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Well, seeing that you are making a point of specifying the term "bride", as if a wife had never been a bride - then surely, you only refer to the marriage and not to the wedding. But you make a game of what Paul clearly says is a mystery. Yet having clearly explained it, it is no longer a game or a puzzle that we should qualify by our imposing times and technicalities about whether a wife is a bride or just a wife. If you have some other point to make, make it. Otherwise there is no profit in spitting hairs, as if the honeymoon were over and the wife has somehow been demoted by a technicality.
Amen on the Rock! As for the overcomers, they would likely be the members of the Bride. Not everyone saved makes the Bride.
the word translated as prince also means elder. Michael is a created being, Jesus existed before His birth.
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If you understood all of scripture, you probably wouldn't want to read it again, but God the Holy Spirit fellowships with us when we read His word. He spends time with us teaching us, showing us our Lord in the pages of scripture and instructing us in righteousness. I can never understand when a Christian has no interest in scripture.
Yes, on the one hand I don't understand it all, but on the other hand I am daily drawn back to reading it more and more. The Holy Spirit is giving me answers, but often they are not answers to questions I have presently been seeking. I have to just presume as always that God knows what He is doing.
But are we not also told that man was created a little lower than then angels ? Thus, this NEW Creation is not !
This is what I look for...Ones with the awareness of Him being with us ! When we read our Bibles, He is there with us and in us ( if we have the spirit of God residing in us ), when we go out, He goes with us, when we come in again He is still there with us....Always ! People don't HAVE to see Him, but to have a relationship one must be aware.........
I think that the Lord's teaching is practical with regard to our lives. I preached (rather poorly) in a few nursing homes about a decade ago, preaching through the gospel according to Matthew. I often found that the Pastor in my church or teachers on the radio were making the same points in their messages, but from different texts. The Lord often teaches His body in unison to prepare them for things to come. In personal study, I find that the Lord teaches me things I need to know now or for the day in order to deal with someone else's issues or problems of my own. Remember how Jesus told His disciples before His passion that He had more to tell them, but that they weren't yet able to bare it? God is kind to us in keeping some things from us and there are things we can't accept without some degree of spiritual maturity.
Who we know is far more important than what we know when it comes to salvation. However, Christ prayed for His Apostles and for us when He asked the Father to sanctify us by His word (John 17:17). When the Lord gives us His Spirit to quicken our own with new life, we still have the mind of the old life and with it the old nature according to the flesh. Jesus has to change our way of thinking, to renew our minds, and He uses His word as taught by His Spirit to do so.
A big AMEN to that Brother lol..... Another little clue when looking for believers....... Thankfully we don't have to sneakily try to make a little fish in the sand to identify ourselves these days, but it seems to be as difficult finding them as if they are hiding? Perhaps God is hiding them all In Him until one day, He suddenly does something which reveals them...I am certain you follow what I mean, so I do look for little hints here and there which indicates whether or not they have the Holy Spirit. Not saying that I can be assured of 100% success as it's harder when not seeing a persons face and eyes.
I don't want to be dogmatic about it, but I believe that the world is divided into nations or territories (principalities) governed by angelic beings such as the prince of persia. Who else would be in charge of a principality in the heavenly realms but a prince? I hope this helps.
BTW, you've mistranslated the name Michael. Oh yes, nearly forgot, the principality of God's chosen people would be a chief one.
Thanks, I understand what you're saying. I just tend to assume with some people that their thinking is carnal or their statements abusive because of spiritual immaturity. I was as guilty of being judgmental as the next person when I was young. It takes time to change the way a person thinks. Some even have to learn how to think for themselves, but God is able to make the simple wise. I won't call myself wise but I know that I was born as simple as can be.
