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To: Quix

Ah, I get it. Folks who’ve died and gone to Heaven. Gotcha.

Revelation 5:8

“When he took it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each of the elders held a harp and gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of the holy ones.”

Revelation 8:3-4

3 Another angel came and stood at the altar, 3 holding a gold censer. He was given a great quantity of incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the holy ones, on the gold altar that was before the throne.

4The smoke of the incense along with the prayers of the holy ones went up before God from the hand of the angel.


86 posted on 05/08/2010 4:59:07 PM PDT by TheStickman
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To: TheStickman; Amityschild; Brad's Gramma; Cvengr; DvdMom; firebrand; GiovannaNicoletta; Godzilla; ...

I think it’s hazardous to infer anything from those verses.

1. The prayers could easily have been only their prayers while in their mortal bodies on earth.

2. The prayers could easily have been exclusively devoid of any awareness of current goings on, on earth—particularly in any personally specific detail.

3. The prayers could easily have been exclusively YOUR WILL BE DONE, OH FATHER; YOUR NAME BE GLORIFIED, OH FATHER; YOUR SON REIGN SUPREME, OH FATHER etc.


89 posted on 05/08/2010 5:12:33 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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