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    The Blood moons the rapture and the end times?

    Shalom, ATP. I am WELL aware of the difference between the Rapture event and the Second Coming of the Lord, having heard it much of my life! I can tell you this: The “Rapture" is supposed to be the SECRET coming of the Lord while it is the "Second Coming (Proper)" in which “every eye shall see...
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    The Blood moons the rapture and the end times?

    Shalom, ATP. Well, if you believe that this is a “rapture” passage, it’s NO WONDER that you disagree! However, “the coming of the Son of Man” (Greek: “hee parousia tou Huiou tou Anthroopou”) is the “SECOND Coming.” Don’t be misled about verses 40 and 41. They have been used for the “rapture” by...
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    The Blood moons the rapture and the end times?

    Shalom, ATP. No, sir. It’s not about “nonbelievers”; it’s about being HUMAN! It doesn’t matter whether a person is a believer or not! God reserves the knowledge of the future for HIMSELF ALONE! Very seldom does He choose to reveal SOME of that future in prophecy! It’s not that I’m reading too...
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    Two Questions About The Temple

    SHALOM, guys! PEACE! Love the man and hate the sin, both our own and those of others because of the effects of that sin: It separates the man from God! It leads to death and decay! It has both maimed our earth and its citizens and will lead to its destruction and theirs. No one denomination is...
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    The Blood moons the rapture and the end times?

    Shalom, ATP. Ah. “Surprise.” Note: This verse (1 Thessalonians 5:4) does NOT say anything contradictory! It’s talking about our ANTICIPATION and our EXPECTATION for that day, not that we know WHEN it will arrive! We believe and know our Lord so well, that we KNOW that His promises are true. We...
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    The Blood moons the rapture and the end times?

    Shalom, pom2014. Sorry, but that is a BAD interpretation of Luke 17:21! Luke 17:20-21 20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there...
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    The Blood moons the rapture and the end times?

    Shalom, HeartSearcher. It’s literally hard for the “blood moons” NOT to occur on a Jewish holiday! The Jewish calendar is based upon the lunar cycles. And, since the Jewish holidays fall on the first of the month (“moon-th”) or on the 14th/15th day of the month (like Pesach or Passover does)...
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    The Thousand years

    Shabbat shalom, JimParker. Seriously?! That’s it?! Of course, you are welcome for my opinion, but you should pay a little closer attention to it than that! Here’s some Scripture (the words of the Messiah Yeshua` or the Christ Jesus) for you to digest: Luke 19:11-28 11 And as they heard these...
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    The Thousand years

    Shalom, JimParker. That’s all nonsense, of course. If Yochanan (John) had meant to say "a long time,” he would have SAID “a long time!” He would NOT have used the figure “chilia etee” when he has already used such numbers as “12,000," “144,000," a "thousand thousands,” etc. To say otherwise is...
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    Heaven

    Shalom, StanJ. Okay, I’ll make this simple for you. WE WILL NOT BE ALONE! Just because WE have new bodies that won’t die or decay doesn’t mean there won’t be OTHERS who do NOT have new bodies! THEY can still get sick! THEY can still be injured! THEY will still need healing! And, how do we know...
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    Cern and the completion of the Great Work

    Shalom, pom2014. Actually, there ARE witches today. They are members of the Wiccan cult. I’ve dealt with them in the past. They totally believe that they can cast spells for money and for health and for other things that are desirable. They even divide themselves into “white witches” and “dark...
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    The Gospel of the Kingdom

    Shabbat shalom, everyone. The “gospel of the kingdom” or the “good news about the Kingdom” is FAR different than what we call the “gospel” today. It is what the Jews knew from all the teaching they had about the coming Messiah who would reign over Israel in the future. Here’s what we know from...
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    Heaven

    Shabbat shalom, StanJ. Well, “incorruptible” and “immortal” are two different things: “Incorruptibility” (Greek: “aftharsian”) means that our bodies won’t “decay,” and “immortality” (Greek: “athanasian”) means that our bodies won’t “die.” On the other hand, Paul used both words in 1 Cor...
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    Daniel 9:24-27

    Shalom, Cooter. <Sigh.> You and Marcus are good examples of “in one ear and out the other.” The Hebrew word “k’naf” (translated as “overspreading” in the KJV and as “wing [of the temple]” in the NIV, for example) is referring to the stretched out feathers of a wing! Also, the word is the first...
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    Heaven

    Shalom, ezekiel. And so, the derailment continues. No, there will be only ONE New Earth, and it will be fashioned out of the remains of this earth, just as the second earth (the one in which we are currently living) was fashioned out of the remains of the first earth before the Flood. (2 Peter...
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    Heaven

    Shalom, ezekiel. The Christ is NOT the tree of life. "IN Him was life and the life was the light of men!” (John 1:3) You can’t just take liberties with the Scriptures and twist them to mean whatever sounds good to you! This is not an analogy with no source in reality. The tree was (and is) a...
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    Heaven

    Shabbat shalom, ezekiel. Don’t let haSatan influence you into an attempt to “muddy the water!” What does ANY of that have to do with the topic, let alone what I just said? Besides, it sounds like “gobbledegook” to me, a hodge-podge of things to say that mean nothing!
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    Ez. 40-44

    Shalom, ezekiel. Sorry, bro’, but you don’t know what you’re talking about. Sacrifices have been necessary since God made the first coats of skin for Adam and Chavah (Eve)! Adam sacrificed to God as did Hevel (Abel) and Shet (Seth) all the way down the family tree to Noach (Noah) LONG before...
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    Heaven

    Shalom, Trekson. Plant life needs air; in fact, in the light, it PRODUCES oxygen! The Tree of Life is a real species of tree that was present in Gan-`Eden, just as real as the orange tree or the apple tree or the plum tree or any of the other trees God created. It was edible because Adam and...
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    Clarion Call

    Shalom, everyone. First, a riddle: What day of the year is a command to go forward? Second, I’ve had a wake-up call recently - a clarion call, if you will - from the LORD during my Bible reading of Shlomoh’s prayer in the dedication of the Temple - the House of God. Read it here from the...