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How can anyone vote for Trump, when even his staff won’t support him.
Foolish statements will elicit a response the owner may dislike.It’s named “Freedom of Speech”.
RE: The sky is falling... The sky is falling...
After The Eclipse Have We Missed The Rapture?!
Rapture
The feeling the rest of the world has when all the self-righteous, religious fundamentalists disappear off the face of the earth at the same time.
"Holy shit, it's the Rapture! They're all gone! Let's party."
by D-Dubb October 18, 2013
RE: Embroiled...
Wrong, Trump is the majority shareholder, therefore he has controlling interest.You are just looking though rose tinted glasses.
But that’s ok, even fools have the right to believe whatever’s they want.
The sky is falling... The sky is falling...
As expected, the best view was in the South around Texas and Arkansas.Follow this link and you will see children who were delighted to be part of 'eclipse fever' that they will remember for the rest of their lives!
The sky is falling... The sky is falling...
Okay... who got married during the eclipse?
Useless trivia
US woman checked out of a Florida hotel and told staff that she was going on a God-directed shooting spree because of the solar eclipse, then allegedly shot two drivers on Interstate 10.She was arrested and charged with attempted murder today, according to the Florida Highway Patrol
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Jesus isn't here anyway. Yes, he's in our hearts spiritually, but he's not physically here. The king. You can't have a kingdom without a king. And so that's one reason we know that the literal kingdom is not here yet.But reason number two, things like disease, addiction, corruption, abuse, injustice, racism, poverty, death, divorce, sorrow, regret, temptation. And on and on and on. These things all exist in abundance right now. And we know that when Jesus comes, he's going to undo all of those things. And so we have a taste of the kingdom, the spirits in us now.
But we're waiting for the finality of the king coming and the establishing of his kingdom here on Earth, his literal kingdom, which a rule and reign over it all come, Lord Jesus, we pray.
And when this kingdom comes, there's going to be both an entrance into it and an exclusion from it. This is part of the painting, too, that Jesus paints for us in Matthew 25 in our Verse is tonight we're going to see in Matthew twenty five verse is one to thirteen. We see the wise bridesmaids going into the kingdom, but we also see the foolish ones not going in next week. As we look at Verse is 14 to 30, we're going to see the faithful servants are going in, but the wicked servant is not.
And then finally, in verses thirty one to forty six of the same chapter, we're going to see that the sheep are going in, but the goats are not going in.
All of this is the picture Jesus has painted for us in Matthew 25. Which forces us to ask a gigantic question. Who are these ones who are actually going to be the ones going into the kingdom of heaven when it comes, and who are the ones that are going to be kept out? When it comes to this question, asking it and answering it. Literally, nothing else matters in our lives, nothing else matters. We have so many things going on in our life right now, and I and I care about them all.
I care about all the the great victories and the successes that you get to experience in this life before Jesus comes. And I care about all the heartache and the sorrow, the unanswered promises that people make, the disappointments, the pain, the suffering, all of it. We care and we care for one another. The scriptures say that we're sorrowful, yet always rejoice. And we're holding these things in the balance. And as brothers and sisters in Christ, we care about each other's lives.
And these things are real problems right now. But what I want to highlight for you is that in that day, in that moment when the king's feet touches down and the kingdom is established and entrance is granted and you're standing and people are standing and you're either going in or you're going out in that moment, none of your problems today are going to matter. None of them are going to matter. And you're not going to care about them and they're not going to be registered in that moment.
All you're going to care about in that moment is, am I in or am I not? Period. Period. So who are going to be these ones going in when Jesus comes back?
This brings us to the first layer of the painting that Jesus is giving us here in Matthew 25. And it's going to be the next fill in on your outline. A person must be ready for Jesus when he comes back. If they are going to enter into his kingdom, a person must be ready for Jesus when he comes back if they're going to enter into his kingdom. Let me read our text for us, Matthew. Chapter 25, verses one to 13.
Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like 10 virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. For when the foolish took their laps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.
RE: Embroiled...
The company's stock closed 8.4% lower at $37.17 on Monday, a far cry from the record high of $79 it had notched during its debut on March 26. It is down about 40% so far in April.Heading towards yet another Trump business venture failure
RE: How can anyone vote for Trump, when even his staff won’t support him.
Thanks for your kind words Oz.
She'll be missing out on my pearls of wisdom in future.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
From that time, Jesus began to preach, saying Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. The kingdom is coming, guys, as close as near get ready. The Kingdom of Heaven is what Jesus taught his disciples to pray in Matthew Chapter six verses nine to ten. Jesus told them this. Pray then like this our father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on Earth as it is in heaven. This idea of the Kingdom is what was on everybody's mind the day that Jesus hopped on the back of a donkey and rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, only a week before he was crucified.All the Jews in that day who were in Jerusalem for the Passover saw Jesus coming, knew exactly what that picture meant. They knew the prophecy from Zechariah nine, which reads like this; Rejoice greatly. O Daughter of Zion shout aloud. Oh, daughter of Jerusalem. Behold your king is coming to you righteous and having salvation. Is he humble and mounted on a donkey? They saw him riding. This is it.
This is the prophecy fulfilled. Our King is here. The kingdom is coming. But this is what turned people off Jesus only days after they were yelling, Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna! Not long after he arrived, they began to clue in the people in Jerusalem at that time, Israel. Wait a second, he's not here to actually overthrow the Romans. And the repression is not looking like he's establishing a physical, literal kingdom here right now, right in our midst.
And as soon as they realize, as soon as pilot brought battered and tortured Jesus out to the crowd, what did the crowd scream in the courtyard? Crucify him a week, a week earlier when Jesus rode in on the donkey. Hosanna, Hosanna Salvacion, the kingdoms is here, the kingdoms is here. But when the kingdom didn't come the way that they thought, they turned yelling out for his crucifixion.
The kingdom is what the disciples were asking Jesus about in the beginning of Matthew Chapter 20 for the very beginning in verse three, it says, as he sat on the Mount of Olives, Jesus, the disciples came to him privately saying, tell us, when will these things be and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age. The disciples thought Jesus was coming to establish his kingdom the first time then.
And when he didn't, they asked, When are you going to come and do it? Jesus. And this is what Jesus has been talking about in response to their question. What Pastor Jeff has been walking us through all through Chapter 24 of Matthew's Gospel. Jesus says, look for these things before I come. All the birth pains, all the wars and the rumors of wars, the earthquakes, the famines, all these things happening in greater frequency and greater intensity.
Before I come back, look for the Antichrist, the abomination of desolation set up in the holy of hollies in the temple three and a half years into the tribulation. Look for the cosmic signs in the heavens, the sun and the moon and the stars, all that stuff being shaken. Look for all of these things before what? Before I come back and establish my kingdom here on the Earth. This kingdom that we're talking about is a literal earthly kingdom that is coming, one that's not established on earth yet and that's obvious.
I hope there's two reasons why we know that the kingdom is not here right now in the way that is going to be obvious. Point number one, Jesus isn't here.
Jesus isn't here anyway. Yes, he's in our hearts spiritually, but he's not physically here. The king. You can't have a kingdom without a king. And so that's one reason we know that the literal kingdom is not here yet.
Useless trivia
UK husband who cut his wife's body into at least 224 pieces and then paid a friend to help him dump the remains has been jailed for life.Nicholas Metson, 28, stabbed his 26-year-old wife Holly Bramley multiple times in the bedroom on March 17 last year.
He then moved to the bathroom where he dismembered her and he kept her body parts stored for a week in the kitchen larder at the flat they shared in Lincoln.
Metson admitted to the murder and was handed a minimum term of 19 years and 316 days at Lincoln Crown Court
RE: How can anyone vote for Trump, when even his staff won’t support him.
Was collected at the time, and to best my knowledge, it is what Trump attempted to have heard when he legally supported by Giuliani who played a key role in Trump's bid to overturn the 2020 election results. Giuliani was indicted alongside the former president gagging Donald & Giuliani , ti is much like Australia the judicatory is bent the politicians are bent. We have a Head of State King Charlies III a Constitution, both are been sidelined.The posted information I lodged with an honest Australian Federal Minister.
I understand others got other views.
The sky is falling... The sky is falling...
I heard on the news one airline booked an 'eclipse flight' that chased the phenomenon allowing travelers to take photos and witness it in several locations.
RE: How can anyone vote for Trump, when even his staff won’t support him.
Why are you being rude to one of the most gentle men on here sweetheart?You say Merlot is making noise?
I have till date not ever seen any common sense from you, no.
In fact your unbridled language here tells on you.
If you really had something of value you would not need to use aggro.
Besides if you support democracy and free exchange of thoughts (a corner stone)
you would not need to shut down your opponent this way,
especially not a decent on subject guy like Merlot.
Let's see what u can cook up in response to that now hunnybee.
Give it your best shot but try not to blow too many fuses
as that ain't very good for you, trust me.
RE: The sky is falling... The sky is falling...
I travelled and I had a good time communing with others.It got dark which caused the night lights to come on.
It was a great experience. WOW.
RE: The sky is falling... The sky is falling...
2:00 p.m. central it was AWESOME!!!My neighbors 8 kids standing in a row on the side walk with there little glasses on.
When we got the full eclipse 5 of them ran in the house, the little ones..probably thought they missed bed time...lol
RE: How can anyone vote for Trump, when even his staff won’t support him.
A fool and his money will soon depart. No I don't give my money to millionaires and billionaires. That would be bloody foolish. I have common sense to decipher validity from bullshit.
The Lincoln Project does not use E&OE, they replay the tapes of the con/rapist so the world can see what a jackass he is. Now I live in the USA and I do vote. I will not continue a dialogue with a person who has no impact on our voting and judicial system. If you are giving the con/rapist millions of dollars then that would impact our country. A part from that you are just making NOISE.
The sky is falling... The sky is falling...
I calculate that was about 30 minutes ago and you got the tail end of a full eclipse. Was it impressive?RE: How can anyone vote for Trump, when even his staff won’t support him.
Did you contribute to the Lincon Project?They raised $80 million in two years, mostly from small donations, probably from people who could only afford to pay a small amount.
They spent it on advertising from companies which were all controlled by the board members of the Lincon Project after which all but two of these directors have left.
In order to 'get' one grifter you get taken by a bunch of shysters.
I guess you just can't win.
E&OE as I've put my own slant on this story.
Useless trivia
The moon covers the sun during a total solar eclipse in Mazatlan, Mexico.Millions of spectators along a narrow corridor stretching from Mexico to the US to Canada eagerly awaited Monday’s celestial sensation - a total eclipse of the sun - even as forecasters called for clouds.
The best weather was expected at the tail end of the eclipse in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, as well as New Brunswick and Newfoundland in Canada
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The moon covers the sun during a total solar eclipse in Mazatlan, Mexico. Photo / AP
Millions of spectators along a narrow corridor stretching from Mexico to the US to Canada eagerly awaited Monday’s celestial sensation - a total eclipse of the sun - even as forecasters called for clouds.
The best weather was expected at the tail end of the eclipse in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, as well as New Brunswick and Newfoundland in Canada
RE: How can anyone vote for Trump, when even his staff won’t support him.
@robplumThanks for the info about ballots all over the place.
Yes I know it was stolen. The famous spike on the graf around 3am too lol.
They had to have tea break u see...
Only, I'm worried the same pattern wall appear this autumn with the same result.
In the same five states that of some mysterious reason is the onle states
out of the 50, that somehow just has to count long into the early hours.
How come?
Stolen 2.0 this November is my prediction. Hope I'm wrong
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
A Vivid Picture of the Coming KingdomDate:9/12/20
Series: Matthew
Passage: Matthew 25:1-13
Speaker: BJ Chursinoff
After sharing astounding prophecies with His Disciples in chapter 24, Jesus teaches them what they should do with this incredible information - beginning with the most important thing...
As you get your place, find your place in the scriptures, I want to tell you about a TV show I watched growing up this TV show ran from 1983 all the way through 1994, and it featured a painter by the name of Bob Ross. Now, a show of hands. When I say the name Bob Ross, does that register to anyone here? Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Yeah, almost everyone. The joy of painting is what it's called.
Yes, Aaron. He's a he's a legend. And there's a couple of things about walrus. Number one, if you know who Bob Ross and if you don't know Google and do yourself a favor and Google him at the end of the night. Incredible voice, the most soothing, most calming voice maybe I've ever heard in my entire life. I am certain that Big Pharma would lose billions of dollars in sales in sleeping AIDS if people just realized that you can plug in an MP3 and listen to Bob Ross speak to you as you tried to go to sleep and you wouldn't last more than five minutes, the soothing nature of his voice is incredible.
But beyond that, he didn't have a show because of his voice. That was just a bonus. He was actually a really good painter. His shows were 30 minutes long and he started with a blank canvas and ended always with a masterpiece every every time. And as I have observed, I'm a Bob Ross kind of aficionado here.
I've seen a lot.
He paints his paintings and we, like other painters, do this as well in layers. He paints them in stages and usually landscapes of nature.
But what you'd notice always, he'd start by distinguishing the sky from the ground or the land or the mountain range, and he would do that first. Second, later, he began to add on more detail, he bit closer mountain ranges, more more trees, some more detail, he'd layer that on top.
And then when that's done, he'd come even closer to your vision than a real 3D, where he began to add little shrubs or rocks and shadings and light, and he'd add these layers as his painting would develop at the end. One painting only multiple layers made up that painting and it was always impressive. Now.
Jesus paints a wonderful masterpiece for us in Matthew, Chapter 25, and he doesn't paint this masterpiece on the kinds of materials that you can find in any art store, he paints this work of art on the canvas of our hearts and our minds, and he uses words to paint this picture.
And like Bob Ross, Jesus paints this picture in layers, each successive layer, giving us more and more detail of the overall picture.
And so what's this picture, Jesus, of painting in Matthew 25? Here's the scene and it's going to be the first fill in on your outline. Jesus physically comes back to Earth and he sets up his kingdom where he rules and reigns. Some people enter into his kingdom and some people will not. Jesus physically comes back to Earth and he sets up his kingdom where he rules and reigns, some people will enter into his kingdom and some people will not.
That's the picture that he's painted for us in all of Chapter 25 of Matthew's Gospel, The Kingdom of Heaven, finally, finally here on earth. This is what Jesus had been preaching throughout the entirety of his public preaching ministry. If you go all the way back to Matthew, chapter four, verse 17, it marks at the very beginning of his ministry after he was baptized, after he faced Satan and the temptations in the wilderness that says this and so on your outline as well.
RE: The sky is falling... The sky is falling...
I live in the path and we have no cloud cover today.I expect to look out and see at least 20 people in my yard.
Hopefully they won't bring there lawn chairs....
then they expect refreshments ...lol
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
I'm glad to be counted. Along with the disciples in that view. The apostle Paul. St. Francis, Dale Moody, Charles Spurgeon, and on and on and on, I could go, even though Jesus didn't come back in their lifetime, because nobody looks at those guys and says, what idiots, man, did they ever waste their lives?They lived completely for the Lord, even though the rapture didn't happen in their lifetime.
Oh, they're going to try so hard.
Here's what I can tell you. My belief in the imminent return of Jesus for his church makes me live every day.
Longing for the Lord, longing for the Lord. It stops me getting caught up in and freaked out by world events and turmoil. And it causes me to live for eternity rather than this rapidly fading temporal life.
There is no downside to living in the expectation of Christ's return. There is no downside.
All it causes you to do is live in a way that will profit you for all eternity. Then to wrap up with this, which seven are you? Which servant are you, maybe you started strong and you went four years, but you've settled into a malaise, a comfort level where your faith isn't growing, your passions died down, and time just seems to be passing.
I believe Jesus would say to you, as he said to the Church of Laticia in Revelation Chapter three, go back and do the things you did at first in your relationship with the Lord, go back and do the things you did when you first fell in love with Jesus worship like you did then.
Thank him like you did then, pray like you did, then open the word like you did, then talk to him like you did then. And you'll find your heart beginning to come back to life again.
And if there's something in your life that's weighing you down or slowing you down, I'm not talking about your spouse, so don't go there and holding you back from being really radical for Jesus.
You need to get that thing out of your life. And if you've never lived seriously for Jesus start today. I'll tell you what I do know, the king is coming, the king is coming, he's coming soon. And if you live that way and it takes decades before the Lord returns. If he doesn't come in your lifetime, then all you've done is live for things that actually matter, you've missed out on nothing and gained everything in heaven or it will last for eternity.
You know, I love the Lord so much for caring enough about you and I to sit us down in 2020 and through his word, have a heart to heart with us.
And he's being firm because he cares so much about us, he cares enough to say to you and I, Brother, sister, I'm begging you. Don't waste your life, don't waste your life, one day I'm going to come for you one way or another, and I want that moment to be the greatest moment of your life, the pinnacle of your life, not the moment you're filled with instant regret over a wasted life.
Jesus has been honest and up front and clear with each of us, may the Lord give us ears to hear what his spirit is saying to us today, that we may profit for eternity from a well lived life, a life lived for our master Jesus, who's coming back soon.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
So how can the doctrine of imminence work if there were things that needed to take place in order for the end times to really get underway?How could Jesus tell his disciples about all these signs that would come before his coming and then tell them to live in the expectation that it could happen at any minute? I'll give you two things to consider. One is that the rapture is not conditional on any specific event. Israel didn't have to become a country before the rapture could happen.
The bible doesn't say that Jesus describes the time on the days of what it's going to be like during the Rapture.
But he describes it in such a way that almost any Christian could have, could have looked at the world around them and said, Oh, this is definitely it.
Stuff is weird.
Don't you think it's weird that there's a single empire, the Romans controlling essentially the entire world?
This is very much business as usual in an unusual time. It could have been very easy that way. But my personal belief is that the Holy Spirit cause the disciples and believers throughout the centuries to hear what they needed to hear from God's word in order to live, expecting Christ's return. Because when you study church history, you find that that even though the Bible makes it really clear that Israel is going to need to exist again and Antichrist and all these things need to happen.
The Lord seems to have hidden some of those insights from the church for most of the past 2000 years, specifically so that the church would live under the doctrine of imminence.
However, in the Book of Daniel, we read something very interesting.
You see, Daniel received some incredible prophecies that we've studied recently, and he recorded them in places like Daniel, nine and 12.
But in Daniel, Chapter 12, the angel who's been sharing these things with Daniel gives them this instruction.
And it's on your outline.
After sharing all these things with them, the angel says to Daniel, But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro and no knowledge shall increase.
So many Bible scholars believe, and I do too, that the angel is telling Daniel essentially that the prophecies he's just received are not for his time, they're not for his time, and they're not for multiple generations that are yet to come. He's actually telling Daniel, listen, the prophecies you've received are for and the phrase he uses is the time of the end, therefore the time of the end.
And Daniel, when that future time comes, this is what the angel says will happen. Knowledge shall increase.
In other words, the Lord will release a new level of understanding and insight to his people in those last days so that they can understand the Bible prophecies that apply to their day and time.
It is as though God, God, put some sort of time lock on some of these prophecies that there were faithful, studious, Bible focused men for centuries who just couldn't connect the dots.
And then as we got into this final generation, boom, boom, boom, these things became so clear all in this final generation, because Jesus wants all believers to live in expectation of his coming.
So he's chosen to reveal and unlock the meaning of certain end times, prophecies to only the generations that need to understand it. And I suggest to you those generations are represented in this room, and that's exactly what we've seen happen. So some might say, well, Jeff, you've been talking about the rapture for years and the people you listen to, the people you study, they've been talking about it for decades, Jeff.
Heck, you might die before Jesus comes back. And you know what?
You're right about all of that. You're right about all of that. So you admit you could be wrong. Jeff. No, look through history, look through history at all of the great saints who lived their lives expecting Jesus to come back in their time.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
And even though this conversation took place almost 2000 years ago, it's clear that Jesus wanted the expectation of his return to motivate his disciples after he returned to heaven.
The concept that Jesus is teaching of expectancy that leads to motivation and faithfulness. The idea that Jesus could return at any time is a concept. It is a doctrine known as the doctrine of imminence. It's the belief that Jesus is coming for his church is imminent, which means it could happen at any moment.
We know from the way Jesus is talking to his disciples that he wanted them to live under this doctrine of imminence. And as you read the rest of the New Testament, all the other letters, all the other epistles in there, it becomes clear that Jesus wanted the church all the way up too today to live under the doctrine of imminence, because when you really believe that Jesus could come back at any moment.
It dramatically changes the way you live. It changes your behavior, it changes your motivations.
So write this down and we'll talk about a little bit more Jesus desires. All believers live under the doctrine of imminence, the doctrine of imminence. And I know this is going to create some questions for you.
I'll try to answer some real quick and I'll try to spark some discussion.
Now, if you believe in the rapture of the church, but you believe it's going to happen halfway through the tribulation, if you're a middle creber, that's what it's called, or you believe the rapture is going to happen after the tribulation.
A post. Triva, you've got a real problem. Because you've denied the doctrine of imminence, because if you hold one of those views, there are things that absolutely have to take place before Jesus raptures his church. And so Jesus can't come back today.
If you believe in mid or poster rapture, it's impossible for Jesus to come back today because Antichrist has to rise to prominence on the world stage.
First, he has to broker a peace treaty with Israel. He has to rebuild and then desecrate the temple before the rapture can occur.
So problematically, if you hold to a mid troub or post view on the Rapture, it puts you on the side of the evil servant who says my master is delaying is coming because Jesus can't come back today.
If you hold to one of those positions, it's only if you believe in a pre trip rapture that Jesus is going to rapturous church before the tribulation happens, that you can actually still hold to the doctrine of imminence in the way that you view the end times.
We believe that Jesus will come for his church before the seven years of the Tribulation, before Antichrist rises to prominence, before all those things take place, which means Jesus could come for his church at any time.
The rapture is not conditional on anything, Donald Bornhorst, the great pastor, preacher and writer, used to tease some of his students in seminary who held to these views by coming into the classroom, shaking his head and saying, sad day, sad day.
Jesus can't come back today.
Now, am I saying am I saying that if you hold to Amidror or post your position than you are the evil servant?
No, but you might be. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding . I'm kidding. All I'm saying, send me an email, OK? All I'm saying is that according to Jesus words in the Bible, you don't want to be on the same side as the evil servant and holding to Amidror or post Trib position. Puts you on that side so. So all I want to do is invite you to come over to the blessed side, the side that's watching and expecting for us coming at any moment.
That's all because I love you now. Now, let's be clear.
We know today that there were a few things that needed to take place before we could consider ourselves to be living in the end times before Antichrist can rise to prominence.
And all these things, as we've talked about, Israel has to become a country again and they have to control the city of Jerusalem
RE: How can anyone vote for Trump, when even his staff won’t support him.
THE LINCOLN PROJECT is doing a great job showing who that con/rapist is.The sky is falling... The sky is falling...
My brother in Dayton, Ohio is in the path of the eclipse. They are ready with glasses and he said most of the state has suspended activities so everyone gets a chance to see it.
Expecting as many as 50,000 to watch this event, I said it's about the same as an outdoor rock concert!
RE: How can anyone vote for Trump, when even his staff won’t support him.
"I'll try to post more detail,"Again ????????
4 mins at your window
4 mins of total darknessThe mind boggles
Might even tear yourself away from the porn sites and ....
CHAT
Useless trivia
Eclipse fever is building. Millions in North America are hoping to spend around four minutes in total darkness as the Moon blocks the Sun's light on Monday.For some, those precious minutes will be an opportunity for often impossible science experiments - a chance to unravel the secrets of our universe.
Researchers will fly rockets into the path of the eclipse, stand in zoos watching animals, send radio signals across the globe, and peer into space with massive cameras.
Become an organ donor age is not an issue
Organs that can be transplanted are the heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, pancreas and intestines.The skin, bone tissue (including tendons and cartilage), eye tissue, heart valves and blood vessels are transplantable forms of tissue.
Wow that is a lot that can be used
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. But at midnight there was a cry. Here's the bridegroom come out to meet him. Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps, and the foolish said to the wise, give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out. But the wise answered same, since there will not be enough for us and for you. Go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves. And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came and those who were ready went in with them to the marriage feast and the door was shut.Afterward, the other virgins came also saying Lord Lord opened to us. But he answered, truly. I say to you, I do not know. You watch therefore for for, you know, neither the day nor the hour. The scene of this parable that we're looking at is a wedding scene is a Jewish wedding if you're unfamiliar with Jewish weddings. I'm going to compare them to the weddings that we know in our culture today to see if we can learn a little bit more about them.
There are some similarities and some differences. The things that we keep in common with our marriage and the marriage of the Jewish custom is this is the highlight of the calendar year is the highlight of the week, the highlight of the month, the highlight of the year. The most joyous and festive celebration that comes around is exciting people pouring time, energy and money and joy to celebrate weddings. And that's what they have in common around the world. When people get married, there's a there's a common thread.
It's an exciting time. It's not a downer. But here's where they differ. Marriage in our culture today has only two main parts to it. Part number one, the engagement. That's the surprise in the ring and Instagram posts. That's engagement today, part one. And then part two is the wedding. And that's a big to do. That's the family, the friends, the ceremony, the pictures, the food, the party, everything.
So two parts for our marriage and our culture. But marriage in the Middle Eastern culture has three main parts. Part number one, they have an engagement, but it's also known as it's called it's an arrangement. Parents are involved with the engagement process in other parts of the world. And usually in this exchange, there would be financial transactions that go back and forth, including a bride price.
When I was younger, I was quite put off by the idea of arranged marriages, I thought they were savage, loving, and then I got older and then I had a daughter and I noticed that if you can read in between the lines.
Right.
So. That's part one, the engagement, which is also the arrangement, here's part two, then they had the ceremony or otherwise known as the betrothal period.
This would include all the vows and all the legalities that will be a legally binding part of the engagement. Not fully married yet, but binding by law. You would actually need a divorce certificate to break off the marriage process at this stage at betrothal. If the groom died at this stage, the woman would be considered a widow at this point and the party hasn't happened yet at betrothal. The marriage hasn't been consummated at this stage yet. But this is part two.
Between the time of the betrothal and the time of the wedding celebration, the groom would go away for a period of time to prepare for their new home together, usually built as an addition to his father's house. And when that was all done, he would come back for his bride to take her part to. Which brings us to part three. The wedding celebration. The Jewish wedding celebration would celebrate with and party with family and friends. And the celebration would last for days.