Posted on 12/09/2010 2:54:51 PM PST by Salvation
Reality is true. Straddling the fence will only result in pain in some rather tender spots. Our Lord and Saviour is not going to look kindly at the Judaizers - Acts will bear me out in this.
Like you, I am content with knowing whatever He wants to reveal to me.
"...lost (and conveniently forgotten) for a thousand years. But with an uncanny persistence, the Book of Enoch found its way back into circulation two centuries ago."
"O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand" (Daniel 12:8-10)
"But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief." (1 Thessalonians 5:4)
I read some of the book of Enoch many years ago and my first impression was that it looked as though someone had taken present day pre-trib escatology and tried to write it up to look like ancient scripture.
Dear FRiends,these times we live in are interesting to say the least.
Maranatha!
Indeed, commentators assumed that Enoch had been written after Christ's time on earth due to the apparent references to Herod, Christian phrasing, etc. But that was before the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, including fragments of copies of Enoch carbon dating to centuries B.C.
Maranatha, Jesus!!!
INDEED. INDEED.
PRAISE GOD FOR HIS FAITHFULNESS IN PROTECTING HIS TRUTHS.
. . . for those with eyes to see and ears to hear.
Amazed. Thanks sister, for your posts.
Thank you for your encouragements, dear esquirette!
There are people who believe that such experiences as you have had are simply "subjective projections," which are held to be false in principle since they cannot be put "under the lens" of the scientific method. I am of course speaking of materialists, positivists, atheists.
It cannot be entertained by such folks that you may be sensitive to impression by events transpiring in a realm transcendent to the 4D spacetime of "normal" experience. Which is to say that Reality is comprised of more dimensions than we are made aware of on the basis of direct sense perception/direct observation. It appears you sense the "vertical" or "volumetric" (one can also say "spiritual") extension of 4D spacetime that most people are utterly blind to.
All I can say is there are aspects of Reality that are accessible to the human mind only on the basis of inner perception and imagination. Because they are not directly accessible to sense perception is not "proof" of their non-existence.
Thank you so much for your beautiful and deeply moving essay/post, dearest sister in Christ!
Thank you oh so very much for your encouragements!
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This is a very Americanized version of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Our Blessed Mother is not “a dead woman”. She is alive in heaven glorifying God and is free to come and go wherever she chooses, including visitng this earthly realm.
Mary’s appearances do not imply that the work of Christ on the cross is incomplete. This is a straw man premise; each event is separate and to juxtapose the two is arbitrary.
Heavenly time is mystical and not the same as linear earthly time; things can happen that seem “out of sequence” to us, but aren’t in God’s big picture.
Are we all nephilim until we are born again In Our Lord Jesus Christ?
Do nephilim exist today?
In the past nephilim were giants. Do they manifest in new ways today like shape shifters?
If they exist today can we tell who they are?
How do we tell without judging?
Is the seed IOW sperm of man corrupt and the egg of woman not corrupt?
Are demons actually the wandering spirits of the dead flesh and offspring of the angles who left their domain before the flood?
>> “Are demons actually the wandering spirits of the dead flesh and offspring of the angles who left their domain before the flood?” <<
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No!
Enoch stated plainly that they are the spirits of the offspring of the unions between human women and the “watchers.” (fallen ones)
The fallen ones are immortal, but their offspring are not.
>> “Our Blessed Mother is not a dead woman. She is alive in heaven glorifying God and is free to come and go wherever she chooses, including visitng this earthly realm.” <<
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What comic book is that from?
Christopher Hitchins would have loved to have it in his library.
I believe the root of the problem is in the Hebrew word nephilim which means "giant" and occurs in Genesis 6:4 in reference to the offspring of the Watcher-angels and mortal women and again in Numbers 13:33 in reference to Goliath and family.
Some assume that this means the offspring of the Watcher-angels and mortal women survived the Noah Flood. But they didn't:
One of the Enoch manuscripts suggests that the Noah Flood was targeted to the destruction of the Watchers' children and the Watcher's influence on men. The Watchers had taught men such things as weaponry, warfare and cosmetics. In effect, that would entail the destruction of "civilization."
You might find it interesting in that science discovered evidence that all civilizations around the world were destroyed simultaneously. Of course they attribute it to comets - though IMHO, it points to the Noah Flood:
At some time around 2300 BC, give or take a century or two, a large number of the major civilisations of the world collapsed, simultaneously it seems. The Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, the Old Kingdom in Egypt, the Early Bronze Age civilisation in Israel, Anatolia and Greece, as well as the Indus Valley civilisation in India, the Hilmand civilisation in Afghanistan and the Hongshan Culture in China - the first urban civilisations in the world - all fell into ruin at more or less the same time. Why?
Some decades ago, the hunt for clues passed largely into the hands of natural scientists. Concentrating on the earlier set of Bronze Age collapses, researchers began to find a range of evidence that suggested that natural causes rather than human actions, may have been initially responsible. There began to be talk of climate change, volcanic activity, and earthquakes - and some of this material has now found its way into standard historical accounts of the period.
Agreement, however, there has never been. Some researchers favoured one type of natural cause, others favoured another, and the problem remained that no single explanation appeared to account for all the evidence . The hunt for natural causes for these human disasters began when the Frenchman Claude Schaeffer, one of the leading archaeologists of his time, published his book Stratigraphie Comparee et Chronologie LAsie Occidentale in 1948. Schaeffer analysed and compared the destruction layers of more than 40 archaeological sites in the Near and Middle East, from Troy to Tepe Hissar on the Caspian Sea and from the Levant to Mesopotamia. He was the first scholar to detect that all had been totally destroyed several times in the Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age, apparently simultaneously.
Since the damage was far too excessive and did not show signs of military or human involvement, he argued that repeated earthquakes might have been responsible for these events. At the time he published, Schaeffer was not taken seriously by the world of archaeology. Since then, however, natural scientists have found widespread and unambiguous evidence for abrupt climate change, sudden sea level changes, catastrophic inundations, widespread seismic activity and evidence for massive volcanic activity at several periods since the last Ice Age, but particularly at around 2200BC, give or take 200 years.
Areas such as the Sahara, or around the Dead Sea, were once farmed but became deserts. Tree rings show disastrous growth conditions at c 2350BC, while sediment cores from lakes and rivers in Europe and Africa show a catastrophic drop in water levels at this time. In Mesopotamia, vast areas of land appear to have been devastated, inundated, or totally burned...
Yet what was the cause of these earthquakes, eruptions, tidal waves, fire-blasts and climate changes? By the late 1970s, British astronomers Victor Clube and Bill Napier of Oxford University had begun to investigate cometary impact as the ultimate cause. Then in 1980, the Nobel prizewinning physicist Luis Alvarez and his colleagues published their famous paper in Science that argued that a cosmic impact had led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.. He showed that large amounts of the element iridium present in geological layers dating from about 65 million BC had a cosmic origin. Alvarezs paper had immense influence and stimulated further research by such British astronomers as Clube and Napier, Prof Mark Bailey of the Armagh Observatory, Duncan Steel of Spaceguard Australia, and Britains best known astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle. All now support the theory of cometary impact and loosely form what is now known as the British School of Coherent Catastrophism.
These scholars envisage trains of cometary debris which repeatedly encounter the Earth. We know that tiny particles of cosmic material penetrate the atmosphere every day, but their impact is insignificant.
Occasionally, however, cosmic debris measuring between one and several hundred metres in diametre strike the Earth and these can have catastrophic effects on our ecological system, through multimegaton explosions of fireballs which destroy natural and cultural features on the surface of the Earth by means of tidal-wave floods (if the debris lands in the sea), fire blasts and seismic damage
The extent to which past cometary impacts were responsible for civilisation collapse, cultural change, even the development of religion, must remain a hypothesis. But in view of the astronomical, geological and archaeological evidence, this giant comet hypothesis should no longer be dismissed by archaeologists out of hand.
Did the seed survive after Noah and start again? I heard Nimrod may have been 25 feet tall? Maybe all it took was for Ham not to follow the will of God?
Genesis 9:18-25 (NIV)
18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19 These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth. 20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded[a] to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their fathers naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked. 24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said, Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.
Some have speculated that the wife of Ham may have been “serpent seed,” but there is no support for that theory to be found in God’s word.
To me, the curious thing is why, if Ham did the disgraceful acts, did the curse fall upon Caanan, specifically, and not the rest of Ham’s lineage?
BTW, Nmrd was a descendant of Ham through Cush.
I do not see any way the seed of the nephilim could have survived the Noah Flood. If Nimrod were exceptionally tall (and I'm not aware of any ancient manuscript supporting that view) then I'm confident it would not be because offspring of the Watcher-angels and mortal women physically survived (Genesis 6-7)
Also, the only reason I can perceive why Canaan was singled out in the Noah curse would be that Noah was speaking prophetically, i.e. God sees the end from the beginning.
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