Posted on 09/12/2016 9:45:09 AM PDT by Lera
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>> “No man knows the day or the hour is an idiom” <<
Absolute fact!
>> “He has appointments for everything he does , it isn’t done randomly or chaotically , he is a God of order.” <<
Another absolute fact.
As Paul stated, The feasts are deeply important “shado pictures” of events that must come, and we must know when to be watching for them.
>> “If you will not watch, I will come as a thief...” <<
Revelation 3:3
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[[1 - Christian nations are merging with Islam, not by conquest but by invitation! The Church is not only silent but encourages this merger! This merger is ‘end times’ Jewish prophesy.
2 - Nothing the Enemy has thrown at Trump sticks. Not even the nuclear bomb of ‘racist’ works against him. Hitlery calls him “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic” - everything in the Commie playbook and she winds up being struck down the next day. Trump’s daughter is an observant Jew and his team is filled with Jews in complete disproportion to their being 2% of the population.
The USA is part of ‘the end’, after all it is the largest and most important physical Christian nation in the world, is the greatest warrior nation in the world, controls pretty much everything or at least has a hand in it, etc.]]
Formally Christian nations are merging with Islam by invitation ONLY because they are no longer Christian nations.
It is a judgement upon them for turning away from the the bible and the God of Abraham , Issac and Jacob.
Look at the patterns of what is happening right here in this very country and we are following the same footsteps as ancient Israel (Isaiah 9 ) before being handed over for judgement by the Assyrians .
The US is post Christian .
Most people who call themselves “Christian”
in this nation are not Christians .
You can tell by the way they live and the way they vote but mostly you can tell by the way they feel about the nation of Israel .
BDS ? Goes against the God of the bibles plans for the nation of Israel . It wants to steal their land and give it to their enemies . You can not support that if you believe the bible . No Christian can support the division of the land that belongs to God himself . We understand that nations and peoples will be judged for this VERY REASON.
This is the last real Christian nation and the ONLY nation founded by Christians , we are no longer a Christian nation .
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>> “I don’t know why JD keeps saying the United States is not mentioned in prophecy.” <<
JD is quite wrong!
He says it because he views prophecy through dirty glasses.
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He is not dishonest. I don’t know what you mean by “dirty glasses.”
I was pointing out that IF the U.S. is not mentioned, it does not mean our only two possible futures are the Rapture and destruction. It was a logical point.
I’m not a Bible scholar, just a reader.
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We are the “great nation” of Manasseh.
The rest of the colonies are the “Young Lions” of Ephraim.
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I didn’t say JD was dishonest.
I’m saying his understanding of prophecy is tainted by false information that he has failed to sufficiently delve.
He is sadly ill-informed as to the Biblical calendar, and its great importance in the understanding of all prophecy. He allows the Pharisees’ false Babylonian calendar to shape his impressions, when even the pharisees know that their calendar was flawed, and are now moving to the use of the correct “agricultural” calendar, which begins in the spring, not the fall.
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OK.
Yeshayah 17 (Isaiah)
1 The massa (burden) of Damascus. Hinei, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a heap of ruins. 2 The cities of Aroer are deserted; they shall be for adarim (flocks), which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
3 The fortified city also shall cease from Ephrayim, and the mamlechah from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram they shall be like the kavod Bnei Yisroel, saith Hashem Tzva’os. 4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the kavod Ya’akov shall fade, and the fatness of his basar shall waste away.
5 And it shall be as when the katzir (reaper, harvester) gathereth the standing grain, and reapeth the heads of grain with his zero’a; and it shall be as when one gleans heads of grain in the Emek Rephaim.
Aram = "exalted"
Armenian
American
At one time Syria was the 'exalted' nation de jour but the King James translators decided to translate Aram as Syria throughout the entire Bible, oops. Mistake
Now as Ezekiel (post #7) pointed out Ephraim means 'double ash heap' read into that what you like. And the prophesy over Ephraim
Genesis 48:17 Now when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; so he took hold of his father’s hand to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. 18 And Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”
19 But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.”
And Ephraim camped to the 'west'
Numbers 2:18 “On the west side shall be the standard of the forces with Ephraim according to their armies, and the leader of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.”
So don't get excited about the end of Damascus because it means the end of Aram (America) as well.
As always there's lot's more...
Examine this, oy gevalt!
The Doctrine of Imminence - Chuck Missler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79QjC4KLAEE
Daniel 8
15 Then it happened, when I, Daniel, had seen the vision and was seeking the meaning, that suddenly there stood before me one having the appearance of a man. 16 And I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai, who called, and said, “Gabriel, make this man understand the vision.” 17 So he came near where I stood, and when he came I was afraid and fell on my face; but he said to me, “Understand, son of man, that the vision refers to the time of the end.”
“Understand, son of man, that the vision refers to the time of the end.”
18 Now, as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep with my face to the ground; but he touched me, and stood me upright. 19 And he said, “Look, I am making known to you what shall happen in the latter time of the indignation; for at the appointed time the end shall be.
At the appointed time the end shall be
Appointed = Moed
H4150 MOED
מוֹעֵד
appointed place, appointed time, meeting
appointed time
appointed time (general)
sacred season, set feast, appointed season
appointed meeting
appointed place
appointed sign or signal
tent of meeting
Appointed, as in...
Genesis 1:14 And ELoHIM said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, H4150 and for days, and years:
Isaiah 66:23 And it shall come to pass That from one New Moon to another, And from one Sabbath to another, All flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord.
Ezekiel 46:1 ‘Thus says the Lord God: “The gateway of the inner court that faces toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened.
Well there goes imminence, in a puff of logic
Lera,
We’re on the same page then; please continue posting these updates.
Yep.
My feelings are that America is Mystery Babylon/Daughter of Babylon. The characteristics described in scripture almost perfectly match with present day America, if this be the time frame we're in.
John price lays much of the reason in his book: The End of America
I came to the same conclusion a long time ago. Read the scriptures and ask yourself, who better fits the description of Mystery Babylon than does present day America - no one, IMO.
Regarding the expression “no man knoweth the day nor the hour,” a talented YouTuber named Scottie Clark has pointed out that the expression obviously could be taken literally, but Jews also regarded it as idiomatic expression for two other things.
(1) the Feast of Trumpets: The reason was that no one “knew the day nor the hour” is that could the crescent of the new moon had to be witnessed by two observers (who were then interrogated by the Sanhedrin) before the feast could commence. Sometimes the crescent was not visible.
(2) the bringing home of the Jewish bride by the groom. The groom’s action would be delayed until the father of the groom approved of the home built by the groom. When asked by another when he would be going to retrieve the bride, the groom would say, “No man knoweth but my father.”
*** The second meaning of the idiom may have been given by Bill Salus rather than Scottie Clark.
[[Well there goes imminence, in a puff of logic ]]
Imminence is not a puff of logic .
The bride is to always be looking for the groom
The bride is always to be ready with her wick trimmed and her lamp full of oil
Why ?
Because if you are ready and full of the Holy Spirit you are marked and you live like you are expecting his return any minute . That is why the crown of righteousness is given to those who are watching and waiting for his return.
Date is set though and the Father knows that date .
It’s an appointed time
[[We’re on the same page then; please continue posting these updates.]]
I love pastor JD
I do not always agree with everything he says but he is a good man who really loves the Lord.
Danielle warned us that we would not understand everything until the end .
Pastor JD is diligent about teaching people to be ready and waiting and he loves Israel . This is something only a true Pastor does .
He does look at scripture through the eyes of a gentile though so he misses somethings , none of which are salvation issues but cultural issues that illuminate the scriptures . If you are living like he is coming today you are ready and that is all that matters because that is what we are admonished to do.
I also believe people in the church including JD are also very wrong about Islam and it’s role in the end times .
That also is not a salvation issue .
His sermons are very edifying for believers .
In this day and age it is a breath of fresh air to find pastors who watch over their flock and edify them.
Like I said I love pastor JD and this is why I post his stuff .
People think the antichirst can not be a muslim because the Jewish people will not worship a muslim calling himself the messiah . Uhhhhh they do not understand that the Jewish people do not view the messiah as someone to be worshiped to begin with PLUS a gentile can be a messiah to them just as Cyrus was (yes the Hebrew word for what Cyrus was is the same exact word https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H4899&t=KJV )
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[[That is why the crown of righteousness is given to those who are watching and waiting for his return DO righteousness.
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Nope you are wrong
(2 Timothy 4:8) Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
It is given for loving his appearing
The reason is not what they do is because there none that are righteous in of themselves
Rom_3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
it is not our righteousness but his
it is for looking for his appearing
why ?well yes if they have oil in their lamp , they are marked as his and they long for his coming to set up his kingdom ,as a side of walking in the Spirit yeah they are not living in outright blatant sin but that is because of HIS righteousness and not our own .
Faith and Deeds
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.
You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend. You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.
In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
- James
I wish you were right about that, but I'm afraid you're not.
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