Posted on 07/14/2011 1:10:13 PM PDT by TaraP
...Again Conrad’s heart was heavy and sad,
But he knew he should make this little child glad.
So he called her in and wiped her tears,
And quieted her childish fears.
Then he led her back to her home once more,
But as he entered his own darkened door.
He knew that the Lord was not coming today,
For the hours of Christmas had passed away.
So he went to his room and knelt down to pray,
And he said “Dear Lord, why did you delay.
What kept You from coming to call on me,
For I wanted so much Your face to see…”
When soft in the silence a voice he heard,
“Lift up your head for I kept My word.
Three times My shadow crossed your floor,
Three times I came to your lonely door.
For I was the beggar with bruised, cold feet.
I was the woman you gave to eat.
And I was the child on the homeless street.”
by Helen Steiner Rice
http://headedhome.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/story-of-the-christmas-gift/
I see you all would rather join the scoffer crowd. It’s the scoffers we were warned about you know.
Scoffer? Remember, it's not for us to presume to know. It could be tonight or it could be in a thousand years... and people have been saying it's gonna be tonight for the last thousand years.
2 Peter 3:2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Are you trying to prove that you fit right in? You might want to read on in that passage and take note of the last word of verse 16.
2 Peter 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
I see you all would rather join the scoffer crowd. It’s the scoffers we were warned about you know.
Of what I wrote, what in particular do you have a problem with?
I guess that is some sort of answer, but to be honest I didn’t bother to read it. If you have a short version which is really an answer, and not a long poem and then a link I’ll read it, otherwise, I guess we agree to disagree. (I rarely click on links supplied by people I don’t know, you simply never know what’s on the other end).
bflr
You can provide supporting Scripture, right?
They despise the fact that someone posts a thread that prevents them from going on it and plying their trade of denying Scripture and attempting to make as many people as possible doubt God and His word and be exposed to the truth that Christ is coming soon.
The religion thread trolls and prophecy thread hijackers live for any opportunities they can find to make people doubt and ask, just as Satan asked Eve, "did God really say that"?
It's pathetic.
They despise the fact that someone posts a thread that prevents them from going on it and plying their trade of denying Scripture and attempting to make as many people as possible doubt God and His word and be exposed to the truth that Christ is coming soon.
Enjoy your echo chamber.
(No, I don't haunt your threads. I might pipe in when something unusually egregious is said.)
and plying their trade of denying Scripture
Like this one?
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
When was Israel blind? When Ephraim (and Manasseh) came in.
Gen 48:8-11
8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?
9 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.
10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
Verses 17-21:
17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations ("melo hagoyim" i.e. fullness of the Gentiles).
20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
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