Even if that were so, what help are you? There is no brotherly love. There is no "reaching out" going on. There is not even an honest argument here. Just an "Animal House" atmosphere that is so spiteful and moronic that it would put John Belushi to shame.
Are you listening to the folks that play at feeding the hungry and then pat themselves on the back?
The back-patting I see is among the most vicious and back-biting folks I have ever witnessed! This is not of Christ, EVEN if there were cause. Few among you all voice a coherent argument. This is sophomoric jeering... Including yourself. And of you, especially, I have come to expect more. You have always been staunch in your beliefs, and sharp in wit, but usually your daggers are well placed, and with reasoning. It seems my expectations may have been misplaced.
Are you listening to the folks that encourage heresy and apostacy simply because it appeals to their own emotions?
Emotions? The emotion I see here is coming out of your camp. Anger. Hate. False witness. False accusation. Derision and ridicule at the expense of others, and without cause.
What heresy? What apostasy? Either he IS a prophet, or he is not. If he is not, time is not on his side.
There has never been a cogent argument put forward against Jedediah. There has only been hostility and rank accusation. The concerted efforts of his detractors, from the very beginning, have been to utterly crush him, and nothing else.
And God help any who might defend him, because they will be crushed just as mercilessly.
It is shameful.
I have pointedly refrained from defending the man, preferring to defend the office, and the power of God instead - That which I KNOW to be true. But none wish to debate. None can offer up evidence. All that persists is cacophony, and this cruel and ignominious diatribe.
Speaking as God, in the first person.
Kingshott deserves all the rebuke we can heap on him and his shabby communiques.
It seems you missed them, or couldn't recognize them.
I think God has used the rabid cliques
to demonstrate fierce VENOM, self-righteousness, arrogance, smugness, haughtiness, vengeance, rebellion, in-group vs out-group hatreds, violence of heart, murder in the heart, blood lust, self-indulgence, vain-glory, lying, rabidly reactionary contrary spirit, fault-finding spirit, idolatrously argumentative, compulsively spiteful, loud ignorance, sadistic, satanic levels and types of mockery, mob-dog-piling mentality, etc. in all their fierce ugliness.
I love Jed. I believe him to be an anointed prophet of significant loving effective impact in a variety of contexts God leads him into. It remains to be seen what his impact hereon will be. I do not at all believe that God will allow his words to fall to the ground useless by a long shot.
I think one of the uses God has made of Jed and to some degree of me even over the years hereon . . . as He often has of me in a lot of different contexts . . . is to surface lots of crud.
It's now been vividly displayed. The record is clear.
The stimuli have been mostly . . . in some key ways . . . fairly inconsequential, in the natural. Yet, the venom they triggered has been off the scale.
It's been a bit like a tickle by a feather triggering a murder.
Gamaliel's wisdom could have been asserted at any of many points along the way. But NOOOOOOOOOOO! FAR BETTER TO CRUCIFY HIM! And soooooooooooooo satisfying to the flesh.
It's amazing to me . . . how few people seem to be willing to try . . . much less have any demonstrated CAPACITY to look beneath the surface.
Sure enough, the more saintly I know hereon have either discerned well or are silent or are waiting on The Lord to confirm or disconfirm. So, clearly, a Biblical response has been quite possible.
But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! The overwhelming COMPULSIVE, REFLEXIVE persistent rush has been to TIE HIM TO THE STAKE, LIGHT THE FIRE! BURN BABY, BURN!
THIS HAS BEEN TRUE THROUGHOUT SCRIPTURE.
Have so many people called "Christian" learned so little?
Jed will be fine. God will take him to bigger and greater things if and when it suits HIM. Jed's ministry was far larger than FR long before he came by. He's got a wonderul wife and marriage; retired Navy; durable job; and still manages to have an intense impact on dozens of people he touches in daily life week by week.
In most respects, in terms of relative impacts on The Kingdom for God, most, if not all his detractors aren't worthy to sweep up his toenail clippings.
In the larger scheme of things . . . Jed is likely to become, vis a vis, FR, quickly history . . . depending.
However, the stuff in the hearts of individuals that Jed's stuff has surfaced, highlighted, THOSE PUSS POCKETS will have incredible . . . and durable impacts in the lives involved unless and until taken to The Cross for full cleansing and deliverance by the Blood and Spirit of Jesus.
The evidence is that no one is interested in deliverance. The evidence is . . . OFF WITH HIS HEAD! LIGHT THE FIRES!
I think God is kindling HIS OWN FIRES.
And the asbestos suits from Mexico will prove most inadequate.
There has never been a cogent argument put forward against Jedediah. There has only been hostility and rank accusation. The concerted efforts of his detractors, from the very beginning, have been to utterly crush him, and nothing else.
And God help any who might defend him, because they will be crushed just as mercilessly.
It is shameful.
I have pointedly refrained from defending the man, preferring to defend the office, and the power of God instead - That which I KNOW to be true. But none wish to debate. None can offer up evidence. All that persists is cacophony, and this cruel and ignominious diatribe.
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Then you haven’t read enough.
I posted his “prophecy” thread of “HURRICANES AND WEATHER NOT SEEN BEFORE NOW”
http://freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2291421/posts?page=81
Read the thread, he gets giddy when he thinks it’s going to be a really big catastrophe, he’s “reporting” like he’s the weather channel, tells a “naysayer” to not despise prophecy (because he’s prophetic about this storm)
As it turned out “HURRICANES AND WEATHER NOT SEEN BEFORE NOW” NEVER HAPPENED.
NO, he doesn’t get to say it could happen any time because he kept posting about THAT SPECIFIC STORM.
Jed has time and time again posted scripture that DID NOT support his arguments and taken things out of context, etc. He’s been corrected DOZENS of times about his mis-use of scripture.
TONS of other things as well, you obviously haven’t read the threads, or like others, just ignore glaring errors and refuse to address them.
The best I can say about your post is I guess you haven’t become a full-fledged follower of Jedediahnetics yet.
Amen, roamer, best post here and so true. Thank you.