Saturday, December 24, 2011

Not much

I know it's not much of a Bible Study.
And really, I might work harder on it.
If I knew that somebody cared to read it.
And maybe even share a word of encouragement.
But that's not happening.
In case you are "checking in",
because somebody is,
(but I can not be certain of that,
because someone might be clicking by accident).
Just so you know.
I haven't got an audience.
I'm sharing that because I think there is no way for you to know there is hardly anyone who reads me.
And if it was a poem, I'm sure there would be more to it than that though I don't know WHAT.
Merry Christmas! 

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Who is the anti-christ?

Christ came so the world might be saved through him. John 3:17
Does everyone have to believe it for the world to be save?
I think not.
The world is in a labyrinth.
God knows the way OUT of it.
No man knows the way out of it.
No angel all alone knows it.  (the way out is related to the day and the hour and nobody knows but the Heavenly Father knows.)
God sent his son to be leader out of it.
The labyrinth can be likened to the great tribulation or from another perspective Babylon the Great.
Why is a savior needed?  What will happen that the world needs saving from?  I think the point of savior coming is to save world so we don't get to know from what the world needs saving from.
There are those who come out of the great tribulation.  I think it's important to differentiate coming through and coming out.  Isn't it so, that the tribulation can be on going, but a person can come out of it?  I think so.  Coming OUT of it does not mean it is over.  One can come out of it while it is happening, because all things are possible with God.  Some religious people claim there are some on the other side of the tribulation.  From my perspective (which certainly can be wrong, just as your's can be wrong)  there is no other side of it.
The anti-christ can be anyone who teaches error to mislead away from the Way Truth Life that are the Christ. One way the anti-christ misleads is teaching the tribulation that we need to come out of for life has a beginning and end.  There are only two possible ending to the Great Tribulation Revelation 7:14.  Destruction or rebirth.  World's rebirth, not personal rebirth (which is something else).
Another way the unsuspecting are misled is they teach that the scriptures can't be changed.  In believing so they believe it should happen, they want it to happen, but it is a warning.  What is a warning for?  Warnings are for avoiding the danger that was warned about.
Her sin has massed clear up to heaven.  Number of sins? No.  It's the kind of sin that renders heaven helpless. unable to be of assistance (because of laws that cannot be changed).

Every eye will see who? Revelation 1:7

Is it clear it  means the One Christ? (Jehoshua)
Not to me it isn't.
This is where censor and time CLASH
A cloud, huh?
And then they'll wail?  I wonder why?
Does it mean the cloud of the bomb?
Back to the question.
Who is the pronoun talking about?
I don't know, I don't know one word of Greek.
But it might mean "every eye" will see himself.  What do you think?
I need want help in unraveling the mystery, but people don't care.  Do they?

Monday, December 19, 2011

I have a problem with that

The popular opinion I have heard is the sheep on the right hand of the LORD are they that do good to the least one of the brothers of Christ.
"All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;

And that is why they are sheep who get life.

But what it means is the brothers of Christ are they who do the will of God.  It is a difficult and sometimes thankless endeavor to do works for God's Kingdom to come.  The reason why they need encouragement, in the form of hope that they will succeed, is because the world lies in the power of the wicked one.
So the simple gifts that God has noted, water, food, clothing, a visit, and some comfort are for reason to hope that the choice to serve The True GOD is with reason to expect accomplishment.
Matthew 5:16
"Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
The light is the realization that their love for GOD is not in vain.  The faith that there are other persons (in the form of them who offer the good things) who will benefit in Christ.
Life is not granted  for the giving of the gift, but for the reflecting of the love of the Heavenly Father.
Of course there is a difference. Because anyone can show generosity.

Books I have read and am reading

No religions books, thank you very much.  I'm a little too atheist for that.  I'm not atheist.  Not agnostic either.
The last one I finished was a collection of short stories.  I recommend it.
MEMORY WALL STORIES
by Anthony Doerr (2010)
Excellent prose.

Before that I read
GIRLS LIKE US 
By Rachel Lloyd (2011)
A biography and political commentary (but not boring) about human trafficking presently.

I am reading
Our Last Best Chance the Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril
by King Abdullah II of Jordan.
He sounds like a real peace maker to me.

But most of the time I read JWN
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Psalm 14:1

Traditionally; New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For the choir director. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds; There is no one who does good.

Then Jehovah's Witnesses take out elohim (god) and put in Jehovah.

But what I think it means is;

The musician David (King of Israel)  has said...
The fool's (nabal) heart is without elohim because the fool's hatred has caused a casting off of God's will to do.  Then the fool's deeds can not accomplish anything good.

So the scripture can apply to anyone, either an atheist or a believer.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

What does "on the Sabbath" and "in the winter" mean?

Matthew 24:20
"Pray moreover that your flight does not occur in the winter nor on the Sabbath".

I think it means that when you recognize the need for you to exit "Babylon" and to flee to the "mountain" that pictures submitting yourself to God's rule so that glory might go to Yahweh.Then pray that it is not your Sabbath and not your winter because both of those things can and do hinder progress.

Seek Yahweh (how?)  seek to hear Jaheshua (let the one who has an ear hear what the spirit says to the congregations)   Seek righteousness.  Seek meekness. http://biblos.com/zephaniah/2-3.htm

Friday, December 2, 2011

What will be a sign of your presence? Knowing Jesus' coming.

http://biblos.com/matthew/24-3.htm

Jesus did not say the "sign" they asked for is what follows in Matthew chapter 24.  In other words the description of the world at Matthew 24: 4-14 is not the answer to the question "what is the sign?".

Matthew 12:39 says no sign will be given a wicked generation.  Which I think means he will not tell what the sign might be.

Then why would the question be included if he wasn't going to answer it?  Maybe because it is showing that even his intimate acquaintances thought they needed proof.  So don't feel stumbled if you want proof.  No proof will come, but don't feel bad that you want it.