Posted on 05/23/2020 10:35:49 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
Begins at the 13:36 mark -- ends @ 16:16.
Jase is the second son of Phil and Kay Robertson of Duck Dynasty fame. This is an excerpt from a most excellent sermon Jase presented as a guest speaker. I heartily recommend the entire 54-minute video.
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Actually while usually do like links to videos for teaching purposes rather than text, I did listen first to most of his brief summary, but also had my own (not original) to share, yet why do you seem to take offense at that?
Your motive may be well, but you are not saying YES to the Holy Spirit and praying to the good Lord by saying the rosary any day. For like as with other distinctive Catholic teachings that are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels), nowhere in Scripture do we see any believers any where engaging in prayer to created beings in Heaven (PTCBIH), or instructed to do so, despite the Spirit inspiring the recording of over 200 prayers, and of this being a most basic practice. And despite there always being plenty of created beings to pray to, and occasions for it since the Fall, yet the only prayers or offerings in Scripture to anyone else in the unseen spiritual heavenly is by pagans, including to the only Queen of Heaven seen in Scripture.
Failing to find even one example of PTCBIH, and with instruction on who to address in prayer to Heaven only being that of to the Lord, thus you must resort to eisegetical extrapolation, presuming those in Heaven can not only hear/understand all prayers from earth, mental or oral (which only God is shown able to do), but that we are to address them, though again the Holy Spirit never mentions even one example of doing so.
Meanwhile, from what I recall, any two-way communication btwn created beings in Heaven and earth required both to somehow be present in the same location, and was not that of asking them to intercede to God for them, and was very rare.
Note that elders and angels offering prayers (Rv. 5:8; 8:4,5) in memorial - like as in Lv. 2:2,15,16; 24:7; Num. 5:15; 16:9, "an offering of memorial" cf. Num. 16:9, - is not that of them being addressed in prayer, nor does it indicate that they had heard them previously, nor is it described as being a regular postal service, but it is one of the things which is a preclude to the final judgments upon the earth, testifying to the persecutions of the saints by the devil and world that it fit to be punished.
For when "He maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. (Psalms 9:12; cf. Genesis 4:10) and before judgment God brings forth testimony of the warrant for it, which includes the cry of those martyred souls under the altar in Rv. 6:9, and with odors representing prayer, akin to Leviticus 6:15, "burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto the Lord." (Leviticus 6:15)
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Perhaps you would be good enough to explain the usage of "consumption" with respect to Revelation.
I listened to Jase summary. Daniel’s summary was the same for the Old Testament (Preparation) and for the Gospel (Presentation). Jase wrapped up Acts, the Epistles and Revelation into one thing “He’s coming back”, whereas Daniel, I think more accurately broke them down into Proclaimation, Explanation, and Consumation.
That aside, and giving due respect to the "accuracy" of that five-point summary, which no doubt pleases seminary professors, Bible scholars and commentary writers everywhere, I much prefer Jase's version, for two reasons: its ostentatious focus on Jesus and its simple 1-2-3 progression (coming >> here >> returning) make it substantially more memorable--which, after all, was the point of his verbal summary: to help his audience to "learn" the Bible.
“Mosta y’all ain’t goin anyway....” I once heard a brilliant Christian physicist, the late Ulrich Jelinek, from GE speak on the Plan of Salvation. He said the Gospel is for “whosoever will”. He said that only approx. 6% of the world ever have or ever will accept Christ. And before God ever made a grain of sand, He KNEW how many would, and how many would NOT believe it and receive it and be Saved. He knew that approx. 94% would go slurping down the drain. And God went ahead and did it anyway. FWIW.
However "brilliant," he'd better have some fancy footwork to explain such a precise figure. I believe the old saw is true: Christ would willingly have sacrificed Himself for just a single person. And He did indeed foreknow who would believe.
That 6% figure was far more tenable statistically a century ago, when worldwide numbers of true Christians (Bible-reading, tithing, mission-supporting) were 2% or so. But the Holy Spirit is on the move! Africans and Asians are converting by tens of millions, and 20% worldwide is the current level. Some are predicting the Rapture once we reach a third.
Just HAD to poke the nest; didnja!
Noah kept preaching for a 120 years all the while knowing that he was building an ark that would only hold only eight people. We are called to be faithful in doing the things God would have us do and trust in Him with the things we don’t understand.
Even after the Rapture and all believers since Peter Preached on Pentecost are gathered to the Lord Christ and taken to the Father’s House, John saw a number in Heaven who washed their ‘garment’ in the blood of the Lamb, so great a number he could not count, and yet he could count to 200,000,000 when viewing that ‘army’ moving against Israel. The Physicist might have been a pessimist at heart.
Obed was the son of Ruth and ‘the mighty man of wealth’ near kinsman. Ruth was Naomi’s daughter in law, a moebite.
No, as said, that concise basic summation was not original with me, as I heard it many years ago, and later used in on my Books of the Bible page, by the grace of God.
Perhaps you would be good enough to explain the usage of "consumption" with respect to Revelation.
Yikes! Spell checker reliance strikes again. I typically mistype at least every 4th word mainly due to my stiff arthritic fingers (meaning I must lift my hand up for each letter and I often do not land on the intended key) and so must do constant corrections which the spell checker is so helpful for, but sometimes I carelessly click on the wrong suggestion and fail to do proof reading. Yet using a spell checker is usually better than speech-to-text software.
The meaning of the names of the characters in Ruth are an interesting insight into the story. ‘My Hod is King’ marries ‘Pleasyre’ and two sons, sickness and pining away’ are born to the union. These boys marry ‘Looking back’ and ‘Stweadfast’, and when the husband of ‘Pleasure’ and her two sons die, she sets out to where there is grace, accompanied by the two daughters in law, the ‘Looking back’ pne leaves to go back to her people, but ‘Steadfast’ stays with Naomi and eventually marries ‘The mighty man of Wealth’ and to their house is added ‘Worship’.
Silly old fingers, that is ‘My God is King’ and ‘Steadfast’
All along, beginning with Adam and Eve and later with Noah, God has insisted on the production of huge numbers of humans, several tens of billions, so that even when ultimately only a minority believes (”narrow gate”) there still will be tens of billions for Him to bless in heaven. He is fully capable of closing the deal with each of them individually.
Looks like what Larry or Curley is in for.
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