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Matthew 11:25-30 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. [26] Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight. [27] All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

[28] Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. [29] Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Genesis 3:16 KJV
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
 

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One verse that stood out to me a while ago is: Romans 12:5-7 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. [6] Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; [7] Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;

It is verse 7) and the “let us wait” on our ministering and ...on teaching. “Let us wait on the Lord”, Wait on the Spirit 1 John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
If things you’ve never noticed before stand out ...ask Him and He will answer. My biggest questions have been things I’ve found offensive. That old message in my head conflicting with the new. Sometimes it has been the same question over and over for a year or more and then one day He answers. Sometimes He was answering all along, a little at a time. I’m ignorant and definitely need to be led and taught of the Spirit. A Teacher like no other.



"If things you’ve never noticed before stand out ...ask Him and He will answer. My biggest questions have been things I’ve found offensive. That old message in my head conflicting with the new. Sometimes it has been the same question over and over for a year or more and then one day He answers. Sometimes He was answering all along, a little at a time. I’m ignorant and definitely need to be led and taught of the Spirit. A Teacher like no other."

Yes, there are many things that stand out and, I have to sometimes put them on a shelf, so to speak and wait on Him. It's so wonderful how in hindsight He has answered every prayer, even some you wished you did NOT pray for ha! And it can be so gradual but so exciting when He opens our eyes.
I do not and never did have good study habits but, I do know that the Holy Spirit has taught me much and, much of it over the last 3 years on this very site.

Just as an aside, speaking of scripture on the shelf, here is one that keeps me pondering as I never noticed it until...I did :)

Exodus 4:24-26
24 At a lodging place on the way the Lord met him and sought to put him to death. 25 Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’3 feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!” 26 So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision."

Why did God want to kill Moses?? Because his son was not circumcised? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 

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Yes, there are many things that stand out and, I have to sometimes put them on a shelf, so to speak and wait on Him. It's so wonderful how in hindsight He has answered every prayer, even some you wished you did NOT pray for ha! And it can be so gradual but so exciting when He opens our eyes.
I do not and never did have good study habits but, I do know that the Holy Spirit has taught me much and, much of it over the last 3 years on this very site.

Exactly. Same here...a little at a time. :)
 
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"If things you’ve never noticed before stand out ...ask Him and He will answer. My biggest questions have been things I’ve found offensive. That old message in my head conflicting with the new. Sometimes it has been the same question over and over for a year or more and then one day He answers. Sometimes He was answering all along, a little at a time. I’m ignorant and definitely need to be led and taught of the Spirit. A Teacher like no other."

Yes, there are many things that stand out and, I have to sometimes put them on a shelf, so to speak and wait on Him. It's so wonderful how in hindsight He has answered every prayer, even some you wished you did NOT pray for ha! And it can be so gradual but so exciting when He opens our eyes.
I do not and never did have good study habits but, I do know that the Holy Spirit has taught me much and, much of it over the last 3 years on this very site.

Just as an aside, speaking of scripture on the shelf, here is one that keeps me pondering as I never noticed it until...I did :)

Exodus 4:24-26
24 At a lodging place on the way the Lord met him and sought to put him to death. 25 Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’3 feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!” 26 So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision."

Why did God want to kill Moses?? Because his son was not circumcised? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

About Moses it is a good question. Never read it before but will as you’ve brought it up. Thank you by the way, for posting about the untimely birth. It was a blessing to finally notice it there in 1 Corinthians instead of overlooking it every time.
 
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"If things you’ve never noticed before stand out ...ask Him and He will answer. My biggest questions have been things I’ve found offensive. That old message in my head conflicting with the new. Sometimes it has been the same question over and over for a year or more and then one day He answers. Sometimes He was answering all along, a little at a time. I’m ignorant and definitely need to be led and taught of the Spirit. A Teacher like no other."

Yes, there are many things that stand out and, I have to sometimes put them on a shelf, so to speak and wait on Him. It's so wonderful how in hindsight He has answered every prayer, even some you wished you did NOT pray for ha! And it can be so gradual but so exciting when He opens our eyes.
I do not and never did have good study habits but, I do know that the Holy Spirit has taught me much and, much of it over the last 3 years on this very site.

Just as an aside, speaking of scripture on the shelf, here is one that keeps me pondering as I never noticed it until...I did :)

Exodus 4:24-26
24 At a lodging place on the way the Lord met him and sought to put him to death. 25 Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’3 feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!” 26 So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision."

Why did God want to kill Moses?? Because his son was not circumcised? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 

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Genesis 3:16 KJV
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Job 21:17-25 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. [18] They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. [19] God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. [20] His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. [21] For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? [22] Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high. [23] One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. [24] His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. [25] And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
 
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I can't believe your gonna withhold.

Lol...I actually did mention one in a recent post to VIJ
Exodus 4:24-26
24 At a lodging place on the way the Lord met him and sought to put him to death. 25 Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’3 feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!” 26 So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision."

Why did God want to kill Moses?? Because his son was not circumcised?
 

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Lol...I actually did mention one in a recent post to VIJ
Exodus 4:24-26
24 At a lodging place on the way the Lord met him and sought to put him to death. 25 Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’3 feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!” 26 So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision."

Why did God want to kill Moses?? Because his son was not circumcised?
I never knew he had 3 feet
 

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"If things you’ve never noticed before stand out ...ask Him and He will answer. My biggest questions have been things I’ve found offensive. That old message in my head conflicting with the new. Sometimes it has been the same question over and over for a year or more and then one day He answers. Sometimes He was answering all along, a little at a time. I’m ignorant and definitely need to be led and taught of the Spirit. A Teacher like no other."

Yes, there are many things that stand out and, I have to sometimes put them on a shelf, so to speak and wait on Him. It's so wonderful how in hindsight He has answered every prayer, even some you wished you did NOT pray for ha! And it can be so gradual but so exciting when He opens our eyes.
I do not and never did have good study habits but, I do know that the Holy Spirit has taught me much and, much of it over the last 3 years on this very site.

Just as an aside, speaking of scripture on the shelf, here is one that keeps me pondering as I never noticed it until...I did :)

Exodus 4:24-26
24 At a lodging place on the way the Lord met him and sought to put him to death. 25 Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’3 feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!” 26 So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision."

Why did God want to kill Moses?? Because his son was not circumcised? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I haven't read all the posts yet...so maybe someone answered you already. :)

I just read it in "my" bible.. LOL One that I can understand. KJV :D
Funnily enough I find it far less confusing in the KJV.

It seems to me that 1) Moses had been reluctant to circumcise his kids because his wife did want it done. She does it out of anger, but by conviction. 2) God called him and sent him to Egypt to bring His people out. Moses again did not want to go, he wanted God to send Aaron instead . ( much like Jonah didn't want to go to Nineveh)
This too made God angry at Moses.
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Ex 4
17 God said ..And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.
18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
19 And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
21 And the Lord said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
23 And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.
24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him. ( Moses hadn't reached Egypt yet, seems like he was still dragging his feet about going...H )
25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
27 And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.

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Exodus 4:24-26
24 And it came to pass [that] the angel of the Lord met him by the way in the inn, and sought to slay him. 25 and Sepphora having taken a stone cut off the foreskin of her son, and fell at his feet and said, The blood of the circumcision of my son is staunched: 26 and he departed from him, because she said, The blood of the circumcision of my son is staunched.


Why did God want to kill Moses?? Because his son was not circumcised? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I replaced the quote from Exodus above with the Septuagint version, since the explanation I'm going to post is based on that. It's from Saint Maximus, which means you need to read it multiple times before you can make any sense of it :)

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Question: If God sent Moses into Egypt, why was the angel of God seeking to kill him? And the angel would have killed him, had Moses's wife not hastened to circumcise their young son and thereby halted the angel's attack. And if the circumcision of the child was necessary, why did God not gently direct Moses to circumcise him before sending him into Egypt? And why, moreover, even if Moses was in error, did the good angel of God not kindly advise him of this, seeing that he was being sent to serve God in Egypt?

Response: Anyone who examines the inner meaning of Scripture's enigmas with the fear of God and for the sake of the divine glory alone, and who removes the letter from around the spirit as though it were a veil, "shall find all things in front of him," according to the word of Wisdom, with no impediment hindering the mind's blameless motion toward divine things. Let us therefore leave aside the written account of what has already occurred corporeally in Moses's time, and consider, with the eyes of the intellect, its spiritual power, which is constantly occurring and becoming ever greater by its very occurrence.

The desert, from which Moses was sent to Egypt to lead out the sons of Israel, is either human nature, this world, or the condition/state of the soul free of the passions. In accordance with this state and in this world, the intellect acquires the knowledge of beings through contemplation. At the same time, it receives, in the unseen recesses of the heart, a hidden and mystical power from God to lead the Israelites out of Egypt, that is, to lead out the divine thoughts of beings from the flesh and from sense perception, where they toil and suffer mindlessly in the clay, that is, in the passions of the flesh. Being entrusted with this divine task, the intellect - in the company of wisdom, which is joined to it through knowledge like a wife, along with the noble manner and way of thinking to which she gives birth - will without exception travel on the road of a reverent way of life in the virtues, a road that in no way admits of any standing still on the part of those who walk in it, but only their ever-moving and swift race toward "the goal of the upward call." This is because the halting of virtue is the beginning of vice, which comes about whenever the intellect becomes passionately absorbed in something material found on either side of the road, and thereby makes the pure and wholly circumcised manner and way of thinking of life's pious journey into something uncircumcised and profane.

This is why the intellect immediately sees the reproving reason as an angel threatening death, and testifying that 'the threat was caused by standing still on the way of virtue, a lapse that places a carnal covering over the intellect's way of thinking. In response, the wisdom that dwells with the intellect importunes it, and, like Zipporah, uses the "small stone" of the word of faith to cut away the mental image that arises in its way of thinking, which is its child, and to drain any thought within it of sensual life. For Zipporah says: "The blood of the boy's circumcision has ceased to flow," which is to say that the impassioned life and its imagination and motion have abated, because the defiled way of thinking has been purified with the wisdom of faith. After this purification, the reason, like an angelic messenger, ceases from smiting the sinful intellect through the conscience and opposes every thought that moves beyond what is proper. For the way of the virtues is in truth filled with many holy angels who can actuate every virtue according to its kind, by which I mean both the principles and modes of the virtues and the angels who invisibly cooperate with us and who stir these kinds of principles into motion.

This passage of Holy Scripture, then, is beautifully and brilliantly set forth. It always makes present - to those who possess healthy spiritual eyes - the objects of contemplation prior to their written forms, and contains nothing to discredit God or His holy angels. For when Moses was sent by God, he did not have, in terms of Scripture's spiritual meaning, an "uncircumcised son," that is, a carnal covering over his way of thinking; otherwise, God would have enjoined him to circumcise the child before sending him on his way. Neither was the divine angel harsh when he warned Moses of the death that would befall him by his stopping and staggering on the way of the virtues, a death that was perhaps provoked by Moses's weakness on the road of the virtues.

When you examine more precisely the literal meaning of the story, you will clearly notice that the angel who threatened Moses with death because of the passion that imperceptibly arose in his mind did not meet him at the beginning or middle or end of the road, but at the inn. Because if Moses had not stopped on the road and brought his journey to an end, he would not have been accused, and would not have received, through the angelic messenger, the message of divine indignation over the child's foreskin.

If indeed we are walking in the way of the divine commandments, let us entreat God not to stop sending, to our every transgression, like an angel, the word that announces death in our conscience, so that, by coming to our senses we will learn through our natural prudence to circumcise, like a foreskin, the impurity of the passions that imperceptibly arises within us on the road of life.​
 
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I replaced the quote from Exodus above with the Septuagint version, since the explanation I'm going to post is based on that. It's from Saint Maximus, which means you need to read it multiple times before you can make any sense of it :)

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Question: If God sent Moses into Egypt, why was the angel of God seeking to kill him? And the angel would have killed him, had Moses's wife not hastened to circumcise their young son and thereby halted the angel's attack. And if the circumcision of the child was necessary, why did God not gently direct Moses to circumcise him before sending him into Egypt? And why, moreover, even if Moses was in error, did the good angel of God not kindly advise him of this, seeing that he was being sent to serve God in Egypt?

Response: Anyone who examines the inner meaning of Scripture's enigmas with the fear of God and for the sake of the divine glory alone, and who removes the letter from around the spirit as though it were a veil, "shall find all things in front of him," according to the word of Wisdom, with no impediment hindering the mind's blameless motion toward divine things. Let us therefore leave aside the written account of what has already occurred corporeally in Moses's time, and consider, with the eyes of the intellect, its spiritual power, which is constantly occurring and becoming ever greater by its very occurrence.

The desert, from which Moses was sent to Egypt to lead out the sons of Israel, is either human nature, this world, or the condition/state of the soul free of the passions. In accordance with this state and in this world, the intellect acquires the knowledge of beings through contemplation. At the same time, it receives, in the unseen recesses of the heart, a hidden and mystical power from God to lead the Israelites out of Egypt, that is, to lead out the divine thoughts of beings from the flesh and from sense perception, where they toil and suffer mindlessly in the clay, that is, in the passions of the flesh. Being entrusted with this divine task, the intellect - in the company of wisdom, which is joined to it through knowledge like a wife, along with the noble manner and way of thinking to which she gives birth - will without exception travel on the road of a reverent way of life in the virtues, a road that in no way admits of any standing still on the part of those who walk in it, but only their ever-moving and swift race toward "the goal of the upward call." This is because the halting of virtue is the beginning of vice, which comes about whenever the intellect becomes passionately absorbed in something material found on either side of the road, and thereby makes the pure and wholly circumcised manner and way of thinking of life's pious journey into something uncircumcised and profane.

This is why the intellect immediately sees the reproving reason as an angel threatening death, and testifying that 'the threat was caused by standing still on the way of virtue, a lapse that places a carnal covering over the intellect's way of thinking. In response, the wisdom that dwells with the intellect importunes it, and, like Zipporah, uses the "small stone" of the word of faith to cut away the mental image that arises in its way of thinking, which is its child, and to drain any thought within it of sensual life. For Zipporah says: "The blood of the boy's circumcision has ceased to flow," which is to say that the impassioned life and its imagination and motion have abated, because the defiled way of thinking has been purified with the wisdom of faith. After this purification, the reason, like an angelic messenger, ceases from smiting the sinful intellect through the conscience and opposes every thought that moves beyond what is proper. For the way of the virtues is in truth filled with many holy angels who can actuate every virtue according to its kind, by which I mean both the principles and modes of the virtues and the angels who invisibly cooperate with us and who stir these kinds of principles into motion.

This passage of Holy Scripture, then, is beautifully and brilliantly set forth. It always makes present - to those who possess healthy spiritual eyes - the objects of contemplation prior to their written forms, and contains nothing to discredit God or His holy angels. For when Moses was sent by God, he did not have, in terms of Scripture's spiritual meaning, an "uncircumcised son," that is, a carnal covering over his way of thinking; otherwise, God would have enjoined him to circumcise the child before sending him on his way. Neither was the divine angel harsh when he warned Moses of the death that would befall him by his stopping and staggering on the way of the virtues, a death that was perhaps provoked by Moses's weakness on the road of the virtues.

When you examine more precisely the literal meaning of the story, you will clearly notice that the angel who threatened Moses with death because of the passion that imperceptibly arose in his mind did not meet him at the beginning or middle or end of the road, but at the inn. Because if Moses had not stopped on the road and brought his journey to an end, he would not have been accused, and would not have received, through the angelic messenger, the message of divine indignation over the child's foreskin.

If indeed we are walking in the way of the divine commandments, let us entreat God not to stop sending, to our every transgression, like an angel, the word that announces death in our conscience, so that, by coming to our senses we will learn through our natural prudence to circumcise, like a foreskin, the impurity of the passions that imperceptibly arises within us on the road of life.​

Hello @icxn
Thank you for the reply, you are obviously well versed in The Word and the understanding of it. Myself, I am not much of an intellectual, pretty simple really.
Your post has given me more understanding of this topic, thank you.

"When you examine more precisely the literal meaning of the story, you will clearly notice that the angel who threatened Moses with death because of the passion that imperceptibly arose in his mind did not meet him at the beginning or middle or end of the road, but at the inn. Because if Moses had not stopped on the road and brought his journey to an end, he would not have been accused, and would not have received, through the angelic messenger, the message of divine indignation over the child's foreskin."

This is something I will have to really dig into as best I can because I did not know the part about the angel warning Moses.
Thank you and God bless!
 
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I haven't read all the posts yet...so maybe someone answered you already. :)

I just read it in "my" bible.. LOL One that I can understand. KJV :D
Funnily enough I find it far less confusing in the KJV.

It seems to me that 1) Moses had been reluctant to circumcise his kids because his wife did want it done. She does it out of anger, but by conviction. 2) God called him and sent him to Egypt to bring His people out. Moses again did not want to go, he wanted God to send Aaron instead . ( much like Jonah didn't want to go to Nineveh)
This too made God angry at Moses.
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Ex 4
17 God said ..And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.
18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
19 And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
21 And the Lord said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
23 And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.
24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him. ( Moses hadn't reached Egypt yet, seems like he was still dragging his feet about going...H )
25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
27 And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.

xx


Thanks @Helen
Wow, I'm getting allot of food for thought here! I too love the KJV but, I do like to have several translations to get the gist of some things.
Boy aren't we stubborn creatures...Moses, Jonah...lol.
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Hello @icxn
Thank you for the reply, you are obviously well versed in The Word and the understanding of it. Myself, I am not much of an intellectual, pretty simple really.
Your post has given me more understanding of this topic, thank you.

Simplicity is a great virtue. It is the shortest and safer way to heaven. The intellectual path may be more scenic, but is long-winded and treacherous.

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Walk before God in simplicity, and not in subtleties of the mind. Simplicity brings faith; but subtle and intricate speculations bring conceit; and conceit brings withdrawal from God. - Saint Isaac of Syria
God bless you too! :)
 

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'Behold, I shew you a mystery;
We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:
for the trumpet shall sound,
and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,
and we shall be changed.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption,
and this mortal must put on immortality.
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption,
and this mortal shall have put on immortality,

then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written,
Death is swallowed up in victory.




Hello there,

I have begun a study on resurrection..., but at our resurrection from the dead...which is yet to come.

Do you have any comment.

In Christ Jesus
Chris

Hi Charity,

This is a very deep subject, involving all of mankind from the beginning of mankind to the day no Natural man exists.

The battles "so to speak" pertains to every individual.
Each "battle" an individual, accomplishes, in Converting in Christ (as has been the method for an individual for the past 2,000 + years).

Yes an Individual has Overcome, is Victorious, by Becoming Made Converted.

However on the Big Scale...of ALL People who have ever lived...the Victory Over Death...will Occurred After the 1,000 year reign of Christ Jesus...when No Mortal Remains.

Mortal itself Means "Subject TO Death"...
No Mortals...No Death...Victory on the Big Scale is Achieved.
"Death is Swollowed up IN Victory".

Glory to God,
Taken