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Readings:

Gen 35:27
Num 13,14,26,32
Josh 14, 15, 20, 21
Judg 1
1Sam 25

Luke 1, 24

The Spiritual Nature of Mountains
Psalm 72, 114
Isiah 34,54,55
Ezek 6
Hab 3
Zach 14

Spoiler: Swedenborg writes that mountain in the Word signifies Love of God or in its opposite sense, Love of self. Reading His Word from love....

80 minute video. Enjoy

1 posted on 11/22/2012 11:55:47 AM PST by DaveMSmith
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To: DaveMSmith

WARNING: THIS POST FLAGGED AS CULTIC SPAM


2 posted on 11/22/2012 12:21:10 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Gone rogue, gone Galt, gone international. Gone.)
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To: DaveMSmith

Any chance you’re related to Joseph Smith?


5 posted on 11/22/2012 12:42:02 PM PST by bramps (Sarah Palin got more votes in 2008 than Romney did in 2012)
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To: DaveMSmith

Spoiler: Swedenborg claimed occultic communications with “god”

Reject Jesus as God

Swedenborg asserted, Jesus Christ’s Second Coming took place in the eighteenth century


10 posted on 11/22/2012 1:28:10 PM PST by Godzilla (3/7/77)
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To: DaveMSmith
How could that be?!?

Phrenology...


Worry about the stuff inplain veiw, before EVER thinking about anything 'hidden'!



NIV Matthew 2:5
"In Bethlehem in Judea," they replied, "for this is what the prophet has written:

NIV Matthew 4:1-11
1. Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.
2. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
3. The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread."
4. Jesus answered, "It is written: `Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.' "
5. Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple.
6. "If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down. For it is written: "`He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.' "
7. Jesus answered him, "It is also written: `Do not put the Lord your God to the test.' "
8. Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.
9. "All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and worship me."
10. Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: `Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.' "
11. Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.

NIV Matthew 11:10
This is the one about whom it is written: "`I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.'

NIV Matthew 21:13
"It is written," he said to them, "`My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you are making it a `den of robbers.' "

NIV Matthew 26:24
The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him.

NIV Matthew 26:31
Then Jesus told them, "This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written: "`I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

NIV Mark 7:6-7
6. He replied, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: "`These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
7. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.'

NIV Mark 9:11-13
11. And they asked him, "Why do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?"
12. Jesus replied, "To be sure, Elijah does come first, and restores all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected?
13. But I tell you, Elijah has come, and they have done to him everything they wished, just as it is written about him."

NIV Mark 11:17
And as he taught them, he said, "Is it not written: "`My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations' ? But you have made it `a den of robbers.' "

NIV Mark 14:27
"You will all fall away," Jesus told them, "for it is written: "`I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'

NIV Luke 1:1-4
1. Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,
2. just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.
3. Therefore, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,
4. so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.

NIV Luke 4:17-19
17. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
18. "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed,
19. to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."

NIV Luke 7:27
This is the one about whom it is written: "`I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.'

NIV Luke 10:26
"What is written in the Law?" he replied. "How do you read it?"

NIV Luke 18:31-33
31. Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.
32. He will be handed over to the Gentiles. They will mock him, insult him, spit on him, flog him and kill him.
33. On the third day he will rise again."

NIV Luke 20:17-18
17. Jesus looked directly at them and asked, "Then what is the meaning of that which is written: "`The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone ' ?
18. Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed."

NIV Luke 21:22
For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written.

NIV Luke 22:37
It is written: `And he was numbered with the transgressors' ; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment."

NIV Luke 24:44-47
44. He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms."
45. Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.
46. He told them, "This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
47. and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

NIV John 2:17
His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will consume me."
 
NIV John 6:31
Our forefathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written: `He gave them bread from heaven to eat.' "

NIV John 6:45
It is written in the Prophets: `They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.

NIV John 12:14-16
14. Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it, as it is written,
15. "Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion; see, your king is coming, seated on a donkey's colt."
16. At first his disciples did not understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize that these things had been written about him and that they had done these things to him.

NIV John 15:25
But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: `They hated me without reason.'

NIV John 20:30-31
30. Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book.
31. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

NIV Acts 1:20
"For," said Peter, "it is written in the book of Psalms, "`May his place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in it,' and, "`May another take his place of leadership.'

NIV Acts 7:42
But God turned away and gave them over to the worship of the heavenly bodies. This agrees with what is written in the book of the prophets: "`Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

NIV Acts 13:29
When they had carried out all that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.

NIV Acts 13:32-33
32. "We tell you the good news: What God promised our fathers
33. he has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm: "`You are my Son; today I have become your Father. '

NIV Acts 15:15-18
15. The words of the prophets are in agreement with this, as it is written:
16. "`After this I will return and rebuild David's fallen tent. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it,
17. that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who bear my name, says the Lord, who does these things'
18. that have been known for ages.

NIV Acts 23:5
Paul replied, "Brothers, I did not realize that he was the high priest; for it is written: `Do not speak evil about the ruler of your people.' "

NIV Acts 24:14
However, I admit that I worship the God of our fathers as a follower of the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that agrees with the Law and that is written in the Prophets,
and I have the same hope in God as these men, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.

NIV Romans 1:17
For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."

NIV Romans 2:24
As it is written: "God's name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

NIV Romans 3:4
Not at all! Let God be true, and every man a liar. As it is written: "So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge."

NIV Romans 3:10-12
10. As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one;
11. there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
12. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one."

NIV Romans 4:17
As it is written: "I have made you a father of many nations." He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed--the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.

NIV Romans 4:23-24
23. The words "it was credited to him" were written not for him alone,
24. but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness--for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

NIV Romans 8:36
As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

NIV Romans 9:13
Just as it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

NIV Romans 9:33
As it is written: "See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."

NIV Romans 10:15
And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"

NIV Romans 11:7-10
7. What then? What Israel sought so earnestly it did not obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,
8. as it is written: "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so that they could not see and ears so that they could not hear, to this very day."
9. And David says: "May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them.
10. May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever."

NIV Romans 11:26-27
26. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
27. And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins."

NIV Romans 12:19
Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord.

NIV Romans 14:11
It is written: "`As surely as I live,' says the Lord, `every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.'"

NIV Romans 15:3-4
3. For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me."
4. For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

NIV Romans 15:7-12
7. Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.
8. For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the Jews on behalf of God's truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs
9. so that the Gentiles may glorify God for his mercy, as it is written: "Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to your name."
10. Again, it says, "Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people."
11. And again, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and sing praises to him, all you peoples."
12. And again, Isaiah says, "The Root of Jesse will spring up, one who will arise to rule over the nations; the Gentiles will hope in him."

NIV Romans 15:21
Rather, as it is written: "Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand."

NIV 1 Corinthians 1:19
For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."

NIV 1 Corinthians 1:31
Therefore, as it is written: "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."

NIV 1 Corinthians 2:9
However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" --

NIV 1 Corinthians 3:19-20
19. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written: "He catches the wise in their craftiness" ;
20. and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile."

NIV 1 Corinthians 4:6
Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, "Do not go beyond what is written." Then you will not take pride in one man over against another.

NIV 1 Corinthians 9:9
For it is written in the Law of Moses: "Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain." Is it about oxen that God is concerned?

NIV 1 Corinthians 10:7
Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in pagan revelry."

NIV 1 Corinthians 10:11
These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

NIV 1 Corinthians 14:21
In the Law it is written: "Through men of strange tongues and through the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me," says the Lord.

NIV 1 Corinthians 15:45
So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being" ; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.

NIV 1 Corinthians 15:54
When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."

NIV 2 Corinthians 1:13-14
13. For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand. And I hope that,
14. as you have understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that you can boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of the Lord Jesus.

NIV 2 Corinthians 4:13-14
13. it is written: "I believed; therefore I have spoken." With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak,
14. because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence.

NIV 2 Corinthians 8:15
as it is written: "He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not have too little."

NIV Galatians 3:10
All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law."

NIV Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree."

NIV Galatians 4:22
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

NIV Galatians 4:27
For it is written: "Be glad, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have no labor pains; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband."

NIV Hebrews 10:7
Then I said, `Here I am-- it is written about me in the scroll-- I have come to do your will, O God.'"

NIV 1 Peter 1:15-16
But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."

NIV 2 Peter 3:16
He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

NIV 1 John 2:12-14
12. I write to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.
13. I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, dear children, because you have known the Father.
14. I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

16 posted on 11/22/2012 3:20:19 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: DaveMSmith
Many people read the Bible literally

Of course people read the Bible literally. I'm sure they are holding an actual, physical book in their hands.

However, whether they interpret it literally, is another matter.

I don't know of anyone or any organization which demands a LITERAL interpretation of every word of Scripture. Most people who are literate are savvy enough to understand that parables are not meant to be taken literally, nor songs (Psalms), poetry, clear allegory or metaphor, visions seen by the prophets, etc.

The charge that Christians take every word of Scripture literally is only a smear tactic to be always used to disparage and discredit them and their message. It's an avoidance technique used by those who do not wish to be accountable to God on HIS terms but rather want to have God on THEIR terms.

It doesn't work.

21 posted on 11/22/2012 3:46:11 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: DaveMSmith

I’m always curious as to why people join non-Christian cults.

Why did you join this one?


25 posted on 11/23/2012 12:05:29 AM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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To: DaveMSmith
And that's the problem with most religions - they all "find these hidden meanings in scripture" and end up discounting the plain text meaning that are there for everyone to see. If the Bible and the Word it is intended to convey, required theologians or other "interpreters" for someone to grasp the meanings, we would have no chance of being saved because of all the "hidden meanings" that such "experts" tend to find.

Folks who push this sludge are no different than the propagandists that have ruined Freedom in America by their constant "tweaking" of what the Constitution means and even making actual words in the dictionary verboten because they might be offensive to some mush mind. It's one of the reasons that so many sects of "Christianity" now allow/welcome female "priests/pastors/deacons, and why even open homosexuals achieve high positions such as what the Episcopal church has done.

Your post/ideas do not open new and wondrous doors - it tries to slam the door shut on the Truth of God's Word - God and those who wrote the Bible aren't/weren't Masons who put secret codes in everything - God WANTED the Word of the Gospel and the significance of Jesus' death to be known and understood - He would not allow it to be hidden "between the lines".

29 posted on 11/23/2012 4:46:50 AM PST by trebb (Allies no longer trust us. Enemies no longer fear us.)
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To: DaveMSmith
"Give Me This Mountain": Finding Hidden ... TREASURES!!!




110 posted on 11/25/2012 2:52:59 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: DaveMSmith
Love of self.

2 Timothy 3:3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.


By learning to truly love yourself, you'll go through life feeling confident and secure.

138 posted on 11/26/2012 8:43:58 AM PST by Gamecock (Bayonets, Benghazi, Balls, Binders, Big Bird, Birth Control, BS.....)
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To: DaveMSmith

Epistle of William Rotella to Dave Smith:

To Dave Smith, friend and Christian man, this epistle (church letter) I write to you, so that the whole matter concerning the three Abrahamic religions can be seen clearly and truly, and that Swedenborg’s Writings can be seen clearly and truly. Each religion being established serves it most distinguished purpose in help to the neighbor, as we know from the Bible, that helping the neighbor is the same as helping the Lord, and in that they follow the Lord’s example of non-violence and healing they are truly blessed. I also appreciate fully the Writings of the Servant of the Lord God Jesus Christ who was named Emanuel Swedenborg, for what he described as his doctrine or mindset that he said was shared with the heavens as an example of an angelic mind set. We know from the Writings of Swedenborg to hold fast to the ten commandments written by the finger of God on stone tablets and handed down to the Jews, and the Torah, the most excellent Jewish scripture, written in correspondences that the Jews have preserved so well. We know from the Writings to hold fast to helping the neighbor as the good samaritan did, even in his obvious poverty and weakness, whereas he stopped by the road to help a beaten man. Remember he said he would have to come back and give the innkeeper more money for the man, whatever was needed beyond what he had. I do not assume the good samaritan was even in good health or a happy mind - the Bible doesn’t say, but he was in a good state of mind, in that he stopped for the poor beaten man as any true religion will teach to help the neighbor and make amends to the neighbor in any genuine offense. We know from the most excellent Writings of Swedenborg also that the Christian world can well be defined in that we know that Jesus Christ was Divine and not just a man but the Divine or a visible part of the Divine in actuality - so that any doctrine that denies the Divinity of the Lord God Jesus Christ is in a technical error. However, since the Lord God Jesus Christ draws all to him, forever trying to reveal Himself, and give of Himself, and share what He knows with all mankind, we pray for the healing in that all nations will know that He was Divine and is to be acknowledged as Divine. What a happy day when we are ready to meet our Lord Jesus Christ and recognize who he is. The process is often one of initial non-recognition, but then as we wrestle with Him for understanding we see Him for who He really is - the ultimate altar of worship and the very primordial God Himself, so prone to teach us, lead us and speak with us as He will do with His friends who have won the victory and the wrestling match. We do not think that the Lord God Jesus Christ is dumb and cannot speak, or blind and cannot see, or deaf and cannot hear. He speaks to whom he will, he sees what needs to be seen for His most distinguished work of mankind, and he hears when our cries reach to heaven. We know that many people can have the Holy Spirit with them as the closest proceeding from the Lord - people in the country, people in towns, people in cities, people in the workplace, people in government, commanders, princes, queens, and the poor. This is the right approach in that we seek to always help your brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, boys and girls and seek not to offend our brothers and sisters in the church for the kingdom comes quickly. Amen.


178 posted on 11/27/2012 10:14:31 AM PST by billcompugeek (Epistle)
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