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To: JockoManning
You are much too wordy. Yeah, I get progressive revelation. But God did put Himself in a box in a sense He will not violate His word. And when He does make a change (dietary law for example), He states so. That is not a violation because the law isn't in effect. Mohammed on the other hand is a great example who will never be put in a box as a prophet of his god.

I don't know what prissy means in any biblical context.

I already said I believe the fallen angels (demons) to be responsible for manifestations that are being attributed as UFOs. I do NOT believe they are anything other than that, in as much as they cannot be explained by other phenomenon.

No one suggested being an isolated monk or .....whatever point you were trying to make. Beyond that, I don't get your point.

110 posted on 12/26/2017 11:45:43 AM PST by Salvavida (The Missouri citizen's militia sends its regards.)
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To: Salvavida
God always entails and will entail a measure of mystery. It is His nature. It is inconceivable that ALL about God can be comprehended by a finite creature of His. He even says in His Word that His ways are beyond finding out.

Yet, He insists that we search out the truths of His ways in Scripture and follow them. There's no contradiction. Seeking out what He has revealed about His ways that He calls us to consciously walk is one thing.

Presuming that we can understand or even know 100% of all there is to know about God is nonsense.

True. God will not violate His Word. However, His understanding of what His Word means is different in quality and in comprehensiveness of our understanding of what His Word means.

David and his warriors entering the Tabernacle & eating the prohibited shewbread without punishment is one of the exceptions God allowed vis a vis 'His box.'

God is sovereign. He can do whatever He wants consistent with His Nature--and by implication--with His Word. However, we do not 100% understand and know 100% of everything about His Word or His Nature.

We believe that the whole counsel of the whole of Scripture indicates that God has a preference for both never changing and yet always being creative and often enough quite surprising.

He will never allow us to reduce our RELATIONSHIP with Him to a formula.

Reducing our relationship with Him to a formula = religion. Christ showed how God feels about religion when He repeatedly trashed the hyper-advocates of religion--the pharisees.

Man has a compulsion to reduce relationship to religion. We have a compulsion to try and be in !CONTROL! thereby. We quickly start trying to manipulate God by playing with the 'rules of religion.' God will never allow us anywhere close to that level of control in our relationship with Him.

God is obligated to fulfill His Word. However, in general, He does not allow us to put Him under some kind of manipulative obligation to us. He will always be Sovereign. He will always kick the sides out of such boxes.

Qx heard that msg in his spirit from Father God one day--"I am holy but not prissy." i.e. He can be very strictly very precise and holy in a lot of respects on a lot of variables. However, He is NOT per se petty. He doesn't get huffy or haughty or make some argumentative big deal out of something shallow and petty--particularly out of some kind of carnal pride. He does not strain at gnats and swallow camels. By definition, God is quite above all that.

The fallen angels pretending to be ETs will offer a huge amount of 'proof' that will be very convincing that they are citizens of distant planets with tangible high tech and very dramatic--virtually supernatural manifestations. A huge percentage of them will not appear to fill the role of demons in any detectable-by-most-mortals way. They will overtly appear to be authentic citizens of distant planets and will convince masses of people accordingly.

Some people--particularly those with a kind of prissy religiosity that act and sound like they have God in their little tidy predictable box--a lot of those sorts of Christians come across as though they are hermit monks highly isolated and with a very exclusive corner on God's Truth--and those who disagree with them are cast as beyond the pail--reprobates or at least ignorant and stupid.

They are very thin-skinned. They are very brittle and prickly and too easily haughty and huffy about the boundaries and precision of their 'uniquely holy and accurate' beliefs. They are like isolated monks in that their beliefs are more private interpretation sorts than authentically Spirit-led Biblical sorts of beliefs and perspectives.

Qx and I are keenly aware we do not have a corner on understanding much of anything. We believe we are above average in our awareness of UFOs and globalism--but so are thousands of other people. It is conceivable that God has shown us some unique things not broadly known but we doubt even that. We have met several people who know at least as much as we do. We are merely trying to fill the role God has cast us into as--in Qx's case--a watchman on the wall.

Qx once asked Alamo-Girl what she felt in her spirit that Qx's calling from The Lord was. She said she'd pray about it for a while and get back to him. When she did--she said he was a watchman on the wall. Qx felt she was accurate. The Lord had already made that clear to him.

So we just to fill the role we are cast into, by God's Grace, power and Spirit--covered in Christ's Blood and earnestly going about testifying to what God has declared in His word and shown us in our walk with Him.

Actually, Qx is a lot more wordy than I used to be. LOL. He has corrupted me a lot on that score whether I'm taking his 'dictation' or freewheeling the comments and posts.

112 posted on 12/26/2017 12:41:11 PM PST by JockoManning (to cpy/paste if want: http://preview.tinyurl.com/Haiku-For-The-End-Times)
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