Advent, JTB, Second coming, Elijah, Malachi etc…
FYI
I didn't make links if the verses were included in the text
(Encyclopedia of bible words)
I) Advent: Advent is a Christian season of preparation for the Nativity of Christ at Christmas. It is the beginning of the liturgical year in Western Christianity.
The name was adopted from Latin adventus "coming; arrival", translating Greek parousia. In the New Testament, this is the term used for the Second Coming of Christ. Thus, the season of Advent in the Christian calendar anticipates the "coming of Christ" from three different perspectives: the physical nativity in Bethlehem, the reception of Christ in the heart of the believer, and the eschatological Second Coming. (# ways, get it? 3? Holy trinity?
Joyful (sustained happiness) anticipation…like a child at Christmas…(Bridgette)
II) APPEARANCE OF JESUS: THE SECOND COMING (Encyclopedia of bible words)
The news that Jesus had to go away stunned the disciples. But Jesus immediately reassured them, "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust too in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am" (John 14:1-3). These words of promise have brought comfort to generations of believers since the first century. Jesus lives. He is preparing a place for us. And when the time is right he will return for those who trust in him.
The promise of Jesus return is found In the early church's proclamation of the gospel (Acts 3:19-21) and the Epistles are aglow with excitement at the prospect of his appearing.
Acts 3:19-21
19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. 20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began
Why is he coming? Often Gets overlooked, three main reasons (Teacher seminary told students don’t preach on it or book Rev, watered down, diluted makes it not as effective…)
1. Coming to be present with us
2. Coming to intervene in history
3. Coming to unveil reality
4. Summary
A) Coming to be present with us. One of the Greek words associated with Jesus' second coming is parousia. The word means "presence" or "coming" and emphasizes both the idea of "being there" and the idea of "having come."
Paul uses the word in its everyday sense when he observes that some of the Corinthians say of him, "His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person [parousia tou somatos-"his bodily presence"] he is unimpressive" (2 Co 10:10). Parousia is sometimes used in a technical sense as the term for an official visit or the arrival of a person of high rank. But even then the word does not normally emphasize the person's arrival but the fact of that person's physical presence with those to whom he or she has come. (1 Corinthians 16:17; 2 Co 7:6,7; Php 2:12).
When parousia is used to describe the return of Jesus, our thoughts are directed to the fact that he will return in person and that his being with us will have a transforming impact on our lives.
Parousia is found four times in the Olivet Discourse (Mt 24:3,27,37,39). The context makes it clear that Jesus' initial appearing is intended, for the disciples asked how they would recognize the sign of his coming. Jesus explains that he will appear suddenly (v. 27), unexpectedly (v. 37), and with devastating impact on those who do not believe (v.39 the flood came and took them all away). Yet the emphasis in the total passage (Mt 24- 25) is not on the meaning of the second coming but on the fact that, until Jesus does come, we are to watch, committing ourselves to serve our absent Lord (cf. the four illustrations in Mt 24: 42-25:46).
The NT's basic passage on resurrection is 1 Co 15. "When he comes" (15:23 each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him), his appearance in person will initiate our own resurrection and mark the beginning of history's end. Jesus, our resurrected Lord, and savior, being here, he "must reign" and must destroy every competing authority. No enemy can stand in the overpowering presence of the glorified Son of God
First Thessalonians three times refers to Jesus coming as a parousia. Paul speaks of the joy he will know when he sees his dear converts standing in Jesus' presence when Jesus is again present with us (2:19). He asks God to strengthen the converts so they will be blameless and holy at that time (3:13). But it is in 4:13-18 that Paul unveils more of the exciting meaning for us of Jesus' return." Paul describes the resurrection of the believing dead and the transformation of those who are still alive when the trumpet of God announces the return of Jesus. Caught up and transformed to meet the Lord in the air, "we will be with the Lord forever" to experience the joy of his presence.
Second Thessalonians corrects misunderstandings of the Thessalonian church, which was confused by the teaching of some that Jesus had already come (2:1- 2). Paul explains that Jesus will not appear in person until the Antichrist (called the "lawless one" here) has been clearly identified by his actions (2:3-12). Then Jesus will return and "by the splendor of his coming" (the splendor of Jesus personally being here) will destroy this satanically energized enemy.
James views Jesus' return in a different perspective. He observes the injustice and oppression experienced by God's people and calls for patience. When Jesus is personally present (5:7-8), the oppressed will experience a rich harvest of reward.
Peter speaks of the parousia three times in his epistles, He recalls his experience on the Mount of Transfiguration (Mt 17 Mk9, Lk 9), where he witnessed Jesus shining in the unveiled glory that will be seen at his coming, Peter exposes the foolishness of those who hold the physical universe and it’s laws are all there is to reality and of those who deride the promise of a personal appearance by Jesus (2 Pe 3:4) For unbelievers Jesus promised presence holds out no hope, for they can expect only the certainty of cataclysmic judgement (2 Peter 3:5-7) For us who believe, however the prospect of Jesus return glows w hope. We are moved to live close to him “so that when he appears we shall be confidently and unashamed before him at his coming (1 Jn 2:28, 2 Pe 3:11).
Parousia, then, (1) emphasizes the fact that when Jesus appears again, he will come in person to be with us, and (2) it focuses our attention on the impact that Jesus' return will have on believers. We will be transformed at his coming to share the glory of his resurrection and to participate in the joy that comes when the world is at last set right. (He is coming to be with us…)
B Coming to intervene in history. The word epiphaneia (ep-if-an'-i-ah) means quite simply "appearing," or "appearance." As a religious term, it indicates a visible manifestation of a hidden deity, either in person or by some great act through which his presence is revealed. Jesus will come in a starburst of power, burning his image on the retinas of faithless, blinded humanity. The kindness and love of God have already appeared (Tit 2:11; 3:4), but our "blessed hope" is focused on the day when Jesus himself will appear in glory to all (Tit 2:13).
Titus makes the point that our experience of saving grace has taught us to reject ungodliness and worldly passions, for we have been redeemed from wickedness that we might be purified as God's own people (2:11-14). Having recognized the glory of God in Jesus' first coming, we have also seen the warped and twisted shape of a sin-filled world. But to those without faith, only the personal intervention of Jesus at his return will expose the corruption.
In 2 Th 2:8, Paul combines epiphancia (ep-if-an'-i-ah) and parousia in a most instructive way. He writes of the Antichrist, whom Jesus will overthrow and destroy "by the splendor [epiphaneia-flaming, visible manifestation of power) of his coming (parousia-personal presence]." The presence of Jesus, which means comfort and joy to us, means the overthrow of the evil personage who typifies the sinful world system.
In 2 Timothy Paul again contrasts the glory visible to the eyes of faith and the glory that will be unmistakable at Christ coming. The eyes of faith recognize the birth of life and immortality in Jesus first coming (1:10). When Jesus and his kingdom appear at last, in unmistakable power, all will be subject to judgement (4:1). There will be a crown for those who have seen beyond this world's illusions and who long for Jesus' appearing as something that will shatter the hopes of humanity and evaporate empty values by which this world operates.
Epiphaneia (ep-if-an'-i-ah) then, emphasizes the fact Jesus return will constitute a disrupting intervention in a world that remains blind to God's grace. Shattered by his appearance, the world system of today will be replaced by the long- awaited kingdom of righteousness, and evil will be judged. For the believer, Epiphaneia (ep-if-an'-i-ah) contains a challenge. We are to look at the ways of the world in which we live and to utter a decisive NO! to society's values. We are to commit ourselves simply to doing good while long for Jesus to return to intervene and at last restore the tangled world to its tended beauty.
That was #2 Coming to intervene in history…
C. Coming to unveil reality. The last linked word closely with Jesus' appearance at his second coming is apokalypsis. means "to disclose, or bring to light." the Bible, apokalypsis is used particularly to mean the disclosure of supernatural secrets- the unveiling of truths that people unaided could not have discovered but that the Holy Spirit shared with through Scripture (1 Co 2:10). Revelation Associated with Jesus' second coming, apokalypsis highlights the that while information about Jesus has been shared with humanity and recorded in the Bible, it is Jesus himself who will be disclosed when he comes again. Then all preceding revelation about him will be unmistakably confirmed. The coming of Jesus as God's final culminating discourse will vindicate every promise and affirmation of the Word of God.
Lk 17:22-35 describes the shock of that day when Jesus is suddenly revealed, visible to all mankind in his second coming. As at the devastation of Sodom, humanity will again be caught unaware, engrossed in daily affairs. Again in 2 Thessalonians, the disclosure of Jesus to all mankind is associated with judgement (1.7). Jesus will be seen then in blazing fire, accompanied by his powerful angels, punishing with "everlasting destruction" those who have refused to respond to the gospel.
Drewism added lol…Luke 21:26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Ro 8:19 makes it clear that we too will one day be disclosed as children of God. Thus, we will share in Jesus' glory (1 Pe 5:1), while he will be "glorified in his holy people" and "marveled at among all those who have believed" (2 Th 1:10).
Written against the background of the sufferings we experience in the present world; 1 Peter also stresses the fact that Jesus' return will display to all people the glory of a personal relationship with the Lord. The trial of our faith will result "in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed" (1:7 “genuineness of your faith” 😊). That we may know "an inexpressible and glorious joy" (1:8). Then all that we experience subjectively will have its objective manifestation. (Tree example). Knowing this, we rest the full weight of our hope on the return of Jesus and long for "the grace to be given [us] when Jesus Christ is revealed" (1:13). If we participate today in Jesus' sufferings, we will "be overjoyed when his glory is revealed" (4:13).
Apokalypsis, then, emphasizes the following facts: (1) Jesus' return will be witnessed by all, his glory at last unmistakable. (2) For the unsaved, this unveiling of Jesus initiates the day of vengeance; for believers, Jesus' unveiling means that the moment of fulfilled hope has come. (3) For God, Jesus' final disclosure as Lord means full vindication of his gospel and his warnings to humanity. Jesus will come. Every eye will see him. Every knee will bow before him. And every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Php 2:10-11).
Takin bout advent, joyful anticipation and why hes coming…😊. That was # three “To unveil reality as it really is…99.9999999999996 empty space, walking around in 96% of something we aren’t able to experience...
4.Summary. The second coming of Jesus is a rich and complex NT theme. Like Jesus' first coming, it does not take place as a single act but stretches over a span of time as God's many purposes are worked out at time's end. But NT words associated with Jesus' reappearance help us to see what that return means for us and for others.
The most wonderful truth for believers is that Jesus will come in person for them. In the resurrection, we will be transformed, enabled at last to share fully in joyful fellowship with God forever.
For unbelievers, Jesus' appearing will constitute a jarring intervention. All mankind's values and hopes, settled as they are on the narrow confines of this life, will be exposed as empty and meaningless. The glory of our personally present Lord will dispel the illusions that captivate humanity, and mankind will come face to face with reality at last. By yearning for this intervention, believers can escape the passions that move the lost, and they can learn to say no to evil and yes to good.
Finally, the return of Jesus is God's final and ultimate self-disclosure. All that God has shown us in the words of Scripture will be experienced then by all mankind. Both the delayed judgments and the delayed rewards will be given out, and God will become all in all. As we meditate on Jesus' appearance, we find our own lives enriched. Our present sufferings seem increasingly unimportant in view of the glory to come. We toss aside the playthings of the world, with childhood's toys, and we build our lives on those solid realities that, when Jesus comes, will remain.
III JOHN the Baptist
The forerunner of Jesus. John was the son of Zacharias and Elisabeth, who was a cousin of Mary the mother of Jesus. He was born six months prior to Jesus, his birth having been foretold by the angel Gabriel. Nothing is known of his youth, but after a long period of seclusion he came forth from the desert to take up his ministry, garbed like the ancient prophets, in garments of camel's hair fastened to his body with a leather girdle, and eating locusts and wild honey. John's 1)hard ascetic life, (characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons. "he led an ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and manual labor" austere self-denying, abstinent…etc) 2) his (Johns) extraordinary appearance, and 3) the character of his messages enabled him to gather a considerable band of disciples about himself. There is no question but that John could have given Jesus much trouble the beginning of his ministry had he chosen to assume the higher office, but he was faithful to his divine trust, and always showed in his sermons that he was but the messenger of another greater than himself; this is clearly seen in his Jesus' request for baptism at his hands. After the appearance of Jesus, John's ministry becomes somewhat obscure. It is likely, however, that he continued in his work subordinate to Jesus. The manner of his death is well known. John was arrested following his rebuke of Herod Antipas (AN-tih-puhs) for his marriage to Herodias (hr·ow·dee·uhs) , known whom he had seduced away from his brother Herod Philip. At Herod's birthday celebration, Herodias' (hr·ow·dee·uhs) daughter performed a sensual dance which so pleased the king that he offered her any gift which she might request. Herodias persuaded her daughter to ask for the head of John the Baptist in a serving tray. Herod feared the reaction of the multitude who followed John, but kept his promise and ordered his execution. John is eulogized by Jesus as "the greatest of those born of woman."
SCRIPTURE
Birth and Early Years
Luke 1 Now Elisabeth's full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son. 58 And her neighbors and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her. 59 And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father. And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John. "And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name, And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called. And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marveled all. And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing (Manifesting) unto Israel.(True believers)
Ministry
Matt. 3:1-15 'In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. "And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. "Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
"But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: 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. (Korah’s rebellion) 10 And now also the axe 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. "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: Whose winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbade him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? 15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
“he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?”…Preps and greasers anybody? Outcast vs the establishment? Substitude revelatory experiences with with PhD’s and masters degrees in Divinity and were still right there… think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father, Korah’s rebellion) And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees…RNM. He will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire…it’s the church true believers being separated from the pretenders… the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Imprisonment
Praised by Jesus
Luke 7:19-28 And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another? 20 When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another? "And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight. "Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached. 23 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me. 24 And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind? 25 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which a gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings courts. 26 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet. 27 This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. 28 For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.
Death
Matt 14:1-12 'At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus, And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife. *For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her. "And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet. But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod. "Where- upon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask. And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John the Baptist's head in a charger. "And the king was sorry: nevertheless, for the oath's sake, and them that sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her. 10 And he sent, and be- headed John in the prison. "And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother. And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
A Second Elijah (After transfiguration) (We’ve made way to much of this, we complicate the simple, make simple the complicated and ignore what we consider to be to difficult. Can not a child have the spirit of a parent?)
Matt. 17 9-13 And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead. 10 And the disciples (Peter, James and John) asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? "And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. But I say unto you, that Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they wanted. Likewise, shall also the Son of man suffer of them. Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.
Verses about John the Baptist. Some duplication here.
Isaiah 40:3
The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
"Prepare the way of the LORD;
Make straight in the desert
A highway for our God.
Malachi 3:1
3 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
“shall suddenly come to his temple” goes right to
Matthew 25:31
The Sheep and the Goats 31
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne.
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.'
Bible Ref.com
“Revelation 11:1–13 describes an event, during the end times, when two witnesses will preach against Antichrist, and this will cause many people to repent. Malachi 4:5 predicted the eventual return of Elijah, (Spirit) which Christians typically interpret as a separate instance from the messenger predicted in Malachi 3:1. Jesus, speaking after the death of John the Baptist, said that Elijah was yet to come (Matthew 17:11). So, many people believe that these two witnesses will be Moses and Elijah (Matthew 17:1–3 Transfiguration). However, they might not be specifically connected to this particular prophecy, and John the Baptist might well have been the complete fulfillment of this prediction.” I think you know my thoughts on that 😊 Bible Ref.com
For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying:
“The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the LORD;
Make His paths straight.’” Now John himself was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him and were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, 'Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not think to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. (RNM). Therefore, every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
(Wheres the bad fruit? Been asking for a while now? Nobody’s came and made a case…
As they departed, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Indeed, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses. But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet. For this is he of whom it is written:
‘Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, Who will prepare Your way before You.’ (Mal 3:1) 'Assuredly, I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. And if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who is to come.
(BIBLEREFERENCE.COM Matt 11:12
"ESV: "the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force." Other translations, such as the NLT, render this as "the Kingdom of Heaven has been forcefully advancing, and violent people are attacking it." The NASB adds some subtlety by noting, in footnotes, that these phrases can also be translated "is forcibly entered," and "seize it for themselves," respectively.”
And “Jesus' reference to the days of John the Baptist likely means the time of John's ministry before he was imprisoned (Matthew 4:12). "Now," in this context, would then mean that moment in Jesus' ministry of introducing the kingdom of heaven.” The most direct meaning of these words seems to be that when Jesus began His public ministry, the kingdom of heaven was beginning on earth in the form of Jesus and His followers. But great opposition has risen up against heaven's kingdom in the form of men like Herod…(Putin, Mao, Hiltler, Stalin, Freud, Darwin, Marx…etc, take your pick…)
(BIBLEREFERENCE.COM MATTHEW 11:14
Malachi is the final book of what we now call the Old Testament. Malachi, like all the prophets, delivered the message God gave him to say. These included statements about what would happen in the distant future. Malachi lived hundreds of years before the births of John the Baptist and Jesus, but he wrote what God said about them both:
"Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts" (Malachi 3:1).
"Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes" (Malachi 4:5).
Luke's gospel quotes the angel of the Lord describing the work John the Baptist will do. This uses the same phrasing found in Malachi: "And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God, and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared"
(Luke 1:16–17).
John the Baptist himself denied that he was literally Elijah (John 1:21); he refuted any suggestion that he was that prophet reborn or returned to earth in some way. Jesus, though, insists that John was the fulfillment of Malachi's prophecy that Elijah would be sent to prepare the way for Christ. John certainly came "in the spirit and power of Elijah," as the angel said.
Jesus adds "if you are willing to accept it," implying that He knew not everyone would grasp that this was true or what it meant. (Or believe) If John the Baptist was the fulfillment of the promise of the return of Elijah to usher in the day of the Lord, it means Jesus was claiming to be the Lord.
Those two explanations from bible ref.com.)
Matthew 21:32 (Two sons parable…don’t even get me started)
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; but tax collectors and harlots believed him; and when you saw it, you did not afterward relent and believe him.
Mark 1:2-8
As it is written in the Prophets:
"Behold, I send My messenger before Your face,
Who will prepare Your way before You."
"The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
'Prepare the way of the LORD; (Mal. 3:10
Make His paths straight.'" (Isaiah 40:3)
John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. Then all the land of Judea, and those from Jerusalem, went out to him and were all baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins. Now John was clothed with camel's hair and with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey. And he preached, saying, "There comes One after me who is mightier than I, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to stoop down and loose. I indeed baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."
Luke 1:13-17
But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth. For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb. And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."
Luke 1:76
"And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest;
For you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,
Luke 1:80
So the child grew and became strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his manifestation to Israel.
John 1:6-8
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
That’s 3 witnesses’ and three lights btw
Big Think article: Dec 7th 2022. “The paradox of light goes beyond wave particle duality” Light carries with it the secrets of reality in ways we can not completely understand.”
Genesis 1:3
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
John 3:30
He must increase, but I must decrease.
John the Baptist came to prepare people for the One who is coming—Jesus (John 1:23; John 3:28). Over time, as Jesus becomes known, more people follow Him than the Baptist. This is not a problem, at all. There's nothing wrong with the Baptist's message, or his ministry. The reason he preached was to encourage others to follow the Messiah. So, when this actually starts to happen, he's happy. In verse 29, he makes an analogy to the best man at a wedding. The best man feels joy when the groom gets attention, and a bride.
John the Baptist also knows that people cannot follow him, and follow Jesus. If his message is working, people should be moving on from his ministry, and becoming disciples of Jesus. This is the same situation Christian leaders find themselves in. The goal of teaching and preaching is to lead people to follow Jesus. At some point, those people should grow and mature. The point of ministry is not to make the minister look good, but to help others in their walk with God.
People got addicted to milk, decided they didn’t want anything else, don’t wanna hear know about meaty, weighty matters, don’t preach book of rev, don’t tsalk about second coming. It’s time to grow up, get weaned off milk, time for solid food…
He must increase, but I must decrease
(Dark night of the soul 😊 No Not Dec 21 winter solstice…John of the cross, dark night of the s oul. Ignatius Loyola, whose Spiritual Exercises were designed to open people to a receptive mode of consciousness in which they can experience God through careful spiritual direction and through understanding how the mind connects to the will and how to weather the experiences of spiritual consolation and desolation; Teresa of Ávila, who used the metaphors of watering a garden and walking through the rooms of a castle to explain how meditation leads to union with God.
If you’re going to experience God in an up-close and personal level you are going to be emptied of self, ego destruction etc, its how he makes room for himself…
IV ELIJAH
The great prophet of the time of Ahab king of Israel. Virtually nothing is known o Elijah's background and parentage. In his first recorded act, he appeared before the evil king Ahab and predicted a severe of drought. He then went to the brook Cherith (KEH-rith) where he was sustained by the LORD in a most remarkable manner. Later he went to Zarephath, where he dwelt with a widow whose son he had restored to life after having died. The drought continued and famine caused by the failure of the crops descended on Samaria. After more than three years, the prophet showed himself once more to Ahab and placed the blame for the famine on the king's sinful policies. The issue of this meeting was the famous contest on Mount Carmel with the prophets of Baal (1 Kin. 18:19). Following the contest, Elijah fled, fearing the vengeance of Jezebel for his having slain the prophets of Baal. He journeyed to the wilderness around Horeb; there the lord appeared to him as “a still small voice" and instructed him to make Elisha his successor.
Elijah's next confrontation with Ahab came in the vineyard of Naboth (Na'both) after that king had secured the land through the wickedness of his wife Jezebel. Elijah placed a terrible curse on the king and his descendants, promising that the entire house of Ahab would be exterminated. This prophecy was to be brutally fulfilled by Jehu (Je'hu)
Several years pass when nothing is heard of Elijah. Then, after a severe accident, King Ahaziah (A•ha•zi’ah) sent to an oracle of Baal in the Philistine Town of Ekron to learn if he would recover. Elijah met the messenger on the road and issued a pronouncement of the king's death. He later went before the king and repeated the judgment of Doom.
The last episode of Elijah's colorful career concerns the transfer of his mantle to his companion Elisha. Setting out from Gilgal, Elijah tried to persuade Elisha to remain behind, but the younger prophet would not so easily give up his master. Finally, after they crossed the Jordan River together, "there appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven" (2 Kin. 2:11). Taking up the mantle which had fallen from his master's shoulders, Elisha set out to prove himself a worthy successor to the fiery man of God.
REFERENCE; 1 Kin 17-19. 21. 2 Kin. 1:1-2:12.
Announced a drought (1 Kin 17:1-6)
Dwells with a widow at Zarapath (1 Kin 17: 8-22)
Contest with the Prophets of Ball ( 1 Kin 18: 17-40)
A fugitive from Jezabel ( 1 Kin 19:1-8)
Confronted by God (1 Kin 19: 9-16)
Confronts Ahab after Naboth’s death (1 Kin 21: 17-28)
Confers Mantle on Elisha (2 Kin 2:9-13)
At the transfiguration (Matt 17:3-4)
Forerunner of John the Baptist. (Mal 4;5-6, Matt 11:13-14, Luke 1: 17)
V Side road 😊. Detour, cul-de-sac Another Drewism…😊.
“The universe may be more unstable than you think Astronomy.com”
The cosmos is considered metastable, which means there is a chance it could fall apart — or it already has.
“Plugging those two numbers (The top quark weight around 175 GeV, and the Higgs Boson weight) into the stability equations reveals that the universe is… metastable. This is different than stable, which would mean that there’s no chance of the universe splitting apart instantly, but also different than unstable, which would mean it already happened.
Instead, the universe is balanced in a rather precarious position: It can remain in its present state indefinitely, but if something were to perturb spacetime in just the wrong way, then it would transform to a new ground state. (the state of a physical system (as of an atomic nucleus or an atom) having the least energy of all the possible states.)
“if something were to perturb spacetime”
“I will shake the heavens…”
Haggai 2:6
“This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land., (Most say once more refers to the flood, Im going another creation event)
“if something were to perturb spacetime”
Hebrews 12:27,
27 The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.
if something were to perturb spacetime
Matthew 24:29
29 “Immediately after the distress of those days “‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.”
“If something were to perturb spacetime”
Isaiah 13:13,
13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place
at the wrath of the Lord Almighty, in the day of his burning anger.
“If something were to perturb spacetime”
2 Peter 3:10, 12,
10: But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare
12:as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. [a] That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat.
“If something were to perturb spacetime
Revelation 6:13-14
New International Version
13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. 14 The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
“if something were to perturb spacetime in just the wrong way, then it would transform to a new ground state.” “What would that new state look like? It’s impossible to say, as the new universe would feature new physics, with new particles and new forces of nature. But it’s safe to say that life would be different, if not completely impossible. (Four “new’s”)
REV 21 1-8 A New Heaven and a New Earth
21 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
5 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
6 He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”
“It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.” If the universe is shaped like a circle? Guess where the light from the beginning ends up back at? Yeah…It’s original destination…
“But it’s safe to say that life would be different, if not completely impossible.”
Not for some of us it won’t,
1 John 3:2
2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,[a] we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
And I do mean some as in a few.
Matthew 7:13-14
The Narrow and Wide Gates
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
“What’s worse, it may have already happened. Some corner of the cosmos may have already begun the transition, with the bubble of a new reality expanding outwards at the speed of light. We wouldn’t know it hit us until it already arrived. Sleep tight!
Revelation 16:15
15 (“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”)
Matthew 24:43
43 But know this, that if the master (Goodman) of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.
1 Thessalonians 5:2
For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
1 Thessalonians 5:4
4 But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.
Why do people believe in something they don’t know anything about? Astronomy.com? But are so eager to dismiss the Holy Scripture that said the same exact thing 1000’s of years ago?
Redshift, (Show Prism) shows up that galaxies are moving farther away from us in all directions, means they all had a common starting point, mass and energy alone cant not come into existence by themselves or we would be seeing galaxies a lot younger than we do, instead they are all roughly within the same time period of the universes evolution, time after time men with brilliant minds have set out with an agenda to prove god cant exist never giving thought to the fact the they could reason to start with was evidence of a creator... and the more research we do and the farther along we go the more likely the inevitability of a creation moment and therefore a creator keeps getting stronger, yet man not only doesn’t wanna hear it, he is openly hostile to even the very thought of it. If your theory is proven wrong and you cant admit it to yourself? You’re an ideologue trying to push an agenda, not a scientist.
The author of the Book? Who created all things? From outside this time/space continuum? Through and of and by and for he created? He Created the science that shows us his wonder awe and majesty in the natural laws of the physical realm in which we exist. It is a way for us to share in his thoughts (Kepler) and Satan and his henchmen knew it when it started happening (late middle ages Western Europe and he has been doing everything in his power to turn us against what we should be looking on as our ally (Science).
Wikipedia
“Robert Jastrow, an American astronomer and planetary physicist. He was a NASA scientist, populist author and futurist. Assistant professor at Yale, Naval Research Laboratory, In 1958 he joined the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration as head of its theoretical division, n 1961 he became the founding director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and served as its director until his retirement from NASA in 1981. Concurrently he was a professor of Geophysics at Columbia University. His expressed views on creation were that although he was an "agnostic, and not a believer",[6] it seems to him that "the curtain drawn over the mystery of creation will never be raised by human efforts, at least in the foreseeable future"[6] due to "the circumstances of the Big Bang-the fiery holocaust that destroyed the record of the past".[6] (Ecclesiastes 3:11) With the discovery of the Big Bang, Jastrow began to hold a belief that, if there was a beginning to the universe, there was also a Creator. Died in2008, was a climate change denier as well…
In an interview with Christianity Today,
“Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth. And they have found that all this happened as a product of forces they cannot hope to discover. That there are what I or anyone would call supernatural forces at work is now, I think, a scientifically proven fact.”
― Robert Jastrow
“At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”
― Robert Jastrow
He wasn’t the only one:
Allan Sandage (Agnostic) (June 18, 1926 – November 13, 2010) was an American astronomer. He was Staff Member Emeritus with the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California. He determined the first reasonably accurate values for the Hubble constant and the age of the universe. “A definite beginning to the universe suggest a force beyond this material/physical world.”
Owen Jay Gingerich (Committed Christian); born 1930) is professor emeritus of astronomy and of the history of science at Harvard University and a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. In addition to his research and teaching, he has written many books on the history of astronomy. “ has written about the ”Unexpected convergence between modern cosmology and the biblical creation account as well as theistic implications of the big bang theory.” (Tells you what time were entering.
Dean Keaton Biophysicist “Origin of life experiments increasingly suggest that simple chemicals do not arrange themselves into complex information bearing molecules, nor do they move in “Life-relevant” directions unless biochemist actively and intelligently guide the process.”
Western Eurpoe, end of middle ages, Kepler discovers laws of planetary motion, Newton certain laws of physics, Decartes…No other place had all the forerunners of modern science, many different historians deist, looking for evidence of a creator in the physical world…(Put reason about divine revelation opps but they saw the existence of natural laws as evidence of a creator.
Fast forward to Ready for this? 1874, 96 two guys purpose science and faith are at war with one another. IT WAS SATANICLY INSPIRED DECEPTION and its worked… “ John William Draper Andrew Dickson White Conflict thesis, “No longer accepted now days it’s the “Complexity thesis that’s in vogue. Point is, they achieved their aims
Confusion on this point was enhanced because while Margaret MacDonald MacDonald's vision as first published in 1840 describes a post-tribulation view of the rapture, a version published in 1861 lacked two important passages that appear to present a post-tribulation view: "This is the fiery trial which is to try us. - It will be for the purging and purifying of the real members of the body of Jesus" and "The trial of the Church is from Antichrist. It is by being filled with the Spirit that we shall be kept"
Revelation 12:12
New International Version
12 Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.
I tried to explain a while back the light on day one spoke of in genesis was from the universe inflation and the light on day four was when the starts were formed, Nachmanides had all of this figured out just by reading the text of the Torah 800 years ago (Thx Dr Schroeder).
Maybe the reason? The biblical account of creation is the one that most resembles what we know about the cosmological model (Scientific understanding of Universe formation/expansion/evolution etc)? Maybe? Maybe the reason it matches up with what we know scientifically is because it’s the truth?
Maybe? Just maybe? The reason everything is playing out right now, in front of your eyes right now? Is because the author of history knew how things were going to end. His beginning is right? The start of the end is matching up with what is going on in our world right now and the end with the very fabric of spacetime being snapped violently like a towel fresh out of the dryer has already been told about 1000’s of years ago…
If you got the beginning and the end right? The middle has to be correct as well.
VI My ruminations on things lol…More Drewism 😊
Matthew 13:17
For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
"Jesus has demonstrated the great difference between the disciples and the rest of Israel, including the supposedly wise and educated religious leaders. The people have not been given knowledge of the great mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. The disciples have been given those secrets" (Matthew 13:10–16 Bible ref.com
Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
Joel 2:30-31
30 I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
31 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. (We got $, we got food, were good honey 😊.
Joel 2 kinda where we started with the first ones of these, kinda back where we started (Kinks song lol)
Matthew Henrys commentary:
"Those on whom the Spirit is poured out shall foresee and foretell that great and terrible day of the Lord, and expound the wonders in heaven and earth that go before it; (Sept 23rd, 2017, new Commet) for, as to his first coming, so to his second, all the prophets did and do bear witness,
He then references Revelation 10:7
“But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.”
And Right before that?
Joel 2:28-29
The Day of the Lord
28 “And afterward,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your old men will dream dreams,
your young men will see visions.
29 Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days.
Why are you so over our heads some people were asking a while back?
Someone is preparing a straight path for the lord. I think you can argue were not even on the right path, let alone the right one and it being straight lol.
Reason #3 for his coming, to unveil reality as it really is, not what we see experience…The Subjective will be made objective
“There will be a crown for have seen beyond this world's illusions”
“Peter exposes the foolishness of those who hold the physical universe and it’s laws are all there is to reality”
“All mankind's values and hopes, settled as they are on the narrow confines of this life, will be exposed as empty and meaningless.”
“The glory of our personally present Lord will dispel the illusions that captivate humanity, and mankind will come face to face with reality at last”
“We toss aside the playthings of the world, with childhood's toys, and we build our lives on those solid realities that, when Jesus comes, will remain”
Atoms 99.9999999999996 empty space…Only experience 4% of our “visible’ universe…
“Jesus will come in a starburst of power, burning his image on the retinas of faithless, blinded humanity.” (Augmented reality Contacts, prototype came out 2022, resolution 30x sharper than an I phone. A digital interface laid over your perceptual reality…yeah, you can have it, no thx)
My argument? For why I might be over some heads…
You aint seen nothing yet…and somebody(s) has been given commission to pave a way for the true Master of Reality who is coming.
Somebody been talking about
1) better change your ways and accept What is.
Spacetime, Ensoulment, Nashema, Particle physics, Quantum mechanics. Astrophysics, that the Laws of physics as we know them today right now allow for miracles. Abaddon is an angel of god, Locust from the deep are destroyer angles, UAP are called “phenomenon” not considered “physical objects” anymore, just to much evidence different witness over time of them vanishing into thin air, doing right turns at 18,000 mph, AI as antichrist (AR contacts in prototype btw, said you won’t need goggles to visit rebuilt temple). Somebody interpreted Rev 20:4-6…” “they shall interpret scripture and speak of things secret, distant, and future, which by the utmost sagacities of reason, and their natural powers, they could not have any insight into nor foresight of." Millennial Kingdom, Post- tribulation vs a non-scriptural based conjection known as pretribulation rapture of the church whose entire purpose was to create a false sense of security late in the game (Industrial revolution) (Korahs rebellion) and will send many to their destruction. #1 Reason he’s coming back is to be with us, Rev 21:3 God’s dwelling place is now among the people). Heaven is on the earth. Start of end Times, Two witnesses as being the alternate tradition of the spirit of Tabitha and Elijah, the out pouring of the spirit in the end times, Saying things repeatedly for years on end now well b4 the experts do, talking about 99.9999999999996 of us is empty space walking around in what we can only experience 4% of and? Teaching about things professors in the seminaries say don’t, second coming and the book of revelation, Been talking about nows the time to pray for Spiritual gifts, prophecy, word of knowledge, apostleship…etc not gonna stop till Im dead and gone.
I’m here to tell you there are higher realms/plains of consciousness than we can currently experience or even capable of imagining and I’ve experienced brief glimpses of it from time to time (Matt 13:17) and that simple fact alone is enough reason why I didn’t mind to live my life like I have been for years on end now so that I can come here and tell you with conviction and fortitude and Iron in my words (from the power of the holy spirit like Peter in Acts 4;10 “It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead”, that I don’t mind to show my shameless audacity (Luke 11:8-10) and speak boldly before you (Acts 4:29). Period! It’s all real and you’d better change your ways and accept what you don’t even wanna here about let alone humble yourselves before…
I don’t know what you call all that?
But here’s what I call it:
I call it a messenger sent right in front of your face which is preparing the way for the lord before you, straightening out the path, so that when the ultimate master of reality comes? He can show you reality as it really is, and its nowhere close to what we experience or perceive it to be. I got a drop of that reality, when he comes? He’s got the whole ocean, somebody has to get you ready…
Where’s the other guy doing this? Not just now, but ever? Somebody else got a better claim? Where is he at? Somebody better matches up with verses in Malachi? Somebody matches up better than honey and Tabitha? What are they explaining that most preachers don’t wanna touch? Were not even into Genesis 6 yet btw… Tell him stop by the garage Im sure we can have some enlightening conversations…Nobody has ever come by to talk about these things, the only person I could entertain with these topics from time to time was another outcast nobody wanted to have anything to do with… (Peace be w you my brother). Go read the two brothers parable again if you need to. (Matt 21:28-32)…And not only where is the other guy now? Where is he ever been? There’s a better pairing up of what scripture says with somebody paving the way? Where is he? Wheres that example?
Matthew 24:37 As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
“As it was in the beginning (one love)
So shall it be in the end (one heart)
All right! Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right
Let's get together and feel all right, one more thing
Let's get together to fight this Holy Armagiddyon (one love)
So when the Man comes there will be no, no doom (one song)
Have pity on those whose chances grows t'inner
There ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation”
Started Joel 2, kinda ended there today too…
Just like there was a John the Baptist come before the first time? So will there be again.
Malachi 3:1 and 4:5-6 aren’t about the same individual(s) who come in Elijah’s spirit. It happens twice, once for each of his appearing, you’ve witnessed it, I wouldn’t go around dismissing miracles. Matthew 11:21, “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida…etc.”
The book of revelation is a book of promises and of hope, when you see things starting to unfurl right in front of your eyes? You shouldn’t be scared or afraid of whats coming, you should be glad and thankful that your faith is being proven true right in front of your eyes at such a time as this.
Luke 21:28 When these things begin to happen, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
If somebody wants to present an alternate viewpoint? I’ll be glad to present my case in a public forum and they can present theirs…They already know my arguments ahead of time and I don’t theirs and it doesn’t even matter…been asking for years now, no takers, no visitors to the garage for a theological discussion even, except my friend I was talking about a second ago…
We are who we are, the time is now
Happy advent…as in “the eschatological Second Coming.”
Isaiah 11:2
2 And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
Revelation 5:6: And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
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