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Dear CTK, I agree that there are 3 1/2 years left for Christ to fulfill the prophecy. As for the rest of you comments, I can't agree with very much. I will say that your understanding is a little better than what I usually encounter. Rather than try to respond to all your points, I will...

Dear CTK, That is correct. This will be difficult for you to understand. I will add my comments in blue to the scripture. Hopefully, this will make it easier for you. Dan 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem (this...

Dear GodsGrace, You said: This is not what you said originally. My statements do not contradict each other. God does all the works in us and through us. We repent, we have faith and we make a confession of faith, we do good works BUT it is the Holy Spirit within us who is the one who causes...

Dear marks, In the letter, Peter was addressing babes who had the same precious like faith: 1Pet 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: A person obtains...

Dear GodsGrace, A believer's "good works" are the evidence of their conversion. They happen because of what this verse teaches: Phil 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. In other words, the good works that a converted believer does are not their...

Dear marks, You said: And again, "here a little there a little" is a reference to teaching babies. That's why the Jews were so offended by it. Picking out bits here and there, and rewriting them to fit your ideas is not the way to receive the meat of the Word. One way we sumbit ourselves to...

Dear marks, Yes, words have meanings. But there are two kinds of words; carnal words and spirit words. The carnal words of this world have meanings assigned to them by mankind. The spirit words of Christ have meanings assigned to them by the Holy Spirit. John 6:63 It is the spirit that...

Dear GodsGrace, It is apostate believers who practice "religion" and it is Satan who formed it. In this religion, Satan masquerades as Christ and teaches another gospel by another spirit. 2Cor 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive...

Dear GodsGrace, After Paul's departing, the entire church which was made up of "babes" (Early Rain only), was completely devoured by the wolves (Acts 20:29-31). Nothing has changed since that time and it won't change because it is God's "will" for all babes to become apostate. The teachings...

Dear Marks, Context is not all that important because Christ teaches "here a little and there a little". Consider the context of this verse, compared to what Christ was actually teaching: Mat 26:52 Then said Jesus unto him, put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the...

Dear GodsGrace, You haven't heard Revelation explained this way before because all the public teachers are apostate and they only have a carnal understanding of scripture. Joe

Dear marks, Christ comes to us a the Early and Latter Rains of the Spirit: Hos 6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he (Christ) shall come unto us as the RAIN, as the Latter and former (Early) RAIN unto the earth. John says...

Dear ChristinaL, The words of Christ are spirit (John 6:63) and he uses them in His "another language" (Isa 28:9-12). Spirit words carries meanings that are different than what man's wisdom teaches (1Cor 2:13). To understand spirit words, you must compare spiritual words with spiritual words...

Dear marks, Just a quick response: 2Cor 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. A person is only made into a chaste virgin by having the Spirit within them which gives them their faith...

Dear marks, My post to ChristianL answers your question. Here is a portion of my post plus a little more: Mat 12:43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. 44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came...

Dear GodsGrace, This verse applies to our discussion: Rev 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the...

Dear marks, To understand the parables, a person must understand the spiritual language of Christ and then look elsewhere in scripture to fill in the gaps. In Paul's writings, the Early Rain occurs when an unbeliever receives the Early Rain of the Spirit. With the Spirit, the new believer is...

Dear marks, I presented a few teachings in my post to ChristianaL. Joe

Dear GodsGrace, I used to believe very much like you do prior to my conversion in 2005. But everything changed for me after Christ gave me the Latter Rain of the Spirit and healed by spiritual blindness. At that time, my worldly paradigm with which I understood God's Word changed to a...

Dear Christinal, There are many scriptures which teach that the churches that were started in the 1st century all became apostate shortly after Paul's death. Acts 20:29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Also of your own...