are told to put on the new man. We have to daily. We put it on. Like our coat. If we sin we have to repent. It's like if we fall in the mud would we go home and get into bed to sleep without washing the mud off ? Never would we. So if we commit sin we confess it and turn away from it. And walk in righteousness.