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When God is going to intervene He uses whatever is available. Of course the tools will often not know that they helping God and many of them would deny it strongly if someone were to tell that that was what they were doing.

Well we have both had our say on this and now we can leave it in the hands of God who does know all of the correct answers. If we follow Him in sincerity neither one of us will go wrong.

I guess this means that you are not. Why am I not surprised?

And what will legalism get a person in any one of the three groups [Christianity, Judaism and Islam] which look favorably back to Abraham as part of their beginnings? In all cases God is looking at the heart while many people among all three of those groups are looking to see what they can see...

Aye, we read about Stephen and how while they are stoning him to death in the flesh, he is looking up unto God. Can we do that? With God's help we can if we are looking always where we should be looking. Sometimes people are too concerned with the business of others to really pay attention to...

Sorry, twinc! If it is so important you will have to cut and paste it here yourself. I have finished hunting for a needle in a haystack. You have given me no reason to believe it is important to me. I was trying to encourage you or I would not have done a search at all.

@twinc I will not spend more time delving into an issue like this. I have heard arguments on both sides of this for a great many years. I have continued to read the scriptures myself as well as talking with God about it over the years. I am not led by the Spirit to venture farther into this...

@twinc Again I have done you bidding to the extent of googling and obtaining some introductory words. Taken from: John MacArthur’s strange Fire Conferencence/

Again it seems that we are in agreement although I hesitate to speak to definitely about the status quo of those who have already departed without first hand knowledge.

@twinc I've shown in post #16 what I encountered following your suggestion, but I don't get my understanding from Judaism nor am I able to draw any conclusions from it. Perhaps that makes me obtuse, but that is where I am on it. I cannot give what I do not have. Now I have done what you asked...

@twinc I don't like to google for answers regarding the ways of God, but I've done it this one time. I took a copy of the first one I found: taken from https://reformjudaism.org/judaism-what-believed-happen-someone-after-they-die

It may surprise you, but I do agree with what you have said here. The Head is ready, but the Body is be being prepared.

In a way we are saying the same thing although when we get into the details, we both know that we will disagree. I believe that the Word of God contains all that we need and that the Holy Spirit quickens the raw words within us if we allow the Holy Spirit to work.

Thank you for your kind reply!

This goes back to the message sent through our brother @mjrhealth . The Nehushtan after it served it's purpose to point people to salvation became the dead un-resurrected body of Jesus on the cross. It is the written scriptures themselves given to people to study and to have them brought to Life...

God is not His Church. His Church is a people who are not all completely ready yet. When they are they will be perfectly subject to the Head [Jesus]. Jesus prayed for those who were His in John 17 and they will be one with Him and His Father, but some have not yet finished their course. This...

You already know that those verses mean something different to me than they do to you. I believe that the Spirit of truth will guide anyone who is paying attention and is obedient into all truth. You believe that those words were meant for the Church as do I. What the Church is exactly is where...

While my wife lives I am too burdened with her care and my pastor's care to do much away from home... but I remain open to God's leading. I remember Paul writing about how a spouse can hinder a person's service of God. For me that has not happened. On the contrary most of my most extreme changes...

Yes, I have heard of these "Red Heifer" efforts. There are so many details involved in prophecy and its fulfillment. People work hard at times to make it be, but will God ultimately use them and their efforts. It could happen, but how can we know? There was a time that I thought I might make...

OK, sorry as I did not realize that information on post #524 was your definition. I should have been paying closer attention, but you must admit that what you are describing is somewhat complex. So then have there been no additional apostles who were definitely called apostles since the last...