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"And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him."
The Spirit spells out drkness as a dog and they seek a way to entangle the householder. A fitting commentary is on the evil spirit that gained entry in desolate places, which signify hearts. "But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him."(1 Sam.16.14). First we shall take up the case of Cain who was driven out from the presence of God ('from thy face shall I be hid'). How it fared in the old world?
God drove out man and woman from the garden of Eden, just as his Son cleared the temple, " And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up." When challenged he gave them a sign "Jesus answered and said unto the Jews, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."( Jn 2. 17,19,21) It is thus God has made the heart 'after our likeness' so what does the risen Christ at the door indicate?The risen Christ supping with a believer that the temple which is his body shall be raised up. Three is a tag for the Son. Consequently there is no place for other things in your heart than the zeal for your house which is mount Sion, 'and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem' which is above.
We have come "And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel"(Heb.12.23-24) As we are in Christ, a new creation the everlasting covenant is also new. The perfect will of the Father is unchanged.
God counsels Cain but to no avail. Having slain he is sent away. In the manner the old world was repe for destruction we may well remeber the parable of the unclean spirit Mt.12.43-45 "Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation
2 Peter 3:13
"Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness."
Blessings
The Sabbath Day was given specifically as a day of rest. There was no core requirement that it should also be a worship day, though the Jewish priests conducted their business continually throughout the week. So even now, if any desire to still abide by the fourth Commandment, then to give that seventh day entirely to rest, recuperation, & spiritual activities would be in order. But to insist that those who are In Christ must worship only on that day, goes against NT teaching; even as you quoted Mark 2:27, where Jesus was reprimanded for 'working' (i.e. picking ears of corn to satisfy hunger) on the Sabbath. Yes, by Law, Jesus broke that Commandment, but Jesus was showing to those Pharisees that the Sabbath observance must not interfere with a necessity of life (in this case, hunger). Why? The Sabbath was given for man's benefit (for rest & rejuvenation) and not the other way around (i.e. for man to have to suffer in hunger, thereby negating the complete rest that the Sabbath Day was meant to give him). And of course, through His Sacrifice, Jesus altogether removed the commandments that kept man bound in his sin, nailing them to the Cross ( Colossians 2:9-17). And if we still adhere to the Law, the apostle states that "we have fallen from grace" ( Galatians 5:4), for we simply cannot be justified through the Law and Grace - it is one or the other and to expect justification by the Law will not work before God.
I realize that I have written much but I really hope you might read these verses given and wait on God's Spirit to help you understand and appropriate these Truths in your heart. It won't be easy because of past recollections, but I pray that the Holy Spirit would help you understand the great significance of Christ's death for us, justifying by faith and not by to the Law, and even changing those apostles who once strongly held onto Jewish Laws and traditions, to wholly embrace Christ & obedience to His Law through the Spirit. Blessings.
Whenever any doctrine or teaching comes up for my consideration, I always go to the heart of the matter. What is the Sabbath Day? Well, it is the fourth Commandment given by God, only to His chosen people Israel ( Exodus 31:13-17). It was given for their complete rest from their busy lives of labor on the other six days. On the other side of the coin, the Ten Commandments, along with the many other commandments were not given to Gentiles. Those who contest this, usually fuse God's relationship to Israel & His Word specifically to Israel, with His Church (of believing Jews and Gentiles). But this has never happened and nowhere in the Word do we read that the Church has to come under those OT commandments, rather, the Church has been given the Holy Spirit, and we ought to obey Him in everything He reveals to us - and this goes beyond anything that the old Law could ever require.
Remember, we are no longer under the Law as the apostle writes in Romans 6:14,15. The Law could only reveal sin, but it gave no power to overcome it - it could only show Israel their sinfulness, thus the requirement of sacrifices to temporarily shield them from God's Wrath. But then Grace came - the Grace of God through His Son's Sacrifice & Gift of the Holy Spirit. Now, both believing Jew and Gentile were forgiven and covered completely & given the Mind of Christ & His Power to live above the stern requirements and penalties of the Law. Onto Page 2.
James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof
Blessings
Romans 6:23
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
Acts 2:38
"Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost."
Blessings
Just wanted to express my gratitude for the additional questions.
God Bless You!
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
Respect is in the sense Abel feared what the aprons of his parents signified. Without shedding of blood, is no remission. These were family heirloom and Cain did not give a second glance to what was about the family heart over so long.
v.6 "And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?"
Abel chose the best of his flock and he put his heart and soul into it." Love your God with all your heart," is different than Sunday Christians. What Jesus referred to Mary we shall apply here. "But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her."(Lk.10.42) Faith makes all the difference. Those hypocrites who quote Luther trivialise faith and there is only one touchstone: whole or nothing. The Spirit sets him as a hero of faith. By faith "by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh."(Heb.11.4)
"And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him." Here we have the heart a spiritual space same as what Adam and Eve lived but set in the world of the Spirit. They were framed by the word of God as our hearts serve as a microcosm we carry about in our everyday lives. We see risen Christ standing at the door. (Rev.3.20) Here we have a warning and it underscores what a blessed child shall do, (Ps,1,1-3) and "For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie."(Rev.22.15)
Just read these two posts today!
I'm trying to keep up before these posts expire.
The harmonize with my post!
One would think I read these posts and followed behind them. lol
Blessings.
We know how it will end; that Tribulation must come before He comes and that the current general state of apostasy will continue as verses in Timothy warn us is a sign of the last days. In general we need to look at many so called revivals today in light of the fact that natural man is at enmity with God and hence the true Messiah and the narrow road will never appeal to the masses; beyond lip service unless Christ Himself is offered in a variant form; with a different Gospel; or a watered down one not emphasizing repentance. Our agenda which tacks anything onto the Gospel to artificially add onto numbers is doomed to fail at some point reminding us of the correct interpretation of the mustard tree parable as was explained to me recently ( Matt. 13:31-32; also in Mark AND Luke). This apparently is an unnaturally large tree; and shows much the same as the parable related to the woman and the leaven. ( Matt. 13:13).
That's how I see things for now.
Agape; RHP
The lynchpin; as it were of Bible Prophecy is how close we are to the Daniel 9:27 covenant being fulfilled. In short; without a specific timeframe of 1 prophetic week (7 years) the current agreement with Gaza involving many participants isn't the final one initiating the 1st horse of Revelation 6:1 YET.
Zepheniah 2:4-7 states:
4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the Lord is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the Lord their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.
We see here the utter destruction of this area; likely in the same time frame as the Psalm 83 war. We see Israel more or less dwelling there afterwards as verse 7 seems to indicate.
For me; the Ezekiel 38 war MAY make more sense to occur BEFORE the Tribulation even starts likely initiating the Daniel 9:27 covenant OR right after the Rapture and likewise triggering the first seal. In any case the issue here is the land of unwalled villages mentioned and it will take time; perhaps too much time for all that and the Temple construction to occur after the Rapture. To have some sense of security the immediate neighbors of hostility need to be dealt with desicively; although it seems it has begun with Iran and its proxies it seems armed attempts at rebellion are inevitable with the current setup which the international community along with our current leadership will probably once and for all annihalate. That's the way I see it anyway.
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord."
Adam was in the likeness of God while last Adam in the will of the Father is set as the quickening spirit. The Spirit now presents us two families of the first Adam and the last Adam having to do with a spiritual body to which we shall come by and by. The Covenant from the outset make clear the blessings are from the Lord . Seed of the woman as a phrase is coined by Him. The Law of Moses renders what the firstborn reckoned in the mind of God. (Exod.13.12)
Sin of disobedience creates 'enmity between thy seed and her seed' and it is thus we shall follow the narrative thread of two lists of genealogies. (3.15). In short all blessings are from God, to which Eve refers with the birth of Cain, "I have gotten a man from the Lord." Cain in due course follows the footsteps of his father 'to till the ground from whence he was taken'. Abel his younger brother was a keeper of the sheep.
v.3 "And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord."
Cain offers fruit of the ground unto the Lord which did not please Him as that Abel brought, and the Spirit uses 'respect' indicating a spiritual foreknowledge similar to the revelation of Simon Peter(Mt.16.16-17; 2.23) or his own father displayed on the creation of the woman, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman. Be that as it may inspired by the Holy Spirit he brought of 'the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering." Abel took extra care to please God, which is faith. " By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts. " Heb. 11.4)
2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
"So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life."
The tree of life signifies Jesus Christ so Isaiah refers to him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground." The Covenant refers to him under day Three. "And the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth."(1.11)
Simon Peter compares this incorruptible seed, " by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever."From various evidences God planted him in the garden andAdam was allowed to eat the fruit of it. By disobedience the tree judged Adam. Hence forth thorns and thistles signified the ground cursed for his sake.
This tree was still accessible to man if he sought it with all his heart and mind. The flaming sword like the pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire were signs and would never fail. For this reason the voice from the midst of the burning bush, and it was God. " God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I./And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground." It is thus God sets an hedge around whom God has chosen so they shall know the difference between holy and the profane. (Exod.3.4-5) The Parable of the Tares shows us we are in the midst of an untoward generation. "That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;"(Phi.2.15)
Blessedness promised to a child of God Ps.1.1-3. He brings forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. Abiding in the true Vine, 'I am the truth' keeps us steady, fruits are our works, and everlasting life is signified by leaves. (Rev.22.2)
Rosie (17 months) will be very taken by her new cousin, Isaac.
When she is around a baby she is so gentle.
It will be such a pleasure to see them grow up together.
Thank you for sharing these verses. I was reading Psalms 29 today, and how God reveals the delusion ( 1 Kings 18:21). It's so good to read the Bible without trying to impose my own interpretations, and just let the story run its own course. Blessings.
Thank you for the scriptures you shared.
God bless us all!
The secret to fully trusting the LORD to move on our behalf is to 'Wait'; waiting in patience and 'standing still to see the salvation of the LORD' ( 2 Chronicles 20:17). In our day of wanting instant answers or gratification, there is a great lesson from the Bible to be learned of 'letting go and letting God'. Blessings upon your life.
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Psalms 29:11
"The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace."
Revelation 21:8
"But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death."
Blessings
I will leave this discussion for the weekend if you don't mind. Till then God bless.
The last para is modified as follows:
Tilling the ground refers to the ground cursed for his sake."In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread" and here is a vital piece of evidence:Adam was still created after our likeness" so "Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee," did not simply mean plant life. Heresies after the principle of Similitude rendered curse of the ground evocative in spiritual terms. Man in whom flesh and spirit were at odds, while eating bread by sweat of brow did not prevent him from partaking the bread from heaven. Eating herbs showed his glory was as transient as grass." For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth,"(1 Pet.1.24-25)
Yes, you are correct and adding to what you've said.. Acts 2:38 was spoken by Peter to Israel in response to their guilt for crucifying their own Messiah. When they were "pricked in their heart" (v. 37), Peter told them to repent and be baptized-not as a ritual for the Gentiles, but as a national call for Israel to acknowledge Jesus as the Christ they had rejected ( Acts 2:36). Baptism here was a public confession that Jesus was indeed the promised Messiah ( John 1:31). It offered entrance into the kingdom program still being preached to Israel, not the body of Christ later revealed through Paul.
G&P
" And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever"
This is still in the world framed by the word, Behold' refers to the Covenant which is solemnised by the Law, the Word. When the eyes of Adam and Eve were opened, the breath of life would not remain in the world where sin operated. Their carnal wisdom on the driver's seat eye of faith was closed. By the same token with the emergence of the earthy, first Adam belonged to the ground from which he was taken. In the day ye eatest thereof, 'thou shalt surely die.' was left to the last Adam. The day decreed was exclusively reserved for his Son.(2.17). This is evident from the birth of Seth, " and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth."(5.3) Adam was created, 'in the likeness of God made he him.'
What changed here? He knew still good and evil but lost the glory of God to test the quality of either. Without faith itis impossible to please God. "And now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever"was giving Satan an undue advantage.
v.23 "Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken" Tilling the ground refers to the ground cursed for his sake."In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread" and here is a vital piece of Adam who was still created after our likenss" so Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee," did not simply mean plant life. Heresies after the principle of Similitude rendered curse of the ground evocative in spiritual terms. Eating bread by sweat of brow did not prevent him from partaking the bread from heaven. Eating herbs showed his glory was as transient as grass." For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth,"(1 Pet.1.24-25
I haven't been able to read through this thread to see all that has been covered.
I have a busy work schedule.
But there's more I would like to add.
Blessings.
James 3:18
"And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace."
Jeremiah 8:11
"For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace."
1 Thessalonians 5:3
"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape."
Matthew 10:34
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword."
Blessings
In Acts 2:38 Peter said unto them, Repent, and "BE" baptized!
When John the baptist was baptizing in Matthew 3:10-11 he says "And now also the ax is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
The question is what tree is John talking about and what group of people he's talking to? I believe we will find the answer in the previous verse.
9) "And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
John is talking to Israel!
John is the forerunner who goes out to announce the king. But he does more!
There's also an beginning to a different economy as he states in verse 10. "the ax is laid unto the root of the trees:
In verse 11 John gives precedence to another baptism that is by the Lord and not Israel's outwards profession.
11) "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
There's two baptisms here in this particular section of scripture. .
The baptism of John was to Israel identifying them to not so much a new economy but what was being projected all along.
Everything under the Levitical priesthood and old covenant was a foreshadow of the fulfillment in Christ. Paul makes this distinction in Acts 19:2-6
Water today is a profession to something that has already taken place.
Blessings
Contradiction of a woman's role is similar to Sarah whose role is as sister and spouse. Her faith and salvation are her individual worship for the glory of God. In the list of heroes she has own place. In calling Abraham her Lord, she simply acknowledged Eve as the Mother of all living.
As for the church how does faith place you here and now. Some think of church a local assembly but we are sojourners and pilgrims here. "For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come./ By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name." Continually, mind you. We are part of the church of the firstborn. (Heb.12.21-22) "You are come" where woman has same position as blessed as another.