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  1. Jay Ross

    What is the fig tree?

    Davy, please learn. In 15:13-14 God is active in the bringing out of Israel from Egypt. In 15:16, God gives no indication that he will be involved in any way with Abraham's descendants when they return to the Land of Canaan 4,000 years after Isaac was born. The Genesis 28:15 verse is very...
  2. Jay Ross

    What is the fig tree?

    Ah Davy, it seems that your understanding of the Parable of the barren fig tree is some what lacking and as such to help you and other to understand the timeframe of this parable that Christ told, I have gone and corrected my omission by adding A.D. to the 11 centaury so that the meaning of the...
  3. Jay Ross

    What is the fig tree?

    What is weird is that you take three separate distinct prophetic words given to Abraham and set out to combine the first prophetic word with the third prophetic word. Genesis 15:13-14 deals with God bringing the Israelites out of Egypt after being oppressed for 400 years: - Genesis 15:13-14...
  4. Jay Ross

    What is the fig tree?

    I am not sure that the Mark 11:13-14 or the Matthew 21:18 states what you are saying. It is recorded in Scripture that Israel is saved and if they are save then they also will produce fruit which can/will be seen by all. The Saints produce fruit because we are in Christ. In our near future...
  5. Jay Ross

    What is the fig tree?

    Yea. God's prophetic words can be weird when we do not understand it. Let them who have eyes to see and ear to hear, come into God's understanding. Shalom
  6. Jay Ross

    Dog is injured (Updated: Dog went home)

    @FluffyYellowDuck, May God's Glory shone through you as you work your way through the circumstances of dealing with a sick dog. My God's peace rest in you as you seek to understand God's solution within your circumstances. Keep Pressing into God's protective embrace and let God resolve the...
  7. Jay Ross

    What is the fig tree?

    Perhaps Genesis 15:16 might clear up the Luke 21:29-30 passage for you, in that God told Abraham that in the fourth Age of his descendants, that some of his descendants would return to the land of Canaan in their own strength and that at that time the iniquities of the Amorite people who have...
  8. Jay Ross

    Examples concerning Proverbs 24:27

    Perhaps reading a little further it will make sense. Proverbs 24:27-34: - 27 Prepare your outside work, Make it fit for yourself in the field; And afterward build your house. 28 Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, For would you deceive with your lips? 29 Do not say...
  9. Jay Ross

    Faith check up

    Ah Behold, it seems to me that there is much that you still have to learn. What time period does the "time of the gentiles" covers?
  10. Jay Ross

    New Zealand.

    And those Aussie visitor are needed to raise the IQ average for all of NZ. You know why people from New Zealand like wearing tongs/flip flops for their work boots? It is because they do not know how to tie the shoe laces on the work boots properly. It is also probably why they prefer to wear...
  11. Jay Ross

    Faith check up

    Yes I agree with you that we are at the end of the prophetic 2,300 year period of the Gentiles trampling God's Sanctuary and His Earthly Hosts which began around the year 250-260 BC. Yes Gentiles will come into a relationship with God such that His Kingdom is revealed to them, but Daniel told...
  12. Jay Ross

    I would like prayer to be a lighthouse

    @FluffyYellowDuck, As you allow God to draw you into His purposes, His light shining through your interactions with others will become like a beacon shining along the pathway that all should tread as they follow your lead into following His purposes like I can see you now doing as well. Shalom...
  13. Jay Ross

    What is the fig tree?

    Your question is well worth considering. My understanding is that there many types of deciduous trees around the world and the timing of each particular deciduous trees budding is very dependant on the weather conditions in play for the particular climate of the region in question. Now Matt...
  14. Jay Ross

    All things have become new.

    Perhaps, but it is the Teacher that needs to be able to discern if what he is trying to teach is actually being received by the hearer. Otherwise he is wasting all of his efforts. I spent many years in communication technology and learned that it is best to establish commonality in the...
  15. Jay Ross

    All things have become new.

    The problem is that your short hand English speak is not easily understood. Your Meta Data is not the same as other peoples Meta Data and so your message becomes lost in the confusion between the two respective reference Meta Data sets being used by the sender and the receiver. The problem is...
  16. Jay Ross

    God does have friends according to the Bible.

    My friend, what are you saying. Are you suggesting that the "Cost" of becoming a Christian is the cost of all the things that we have had to sell in order to obtain what is considered to be of greater value? If this is so, are our eyes looking at the wrong end of the parable to draw this...
  17. Jay Ross

    All things have become new.

    Fair enough. Now if Paul was talking about a "new" car, was the car, brand "new" with respect to age, or was the car not brand new but refurbished to be like "new," but still an old car. Our English translations make understanding the contextual intent of Paul's writings difficult to comprehend.
  18. Jay Ross

    Biblically, when are we told that Christ is returning?

    You are not believing what the Bible says, but your own interpretation of what is said in the two passages of scripture is saying by the manner in which you have combined what has been said. A fair point to consider.
  19. Jay Ross

    All things have become new.

    So @Behold, in the parable of the "New Wine in the New Wineskins," is Christ saying that "new" wineskins must be used to hold the freshly squeezed grape juice otherwise the wineskins will burst? Is that what you are suggesting is the meaning of this parable?
  20. Jay Ross

    All things have become new.

    Beholder, thanks for your display of distain of me is your above ranting. So you went and had seminary training, so what, it has not helped you to study and understand the scriptures. The definition of accuracy that I use for the transmission of written thoughts between people is that the...