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RE: Not a terrorist act
why should the American Taxpayer have to foot the Bill?What's happening with the Shipowner's Insurance?
Why is Joe so quick to unload the Bill on to the American Public?
What does he know what we don't?
Useless trivia
A teenager escaping kidnapping shot by California police as she crawled to them for helpA Teenage girl and her father shot dead by California police after manhunt
Savannah Graziano, 15, was shot dead by police during a shootout between police and her father, who was wanted for her mother's murder.
A teenage girl in the US who had been kidnapped by her father was following a sheriff’s deputy’s instructions and appeared to be surrendering when other deputies fatally shot her during a gun battle on a Southern California highway, according to recently released video and audio.
Savannah Graziano, 15, was shot and killed as she ran toward San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies amid a hail of gunfire on September 27, 2022. Her father, 45-year-old Anthony Graziano, was also fatally shot.
Is the real truth being hidden?
I agree Mermaid...I have actually been studying that lately...with learning what women value most.
I am sure I will be writing some blogs in regards to this. There is plenty of information online regarding bedroom activities.....in addition, I would highly encourage men to study female attraction and how to facilitate it on a long term basis....
Female attraction is important throughout the WHOLE relationship, just not in the beginning of the relationship.
Is the real truth being hidden?
Hello Daphne,Thank you for sharing the results of that one test.
I encourage you to Google, "difference between male brain and female brain."
You will find plenty of differences there.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Jesus was saying. Not only am I not about to rule the world as Messiah. But the temple soon going to be destroyed and you're going to be persecuted, betrayed and murdered for being my disciples.But this type of epiphany still happens all the time when believers find out that Jesus is not a genie who exists to grant our wishes, many believers are shocked to find out that what the Bible teaches is that what God considers good for us might include us dying for him or serving him through some very difficult, prolonged circumstances.
That's how the disciples felt they were getting ready at this point for a cushy eternity that they thought was about to begin. They thought any day now Jesus is going to start ruling the Earth and we're going to be his posse. This is going to be awesome. But instead, Jesus is talking about persecution and betrayal and death.
Would have been shocking, their heads would have been spinning. And Jesus goes on in verse 11, he says, then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many, and we're able to read about some of those false prophets in the epistles like Galatians and Thessalonians, which Paul wrote to combat the teachings of some of these false prophets and teachers, verse 12.
And because lawlessness, which you underline the word lawlessness, because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. That word lawlessness doesn't just mean bad stuff. It's the Greek word, anemia, anemia, and it's defined as the condition of without law. It's a rejection of the very idea that there are moral laws that were bound to.
That's what this word means. It's a lawlessness. That is the doctrine of moral relativism or the idea that morality is just an illusion, it's a social construct. And even though we think that this is a new philosophical development happening in our day, it was the type of thinking that was prevalent in the Roman Empire during the years of the early church, especially in the major cities of Europe.
Just go and read First and Second Corinthians, where Paul has to address this type of thinking in the church.
In the early years of the church, this lawlessness was all around them in philosophies like hedonism, cults like the Dionysian and the removal of moral restraint from society under the guise of enlightenment. And as sin ran rampant all around them, many, many chose sin over Jesus as they still do.
Because for them, it was persecution and death or sex parties in honor of Roman gods. I'll take the sex parties. Thanks. Sin is always, always appealing to our flesh. But let me tell you, sin is exponentially more appealing when the alternative is not Christianity. But the alternative is Christianity, persecution, betrayal and death.
And so in the early church, there were many who chose to love sin over Jesus, leaving the church in the faith, I know we're cramming a lot into this message, but this stuff is so, so important.
So please hang with me. I want you to notice that Jesus specifically links lawlessness. He links iniquity. He links unrighteousness. He links choosing sin over Jesus with love growing cold.
I want you to notice that link Jesus makes, he says, because lawlessness will abound. The love of many will grow cold.
Now, obviously, Jesus is speaking first and foremost about people's love for him, his love for the Lord, he's saying that rampant cultural sin would cause many in the early church to choose sin and love sin over loving him. But there's a secondary reality, a secondary lesson I think we can pull from this.
And it's this when we give ourselves over to the willful pursuit of sin.
So in other words, when we consciously choose sin to pursue it and not repent of it, to walk in sin, it naturally damages our relationship with Jesus because we're willingly doing what we know grieves the heart of God.
RE: I want to go on a cruise ;)
Do not be afraid, be confident that you will reach the destination you want
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
These labor pains are leading up to the rapture, where we will escape the worst of it. We will escape the wrath of God.For those who have rejected Jesus, these labor pains are leading up to God, pouring out his wrath on the Earth. They're going to keep getting worse and worse and worse till they become literally unbearable.
Now, all of that was part of the overview of the timing of the end times in Verse is nine through 13, Jesus is going to share with his disciples the things that will unfold in their future during the first generation of the church.
What do you know that, Jeff? How do you know that Jesus is switching subjects in this?
Well, verse nine can lead to a lot of confusion, a lot of confusion when you're trying to understand the order of events, because verse nine simply begins with the term then.
So people read that and they think that whatever Jesus is talking about next must take place after all these signs. So after the tribulation.
But fortunately, Luke's account of the all of it discourse makes all of this a bit clearer because the English translation is a little muddled in. Matthew, on this one specific point. Luke, 21 12, it's on your outline, tells us that at this point of the Olivet discourse, Jesus actually says, but before all these things. So I hope you're tracking with me.
Luke tells us that in verse nine, Jesus begins telling his disciples about things that will happen to them before.
All the stuff he described in the list of signs that we were just reading, so we really should be reading verse nine like this, but before all these things, they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
And this was the story of the early church for the first 250 years of its existence, she was persecuted by 10 consecutive seizures, who all hated Christianity. Five to seven million Christians were killed in those 250 years.
And here's where that number becomes truly mind blowing, because if you take the percentage of the world's population, that five to seven million was back then and you convert it into the same percentage of today's population, it would be as though around 253 million, 800000 Christians had been killed over the last 250 years, 250, three million, 800000 over the last 250 years, an absolute massacre of the church during our first 250 years.
Then Jesus says, and then many will be offended. That just means cause to stumble, many will be caused to stumble, will betray one another and will hate one another. Luke's gospel records Jesus saying you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. To ensure their own safety, family members would betray and rat out their own Christian family members, their own parents, their own brothers and sisters.
Their own children. And sometimes those doing the betraying would be people that everybody thought were Christians. But if you'll take your mind back to Matthew, Chapter 10. This shouldn't have been unexpected. Because back in Matthew Ten, Jesus had told his disciples, do not think that I came to bring peace on Earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword for I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother and a daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a man's enemies will be those of his own household. He who loves father, a mother more than me, is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me, and he who does not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. He who finds his life will lose it. And he who loses his life for my sake, will find it. And I would wager that the disciples were kind of shell shocked at this point.
RE: Is the real truth being hidden?
Well if it’s speaking in generalities then I would assume that it all matters. Be good with your tongue and d*ck.
RE: Is the real truth being hidden?
Johnny...You mentioned women and men thinking differently...thought I would post this...
Early studies looking at sex differences in the brain did find a distinction, but only had a handful of participants. When the sample size was increased, scientists found the human brain is sexually monomorphic.
"The differences between human male and female brains are so subtle, they could never be called dimorphic. They could never be called two shapes," says neuroscientist Lise Eliot in Fluid: Life Beyond the Binary, a documentary from The Nature of Things.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
But then towards the late 90s, we started hearing about potential pandemics that were at risk of erupting seemingly every couple of years, SARS, H1N1, bird flu. And it just seemed to go on and on. Those of you who've been alive that long, you can probably remember what I'm talking about. You'd see it on the news every few years. This thing could go global. This thing could break out as though the world was almost trying to get a virus to break out.And then now, of course, we have covid-19 that's gripped the Earth, then Jesus says, and earthquakes in various places.
Do you know that earthquakes are more frequent today than they've been at any other time in history?
Earthquake activity around the world is exploding exponentially and has for the last 10 to 20 years, just go and Google it.
In fact, just go and Google this whole list of signs that Jesus gives.
And you give yourself a prophecy update and you'll see how these things are happening with increasing intensity and increasing frequency. The reason we look at this list of signs and believe we're close to the end times is not because of what's on the list, because, as I said, each of these things as individual events, they've happened before and they've been happening for millennia. But they've never happened with the frequency and intensity that they're occurring with in our day.
It's unparalleled in the history of the earth, what we're seeing right now. In other words, I'm sorry to tell you, you should probably lower your expectations for 20/ 21.
Now, one more thing on this particular section, because there's something that's just too good for me to leave out. If you love this stuff like I do. That Greek word for labor pains.
Odin shows up again in Paul's letter to the Thessalonians Believer's when he's writing about the end times.
The Thessalonians were worried that they had missed the rapture. And so Paul wrote to them to reassure them that they weren't about to find themselves stuck in the tribulation, experiencing the wrath of God. In First Thessalonians five, I'll read it to you.
You could turn there if you'd like to, but you don't have to. In First Thessalonians five, beginning in verse one, Paul writes this, and I want you to notice the pronouns here, he says, But concerning the Times and the Seasons brethren, in other words, when it comes to knowing the exact timing of everything and times related, he says, you have no need that I should write to you. Why would Paul say you don't need me to clear up the exact perfect timing of everything?
And then he gives us the answer.
He says for you yourselves, know perfectly that the day of the Lord, that time period when God judges the Earth, the day of the Lord, so comes as a thief in the night. Now he switches pronouns for when they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them as labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape.
In other words, the worst of these labor pains that we're seeing in our world today, the worst of them. Are not going to be for us. Paul says it's for them, for those who have rejected Jesus, that's their destiny. So what's the destiny of the believer? Paul says in verse four, But you brethren are not in darkness so that this day should overtake you as a thief. You are all Sons of Light and Sons of the Day.
We are not of the night nor of darkness.
Let's skip down to verse nine in this same paragraph, in this same section of Scripture.
Addressing the same subject is where Paul famously states emphatically, for God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ who died for us. That whether we wake or sleep, whether we live or die, we should live together with him, therefore comfort each other and edify each other, just as you are also doing for believers.
RE: Not a terrorist act
To be honest, I felt deep sympathy for those who were killed by the extreme Muslims...ISIS..HAMAS..no difference...they seek to kill and destroy anyone without their belief about extreme Islamic beliefs...The feminists will say nothing...about a religion that puts women under their control..no education..not going out in public without an elder family man...but, they will rape a woman..But, if a woman looks at another man she will be put to death...
And, just as feminists remained quiet when the women from Israel were raped and butchered..they remain quiet...
That’s my thoughts..
RE: Easter-freakout and a few days off
This is a very different blog for you...Generally, you stay away from politics...Speaking for myself...I did not give any of it a thought...
I spent Easter with the family..that is all that really matters.
Useless trivia
Inmates in New York are suing the state corrections department over a decision to lock down prisons during next week's total solar eclipse.The suit filed in federal court in upstate New York argues that the April 8 lockdown violates inmates' constitutional rights to practice their faiths by preventing them from taking part in a religiously significant event.
The plaintiffs are six men with varying religious backgrounds who are incarcerated at the Woodbourne Correctional Facility in Woodbourne. They include a Baptist, a Muslim, a Seventh-Day Adventist and two practitioners of Santeria, as well as an atheist.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
So what is on this list of signs that makes it so compelling, let's jump back to verse six and read it together, Jesus says, and you'll hear of wars and rumors of wars. That's pretty self-explanatory, right? There's plenty of that that's happened over the past 150 years, and a seemingly infinite number of wars and rumors of wars flying around right now.Then Jesus says, see that you're not troubled, for all these things must come to pass. But the end is not yet. The end is not yet. Jesus says wars and rumors of wars. They're not the definitive sign that the end is imminent. In other words, when World War Two was happening, that was not the sign that the end of the world was imminent. It was a sign we're getting closer. But there was so much more that still needed to happen.
That's what Jesus said. This verse 7/4, nation will rise against nation. The Greek word used there for nation is ethnos.
It actually refers to an ethnic group. The idea is one ethnic group rising up against another. And scholars believe this also points to fighting within a country among ethnic groups in civil wars. And again, there's just infinite examples of this over the past century and even happening right now, look at America right now.
Who would have thought? That after eight years of a black president, race relations would actually be worse in America and would spiral down to the state that they're in right now.
Who would have thought that today, anti-Semitism would be the worst it's been since World War Two?
Because it is, Jews are literally fleeing parts of Europe because they're being targeted by the increasing Muslim population.
And that's not even mentioning what's taken place in the Middle East over the past 10 years, where ISIS has endeavored to wipe out entire ethnic groups such as Coptic Christians and the Yazidi.
Do you know that in China right now, they have over a million Muslims in concentration camps?
Right now, China is waging an ethnic war against them. It's horrific.
And on and on and on. We could go, despite all our talk about progress and multiculturalism, when you look around, the world is more ethnically driven wars and fighting and killing than ever before. Then Jesus says, and kingdom against kingdom. Do you know that before World War One, war was pretty much always kings in their armies fighting against other kings and their armies?
World War One was really the first time the kingdoms fought against kingdoms, where it was all in. You had even untrained men sent out to fight because it was kingdom against kingdom.
And there will be famines, famines, the awful thing about famines in our day is that they're no longer caused solely by the weather. Famines happen today for economic reasons and because of wicked leaders everywhere where there's a famine, we could end it. Did you catch that everywhere where there was a famine, we could end it. There's enough food. We have the transportation technology to solve the problem.
We simply don't do what is necessary and where famine is not weather related, it's due to wicked leaders, as we're seeing in places like Venezuela right now. We would have thought surely we could have solved this problem by now, by now we could. We just don't. Then Jesus says there's going to be increasing and more frequent pestilence. Now, pestilence is a term for a fatal epidemic, disease, a plague. The idea here is that there will be epidemics and pandemics with increasing frequency.
No present day examples come to mind on this one.
Right. But you know what? If you go back to the mid to late 90s, I started noticing this about a decade ago.
You go back to the mid to late 90s, the world had been relatively quiet as far as pandemics go, as far as serious large scale outbreaks.
RE: What's Love?
How many do you think are feeling it here?Most everyone can intellectualize themselves to death about their perception of love and getting along with one another.
Yet, how many are really feeling for anyone here?
When most everyone is building barriers and walls against the very thing they seek.
Mostly out of fear they won't be understood. How can anyone love another if they refuse to offer it or afraid by assuming that everyone is a scammer or fake or out to emotionally harm them.
If everyone is hiding behind a computer and 4000 to 10,000 miles away what real harm can anyone do to another?
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
He says these things are just the beginning. And that's important because to this day, Christians and skeptics alike and people who are interested in end times, events in the apocalypse, all of them will look at one event. They'll look at one war, one earthquake, and inevitably someone will say, could this be one of the signs that Jesus talked about in the Christian scriptures? Could this be one of the signs Jesus talked about in the Olivet discourse?And then people will rightfully respond with something along the lines of these things are not new phenomena.
They've been happening for thousands of years and every generation of Christians has looked at this list and verse is six and seven and said, oh, look, a war we must be in the last days or oh, look, an earthquake, a famine. We must be in the end times. Here's the key given by Jesus in verse eight to understanding these verses correctly. The Greek word that he uses there for Sorrow's in the original manuscripts is the Greek word, Odin, Odin.
It's a feminine noun that refers to the pangs of childbirth, what we would call labor pains or labor contractions.
What Jesus actually says in verse eight is all these signs that I've just listed are the beginning of labor pains. Now, why does Jesus say something so strange? It's because he wanted us to understand that all these signs are going to occur like labor pains as the end times approach. In this analogy, childbirth is likened to the end times, beginning with the rapture.
And labor pains are likened to these signs that Jesus has just listed in Verse is six and seven. Now, what defines labor pains?
We all know, don't we?
If you've had kids, then you know the routine. They get more and more intense and they occur closer and closer together as childbirth approaches. If you've had your first child or you can think back to what that experience was like, if you're a woman, you had the child. If you're a husband, hopefully you got to be there for that. Then often, you know the experience, there's some pain, there's some contractions.
You call the hospital. I'm having a baby. The incredibly jaded nurse says, well, how far apart of the contractions? You say five minutes.
And she goes, oh, you're only getting started. I know it feels like the world is ended, but things are going to get a lot more intense and they're going to get a lot more frequent. That's the idea.
That's what Jesus is conveying here. All these terrible things we're going to read about in Verse is, six through seven, earthquakes, famine, disease, wars, these things. The idea is they're going to become more and more frequent and more and more intense as we get closer and closer to the end times.
So write this down.
The list of signs given by Jesus and Verse is six and seven will occur with increasing frequency and intensity as the end times approach.
They're going to increase with frequency and intensity as the end times approach. Now, when you understand this, when you get the analogy, Jesus is making you understand why the time we're living in is so significant.
Everyone's already forgotten that we thought 2019 was a bad year.
Do you remember that on January 1st of2020, most people were like, thank God a new year is here. We had no idea what 20/20 had stored, did we? The list of signs Jesus gives is now unfolding with such intensity and such frequency that we're all looking around and saying, well, how much more of this can the Earth take?
Yes, all the things we've seen right now have happened before, but not with the frequency and intensity that we're seeing right now. We've never seen so many things happening at the same time as we're seeing right now. So what is on this list of signs that makes it so compelling, let's jump back to verse six and read it together, Jesus says, and you'll hear of wars and rumors of wars.
RE: JOSEPH SMITH ( founder of Mormons ).
Happened in IL huh... lolIllinois was pretty rough in the 1800's and early 1900's.
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Samuel Bateman, the leader of a small polygamous group near the Arizona-Utah border.
Samuel Bateman, the leader of a small polygamous group near the Arizona-Utah border. (Source: Associated Press)
The leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border has pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport underage girls across state lines in what authorities say was a yearslong scheme to orchestrate s*xual acts involving children.
Samuel Bateman also pleaded guilty on Monday in US District Court in Phoenix to conspiring to commit kidnapping in a plan to free underage girls who had been taken into Arizona state custody. His plea agreement recommends a sentence of 20 to 50 years in prison, though one of his convictions carries a possible maximum sentence of life in prison.
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A 12-year-old student opened fire at a secondary school in southern Finland and wounded three other students today, police said. The suspect was later arrested.What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
One of those times is going to be in reference to the end of the disciples lives the other three times. It's going to refer to the whole time period of the end times. So Jesus will sometimes call that whole time period the end.That's the time period that begins with the rapture and goes through all of those different end times events.
Then when we reach Verse is nine through 13, Jesus is going to address things that will happen to the first generation of the church specifically.
So things that will happen to these disciples in their lifetime. So write this down. Verse is nine through 13 refers to events that take place during the first generation of the church. The early, early, early church verse is nine through 13 refers to events that take place during the first generation of the church.
So with that overview in mind, let's take a look at those verse is and discover what Jesus wants all of us to know about the end times.
So beginning in verse four, it says, and Jesus answered and said to them, take heed. That means be careful that no one deceives you, for many will come in my name saying I am the Christ and will deceive many.
So firstly, Jesus cautions his disciples to watch out for imposters.
And history tells us that in the century following this teaching by Jesus, a total of 64 different men came on the scene in and around Israel, claiming to be the second coming of Jesus Christ. Jesus says, listen, don't buy it. Don't buy it. This was much more of a concern for the early church because the New Testament hadn't been written yet, the early church believed Jesus would be coming back in their lifetime, and they didn't have all the New Testament scriptures that we do that give us details about how the rapture and the second coming are going to work and the order of events and all these things.
So there was much greater danger in that first generation of the church to people being misled by fake Jesus's.
Because we have the New Testament, we know that believers, the church are going to be raptured years before Jesus returns to the earth in the second coming. We know, in fact, that will be with Jesus when he returns to the Earth at the second coming. And if you read the Scriptures, you'll realize that when the second coming happens, when Jesus returns to the Earth again, there's not going to be any confusion about who he is.
It's going to be like, hmm, there's two guys claiming to be Jesus and I can't figure out which one is actually Jesus.
Is it the guy over there named Greg who's been living in his van for the past few years? Or is it that guy flying through the sky like lightning on a white horse more brilliant than the sun with an army of millions trailing behind them? I mean I mean, which one could it be? When Jesus comes to the earth again, there's going to be no confusion about who he is, but for the early church there was a real risk of confusion because they didn't have the New Testament scriptures yet.
And so Jesus says, here's what you need to know.
Disciples don't buy it when random people show up claiming to be me in Verse is six and seven, Jesus is going to give a famous list of signs that will let us know that we're in the end times.
But in order to understand how we're meant to read and use this list of signs, we have to jump ahead. Diverse eight for a minute, because that's where Jesus shares the key to unlocking these verse is. Look with me at verse eight, Jesus says, referring to all these signs. He says all these are the. And then would you underline beginning of sorrows? All these are the beginning of sorrows. Jesus says that we shouldn't look at any of these signs and verse is six and seven as definitive proof that the end times are almost here.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
It's known as the all of that discourse because it takes place on the Mount of Olives.In this discourse, in this teaching, Jesus is going to answer the questions the disciples have just asked him in verse three. But before he does that, Jesus is going to give an overview of some End-Time signs and he's going to share about things that will unfold during the first generation of the church, things that are going to happen in the lifetime of these specific disciples.
I want to ask you in your Bibles to underline the questions the disciples ask in verse three, because there are many who will say, well, in Matthew 24 in the Oliver discourse, Jesus is just talking about events that happened in Israel between 70 A.D. and 120 A.D. He's just talking about the destruction of Jerusalem and the fall of Israel.
But look at the questions the disciples ask Jesus. Why are those questions recorded in scripture? It's because the Lord wanted us to know the specific questions that Jesus is answering in Matthew 24 and into Matthew 25.
What are those questions? The first one is when will these things be? So in other words, when will the temple be destroyed? When will every stone be brought down, as Jesus had just predicted in verse two the first question is when is this going to happen? Jesus. The next question is what will be the sign of your coming? So in other words, what signs are going to tell us that you're about to begin your reign as Lord over the Earth?
And then lastly, what will be the sign of the end of the age? So what signs will tell us that the end times are almost here?
Those are the questions the disciples ask, and those are the questions that Jesus answers in Matthew 24 and 25.
And that right there, verse three. Those questions on its own should be enough to clearly disprove the notion that Jesus is only talking about events that took place between 70 A.D. and 120 A.D. That should settle it.
Just the disciples questions in verse three.
So write this down. It's the first fill in on your outline the disciple's questions. Tell us what Jesus is talking about in the all of it discourse, the disciples questions. Tell us what Jesus is talking about in the all of it discourse.
Now, to give you an idea of where we're going in this and in verses four through eight that we're about to get into, Jesus is going to talk about some of the things that are going to take place between this moment when he's speaking with his disciples and the rapture of the church, which is going to really begin the end times. The rapture is sort of the major kickoff event of that end times era. When I use the term rapture, I'm talking about the coming future event or Jesus will remove the church.
That means all believers from the earth before he judges the Earth by pouring out his wrath upon it. And again, if you need more detail, we just don't have time to get into it today. Go and listen to the Revelation series, because for now we got to keep moving. So here's the overview. And as I said, then we'll get into it in detail. Write this down.
Verse is four through eight refers to the church age, the church age. So the church age is really the time period between Pentecost, which happens in Acts Chapter two when the church is born, and the Rapture. So Verse is four through eight refer to the church age. These disciples would see the thing.
Jesus is going to talk about what happened, but so will we, because the disciples were part of the church age and so are we. But in different ways, we're going to see these things happen in different ways that I'll explain. In the next few minutes.
We're going to hear Jesus. You might just want to make a note of this. If you're a Bible student, we're going to hear Jesus refer to the phrase the end four times in today's text
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Signs of the Times......Date:8/16/20Series: Matthew.......Matthew 24:3-14........Speaker: Jeff Thompson
Jesus begins the Oliver Discourse by prophesying about things that would happen in the lifetime of His Disciples, as well as the signs that will tell believers the end times are approaching
New Hope Church has joined with God Rock Church for their study through the gospel of Matthew. And last week, Pastor B.J. got us started on Chapter 24, where Jesus begins to prophesy about future events that are going to affect Israel and then later the world. I want to encourage you in this study, as I do in every study, to be a skeptic. Don't believe anything that I tell you, study it for yourself, examine the text and then determine if I've presented it to you honestly and accurately.
My goal is not to make the text say what I want it to say or what you want it to say. My goal is simply to allow the Bible to say what it actually says. We want the word of God to speak for itself. That's our prayer for this study. And for every study, I'm going to do my best to explain everything as we go so that we can all understand what Jesus is talking about. But I won't have the time to explain every single thing.
If you'd like to learn more about what the Bible teaches about the end times, or if I talk about some concepts that you're not familiar with, the best way to grow your understanding of the subject we're going to be talking about today is probably to study through the Book of Revelation. And I've put a link on your outlines to where you can do that on our church's website. And if you do it, I'll tell you right now, it's a study that will change your life and you'll be so blessed by it.
You'll be so glad if you do it.
So as we rejoin Jesus, he's just been teaching a crowd on the Temple Mount. And as he leaves the Temple Mount, some of his disciples have pointed out the glorious structures and riches on display on the Temple Mount.
And when they do that, instead of saying, yeah, the temple is awesome or Israel's number one, Jesus said this in verse two. Do you not see all these things?
Assuredly. I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another. That shall not be thrown down. Jesus was speaking prophetically about what would happen to the temple and Jerusalem in 70 A.D., as Pastor B.J. taught us last week. But to the disciples, this was a shocking statement. They were under the impression that if Jesus was the Messiah, he was going to step up and conquer the Romans on Israel's behalf. He was going to usher in a new age where Israel and the Jews would take their rightful place as the supreme country.
And people grew up on the earth, and the temple was going to be at the center of it all. It was going to be the throne from where Messiah would rule the earth. And so to hear Jesus say, yeah, this is all going to be destroyed, made all of them say, wait, what? What? And as we rejoin those same disciples now just continuing in the text, Jesus is now walking with them.
He's leading them off the Temple Mount up onto the Mount of Olives, a hillside that provides the best panoramic views of the city of Jerusalem. And at its base is the famous Garden of Gethsemane.
Now, unsurprisingly, the disciples are hungry for answers, which is why we read this in verse three now is he? That's Jesus sat on the Mount of Olives. The disciples will learn from all the gospels that it's Peter, James, John and Andrew 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. And this marks the beginning of one of the most important teachings Jesus gives during his earthly ministry.
RE: What's Love?
It is feeling.
JOSEPH SMITH ( founder of Mormons ).
Many of these Mormons have been brought up in families and indoctrinated since being children, and appear to have been sheltered from the normal social events that other young people experience. I spent time with a few young sisters( name given to the female missionaries), who pay money (called a tithe) regularly to the organisation and also pay for much of their travelling whilst promoting their beliefs. I bought them some items to help out, and though they appeared happy, I couldn't help feeling sorry for the world they existed in.
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Daphne. Good night , good looking out and thank youRE: JOSEPH SMITH ( founder of Mormons ).
Many of these 'saviors' have their own personal motives...like Warren Jeffs and his late father...a whole community that has lead to nothing but a strange perversion in the name of faith...Be careful of who tries to influence you...
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A woman being detained by a security guard at a market in Santiago, Chile, managed to grab hold of a gun and fire a number of shots.The dramatic incident, which was captured on camera and was live-streamed by a broadcast network, resulted in three people being wounded.
It took place at Lo Valledor Market.
The woman was taken into police custody.
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Ann...Make sure they read the small print...lots of things not to do or won't cover...including transport...
When I go on trips...I understand that if I am injured while away...it means I go back home...if medically stable...
RE: Is the real truth being hidden?
I thin you missed my point...rather than google it...take into the consideration of the source...plenty of misinformation circulating...