amigo de christo
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Nor will a man be saved if he cometh NOT to Faith in CHRIST . no matter how close he sits in the pews to the pastor .
The more benign a mutation, the easier and lighter it is to adapt (selah)
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amigo de christo
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Jim B
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What is going on, "amigo"? You actually wrote a grammatically-correct English sentence! Mazel tov!
The thing is, God urges us to do something with our design.
How can you ignore that? And not change?
How can you ignore that? And not change?
Chapter and verse for this please.
All I am aware of is God urging us to live in accordance with his laws.
No, the parables of the Talents and the Minas both have the same message. During the Last Age after the judgement of the kings of the earth on the earth and the heavenly hosts in the heavens, both the kings of the earth and the heavenly hosts who have been judged and found wanting, they will be gathered together and imprisoned in a pit for many days to await the time of their punishment. Now the head of the wicked fallen heavenly hosts, Satan, is presently empowering his good and faithful servants by giving them money to use to oppress the peoples of the earth to oppose the establishment of God's everlasting kingdom while he is locked up for 1,000 years. In the Parable of the Minas, we are told that Israel will no longer want to have Satan as their king over them and will send a delegation after him to tell the powers that be that they no longer want Satan as their kingly ruler. When Satan returns after he is released from the prison, i.e., the Bottomless pit after being locked up for 1,000 years, we are told in Rev 12, that he initially goes after the Israelites to kill them for rejecting him, and when his plans to kill them is opposed by God, that he then goes after the Christian Saints. (Rev 12:13-17) but in this vein attempt to elevate himself to be a deity above the Lord God, he is stopped and dispatched into the Lake of Fire where his cohorts, the beast and the false Prophet had also been dispatched by Christ just before the final judgement of mankind takes place.
No, the parable of the Talents and the Minas is not about Christ's disciples/saints using their abilities to further the gathering of the "future Saints," it is about Satan's "Good and Faithful Servants" opposing, on behalf of Satan, the establishment of God's Everlasting Kingdom that will be populated by God's righteous people.
The more benign Satna's rational is, the easier it is for us to adapt to Satan's plan for his becoming a deity.
Who is your house aligned too?
Clearly not to yours.
The parable was told by Jesus to those listening to him as part of his teaching them.
He is giving a warning about being useful, or profitable to our master.
I have no problems with your acceptance of your belief system, but Rev 12 tells us the same story about Satan wanting to kill the Israelites when he is able to do so when he is released from the bottomless pit after many days, i.e., 1000 years as is recorded by Christ in the parable of the Minas.
Christ implores us to go and make disciples, and to teach them about the things of the Kingdom of God so that they can gain their freedom from the yoke of Satan.
Satan's Good and Faithful Servants are given the means through the binding of people with debt to Satan from being able to see or hear about the Kingdom of God.
Isiaih 24:21-22 speaks of God judging the heavenly hosts in heaven and the kings of the earth on the earth and that together the judged heavenly hosts and the kings of the earth will be imprisoned for many days, like for around 365,250 days give or take a year or two to account for any errors in our ability to measure time accurately.
Why are the heavenly hosts and the kings of the earth judged? Because they have, over a period of 2,300 years, been trampling God's Sanctuary and His Earthly Hosts, i.e., Israel. This time of judgement occurs when the Kings of the earth assemble at Armageddon to come against God's Sanctuary and His earthly hosts at just before the completion of the 2,300 years period that God set for them to trample the sanctuary and the earthly hosts.
It is my understanding that the gathering of the kings of the earth at the place called Armageddon in Rev 16:12-16 will occur in our near future, when the duration of the visitation of the iniquities of the fathers draws to its conclusion at the end of the fourth generation/age of the existence of the Israelites, (Ex 20:4-6) which should occur within the next 20-25 years' time. Sadly, my days may reach their completion before then.
How important is it for us to have the "right" understanding of our relationship with God? It is probably not that important as long as we are able to hold onto the basic fundamental that Jesus is the Son of God and that He came to the earth to establish the means by which mankind will be redeemed by His dying on the Cross for our sins, if we can believe and accept this principle.
If we can both have this understanding, then our redemption is assured.
We cannot be a good and faithful servant of Satan and still expect to gain God's righteous covering when we are also judged.
Shalom
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