And can you not see that to live as residents living under the local 'law' could be so much easier than trying to take in words which might be 'false' while sitting in Churches?
I'm not saying that there is any 1 Church that is doing such but neither am I saying that there isn't 1, either.
Revelation 2:18 "And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write.."
Revelation 2:20 "... I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols."
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In West Turkey..
Chloesos was puzzled. Why he was so rich was not the happy person in his eyes. Solon explained: "It should not be less than one person to live to 70. In these seventy years, there are a total of 26,250 days. However, there are no two days in which this is complete. The same. It seems that human affairs are really unpredictable. You are a king, extremely wealthy. But only when I hear that you are happy to end your life, can you give the answer."
克洛伊索斯听了很不解,为何自己这么富有却不是他眼中的幸福之人。梭伦解释说:“一个人活到七十岁应该不算少了,在这七十年中,共有两万六千二百五十天,然而这之中却没有哪两天的事情是完全相同的。如此看来,人间的事情真是无法预料啊。您是国王,极为富有。但只有在我听到您幸福地结束了一生时,才能够给您答案。”
At that time, Croisos, whose name was synonymous with "wealth", he felt that he was the happiest person in the world, so that when he met Solon, one of the seven Greek sages, he asked: "You Among the people I met, who is the happiest?” Solon said that it was Thales of Athens, because his children grew up very well, and he enjoyed his life in peace and glory. Chloesos asked again: "Who is the happiest except for Thales?" Solon replied that they were two young people, Kleopius and Beaton, who carried their mother’s cattle because they were cows. The car rushed to the temple to attend the memorial and fell tired in the hall and never got up.
那个时候的克洛伊索斯,他的名字就是“财富”的代名词,他觉得自己是这个世界上最幸福的人,以至于他在接见古希腊七贤之一的梭伦时问:“你所遇到的人中,谁是最幸福的?”梭伦却说是雅典的泰勒斯,因为他的孩子长大成人都很优秀,他一生享尽安乐,战死杀场也很光荣。克洛伊索斯又问:“那除了泰勒斯,谁最幸福?”梭伦答说是克列欧比斯和比顿这两个年轻人,他们因为自己当牛,抬着母亲乘坐的牛车赶到神庙参加祭奠而累倒在大殿内再也没起来。
Solon, depicted with pupils in an
Islamic miniature
Solon - Wikipedia
'Wealth has driven you mad, Solon! Get down from those clouds of pomp!'
Solon asked, 'Why am I very high up, very high'?
'No, Solon, you are only 3 inches from the ground'.
'Not 4'?, asked Solon.
Job 2:11;13 "Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that
his grief was very great."
Job 4:1-2 "Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?"
Job 1:1 "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name
was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil."
And so they talked and he talked and they talked and he talked...
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Mark 12:29 "And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments
is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:"
Mark 12:1 "And he began to speak unto them by parables. A
certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about
it, and digged
a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country."
Mark 13:28 "Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:"
Matthew 13:36 "...and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
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There was a man who relied on his wealth to put others into subjection. And he had many followers that subscribed to his ideas of wealth. The fig trees did grow, the branches did stretch forth and their branches did bloom with fruit. What sorts of 'fallings' did those trees produce?
Wealth, in it of itself, can do nothing. It is paper and it is numbers on papers or computer chips. The oppressions and subjections which arise because of these papers and numbers and computer chips. Is not life more than numbers and papers and computer chips?
And it could be for these reasons that The LORD God (J)esus Christ gave mankind the pleasures.
Such as: Psalm 104:14-15 "He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine
that maketh glad the heart of man,
and oil to make
his face to shine, and bread
which strengtheneth man's heart."
Song of Solomon 1:1-3
1The song of songs, which
is Solomon's.
2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love
is better than wine.
3Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name
is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
According to the biblical account, Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines. The wives were described as foreign princesses, including Pharaoh's daughter and women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon and of the Hittites.
Solomon - Wikipedia
Before man began oppressing man to rule over other man with wealth and possessions, life could have been 'freer'.
Galatians 3:19 "Wherefore then
serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions,..."
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this
is the whole
duty of man.
14For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether
it be good, or whether
it be evil."
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Lydia, which sells purple cloth, live(d) in the city of Thyatira, in the northern part of the ancient capital of Lydia. Coincidentally, my favorite color since childhood was purple, and it has not changed since. When I chose this English name, I didn't know these stories at all. Studying and living in Rome, Italy for seven years is also an occasional opportunity. I only know that the Etruscans in central Italy are considered to be led by the Lydia prince during the fifteen-year famine period in the ancient country of Lydia. The descendants of those who have arrived here.
故事丨爱琴海边小亚细亚LYDIA吕底亚古国的传说~
Acts 16:14 "And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard
us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul."