AnnaGrace

Beautifully written. Thanks for sharing.

No need for your defensiveness, George. I know Jesus was present at creation. He was the one whom all of the earth was created! The image of the invisible God and the firstborn of ALL creation.

Do you believe Jesus was present at creation?

Furthermore, I never told Raymond to come to me for my teaching, now did I? I told him exactly where he needed to go and it wasn’t to Annagrace.

You must not be too familiar with the one unpardonable sin.

I would lovingly warn anyone who handles the word of God in any sort of “teaching” capacity to refrain from thinking they will be given any room for leniency by God with regards to how they handled His word (and the accurate or inaccurate way in which they communicated it to others). God freely gives knowledge & wisdom to all who ask and does so without reproach; so if greater wisdom and knowledge is what you’re seeking, please seek Him and Him alone. Not mortal men on a forum. Anyone who makes it through the gates heaven will already intimately know the Lord Jesus; they wont have any uncertainties regarding who He is and who He tells everyone He is in His word.

Correct.

The word theophany doesn’t appear in scripture is a concept/phenomenon made through/by the finite knowledge of mortal man, not God. If it was the sound knowledge of God, he’d have included the word in His living word as well as defined it/made it clear for all to understand. He is not a God of confusion. His word is transparent and speaks for itself. The distortion and perversion of scripture occurs when man thinks it’s his place to expound on/interpret the word using words, concepts, and knowledge that aren’t found in the Bible (but in commentaries of man, words of a pastor or theologian, etc.).

What’s far more important than anything is that we understand the three man camaraderie of the world, flesh and devil. The devil, also known as satan, uses the world to tempt the flesh (man’s sinful nature) and succeeds more often than not because man, in and of himself, is far weaker than he wishes to believe he is. Many men are unwilling to come to terms with the inherent weakness & utter dependence they were created to have on something higher than he (God). Satan’s top priority in the world today is to keep people “in” the world (and consequently, out of the word) as much as possible so that people remain in a state of blind delusion. Satan hopes to keep people properly distracted/consumed with the affairs and activities of this life so that he can prevent them from adequately thinking about the fate that awaits them in the next. Any man who serves the world and has any portion in this life, will assuredly be told to depart from the Lord when He returns. As far as the word goes, satan will try to prevent you from reading it; if you’re reading it, he’ll try to keep you from truly believing it; If you’re believing it, he’ll try to keep you from obedience. These powers are lethal, and man is feeble, not equal; thats why we are to pray that the LORD GOD delivers us from evil.

Thanks for clarifying.

I see.

When you direct quote a specific place in the word of God; such as when you say Hebrews 12:11 in this post, I ask that you please handle the word of the living God with full transparency (trust me, the truth is not something you want to be found guilty of suppressing) To provide Hebrews 12:11 in its entirety, it states, "All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness" the key word there is fruit the fruit of righteousness This is a fruit of the spirit. Of what spirit? The spirit of Christ. Those who are in Christ will bear the fruit of righteousness; you will know them by their fruit.

Concluding that Melchizedek is the establishment of righteousness and peace is a misinterpretation of scripture & perhaps most alarmingly, encourages the blatant falsehood that anyone other than JESUS CHRIST could’ve ever established righteousness and peace on earth. Jesus Christ was and is and always will be the ONLY living being who holds the power to establish righteousness and peace in the earth. NO MERE HUMAN, FLESH AND BLOOD, COULD HAVE DONE THIS! NOT EVEN ONE AS RIGHTEOUS AS FATHER ABRAHAM! (hence why Abraham exhibits such reverence to the figure of Melchizedek in the Genesis ch 14 account.) Moreover, Melchizedek is referred to as the priest of the “most high” GOD. It’s no mere coincidence that Jesus is referred to as the great high priest in Hebrews chapter 5. He was and is and always will be the one and only great high priest of God! Why? Because He IS THE LIVING GOD!

Thank you for drawing the correlation between the fourth most terrifying beast being Islam (and stating that they have yet to come to their full power); I wholeheartedly agree with this interpretation and feel it to be the most spiritually sound prediction of the fourth beast and who it represents. I’m so glad to have stumbled upon these entries of yours. They’re incredibly helpful. Sending you all love & peace provided in Christ Jesus, from me in the u.s to you, my new-found sister in Christ in Australia, Annagrace

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