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OneLight said, I would be very interested to see the scripture that tells us not to pray for Israel. You do realize that this ministry is based out of Israel, yes? "Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me; for I will not hear you.17 Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?18 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger.19 Do they provoke Me to anger?" says the Lord. "Do they not provoke themselves, to the shame of their own faces?"20 Therefore thus says the Lord God: "Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place--on man and on beast, on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground. And it will burn and not be quenched." Jer 7:16-20 (NKJV) For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to that shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal. 14 "So do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry out to Me because of their trouble. Jer 11:13-14 (NKJV) Then the Lord said to me, "Do not pray for this people, for their good.12 "When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence." 13 Then I said, "Ah, Lord God! Behold, the prophets say to them, 'You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.' "14 And the Lord said to me, "The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart. Jer 14:11-14 (NKJV)

OneLight said, In this case, who is the wolf you are referring to? I thought it was pretty obvious, but Billy Graham. Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets. Luke 6:26 (KJV)

OneLight says, "Tell me then, how does Satan and the 1/3 that follow him still live?" Is Satan not dead in sin and separated with no fellowship with God his Creator? Is he not the enemy of God and man? He roams where he will at this moment, but that day will come to an end. The curse upon Satan and the fallen angels is not the same as upon Adam and those that follow him. Men can be redeemed because God's Son gave his life and shed his own blood to buy them back to God. Satan and the fallen angels cannot and will not be redeemed ever. But what does that have to do with the "tree of life?"

Several times over the last few thousand years, God has wiped out the Jews who inhabited Jerusalem. The first time, the Jews had turned to idolatry and God sent the Assyrians to destroy them and sell them into slavery. Many years later, he brought them back, but, again they turned from God to idolatry and God sent the Babylonians to destroy Jerusalem and a handful were left in the land and quite a few were exiled to Babylon for 70 years. Then God brought them back until the Messiah came, but the Jews rejected their Messiah while only a small percentage of the millions of Jews turned to the Lord, so, as the Lord Jesus told us, he sent armies to destroy and tear down Jerusalem again and it was that way for nearly two thousand years. Even today, the Jews don't fully control Jerusalem. There are places in the scriptures where God tells the prophet to not pray for this people, as he will not hear him, but somehow, this verse in the Psalms is quoted again and again and Christians think God is calling them to pray for the city of Jerusalem. Why is that? There are false prophets out there, like Hagee from Texas, that teach people we are to pray for Jerusalem and support the Jews, no matter how anti-Christ they are or how they behave, but simply because thy are "God's chosen people." The old covenant, however, has been replaced with the new and Jesus died for the sins of all the peoples of the world and said we are to preach the gospel to all nations. Note that Jerusalem was destroyed about 37 years after the resurrection of Christ and the apostles had lived in that city, but Christ destroyed it because the nation as a whole rejected their Messiah. Today, the United States is turning away from God to fables about the Lord as taught in modern churches: false ways of salvation based on men's works and not truly upon the grace of Christ. This idea of praying for Jerusalem is one of those fables that some Christians believe. The apostles were not caught up in such things, but went everywhere preaching the gospel. Only the gospel can bring peace to any city or nation.

What churches today are standing with the Lord?

There are many cults and denominational and independent churches that resist immorality and homosexuality at this time, but they are, nonetheless, false churches, because they teach lies about Jesus already.

By laws change, the word of God does not. Churches will cave into this evil to avoid persecution as God exposes churches for what they really are and have been all along.

Some wolves wear their sheep's clothing so well, you can't see their big teeth, while others are more careless with their camouflage.

I don't believe it was meant to be either with God or away from God, just that it meant to live forever, spiritually. There is nothing in scripture that states otherwise. We obtain theories as we read into scripture what scripture does not provide. You are mistaken about the nature of sin to say this, OneLight. Sin kills the soul. God tells us plainly, "the soul that sins will die." It is not just the body that dies, but the soul. But, as the body can and will still die, our souls can have "eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." This gift is given back to men who repent of sin and believe in Christ's work of redemption for them. When one is "born again," as Jesus talked about in John 3, they enter into the kingdom of God, the eternal kingdom and receive this eternal life from God. it is a wonderful gift that was removed from Adam. There spirits and souls are made alive to God. Souls of sinful, unrepentant men, however, do continue on forever, but not with "life," but eternal death and punishment. They perish, as Jesus says.

All the blessings of God are not for the man and woman who turn to sin. Today, we have churches presenting eternal life to those who do not truly repent of sin, but actually embrace sin. Now of course, they cannot give eternal life to men, but they act as if they can. Unlike sinful, religious men, God is not double-minded. He removes the blessing of eternal life from those who have died spiritually by turning to sin. Adam had two gifts of life presented to him: physical life that would endure forever and spiritual or eternal life with God. I think the Tree of Life represented and was for that eternal life from God, which is beyond just living forever physically. Our bodies must die because of their association with and participation in sin and a sinful nature, but our spirits and souls can live forever with God as we are reconciled to him by His Son, Jesus because of the cross.