"MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE"
HOSEA 4:6
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"MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE"
HOSEA 4:6Thanks for this refreshing information; I've often wondered where I could find all of this type info in one location. Thanks so much for making it available to me.... B. Davis
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Dear Jane, .... No and Yes....God
said to Adam
{not mankind} when he was 810
years old that His Spirit was not always going to strive
with the man Adam and he had only 120 more years to live.
Dear Nicholas, If you pull that handle or mark that
ballot for an abortionist, you are as guilty as the Doctors
who crush the baby's skull as it exits the womb and sucks
out the brains. Do not be deceived, you will be right next
to the Doctor and the Politician on the Judgement day. I
don't think your Pastor's excuse will be an appropriate
response to a Holy God.
Dear Diane, Angels
always appear as men in the Bible, never as women or
children and they are always clothed. Jesus said they do not
marry.. They are supernatural beings created long before
man. They have rank and order and are ministering spirits
sent forth to serve those who are to obtain salvation. Where all in the Bible did God
appear as an angel? Dear Whitney, The term is found some 50 times in the Old
Testament. Some examples are Ex. 23:20-33, 32:34, Gen. 48:15
and Isa. 63:9 - Very early traditional Christian
interpretation is that in these cases there is a
preincarnation manifestation of the Second Person of the
Trinity, whether He is called "the Lord" or " the angel of
the Lord"
Dear John, ... Elijah was taken up
in both a chariot of fire and a whirlwind. Israel's 430 year
sojourn started with
Abram's
entrance into Canaan.and lasted
from 1892 B.C. to 1462
B.C. Dear Kayn, .... God gave Moses His Laws for mankind
see 613
Commandments .... God gave Abraham the Promise
that in the seed of Abraham (Jesus the Messiah ) all the
Nations of the World ( mankind ) would be Blessed and
redeemed from the curse or penalty of breaking God's Law
.
A
...
What does this mean --What is the
"acceptable year of
the Lord" thank
you Dear Caroline, The
acceptable year as found in Luke 4:19 typifies the
Year of Jubilee when liberty was proclaimed to all
the people on the Day of Atonement (Leviticus
25:8-13) .... On Good Friday the great Day of
Atonement took place once and for all. ... When the
Atonement of Jesus the
Messiah is fully
understood, the sick, the needy and the sinful are
restored to health, prosperity and communion with
God as well as full dominion over Satan.
Dear Angela
......Atonement
n the O.T. is from the Hebrew root "kaphar" meaning
to cover as in Genesis 6:14, ... also to appease,
pacify and reconcile. The word appears once in the
New Testament in Romans 5:11 from the Greek
"katallage" meaning the removal of emnity and a
change to friendship because the Blood of Jesus
shed on the cross cleanses us from all sin .... 1
John 1:9 (not covers us as in the Old
Testament.) A
... Is it true
that both Jews and
Arabs
trace their ancestry
through half brothers Isaac and Ishmael to Abraham?
Is it accurate to say this is where the Middle
Eastern tensions originated? Dear Greg, ... True
..."Arab" refers to the nomads who live in the
Northwest part of the deserts of Arabia. They trace
their ancestry back to Ishmael and Abraham and are
descendants of Shem (Gen 10:25-30). The earliest
recorded incident in the Bible was the selling of
Joseph to Ishmaelites of the tribe of the
Midianites (Gen 37: 25-28) After the Exodus the
Israelites had to fight Arab tribes such as the
Amalakites as well as the Midianites. The
Administrative and Judicial organization of Israel
(Sanhedrin) is derived from the Arab method (Gen
18: 13-23). David chose Arabs to care for his
camels and flocks (1 Chron 27:30). In Genesis 16:12
it is said that Ishmael would be a "wild ass of a
man" and that "his hand would be agaaist every
man" Dear Amy,The term A.D. IS NOT in
the Bible. The term A.D ( means Anno Domini. the year of our
Lord in Latin ) started in the 6th century when the Roman
monk and astronomer Dionysis Exeguus, reformed the calendar
to pivot around the birth of Christ. He dated the Nativity
753 years from the founding of Rome calculated to the date
King Herod died. But Dionysis miscalculated because Herod
died 749 years after the founding of Rome in 4 BC. Christ
was born a year or two before Herod died. The actual
birthdate of Jesus was 4 or 5 B.C. due to this error
Dear Bill, The
Amalekites
were a group which descended from Esau (Genesis 36:12) and
were the first to provide opposition to the Israelites
during the Exodus. Amalek was the Grandson of
Esau. Moses said: Deuteronomy 25:19
Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee
rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which
the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance to
possess it, [that] thou shalt blot out the
remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not
forget [it]. This was
partly accomplished by Saul, about 450 years
later. Thanks, Gene for your quick
response. I too thought Amalek was the patriarch of the
Amalekites, but we read in Genesis 14:7 of the
Amalekites........... I believe this is another
person who was of the Giant races, and among the first of
the nations in Numbers 24:20 . They were called the Edomite
Amalalekites. , Gene Dear Brian, Some of these myths
are called "Jewish Fables" by the Apostle
Paul. The son's
of Aaron
were struck dead for
offering strange fire while drunk. WHAT STRONG DRINK BROUGHT TO
AARON'S SONS LEVITICUS X: 1, TO 11 After the Tabernacle was set up
in the middle of the camp of Israel, and the priests
began the daily service of worship, a sad event took
place, which gave great sorrow to Aaron the priest, to
his family, and to all the people. The two older sons of
Aaron, whose names were Nadab and Abihu, were one day in
the Holy Place. It was a part of their work to take in a
censer some burning coals from the great altar of
burnt-offering in front of the Tabernacle, and with these
coals to light the fire in the small golden altar of
incense, which stood inside the Holy Place, near the
vail. These young men had been
drinking wine, and their heads were not clear. They did
not think of what they were doing; and instead of taking
the fire from the altar of burnt-offering, they took some
other fire, and with this went into the Holy Place to
burn the incense upon the golden altar. God was angry
with these young men for coming into his holy house in a
drunken state, and for doing what he had forbidden them
to do; for no fire except that from the great altar was
allowed in the Holy Place. While they were standing by the
golden altar, fire came out from it, and they both fell
down dead in the Holy Place. And when Moses heard of it,
he said: "This is the sign that God's house is holy, and
that God's worship is holy; and God will make people to
fear him, because he is holy." And Moses would not allow
Aaron, the father of these two men, to touch their dead
bodies. He said, "You have on the robes of the
high-priest, and you are leading in the service of
worship. God's work must go on, and must not stop for
your trouble, great as it is." Then Aaron stood by the altar,
and offered the sacrifice, though his heart was very sad.
And the cousins of Aaron, by the command of Moses, went
into the Holy Place and carried out the dead bodies of
the two young men, dressed as they were in their priests'
robes. And they buried these men outside the camp, in the
desert.And Moses said: "After this, let no priest drink
wine or strong drink before he enters the Tabernacle. Be
sober, when you are leading the worship of the people, so
that you will know the difference between the things that
are holy and those that are common; and so that you may
teach the people all the laws which the Lord has given
them" The rule that Moses gave to the
priests to be kept when they were leading the worship of
the people, not to drink wine or strong drink, is a good
rule for every one to keep, not only when worshipping
God, but at all times. Besides these two sons of Aaron
who had died, there were two other sons, named Eleazar
and Ithamar. These young men took their older brothers'
places in the services of the Tabernacle; and they were
very careful to do exactly as the Lord had bidden them.
This clever reasoning&emdash;taught
in most seminaries all over the world&emdash;goes like
this: Since God's law is spiritual and we are only
physical, we cannot keep the holy, righteous law of God.
So Christ had to keep it for us. Now we just "accept
Christ" and His righteousness is somehow "imputed" to
us&emdash;without any requirement for righteous works.
The above reasoning then
relies on a whole series of misunderstandings and
perversions of the writings of the Apostle Paul.
Misguided theologians somehow put a clever "twist" on
literally dozens of verses from Paul's letters to
directly contradict the plain, clear teachings of Jesus
Christ, of His closest disciple, John, and of His
brother, James. That is one reason for Martin Luther's
famous statement that the book of James was an "epistle
of straw." Luther hated the fact that James directly
taught obedience to the Ten Commandments (cf. James
2:8&endash;12). The Apostle Peter was
even inspired to warn us that "Paul, according to the
wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all
his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which
are some things hard to understand, which those who are
untaught and unstable twist to their own destruction, as
they do also the rest of the Scriptures" (2 Peter
3:15&endash;16). Yes, Peter said that men would "twist"
Paul's writings to their own destruction! Peter continues
this inspired warning: "Therefore, dear friends, since
you already know this, be on your guard so that you may
not be carried away by the error of lawless men and fall
from your secure position" (v. 17, NIV). A warning not to be
carried away by the error of "lawless men"? Absolutely.
For that is precisely the way Peter knew that deceived
men would "twist" Paul's writings&emdash;into an excuse
to disobey the spiritual law of God, the Ten
Commandments! Truly, this message
needs to be heard now more than ever before. Millions in
this deceived world are really confused about religion.
They have become either just plain bored by mainstream
religion and/or disillusioned by organized religion in
general. So some have simply "tuned out." Yet millions of
others have virtually "invented" their own religion!
This total confusion leads, of course,
to religious anarchy. But, ominously, it also opens the
door to leading these millions of young people to be very
susceptible to the mass deceptions that the coming false
prophet will perpetrate. When this man arises and begins
to show himself "according to the working of Satan, with
all power, signs, and lying wonders" (2 Thessalonians
2:9), what are these millions of confused youths going to
do? Being swept along with
excitement and also by the mass hysteria that will
accompany the satanic signs of the "lawless one" (v. 8),
most of these young people will succumb to the enormous
pressure to join hands with this coming "revival" and
"return to tradition" inspired by Satan. For throughout
much of Western Europe and North America, there is indeed
a yearning for specific doctrines and guidelines in the
field of religion and standards of behavior. Millions of
people are sick and tired of the hemming and hawing and
equivocating of their ministers and priests. They are
beginning to realize that many of these professing
religious "leaders" are not absolutely certain about
anything! Many of these religious leaders
question the validity of Jesus' virgin birth, of His
miracles, of His resurrection from the dead. They
question the real inspiration of the Bible. They question
the idea of Jesus' Second Coming and whether there will
truly be a literal Kingdom of God set up on this earth
with Christ as King. Do "all religious
leaders teach equally valid truths"&emdash;as more than
half of the teenagers in Barna's poll believed?
... Is all religion equal? Can you just
believe anything and have the same blessing of the
Creator God and gain eternal life on your own terms? The clearest passage of all explaining Antichrist is
found in 2 John 6&endash;7: "This is love, that we walk
according to His commandments. This is the commandment,
that as you have heard from the beginning, you should
walk in it. For many deceivers have gone out into the
world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the
flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist." In this
passage, we see first of all how John is inspired to
define love: "that we walk according to His
commandments." In context, the "commandments" being
spoken of are clearly the commandments of God the Father
(cf. v. 4)&emdash;not some "new" commandments of Jesus.
Even though John wrote in the 90s ad, some 60 years after
Christ's crucifixion and 20 years after Paul's death,
there is not even a hint that God's commandments were
"nailed to the cross" or "done away with" by the Apostle
Paul! Then John reminds his readers that the commandments
were those they had heard "from the beginning." In other
words, they are the clear teaching of Jesus in the Sermon
on the Mount, in Matthew 19:17 and elsewhere. Then, in verse 7, John
warns that the "deceivers" do not teach "Jesus Christ as
coming in the flesh." He describes such teaching as
"Antichrist." There are many, many false ministers
today who are teaching the doctrine of Antichrist, a
doctrine that sanctions disobedience to God's
commandments&emdash;a doctrine of "no works." The Apostle
Paul said of these ministers: "For such are false
apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into
apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself
transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it
is no great thing if his ministers also transform
themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end
will be according to their works" (2 Corinthians
11:13&endash;15). You will notice here that Satan has
ministers who appear to be righteous. Ironically, their
end&emdash;their final reward&emdash;will be according to
their "works," the very thing they seek to deny! God intends for us to
obey His commandments, do good works and live by His
every word. Once you get this principle straight, you can
clearly understand the "spirit of Antichrist" and how to
test whether any religious leader's idea or doctrine is
of God! Then, by diligent study of God's Word and by
constant prayer, you will come to a deeper understanding
of the real purpose of your life and experience closer
contact with the Living God than you may ever have
dreamed possible. ...from Tomorrows World.org Thank you so very much for you quick reply . . .
A...
IN
GENESIS CHAPTER 6 VERSE 3, DOES THIS INDICATE THAT MAN WILL
ONLY LIVE TO BE 120 YRS OF AGE. OR DOES IT MEAN 120 YEARS
WILL PASS BEFORE JUDGEMENT WILL COME WITH THE FLOOD.
A
.Is
abortion a sin
?. Our Pastor encourages us to
vote for abortionists, he even has them set up tables inside
the church promoting their Party before elections. When
asked he says that it is a worse sin if people are
discriminated against.
A
... I have heard that all
angels are males. Is this true.?
A
...Check
your scripture for the event at 868 B.C.. I believe the
scripture says Elijah went up in a "whirlwind" not a
chariot. Question? How long were the Children of Israel in
Egypt? Your chart indicates just over 200 years. I thought
it was closer to 400. Overall a great Web Page!
A
... Hello, fascinating
resource you have...I was wondering what
Abraham
and Moses do to serve as a Literary function between man and
god in the Penteteuch?
What is the meaning
of the death of Jesus and the meaning of
the
atonement
collectively?
A
I am speaking at a program
tomorrow, and I would like to know where the Birth
of
A.D. is located in the
Bible.
A
Who was the patriarch of
the Amalekite tribe?
A
If the rope and the
bells did not indicate the high priest was still alive,
then where did that myth come from and did God strike the
high priest dead if he entered unworthily?
Antichrist - the
spirit of lawlessness
one that truly helps me in my quest to serve HIM.
J.V.
