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If you claim to be a believer, then Jesus was the Son of God, come to earth to die for our sins, and be resurrected to rule and reign forever. There are many witnesses that wrote about this "Man", before and after His time on earth. None of them mentioned He was married or even had a girlfriend. Isaiah says nothing about this and none of the 12 mentioned anything about it. When Satan,( Yes, this is straight out of the pit of hell)starts an unsubstantiated rumor with no proof, and people believe such tripe, what does that say about the believers of such tripe? If I tell you the Sun is cheese because it's orange, I have more evidence of my theory than these people do. Davinci Code is a movie. I believe the theory comes from Islam,...what does that tell you?

Entertaining this bilge is just showing the marginal knowledge many "believers" have of their own religion. Would God leave His throne and come to earth because He was looking for carnal sex? The whole scenario misses the whole point of God coming here to die for the church. If God can make a woman from a rib, why not make a harem of babes from Joe's smoke shack dumpster filled with bones rather than come here to be abused and murdered?

If Jesus is God, then bow before Him and repent. If Jesus was a man, he's dead and what difference does it make now?

If we wanted to have an argument about Jesus, why not argue He couldn't raise Lazarus from the dead, or better yet, He didn't come out of the tomb. Maybe Him healing the blind was some sort spiritual allegory about understanding the Kingdom of Heaven.

This piece of satanic bilge comes up every now and then and it still remains the same bilge it started as. These same people don't believe Jesus was born of a virgin or walked on water. Go find a religion you are more compatible with.

I watched a show a couple of weeks ago about a retired firefighter that was visited by an angel back in 2008. He was given a prophesy that contained the information that Trump would win the POTUS before Trump even said he was thinking about it. I don't remember all the predictions, but one was a SCOTUS would die before Scalia died. Then he said Trump would get 5, count them FIVE, SCOTUS appointments. One died, one retired, and 3 would be removed.

So far, he right about Trump winning, about Scalia's death, and very likely Kennedy will retire. I was wondering if not recusing yourself for a conflict is impeachable. Ginsberg and another one, not sure which, was already performing gay weddings before ruling on the legality of it. Many thought that pretty much stacked the vote for gay marriage unfairly.

If a judge can't rule on a company they own stock in, how can ruling on gay marriage be legal if they already had made up their mind?

What ever happened to Antifa starting a revolution on Oct 14?

We had a woman in Texas that was DACA, run over a homeless man on the way home from a bar at 2-3Am. The man went through the windshield of her BMW and stuck their for the 30 odd minute trip home. His leg was severed, but remained wedged on her trunk lid so if he had lived, they could sew it back on. Several people saw her driving with the body stuck in the windshield, but she wouldn’t stop. She rounded the corner to her home and parked in front to go in and go to sleep. The body was waist deep in the cabin of the Beamer. There it stayed until a neighbor called the cops to wake her up to ask how a body got stuck in her windshield.

If he dies without jail, there will be a week of non stop TV of his funeral with jet flyovers. You would think Reagan died again. People need to understand when they live like some of these gangsters that the world will remember them in a different way than they thought. Just do a little background on Kerry and see what he did and then watch when he dies. No one will remember when he voted to murder 5 Senators and turn America over to Russia, Viet Nam, Cuba, and China. No, I doubt if you will hear that part.

If the truth comes out about Mccain, everyone will see what a fraud he has been for decades. He was praised as a "Maverick" during Dubya's terms, but when he got his chance, nobody liked his idea's. Now Trump is there, something he couldn't do, McCain is once again "the Maverick". No, he's just a spoiled brat trying to get what he wants to screw America. Back in the Un PC days, we called him and others RINO's. Today it seems to be GOPE.

In an extreme comparison, look at the Kennedy's. JFK dated a Nazi woman, botched the Bay of Pigs, was on drugs with his finger on the button, but had the media in his pocket, and had multiple bimbo's in the WH bed. Absolutely NO ONE believes the Warren Report. What have they been hiding for 50 years and why? Then his brothers flame was lit. What a winner he was. Drunk, killed a woman in his car, went to Russia against Reagan, and a laundry list of other crimes. Still received honors on his televised funeral.

OAN TV has Veritas on tonight on ch 347 on DTV. I believe its a series.

So, what you are saying is you don’t mind giving a DNA sample to the gubmint without a warrant? Why not send your serial numbers to your gun collection also?

I clicked on this to say the same thing. Big talk on FR. You either cut em off or you support kneeling. I don’t see the grey area.

I'm looking for the announcement that he was either on SSRI's or getting off SSRI's. Every previous shooter was on them or getting off of them. Even if we find that he was talking to Muslims, he wasn't able to think clearly enough to separate reality from fantasy.

The stories are legion about people crying for days, anger and beating people, my neighbor was arrested for walking naked in the neighborhood, and of course shooting people and themselves. Ramming cars into trees on purpose and I also remember a student pilot ramming his plane into a building in Fla. while getting off his meds.

The problem today is there are about 35 million taking these drugs today in the US. They are prescribed for everything from insomnia, to marital troubles, to surviving a loved one's death.

What we are going to find is if this is proven to be a factor, they will confiscate the guns of anyone prescribed Paxil or Effexor, or any one of a dozen more SSRI's. We know they have already tried to deny guns to veterans because of PTSD. If the connection was ever made between SSRI's and murder/suicide, it would be an overwhelming catastrophe for the NRA to try to protect the 2nd Amendment for innocent Americans and don't forget the drug industries investment here which is why it hasn't been done already.

A second rabbit trail here will be the woman he was boinking was probably a Muslim if she is from Indonesia or Philippines. The introduction of that religion to an unbalanced person might be more than they could handle. If we look at individuals here that listen to WND and believe everything they spew out, we can see that many lack discernment enough to filter out fact from fiction. Thinking about possibilities is much different than really really really believing something.

Having said all this, he could have just been a Democrat mad at Trump. Wearing one of those pink hats with the ears seen at Hillary rallies has been known to scramble brains. Just look at the people that have bought her book.

I’m not familiar with this you speak of. My point is, if John came to my church and asked to speak, I can’t imagine not allowing him. Remember the first church was Jews. The separation should NOT be. As an adopted son, I will lean always towards Israel and the Jews. They are more my brother than some “Christian” organizations. The Bible is our anchor. Denominations separate us.

No. Jesus came to fulfill the Law, not to change it. Christians have been "grafted in" to the vine. Jesus said He was the Vine, we are the branches. Christians are "adopted into God's family.

If we look up the people the High Priest can marry, it will be only a virgin from his own country. To be the Bride of Jesus, our High Priest, we must be "born again" into His family. God is NOT abandoning His family. Read Genesis 24 as a shadow of the Marriage of the Messiah. The servant is the Holy Spirit sent to Abraham's country to get a bride from a relative. Rebekah is the church and Isaac is Jesus.

The Mosaic covenant was with the Law. The Abrahamic covenant was with faith. We are now able to participate in the covenant with Abraham. God made the covenant with Himself, by Himself, for Himself.

When Jesus paid the price we owe, the veil was removed between us and Him, as prophesied in the OT for thousands of years. As prophesied in Zech, Joel, Ezekiel and others, There will be a final battle for Israel in the valley of Meggido where Jesus will come on a white horse to rescue His people from the attackers and they will be put in the "wine press" to cause blood as deep as a horses bridal for 184 miles. All of the Last Days will be for the rescue and conversion of the Jews in Israel. Zech 12:1-14.

Jesus didn't come to start a "new" religion, but to fulfill the one started with Abraham.

To be precise, "Christians" have become Jews and Jews will become "believers". The first church was called "The Way", which just means they understood the Scriptures in a new way. Paul was trained by the "Einstein" of the Pharisees. When Jesus appeared to Him on the road to Damascus, the Scriptures became clear to him about Jesus. The Holy Spirit gives us revelation to understand Scripture. Jesus "breathed" on the Apostles to open up Scripture to them. The Bible is written in such a way that it takes the Holy Spirit to open them up to a believer. First, second, and third readings, don't necessarily open what God is saying for the reader. There is a certain amount of study, not just reading, that is needed. Most Christians are taught by a guy that has a pamphlet from some governing body, that has no training at all. Denominations are the "traditions of men" spoken of in Scripture, so each one will put their slant on whatever they teach.

There are teachers, but you will most likely have to seek them out. Some good ones are Mark Biltz, loveisrael.com, chabad.org, torahclass.com, jewishjesus.com, and many more if you search for them. To try to separate Christianity from the Jews is a mistake of huge proportions. It comes from "replacement theology" which resulted in the Holocaust. Just as an example, theologians translated "synagogue" as a "Jewish gathering. They then translated "church" from ekklesia. The truth is synagogue is a called out assembly and ekklesia means called out assembly in Greek. The truth is the first pagan converts met in a Jewish synagogue with the Jews. By the time of the end of the first century, "Christians" were kicking Jews out of the churches the Apostles had built. 3 John 1:9-10. John was refused entry into a church run by a Greek. That's JOHN, the disciple Jesus loved!!

I stopped watching a few years ago for various reasons, like dope, wife beating, dog fighting, ect. I don’t think it was any one particular thing other than giving money to spoiled thugs. I don’t want to get too radical, but I don’t think it will ever get back like it was. There are many die hard’s that this boycott will be just to hard to keep up, but many will just move on and find out there is life after the NFL. After my team getting to the play offs a couple of times and blowing it, it just gets too hard to get worked up if you miss a game or two, or five. If you get introspective, you may even see yourself a pitiful lemming caring so much about a bunch of men playing a game. If you watch the people overseas get worked up about soccer, you see what we must look like to them. We should stop living our lives vicariously through a bunch of inner city thugs that will disappoint you year after year.

I stopped reading at the “9 block area destroyed”. We have conventional weapons bigger than that.

Jesus fulfilling every Jewish prophesy stated in the Law and the Prophets was the convincing factor for my belief. God set up the Feast Days in Leviticus 23 and Jesus has fulfilled them all up to Trumpets. If He fulfilled Passover, Unleavened Bread and First Fruits exactly on the prescribed days, We can have faith that He will fulfill Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles exactly as prescribed.

We don't want to anger anyone, but discussing Scripture shouldn't make anyone upset, especially if you turn out to be right. Apologetic's should be part of everyone's study. If we can't uphold what we believe, then maybe we need to examine what we believe more carefully. Jesus didn't come to start a new religion, but to fulfill the Law and Prophets. Zech 12:10 was very important for me.

I didn’t watch. I watched Viet Nam The 10,000 day war and thought it pretty good. There is always a slant that I don’t remember the way they say it so to keep from getting so upset all the time, I just watch other stuff. If they showed Kerry and McCain as hero’s it’s best I watch Overhaulin or Fast and Loud. As I get older, I’m not sure how much the ticker can take. I get to pacing and fartin and get a little vomit in my throat. It’s just nor good.

OK owners, here is what you do.

Make a public statement that each and every player( even bench warmers) will stand for the flag and anthem. Then say if they don't they are fired. There will be NO exceptions!

Then, on game day, they will all stand or else. Any and all that don't, are escorted off the field by a cop. Then stop all payments. I'm sure they all have some sort of moral clause in their contracts. Follow through with what you said you would do.

That's the way I had to teach my child when she got to be a teenager. Don't make threats if you won't follow through.

Anything short of something this black and white will not be good enough to make this go away. As for me, this can't be healed. I'm done forever because I feel like anything would be a publicity stunt just to get people to watch again. But I do feel for many that eat, sleep, and dream, about football during the year. Knowing how they feel about the flag and country now, won't change in my eyes forever. I believe in repentance, but I have no way of knowing who truly repents. Maybe a stint in the Marines might go a long way.

No, you don't understand what He was saying. What we think is a plain unambiguous statement as a Christian, a Jew understands completely. We've all been taught that the Word was in the beginning. The Word was with God and the Word was God. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Was Jesus God? Does God know everything? I and the Father are One. Whatever the Father knows, Jesus knows.

Now, lets look at a typical Jewish wedding at the time of Jesus. The father pays the bride price and the Bride agrees to the wedding. The Bridegroom goes home, usually to the fathers house and builds a room for him and the bride to consummate the wedding. When the Father approves of the dwelling, he sends the son to get his bride. The groom told the bride I must go prepare a place for you that where I am you may be also. The Father says when to get her. This denotes this whole thing is designed like a Jewish wedding.

Now, when is the wedding to be? He has to go get his bride and bring her home.( Rapture) When does Scripture say it is? The Last Trump. When is the Last Trump? Feast of Trumpets.( Lev 23)Who wrote Lev 23? The Word. Who is the Word? Jesus.

Just like "No One knows the day or the hour" means Trumpets. Trumpets is 2 days and there is no moon, then there is a new moon and Trumpets begins sometime in that 2 day span. Jesus lacked NOTHING. He wrote it. There is no plan "B".

All this debate comes from Christians not being taught Jewish things. To understand Jewish culture, laws, and customs, opens the Bible up to greater understanding. It's not necessary for salvation, but the knowledge you gain from understanding what Jesus was doing and saying is tremendous. It takes months of study of the feasts. It take months of study of Hebrew words. You learn early to take 2 or more verses to make up your mind and not take one verse out of context.

Just as one example of what I'm talking about, Look at Mat 25:6. It says " And at midnight a cry was heard: Behold the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!

I hope we can all agree this is the Rapture. Look at the last word "him". Now go to your Strongs and look that word up. I have G846. G846 says "a baffling wind;backward". How does a pronoun get to a backward baffling wind? IMO, the Holy Spirit takes us up to meet the bride in the air, but the KJV says "him".

If you can't accept Jesus as omniscient, can we at least agree that the "Last Trump" happens on Feast of Trumpets? By repeating over and over that no one knows the day or hour, we give the impression that no one can know. That's just not true! I know, and if I know, Jesus knows. Jesus will come for His Bride on some Feast of Trumpets that has a sign in the heavens that looks something like Rev 12. If He is going to release chains and set people free, and return land to the original owner( Jesus), that has to be a Jubilee year( this is Jubilee this year). I'm NOT setting a date! I'm just saying that the sign is in heaven, It's Jubilee, and Trumpets is this week. He is not coming on some random date in January that's not a Feast Day.

Why do we need to know this? The Bible says we should be WATCHING!!! Do a word search for "watch" and read the verses relevant to the Rapture. They all indicate if you aren't watching you could be left behind. He will come as a thief in the night to those that don't watch for His return. Read Rev 2-3 and see all the churches save 2 will be left behind. One will go to heaven because they will die for Christ. The other is the Church of Brotherly love. Christ tells them they will be spared the "trial" to come to the whole earth. There will be more left behind than go. Noah was told 7 days before the rain fell to get in the Ark. Lot was removed from Sodom before the fire fell. Why is the church running around telling everyone to just sit tight because we can't know when He's coming? If I'm still here next Monday, fine! I will still be looking for next year at Trumpets to be going. I don't know how God will arrange for the Rev 12 sign again, but there is nothing to hard for God, ( unless you believe He doesn't know when He's getting married)

Just a thought,....How would you feel if you told your wife to be, that you are getting married next Saturday and you came for her and she wasn't dressed when you got there, hadn't fixed her hair, and told you she didn't know when you were coming? Anticipation of the Lamb's Wedding should be pretty high on our list as a Christian. Many that think they are going will be left where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. Most of the parables address this very subject.

No.

If the Son of Man doesn't know the day or hour, he cannot be Omniscient, ergo, Jesus cannot be God. Jesus said, "I and the Father are One". The problem with your interpretation is you don't understand what Jesus was saying. You read it as an uniformed American Christian. Read it as an informed Jew and it will clear things up. The date for the return of Jesus was set from the foundation of the world. He knows. He went to the cross on the appointed day and hour, was put in the tomb on the appointed day and hour, and rose from the grave at the appointed time. Jesus knew the appointed time for the Holy Spirit to come because He sent Him on Pentecost. We will be Raptured on some Feast of Trumpets and Married to Christ on the appointed time. Father arranged the wedding so He knows the time. Jesus and the Father are one. BTW, the Rev 12 sign is in the sky TODAY and Trumpets is tomorrow and Friday. Since Trumpets doesn't start until two witnesses see the New Moon, the Feast is 2 days and no one knows exactly when it will start. But we are warned to WATCH! 1 Thess 5:1-11 tells us the Jews are NOT in darkness,....they know. The Lord's days are described in Lev 23 and Gen 1:14 tells us the sun moon and stars are for signs and appointed times. Virgo has Jupiter in her womb right now and 3 extra planets are added to Leo's 9 stars to make 12. The sun is at her head and the moon is at her feet. The last time this happened was when Adam and Eve were in the garden. It's a Jubilee year and the UN is announcing "peace and safety" tomorrow.

The final piece to the puzzle will be Amos 8:9. If the sky darkens in the middle of the day so we can actually see the sign( the sun is in Virgo so we look at the sun and we can't see the sign), the you will know for sure. Forget the planet stuff. If God needs the sun darkened, He can darken the sun as He did when Jesus hung on the cross.

As a Sunday school teacher, what I've found over the years is all versions need to be read with a Strong's book because whatever word was chosen to interpret the Hebrew and Greek, we need to know the Hebrew and Greek. Some of the choices made were sometimes Antisemitic, some just chosen very poorly. The Septuagint is sometimes more informative than others for the OT. We should be familiar with several versions and find out the true meaning of the words and phrases. We also are required to learn about Jewish culture, laws, and customs. Just like when Jesus said "No one knows the day or the hour, only my Father knows", tells us things that Christians don't understand. First, if Jesus didn't know something, He can't be God. God is Omniscient. What Jesus was saying was in a Jewish wedding, The Father arranges the Sons marriage and knows when the wedding will be. If Jesus didn't know the date, He can't be fully God. The date was set before the universe was even made. In Gen 1:14, God set the lights in Heaven as the signs and seasons He would do all things from Him. Lev 23, "These are my days,...."they are dress rehearsals at my appointed times." "Feasts", "Seasons" and "appointed times", are all "moed" in Hebrew. Anytime we read these words in English, it's the same word in Hebrew. Jesus died on Passover, buried on Unleavened Bread, and rose on First Fruits, because these were appointed times since the creation of the world. The Jews celebrated these days for thousands of years before Jesus came.

Ask yourself what made the wise men "wise"? They were looking for the sign in Heaven spoken of in Numbers 24:17. They could have been described as "kings", or "powerful rich men", but God chose "wise". Watching for the sign in Heaven makes you "wise". Jesus told of "wise virgins", "wise servants", and watching for the "thief in the night". A Jew knows the thief is the High Priest checking for "sleeping watchmen" on the temple wall. He would set their garment on fire and they would run through town shucking their clothes until naked. Now read 1 Thess 5:1-11. Paul is saying they already know the times and seasons so be watching so the thief won't come upon you. Could the declaration of the UN on Trumpets of International Peace and Safety Day be what's spoken of in verse 3? I don't know, but it is on Trumpets. Is the fact that this is a Jubilee year, important? I don't know, but a Jubilee year is when Jesus started His ministry when He quoted Isa 61 in Nazareth. It's weird that He stopped reading the scroll at a comma and put it down and the next thing written is "And the day of vengeance of our God;". The day captives can be set free and returning land to original owners is on a Jubilee year, believers should perk up their spiritual ears.

If the apostle John, the disciple Jesus loved, came to speak at your church, would your pastor allow him? Read 3 John vs 9. John was still alive and he was forbidden to speak at a church he probably planted. They were throwing Jewish believers out. The first church met in the synagogues, but in a few years Jews were being tossed out of churches. BTW, look up the strong's for synagogues and then look up churches. Synagogue means "assembly" and "ekklesia" means "assembly". They are the same word, but we tend to shy away from our brothers in the Messianic church. Many of the choices that were made for a translated word were made with Antisemitism in mind. Many times the translations were being made with the Crusades fresh in mind. The Jews were thrown out of Spain in 1492, and the KJV was written in 1611. Many Christians today don't even realize Jesus was a Jew and He will come back in the Last Day to rescue Israel. The KJV is as good as any, but certainly we have learned much since the 1600's. The only "definitive" version is the Hebrew and Greek versions written by the writers of that time. All else must run through an interpreter and much is lost.