Posted on 06/22/2006 9:48:36 PM PDT by paulat
"Ezekiel 25:17. 'The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyrannies of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepards the weak through the valley of darkness. For he is truly his brothers' keeper and finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.'"
there are none so blind as those who will not see that which is right before their very nose.
as Jesus said to the blind man, here's mud in your eye.
And the oddest thing about it is that the majority of otherwise sound evangelical denominations have no problem laying those portions of scripture aside. I believe it's a matter of those denominations placing more importance on the historical eschatological doctrines of the denomination's founder(s) than on the literal, unbreakable, ironclad promises made to Abraham and his progeny in God's Word.
If the Word says that Jesus will rule the earth for 1000 years from David's throne in Jerusalem I believe he will do exactly that. And that kingdom will not be brought into a symbolic being by an ever-increasing good influence of the church in the world. It will literally come into being through the literal victory of Jesus Christ at his literal return to the literal earth when he literally destroys AntiChrist and his literal armies at literal Armageddon.
Before pasturization . . . grape juice was essentially unknown--not a commodity anyone would pay attention to as it had such a short shelf-life. And, folks would have probably thought that drinking grape just freshly squeezed was a bit silly when there was better tasting wine available.
Grape juice before pasturization would only have lasted some hours to days--until it started fermenting. Then it was no longer grape juice. But they did have words to distinguish between juice not yet fermented and wine.
These four guys here with the horses really appreciated it, too!!
However, I had to tell 'em my address wasn't "666"....
Independent of the Mayan calendar thing . . . I've read/heard from two different sources that the powers that be know
SOMETHING HORRID is coming 2012. So horrid that the sources will NOT even give a hint as to the type thing looming and just dismissively insist:
"You do !!!!NOT!!!! WANT to know.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! I thoroughly agree.
Wow. and as my pastor say's "Say it backwards". Wow, I couldn't have said it better. From what I understand, the source of much of this "mystifying" of Revelation came as a result of the teachings of a church leader named Origen. During his time, it was a dangerous thing to say you worshiped the True King who by the way was going to return. Roman leaders didn't take very well to such talk.
Imagine, some actual prophetic sense in a post.
lol.. God has a wicked sense of humor, well, maybe not wicked but,, watching some of the whackjobs of the left carry on of late, you get my drift.
Translating current events to biblical prophecies is a fascinating hobby to say the least and could well be a real lifesaver in the end.
Idiots! I would bet my paycheck that it will not happen in any of our times. I have a hunch that God is still in change and these lunatics should realize that.
we survived 5/5/05 and 6/6/06
12/12/12 Yikes.. George Allen will have just been re-elected for a 2nd term. Imagine the wailing from the left about then. ;-)
LOL.
*Sigh*...I hate paradoxes like that.
And, folks would have probably thought that drinking grape just freshly squeezed was a bit silly when there was better tasting wine available.
Actually, it wasn't freshly squeezed OR old because it was...not squeezed at all. Jesus had made it out of thin air. Or water or whatever.
So there.
Prohibition is not proscribed in Scripture anywhere.
Drunkenness is.
They are not equal.
Sometimes, good Scriptural reading and understanding requires a bit of common (nowadays very uncommon) horse sense.
Whatever. I don't drink because it's disgusting.
The Bible does condemn drinking, 75 times as a matter of fact.
You are correct and for some reason I keep saying Revelations and get corrected all the time. LOL
Sounds like some fundamentalists or other group. For some reason I can't concern myself about it very much.
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