The 144,000... when are they chosen and sealed?
Brother Rando is a student of Prophecy and one of Jehovah's Witnesses. His interests are directed towards how the time of the end would come about. His Goal is to educate the public that Jehovah Witnesses have accepted the Sacrifice in...
there are those who believe that their are those that reincarnate again into this plane to raise the level of consciousness. and then of course there are others who are tossed back into suffering to overcome karma.
what would heaven be without the one's you loved? so then none shall be forever...
The Time Left Is Reduced!
"And this good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come." (Matthew 24:14) The Bible does point to conditions and a timetable to expect when such prophecies will be fulfilled. Therefore...
It is probably the biggest Biblical topic that has occupied me for a long time. It is about animal sacrifices.
In the Torah God asked for animal sacrifices. (Leviticus 4+5) These sacrifices were there to cleanse oneself of the sins.
So you realize how important animal sacrifices were, because...
Actually, that verse seems to infer that those specific sacrifices meant nothing, not that sacrifice itself is wrong. The meaning would actually infer that sacrifice /generally/, was accepted
Yes, so grain and animal sacrifices just didn't cut the mustard. Finally, the only acceptable host in the eyes of God was God himself, in the form of Jesus, The Lamb of God, right? And to think it was all about disobedience to God's little sting operation in the Garden. It seems to me that...
It was a foreshadowing of Christ. It was also a progression in humanity's religious sense. We went from sacrificing humans and animals, to animals only and then God put an end to it by offering Himself as Sacrifice for all time. He always meets us where we are and then moves us forward in His...
That verse concerns what he expects of us. It says nothing about what God plans on doing. Are you denying that the chief cornerstone of mainstream Christianity for the last 2000 years has been the sacrifice of Christ? Or it's historical reliability?
I have never said the spirit of God was not...
God would be a hypocrite; if he required a sacrifice. It is written, Hosea6:6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.. Again Isaiah 66 is a testament of what God thinks of sacrifice.
the point is that God dwells in Melchizedek; whom was called...
I don't believe I know of anyone except these two:
Lev 10:1 ¶ And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
2 And there went out fire from the LORD...
The sacrificial laws written in the Old Testament contradict Jesus Christ, the prophets, and the apostles, who said that God did not want sacrifices and had not commanded sacrifices:
In the five books called of Moses there are many chapters dedicated sacrifices and holocausts. Only in Leviticus...
And who did add to the law the sacrifices that God had not commanded?
The scriptures tell us that God did not want sacrifices and did not command sacrifices:
"Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required"...
I think the meaning was more simple but less honorable. The priests got to eat their fill of the sacrificed animals. Great way to get out of actually working for your meals. I simply do not accept that the creator of the universe needs dead bloody animals to appease Him.
The end of Gensis, parts of Exodus, and the whole Leviticus to name a few talks about sacrifice.
Lev 1:4-9 'Then he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him. 'He shall kill the bull before the LORD; and the priests...
Does the OT, NT, or Jesus advocate the need for sacrifices?
Deut 10:17
17 For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
Isaiah 66:3
3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that...
Matthew 9:13 But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Hosea6:6 For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings....
Hosea6:9 As gangs of robbers wait...
Having spent some time pondering this apparent inconsistency, I have the following solution for you to consider.
I agree, three days and three nights is a specific reference to time, unlike the expression 'three days'. So it is necessary to show that Jesus was entombed for three days and three...
The Hoax of the Three Days and Three Nights
On the third day or in three days, simply means after a short period of time. (Hosea6:2)
Night or day for three days, as we have in the request of Esther to fast for her, means three days or three nights whether one follows the tradition to fast by...