Philip James said:
?? Which is it ??
Manna!What is "it?"
!m Man (mawn); Noun Masculine, Strong #: 4478
- manna
- the bread from Heaven that fed the Israelites for 40 years of wilderness wanderings
- means 'What is it?'
- manna
manna 14
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Philip James said:
?? Which is it ??
Manna!What is "it?"
Manna! !m Man (mawn); Noun Masculine, Strong #: 4478 manna
the bread from Heaven that fed the Israelites for 40 years of wilderness wanderings
KJV Word Usage and Count manna 14
- means 'What is it?'
Hi. I can be blunt at times, and I'm saying this in an attempt to not offend anyone unnecessarily. What I'm about to say is my opinion and I don't expect other to adopt it. Okay, I would like to go to the original ekklesia, or congregation. I say it this way because the word church wasn't in the bible originally. The KJV translators removed the word congregation 113 times and replaced it with the word church. The word church means, "a building of a lord." God no longer lives in, or needs, a building to live in. He has us. Jesus is not a lord, He is the Lord Of Lords and the King Of Kings. Today's church often resembles a franchise, owned by a franchise operator. Not all, but too many.
On the night of January, 20, 1998, a few friends and I went to the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship (formerly Vineyard) and as it turned out, was the 4th anniversary of the start of the global church renewal. Since Tuesday night services no longer required seating for 5,000, they were now held upstairs. After the message, we were told that due to no ministry team, we could lay on the floor and some pastors would walk around and pray for us. The worship leader that night, Jeremy Sinnot, would also walk around and play over us. What a treat! As I lay on the floor, I felt like I was laying on the bottom of a swimming pool of God's peace. Then, all of a sudden, what felt like a geyser, started welling up from deep inside me. As It got closer to my throat, I realized that I was about to start shouting, "the birth of a new church," over and over again. Since I was with an elder of the church I'd resigned from the week before, I had earlier told myself that I wouldn't say anything about it. But this geyser in me was about to blow this. This all happened in about a second, so I didn't have time to think, instead, I just tried to shut it down. The result was that I lay there, shouting in a whisper, "the birth of a new church," over and over again. (God used the word church because at the time, that's what I knew) After things calmed down, I told my friend what had happened to me. He went and talked to a pastor about it. The pastor asked where we were from. When we told him Brantford, he said that earlier on, when he was walking around praying for people, when he got to us, he started seeing landmarks of his home town, in the Spirit. His home town was Brantford! One thing led to another, and a Christian woman I used to know from years before, ended up being given a home church plant, which was in Brantford, right next to where our first Vineyard home group was. Which she had always wanted, but the Lord didn't do it, yet. I was so happy for her, as I know she loved the Lord. She also drove an hour each way to attend the Airport church. I went to her plant a few times, including the night she gave me a book called, "The Complete Wineskin," by Herbert Eberle. As I was also attending another group that had children, like us, we ended up deciding to go there. A few years later I called Brenda, the woman with the new plant, and asked how she was doing. I was saddened when she informed me that she had brain cancer. She was a friend. I later went to her funeral. I hate funerals because they are the last time you see someone you care about. I know it's the way it is, but I don't have to like it. I pondered this for years and, with the Lord's guidance, I came to see that our Lord knew when she would die, so He gave the plant to her, knowing she was an unfulfilled pastor. This sort of thing is only one reason I worship Him. He threw a party for me. Best party of my life. And I remember it. Lol! He truly is worthy of our praise. About the birth of a new church? I now believe it was about a new congregation God is bringing. After the seven churches in Revelation, this will be the 8th church, a new beginning for the church. The last days congregation. Which I believe will include the body of Christ, the 10 tribes when they are woken to their true identity, and the Jews who accept their Messiah, Yeshua Ha Meshiach. After 2,800 years, God is keeping His promise to my ancestors. It makes me laugh and cry. It is my conviction that many people on this site, if not already, will be woken up to who their ancestors were. God will do it through inspiration. They are going to need our help with healing, as their, and my, recent ancestors, still worshiped false gods, a.k.a. fallen angels and the dead spirits of Nephilim. In my family's case, this was The Grand Orange Lodge. Similar to the Freemasons, these and all secret societies are strictly forbidden by God. At their highest levels, they worship Lucifer as god. This is why God sent my ancestors into exile in the first place. 600 years ago, my ancestors were Vikings, who worshiped Oden, Thor, Loki and others. So, I also believe that the natural Judah, Benjamin and some of the Levites (the Jews) will be saved. In fact, this is happening in the streets of Jerusalem as I write this, and throughout Israel. More Jews have been saved in the last 10 or so years, than in the last 2,000! When Israel became a nation on May 14, 1948, there were 30 Messianic Jews. Today, there are 30,000. There are Messianic groups all over the internet. Many of them are searching for the 10 lost tribes with Christians. An orthodox Jew, who is a scholar in the subject of the lost tribes, and has written a stack of books about this, and who, by the way, lives in Jerusalem, believes that along with the ten tribes, much of the body will also come home, to their earthly home of Israel. He is saying that he believes the non-ten tribe church is also part of Israel. I never thought I'd live to see this. He happily works with Christians. He isn't offended. His life work is doing research on the tribes, who he, as well as me, believe are mostly in the global church. This tells me that a lot of Christians need healing and deliverance. Which I already believed. I was and am one of them. This message is currently widely unknown to the Jews, for now. He is a single man who depends on donations, mainly from Christians around the world. If interested in looking into this further, his name is Yair Davidiy, and can be found on YouTube, Facebook and he works with Brit/Am Hebrew Nations (not to be mistaken for British Israelism), who are on all the usual places. He give 7 reasons why the tribes and the body can't return...yet. He does believe that Christianity is strictly forbidden for Jews. What can I say, he's wrong about this. He also says that most of the 10, as I call them, are in the West. At one time recently, I was perplexed because the only 2 I know that God has woken up are a Japanese woman who was told in a dream that her father was descended from Judah and me, a Levite, though we are both Messianic. Jews and Levites didn't sound very lost to me. Then I came across information that God would wake up Levites first. I also learned that some Jews are also lost. God told Abraham that his descendants would bless all the nations of the earth through him, and that his offspring would be like the number of the grains of sand on a beach, or like the number of stars in the sky. I hope you have been blessed by what I have written. As always, I say don't take my word for anything, instead take it to the Lord and His word. Shalom.
Hi. You're not the first one to say this. This is one thing I didn't learn in school. I'm going to have to teach myself to do this. Otherwise, I find I'm making paragraphs that may not make sense, paragraphically speaking. Good call. Bye.People will be even more blessed Ron if you use paragraphs as text in one big block is difficult to read.
Problem is I loose interest in big posts, which is why I try keep them short.Hi. You're not the first one to say this. This is one thing I didn't learn in school. I'm going to have to teach myself to do this. Otherwise, I find I'm making paragraphs that may not make sense, paragraphically speaking. Good call. Bye.
Teachable yes, but one needs to be an empty glass so God can fill them. Like the water Jars, if they where already filled Jesus would have had them emptied cleansed than filled, but they where already prepared before He filled them.Hi. I am working on this. I started several threads tonight and if the truth be known, by the time I finished, I was thinking this was another thread of mine. My bad. I was thinking about breaking them into 2 parts. As my dad used to say, "Well, you see what thought did." Lol I miss the old guy, now that I'm one myself. I lost both of my parents 9 days apart. It took a few years to get past that. Back to subject. Did I mention that I have A.D.D.? No surprise, eh. I do appreciate the constructive criticism. One should remain teachable. Shalom.
Good on ya Ron. Basically you use a paragraph for each topic. I have done an exercise for you in your article to give you some ideas.Hi. You're not the first one to say this. This is one thing I didn't learn in school. I'm going to have to teach myself to do this. Otherwise, I find I'm making paragraphs that may not make sense, paragraphically speaking. Good call. Bye.
Sorry but I could not help myself. @Philip James said "Which is it?" and you responded with "What is 'it'?"Sorry Amadeus you will have to explain to me what this has got to do with the comment it relates to.
Hi, marksman, I just signed up with Grammarly. It's exactly what I needed. Thanks again, eh? We here in Canada think the most important word in the world is "EH?" I don't know for sure, but I think this phenomenon is caused by too much beer, too much back bacon, too much Red Green, too much Trailer Park Boys (at one time it was too much Bob and Doug) and definitely too much snow and cold! Shalom. P.S. Take off, you hoser! LOLPeople will be even more blessed Ron if you use paragraphs as text in one big block is difficult to read.
How many eat knowing the answer to the question, "What is it?"?
ABUSE LAWYER FINGERS CATHOLICS AND MORMONS
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a biased TV ad:
Your "experience and study" is clearly of the bigotted anti-Catholic variety. This is evident in your stupid insults.
Here, you claim to have been in the RCIA program, and the first thing a priests asks a potential convert is WHY they want to become Catholic. No priest in his right mind would allow a frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Catholic bigot to be part of a faith building milieu. Name the priest and the parish where you say you were "expected to know" OR STOP LYING.
Another LIE. The Church encourages us to vote for candidates who uphold moral laws, but never tells us who we must vote for. Cite any source where the priest tells people how to vote OR STOP LYING. This is just hate speech. Sex abuse is a serious sin, not church policy. You are so full of hate you can't tell the difference.
A non-sequitur fallacy. First, that was 50 years ago. Second, every institution at that time did the same thing. Third, enabling bishops at that time followed the advice of psychologists who oversold their "therapy" and shifting them was part of it. They were appointed and accountable to the courts but nobody ever mentions that. Are the victims parents deaf and dumb? Some bishops at that time didn't know how else to handle the problem, they just did what everybody else did at that time, and we now know it was wrong. Now, priests and bishops are obligated, by Vatican directives, to call the cops, but you don't care about that.
Bad priests are dead, in jail or thrown out of ministry. Enabling bishops have long since been corrected/disciplined, but you don't care about that either.
You don't know much about teenagers. Normal teenagers would punch the priest in the mouth and rightly so. Homosexual teenagers would not. 80% of all cases did not involve children, teenagers are not children. The bulk of the scandals was homosexuality, not pedophilia. Are you covering up for homosexuals by majoring in the minors?
Scandal I was the worst crisis in the history of the Church. Yes, it happened.
Scandal II is perpetuating the myth, along with secular media, that nothing has been done about it. I have proven that Catholicism is not a cult, and you respond by playing the ever so popular, worn out, sex abuse card.
There is a "report abuse" button on the main page of many diocese, if not all. Does your church have one? Or does it even have a web page? Or do you even have a church?
2011 Annual Report
99.98% OF PRIESTS ARE INNOCENT
Dec 5, 2013
Vatican announces new papal advisory commission on sex abuse
JULY 07, 2014
Pope's Homily at Mass With Sexual Abuse Victims - ZENIT - English
21 September 2017
Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors
FEBRUARY 17, 2018
Pope renews commission on sexual abuse, Vatican promises victims more say
Then there is the HUGE problem of sex abuse by public school teachers who are protected by their unions. No outrage there. The identity of abusers is more important than kids, right marksman?
Many states have suspended the statute of limitations for sexual abuse crimes against minors, and some lawyers have seized the opportunity to single out the Catholic Church. It would be like fighting crime and focusing exclusively on African Americans. Both campaigns smack of bigotry.
One of the most egregiously biased TV ads on this subject is being promoted by California attorney Andrew Van Arsdale. It has been running on Fox News, among other places.
Here it is. “For decades, survivors of childhood sexual abuse were told it was too late for them to seek justice. No more. Statute of limitations prohibited organizations such as Catholic and Mormon churches, public and private schools, Boy Scouts and other youth organizations from being held accountable. No more.”
Why Catholic and Mormon churches? Why not Protestant churches and Christian schools? Why not Jewish synagogues and yeshivas? Is it because Catholic and Mormon institutions are known for their traditional values?
Why is there no interest in pursuing the one venue where most of the abuse takes place, namely, the family? Live-in boyfriends are particularly notorious. But there is no money to be made prosecuting single mothers, so these men get off scot-free. The decision to single out the Catholic Church is driven by bigotry, not the pursuit of justice. (get it, marksman?)
Religious profiling is just as invidious as racial profiling, though they are treated differently by elites. This shows how utterly insincere their objections to profiling are. What matters is who is being profiled, not the practice itself.