Posted on 05/28/2018 12:40:00 PM PDT by Jedediah
A precious tool in my hand is the one I am able to wield to build and construct My Temple in each and every child I have given life to.
So be the trowel of My hand laying the mortar of Unity my children for I AM building My Temple in others as I have built My temple in you . . .
1 Peter 2:1-10
2 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
The Living Stone and a Chosen People 4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For in Scripture it says:
“See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”
7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,
“The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”
8 and,“A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.”
They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
You’ve got a point there. We receive mercy and yet find it very difficult at times to be merciful to one another.
... and that should not be. We should share the blessing we have from Christ.
yeah huh , we need to BE merciful and gracious with others as The Holy Spirit is with us !
yeah huh , we need to BE merciful and gracious with others as The Holy Spirit is with us !
Amen and amen. And patient too.
Nice post. The stone is truth. The builders (the Establishment) refuse it. We are living in time of fulfilment:
Isaiah 28
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
“Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.”
Simple truth. The international “consensus” had its established lie that Jerusalem is an international city [to use and abuse]. Nobody was to question, or else. Noone was expected to boldly proclaim otherwise, especially the President of the United States.
President Donald Trump spoke the truth to Jerusalem and to the world. He loves everyone, which is why he told everyone the truth.
Isaiah 66:10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
Jerusalem is our timeclock
Indeed. It's a simple obvious statement that the beginning of the end for deceivers is when the truth finally gets out.
Zechariah 8:3 Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of JerUSAlem: and JerUSAlem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
President Trump's statement (on Dec. 6th, 2017) of the basic truth that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel enraged the world. The "international community" went crying to the UN to do something about that.
The date of the UN's first official denunciation on Dec 8th (and drafted by Egypt) occurred on the Catholic (at its base is a word meaning universal, all-inclusive) feast day of the Immaculate Conception.
Traditions are important because Catholics equate the woman of Revelation 12 with Mary, but for others - Jerusalem, Israel. And/or the Church. However anyone views her identity, Dec. 8th is the date that Catholics honor as the date that the *woman of Revelation 12* was conceived without original sin.
It was a 14-1 Security Council vote to denounce President's Trump's statement of truth about Jerusalem, and his logic of locating the American embassy in the usual place, a nation's capital. Only one member refused to lie with the UN. Think Joseph verses Potipher's wife, especially because that was the date the passage was read. Nobody was around on the day of her false witness, so it must have been a holiday.
The truth went out, beginning at Jerusalem.
The "time of the end" is when the light of truth exposes the darkness, causing it to recede, disappear. A rectification so complete it's like the darkness never happened, same as a woman conceived without original sin. Or as a woman vindicated - acquitted because her accusers are forced to walk away one by one, receding back into the darkness.
"Hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord."
PM Netanyahu equated this vote to the holiday of Chanukah that began on the 12th:
"You lit a candle of truth, you dispelled the darkness," Netanyahu said, making a reference to the Hanukkah story in a message to her that was shared with the media. "One defeated the many. Truth defeated lies."
The Parsha that falls in the reading order during Chanukah is Mikeitz, meaning "At (from) the end", because that's the first main word of the parsha. The week for reading Mikeitz began on the evening of the 9th.
Daniel 8:17 So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.
"Jerusalem is our timeclock"
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.