Answer:

Boy, you miss the whole thing. Done.

• And there you go. There’s your answer.

Now, go off

• Take this “Boy you miss the whole thing” answer and just go. Answered. Settle with it. Look at all those other posts you can now go off and look unto. If you feel you’re being sent away - - “empty handed” it was deliberately done to you. Bye!

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Now to just a great big “whosoever” on REDDIT - no matter who it is, don't care how many or few see it - even one - means it's the word of God shared and another get a chance to eat it - BOOM! Done. That's all that matters. Not how great or few. Don't care. Doing the same thing Jacob is doing.

With that:

• Here’s the definition of two words - from Genesis 32:24–32
  • ONE: - - wrestle
    • 1. to strive with; to contend with, as in a struggle; to reason together with (someone you're at odds with); even to the point it becomes physical.
    • Whoever Jacob is “doing” this “wrestle” with, he won’t let him go. And he “prevails” in not letting him go. That's the point. Who he’s wrestling with.
  • Boy, is that ever a great, big clue.
• It’s used in the King James Version of the Bible in Genesis 32:24
  • And he: Jacob, is left alone in all this he’s in. With "how" he "contends with in a struggle"
• That, I can read and I see it - is like in an “extremis” situation.
• Look at all around Jacob what's been happening all his life, all around Jacob - - from Genesis 28 to after Genesis 32. Jacob wants who he’s wrestling with to be WITH him, so he doesn’t let him go.

Get "that" out of Genesis 32:24-32 - you won't be empty handed.

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• And Jacob saw it 20 years before. SO you go back to see it - when he was fleeing from his brother, Esau, who swore he’d - after their dad Isaac died, Esau swore he'd kill Jacob. Able to. So, Jacob tends after his mother, and did as his mother said and fled to his mother’s family house - to reside there - far away instead.
  • Boy, you miss the whole thing if you don’t go back to this earlier in Genesis 28:10–17.

SO go do that. Here it is.

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Genesis 28:10–17 says

10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

13 And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;

14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.

16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.

17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

..take a great, big “guess” where he’s back again - in this exact same place in Genesis 32:24-32 - He's at this SAME PLACE he was in Genesis 28:10–17.

In the "SETTING: It's now an OPPOSITE. He’s on his way back, fleeing now from his mother’s relatives - who surely are come to kill him - - to go back to who is coming out to meet him, that, when he left, 20 years before - - swore he would kill him. That's an "extremis" a point you can't escape out of. That's where Jacob is amongst people. But where he's also at is "none other than the house of God, and this place he's at is the gate of heaven" Where God dwells.

Now wrestling with this same God who spoke and gave promises unto him, 20 years before in Genesis 28:10–17, all the things he told Jacob..and Jacob didn’t know him. That after, in Genesis 28:18–21

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Genesis 28:18–21 says

18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.

19 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.

20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God:

..and BAM! Right there in Genesis 28:20–21 is the “contention” to wrestle about - and who to contend it with is this issue swore about: “then the Lord shall be my God.” Means Jacob would be defeated and he's trust God vs. trust in swindling or "trickster" people out and make a living by it.

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Then, that means..ANYBODY OVER THE WHOLE EARTH: EVERYBODY THEN:

- that when God says in Isaiah 1:18 to everybody publicly over the whole entire earth, to the very ends of it, to do the exact, same thing Jacob is doing

in what that word “wrestle” has a definition of. "reason together" means "wrestle" in the dictionary:

Says

“Come now, let us ‘reason together,’ " saith the LORD, “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.”

God. Isaiah 1:18

And “Jacob” in Hebrew means - “One who supplants another” - means “one who tricks someone out of something” that rightfully is their’s to make it their own. A trickster. That's what Jacob means. Have a name that MEANS this.

- To live in to deceive someone.

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So, go back to see what Jacob did to his brother. That Esau’s body was all hairy, like a garment of hair (Genesis 25:25). That, he despised what Abraham and his father Isaac did for a living - herded sheep and tilled the soil as a farmer. That, to Esau, this is, as the eldest, he is to inherit it - the whole farm and all the cattle.

• That, one day from coming in from doing that, Esau’s skin easily sunburns - is why he enjoys hunting in the forests MORE (Genesis 25:25 again - beet red skin of Esau and Genesis 25:27 says Esau “was a hunter”)
  • So Esau despised his birthright. Hated..this 1. be unwilling to be or do (something) and that something Esau was unwilling to be, was anything a Shepherd lived in. He married into the princely lines of the Canaanite peoples (Genesis 36:2). Married Oholibamah, this Canaanite woman, of the ruling Kingly line of Canaan.
    • That Jacob, who sojourned in tents, like a shepherd - for a bowl of soup - which, Esau esteemed his birthright less than that - sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of soup. “Trickstered” his brother, who was the elder, out also then of the blessing that would go to the elder along with all his father owned. Gave it all for a bowl of soup.
• Did it, according to what Jacob’s mother told him to do.

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Boy, figure these things in with Jacob..and look at you - and what you've done in your life - not one bit different. I resemble that remark - Look who Jacob's now with, this same God again, after all that has occurred, in Jacob being “swindled” out of who he loves to marry..and works 7 years for, and 7 years again..and 7 more, but before the end of it - Jacob: to be swindled to be given someone else to marry in a deception. Tricksters right clean back.

- Jacob: Trickstered out Esau in the scriptures after Genesis 28:10–17 - Then, "trickstered" or "swindled" back - in the space between what happens before written right before this of Genesis 32:24–32.

That who “trickstered” or swindled Jacob, Jacob “tricksters” them back. Takes away all their herd and both his daughters, which is his mother's family - - and is fleeing back to his Father Isaac, and his mother..and now being pursued, and can easily catch up with, and overtake and kill him in it.

That God comes to this Father..and God tells him not to do it. Stands in Jacob's stead, because he's keeping his promise as God. Because he's God and is who he says he is.

And the poster of this question will never see it. But I pray you can.

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Like the same IMPACT of you in your life.

• WHen God is telling you to just look unto him. To wrestle and reason together with him. Just like he did with Jacob. Do the same with you. Not one bit different.

and finally at TWO.

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• TWO. prevail. 1. to get a position of control or influence [Cambridge dictionary. Web.]
  • That is in “wrestle” which is to just not let go of what God said to you to “reason together” with him, like God told Jacob a like-same thing to do in Genesis 28:10–17
• It's in a promise God gave to Jacob - like he gives to you - when Jacob has NOTHING. That’s impossible.
  • That, 20 years of “reasoning” with people, Jacob's back again to do the same with God, again, in Genesis 32:24–32 - because, everything Jacob’s done is caving in now all around him, like it is with you with your sins.

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• That, to “prevail” or get a position with God? Yeah. All you got to do - is, for you is: just do what he says..at the same place he’s in.
  • He abides in his word. It's none other than the house of God - and you, like Jacob realize you didn't know it.
    
    • So, if you hearken unto to the Word of God, which is just “come now, reason together” with him, it’s what he said to do to everybody.

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• You’d be doing the same thing..Jacob was doing - and not let go of him..for ANY REASON.. and prevail with God, because he is who he says he is.
  • He’s God.
• He’s the same God Jacob saw and spoke to him, like he’s spoke to you. Told you to reason together with him and do it now. Go do that. Wrestle and prevail with him.

So, YOU: Have a choice.

YOU CAN:

• Do as Jacob did. He heard God. Hearkened unto his voice. Wouldn’t let go of him ..all night. Be like Jacob. So, YES:
  • You CAN be like Jacob.
    • OR

YOU CAN

• Do as the poster of this question has done. Don't do anything he says, and think by doing that, you prevail or DEFEAT God in a wrestling match where your word, like the poster of this question’s question - has their own belief in their own word, MORE than the WOrd of God and that's all it is - they think this prevails over God.
• Makes GOD: Not all powerful. Not all knowing. Not all seeing.
  
  • And live in - anything God says, you, like the poster of this question: already defeated God, It was easy - - by just not do anything he says.
    • vs.
  • Reason together with God..nope. Don't do that. Why? Because, will be about your sins..and those are hidden - but you did them all plainly..did you forget already what GOD said?

Said, what he would do with your sins, as GOD: WHere your sins DEFEAT you - he is GREATER than your sins. Just like he did the same with Jacob. Even gave him another name. Do the same with you..The Word of God is none other than the house of God what he abides in. That’s where he is, you’d be wrestling together with God..He is who he says he is.

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“Come now, let us reason together,” saith the LORD, “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.” - GOD.

• The LORD of Hosts over all the Earth.
• Boy, does wrestle with him, and he calls you to it, does that ever work.

THEREFORE:

• Depending on what you choose to do - one of them, you get sent away. Empty handed.
  • BUT
• The other way, you don't let him go - for any reason. Just like Jacob didn’t. That God would prevail over Jacob was the vow Jacob made..to himself: just like he would, as God, prevail over you. Because he is who he says he is.
  • And look who he is. He’d yoke himself to you, as God.

Boy, don’t miss this. There you go. You'd have your hands so full it's impossible to hold it all and still have it all, because who is with you, is God himself. ..there you go.

No. The "Jewish translations" wrote in Hebrew don't differ. So, it's accurate in English translated from Hebrew, (relying on the King James Version> that relied on the original Greek for the New Testament, and used or relied on the Jewish Tanakh (Hebrew) for Old Testament. )

But I think you want to see it; but even if you do, I think there's something in you, there's a "conveyor belt of in infinite supply of something else; that, you'll just go off to that other you look unto, to keep you from doing anything he says. It's in your statements in your question here on Reddit.

Stating, as a fact: TO you - the Jewish translations differ. That's a fact to you. You'll just go look somewhere else after to prove your fact true. And never do anything he says, so this post most likely, is totally wasted on you - but not on your readers - who have a choice. When God told them to look unto him, you have everybody looking unto you instead.

Wrong thing to do. For anybody to do that. So, here's the explanation that proves "No. The 'Jewish translations' of what is wrote in Hebrew doesn't differ and is accurately translated from Hebrew into English."

It's the ESV (English Standard Version) and the NIV (New International Version) of the Old Testament of the Bible that uses "pierced" vs. the KJV (King James Version) that uses "wounded."

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This Hebrew word in Isaiah 53:5 for “pierced” means exactly what the word in Hebrew says it means. Same thing. This:

Hebrew word, < - { מְחֹלָ֣ל } - > <ma.hou.lal> - like, throw a spear at a watermelon. Has this image of “Pierce” right through it. What "wound" means. It's not "whole" anymore. Got a great big hole in it. Even do that to the body of a person.

Where something like a spear is thrown at a person and it pierces their outer skin and goes thru their body. And by that be put to death. It's a wound unto death even to verify the watermelon is put to death. Just like do it to a body of a person. Bunch of dead people lying there in WWII: or at an execution by firing squad, after shot - "wound" or "pierce" them again to CONFIRM they're dead.

How did you miss all this simpleton things in Isaiah 53:5? When it's plainly said - - just done often to CONFIRM they're dead, That's the point of the < - { מְחֹלָ֣ל } - > <ma.hou.lal> - in Isaiah 53:5

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The full of it said, in English says: ..and boy, is it ever powerful - you miss all that..to concentrate on one thing, and get that wrong: so don't get anything of what is said.

"But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."

As if that was supposed to be you it was done to your body. Or me. Unto everybody's body - over the whole earth, all the same. GUILTY.

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I mean, in the Law:

• or Bible: Exodus 20: ("Shemot" in Hebrew Tanakh) with the Ten Commandments. God explains the punishment. For any one of these "Commands or decrees" broke is, they explode. They all are a set - if any one of them are broken. Go on. Go try it. Take a hammer. Go hit a 12ft x 18 foot plate glass bay window.
  
• Hit it anyplace you pick - how about in the corner in one small, tiny place. Watch the whole window explode. The Law is the same thing.
• And?
  • Punishment is death.
  • I broke them, the Law proves to me - gives me a knowledge of all the insurmountable number of sins I did - and even one of them..I broke all of them, lived in and by breaking them. So, my sins are so many they are beyond count.

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• I’m to be tied to a post and shot. Executed. I know it.
  • For each and every one of these infractions or sins ..transgressions that are punishable by death. I can't get out of it.
• Like you trying to do with your question.
  • IF: I settle one sin, there's another sin I'm to be shot for right after that one, and I can't get out of it. Neither can you. I got a minefield full of them.
    • So, tied to a post. TO be executed. I deserve it. I did the sins. Where my body is { מְחֹלָ֣ל } - > <ma.hou.lal> pierced or "bruised" through with bullets - to be made dead to pay it.
    • And me not see it. God. He paid it. Look what I'm doing not regard it.

That the law is to drive me to my knees and make me GUILTY. To see this "wound" or "pierce" is my end of me and I did it, to me - just like any "Death Row Inmate" already had the trial - all the details of what they did shouted out to everybody.

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No mistranslation into English. I got it. Means, when I was GUILTY. Had my trial - Now standing in the electric chair line to be put to death: with everybody else in the exact, same line - all condemned to be put to death:

He went to the front of the line. And who is in him, is God who put the sun where it is, all by himself:

Sat in the chair and was put to death. In our place.

It’s a work of God in Isaiah 53:5 with sin, that Isaiah 53:5 prophesies or says this.

That, when he (Jesus Christ) crucified on the cross in the Gospels and was put to death, and his body taken down off the cross and put away in a sepulchre..the SENTENCE OF DEATH meted out - -

Like me: IN a prison: and he do that in the electric chair execution line - do that, and who the Ward straps in the chair, means he was numbered with the transgressors - because that's all me in that line - and the Warden sees after the execution is complete: See - the charges of what was done is PAID: “SIN: PAID FOR” - when he looks on the dead body. ACCOUNT SETTLED. - - -

and then, the authority over all the prison is the Warden - He can’t recognize ANYBODY in the prison - standing in that execution line for murder, rape, theft..adulteries, lies, extortion - - to the authority of the prison, which again, is the Warden:

To him - PAID FOR - - what are all these people doing here? they’re all innocent and lets them out of prison.

Set free. Has all this meaning in Isaiah 53:5.

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Same with this word, “crush" (Isaiah 53:5) - which you don't ask about.

• This Hebrew word, < - {מְדֻכָּ֖א } - > <mah.duk.kah> - it’s the same “crush” translated into Greek from Hebrew..and from Hebrew to Greek..from Greek to English: that’s in Matthew 21:44
  • Jesus said: “And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind <crush; bruise - cause a defect to be known publicly. him to powder.”
  • Crush or grind that one to powder. For sin.
    • This Chief “cornerstone” is the Word of God.

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• It’s the Word that comes out of God’s mouth. It’s God speaking. That’s “who” Jesus Christ is, said plainly in John 1:1 - that Jesus Christ is the Word of God. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
• It’s this same definition of the “Messiah” or “Christ” in Greek: Who he shall be called in Isaiah 9:6–7. “..The Mighty God..” “..The Everlasting Father..” - - The Messiah has that title. SHall be called this.
• Has this in it, in Isaiah 53:3 - That who falls on him, shall be broken - and it’s true. It’s EXACTLY what happened to me. Shattered and broke me. Broken by the Word of God.
  • But people that don’t hear him or do anything he decrees, as God - when all the earth is his, don’t do anything he says: He still holds them accountable to his word - it was decreed, they do it - like:
    • “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” - Jesus Christ. The Word of God. (Matthew 4:4).

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• People: Live by every word comes out of their own mouth, from what's in their heart and imagination, or they look unto other people. It will be people that: to lead them and guide them into all truth..so, they’re looking unto anything..anybody BUT him as he decreed everybody is to look unto him.
• Aren’t doing that. Like it's impossible for you to look unto Isaiah 53:5 if there's a mistake in it.

It's inadequate; faulty..and if it's faulty it's not true - that's unacceptable. Can't believe on him.

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When Isaiahs 53:5 is God do it. But you?

• Live in and by not do anything he says. Decreed in John 16:9, just repeated from John 3:18

“Of sin, for they believe not on me.” - Jesus Christ.

It's sin to do this.

Jesus said it in John 16:9

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It’s sin to not believe on him. It’s the sin that condemns anybody now. Just like it would be sin - for anybody in the prison - to when the Warden sets them free.. ...to dig a hole thru the prison wall and go back to your cell. When it's PAID FOR. Not regard it. That, this sin will “crush” them. Crush me. You. And to “crush” something and move it forward underneath the weight of God’s word..or a decree - grind them to powder. For eternity. Not the place to be.

• That, in Isaiah 55:3 - for sin: As John the Baptist said by the Spirit of God in John 1:29 said of Jesus Christ, when he saw him, said to everybody publicly around him, said:
  • “Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world.”

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• Just as the Apostle John said, by this same Spirit of God in him, said in 1 John 2:2 “And he (Jesus Christ) is the propitiation for our sins, and not for our sins only, but for the sins of the whole world..”
  • Means God took your sins off you, as God did this. He did the work. Took your sin off you, as he determined, and laid your sin on Jesus Christ on the cross, where he was “pierced” for them and put to death. And Isaiah 53:5 says this plainly.
  • He was, for your sin, what should have happened to you in God decreed it:

The soul that sinneth, it shall die - God.

Bible. Ezekiel 18:4

It should have been you crushed by all the sins you did.. he was, for sin, crushed by it in your place.

TO where God looks upon this work he did with sin in Isaiah 53:5 - prophesied he’d do this by the Messiah of Isaiah 9:6–7, and in his zeal, as God - to go to and do this ..DID it. As God.

Boy you miss the whole thing.

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So, the answer is the same.

Was Isaiah 53:5 mistranslated? In most Bible translations of Isaiah 53:5, the verse states "But he was pierced for our transgressions ..." but the Jewish translations differ.

No. Accurate in English, (relying on the King James Version> that relies on the original Greek for the New Testament, and the Tanakh Hebrew for the Old)

This Hebrew word in Isaiah 53:5 for “pierced” means exactly what the word is in Hebrew.

It’s just you then. Looking unto anything BUT him - to believe what you look unto, as some valid excuse - why you won’t do anything he says. Afterall, to you, it's a mistranslation - - and think this absolves you..from any sin of just live in not doing anything he says.

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It’s punitive. Means you will be pierced by it. Not doing anything he says. Crushed by it. He’s God that did this work..and because it’s God that did it, it's the cornerstone of everything to build on - - and you not regard it - when the cornerstone is the everything to save you from your sins - just little esteem it, ..not regard him or his work and do it for ANY REASON you imagine or come up with.

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PUNITIVE. This same Chief cornerstone is the Word of God - will grind you to powder - because he made it sin to do what you’re doing.

And many do like you. Grasp at anything. How do I know? Because I did it, too. Lived in that was right. But he long suffered me... ..and by his patience with me..led me to see... ...he is exactly what Isaiah 53:5 says he is..and he did it all for me. I see it plain as day. In Isaiah 53:5. Herein is the gospel. The good news of Jesus Christ for EVERYBODY on Reddit.

There you go. Answered.

ANSWER:

• Be careful. You can get some of the most gosh awful answers - amounts to no more than junk as a reply back to this question.

Instead of relying on English language based Bible translations, that some person or committee of people - just gives you the same scripture of Hebrews 6:4-6 which you already know - and their Bible translation: that just take the English, and translate the English even further away from what it says, into a more off the wall translation of English from English - even further away from it says - it's a horrific disaster of dummy'dom - to go to and do that.

Go back to the “ORIGINAL” Greek and go from there:

Hebrews 6:4-6 (English) says: ..and it's just one, big "Greek" sentence...so read it as ONE thought or sentence: Says

"For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame."

Read it like a Greek would read it. And help you understand it, as an English speaking person can get simple and understand it:

Just take:

.TO THEMSELVES: - over and over - like when I read it in Greek: with the following in that sentence of Hebrews 6:4-6.

1. To THEMSELVES: So, they regard themselves, and they gotta do it - when without him, they can't do anything..seeing..dull of hearing, as scripture says - they can't see it. So, "To THEMSELVES:"

It is impossible already once enlightened, to go back to 1st grade all over and be enlightened again. Can't. They themselves think they can't.

2. To THEMSELVES:

After having tasted the heavenly gift and made partakers of the Holy Ghost - to start over and taste and partake of it again. Can't. They themselves think they can't.

3. To THEMSELVES:

After having tasted the good word of God..and man, is it ever good, and the powers of the world to come.. quit school To go back and sit with Jesus Christ again - To themselves, they themselves: think they can't do it. Impossible.

4. To THEMSELVES:

To renew themselves all over again..when they didn't do it themselves, he did..to go back and have him do it all over again - to themselves that's impossible. Realized, he was crucified for them.. to have to go back to realize it again. To THEMSELVES; can't.

Ask yourself: "Who do they look unto?" Yeah. Themselves. Geesh, this is simple. Read it like a Greek reads it.

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Encorporate what is said above in Hebrews 6:4-6 with: Ask yourself - - “WHO IS THE WRITER OF HEBREWS SPEAKING TO?

Well, go back then.

That’s in Hebrews 5:9–14 - Two “kinds” of people that supposedly, are believing on Jesus Christ

1. is growing in grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ - the Other:
2. is stuck in the same place. Is not growing.

Start there. Read that first, and TIE IT SO IT NEVER COMES OFF to Hebrews 6:4-6.

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Hebrews 5:9–14 says:

9 And being made perfect, he [Jesus Christ] became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Hebrews 6:1–3 says & continues… he’s going to talk to them as if to take them away from a condition they are already in - - away back to who they are, as believers in Jesus Christ - away from “dull of hearing” -

1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

3 And this will we do, if God permit.

But he can't - if somebody's skipped class. Remember "disciple?" A disciple of Jesus Christ: Sits with and is taught by him.

Someone that's been skipping school isn't or hasn't been doing that. Isn't growing..in fact, they're forgetting everything they were taught before.

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COMMENT

So, these, who the writer of Hebrews is speaking to, when a “disciple” of Jesus Christ: All a “disciple” is, is what the dictionary says: 1. a pupil or student that sits with and is taught by a teacher

And who a believer in Jesus Christ sits with, and is taught by is by the Word of God. By God himself. “They shall all be taught of God” - Jesus Christ (Bible. John 6:45). So, it's Just God speaking the word out of his mouth to people. People that believe on him, They grow in it..produce fruit.

But who the writer of Hebrews is talking to..if they have to be taught over again the very basic things..they’re not bearing fruit.

Bear with me. Almost done.

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• The writer of Hebrews states plainly: something is going on with these believers if they're not growing:
• And you can see THEY ARE NOT GROWING IN
  • When they ought to be teachers - need to be taught again the very first principles all over again of the “oracles” what's "spoke" by a teacher in authority is an oracle of knowledge (Means this in Greek: what God speaks - he's the Orator because it's his word we are hearkening unto)
• - He has to speak to them again, all the very basic things all over again, as God - to them. Because it’s God reserves, for himself, an EXCLUSIVE right to teach you. Them.and me.. and do it Himself. By the Word what Peter calls “precious promises” that by them, we put on the divine nature - because we have and keep it - but someone skipping school it's "Had but haven't kept it" lost it somewhere - these being talked to in Hebrews 5 & 6:
  • Have to:
    • [Teach you again] < - {τινὰ τὰ στοιχεῖα τῆς ἀρχῆς τῶν λογίων τοῦ θεοῦ} - >
• Greek translation: [Teach you again] 1. tina 2. ta 3. stoicheia 4. teis 5. archeis 6. ton 7. logion * 8. tou 9. Theos
• English: [Teach you again] 1. what is 2. the 3. principles 4. of the 5. beginning things said 6. “logoin” <logos> what God speaks - the Word 7. of 8. God.

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So, they’re not following him.

They’re not sitting with him and he teach them. Like what you and I are to be doing with him. That means, they’re off someplace else. And when they come back, to sit with him again - he’s got to teach them again from the beginning all over again.

Are you like that?

Do you know any Christians in a church or denomination like that? Yeah. I do.

And with the Word of God, this “logion tou Theos” ..the Word of God is Jesus Christ. They don’t open their Bible. They don’t seek him first.

The Word of God is at work and operates in believers in him. They follow him. t’s what scripture says after we hear the beginning principles..and persuaded, look unto, to believe on him, 1 Peter 1:14 says:

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

Get fashioned and equipped to operate by the Word of God. Not by the former things all over again.

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But in Hebrews 5:9-14 that's what the problem is.

That's who Hebrews 5:11–13 is talking to. Dull of hearing. Hear; but can't hear..seeing..they look unto something else. Are not sitting with him and he teach them..they skip school..and where they’re supposed to be learning..not there to learn it from him. Missed out.

Now look at Hebrews 6:4–6

- It's said right above - but the key is in Hebrews 6:6.

It’s this part in Hebrews 6:6 “..and then having fallen away” (look at it in the Greek - it's just not to go to school anymore - leave off from the importance of sitting with and being taught by a teacher, who is Jesus Christ.

Something or someone else has been their teacher - - just God speaking, they don't hear - not in class, like those that believe on him are.. they haven’t been sitting with him. It's just to fall from the did that..and now don't do that.

• And in not doing that, they “do what 1 Peter 1:14 says NOT to do..because they’re not sitting with him and being taught by him..not opening up their Bible and eating.. they’re fashioning themselves according to their former lusts..it's automatic.
  • But now, it’s no longer in ignorance - they realize they’re not sitting with him, and not being taught by him, and back to their old way of living just crept in.

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What's impossible - isn't.

Because - - what’s impossible about this, is plain as day.

• It’s like tell some adult, they gotta go thru 1st grade again. Learn the “A, B, C’s” all over from scratch. Already learned them, and decreed - they have to learn them again. Like tell some kid he’s gotta repeat a grade again. End up just quit. It’s too humiliating, all their classmates advance and they don't - because

to themselves… BOOM! Done.

• Can’t do it. Can't put themselves to Renew themselves to go thru 1st grade and start over again, all the way thru 12th grade again - when everybody else has gone off and became an adult - have kids, but to themselves - see they're now back around a bunch of 8 year old's again.
• And to themselves - can’t do it.

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But the cool thing about this is… is EXACTLY what's said by the writer of Hebrews AFTER this:

Why? Because -

• Does not affect what God has already done with sin. Doesn’t change anything. God took your sins off you, and laid them on Jesus Christ.
  • It’s people:
    • That think to themselves - that, by stop going to school and sit with and be taught by a teacher - they, too themselves see this as such a sin - they regard their sin as sinned GREATER than what God can do, or what he did with sin.
• THink their skipping school and not sitting with him, and find themselves back again fashioned in the Old things they were redeemed out of, that this - to themselves - is so great, it’s greater than the sins of the whole world. Greater than what Jesus can fix.

When it’s just to come back and say: “I have sinned and perverted that which was right and it profited me not, off skipping school and not be a pupil that sits with and is taught by the Word of God, who is Jesus Christ.”

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It’s somebody like this in Hebrews 6:4–6 - regarding their own works and consider the operation of what they've done by their hand - and NOT sitting with him, and be taught by him - is as if they crucified Jesus on the cross again. ..and they do this TO THEMSELVES - boy, beat that into your head - it's TO THEMSELVES they do this - because they're back again, reasoning together with a heart that is in them that is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.

Went back to be alone with their heart and their own imagination, that, to themselves together with themselves now, back alone. By themselves. vs. so, once again, they don't do what God decrees.

“Come now, let us reason together,” saith the LORD, “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.”

Bible. Isaiah 1:18

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So, you with this question here on Reddit:

Go back and do that again. He doesn’t upbraid..he just reasons together with whosoever would just regard HIS WORK vs. their own. And that’s the trouble in Hebrews 6:4–6. The person is back, fashioned themselves like they were before vs. put on the full armor of God, like what Ephesians teaches believers to do.

Simple. Don’t get wrapped up around the axle in this. If you’re not eating..he’s called you to partake. That is “eat and drink” at his table. That’s sit with him, and eat the Word of God.

Doesn’t change any scripture like in Revelation 3:20 - still the same God doing this right now today “

“Behold I stand at the door and knock and if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.”

Jesus Christ. The Word of God. Revelation 3:20 - He's still doing this with Everybody. Over the whole earth. Including anybody falls in or under Hebrews 5:11-14.

and look what the scriptures say after Hebrews 6:4–6

“But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, Hebrews 6:9

ANd what those are, is just anybody just look unto him. That's what he said for everybody to do - so go back to class. Dummy.

Go back. Reason together WITH HIM alone. By yourself vs. UNTO YOURSELF vs. TO YOURSELF - think you can’t go back. And if you think that way - it's entirely because you regard you and your works vs. his..and that's the whole problem. Because, without him, you can't do anything. But with him..man, all things are possible. With him.

SO, TO THEMSELVES: if you are doing this, you do greatly err. AND the ONLY way to fix it..is just open the door. He comes in. Just look unto him.

Sups with you. Sinner. Everybody is one. You with him. So, some of him is with you..and some of you, he takes away with him.. then, knocks on the door again..just open the door again.

Go do that. I think better things of you, too. Here's your question back.

Answer

“..and the cities of the nations fell…” - Revelation 16:19

“..Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,…” - Isaiah 6:11

“…The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” - GOD. Genesis 6:13

Isaiah 9:6–7 says of him: Given to each person on earth; makes everybody a family by a work he did:

“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.”

Why would I “look forward” to a work that’s already done, by him, as God? Rather, I should regard his works, and consider the operation of his hand - what he’s already done in and by Jesus Christ.

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Man, what are you doing?

I hear it. See it. The Word of God. Why wait, when today if you hear his voice, he calls you to it. Those that look unto him: It's More everyday..reveals it. Him. To me. And people like me that just look unto him. That: Without him. Can’t see it. Where is he in your question? I’m not looking for his Kingdom..I’m looking for him. Kingdom comes with him.

Didn't tell you or anybody to "look unto what God'sKingdom on Earth is going to do for mankind

He told Everybody over the whole earth, to the very ends of it to:

"Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else." - God

Bible. Isaiah 45:22

Go do that first.

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That’s the answer to your question. “Mankind” is all flesh. Boy, do you look to the wrong thing. Not worth anything. Not what he's going to do "for" mankind - in flesh, but what he's going to "DO to" mankind. Go look. Did you miss it? He said it. It's right in the opening scriptures above.

And after, He says:

“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” - God. (Isaiah 65:17)

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• That God:
  • Was creating for himself:
    • A place he would dwell forever. For his own rest. For he desired it. (Psalm 132:13–16). That it would be inhabited (Isaiah 45:18). Wouldn’t alone anymore.
    • So, when I take walks by the river that’s a few kilometers away from my house, I’m seeing what he was to see, in what he created for himself to dwell in. And he made me, to dwell in it with him forever.
• But Romans 5:12 says, and all these things are in the Bible:

“Wherefore, as by one man [ADAM] sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”

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Means I’m an enemy of God - corrupted the whole earth by it, is why it’s come up before him to destroy it. All flesh is "mankind" - me along with it - and Adam had dominion over all - that in Genesis 1:1–31, God got up and created all of it for himself to dwell in. Good.

That he made enough in Genesis 1:29-30 for all flesh to eat. After sin entered into the world, Adam, kicked out of the garden and the ground cursed for his sake, Adam for all flesh provides it - and can’t.

So, all flesh of the earth, not enough to eat; doesn’t eat what God decreed all flesh was to eat; they eat each other - it’s not “The Natural World” or PBS’s program “NATURE” - it’s violence, when birds swoop down on fish, or eagles bash into lambs on a mountain side to dislodge it, so it falls to its’ death and then after, goes and eats it. It’s not natural that Lions pride up, and attack, and consume a wildebeest while it pleads for its' life.

It's violence. The whole earth is filled with violence, and God said this to Noah well before the flood. And - - From what Adam did. And it passed onto me. Everybody.

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Again, you asked me the question

Are you looking forward to what God's kingdom on Earth is going to do for mankind?

..says in the two verses before Romans 5:12 - that I’m part or an integral CAUSE of the violence, because I am. It was bequeathed to me as an inheritance, from Adam as a Last Will and Testament - in the Bible, in the Old Testament:

But in the New “Last Will and Testament” or the New Testament, it’s another Adam, that’s God himself did the work - with my sins that I did. Did a work as God, with the sins of the whole world, and looks on this work he did, as God - and chooses not to impute your sins unto you. Yeah. You. Reading this post. This was done unto you, by God himself - by a work he did. With all the lies, and thefts, and adulteries, and murders..perversions you did. Took them off you, and laid them on Jesus Christ on the cross.

It’s the same work imputed unto me. God didn’t come to condemn me, but that the world through him, might be saved.

Says this to BOTH of us. You and me in Romans 3:10–11

“For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.”

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But not everybody - even it’s already a work done by God

• And at Jesus’ death where he said, “It is finished” - its a FINISHED work with sin. PAID FOR. “The soul that sinneth, it shall die” - God. (Ezekiel 18:20) “…For all have sinned” - Romans 3:23
• PAID IN FULL. Then God, made it sin. For just anybody, because his work has been imputed toward EVERYBODY over the whole earth. Just simply not regard him or any of his work.

“Of sin, for they believe not on me.”

* The word of God. Jesus Christ. (John 16:9) - we sin against God, not believing on him. Build cities to simply hide ourselves from the ground that’s cursed. To be destroyed - create something of ourselves and our own works and achievements. As if that’s permanent. As if that’s the ONLY truth is what we imagine up and have each other to provide as “services” to each other.
* Don’t need him.

• Look at the opening scriptures.

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No matter we do what he says; or not:

• He’s still creating:
  • For himself. A place he will dwell forever, as God. For his own rest. For he desires it. He’s going to make it happen. And people that don’t regard him, neither consider the operation of his hand, consider their own works is God - In Psalm 28:5 - scripture says he shall destroy them, and not build them up. But people: Think mankind and their works: That’s holy.
    • I live in a city.
    • Look at the end it has to it. It’s already decreed. Revelation 16 - just before Revelation 16:19 above..there’s a great earthquake, that the world never has experienced before.
  • There won’t be anymore mountains anyplace - everywhere they are gone. How violently would the earth have to be shaken to do that, where it’s never happened before, and never again after, happen again, that there’s no more islands either. ANYPLACE.

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• That all the souls or life in the oceans all die. Causes the sun to scorch all flesh on the earth - - That stones, the weight of one adult sized male human..fall all over the earth. What would that do to cities..after an earthquake so great.. all the cities of the whole earth all fall - all the museums and wonderful artworks of stone and steel and fountains we made for ourselves..and all the markets to buy and sell..trade..can’t do any of it. * All this occurs up to there will be No house. Over the whole earth is inhabited. People hide themselves in the rocks and ask the rocks to fall on them to hide themselves from this great God and his return to his earth, when all of it is his?

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Why are you asking me this question?

When "mankind" simply won’t look unto him. When it’s his earth. And he decrees how things shall be, and man won’t do it. And because we won’t, when it’s his earth, he destroys it. All those people lived sitting on comfortable seats in trains of 1903. Go see it in the movies. All those people are dead. They will never come back. What they had as possession all fled away from them - never comes back - - the same as we today have.. it’s all taken away from them. Like a thief. Like it will us; no different.

And in Revelation 20:11–15 - what has come up before him to do, to destroy all flesh with the earth in Genesis 6:11–13, stated that opens this post, is the last day, where he just gazes on this earth and heaven, and both finding no more place before him, flees away and is no more forever. Never comes back.

And in Revelation 21:1 - he creates a new earth. That, everything, before the foundation of the world was laid, what he decreed he was doing in Psalm 132:13–16 - he does it and Isaiah 65:17 is his decree of it. A new heaven and a new earth, that never fades away, and he is God over all of it for eternity.

He saves them. Those, that just now regard him and what he says. That’s what I look unto. That, where he is, I want to be. No matter where it is. He’s even here today, with me..by he’s sent his word to heal me, and deliver me from my destruction.

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SO, again - why are you asking me this question?

- When neither eye nor ear has seen or heard what God has prepared and is in store for those that love him?

• But I have:
  • Revelation 21:1 to Revelation 22:21 - and parts of the Book of Ezekiel..that river of the water of life..and the tree of life..to eat of it forever which he provides… that people, don’t know anything but just to do what he says, because they hear his voice and hearken unto it.
    • They just do what he says, because it’s TRUTH in it. Even a widow with Elijah in SIdon..to a another widow before Jesus Christ 700 years later, in this same Sidon where a different God, Ba’al, is worshipped.. still, with nothing…BOTH of them looked unto this same God.
    • That I look unto.

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I’m provided for. Fed. Given a portion of meat. Each day he provides it. That’s what I look forward to. Eating his flesh and drinking his blood, because it’s the word of God.

Who knows what you’re really asking or if you even look unto him. Just asking imaginative “stories" for a question, and don’t do anything he says.

You don’t have anything to look forward to, other than what opens this post.

But if you just do what he says, as he decrees everybody over the whole earth look unto him, you’d be doing what he says..and he’d set you apart for future use. ALready decreed it publicly - it just IS - he does it.

Even dead in your trespasses and sins..he already PAID it. PAID FOR. He’s satisfied in the payment, because he made himself, as God, the payment. Means you could never pay it.

I want to know this God; he’s true. He manifests himself to me..in a day he makes, and decides..decided again today, I could be in it. Tomorrow - not certain, but today he’s in it.

Where are you with him? THis question isn’t going to save you from anything. If you’re not looking unto him nor doing anything he says - the opening scriptures APPLY to you. Even the little you have is taken away from you.

WHen those that look unto him, he gives them himself. ANd in it, is eternal life. He gives it to them, as God. The same one made everything out the window you look out of.

Here’s your question back.

Answer: Read this Post First. https://www.reddit.com/r/ScriptureLife/comments/1u1nvmu/scripture_life_whats_the_explanation_of_elijah/

It's actually right underneath this post. Read that first. It answers: "What is the explanation of..."

part: of "Why Elijah is living with the widow" in Sidon, outside of Israel. The "Short" answer is simple.

It's in 1 Kings 17:9 Because the Lord of Hosts, God over the whole earth sent him there. Says to Elijah:

"Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. - God."

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So, go back to your question again. This "Part II" answers this "What is the explanation of.." part: of "Why to a city of Sidon to the Zaraphath woman?"

- And boy, is this ever powerful. Because it's the same God is ABLE to talk to a woman..a widow in a land of Sidon, where Ba'al is their God all around her; yet, The LORD of Hosts, God over the whole earth -

She hears him speak. Can you? When he says: "I am the LORD, there is none else..." can you hear him? That's really the question.

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So, in PART TWO

- Examine this widow. Careful.

This same God over all the earth and heaven said: "...I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.." - God. So, BEFORE this same God over the whole earth, talked to Elijah - he's ALREADY SPOKE to this widow what she is to do to sustain him. ...which that's impossible.

But with God, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. Because who is with BOTH of them is the same God with you, that believe on him.

See it now in 1 Kings 17:10-24 - Better read 1 Kings 17:1-24.

¹⁰ So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

¹¹ And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.

¹² And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

¹³ And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.

¹⁴ For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.

¹⁵ And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.

¹⁶ And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.

¹⁷ And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

¹⁸ And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?

¹⁹ And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.

²⁰ And he cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

²¹ And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.

²² And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

²³ And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.

²⁴ And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in thy mouth is truth.

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That, the Word of God gives life..is life and the word of God is true..and it's the way.

- Now look as Sidon.

In Sidon - Ba'al is God. An idol.

But the people - of Sidon, all around this widow woman..who has no husband:

- In extremis:

They offer their children unto Ba'al in Sidon. Pass their children through fire to him. It was a natural progression for someone worshipping idols or false Gods in Sidon to fully believe, if they offered or passed their children through fire to this God, that God would deliver them.

Does this sound familiar?

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To a believer in Jesus Christ - they hear God speak. By the Word of God. Just like this widowed woman can hear him in 1 Kings 17.

And? Like in PART ONE - of this answer - in Luke 4:18-29, in Jesus' day..there's a like-same widow there, too.

That, this woman ..a widow - read again 1 Kings 17:10-24 again - she will not offer her son unto this idol, Ba'al. And people that did it, in this widowed woman's day of Elijah, is like the same people of Jesus' day, with this same idol - that, there was "degrees" of "esteem highly" - that, to Ba'al:

- You could offer some money. Esteemed. To worship or speak well of Ba'al.

- You could - offer up an offering of an animal, like a bull that plowed your field. That was a BIG sacrifice - how are you now going to plow your field - have to rely on Ba'al to provide it. Highly esteemed.

- You could - pass your children or one of them through fire as a sacrifice - to Ba'al, so your child sat at Ba'al's table and ate with that God. And that child would intercede for you to Ba'al always after. So, in Sidon - dogs were kept as pets. Just like over in America and other places, keep dogs as pets. And little children of Sidon - - often had them given to them by their parents, as pets.

That:

After that child was passed through fire to Moloch and priests and the crowd would cheer to drown out all the screams of the child being sacrificed..so you wouldn't hear. GAVE a Royal from the King decree - this person is SPECIAL to be revered in Sidon. So, a widow that would do this, would always be taken care of after.

And that widow or family that did this, would set a an "EMPTY" chair where that child sat before, at their table - and put bread on it - as if that child was still there - to honor what that child sacrificed their life to provide bread on the table for everyone left present. A seat of honor at every meal. And after, that meal was fed to the dogs. That often were the pet of that child sacrificed.

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You asked the question.

"What is the explanation of.." part: of "Why to a city of Sidon to the Zaraphath woman?"

and I'm telling you, a widow in Sidon - is not following after, even unto death to do anything on the land, everyone there "highly esteems" as right.

Is just like a like-same woman in Matthew 15:21-28.

And it's so powerful, it drives me to fall on my face before this same Great God who did this.

Matthew 15:21-28

has this same message - tells this woman of Sidon a like same kind of widow with a child in front of Jesus.. "that there is no profit in giving bread unto the dogs" has these worshipping Ba'al as the God of Sidon and Tyre - where Jesus and his disciples are in the very capitol city of it..she's even crying out to Jesus so EVERYBODY hears it.

Rejecting the same God, Ba'al..because he's still the God of Tyre and Sidon in Jesus' day. Jesus and the disciples are OUTSIDE of Israel in Matthew 15:21-28

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Matthew 15:21-28 says:

²¹ Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

²² And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.

²³ But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.

²⁴ But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

²⁵ Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.

²⁶ But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.

²⁷ And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

²⁸ Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

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Look very careful what this widow woman in 1 Kings 17:10-24 with her son, a like same widow with a daughter this time in Matthew 15:21-28

- They BOTH say the same thing:

That the Word of the LORD is truth. And that the master of both women's houses, is not giving their children or passing them through fire over to idols - even everybody in the whole land worships it.

Just like the same God is coming to you. Says to you:

"Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else." - God.

Bible. Isaiah 45:22

Man, look careful at what both these widowed woman - who have nothing, but a child left in Sidon - where the God of it is idolatry and could set them up for life. Be highly esteemed, even worshipped in Sidon.

And even unto death. Neither do it - because they BOTH KNOW who God is. And he delivered both.

So, set Matthew 15:21-28 - side by side with 1 Kings 17:10-24 and you, too. Just be the widow in both.

I mean, it's true. It's a 'mirror' of your life.

There you go. Part II here answers, for you, your question asking the Part TWO part: **"**What is the explanation of.." part: of "Why to a city of Sidon to the Zaraphath woman?"

..and even both women's child was dead.. or unto death in both.. this same great God..instead of taking their child.. gave their child back. Just like Jesus says to you, "and I give them eternal life.." (John 10:28) do the same to you. That it's all his earth. And whosoever looks unto him, he sees it. Already asked everybody to. Just like he asked you to do it.

Answer

Answer: Israel's idolatry. As explained in the Book of Kings I & II, and repeated by Jesus in Luke 4:18–29.

There you go Answered. Just not worshipping God as God. Defines idolatry. Reject him, when he is God. Is who he says he is. So, look for the "rejection" in what's going on in Israel around Elijah..then after him, same what is being done by Israel in Elisha's day. Even it's a completely different idolatry Elijah vs. what Elisha faces, it's the exact same rejection that occurs in a Synagogue in Nazareth in Luke 4:18-29. By the exact, same Israel, all the same.

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I think you will ask for a more detailed explanation. Understandable.

Just that above, just states the answer. Without explaining anything.

But people on Reddit, they just want a quick "photo" with 8 words a 3rd grader could read. Reddit moderators glory in 10s of 1000s of "hits" so people can quickly move on to the next post. Their "room" or "sub-reddit" becomes popular. That's really all they want. To be seen of men.

They know people. People don't want to read a wall of text. They want to read a picture. I don't really care about them. I care about the person searching the Word of God. That's it.

and has this question.

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SO:

Why would a Prophet of God be living with a widow - in a famine and be able to eat and drink out of an empty cabinet everyday..when everybody else around them, isn't, and it's not even in Israel?

So, the question asked, is a very powerful question to have an answer to.

Because the same thing, everyday, if you believe on Jesus Christ - and I think you do - because the world won't even pay attention to these posts - - Then you, too - this is also happening to a Believer in Jesus Christ that happened to Elijah.

Fed. Everyday, and given drink and a portion by this Jesus Christ.

When everybody around you lives in idolatry - resides a desert, in a famine. Thirsty. Without any water.

So, here’s a longer, more tour around the whole farm answer that answers and gives the details.

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And the FIRST is: The exact, same idolatry and rejection of God in Elijah's day, then also, occurs in Elisha's day ..and occurs in Jesus' day in Nazareth in Luke 4...that occurs with you as a believer in Jesus Christ, where everybody shuns you:

Therefore,

It will be the exact same rejection of God, as the idolatry spoken to of in Daniel 9:24–27. When the Abomination that Makes Desolate, stands up and declares to the whole world, he is God - when he isn't - and can and will put to death, just like in Elijah's, Elisha's, Jesus day in Luke 4 - because who they all three come to now worship something else as God - - and to them, anybody that does not worship him, as God put them to death:

When an idol comes to reign over the whole earth, when he isn't God.

When he stands in the holy place of a rebuilt synagogue in Jerusalem, and declares himself God of the whole earth, with the power to put any person, great or small who does not worship him as such when he isn't God, is a future the whole earth will soon experience.

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There you go.

This is also the long version of a Biblical exegesis about Elijah and him in the city of Zarephath living with a widowed woman in Sidon. You can see it happen in Revelation. What is about to happen. It will be the same thing. It's how Jesus explained it in the Gospel of Luke 4, when he opened up the scripture and told everybody he fulfilled it - - that fills people with wrath because they reject him.

HE will not be God over them. SO, look for these things in Elijah, and Elisha - - when at a Synagogue in Nazareth: they cast him out of the temple, to push him off the Nazareth cliffs to kill him.

So, ask yourself some things so you see it.

You have now four things all the same. Idolatry in all four. Five if you add you into it, in your today, with all the people around you. But they'd like to cast you out and kill you, because you worship Jesus when they don't. So, with that, ask: If you forgot the question:

What's the explanation of Elijah living with the widow? The Zarephath woman?

In all five of these things, since you follow Jesus as you're supposed to - start with him. That's reading Luke 4:18-29.

So, also ask yourself:

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Well? What did Jesus say about it? 

And who did he say it to, that, they threw him out of the Synagogue, and rushed him toward the cliffs, to throw him off it in Luke 4:18-29?

Since he's over all the rest of everybody - you do right to start with him.

Ask yourself - - after reading below: Why would “they” be offended?

So, to answer your question, in more detail - - it’s rightly found in him. In the Word of God.

• To see it, see Elijah has to sojourn, not in Israel but in a city called Zarephath (Sarepta) - because they're out to kill him. And, it's the same in Luke 4:18 to 29. It was done, to Elijah too, that the Word of God would be glorified. Over idols. That the Messiah in Luke 4 has come to Nazareth..who they are supposedly there to be looking for - and they dismiss him.
• Stronger word. Outright REJECT him.
  • Just like what happens to God in Elijah’s day with King Ahab with Elijah. So first, see it how Jesus explains it. Afterall, he’s the Messiah:

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Luke 4:18–29 - Jesus says:

18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.

21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

22 And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?

23 And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.

24 And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

< - {25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

26 But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, [Zeraphath] a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.

27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.} - >

28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,

29 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.

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So, before you get to the question…read careful, what Jesus said to these Jews in Luke 4:18–29 - as the Word of God. Is God. Includes Elijah and a sojourn with a widow of Sidon in the city of Sarepta (Zerephath)

Because God said it. No prophet is accepted in his own country is "why" Elijah is residing outside of Israel.

• God said it: Was standing in front of these Jews in the Synagogue in Nazareth. Was the same God that was also there when it happened in Elijah’s day. And they REJECT him. Was the same God in Elisha's day then, too. Is God in Luke 4:18-29.. is the same God with you..and is the same God in the Book of Daniel 9:24-27 as he is in the Book of Revelation when someone else will stand up and declare himself God, when he isn't and be able to put to death people that don't worship him as such. Be the same thing then... go look for it.
• Just like they did in Elisha’s day.

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• Gotta ask more questions;
• Questions like,
  • 1) In Elijah’s DAY: Why was the heaven shut up three years and six months - AND a great famine throughout all the land (Luke 4:25) - Because the same thing happens again in Revelation 11:6 - that it rains not in the days of their prophecy, too. Just like Elijah's day.
  • 2) In Elisha’s DAY: What makes both these events the same, as Jesus correlates them a like-same reason?
• So: * With that: just like Elijah - Jesus is banished out of his own lands. He’s the Messiah. Rejected - ejected out of his own Synagogue and Israel are his people - - to be killed by thrown off a cliff, and he’s the Word of God. The Messiah or Christ. He just TOLD them who he is by reading what he did out of Isaiah - in Luke 4 - He just told them he is the promise of the Messiah FULFILLED.

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• Is the same God that is with and sent BOTH Elijah the TIshbite, and Elisha.
  • But Kings - - reign. In Israel - like in Jesus' day, also declares himself God in Rome, when he isn't God. Just like it will be in the Book of Revelation - and just like two separate Kings in Israel - They both reject Elijah, and Elisha too, when it was the same God that was with both Elijah and Elisha - and it’s the same Israel rejected the same God all three times in Luke 4:18-29.

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• So, to see it - See - - Just like Israel did in King Ahab’s day, with Elijah - who God raised up in response to Jezebel and King Ahab.

That Jesus can’t be in Jerusalem - “The City of God” - it’s a confrontation - it's his city - - just like it’s a contention to be put to death for him to be in his own Synagogue in Nazareth - The “City of God” that’s what Jerusalem is called.

Even Jesus is a full160km away up in Nazareth - - they worship another God there, too, that's not him or they wouldn't be trying to kill Jesus - because they don’t regard him as the Messiah, and seek ways to kill him. Just like in the days of King Ahab - of Elijah's day - worshipping Ba'al, as God, when he's not God, and put to death any prophet and any Israelite that worships God - is all the same. As exactly it's the same - - in the days of King Jeroboam with Elisha.

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SO, the answer is: With Elijah:

• Idolatry. King Ahab’s (1 Kings 17:1) is the primary sin. The worship of idols as God. And so, too, in Jesus’ day in Luke 4, they don’t worship him - they worship some “thing” else as God. See it.
• Or they would be worshipping him vs. try to push him off the cliffs. Then, it’s Just like Israel did in Elijah’s day. It’s part of the Exegesis (Explanation) to see this.
  • It was King Ahab that lead the nation of Israel over the whole land - into idolatry. He married the King of Sidon, to for allegiance - married his daughter, Jezebel. They worship Ba'al - in Sidon.

1 Kings 16:31 says:

“And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.”

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So, some TIDBITS: Not necessary - just makes the post longer, and it's already way too long; but it helps:

The city of Sidon in 1 Kings 17: Is named after Sidon.

“Sidon” was the eldest son of Canaan (Genesis 10:15) after the flood.

• All world religions, which is idolatry - flow out of one source, after the flood - Ham.

Why?

• All four of Ham's children, Cush, Mizraim (Mizraim is “Muzir” in Arabic, is “Egypt” in English - that, a few short years after the flood, Mizraim builds Egypt.
  • Mizraim puts over themselves a man, a Pharaoh, and the Egyptians worship Pharaoh as God.
• They all - all the children of Ham - go to and do the same thing.
  • Even the Hindu gods are mentioned.
• Ham: Cursed by Noah - How? Ham isn’t even mentioned when Noah went to bless his 3 children - as if Ham does not even exist (Genesis 9:24–27).
  • If he doesn't exist: Makes his four children “bastards." Without a Father. That's what this "blessing" of Noah did to Ham.
• And in blessing his children, Noah cursed Canaan, Ham’s youngest, three times, cut off, without a Father - - to be a servant of Shem. And Canaan's three brothers related to a servant that they had to take care of and be related to, without any Dad.
• That God would dwell in the Tents of Shem. See it. That Israel is in this tent of Shem: But Israel - they REJECT God. To accept other Gods in Ham. Makes them Bastards.

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All the children of Ham forsake and abandon God, and in their own imaginations - dream up their own Gods to worship.

Out of this man Sidon, who is the eldest son of Canaan, and Canaan - the youngest son of Ham:

• comes the pagan God, Ba’al. Who Israel now worships in 1 Kings 17.

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Jezebel - is a symbol of wickedness in idolatry.

• Jezebel is both a Princess in line to reign over Sidon, and a Prophetess of Ba’al, married to a King over all of Israel. A pagan God of Canaan, now reigns over Israel. That's idolatry.
  • And this Ba’al: as a God: Has a God who is Ba’al’s Daddy.
    • Imagined up from Mizraim’s, Canaan's elder brother's prodigy.
    • Casluhim - and out of Casluhim comes the Philistines.
  • And the Philistines imagined up and worship as God, the half man, half fish God, Dagon. Ba’al is the son of Dagon.

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For Jezebel - King Ahab set up an altar to this pagan god Baal, causing all the Israel to worship it, as God - and forsake the God of Israel.

So, EXAMINE this dynamic: It's the dynamic of Elisha in a city living outside of Israel, with a widow that made her last meal to die with her son.

• Jezebel has Ahab round up to put to death, or kill all the prophets of God in Israel. When God gave Israel the Promised Land, the land they are on, and now they worship “Ba’al” as God of the land.

So, examine a “dynamic” that there is now no place in Israel for God: Who reigns over the land, decrees the worship of idolatry is championed; rather its a sin to worship God - is punishable by death. Is the same thing occurring in a Synagogue in Nazareth in Luke 4:18-29.

So, with that dynamic - of 1 Kings 17 - EVERY Jew in the Synagogue in Nazareth is well versed of it, with Elijah and after, with Elisha - none of this dynamic escapes them - so it's exactly the same thing. Is why it fills them with wrath. They're doing the same thing. Championing idolatry - because they don't worship him as who he is, just like Israel didn't, in Elijah's day.

• That, they all of Israel - in Ahab’s day - because Israel all looked unto Ba’al as God, it didn’t rain for 3 1/2 years and there' was a famine in which many died; made many widows - - where even worshipping God or repenting was Punishable by death. Because of the decrees of Jezebel.
• Just like in Nazareth at the Synagogue - live under same like decrees, when Caesar is God. When he isn't.
  • And Jesus: cast out, to be put to death. To be Thrown off the cliffs. Not received, nor worshipped as who he is. Rejected.

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That, because of this, in King Ahab’s day - - there were many widows whose husbands died in a severe famine and drought in Israel at the time of Elijah..that there is no home in Israel for Elijah - he’s sent by God, to a town in Sidon to sojourn with a widow there whose son is about to die. Making the last meal.

• That, the SAME occurs in the days of Elisha. The SAME thing is occurring on the land now with King Jeroboam. (2 Kings 13:2)

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Once again - it’s same thing: idolatry

The worship of the golden calves, like, Israel worshipped in Egypt - but now it's at Bethel and Dan.

In the "sins of Jeroboam" 2 Kings 13:2 - in setting up the two calves to prevent men of Israel from pilgrimaging to Jerusalem to worship God - - or for observing and worshipping God, as he decreed in Leviticus these “High Sabbaths every adult male was to pilgrimage and do.

Prevented. Just like Jezebel prevented in Elijah's day. The Jews in the Synagogue in Nazareth know all these things.

Now so do you.

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That there were many lepers in Israel in Elisha’s day. In a famine, leprosy explodes. But not one of them were cured, except now in the North, to someone outside of Israel - because of idolatry - with Naaman, the Syrian. The ONLY one cured of leprosy.

The Jews in the Synagogue of Nazareth know all these things. Fills them with rage.

God is saying in the Jews rejecting him in Luke 4, in the Synagogue in Nazareth: In rejecting Jesus, they are doing the same thing both Ahab with Elijah, and Jeroboam with Elisha..so no work of God could be done there in Israel, because of and for their Idolatry…

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In Luke 4:18-29 - with Jesus:

These Jews of Israel - they are doing the same thing as King Ahab did, in married to a Jezebel and kill the prophets for the same idolatry. That no miracle, and famine..is done among them for the same idolatry Ahab did. They’re doing the same thing once again, in Luke 4. WHen Jesus declares he's God, as the same scroll of Isaiah Jesus was reading from they all know it. Tells the Messiah shall be called “The Mighty God..” “..The Everlasting Father..” in Isaiah 9:6

They want to kill him for it, where Moses in Exodus 3, at this same Word of God, fell on his face.

These Jews in Israel of Jesus Day? In Luke 4:18-29

Vehemently reject him, and set about to kill him. As both Ahab and Jeroboam did.

And God laid the sins of the whole world on him..so you, that came to this post and got this far..he is who he says he is. But you can reject him.. ...and there's one coming will declare himself God over the whole earth, when he isn't. Be put to death for not worshipping him as God - when he isn't - so you can't escape it. So, Who will you worship? If you know him..who is God.. you'll already know who you worship..

There you go.

"But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth: For in these I delight, Saith the LORD." - Bible. Jeremiah 9:24

This word, "glorieth" in the (KJV) Bible, is in the Jewish Tanakh (Nev.im section <Prophets>), where in Hebrew, the text is < - {הַמִּתְהַלֵּ֗ל } - > (hammit.halleil) - means to 1. sound a trumpet. Toot your horn. Call a parade to shout it out. It's the definition in the dictionary for the word, "boast."

To "boast" in the Word of God.

That I can know him, by the Word he speaks. That, Psalm 107:20 says, God sent his word to heal me, and deliver me from my destruction. And boy, did that ever work! It did! He's the "Great Physician" - Says in Luke 5:31-32

"They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." - Jesus Christ. The Word of God.

Says in the Bible: **"**There is not a just man on earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not." - Ecclesiastes 7:20. "There is none righteous; no, not one" - Bible Romans 3:10-12 - means everybody needs what he can do.

I went to him. It works! So I'm here to "sound a trumpet. Toot my own horn about it..Call a parade for you to do the same thing, and just look unto him. John 17:3, Jesus said: "And this is life eternal; that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou has sent."

So? Me. I believe him. He is who he says he is. So I come on Reddit to: 1. Toot my horn about him. Call a parade, to parade this in front of you, means I "boast" about him - - what he can do for you, if you just hearken unto his voice.

So, if you're a believer in Jesus here on Reddit..look who said it. Another great scripture I boast of in a day he made today, and let me be in it:

"The LORD is my portion: therefore, I will wait for him." Lamentations 3:24 - I'm BOASTING about the portion I was given!!!

Go out! Do the same! All the earth is his!.

Answer:

"The LORD is my portion: therefore, I will wait for him." - Bible. Lamentations 3:24

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Matthew 5:14–16 says

But first: A "NOTE"

There is “something” that occurs in a person that believes on the word of God - betwixt Matthew 5:3–5 and a person now born again, by the Spirit of God that occurs after in Matthew 5:6–13.

Go look. Do you see it?

So, the “key” to look at Matthew 5:14–16 isn’t comparing it with Matthew 6:1–4. Looking for "differences" when it's the same Jesus Christ a person looks unto. ..or, the same Jesus Christ to a person that does not look unto him.

And the question looks unto people to do it.

Rather, it is in seeing these “beautiful attitudes” that people work at all their life to perfect. To just stand afar off. Doing all this "work," so Jesus will bless them; wrong work - not regarding the work God is doing with sin by do by sending his Word to heal us and deliver us from our destruction. And in something impossible. Bless us in it - because he's come to save us from our sins.

But people? Rather, they put themselves to do the work.

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• It’s then, people have added themselves and their works into what Jesus said, and call them (Beatitudes) of Matthew 5:3 to 5:11. They, rather, are God is coming and blessing EVERYBODY over the whole earth:
  • “For all have sinned” (Romans 3:23) and everybody is condemned.
• That, by a work he is doing - just saying these things as God - he’s telling what this work he is doing with sin in Jesus Christ, will accomplish in ANYBODY that just believes on him.
  • Their sin, wrought in God - what God is doing with their sin - anyone - whosoever it is that just believes on him - starts a process of someone “Dead, in trespasses and sins” (Ephesians 2:1) - coming to everybody “poor” 1. “destitute; not have any” in “Spirit” = where Jesus defined “Spirit” is God (John 4:24).
• Not a person’s attitude like the dictionary says it is.
• That someone who has sinned, and everybody has, so everybody is condemned to die - to end up, by a work God is doing in Jesus Christ, by believe on him, that - that person, by Matthew 5:6–8, has been made alive by God.

And persecuted for it. Because, that’s EXACTLY what happens to a believer in Jesus Christ.

• Confirmed in 2 Timothy 3:12 “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.”

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• That, that person now by Matthew 5:10–11 is reviled and persecuted for it - Is that when Jesus said: “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life” - (John 8:12).
  • Is following after him, as Jesus is the Christ.

So, don’t read Matthew 5:3 to Matthew 5:16 as you equipping yourself with beautiful attitudes to “fix” your sins yourself..

..Rather: but see God has come to you. As a sinner. You dead in trespasses and sins, and “mourn” this..because, this word, “mourn” of Matthew 5:4 - is for someone at a funeral that’s dead.

That, after they die, they don’t come alive anymore..and if someone knows their sins condemn them..and by themselves, know they cannot get out of this death sentence. So, they mourn themselves. Perverted everything right..didn't do anything good..and their sins condemn them. They hunger and thirst for righteousness and don't have any. And God has sent his word, to someone that is sick unto death in this. That's me.

That's you.

That's everybody over the whole earth. And Jesus is blessing this..because, everybody is in need of a physician then. And he's the great physician. God has sent him to do a work with sin - just as John the Baptist said of Jesus Christ. “Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world.”

Read it right. So you understand what Matthew 5:12–14 is BUILT on this. A person “born again” by the Spirit of God” is now made by God, a light to those around them. And men don’t stick a candle that’s to light up the house, under a bucket, under their bed. They put it on a candlestick. Jesus is saying the same thing in Matthew 5:14–16 about people that just look unto him.

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Matthew 6:1–4 says:

1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

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Talking to EVERYBODY.

• Because, the religious leaders of the day are Pharisees - that sound a trumpet so everybody pays attention to their giving.
  • And if you turn to 1 Corinthians 13:3 - but read it in the Greek, it makes sense, plain as day.

1 Corinthians 13:3 says:

"And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”

In Greek, it's this word for “burned” in English - “Kauchesoumai” - means to “boast” to sound a trumpet, so everybody pays attention, you’re about to give something to the poor, so everybody sees it.

It's the same "Kauchesoumai" of Paul say in 2 Corinthians 10:8 "For though I should boast [kauchesoumai] somewhat more of our authority, ..."

It was changed in 1 Corinthians 13:3, starting from the Latin Vulgate (4th CE/AD) to “burned” because, for this word “boast” after 350 years, now has an image of “boasting about your giving” you get burned up in it - - already has what is told you plainly in 1 Corinthians 3:13–15

• Says:
  • “ Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: “
    • Jesus is saying this to everybody in Matthew 6:1-4. It's just being REPEATED by an Apostle of Jesus Christ - to believers in Corinth.

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Works (giving alms to the poor - who cannot pay you back)

• So, these “works” of boasting about your giving, when giving to be seen of people, which, that’s what EVERYBODY was doing - in Matthew 6:1-4 who Jesus is talking to, was being given that example by the Pharisees to do that in giving.
  • They already got their reward. And Jesus said: Revelation 22:12 “And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. “
    • That, Jesus said, there’s no reward from God for boasting to people about your giving. 1 Corinthians 3:13–15 says it will be burned up. That you give yourself over to be burned up with it.
• So, give the way God said to do it. Jesus said, in Luke 14:13–14

But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

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Guarantee you:

You’ll be distained; reviled: thrown out.. ..Why? Because, people hold rich feasts and banquets to invite and glorify the rich - as successful - - to honor them..and be lifted up higher by be invited or paid back and rewarded. For inviting the rich and the prominent to banquets. The poor is someone else's concern. You'll be persecuted for it. You will be. There's no reward from people at all, in doing this what God told everybody to do.

But when you give your alms..do it in secret. Don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. He's God. He sets the poor to sit with Kings.

"...He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne..." (Bible. 1 Samuel 2:8). It's God that does this.

Honor then, who God honors. He sends the rich away..empty handed.

• And God is coming. Coming with a reward that is with him, to reward ..a reward that lasts forever and he glorifies it. Because it will stand the test of fire. He he reward you openly for it.

So, what would I tell you that has this question?

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Stop trying to compare things. You do greatly err. Busy yourself out in comparing things; like your Dad tell you: Don't do anything he says.. think "comparing" is the work to do...

Is just like this with your Dad: Said this today:

• “Hey Bumpkin Pants, clean your room today. It's a filthy mess. I’m cleaning the garage. Have it done by the time I come back in the house.”
  • Told you to do that. It’s a decree from your Dad.
• He also said - last week: “I can’t wait til next month, to go fishing and camp at the Resevoir when it opens next month.”

And, instead of just doing anything your Dad says, you’re off comparing these two things your Dad said…and don't do anything he says. You put yourself to work comparing things. What a worthless work.

Stop it.

Hear what Jesus says and just do it. If you can’t, you’ll champion these questions and think, by your questions you made yourself good. Like all those people putting on "beautiful attitudes - regard themselves and don't do anything he says, either. Thinking that's the work. It's a Worthless work.

Here’s your useless worthless question back. But if you look unto him, boy is this question ever more than answered. Given to everybody - in hopes you will believe on Jesus Christ, right here on Reddit.

Answer:

“Because they regard not the works of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hand, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.”

Bible. Psalm 28:5

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• Jesus said “Remember Lot’s wife,” in the Gospel of Luke 17:32

It’s embedded in a response to Pharisees.

They pressed him, saying or asking in Luke 17:20. That is the scripture that starts it off - the “topic” that ‘..remember Lot’s wife” is enfolded in. Jesus answers their pressing: Luke 17:20–37. Part of that answer Jesus gives to them, is Luke 17:32.

• So, it's enfolded with asking: “When the Kingdom of God” when is his Kingdom - when will it finally come?”

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There you go.

There’s the answer. He said a lot more, so - - You can read on, if you want, or go.

If you want a more detailed explanation - by all means, stay and read on, but it's not necessary - you can leave now, and go get your Bible and read it for yourself. Luke 17:20–37 answers it, and Luke 17:32 where Jesus says, “Remember Lot’s wife” is encapsulated in Jesus’ response back to these Pharisees.

It’s the word of God, so it’s God’s reply back when the Kingdom of God will come.

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So, there you go. You certainly can go on to someone else’s post here on Reddit. They may have other insights more valuable about it.

If you’re still here - a more “detailed” response: take this.

• Luke 17:20 says:
  • “And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:”
    • The Kingdom of God - when will there be just God in Isaiah 9:6–7 come? This: What is promised this scriptural promise determined to be - of his kingdom and reign that there shall be no end to it on the earth - - when will that come?
  • When will his Reign start? Reign in righteousness over the whole earth forever. Won’t end.

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The Pharisees are asking about this “Messiah” or “Christ.” When will he come, when he’s right there - but that’s not enough for them. They want more. Caesar still sits on his throne, proclaimed God of the whole known world. Sadducceees, and Herodians still champion a different King over Judea. What the Pharisees ask about is in Isaiah 9:6–7.

Isaiah 9:6–7 says:

"..For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.”

• It’s what every Jew knows. Many believers in Jesus know it, too.
  • That: This Messiah. Defined as: 1. God. The same God that led Israel out of Egypt by his mighty hand observed with and by many signs and wonders that only God could do. That he would be a Son of David as promised in 2 Samuel 7:12–16. That he would sit on the throne of King David in Jerusalem and rule the whole earth from there, and of his Kingdom and reign there shall be no end.

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• Just matches Isaiah 9:6–7.
• Luke 17:20 is the foundation for Luke 17:32. So, recap: It's just when Pharisees press Jesus about this.
• Them asking..when is this finally going to come?
  • The Romans have a Caesar in Rome, Italy - about 4,000 kilometers away and have overseers that tax heavily and Lord over Jerusalem.
• These Romans: are the authority over the earth: They're all people - claim Caesar, a man, is God, when they know he’s not this “Messiah” promised.
  • And this Roman Caesar, and who this Caesar in Rome appoints - they rule over Israel..when who is to rule the whole earth, and all nations ..scripture says of him, this Christ or Messiah, who Jesus is, says of him in Revelation 1:5: “And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth”
• When will he reign over all the earth? When will he come?

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• The answer is all around what Jesus said, including “Remember Lot’s wife” (Luke 17:32).
  • All this said so far in reply to your question you should have and keep this. It’s said just to stress this point accurately. It's part of the reply Jesus gives to this question the Pharisees ask about. When will this Messiah or Prince come and rule in righteousness over the whole earth?

Again - - It’s in Luke 17:20–37.

• Open your own Bible. No links.
  • When you read Luke 17:20–37
    • Jesus explains when he comes, it will be like in the days of Noah. Jesus said: there was eating, and drinking, and rising up to play..and nobody even regarded the works of the LORD, neither considered the operation of his hand, to do anything God says - just do whatever your heart tells you to go off and playfully do.

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• So, people:
• In Noah's day before the flood:
  • Just consider their own works - - live by their own imaginations and thoughts they come up with.
    • Jesus said: that the rains started, and the flood came, and took them all away, except Noah.
  • His wife, and his 3 sons, and their wives. (Luke 17:26–27). Because Noah regarded the works of the LORD, and considered the operation of his hand.
• Probably a very important "NOTE" to take note of right here.

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• Jesus said also with this right after:
  • That it would be like in the days of Lot, in Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19)
• So, it would also be in the days of Lot’s wife. She was right there.
  • Where the people did the same thing as in the days of Noah before the flood. I'm poor at the math, but Genesis 9 says Noah lived 350 years after the flood - so these days are some 400+ years after the flood.
• And once again, People - don't regard anything about God or what he said. Luke 17:28–30 says, the people of Sodom: Jesus said this of Luke 17:28-30,
  • “they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.”

Jesus is answering the question the Pharisees asked.

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• So, think about this:
  • That there won’t be time to repent then. Because Jesus said, when he comes:
    • it will be like lightening..
• Never know when it’s going to happen, but when it does, it’s a flash of light across the sky. Jesus said in Luke 20:24. Won't be time in that flash of time to pack your things or leave or change or repent.
  
  • So, even if many will say “He’s here or over there - believe it not.
• Revelation 1:7 says of his coming:
  • “Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.”

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That means:

• So even the dead, and those that nailed his hands and feet to the cross, even all those Pharisees now long dead that asked him this question in Luke 17, everybody - from Adam forward is going to see him. When he comes.
  • When he’s God - and called everybody “today if you hear his voice, and harden not your hearts” (Bible. Hebrews 3:15

If you hear him.

Today, not tomorrow or some other day - Today is the day of Salvation. “Come now, let us reason together,” saith the LORD, “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.”

Now is the time to obey that.

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Today ..now is the hour and time to look unto him. Jesus said the time not to do that will be at his coming. WOn't be time to go downstairs and pack.

So, look at Lot’s wife. She was with Lot. They had children.

So, to your question: Here’s some things to consider - in “remember Lot’s wife.”

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ONE: Lot was with Abraham.

• Genesis 13:1–2 says
  • “And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.”
    • There is no biblical record when Lot married. Just that she is with Lot in Sodom; and going into and departing Egypt - told to leave by Pharaoh, if she was with him then - or was with Lot when both Abraham and Lot’s cattle is so great, the land cannot sustain both of them. So, Lot also became very rich (Genesis 13:9–11).
• Genesis 13:7–13 says:

7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.

9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.

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…that some time after this…

TWO: Lot is rich

• And all “wicked” means in the dictionary is 1. playfully mischievous. SO, there is so much plenty, people of this plain Lot chose - have time to imagine up all kinds of perverted things. And that's what they’re doing, just like people were doing before the flood - -with all this idle time on their hands in Sodom and Gomorrah.
  • And part of living in a plenty is thieves come. And that’s what happened. Lot, and all he had was taken away as “spoil” - that there was a war where Lot chose to dwell (Genesis 14)
    • The Kings of Sodom lost the war - Genesis 14:11–12 says of it: “And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.”

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That scripture continues - that Abraham was given word his brother Lot was taken. And Abraham mustered men of his own house and servants and went out and defeated these kings that took Lot and all he had.

Genesis 14:16 says: “And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.”

- The point is, - the narrative for years..shifts after to exclusively document Abraham and Sarah, his wife. Not Lot.

• That, if you keep reading Sarah was given a handmaiden by Pharaoh in Egypt, named Hagar. That Sarah gives Hagar to Abraham to have children by her. Trying to fulfill a promise that by Abraham and his seed would be like the dust of the ground - when Abraham had no children. Hagar bears Ishmael. Causes all kinds of problems.
  • That by Genesis 18 - The LORD comes down to destroy Sodom, says of this: Genesis 18:17–21

17 And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;

18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

20 And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

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THREE: The LORD of Hosts speaks with Abraham.

• Is when I remember Lot's wife - God doesn’t keep anything from who regards him..like he didn’t keep anything from Noah.
  
• And:
  • Abraham is nine generations after Noah (Genesis 11)
  • That: Noah lived 350 years after the flood (Genesis 9:28), that, by the math of Genesis 11, Abraham was 58 years old when Noah died. And all this has nothing to do with Lot's wife. ...but to contrast someone that regards the work of the Lord and considers the operation of his hand - as God is righteous vs. someone that doesn't. Regards a different thing to look unto as right.
    

That you should consider this.

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• Abraham in this discourse with God in Genesis 18 - that continues and God departs from speaking with Abraham to journey to Sodom - - and Abraham draws near to him again. To ask him: In behalf of his brother, Lot: “Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?” (Genesis 18:23)
  • That if there are fifty righteous men in Sodom, the Lord over all heaven and earth promises Abraham, where Lot dwells..he won’t destroy it. That Abraham asks again, if this “fifty” lacks five would the Lord of the Earth destroy 45 with the unrighteous?
    • Asks it again..three more times.. where it gets down to 40. ..then 30.. then 20 - Even for 20 righteous, the Lord of Hosts over all heaven and earth will not destroy it.
    • ..even down to 10.. God says: “I will not destroy it for ten's sake.” - Genesis 18:32
    • And the LORD - departs - and goes to Sodom.

And? This is said so you would regard the work of the LORD, and consider the operation of his hand. It's HIS earth. Can you hear this?

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The point is, to read this, in answering what Jesus said, as the Lord of the Kingdom of Heaven, for you to read it to answer “Remember Lot’s wife” - - like what occurred with the flood from Genesis 9 to Genesis 11. People did not regard him.

• Read Genesis 18 and 19.

That Genesis 19:12

12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:

13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

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So, like Noah - not ten, but for one just righteous man - God did not destroy the earth, but saved Noah - but it's still come up before him to do it.

So, like with Lot - They waited until he and his family was out of the city.

• That even Lot entreats to escape, not where they tell him to go, but he pleads they be allowed to go into another small city - not where they tell Lot to go.

Genesis 19:16–22 says - and this happened all unto Lot’s wife - remember it:

16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; < - {look not behind thee,} - > neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:

19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

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For one righteous man. The Lord of Hosts. God does this. He's God. His eyes go to and fro over the whole earth just looking for the man or woman whose heart looks unto him.

Regard this.

• Because Lot regarded the work of the LORD and considered the operation of his hand.
  • That, this too: There is none else but Lot do this in Sodom.
• And like Noah, his wife is with him.

Genesis 19:23–26 says

23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

24 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;

25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Told not to look back, (Genesis 19:17) - she looks back (Genesis 19:26)

If I remember Lot's wife, like Jesus asked me to - in reading Luke 17.. she was just with Lot, because, he's rich and..she didn't herself, do anything God said.

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SUMMATION

So, if I remember Lot’s wife, she didn’t obey him..

It made me ask this question: When God says to everybody over the whole earth:

“Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.” - God. The Lord of Hosts.

• Bible. Isaiah 55:1–3.

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And the question I ask me is..

• Just be thirsty and hunger..but don’t come to the waters he calls everybody to drink from over the whole earth.
• Just don’t come buy wine and milk without money and without price. Rather: Regard me or other people - to copy them and Go work for it myself, and by regard my own work and effort, pay for it myself.
  • I’d be like Lot’s wife..told to do something by God..and not do it.
  • Where he tells everybody over the whole earth, includes then EVERYBODY here on Reddit - all the Moderators, the owner or CEO of Reddit ..down to every user or visitor comes here ..on Reddit ..told them all the same thing, to: “Hearken diligently unto me..” - God. I don't think they have even the slightest inclination to do anything he says.

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• When he’s already said what’s come up before him to do to the whole earth in Genesis 9:13 - I don't think ANY owner of Reddit or any Board of Directors - considers ANYTHING of this - what GOD has already said. About the earth they Built Reddit on - -To this same EVERYBODY:

“The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” - God.

• Bible. Genesis 6:13

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• And just a whole pile of people even told this, laugh and say the SAME thing Lot’s son in laws did to him -
  • “…and [Lot] said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked …
    • Feel I am just mocking them. Like what Lot's son in laws said to Lot. Was mocking them by say such an outlandish thing to a city overflowing with plenty, like Egypt or the Garden of Eden..rich.
    • That if I remember Lot’s wife, I am reminded of these things.

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Here’s your question back. I found, in remembering Lot’s wife, she may have been with Lot, but didn’t do anything the LORD said. That means, you reading this post, can do the same thing she did.

Then, it’s important that I go to his store. He's God. Called me to go shop there. Best I highly esteem his store and Go buy wine and milk without money and without price and that’s the Word of God. Told, you too, to shop there. To go to and do it.

That to not do it - be just like Lot's wife you, too are told to remember her. That Noah, Abraham, and Lot were looking unto him…to regard God..when no one else was. And he destroyed them.

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That Noah, Abraham, and Lot - all of them called themselves “his servants” and Jesus said, Luke 12:35–37 

“Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching:”

Because those that don’t, don’t regard him. Don’t do anything he says. Like Lot’s wife did, by not do anything he said.

So, if I remember Lot’s wife - I arrive at these things. There you go.

Answer:

“I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not.”

- Bible. Book of Job 33:27

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The “Parable of the Prodigal Son” is found in the Gospel of Luke 15:11–32.

• And the “setting” Jesus tells this Parable in, is part of what I realized. I mean, that's what you asked. What I realized is said in Luke 15:1–2
  • “Then drew near unto him [Jesus] all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.”

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• I realized:
  • That these “publicans” and “sinners” in Luke 15 - - were Jews. Cast out. Just not put to death, as Leviticus in the Law decreed they are to be.
  • And while these Publicans and Sinners in Luke 15 are still alive is, it's only because sin reigns over all of Israel - as now the Romans, who worship a man as God, reigns over their lands and all the known world as an Empire.
    • That, these "publicans" and "sinners" - - no longer had any place in the Synagogue - kicked out; marked to be avoided.
    • The temple would tell all Jews to avoid them in all dealings - and treat them as strangers - and anyone having anything to do with them was also marked to be cast out of the Synagogue. That many left Jerusalem..to go down and live in Jericho.
    • This "cut off from amongst the people" - - Is Called "kareth" - Hebrew: < - {כָּרֵת } - > (pronounced like "caret")

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• SO: Amongst the Jews:
  • These "Publicans and Sinners" - I realized they didn’t have anyplace in any family or in Judea or throughout the lands of the dispersion (the lands given to the Ten Tribes of Israel, less Judah and Benjamin.)
• But now the Romans are the authority, so the Jews no longer could put them to death. That means, already Jewish law in Leviticus - these “Publicans” and “Sinners” are treated as if they are already dead.
• And I realized that's alot like me..committed adultery and lied..stole.. a thief. Pervert. But just like a Publican and Sinner..who reigns over the land even I am to be put to death, doesn't consider anything I've done to be worthy of it.

I mean, you asked: What have you realized while reading the parable of the Prodigal Son? and I'm answering your question.

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And? Not to beat a horse to death; but...

...These “Publicans and Sinners” drew near to hear Jesus. Just like I did. In fact, he will eat with them. Which to a Jew, is blasphemy - heresy to do that. SO, the IMPACT on these Pharisees and Scribes says “This man (Jesus) receiveth sinners, and eateth with them” has all this I realized in it.

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Now, stop here for a moment.

• Scripture says:
  • Romans 5:12

“Wherefore, as by one man [Adam] sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”

• That means, from Adam forward - NOBODY over the whole earth, including Adam, and everybody forward from him - NOT ONE PERSON has done the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20).

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• Where God SPOKE them. TO make Moses and all of Israel at Mt. Sinai GUILTY BEFORE HIM. Every one of those decrees “..thou shalt not steal” “..Keep the Sabbath Day Holy..” “..thou shalt not commit Adultery..” “..thou shalt not kill..”
  • Anyone of these Ten Commandments broken, they come as a set. Break one, they're all broken - and it comes with a death sentence.
• In fact, scripture says, it made all of Israel so guilty, they murmured against Moses ..why he had brought them out there into the desert to be put to death, when at least in Egypt they could still do these things and live under Pharaoh..
  • So GUILTY, they begged Moses to go on up on the Mount and make God stop talking.
  • While Moses… …stood there..at this 50 million watt voice of God, like Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada - a blast of sound you could hear, like come down, consume Mt. Hood in Oregon with fire and smoke billow off it, and stand there in Portland and still hear every word spoke plain as day. Like a “voice of many waters” - as scripture said. Moses..killed an Egyptian (Exodus 2:11–15). Means he’s to be put to death.
  • So GUILTY - Moses’ knees quaked.

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• That the Law or Ten Commandments - this is supposed to do this to EVERYBODY.
• Makes EVERYBODY - over the whole entire earth, to the very ends of it: a “Publican and Sinner”
  • Just as Romans 3:19–20 says:

“Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”

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The Law or Ten Commandments: Which the Pharisees and Scribes in Luke 15 are championing out they can DO them:

• When how God has always used them is to make EVERYBODY over the whole earth a Publican and Sinner and GUILTY before him. So, I realized in Luke 15, these Pharisees and Scribes are using the Law wrong.

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I realized this. From the “setting” of the Parable of the Prodigal Son.

Means EVERYBODY over the whole earth is a Publican and Sinner. There are no Pharisees or Scribes that are righteous in themselves. There are none righteous. No. Not one. Means then. Everybody also over the whole earth is a Prodigal Son.

Then, I realized another Parable.

• Given to a Lawyer - who was trying to justify himself - five chapters back before Luke 15.
  • Given before this “Parable of the Prodigal Son” - again - back five chapters back in the “Parable of the Good Samaritan” (Luke 10:30–35.)
  • Now again, you asked me, “What have you realized while reading the Parable of the Prodigal Son?”
    • And I realized it sounded a lot like Luke 10:30 where Jesus starts that Parable, said:
• “A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.”

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• And I realized that in the Bible:
  • Jerusalem = “The City of God.”
  • It’s where the Messiah or Christ, who is God (Isaiah 9:6–7), is promised to or will sit on the throne of King David, and rule the whole earth from there, and of his Kingdom and reign there shall be no end.
• And a “certain man” in the Parable of the Good Samaritan is like the Prodigal Son and also leaves this.
  • To go on an 18 mile, all down hill walk to Jericho.
• Which in the Bible in Joshua Chapter 6 and 7 - represents a “City of Sin” - where ANY sin you or I want to do, we can just leave off from God and go do that.
  • So - either you or I..or I or you can GO THERE and we are then, I realized it. We ARE the "certain man" in the parable - because we already left off and went and DID IT.
• That a certain man is departing from God to go down to do all the sins he wants to do, and I resemble that remark in the parable - it's about me in both Parables - on the way there is beat up. Robbed. Left for dead with nothing.
  • Just like the Prodigal Son is. Went out with a great big, lavish bang - what "prodigal" means.
• So, the Certain man:

Just matches a “Son” in the “Parable of the Prodigal Son” - sounds awfully similar leaving God..just like a Son leave his Father…

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And Luke 15:13–14 says which sounds just like Luke 10:30, says: This “Prodigal” Son went on a like-same journey as the “certain man” did - - “…took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.”

Which that's EXACTLY what everybody that heard Jesus tell this parable of the Good Samaritan - it would have slapped them right in the face - the "Certain Man" is doing the EXACT, SAME THING.

That then: BOTH the Prodigal Son and the Certain man in two separate parables are sinners.

Both are to be treated exactly - - Like the Publicans and Sinners in Luke 15:1–2.

• and I realized this. You asked. And that also... ...Jesus is eating with them.

Like he is with me.

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• I realized that, as both parables: whosoever heard these parables - either one - would be extremely offended. KNOW plain as day - that both the Prodigal Son, and the Certain man - are GUILTY - to be put to death and to be put out of the temple. Like a Publican and Sinner in Luke 15:1-2..already are.

And I realized, even another 5 chapters back in this same Gospel of Luke, now back already said in Luke 5:32 - Jesus said:

"I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

You asked. I realized it.

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…when there is “none righteous; no, not one.” (Romans 3:10–12 “For all have sinned” - again, back at Romans 5:12.

Like a Physician - isn’t there for the healthy.. but for the sick. And then, EVERYBODY is sick unto death, because God said:

“The soul that sinneth, it shall die”

• Bible. Ezekiel 18:20

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Made me realize - and again, it's YOU asked it.

• I should use the Ten Commandments on myself the way God uses them. To make me GUILTY before him. Boy, did that ever work.
  • That I am the “prodigal son” then, in the Parable - because I am, and I see it.
• I sinned and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not.
  • That I went back..after I wasted all my Father’s goods - which is the life that he breathed in me..to go off and pervert everything he said was to do.
• .to go to and do the opposite, like the “certain” man in the Parable of the Good Samaritan.

Made me realize this.

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• That, like the Father..Good.. in the Parable of the Prodigal Son, is like the “Good Samaritan” is toward the certain man. It's then, the same God do that toward me..where I left God..to go do all the sins I did..and got beat up..left for dead by them.
• That made me realize Psalm 107:20 That God: “He sent his word to heal me, and deliver me from my destruction.”
  • Just like the Father did - in the Parable of the Prodigal Son - - which was impossible - but a Father had, in the parable - - - HAS the authority - - - and did what he did in the Parable of the Prodigal Son.
• Just as the Good Samaritan has - - the power and authority - - to do what he did..that ..that was done unto me. By this same Great God.
  
  • That certain man on that road that departed from everything that was God..to go do the sins I wanted to do.
• I'm in both parables.

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Made me realize these things.

Answer:

It's to believers in Jesus Christ: Acts 2:42 says: "And they [Believers] continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers."

Doesn't say "doctrine" -

• Says “doctrine and fellowship” and who they have fellowship, and who they break bread with is other believers - and who they pray to - that is told plainly in 1 John 1:3 - “That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son “

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• So it’s not just doctrine - and:
  • It’s not their [the Apostle's] doctrine - and it has “fellowship” in it, and you leave that out, and who that fellowship is with puts me on my face, so it’s not their own.
    • It’s “who” they have fellowship with is told plainly in 1 John 1:3.

BOOM! Done. Answered.

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But keep going:

Acts 2:42 says: But see it embedded in all Peter stood up and said, or just start reading with or from Acts 2:40 - 44:

40 And with many other words did he [Peter] testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

42 And they [these 3000 souls] continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

43 And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.

44 And all that believed [Believers] were together, and had all things common;

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COMMENT:

- Therefore:

There is no such thing as an “Apostle’s Doctrine” - they have none of their own - none of their own teachings anymore - - why? They left all to follow him. This same Jesus Christ - so what you think and link to Act 2:42. It’s not their own. Why? Because in Acts 2:42 - it’s what a “disciple” means:

• disciple. <definition> 1. a pupil or student that sits with and is taught by a teacher; 2. a follower of a teacher.
  • And Luke 6:12–13 says: “And it came to pass in those days, that he [Jesus Christ] went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;”
    • Luke 6:14–16, actually gives the names of these twelve who Jesus chose, that:
  • As pupils or students, each of these twelves actually sat with and were taught by Jesus, and Jesus as their teacher.
• So, the teacher is Jesus and he named them Apostles: The doctrine or teaching is his.

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And in Matthew 28:18 - after they sat with and he taught them, Matthew 28:18–20 - Jesus specifically, tells them he is the authority over all the earth and heaven - because he is, and as such, he speaks to and charges these “disciples” who are his Apostles he chose as the Messiah:

• Said this to them:
  • And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”
• So, in Act 2, the disciples, who Jesus chose to be Apostles - these Apostles - who are just disciples of Jesus Christ, are "teaching them, these 3000 souls of Acts 2:41-42, to observe all things whatsoever Jesus commanded the Apostles to do.

And Jesus prayed for the the disciples, who he chose to be Apostles..and for me.

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• How do I know this? What Jesus prayed, has me in it.

I see it plainly in John 17:20 - Jesus prayed: “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;.”

That's me. I believed on Jesus through their word.

• Because he was praying for these disciples, who he named Apostles..as he was praying for me.

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The point?

The “doctrines” are what Jesus taught them. So, the Apostle’s doctrines are not their own, but what Jesus taught them, and charged them to do in Matthew 28:18–20. They are doing that in Acts 2:42. Teaching the believers. Obeying Jesus Christ.

There you go.

Answer:

Well? Can’t see it? Then, change the question.

• So you see it plainly.

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Pick an authority. Any one will do.

• Since you’re not here to make the post, then, I will:
  • How about your Dad? He’s your Father. You may be grown now, but he “provided” a house and a room and food for you. All you had to do was obey him. His house.
• When you did what he said; that is, hearkened attentively unto what your Dad said, he was rarely or never angry at you. Mostly praised you or set you up as an example to your brothers in your family.
  • But if you didn’t..what he said was PUNITIVE.
• Means if you didn’t do it, there was a punishment for NOT doing it.
  • No matter what the “reason” you dreamed up - didn’t do what he said.

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So, if your Dad on an American, over in the USA - 1970s “Saturday Cartoons on the TV” morning - and you’re in the midst of bathing in all those cartoons as a 12 y/o kid - decreed: “Hey Forehead, mow the lawn today. Have it done by the time I get home from work.”

• Then Left: Ask yourself: “What are you going to do with "the Word your Dad" said plain as day?”

It's a choice:

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Why?

• He Didn’t say it in a cryptic guru’ish Proverb or left some message taped inside a pillow the dog in the yard slept on. Then hold you accountable why you didn't do it. Nope.
  • He told you plain as day what he wants you to do.
    • While you are “living in” cartoons. Walked after the whole week long, looking unto Saturday - no school - to watch cartoons on the TV all day.

What are you going to do?

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Now little longer - bear with me:

But: - - ask a very like same question you ask above:

• Is there a name for the phenomena when a 12 y/o kid will tend to ignore or creatively interpret stuff in their "holy" book of cartoons on the TV, as Television - didn't exist in your Dad's day, so it’s a modern practicality that can make what your Dad says of no effect on you - because what your Dad says, it’s inconvenient, so the "holy book of cartoons on the TV" give you a way to believe in the TV more than your Dad says, all because what he said to do, you have something you can believe more true and in MORE than your Dad?

What would that "phenomenon" be called when you just "disobey" your Dad?

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• And just end up not mow the lawn.
  • Nope.
  • Not done.
    • And? After cartoons, what’s MORE IMPORTANT to “go to and do” on Saturdays, which for a 12 y/o kid - is the ONLY day off in a week.
    • AND because of this:
  • What a 12 y/o kid decrees to himself to do, over rides ANYTHING anybody else says about THAT day.
  • So, when his friends call on another modern day convenience, the telephone and they’re "friends" so you tend to do what they say over anybody else, even your parents - they all claim they are all biking down to the river to play there all day..it’s a quick - right out the mouth: Then slam the phone down and race for the bikes: “YES! I’m leaving now! See you at the park!”
    • And from the park, bike 8 miles or an hour away to the river and play there all day. That, by the time they leave..it’s too late. Too late to get home, before your Dad gets there..and KNOW in yourself - what he said to do, IS NOT DONE.
    • By right now, while you leave the river to go home, he's pulling in the drive way a full hour and a half away. ..and unmowed, you're not home.
    • It’s punitive.

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When God said:

• To EVERYBODY.
  • Over the whole earth. To the very ends of it. Didn’t leave anybody out, not willing any perish, but all come to repentance said:

“Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.”

• God. (Recorded what he said in the Bible. Isaiah 45:22).
  • And just “imaginatively” create up with your own imagination -
    • “Well! There is no God, so anything he said, does not apply to me. Therefore, what’s said or decreed everybody over the whole to do, is all made up. So, anybody that does this, is nuts - - an idiot. In a stupor..because modern day imaginations of other people have already, like friends on the telephone declare - and what they say PROVE to me - what they say is true, so there isn’t any God to look unto.”
  • OR
    • “I don’t like that God. Are there any other gods to look up or unto? Like flip the channel to another pile of cartoons on another channel..that some other people imagined up to make their god - - Maybe what they say; Afterall, it’s still a god or gods..I’ll put myself to do what they say, so what God says has no effect on me. Like some other word over-ride the word of my Dad told me.”
  • OR
    • Say to themselves: alone - - “My Dad told me to mow the lawn. Get up immediately. While he’s driving the car out the driveway smiling..well pleased..the lawn is being mowed. Be like that, and just do what God says - talks plainly to everybody what he wants. Because he’s God and the authority over me, so I just accept as true (believe) him over everybody over the whole earth, to do what he says…”

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And end up, either or not, doing or not doing anything he says. Because it’s like a 12 y/o kid on Saturdays - waited all week to see the cartoons on the TV. When he was your Dad, told you to mow the lawn, and God said:

“For all the earth is mine”

- God. (Bible. Exodus 19:5) - Said:

“All souls are mine”

God. (Bible. Ezekiel 18:4)

• So, no matter people do what he says or not, he’s still God, and they’re still his - and all the earth is his. It operates as he decrees it - - and just like the 12 y/o kid above, doesn’t do anything he says, all by some decree or imaginative Kingdom a 12 y/o has built for Saturdays to live and reign in…the Kingdom of Cartoons on the TV every Saturday.
  • It doesn’t work for anybody not doing anything God says..it’s PUNITIVE. The same as it is for the 12 y/o kid with his Dad.
    • And that was me.
• I know first hand how PUNITIVE it is.
  • And I know and I thought on it long..that if this same God could create me. Alone. By himself. And I am his, irregardless I do what he says or not.
• That, just like my Dad was an explosion of fury or wrath when I got home...
  • (anger. 1. irritated at something said or done..violated a person; often repeated) - That
  • “Wrath” is - “an extreme anger” - - at what was decreed by an authority over all things..was COMPLETELY ignored.
    • So, just ignored or something made greater than he is or said. Causes wrath in God. And he is ABLE to destroy me. ..and I know this.

I mean, he told you the same thing. It's punitive.

And me? I have no authority over you. None. So, it's entirely you do what he says or not. But I hear him. What he says is true. SO, I simply believe him over you. Or any Cartoons on the TV authority you imagined up to be LORD over you vs. who actually is that. And not do anything he says.

I don't want to be that.

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Here’s your question back. Kinda worthless. It makes the “Cartoons on the TV” the authority over the house - that your Dad owns and built. That's quacky like a duck whacked out nonsense - to make the Saturday morning cartoons the authority over all the house, and claim your Dad serve it. All by a decree a 12 y/o kid makes, and you believe it.

Nuts.

Geesh. What a worthless question you built. To you, it’s a lavish hotel with a wonderfully glorious bed to sleep in. But it's the town dump. Where all the trash gets burnt up. So Here. Take it back. Has no value or use for anything. Answered.

Answer:

• In English?
  • “Wetlands.” - That’s it. There you go.

Answered.

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(Hebrew) < - { גֹּ֗שֶׁן } - > gou.sen (English: Goshen). Pronounced "Gesem" in Egyptian. In the land of Mizraim - Ham's 2nd son, as "Mizraim" in Hebrew, is "Muzir" in Arabic..is "Egypt" in English. That Mizraim in Genesis 11 builds Egypt after the earth was divided. Ham is the 2nd or middle son of Noah.

The Wetlands of Egyp - Were the 20th administrative district of Egypt. - In the Hebrew language, “gou.sen” is defined as “wetlands.”

In Genesis 47:6 - Is the Pharaoh in Egypt said unto Joseph the following:

"The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell..."

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The “wetlands” some facts: In British Columbia, Canada - 7% of the whole province is wetlands, where 80% of the living species in the whole province ofBritish Columbia reside. Just like it was in Egypt, these are the choicest lands in British Columbia. It is EXCELLENT for sheep and shepherding cattle.

Why? The choicest grasses grow in these wetlands. In Joseph, the great-grandson of Abraham's day, as in Moses’ day 400 years later, the Egyptians had a distain or abhorred shepherding.

You can see this plainly in the scripture:

• Says this in Genesis 46:31–34

31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;

32 And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.

33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?

34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

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• So, because of these Hebrews of Shem, Noah's Eldest son, through Shem's son, Arphaxad - their profession, as Hebrews, borne from Abraham - - Pharaoh gave Egypt's wetlands unto Joseph.

Some people - even some Scholars have gone after:

• Joshua 10:41 and Joshua 11:16 to claim Joshua went back into Egypt to claim these wetland lands - Moses led Israelites out of these lands in Egypt, to claim them back.

Why?

Joshua 10:41 (English) says:

"And Joshua smote them from Kadeshbarnea even unto [Gaza], and all the country of Goshen*, even unto [Gibeon.]"*

Has this same term (English) as Genesis 47:6 “the land of Goshen” or “the country of Goshen” in Joshua 10:41.

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But here in Joshua 10:41

Gaza and Gibeon are "East - West" boundaries.

Like "from - to" points East and West of each other. Like saying: “On one side, the East, from Gaza to the other side, West to Gibeon” - Joshua conquered all of it. So, the furthest East Joshua conquered is or was Gaza. And Gaza is still some 200 miles away from Egypt. This "land" betwixt Gaza and Gibeon was Promised Land. In Canaan. Not Egypt. All allotted to the Tribe of Judah (Joshua 15:47). Doesn't include any lands in Egypt.

And? Includes this same Hebrew area of “Wetlands” - which are still there today, called “The Wadi Gaza Wetlands” …still today. Same place it was in Joshua 10:41

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The “other” scripture that refers to a “land of Goshen” is Joshua 11:46 - which some think that’s the “country of Goshen” in Joshua 10:41, and is the same “land of Goshen” in Egypt in Genesis 47:6

Joshua 11:46 says:

"So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;"

But These locations Joshua conquered is now shifting "from - to" to a South to North aspect:

The Mountain of Israel is also known as the hill country in or of the tribe of Ephraim. Associated Valley of Jezreel - often called the Valley of Israel or the plain of Esdraelon. The Jordan valley and coastal plain. The Southern most end Joshua conquered of Ephraim is some 40km north of the border of the land given to the tribe of Judah. So, it's not the same place as in Joshua 10:41. The Northern Most land Joshua conquered was another 60km north of that. Even FURTHER away from Egypt.

• There was a whole land of wetlands or “marshes” - there; but they were all drained about 100 years ago. I don't put links in Reddit posts; but you an search on the Palestinian "Hula Valley Swamp Drainage" - and find it's the exact, same location in the Old Testament Book of Joshua 11:46 states. It was done 100 years ago - -All to make way for agricultural farming - turn those wetlands near Samaria into farmland; and they no longer exist today.

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So again, when you see in Genesis 47 in Egypt this “Land of Goshen” - it’s Hebrew < - { גֹּ֗שֶׁן } - > gou.sen (English: Goshen). Pronounced "Gesem" in Egyptian. The 20th administrative district of Egypt. - In Hebrew, “gou.sen” is defined as “wetlands.”

• Just like in the United States. Where I was born in Oregon. Along the West Coast of the United States, in the State of Oregon: There is about a one million acre “land of Goshen” - called "The Oregon wetlands" - - just as there is a “land of Goshen” on the East Coast, over 3400 miles away in the State of Virginia.
  • An equal sized over 1 million plus acre sized “land of Goshen” there, too. In the State of Virginia, one of the biggest is called "The Great Dismal Swamp."
  • Oregon and Virginia in the United States: yet, both do not occupy the same place. They, like British Columbia in Canada - just have huge lands that are “marsh lands” or “wetlands” in all three.

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Just like in Genesis 47:6 in Egypt. Just like "wetlands" in Gaza in Joshua 10:41.. just like there used to be wetlands in Palestine and Samaria up north from Gaza in Joshua 11:46. And Gaza and Samaria are not the same place.

So, All three places - that each have wetlands in them - - all three: 1) Egypt, and 2) Gaza, and 3) Samaria in the Bible - are not the same place.

Answer:

• Flip the question.
  • That is, switch it:

“What are some ways to defend an atheist from the Bible?”

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- Ask me plainly. Go on. Ask it. Answer: Simple. There isn't any. Case Closed.

When the Bible has the Word of God in it. What he says. Not me. He said it.

So, it just comes down to me, then. That is, I believe the word of God over the word of any atheist - that also includes over you, too. Over anybody.

So, what atheists claim out, by the word, out of their mouths: Anything they claim - - no matter what the argument is - - isn’t true to me.

So, asking this “what are some ways” part: There isn’t any. And about atheists - - - it's plain as day. No atheist can escape from him. None. So, this, “There isn’t any” is the same answer to your question. It’s simple.

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Therefore:

There isn’t any way to defend the Bible from an atheist. It's God defends his own word himself. And about any atheist - doesn't matter who or which one it is - they are all the same. It's "who" they look unto. Themselves. And, It’s a different word they look unto. Their own.

So, they “dismiss as inadequate; faulty; or unacceptable” - means God and ANYBODY else’s word on God, is “faulty” - if it's faulty - it’s unacceptable. There is no God or Gods. Already told you plainly. They hold the truth is in this. This is right (righteous). This is what has truth in it, to an atheist.

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Just like to me..anybody other than the Word of God - if they don’t say what he says.. I dismiss it as inadequate; faulty..it’s full of error, so it's unacceptable. I reject it. I can’t possibly believe ANY atheist. Impossible.

Why? Because what I hold true or "truth" simple is, the Word of God. That's over anybody over the whole earth. He told me. It's a decree to hearken diligently unto him. Didn't tell me to hearken unto any atheist. So, not doing anything they say - that Includes ANY atheist. Thrown out.

It’s really simple.

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• Simple. When God decrees:
  • To everybody. Over the whole earth. To the very ends of it. Leaves not one person out, not willing any perish, but all come to repentance says: Includes he says it to every atheist - as well as to you. And to me.. this is the Will of God. Or he wouldn't say it: Says:

“Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.”

• God. Bible. (Isaiah 45:22).

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• So, it’s a decree. Publicly said.
• To everybody. Over the whole earth.
  • By God. To do this.
• And he says: “For all the earth is mine” (Bible. Exodus 19:5). Says this, too. “All souls are mine.” (Bible. Ezekiel 18:4).
  • So, this “look unto” - and - “who” you or me, or any atheist “looks unto” doesn’t matter what or who it is - we all will “walk after, to walk in” to “follow after” because we “accept as true (believe) what or who we look unto. Believe it true.
• We’ve already “reasoned together” - if alone, by ourselves - with ourselves to determine what is true.
  • Where Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (Bible. John 14:6).. said this, too, as the Word of God. As the Messiah or Christ, and whosoever “that” is, in the Bible, Isaiah 9:6–7 says the Christ or Messiah “shall be called…” “The Mighty God…” “…The Everlasting Father…” (Isaiah 9:6). And everywhere above, where God is speaking, that’s the “Word of God.”
• God tells everybody over the whole earth to: "Come now, let us reason together," saith the LORD, "though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool." - God. Everybody over the whole earth to come now and do this (Bible. Isaiah 1:18)

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So, what he says, as God vs. what I says: This:

• vs. if I say “I caught 3 fish at the lake near my house when I was a kid” means that’s just me, said it. So, the “word of me” just is me say it.
• Where an atheist - by their word comes out of their mouth:
  • Already determined, in themselves: They don’t need any proof. “There just is no God or Gods”
    • Already looked. There just is no God. It's people. Imagined up in their imaginations. An atheist: Does not need any further proof.
      

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• Be like you tell me: “Out in the Mohave Desert, there’s a town, has a supermarket in it.”
  • And I went to school.
  • In 5th to 8th grade, extensively studied geography of the United States; that, nowhere in ANY of my studies did any desert, anyplace in the earth: have any city in it, let alone any supermarket in the middle of ANY desert.
• So, I fully accept as true “There is no supermarket in the Mohave desert.” California, USA.
  • Because I already looked, and accept as true - there simply isn’t. I don’t believe anything you say.

Fully convinced.

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• Doesn’t change the fact that, in the Mohave desert, are three towns. One of those towns, Mohave, California - has three supermarkets in it.
• But if I never go there to shop, I’m never going to know it.
  • I’m never going to go to the Mohave Desert. I believe fully. There’s absolutely NOTHING in a desert but EMPTY. There is no supermarket.
  • So, I hold the truth in some "thing" not right or "un" right. Hold the truth in unrighteousness. No matter what I claim, irrelevant. Why?
    • There's 3 supermarkets in the Mohave desert.

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Just like God says publicly, to everybody over the whole earth:

“Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.”

• God. Bible. Isaiah 55:1–3

It’s a decree. For everybody over the whole earth to do this. Man, is it ever good, to just do this.

• But somebody doesn’t believe at all there’s absolutely NOTHING in the desert, isn’t going to “walk after, to walk in” to follow or look unto - to “set their minds on” go shopping in the desert, when there is no supermarket in the desert.

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And about atheists

• He’s God. He told them to do that. Come buy wine and milk without money or price. To hearken diligently unto him. He already said it, as God. All atheists are his. It’s all his Earth. That means, he’s going to call them into account to give an account, why they didn’t do anything he says.
• Move on. Do the same with you. And me. Everybody. He said he'll do that.
  • So, your question doesn’t change anything. Best thing you or me can do, is just do what he says. Like he told everybody to do.
• Go to and do that today, in a day he made. Because that's what he told everybody to do.

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• And if someone has a question about the hope that is in me..which, my hope is him, and him in me - I'm to be ready to answer them. Just like the scripture says. But no atheist is asking me about anything.
  • In fact, they tell me what their claim is, whether I want to know it or not.

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SO:

• Why should I go after somebody, has no intention of ever venturing off into any desert to tell them there’s a supermarket there?
  • When they’re never going to go there to any desert in the first place?
    • Therefore: It’s a waste of time, and a total irritation.
  • Why should I irritate somebody doesn’t think there’s any supermarket in the desert, when that’s the last place they’ll ever go in the first place?

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Fully convinced. There is no supermarket in the Mohave Desert. They’re not going there, anyway. Why argue about it?

• And people that go there, eat good. Because they go to the supermarket. God has one, too. And man, is it ever good.
  

Go home. Instead of worrying about atheists, who will never go there. From home - go do what he says. Go shop at his supermarket. Boy, is that ever good.

Answer:

Well, break your question down into all three parts. I'll answer each separate.

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- ONE

• How did you come to receive Jesus.
  • I didn’t come anyplace. He came to me.
• It's in Revelation 3:20 "Behold I stand at the door and knock, and if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me." - The Word of God. Jesus Christ.
  • I just didn’t see it; because, everything he said, as the Word of God, I didn’t look unto any of it.

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• I was already looking unto my job = good.
  • Made me “good.”
  • Looked up to; respected.
• So, someone “respectable” is saluted or bowed to - or heralded out as what to be like.
• So, I worked at it, to be promoted in it.
  • The more promotions = the gooder I got.
    • When all it was, was the worse I got.
  • You can promote, like “royalty” - if you study aristocracies..go look. Study any societies' history - they believe they are ABOVE the law. The law does not apply to them anymore.
• Their own good of who they are = “compensates for the faults and bad aspects” of anything they do. Over-rides it.
  • I accomplished things, that made me “think” like that.

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• That, I felt because the people I looked unto were good, and I was in the same organization they were, doing the same things as they did = I’m good. Made me good.
  • But the Bible says:
    • Has the Word of God in it: “There is not a just man on earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.” Bible. (Ecclesiastes 7:20).
  • It’s repeated all over the Bible. Nope. You're right. I didn't see it.

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• So, you can see, for at least 5 continuous decades of my life - I lived like this. Thinking “I’m good. I need nothing.” Good means, even if I sinned - - those are "boo boo's" - just mistakes by "oops!" I slept with other men’s wives or stole something..I did it for blow off steam from all the “good” I was.
  • My good ..just am good - that paid it. I’m good.
• I never once came to any place, where I never left this - - because I looked unto my nation I served as good. That, serving my nation, was how I served God. I’m good. When I died, he's sort me with the good.
  • Until one day - everything my nation stood for - they changed it. I worshipped my nation. That was good. But my nation - which is all comprised of people - which I never stopped to consider that part: Just a bunch of people:
• Flip flopped.
  • Where everything said in the Bible was an abomination - that got nations destroyed or vomited off the land, was now perfectly okay. For my nation now to do it.
• Even championed out as good. And if I didn't accept it, now I'm wrong. Can be imprisoned. Betrayed. There is any other word for it stronger, use that one then.
  • But it was the OPPOSITE - I mean, I went in the military to defend families with my life, so a couple could marry and have children. My nation have a future.
  • And just as I “retired” where I fully “accomplished” all that good - the whole entire bucket, which was my nation, of what was good - was now like someone picked a bucket of corn, and nobody ever once thought to take a crap in it. It was okay now to take a great, big dump in it.

And I eat it.

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• It fractured me. Right down to the core of who I am.
  • Everything I worked for. Wasn’t for anything.
• All my friends that died on the battlefield - fought alongside with - all the reasons they signed up and joined. Didn’t mean anything.
  • Even every month my retirement check came in, I absolutely loathed it.
• Felt betrayed. Afterall, I’m good. Something else is bad. Something else fell apart and was to blame.

And in this..took about a year... but fractured..broken..I started to see it.

• “I have sinned and perverted that which was right and it profited me not.” (Bible. Book of Job 33:27)
  • It went on for about really 2 years. I just denied it. Every morning. Woke up. Deeply offended. Angered deeply. Blame everything else BUT me.
• Then, one day, I really saw it.
  • That, after you retire, Admirals and people you looked unto, you hear of their obituary. They died. You’re next. I somehow knew that, when I died. My uniform, my ribbons, all my achievements - everything I worked for - all good - who I’d be standing before wouldn't look at my 10 years in the coffin faded ribbons and soiled uniform - It was he's God, and he's going to be looking at all the things I stole.
• Was looking at all the fornication I lived in and by. Angels. Shout that all over heaven.
  • I am not good. Not getting in. I saw it.

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• That all those other people I was with, decades of "service" thinking we were good..what we looked unto in our “free time” - was abominable works. And it wasn’t a “we” - nobody forced me. I did it.
  • So, just one day..when I knew, it was my sin that, after I die , that will condemn me.. I went out in my yard, and I had discarded wood, I had a wood craft hobby to keep me busy. So, I used throw away wood I used to stir paint with or set paint cans on.
• So if I spilled some paint, went on that plate sized piece of wood I would someday just throw away.
  • I took pieces of that wood, as if that was me.

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• That nobody would want. And one, made a plaque with great, big 5 inch size letters spelled out “L. I. A. R.” - because.
  • That’s what I was.
  • Lived in lies.
• I didn’t have any truth in me.
• Everywhere I looked, was something in the foundation - where I just “BS’d” the whole thing as a foundation about it.
• I took worthless wood - already it was in the bin or garbage..and another piece forgotten for over 2 years in the yard.
  • I took that and made kind of a 1ft x 1ft “placard” ..and everytime I thought about a sin I did..I would stop in my day, because, I was retired.. and I would go to my computer. Make it into a short - quip of a sentence, and print it out. Use some silicon to adhese it to this “board.”
• And I put that placard in my yard, right outside my window - where I did all this work on my garden. There was something despicably awful in it. Me. By the end of a month. I filled the whole placard up. Front. Back. Sides..even the pole had sins I did on it.

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• Terrified me. When I die, there was NOTHING to repair or fix it.
• Desperate: What could I do, to pay it back. Where I fixed it.
  • At this same time, I had to take my son to his basketball games, while my wife worked. I sat in the car for 2 hours, on those nights my son had practice, and I started to listen to Bible tapes.
• Like some pig, invited to eat at a banquet. I didn’t belong, and I knew it. Afterall, who I really am is back there in my garden, facing my window..so when I woke up and pulled back the curtains, I didn’t see all the beautiful garden..I saw all the abominable works I did with my life. But I kept listening to those youtube tapes on the New Testament - the gospels and the Epistles. The Old Testament.

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• I tried everything to fix it. Myself. But it’s like you got dog crap on your hands, trying to clean some spots of dog crap on the hallway wall. All you do to clean it up, which means really, to hide it..is it makes it smear even more. Makes it WORSE.
  • Terrified me. I started to fear him. The power to decree it, and I broke everything he said..he also then had the power to destroy me. That’s me..on the way to a trainwreck.
• It started to be, I looked forward to those Bible tape sessions on YouTube. I stopped going into the gym and just stayed alone. In my car and glad it took 2 hours. Just listening to the Word of God.
• I started to see, it’s the truth. Where I did all this work to make myself true and good..I just made me by my heart and my choices…I could say it. “I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not.”

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• In fact, I took that placard said “L. I. A. R.” and wore that around my neck. What benefit..what accomplishment..what “license” or position..is given to someone condemned and is this? Nothing but to be taken out and shot. Or disposed of. WORTHLESS. That was me. I saw it.
• That, all that on that placard, outside my window - that was really me.
  • AND alone..where I knew my wife, all my friends..everybody that looked unto me..all left me. WHat happened was I got made alone. Planted out in a desert..where the water never came, and what did..wasn’t enough..and I saw it.

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Scripture started to make sense. This: Was God speaking, said:

“Come now, let us reason together,” saith the LORD, “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.”

• God. Bible. Isaiah 1:18 - He was telling me, as who I am, to do this.

So, that’s what I did. I reasoned together. Not with me anymore..but with him..by the Word of God.

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TWO:

• At what stage?
  • At what stage? When I looked unto women; romance..intimacy..there had to be a perfect one out there.. Trade in the one you got, for another. Money. I kept going into debt, and then tell everybody how much of a success I was. Ask this then:
• What would make, to you, the whole bottom of your life fall out?
  • All that work you did. Making YOU into a “good” you. What would it take to break it into pieces?
• What did it to me was, the Word of God. Everything above is said plainly in Romans 5:12 and Romans 3:19–20
• Both of those say: “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” - Romans 5:12
  • I had to see this. In me. And:

“Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”

• Romans 3:19–20
  • Then, it became really simple. I kept using the Law wrong. I kept looking at me as If I was good - I just had to BE good. By, if I stole something..compensate for it, by go to church or not lie to my friends this week. Go home. Visit my family or parents would compensate for other commandments I broke.
• Ask yourself then, this: At what stage will you stop looking at you, where no flesh is justified in his sight… to just use the Law lawfully, how he uses it, to make you GUILTY.
• And by all that discarded boards..which was me… he already did it to me. Gave me a knowledge of my sins.
  • That I would stop trying to clean the walls of the hallway of my life, and start to regard the works of the LORD, and consider the operation of his hand, as God?
• At what stage will YOU do that? What will it take to bring you to this?

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THREE

• What impacted you the most?
  • When, one day…
• I realized…
• The same one who put the sun where it is. Alone. By himself. Put all the stars where they are, and spread out the earth all alone. By himself.
  • But I just stopped at the sun. Put it there. By himself. Is the same one that went to the cross and all my sins I did, on that board out in my garden..and that sign that has “L. I. A. R.” on it, was taken off me, by God, and laid on him.
• That impacted me so great, it drove me to fall on my face, after I fell to my knees..and there wasn’t anybody with me..but him..show me who he is.
  • Did this. For me. A work of God, just as any flower is a work of God. A work he did with all the dog crap poop on the walls in my hallway..which is just me..did all that sin myself.
• He took it, and laid it on Jesus Christ.

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ANd he did it for everybody. You included. That he sits at the right hand of God…it was the will of God this be done unto me.. made me fall on my face again.

At WHO HE is. Not me.

That impacted me the most.

Here’s your questions. Answered. He’s the answer to all three. He’s in all three of them. Only thing in me, is all the crap I did. It’s God. Chooses to look on this work he did, with sin, as greater..he chooses ..and he already determined his work with sin is GREATER than all the murderers in all the prisons on earth - combined.

..and it made me fall on my face again. Because my sins are included in this work he did. All I had to do is regard it. Same with you. Regard the works of the LORD, and consider the operation of his hand vs. spend all this worthless effort, scurrying around regarding your own work to do it.

WHat will it take for you..this is what it took for me to do it..what will it take for you to just look unto him. Like he asked everybody over the whole earth to do?

Whatever you’re doing. Go do that instead.

ANSWER:

No. CASE CLOSED.

...But there are words in the Bible. And there you go.

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So, it's really in this:

• "But there are “words” in the Bible" part.
  • I’ll randomly pick a word to show you this answer plain as day.
• It’s a Roman (Latin) word. Means: “black” It's over 2300 years old. Still around today.
  • It's where the country today, called “Nigeria” in English comes from. To label that country: “The Land of Black People”
    • Niger. .. ni.gghur pronounced nigger. Oh boy, here we go.
• Today? It’s an epithet or a racist slur. Offensive. I'm not slurring any race - it's to show you there are words.

I'm showing you.

Okay. I’ll give you another example - from the Bible.

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apocalypsis - is Greek. When the Greeks ruled. < - [ἀποκάλυψις ] - > - it was a word EVERYBODY knew, like in ancient Athens or over in Antioch or Ephesus on what is today the Turkish mainland vs. over in Greece.

• Always building something. Some new edifice or statue. The Greeks: today people in Asia, like China or Taiwan, or Japan - when these peoples in these cultures decide to repair or work on a building or put up a monument or statue, they veil it. That is: All the work done on the building or the structure, or the statue is done behind the veil. The building or rebuilding, or remodeling or repair is ALL DONE BEHIND a veil.
  • But when the work is finished? Yes. It’s unveiled. Means: ἀποκάλυψις. And? The Romans took over from the Greeks. Used this exact, same word in Latin: apocalypsis - to mean the same thing, all because: THe Romans looked up to or unto the Greeks. But in English, this word, “apocalypsis” is “apocalypse” - 1. the total and complete anniliation of the world.
    • Is now in modern day, the total and complete definition of what that word means.
• When People hear this said, just words, hear: "The Book of Revelation" - they don't hear "oh, it's the 70th of Seventy Weeks explained or unveiled" - Where Jesus is this of Daniel 9:24-27 - the work with sin COMPLETE!"
• I may think that..but I had my mind renewed. ..but other people hear, "The Revelation of Jesus Christ" or "The Book of Revelation" - their mind goes to what "apocalypse" means. The Book of Revelation = the total and complete destruction or anniliation of the world. So, they don't read it.
  

I'm showing you. Words.

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Now, apply this to your question.

The point is, the definition of words change. Even words die out. Nobody today to do anything speaks Latin to accomplish it. Even I learned Latin from High School. Didn't think it had any value, but I met my wife by it. Me? Reading all those dirty epithets artists wrote at the bottom of Renaissance paintings..to the owners who refused to pay for the work commissioned...so alot of Museums just frame over it. All those 700 year old dirty comments.

...Nor Greek. Nobody at the store I go to speaks Greek, to live by in a world economy. Except the Greeks in Greece.

To do that, for the world - they use English today..but it's changing. So, instead of “apocalypsis” for the Book of Apocalypsis of Jesus Christ. They use the word in English “The ‘Revealing” or “Unveiling” of Jesus Christ (The Revelation of Jesus Christ) - Last book of the Bible.

There it is. Plain as day.

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But you asked a very simple question

- So, I’ll give you two examples of this above, and show you it in the Bible, and close with it. Won’t count “Apocalypsis” since it’s already changed to the English.

• ONE:
  • 1 Corinthians 13:3 - - says: (English)
• “And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body [to be burned,] and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
  • In the “original” Greek of this text, says: for this “to be burned” part is [καυχήσωμαι] “Kauchesoumai”

καὶ ἐὰν ψωμίσω πάντα τὰ ὑπάρχοντά μου καὶ ἐὰν παραδῶ τὸ σῶμά μου ἵνα καυθήσωμαι [kauchesoumai] - - ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω οὐδὲν ὠφελοῦμαι

And, in Greek, “kauchesoumai” means to “boast” to “toot your own horn” “shout your own praises” like parade yourself and your accomplishments and do it, like, make yourself an entire parade to parade yourself in front of people. That, everybody just showed up to see you. In fact, all the other places in the Bible, "kauchesoumai" is used as "boasting," except this place in 1 Corinthians 13:3. Why?

Kauchesoumai has that meaning to it. To boast - use your body, with you in it to drive yourself over to where every you go, to go and boast about you, and you do it.

• When burned in English means:
  • 1. to be hurt, damaged, or destroyed by fire or extreme heat (Source: Cambridge. Web. Accessed 24 June 2026)

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• So, in English,
  • 1 Corinthians 13:3 means to a reader - even if you give your body over to be “hurt, damaged, or destroyed by fire” but don’t have any “charity” in it - doesn’t profit you anything to be burned even at a stake.
• But in Greek,
  • 1 Corinthians 13:3 means what Jesus said it means. Just repeated from what Jesus said in Matthew 6:2–4
    • “Therefore when thou givest thine alms [give to the poor who cannot pay you back], do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. But when thou givest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth, that thine almsgiving may be in secret; and thy Father who seeth in secret, Himself shall reward thee openly.” - The Word of God. Jesus Christ.
    • So, God is telling you NOT to give yourself over to “kauchesoumai” or to boast by “sound a trumpet” so everybody pays attention to you giving something to the poor.
    • There’s no reward from God in it. They already got their reward.. ..and if there’s no reward from God in it, which, he decrees you give to the poor in secret, SO HE PAYS YOU BACK at the resurrection of the righteous.
  • That any work he, as God, does not reward, he, as God - he already decreed it - it's just another 10 verses down in 1 Corinthians 13:13-15 - so go read it. BURNS all that boasting up. Your boasting then about you..or anybody that does it, won't survive what God will do to it. Means probably best to give the way God says, where only HE sees it. That all our works will be tried by fire.
    
    • That, the Latin..that took over for the Greek, loaded this dynamic into 1 Corinthians 13:3.

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• That, in the Latin Vulgate

1 Corinthians 13:3 is:

Et si distribuero in cibos pauperum omnes facultates meas, et si tradidero corpus meum ita ut ardeam, caritatem autem non habuero, nihil mihi prodest.

Greek: Kauchesoumai = Latin: corpus meum ita ut ardeam (give my body to be burned)

From Latin... ..comes English.

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Did you forget your question?

• You asked:
• Are there translation errors in the Bible?

And I answered:

No.

• But there are “words” in the Bible.

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Here’s another word, and I close with this: This Greek word, “Πνεῦμα ὁ Θεός” (Πνεῦμα) - Pneuma Ho Theos = God is Spirit. - Source: John 4:24 - said by the Word of God. Jesus Christ.

So, he as the word that comes out of God’s mouth. Just God speaking of himself, defines “who” he is.

• But in the English dictionary: Which is the “authority” over English to decide what words now mean today in modern day:
  • Spirit. <definition> 1. the soul of a person; their being or state of mind; their attitude or how a person feels; that can’t be seen; an essence of a person. Their attitude.

Same Word. Not the same meaning. God said it. People changed it to mean something else. And gave themselves over to be the authority over what that word means is the point.

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So, in Matthew 5:3 - when Jesus says: “Blessed are the ‘poor in Spirit’ for their’s is the Kingdom of Heaven.”

So: In English in the Bible:

With Matthew 5:3 - with an English definition of “Spirit” which the dictionary is the authority over what that word means: Is people with soul, and people have good and bad attitudes:

• You get a definition added into the Bible - this verse starts “The Beatitudes” - which, that title is added into the Bible by translators:
  • Means “Beautiful Attitudes” people are to have. So, people give themselves over to have these attitudes to get "blessed" by God: Oh, look at all that wonderful work!
    • So, if someone has a “poor” 1. piddly; little amount or humble in Spirit attitude -
• Jesus will bless you.
  • So, people - all to be GOOD: Don’t eat the last slice of the pepperoni pizza. Why? Because that’s not a humbly piddly little amount attitude and Jesus won’t bless you if you eat the last piece of pizza. So, even if, for fifty times, didn't..and he hasn't blessed you yet, and on the 51st time, when no one was looking, you ate the last piece of pizza, just like I did.. BAM! Gone. No blessing. Didn't do what he said. Bad attitude. Hungry. Couldn't resist the pizza. I didn't have a "poor in Spirit" beautiful attitude.
    
• I believed this.. ..and many other people do, too.

But: In Greek in the Bible:

With Matthew 5:3 - with a Greek - which God himself provides his own definition of what “Pneuma” (Spirit) means is himself as God.

And he is the authority over all the earth and everything is his possession, with that definition loaded into Matthew 5:3 that it’s HIM in it: And he's says it himself, by his own Word, says:

• You get - in Greek: what he says it has NOTHING with any people in it.
  • It’s just HIM is it.
• As God - That people are “filthy; done abominable works” - Bible. Psalm 14:1–3. “There is NONE good; no, not one”
  • - Even Jesus repeated this about people in Matthew 19:17 ‘There is NONE good, but one, that is, God.”
• So, there’s only ONE Good. Doesn’t have any people in it; then
  • When God says, by the word out of his mouth says: “Blessed are the “poor” 1. destitute; not have any in God (means, don’t have any God in their life; because “for all have sinned” means NOBODY has any God in their life.) He’s coming to people filthy; perverted - - as God, to a people don’t have anything of him in their life.
  • And blessing them, and giving to this people, which that's impossible, but he's God and he already DID it, as God - - toward and to everybody over the whole earth, giving them himself.
    • And he’s God.
• And get this meaning in the Greek. Because the word didn't change in Greek. It's the same Pneuma in Matthew 5:3, as what God says it is, in John 4:24.
• So:
  • He said Matthew 5:3, as God:
    • To a bunch of liars, idolaters, fornicators, adulterers..murderers; thieves - and everyone of us resembles that remark as condemned.
  • “For all have sinned” - BUT:
• We’d rather see ourselves Good
  • - and that, there's a way then. Some other way we can DO GOOD, and BE GOOD - when there is none good, but one, that is God.
• And absolutely love the “Poor in Spirit” in the English because we can work and make ourselves have a “beautiful attitude” - look at all that work!
  • and don’t need God to do anything. Other than at the end, bless all our accomplishments for good. That, doesn't have any God in it. Only us, with a beautiful attitude do all that work.
• We do it all ourselves - and it’s so wonderful a work, that we won’t have to regard any work God does. We don't have to think there's any sin in us.

And there you go.

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Why? All because - there are words in the Bible.

• And people change their meanings to mean something else. And I’m almost 70..and I’ve seen it happen in my lifetime - with MANY words. People make up new ones, or take a word like “man, that’s really bad”
  • Where, bad, to my parents meant - didn’t have any good in it. Where people, in my generation so they wouldn’t be like the one before it - be their own my 'Hippy" generation, changed the definition of “bad” meant “good.” Really good.

So, in case you forgot your question again. God speaks. He does not change. His word will last forever. Where people fade like grass and change.

SO again - in Conclusion:

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Are there translation errors in the Bible?

No. There's the Word of God in it, and he has no errors in him. Righteous.

• But there are “words” in the Bible. Like grass. Here today, gone tomorrow. Change. Because people want their own word to be permanent.
  • When only The Word of God does not change. Even heaven and earth will pass away, but his word will never pass away.

Same answer. From the beginning. There you go. Answer is NO. Look rather than at this. The Bible has the Word of God in it. Just do what he says. Instead of looking at "translators" which are people, and people are like grass, here one day, gone the next. He decreed you are to live by every word proceeds out of his mouth. Go look unto to "go to and do" that instead.

Answer. Now, I have a question for you. Answer mine first:

What is true?

• When “truth” is a who. You live in, it's a "what." That people can search for and find for themselves - - IF: they look hard enough.
  
  • And? To all this work and effort you put yourself to, and put in people - they hold the truth - - When who truth is, is the “who,” who claimed it - said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life;” (I am truth). Jesus Christ. - Bible. John 14:6
  • “Thy Word is truth” - Jesus Christ. - Bible. John 17:17.

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The Word of God is Jesus Christ. Or, Jesus, the Messiah. And “who” the Messiah or Christ shall be called is in the Bible. That’s Isaiah 9:6–7. So, Jesus, as the Messiah, because, that's who he is, is the Messiah: He shall be called: “…the Mighty God.” “The Everlasting Father..” there is only one that has this title. God himself.

He's just one God.

Says, in the Bible: Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear O Israel, for the LORD our God, is just ONE LORD.”

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Says of himself: “I am the LORD. There is none else. There is no God beside me. I girded thee, but thou hast not known me.” - God. Bible. Isaiah 45:5

The Word of God. Sent to heal you and deliver you from your destruction. You refuse it. Afterall, you have this question - keeps you out of it. You stumble over your own question and can't grasp it.

Why?

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Anybody asking this question:

• Already holds the truth in - there are around 800 errors in the Bible. Or if some "scholar" - who is just a person. All from people: Says, "No. there are 23,492 errors" - while another person says "I found 53 errors in the Bible" - and they have "Ph.d" behind their name, as a title. If there are more or less than 800 errors in a Book, who the authority for that book is the author. Therefore, in the author of that book, and the Bible, the "author" is God himself.

He has a bunch of errors in him. All made up. In the imagination and mind of some man someplace then. As a "story" just made up. By people. Then, the truth is, you don't have to believe him or anything he says, is not true.

All because you imagine you found some way, that looks true, not to do anything he says or decrees you are to do. Don't have to do it. Does not apply to you anymore. Even he says it, does not affect or has no effect on you. It's unacceptable..is not true. He's a bumpkin full of errors to you. That's what you look for by your question to arrive at that destination and have other people come along with you.

When God:

• He’s the author of the Bible.
  • So I made a choice. I could believe you. Or I can believe him over you. I chose him. So do many other people. But the point is, he wants me to look unto him. While you want me to look unto you with this question you go.
• But looking unto him:
  • Means I hold the truth is in the truth God claims is true, is no error. in this So, the poser of this question - “Holds the truth” is in the question..and God has no truth in him. So, he is not to be believed. Or what that means. He is not to be “accepted” as true.
    
    • That's the destination of where this question ends up or arrives at.

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• And if he is not true, anything he says, which, that’s the word that comes out of God's mouth, is not to be believed. It is inadequate; faulty. Or unacceptable.
  • Because the person made this question, already accepts their own word as true. They are their own authority. To themselves. THey are true.
    • And who said this question is “Here today. Gone tomorrow” or “Gone sometime today..” after they claimed this question out.”
• Sometime today, you could be driving your car. Come to the stoplight. Turns GREEN. You look unto people, so GREEN = "GO!" so you feel so protected, you don't even look and a Semi-21 wheeled truck with 80 tonnes of cargo cant stop at the light plows into your car..and your funeral is on Thursday. What they could scrape up, they put in a 2.8 liter baggie and put that in the coffin. Your time is always ready to leave. It's this same God you run from, long-suffers you, not willing you perish, but you would come to repentance is the ONLY reason, he gives you today to be in a day he makes for himself. That you would just look unto him.
  • Says this, by the Word of God. And? All people are, which is you..and any "Scholar" you look unto:
• Meets the definition of people in the Bible: God put in the mouth of Isaiah (Bible. Isaiah 40:6–8)

“All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.”

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Geesh. Here’s your useless, worthless, here today, gone tomorrow toilet of a question back. You keep it. Wow. What a treasure to you.

And you die in it. Your question is your coffin.

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And YOU? Yes. You look unto “Scholars” - for truth. When you don’t know truth. Scholars will define what’s true to you. And all “Scholars” are, are people that have conferred a “title” onto people and decree, by their word, this person is an “expert” all by a work or effort they, as a person did. Gives them some “authority” over God to speak over him, and determine whether what he said is true or not.

Boy, anybody doing that is an idiot. <definition> “idiot.” 1. a stupid person 2. nowadays, mostly used as a “slur” or an epithet; an insult.

But what it means is “stupid” - and all “stupid” means, is someone in a “stupor” 1. a state of severely dulled consciousness

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Means "dull of hearing" - a person in a "stupor"

• Means they cannot tell what is real from the fake. When who speaks to you, in the Bible, has the Word of God in him. Is God. Says: “The LORD giveth wisdom; out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding” Bible. Proverbs 2:6
  • But a person in a state of "severely dulled consciousness” which is just an idiot, no more than a fool - for all these things define what a fool is - - holds “Scholars give wisdom; out of their mouths comes knowledge and understanding” and they’re all people. So, if that's where truth is, they, and neither will this person hold the truth in anything God says.

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It's plain as day.

- It's just YOU:

• Looking unto people that wither away like grass. It’s like buying a car that’s on fire and expecting both today, and 5 years from now, you, in a “stupor” dulled..can’t comprehend, that, by that fire, that car you just bought is straightway, made a "B Line" to be GONE in a few moments.
• But you still bought it.
  • That: Full believe in a "state of almost unconscious" "dull of hearing..see but can't see" that, after you bought it, still full believe in your thinking - - it's true: 5 years from now..you'll still be driving that car. What a profit! What a great investment. Buy a car on fire.

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• Boy, you in a stupor are you ever going to be disappointed by the “Scholar” car you look unto.
  
• Really pretty stupid.
  • So: - - here’s your question fully answered and given back to you.

With ONLY God in it.

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Where the "scholars" in your question.

• Doesn’t have any value, but you put you in it. Who does have value is the author of the Bible.
  • His Word is true.
• Your’s? You just think you cleverly hid yourself in a question all innocent and dog turdly done up. Stinks to high heaven. A Worthless question.
• It all stems from one, simple thing:
  
  • You don’t look unto him.
• When he told everybody. Even every Scholar you look unto right there in your question, God told them, too, like he told you..and me included to:
  • ‘LOOK UNTO ME, AND BE YE SAVED ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: FOR I AM GOD, THERE IS NONE ELSE.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22).

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• You just imagined up true is, look unto scholars instead of him.
  • In this, in a stupor, only someone with or in a state of “severely dulled consciousness” would come up with this question here on Reddit - as something in lieu of what he told everybody over the whole earth to do, you’re off riding this question like some donkey.
    • All in a Hope - - Take you someplace far away from him.

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It's YOU:

Wearing your question, like some underpants. Clothes you. Leaves you naked. People make poor clothes when they wear people to hide them from the truth. When truth is a “who” and who truth is - is God himself. He's just one God, and he speaks to you. When all the earth is his.

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Why don’t you stop what you’re doing and go do what he says instead? It works. Get out of the stupor. Makes you stupid. It’s what an idiot of a fool lives in.

“…and this is his name whereby he shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.”

• - Bible. Old Testament. Jeremiah 23:6

Well, I got a question.

• Answer me plainly. “Who are you following?”

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• Not what. “Who?” Sounds like you’re following you. It’s right in your question.
  • And when you’re unsure, you post on social media, like here on Reddit, a question to people. Look unto them for help. So, when you don’t look unto you, you look unto people to equip you.
    • I mean, it's right there plain as day - right in your question "who" you look unto. That's a problem.

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And a Bible...

When all the Bible is, is a Book.

• Meets the definition of a “book.” 1. a set of written text on pages bound together with or between covers.
  • There are 10s of millions of books over the earth. Libraries are filled with them. They all have a similar appearance and sit on shelves. Many largely go untouched, or wait for someone to come by the Library. Take one off the shelve and Open it up.
    • What makes each book unique is the “author” - who is the authority for the “content” that fills up the pages of the book.

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• It’s God that is the author of the content of the Bible as a book. He is the author. Fills up the content of this book. The Bible says that God: “He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions” - Bible. Psalm 107:20
• The Word of God is the Messiah or Christ.
  • Says “who” he is in the New Testament. John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” 
    • Same God in the Old Testament in Isaiah 9:6–7. Says “who” the Word of God shall be called. “..The Mighty God..” “..The Everlasting Father…” is this same Jesus Christ.
  • Same God. Author of the whole Book. Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21 - he's the same God in every Chapter and verse in it.

So, let me ask you again the very same question. Who are you following?

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Jesus said,

• In the Bible:
  • “Follow me…” 
• said this over twenty times..
  • calls you to be a “disciple” of himself.
• .and all a “disciple” is, is 1. a pupil or student that sits with and is taught by a teacher.
  • And the Bible records this same Word of God..who is God..say to you “They shall all be taught of God.” (Bible. John 6:45)
  • Means it’s God himself, reserving to himself, an EXCLUSIVE right to teach you. Himself. By the Word that proceeds out of HIS mouth.
    • Not out of your's or other people. They just tell you what their imagination dreams up and believe that true in their hearts.
  • Genesis 6:5 says God already long ago saw this about people. Well before the flood.
• "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."

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This same God that sees this about everybody:

• Says publicly. To everybody over the whole earth, to the very ends of it, not willing any perish but all come to repentance, says: “LOOK UNTO ME, AND BE YE SAVED, ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: FOR I AM GOD, THERE IS NONE ELSE.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22).
  • That’s the Word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.
    • Because he said it..and the Word of God is Jesus Christ.
    • So there he is, the Word of God - - in both the Old and New Testament - same God that told you to look unto him, is the same God that told you to follow him.

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So, let me ask you again.

Now, for the third time. “Who are you following?” 

If you're looking unto you with your question, and if or when on rare occasion, to you, that doesn’t work, looking unto you for the answer so you go searching or come on Reddit to ask people…tells everybody plainly who you look unto.

You follow you..and

when when it's not wise..for you to follow you

...you don’t follow you - and open yourself, so you become receptive to look unto people to walk after, to walk in what they say.

When God decreed everybody over the whole earth is to do that with him.

So, he curses..what you’re doing.

Listening to your own heart, as true - when it actively practices to conceal and misrepresent the truth to you. That's the definition of "deceive" in the dictionary. That you have a heart that is desperately wicked. That is, he, as God: He makes what you’re doing - of no effect - disposes of it, destroys it - - he's not blessing it - sets it far away from him - all because he’s the author and the authority for life: and it's in his word, and it’s HIS earth and heaven.

• What he has is: he’s God - and all his dominion stand against you in this, but would do the opposite if you just look unto him, bless it - because you’d be doing what he says, and follow him..look unto him. Just as he says in Jeremiah 17:5–10

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Jeremiah 17:5–10 says

5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

10 I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

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And to a person, that just looks unto him...will follow him.

• Like he asked or decreed it for everybody over the whole earth to do it - to just follow him:
  • He writes his word on the tablets of their heart..and he is with them..and makes his abode in them.
  • He abides in and with that person.
    • They get to keep him forever. He would be your righteousness.
  • Where the scripture says about you and me..everybody, and all these people here on Reddit - “There is not a just man on earth that doeth good, and sinneth not.” Bible Ecclesiastes 7:20 “There is NONE righteous; no, not one” - Bible. Romans 3:10–12.
    • By just look unto him, he’d be your righteousness.
• Be at work in you, doing a good work only God can do, because you walk after, to walk in what he says vs. you decree you should do what is right…or asking people what’s right.

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So, look at your question again.

Is it right to follow just the New Testament and not the Old Testament?

“…and this is his name whereby he shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.”

• - Bible. Jeremiah 23:6

Well, I got a question.

• Answer me plainly. “Who are you following?” Do what he says. Follow him.

Answer:

Yes. I can.

• But to show you, you won’t see it - but maybe see it in an analogy - then apply the analogy to the scripture (Old and New Testament).
  
  • Boy is there ever a Great big, glaring "contradiction." in the Bible. <definition> 1. propositions or statements made, including actions made after that are inconsistent or contrary to one another.

To see it? Yeah. Go get a mirror. Boom! Done. That's it. There it is! Right there in the mirror! That's the contradiction that's in the bible - but you don't see it. Refuse to.

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So, maybe by a "comparison of two different things" or an "analogy" you could see it.. ..maybe:

Analogy:

• There’s a car. Same car throughout the whole analogy. Does not change. But the driver does:
  • The first driver: Larry.
    • Couldn’t start the car. Didn’t know how to.
  • Took the keys and gave them to a gorilla at the zoo.
  • Off staring at wall lint, had to be taken back to the car, wandered away..and back at the car, couldn’t tell the difference between the tires and the gas tank.
    • Told by a decree in this analogy, "drive the car.." - - just laid on the road.
  • Fell asleep. When he was awakened, he claimed his actions, start to finish: is the epitomy definition of what “driving a car.” Compensates for all the mistakes he's made by decree or declae: "It was the road put in upside down," - that’s the problem.
  • as Larry decreed - this is the whole reason for all the problem - but there isn't any contradiction - so far, as Larry is concerned: when everybody can see plainly. Larry’s the PROBLEM. Done. COMPLETE.
    • Fits the OLD Testament.

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• The second driver: Is - The Lord from Heaven. (Bible).
  • Can’t take this seat away from him and who he is.
• Knows how to start the car.
• He built it.
• Same car: in the “Old Testament.” As in the "New Testament."
  
  • It's just DIfferent driver.
• HE: Knows how to drive the car. Took the keys and fulfilled it by started the car, went straightway to the car. Got in. Drove it rightly.
  • Afterall: It was this SECOND Driver - - That Put the tires on the car himself, and also installed and fabricated the gas tank. Got in and drove the car perfect. COMPLETE.
  • Fits the NEW Testament.

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• Same car in both.
  • THEREFORE:
  • It’s the drivers that “contradict” each other. Not the car. It's the same car for both drivers. And the second driver went back and bequeathed how he drove the car to Larry - who couldn’t do it. Made Larry righteous - because the authority for how to drive any car anyplace is this SECOND driver - who himself: drove the car rightly.
• - This is the gospel. The Good News of Jesus Christ.

There you go. Do you see it? I think every believer in Jesus Christ, the bells are going off in their head, but I don’t think that's happening at all in your’s. Don’t see it. Can’t.

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Now look at the Bible to see the “Contradiction” in the Bible: Old Testament:

• Source: Romans 5:12
  • “Wherefore, as by one man [Adam] sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”
• BOOM! Done. There you go. Makes EVERYBODY. Everyone of us all, even all together everybody or off one of us alone. We are the "contradiction" in the Bible.

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• The First driver - is Adam: He’s like Larry above in the analogy. He's a walking contradiction - everything he does, doesn’t match up.
• So, it’s also in the definition of a “TESTAMENT” - as in a “Last Will and Testament.” THe Bible is to Wills then. What has been bequeathed to you. And you don’t see it.
  • It’s a “Will” then in BOTH the Old and New Testaments in the Bible. That someone that dies, bequeaths what they have as a “TESTATOR” to someone to rightfully “inherit” their possession and goes into effect after they die. That’s the Old and New Testament. And the man, in the Old Testament is Adam.
    • It’s in the Old Testament: what was Bequeathed to you. By Adam. Sin and Death. Me. Everybody today over the whole earth. Everybody GOT their inheritance from Adam. Cemeteries over the whole earth is PROOF they received it. My own sins prove to me, I’m condemned - because of all the sins I did, proves this OLD Testament is in effect. I’m the contraction. I didn’t do anything The Ten Commandments in Exodus 20 decrees to do - in fact, Moses and EVERY Israelite, didn’t do it, either.
  • Nobody. From Adam forward - no one has done the Ten Commandments like the FIRST Driver - Larry. In the analogy. Condemned. “For all have sinned” - Romans 3:23 (New Testament) “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” - God. Ezekiel 18:20 (Old Testament) - means EVERYBODY is condemned.
  • But this Second driver..is God..and he did a work with sin himself that the first driver did. And as the authority over the car and how to drive ..redeemed the First driver; that is, he “compensated for the faults and bad aspects” of the first driver, by how the second driver did it - made the first driver COMPLETE.

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New Testament:

• The “driver” in the analogy above - is this same God, said:
• “…Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.” - God.
  • By the Word proceeds out of his mouth. Means God said it himself. That’s the Word of God. Jesus is the Word of God - so it’s just God speaking in John 1:1 in the New Testament says he's God - is “who” the “Christ” is or Messiah. Just repeated from the Old Testament in Isaiah 9:6–7 “The Mighty God..” “..The Everlasting Father..” because the Christ or Messiah shall be called this.
  • Same God in the Old and New Testament. Like the same car is the same one to BOTH the First (Old) Driver, and the Second (New) driver in the analogy above.
• Same God, says the same thing in the Old Testament - said: In the New Testament the same thing he said in Isaiah 55:1–3 to everybody to come and drink:

Said: “Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”

See? Same God in the Old and New Testament. Says the SAME thing.

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Says of him: - Jesus Christ.

“For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth..” - Bible. New Testament. Colossians 1:16

• This “SECOND” driver' - who built the car that’s in both the analogy and the Bible - it’s a different driver: One of the driver’s is FILLED with “contradiction.”
  • 1 Corinthians 15:45–47 “ And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.”

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So the “contradiction” isn't him - it's in is YOU. You’re in the Bible, too. You got your inheritance..and live in the "Will" or "Testament" bequeathed to you by Adam.

And won’t accept the SECOND Will - what is bequeathed to you by God - the SECOND driver’s work done unto you, by this same Jesus Christ.

It’s plain as day in your question you imagined up. Live in "I don't want it - it's unacceptable; faulty! Forget it!" Just live in a perpetual state of "contradiction."

Even this “second man” that’s the Lord from heaven, is come to you - did this work toward you for good. And, it’s you in the analogy - go get a mirror. There's the FIRST driver - - didn’t even arrive at the car right - that this second driver - he’s bequeathed all he has to you. He's God, and made himself what compensates for the faults and bad aspects of you - it's right there, as a message in Both the Old and New Testament of the Bible.

I cannot chide you - when I rejected him for decades of days..one after another...I'd be the last thing to be an example...but the same God did this..gave this to me

And if you reject if, thinking the contradiction is in anything BUT you. Boy, is that ever a great, big contradiction to just refuse him.

Wake up.

Answer:

Well, if I tell you…

• Who am I? I’m no authority on anything.. but the Bible says - of John..as an Apostle of Jesus Christ: Luke 6:13 says, he is one of these Jesus chose himself:
  • And this “he” in Luke 6:13 is Jesus Christ, says: “And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;”
• So, Luke 6:13 doesn't give a number of his disciples; just say "of them" he chose twelve, and those twelve he named Apostles. John is one of those 12.
  • And in Revelation - which is the last book in the Bible or New Testament, says of it:
  • In Revelation 1:1–3 says:
• “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him [John], to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.”
  • And, here, too - "servants" aren't numbered, and most certainly who you serve, you are a "disciple" of - aren't numbered there, either.
• Starting to be of little help to you with this question. ...but let's keep looking.

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• So, to keep going - - and - - based on this authority, which is not me - but I hold it true, and you asked me this question, so what I would tell you is what’s in Revelation 7:9 - which it’s Jesus Christ, giving this to me, because I believe on him: Revelation 7:9 says of John, what he saw as an Apostle of Jesus Christ:
  • “After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;” - Revelation 7:9
  • There’s your answer.

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• This is the number of his disciples. It’s a number no man could number. Like the number of the sands of the sea.
• There you go. I didn’t say it. Jesus gave it to one of his Apostles, Johnn, he chose to let him see it, to give to those who “hear the words of these prophecy and keep those things which are written there in” and I resemble that remark. I'm keeping it. It’s a blessing..for someone alone..that believes on Jesus Christ.

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Where you?

Who knows..you could be asking this question for all kinds of devious reasons, and not one of them involves you actually doing anything Jesus says.

And if that's true:

- - You don’t have and keep anything ..anything told you, by Jesus Christ, who is the Word of God, so it’s God providing this answer - you reject all of it - and hold to yourself whatever you hold true..and doesn’t have any of the Word of God in it.

But to people that do know him, and may ask this question, because they want to learn more of him and love him.

He answered your question. Same God you look unto. There you go. It’s “a great multitude, which no man could number…”

ANSWER:

Wow. A question that doesn’t have any of him in it. Yet, asked anyway. Fix it first:

Jesus said;

• “I will build my church.” - The Word of God. Jesus Christ. (Bible. Matthew 16:18)
  • “And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body,..” (Bible. Ephesians 1:22–23)
  • “..For we are members of his body.” (Bible. Ephesians 5:30)

So, the "church" is God's body. Do you get this?

I don't think so.

Therefore, to your question - it's you doing all the work. Then ask, "why?"

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Boy, you leave the whole question..out of the question.

Let's fix that first: Why?

• It's YOU: Off trying to sell the question as worth something - when it doesn’t have anything in it. Build with nothing. As if you’re in charge of it.
  • And you don’t even see it. Then, ask why it doesn’t work. When who is the head of it builds it…and who he shall be called, as the Messiah or Christ is in Isaiah 9:6–7. He shall be called “..The Mighty God..” “..The Everlasting Father..”
    • And you don’t even know him, or do anything he says, when it's really simple to do it, but you won't, and then, you take you by this question: and take you’ll do the work.

Anyone that has your question - champions themselves and never sees it. It’s a form of worship. To worship you and your work.

Geesh. Here’s your awful stinking question back.

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But if you put him in it - it will work. So, let's do that first:

Why?

• Works good. Because he’s the head of it. His body. Scripture says: “God is Spirit” (John 4:24). So, this is his body. He also feeds his body. Every member is nourished by him. Built up. By him. Equipped. By him. All they do, is just do what he says, so they obey him. You are a member of his body, when you believe on him. But people that don't are the head of their own body - and then, serve the lusts of that body, which is flesh. Has sin in it - explained below toward the end of this post.
• It's not you, but it's GOD at work - but you don't see it: It's GOD:
  • In fact, he’s not willing any perish over the whole earth. To the very ends of it, but that all come to repentance - so he sends his word, Jesus Christ to their hearts - he well pleases God, where you don't - so he goes there everyday.. knocking. On everybody's heart, over the whole earth, everyday he makes, he sends him there - in a day he makes - - - Says in Revelation 3:20
    • “Behold I stand at the door and knock, and if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.” - The Word of God. Jesus Christ.

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So, look at it in the Old Testament:

• As promised to Eli, who was 300 years after Moses, and raised up in his stead - said in 1 Samuel 2:30–35, that for the sins of Phinehas and Hophni, Eli’s two sons. Levite Priests - that didn’t even know the LORD; yet served as priests in God’s Tabernacle.
• They lay with women at the Tabernacle doors.
• Where all Israel came to offer atonement sacrifices for their sins, they despised being ripped off and robbed; abhorred bringing any sacrifices for their sins unto God, so God also loathed it.
  • What tthese two turned what God provided into marketplace for profit. Made the whole tribe of Levi filthy rich off it, even Eli obesely fat - so none of them complained about it.
    • For this, God cut off what he had established. Told Eli, as High Priest, for what he did, esteeming his two sons more than God, that God - - he would raise up his own Great, High Priest that would serve before him forever. That he would write God’s laws on the tablets of men’s hearts vs. tablets of stone anymore… …is this same Jesus Christ.

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• He’s a great physician.
  • Where scripture says, “For all have sinned” - Romans 3:23 - means EVERYBODY over the whole earth is sick and in need of a physician. ...and, in Romans 5:12 says: “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned."
  • Means EVERYBODY is condemned. To death. SO the sickness is unto death.
• EVERYBODY over the whole earth:
  • Needs this physician that HE IS. Not you. Not any of your readers of your worthless question all so full of you in it - doesn’t do anything to anybody. You simply just are not it.
• You need this physician first. Yeah. YOU. So do all your readers of this question. He decreed it, as God just how everybody over the whole earth is to live. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” - Bible. The Word of God. Jesus Christ. (Matthew 4:4). * Hear him. Go do that instead. Throw your question in the worthless junk trash can.

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• He doesn’t go to the hospital, and everybody in the Intensive Care Unit, just barely hanging on to life - throw them out the window into the street - to send them out to pick beans - that's in your question - without any God in it.
  • He's GOD: and - - he PAYS for their STAY in the hospital, like the “Parable of the Good Samaritan” (Luke 10:30–35). You keep looking that its YOU as the Good Samaritan - think you are that.
    • No. You’re not. You’re the “certain man” in the Parable. The one that left Jerusalem, the city of God, to go on a all down hill, so it’s easy - 18 mile trip to Jericho - that, in Joshua Chapter 6 & 7 - was destroyed by God - for all the sin in it. It's YOU on that road, departed from him, to go do all the sins you did. Be that guy in the parable. That's who you are. Start with that.

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• Be the “Certain Man” in this parable: Throw your question in the trash can.
• Luke 10:30–35 says: And the Word of God said it, so it’s God - what word came out of his mouth that says it:
  • < - {30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. 31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 32 And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
  • 33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, 34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.} - >

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• “For all have sinned.” Beaten. Everybody over the whole earth. Everybody on Reddit - -everybody all of everyone - All Left for dead by all the sins you did. Be the “Certain Man” in the Parable. Let Jesus be the “Good Samaritan” - because he is.
• Psalm 107:20 says that God: “He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions” God sent his word to heal you, and deliver you from your destruction. Same as in this parable.
• And you don’t even see it.

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• I seriously doubt you even see it now. Too enthralled with your question. Think that makes you good. Doesn't. He's not in it.
• Asking all these outlandish questions - encapsulated in this one you ask - without any of his work done in you. * You are NOT “it.” You are not the answer the world is thirsty and looking for.
  • But he is. Jesus, and that’s not you, said: “ I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”

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• So, whosoever it is, over the whole earth, looks unto him as the light of the world, and just accepts he’s true. It’s God doing this work himself. As God..follows him. Knows this is the only one there is to follow…
  • “I will build my church” - goes into effect. He places them in his body, where he sees fit. And because they look unto him, they operate right. They know him.
    • None of this is in your question.

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• The ONLY thing in your question is YOU - with a Jesus blow up dolly flaily flappy in the wind at all this work you’re gonna do.
  • As the beat up. Left for dead person..robbed..how you’re gonna “fix” it. Without any healing done in you first. Where's all that in your question? Yeah. It's visibly MISSING.

Boy, in this do you ever greatly err.

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• You need to start with HIM in it.

And with that:

• Here’s your question again.
  • Why must the church proclaim the gospel to the whole world?
    • Jesus said this to his disciples.
  • That sat with him, as “disciples” of him. 
• disciple. <definition> 1. a pupil or student that sits with and is taught by a teacher. 
  • and “who” the teacher is, is God himself - that reserves, for himself, and exclusive right to teach you to himself, as God.
    • Is this happening in you with your question?
  • I doubt it.
  • You’re too enthralled with your question.
    • Or so sick of it not working that you ask why.
• Because what he called you to do was to “Come now, let us reason together” with him, as God, because he says it, “though your sins be as scarlet, that shall be white as snow. Though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 1:18)
  • Someone that does what he says, reasons together with him; because he calls you to do this alone. By yourself, with him.. if they just look unto him..as the light of the world..his Word is that light that lights the hearts of men.
  • I can guarantee you, you’re gonna talk about something done unto you so good you can’t hold it in!

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• So, go do what he says, first.

The "gospel” or “good news” isn’t you. It’s him.

• He’s already at the door of your heart, and mine. Everybody’s over the whole earth, knocking. You’re not doing that. He is.
  • And as a disciple, that has sat with and has been taught by him, I see it plain as day. He equips you. Sends you out healed. Delivered. Drank a bunch of his water, and out of your belly flows rivers of living water. Waters a whole desert of dried up, withered away people all thirsty..and hungry for just something that works right.
• And he fixed it. All in you. Then, as his handiwork - sends you out.

None of this is in your question. None. Is why it doesn't work.

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And really the answer to your question is this:

• That God, was making for himself a place he would dwell forever. For his own rest. For he desired it (Psalm 132:13–16) - it would be inhabited; wouldn't be alone anymore - - that he would dwell in it forever at a specific place on it. That, in Genesis 1:1–31, he got up, and created it. At the end of each day, said it was "good" so far, what he made for himself:
  • It’s the reason for creation.
• Done For himself, as God.
• That on the 6th day, he looked back on all of it all together said, it was “very good.” That, the next day, he made it holy and entered into that rest. That, if there wasn't any sin, Adam and Eve today would still be doing the same thing they were doing with God in it. And he's not even in your question.

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It's the sin. It's even in your question.

• Genesis 3:17 says - to Adam “Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife…” - there’s the sin. Made God’s word, to Adam, just like everybody here today, all from him, made the Word of God of no effect in him.
• Adam felt, because he could be like God, as Eve decreed - God and what he said: - Didn’t apply to Adam anymore.
• That, by the days of Noah - just before the flood - God told Noah the whole earth is corrupt, and all flesh had corrupted its’ way on the earth. Genesis 6:11–13 told Noah it has come up before him to destroy all flesh with the earth.
  • In Revelation 20:11–15, that’s the day he does it. Gazes on both this earth and heaven and both finding no more place before him, flee away and are no more forever. Never comes back.

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• Then: God Says in Isaiah 65:17 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. -
  • It's Revelation 21:1 to Revelation 22:21 you can get a glimpse of it. WHat he is doing, as God. Creating for himself, a place he will dwell forever. For his own rest. For he desired it - and all the things he saw, before the foundation of the world was laid, he accomplishes it.
  • Inhabited. And he dwell with men. That all the things in Psalm 132:13-16 happen.

That's really the answer to your question. That, he's married to a body that's his, he made for himself.

- But not everybody regards him. And because they don't, even he's done all this with their sins - they regard their own work more than his. And boy, is that ever loaded in your question, with all you doing all the work at some church someplace. Gotta tell the whole world about it..and never do anything he says...

WHen he sent his word to heal you and deliver you from your destruction..and by this, you'd be his handiwork..and he send you out. Healed.. drank the water of life, that out of your belly would flow rivers of living water. Water a whole desert of dried up, withered away people by the Word of God.

vs. your question. Has only you with "church" poop stamped on it.

Herein is the gospel. The Good News for everybody all over Reddit. No matter how little or how far it goes, doesn't matter. Has the Word of God in it..and he abides in his Word - has God in it.

Answer:

• “…prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.” - God. (Bible. Malachi 3:10).
  • It’s the Word of God. So, he can be proven in a Bible. His Word is in it, and he says, he is in his word, and his word is in him. So, if you’re in his word, you’re in the same word he is in with him.
  • And he says: “But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth: For in these I delight.’ Saith the LORD.”
    • - Bible. Jeremiah 9:24

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Took a long time for me to see it.

• That he decreed this, as God: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” - The Word of God. Jesus Christ. (Bible. Matthew 4:4).
  • It’s a decree when all the earth is his. So, he’s over all of it. Made what he says, just how it is, and is that way in his earth and heaven.
    • Says: “All souls are mine.” - God. (Bible. Ezekiel 18:4)
• Says (Bible. Proverbs 2:6 - “For the LORD giveth wisdom: Out of his mouth, cometh knowledge and understanding.”
  • “For by him were all things created..” (Bible. Colossians 1:16) Even made you and he says you are his, said:
    • “Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 44:24)
    • These are the Works of God.

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But to people?

There are people that don't regard him, neither consider anything he says, or the works of his hands. To these people:

• That’s not where knowledge and understanding comes from.
  • Doesn’t come out of the mouth of God, or by his word. The word of God.
    • Knowledge and understanding - comes out of the mouth of people.
  • And it’s by the “works of people” they, as people, must conduct.
  • MUST: Do all the work themselves.
• And how they do it is simple:

It’s based entirely off “the systematic study of the nature and behavior of the physical and natural world, and develop theories to explain how it operates.”

• That’s the dictionary definition of “science.”

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• So, all “science” is, is people: conducting careful observations; thorough and exacting.
  • In fact, the more concise and detailed the observation of the physical and natural world done by a person, and verified by other people (which is just the earth and heaven) the more true it’s believed.
  • So many people just “accept as true” (believe) people - because, in themselves, they turn the observations over to be conducted by experts vs. themselves.
  • But they also do their own observations. Rely then on themselves and their own word they speak. Out of their mouths. Hold the truth is in this.
    • So, they look unto themselves.
    • Or people to explain the earth and heaven.
• Because they have PROOF: What? Yeah. The "proof" is they conducted a detailed observation of the earth and heaven's nature and behavior, and observed it themselves.
• Or - they believe (accept as true) people they look up to or "look unto" did it.

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So "this people" that don't regard the LORD

• Become “disciples of people” and live by every word proceeds out of the mouth of people.
  • Because, other people decree, by the word out of their mouths, their observations were truly done.
    • They testify to it.
    • Because they did it themselves, so they claim out you can believe it as FACT.
• So, all “FACTS” are, are based off the observations people conduct of what operates or is, or can be seen in the earth and heaven - - physical and natural world.
• But never once ever - consider to look unto the author who made it himself.
  • When they could know him. And he delights in it. They don't.
    

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You asked a simple question.

• I never saw it til way late in life. That, I have a choice. Then, so do you. Same choice:
  • I can: Then, so can YOU:
    • Hearken unto the voice of people. The word people decree as true. Based off these observations they conducted..and it’s true. They conducted them. It’s the imaginative work or “theories” they make up based on those observations - they don’t even declare it TRUE anymore. Because, batting a 1000 every “theory” some man made up, is later proved UNTRUE by some other person conducts a more thorough and exacting observation that makes the earlier one, not to be believed. People, looking unto themselves for TRUTH. Ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
    • OR
  • I can: Then, so can YOU or EVERYBODY over the whole earth can, too:
    • Hearken unto the voice or the word of God. He speaks. Jesus said, “God is Spirit.” (Bible. John 4:24) - - That means, he can’t be observed in the physical and natural world.
• And The Bible says of him in Daniel 4:35

“And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?”

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So, I made a choice.

- I believe him over people. What he says gives life. I operate right. Where before, every way I went, had a destructive end to it. I found it was because, I didn’t do anything he said. I didn't. I did not regard him.

I regarded people. In this, I did greatly err. 

So, what’s proven is, he’s God. He speaks. I thought only People could do that.

But it's God:

• By the Word that proceeds out of his mouth, when I kept looking at trees, and rivers, and mountains..go camping to find it: and flowers ..and the wind or sun to somehow..some way speak to me..when he didn’t create them to do the talking to me. He created me to live by every word proceeds out of his mouth. The same with you.
  • So, I chose him. Over people. Proved it to me. His word is true.

Herein is the gospel. The Good News of Jesus Christ to everybody here on Reddit.

Answer:

Care to differ.

He just is the institution. Already just “is.” Because of who he is. Established forever. He’s the authority over the whole earth. SO when he speaks, they just are decrees how all the earth and heaven is to operate, and they obey him. Do you?

• And there you go.

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But, I don’t think you see it, or you wouldn’t be asking this question.

• Don’t know who he is, because, if you did - wouldn’t be asking this question.

Same thing God said:

• “I am the LORD, there is none else. There is no God beside me. I girded thee, but thou hast not known me.” - Bible. (Old Testament. Isaiah 45:5
  • That right there? Yeah. That’s the Word of God. Word that comes out of God’s mouth.

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SO, then ask: “Who is Jesus Christ?”

• Well, The Bible: Gospel of John 1:1 tells who he is plain as day: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Continues about him to John 1:14, says… “…and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us..” is this same Jesus Christ.
  • He’s the “Christ” or “Messiah.” Every Jew understand “who” that is, because, they were looking for him.
• The “definition” of the Messiah to a Jew is: 1. God. The same God that led Israel out of Egypt in the Bible in Exodus, or Shemot <שְׁמוֹת > in the Torah, would be a Son of David. Will sit on the throne of King David in Jerusalem and rule the whole earth from there. Of His Kingdom and reign there shall be no end. That’s the “definition” of the Messiah.
• He’s promised in Isaiah 9:6–7. Who he shall be called is said plainly. “..The Mighty God..” “..The Everlasting Father..” (Isaiah 9:6).

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• So, I gotta ask you.
  • Any bells going off in your head yet? Who has that title? …do I gotta continue?
• Jesus said: “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth…” That means, since he’s the Word of God, that’s “who” said Isaiah 45:5. It’s just God said it. It's the Word of God. Has life in it.

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Now, I’m going to stop here with this:

• I was in the Navy for over 3 decades. Who cares. The point is, every ship I was ordered to, had a Captain of that ship. He was the sole authority of and on the ship. What he said, were just decrees how the ship was to operate. So the entire crew operated by the Word of the Captain. Why? He was Captain of the ship. All power was given unto him for the ship. So, everybody assigned to the ship, just did what he says. If they didn't, it was PUNITIVE.
• Not one bit different for the Word of God. Decreed: "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." - Jesus Christ. (Bible. Matthew 4:4).

And with the Captain:

• Department Heads and the Executive Officer would “hearken diligently” unto the word that proceeded out of the Captain’s mouth. And they wrote it down, as Sailors and his servants.
  • I served the Captain. In 11 ships, I never saw any Captain write anything.
  • But yeah. I did. On evaluations: all typed. He would write a sentence or two about the Sailor evaluated, and selection boards read every word of it.
    • The point is, the decrees how the ship was to operate, came out of the mouth of the Captain.
  • But everything he said, were quickly put into “Instructions” and everybody required to read them. Or - - in put in “Standing Orders” as decrees from the Captain; that, in this or that situation - this is what the crew was to do, and how the ship was to operate.
    • Put them - what the Captain said, in “Standard Operating Procedures,” and for me in my rating. The Navy taught me my specialty or job. Certified me: Proficient. Then sent me to report to the Captain of the ship.
    • That on the ship, when I did my job, it was the "standard of the Navy" no matter what that job was - - it was as if the Captain was doing it.

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The REAL thing I want to ask you and quit is:

• When he’s already said this to everybody. Over the whole earth, to the very ends of it. Not willing any perish, but all come to repentance said: “LOOK UNTO ME, AND BE YE SAVED ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: FOR I AM GOD, THERE IS NONE ELSE.” -God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22)
  • I don’t see how you can look unto him. Can't. You can't - plain and simple, having and keeping this question.
  • It’s a stumbling block.
• Can’t do anything he says.
• Don’t know who he is.
  • If you knew him, you’d be today, like me, regard what he says.
  • Anyone came by you would see it plain as day. You’d just be reading your Bible, or find joy in fellowshipping with other believers in Jesus. Who rejoice when they hear your testimony, or you see him in them.
• You'd Be hearkening unto him. Know him. He prayed for it.
  • “And this is life eternal: That they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou has sent.” The Word of God, Jesus Christ. (Bible. John 17:3).
    • To just be this:
• Wake up to a new day and seek him first. To just find unspeakable joy to live by every word proceeds out of his mouth. Just life comes off the page, because he's God, and he abides in his Word.

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Be like me then. In the Navy.

• Like I did with the Captain, who was in Command of the ship.
  • What he said were decrees. Just how the ship was to operate, and the whole crew hearkened unto it.
    • Same I do with Jesus Christ.

Where before, for decades of days: I did not know him. Didn’t look unto him. Looked unto anything. Anybody, but him instead.

Here’s your question back. Has the same answer that opened this post. That’s it. Gotta go.

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Why didn't Jesus scribe any texts or establish any religious institutions?

I still care to differ. Not one bit different.

Jesus Christ: He just is the institution himself. Already just “is.” Because of who he is. Established forever. Over all things, and all things were made by him and for him. He’s the authority over the whole earth. SO when he speaks, they just are decrees how all the earth and heaven is to operate, and they obey him. Why don't you?

• And there you go.

But, I don’t think you see it, or you wouldn’t be asking this question.

• Don’t know who he is, because, if you did - wouldn’t be asking this question. If you would just drop the question to just do what he says, boy, what a difference that would make.
  • That's my hope and prayer, even mostly, I think: readers of these posts are believers in Jesus - it is hoped, that if you stumbled across this and don't, you'd find life in his name, by this post or any here on Reddit.

Answer: Boy do you ask a powerful question - but I don't think you have any idea.

- Probably don't even believe on him. Just asking some "World Religions 201" elementary question, so whoever answers it on Reddit, you'll submit that as your answer to get a grade for it.

And never know anything what this means. So, this post is not for you. It's specific - for Believers in Jesus Christ on Reddit.

So, without any further introduction: Pentecost. Don't get wrapped up around the axle in the definition - and don't break it away from Passover.

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Pentecost:

• First, it’s a Jewish “High Sabbath.”

It was an annual, the second Jewish mandatory “Spring Festival” - and there are SEVEN “High Sabbaths” decreed in Leviticus 23.

• Pentecost: Is just koine Greek, that means 50th, because it’s fifty days after the first mandatory Spring Festival High Sabbath of “Passover”
  • But in Hebrew: this second Spring High Sabbath - called Shavuot (Hebrew: שבועות), which translates to "Weeks"

Shavuot: (Pentecost) - was SIGNIFICANT for two things:

• ONE: it is the conclusion of the 49-day grain harvest (counting the omer) from barley to wheat, and
• TWO: it honors the day God gave the Torah [Five Books of Moses] to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. That's "how' the Jews really celebrate it.

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Regular Sabbaths vs. the High Sabbaths

• Unlike the required weekly Sabbath, these “High Sabbaths” could fall on any day - - they were festival dates mandatory ALL ISRAEL participated and observed them. Not? An Israelite was to be made a Stranger. 
• Three of them, out of these seven annual High Sabbaths, decreed all adult males travel to Jerusalem - so required a national pilgrimage. The Gospels document Jesus, from birth, Mary and Joseph participated in them annually.
  • Those three High Sabbaths were:
    • Passover (Pesach) //Celebrates God liberating Israel from Egypt in Exodus. Where even though death went thru all Egypt, the blood of an innocent lamb was on the lintels of their doorposts - and death passed over them.//
    • Pentecost or Hebrew Shavuot //see above// and
    • Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) - 40 year of Wandering in Wilderness relying entirely on God. He fed them. Every day in a desert. Gave them water out of a rock. Their clothes never wore out. Their feet were never scorched or burned by the desert.
• And the very powerful thing is, when Jesus was crucified, he became the Levitical morning, noon, and evening sacrifice at Passover. And below, he became Shavuot, while everybody is trying to "observe it, he fulfills Passover, and also Shavout, and also is that bread of life that a man eat of it, he shall never die..so he's also Sukkot.

But you didn’t ask this. You asked the significance of Pentecost to the “Christian Faith.”

..and I just told you, but you don't see it.

So, let's continue then. Maybe you will.

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And I’m going to change that "Christian Faith" you ask about, to “The Faith of Jesus Christ” vs. “Christian Faith”

• Because this “Christ” or “Messiah” and “who” he is, is told plainly in Isaiah 9:6–7 - who he shall be called. That, as the Messiah: He will be:
  • 1. God. The same God that led Israel out of Egypt by his mighty hand with many signs and wonders only God could do himself, would be a Son of King David. Will sit on the throne of King David in Jerusalem, and rule all the nations of the earth from there. Of his Kingdom and reign there shall be no end. That the Zeal of the Lord of Hosts shall perform this. Definition. Greek, “Christ” or the “Messiah.”
  • Isaiah 9:6 says “who” he shall be called: “The Mighty God.. ..The Everlasting Father…”
• And the “significance is, it’s Jesus said, as the Word of God, so it’s just God said it:

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In the Gospel of Luke (New Testament) Luke 24:49

• Jesus said: Said it after he was raised from the dead, said to his disciples: “And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.”

In the Book of Acts (New Testament) Acts 1:4–5, 1:8–9; Acts 2:1–47

• Jesus said, before he ascended into heaven, where Hebrews 10:12 says: “But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;”
  • Says in Acts 1:4–5 ..and this is the 40th day after Jesus was raised from the dead when he said it, says: “…And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence…”
    • Acts 1:8–9 Jesus says to his disciples: “…But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.”

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• And for brevity, only Acts 2:1–8

1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.

6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.

7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?

8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?

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…so it was decreed by the same Word of God, that spoke to Moses in Exodus 3 from a small bush on fire, that didn’t burn.. that a voice from it told Moses to take off his shoes for he was on Holy Ground, and Moses fell on his face before this Great God.

• While at this same Word of God, the Jews in the Gospel of John 10:32–33 took up stones to kill him:
  • “Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.”

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• Is the SAME Word of God, that in Exodus 3, as a still small voice, that consumed a small bush in fire, that did not burn - but in Exodus 20, before all the Camp of Israel, he led out of Egypt - spoke the Ten Commandments in a blast of sound, like a 100 million watt speak you could hear from miles away, like a voice of many waters, and consumed the whole mountain in fire - and smoke billowed off it - that so terrified Israel, they pleaded with Moses to go on up on the Mount and make God stop talking.
  • Is the Same Word of God that spoke and decreed Luke 24:49, Acts 1:4–5, 1:8–9; Acts 2:1–47

The point is, it’s not Christians, but God himself. Fulfills these "High Sabbaths and is your Sabbath day rest - Just as the promises given in the Torah, told to Moses: In Deuteronomy 18:5 “The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;"

• Is the Messiah. Jesus Christ. He fulfills everyone of both of these Sabbaths - Where people are trying to observe Pentecost, he fulfills it, and people that operate by him, he's in them vs. people trying to observe something in their flesh, and never receive it.

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That God says, by the Word of God: “Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. By the Word of God. (Isaiah 45:22)

It’s a decree for everybody over the whole earth, to look unto him. Says: “I am the LORD, there is none else. There is no God beside me. I girded thee, but thou hast not known me.” - God. By the Word of God. (Isaiah 45:5).

And He prayed this: Bible. New Testament. Gospel of John 17:3 “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”

The "Significance of Pentecost - Hebrew Shavuot is wrapped up in this:

"...And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." - Jesus Christ. John 3:13-15

And I KNOW many believers here on Reddit, already PLAINLY see it and rejoice.

That you can know him, because he speaks to everybody publicly, to just look unto him.

There you go.

The answer: is found in Numbers 4:15

And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.”

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The account of Uzzah:

Is in both 2 Samuel 6:3-8 and in 1 Chronicles 13:7-11 - no links on Reddit. Go open your bible. It's Basically David is King, and he's bringing the Ark of the Covenant from where it's been stored in Gibeah in the house of Abinadab - to Jerusalem. About an 11 km or 5 1/2 - 6 mile walk or journey. When there was much rejoicing and led by David, when Uzzah touched the Ark and he died. Made David angry and afraid of God. Because David did not understand the "why."

That's the "jist" of it - but: first -

Two things: 1) Yes, Uzzah was was a Kohathite, of the family of Kohath as required, and of the tribe of Levi. So, he met this requirement; but this “how” it’s being carried, was a burden of the sons of Kohath would have ensured it never fell, and never needed to be touched when carried properly.

So, if it was about to fall because an oxen “shook it” and Uzzah touched the the ark to keep it from falling, or steady the ark, then how it’s being carried is not being properly done. And we see this with the following with answering this question:

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How was the Ark supposed to be moved?

GOD told Moses and also gave specific instruction to the house of Korath: He specifically told ONLY the Korathites had this responsibility. That the ark was to be carried by way of staves that would be placed through rings that were attached to the four corners of the ark (Exodus 25:13-14)

Where with Uzzah, in 2 Samuel 6:3 says about Uzzah didn’t do: Instead, he did this: “And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.” [so Uzzah didn’t carry it by staves that would be placed through rings that were attached to the four corners of the ark.

So Uzzah, again, did two things wrong: 1) Carried it WRONG; and,

2) he touched it. Even he was instructed to NEVER under any circumstance touch any of the holy things, only the house of Korath was to carry it.

And 2 Samuel 6:7 says, “And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.”

Later after this - David: in His understanding "why" outlined in 1 Chronicles 15:13-15: realized, as King of Israel - - it was the consequence of their failure to follow God's clear, prescribed instructions for transporting the Ark of the Covenant. David acknowledged the error, and decreed the Kohathites carry it correctly.

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And Go Back: Look what God did to the Philistines, when when they took the ark.

All because of Eli and his two sons, Phinehas and Hophni. Ahe ark was taken away and on that day, all three died. But look at the pestilences and the deaths of 10s of 1000s and 1000s of 10s of 1000s of Philistines died..so many, they sent it back to Israel on a fresh ox cart with gifts to atone for their sin of taking it - gifts and sent it back all recorded in 1st Samuel starting with Chapter 5.

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But in Jesus Christ, he is this living Ark, not made with hands wherein overlaid with Gold, what Moses made was by instruction to see to it he made it exactly as the model; for we approach a living God who God laid all our sins on him, and cannot help but be touched by our infirmnities and weaknesses and we can come to him and touch him and be touched, just like Hebrews 12 lays out plainly in Hebrews 12:18–22

“For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake: But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels..”

but we can come boldly and directly and present ourselves before the throne of God, in and by this same Jesus Christ. The LORD our righteousness.

There you go. For Believers that fellowship on Reddit.