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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Using incense in worship to the true God, the Creator of Heaven and Earth. It was commanded in Scripture. It was done in Israel. It's done in the Church on earth. And it's done in Heaven, according to Revelation.

Real continuity there. Let's get Biblical.

By the way, my Christian friend, who the heck are you to declare that a fellow Christian's worship has no value? or to pronounce on what is or is not a Biblical practice? Do you speak for God, to tell use what is or is not pleasing to God?

It seems just a tad odd for you to take it upon yourself to contradict what God commanded, and what the Church, (past, present, and future, in Time and in Eternity), did, has always done, is still doing, and will always do.

Numbers 4:7 And over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall spread a cloth, and put on it the dishes for incense..."

On the other hand, I might agree that, if you *don't* have the bread of the Presence, why bother with incense?

Christ is Risen! He is risen indeed!

31 posted on 04/11/2020 6:56:08 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God..." Revelation 8:4)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Never in the NT church. Never by an Apostle.


36 posted on 04/11/2020 10:29:14 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Mrs. Don-o
By the way, my Christian friend, who the heck are you to declare that a fellow Christian's worship has no value?

Incense has no value in the NT Church, nor does Scripture ever say it does. It is God's Word that is the final authority above all practices of men.

What value does it add, being non-scriptural for the Church on earth??

Only that which is made up by men, who fail to distinguish the Church from Israel...

or to pronounce on what is or is not a Biblical practice?

Again, if you claim to be Apostolic, why did no Apostle write anything in instructions for the church regarding incense?? Why did no Apostle participate in worship with incense in a church?? Why does it not appear in the lives of the Apostles??

38 posted on 04/11/2020 11:02:49 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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