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With all the new crazy self-appointed Chief Overseers, Apostles, Prophets, Pharisees, legalists, and outright liars leading various Churches of God today, it is important to hold these agents of deception accountable.
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OT Santa is not the only one making lists and checking it twice to find out who's naughty and nice. :)
Malachi 3:16 Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD gave attention and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the LORD and who esteem His name.
Revelation 3:5 'He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.
Rev 20:15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.
That's about as "that will teach you" naughty as it gets, although I never could figure out just how the Lake of Fire taught anyone anything except to fear the one who can fry you as a reason to love Him. Or as the sign on the barn outside Greenville, SC said, "Love Jesus or Burn forever in Hell" That's like growing up with "Give Daddy a hug or I'll kill you."
Someone should have put up another sign near the one on the barn: "Serve Allah or burn forever in Hell!" Aside from the few Calvinist-minded folks who would conclude that God gave some people births in Muslim countries because he wanted them to burn, even the least perceptive reader would understand that you can't fulfill both commands at once, so pick your god and hope you don't burn... or conclude that any genuine God wouldn't work that way.
A better way to look at the Old Testament was in The Daily Journey The Hebrew word for peace, shalom, had several meanings. It meant wholeness of body, mind, and soul. It could also mean safety, wealth, or absence of war. The prophet Isaiah associated peace with a person, a royal son of David, who would be the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6). This Person’s rule would bring wholeness to both individuals and societies, and “his government and its peace [would] never end” (Isaiah 9:7). The divine attributes Isaiah described are ultimately fulfilled through Jesus. He spoke of the coming reality of God’s kingdom of shalom. And He promised that this shalom could be experienced now as an inner peace that can’t be destroyed, rooted in knowing God’s power at work (John 16:33). The way to experience this long-lasting peace is by a relationship with God through Jesus, the Prince of Peace. He fulfilled what Isaiah prophesied, “The people who walk in darkness will see a great light. For those who live in a land of deep darkness, a light will shine” (Isaiah 9:2). He would “break the yoke of their slavery and lift the heavy burden from their shoulders” (Isaiah 9:4). Jesus promised: “I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give” (John 14:27). This promise is still true today. Regardless of the season of life we’re in, we don’t need to be afraid, because in Jesus, we can know the shalom of God.
That former WWCG minister Dennis Diehl could write such a messed up post, is a confession about the moral confusion within his former church. In ACOGs culture, scratch the surface, and one finds that the church crazies are the master race.
Axially, greater minds than mine have observed that there were two messiahs, the suffering messiah, and the warrior messiah. One of the reasons the Jewish leaders of the day didn’t recognize Jesus as the Messiah was that they were expecting the warrior messiah, similar to the various zealots who came on the scene during Roman domination, to lead rebellions. Jesus was instead the suffering Messiah. He didn’t fit their preconceived mold. The Jesus the Jews were looking for was more akin to Revelation Jesus. I’m sure I don’t need to remind everyone that Revelation just barely made it into the canon. It is an unusual piece, more typical of the Jewish apocalyptic literature of the first centuries than it is typical of the gospels or the writings of Paul or the pseudepigraphic works of the NT.
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Old Testament Santa comes to take a tithe of your Christmas presents!
OT Santa is not the only one making lists and checking it twice to find out who's naughty and nice.
:)
Malachi 3:16
Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD gave attention and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the LORD and who esteem His name.
Revelation 3:5
'He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.
Rev 20:15
Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.
That's about as "that will teach you" naughty as it gets, although I never could figure out just how the Lake of Fire taught anyone anything except to fear the one who can fry you as a reason to love Him. Or as the sign on the barn outside Greenville, SC said, "Love Jesus or Burn forever in Hell" That's like growing up with "Give Daddy a hug or I'll kill you."
Dennis,
Someone should have put up another sign near the one on the barn: "Serve Allah or burn forever in Hell!" Aside from the few Calvinist-minded folks who would conclude that God gave some people births in Muslim countries because he wanted them to burn, even the least perceptive reader would understand that you can't fulfill both commands at once, so pick your god and hope you don't burn... or conclude that any genuine God wouldn't work that way.
The Santa in that picture looks like a pedophile going after the 2 kids.
A better way to look at the Old Testament was in The Daily Journey
The Hebrew word for peace, shalom, had several meanings. It meant wholeness of body, mind, and soul. It could also mean safety, wealth, or absence of war. The prophet Isaiah associated peace with a person, a royal son of David, who would be the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6). This Person’s rule would bring wholeness to both individuals and societies, and “his government and its peace [would] never end” (Isaiah 9:7).
The divine attributes Isaiah described are ultimately fulfilled through Jesus. He spoke of the coming reality of God’s kingdom of shalom. And He promised that this shalom could be experienced now as an inner peace that can’t be destroyed, rooted in knowing God’s power at work (John 16:33). The way to experience this long-lasting peace is by a relationship with God through Jesus, the Prince of Peace. He fulfilled what Isaiah prophesied, “The people who walk in darkness will see a great light. For those who live in a land of deep darkness, a light will shine” (Isaiah 9:2). He would “break the yoke of their slavery and lift the heavy burden from their shoulders” (Isaiah 9:4).
Jesus promised: “I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give” (John 14:27). This promise is still true today. Regardless of the season of life we’re in, we don’t need to be afraid, because in Jesus, we can know the shalom of God.
That former WWCG minister Dennis Diehl could write such a messed up post, is a confession about the moral confusion within his former church. In ACOGs culture, scratch the surface, and one finds that the church crazies are the master race.
What messed up post? Revelation Jesus is bad Jesus compared to Gospel Jesus. Two different characters
Axially, greater minds than mine have observed that there were two messiahs, the suffering messiah, and the warrior messiah. One of the reasons the Jewish leaders of the day didn’t recognize Jesus as the Messiah was that they were expecting the warrior messiah, similar to the various zealots who came on the scene during Roman domination, to lead rebellions. Jesus was instead the suffering Messiah. He didn’t fit their preconceived mold. The Jesus the Jews were looking for was more akin to Revelation Jesus. I’m sure I don’t need to remind everyone that Revelation just barely made it into the canon. It is an unusual piece, more typical of the Jewish apocalyptic literature of the first centuries than it is typical of the gospels or the writings of Paul or the pseudepigraphic works of the NT.
BB
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