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ARECWE BORN AGAIN BY INFANT BAPTISM AND GOOD WORKS??
Posted : 11 Oct, 2016 12:48 PM
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH TEACHES:
To be born again is to be baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The soul goes into the state of grace, the effects of original sin are washed away, and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit occurs. This is why infants should be baptized as soon as possible after birth.???
And ADAM7777 teaches we are born again by good works and obeying OT laws.???
BUT WHAT DOES GOD'S WORD SAY??
John 3:3: Jesus says, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is **BORN AGAIN**!!"
John 1:12,13: To all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God--children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision, or a husband's will, but **BORN OF GOD**!
QUESTION: Do infants receive Jesus and believe in His name???
Romans 19:8-10: The Word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, that is, the **WORD OF FAITH** we are proclaiming: That if you **CONFESS WITH YOUR MOUTH, "Jesus is Lord," and be believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your **MOUTH** that you **CONFESS** and are saved!!
QUESTION: Do infants believe in their hearts and confess Jesus with their mouths???
I John 5:3,4: Everyone who is **BORN OF GOD** overcomes the world. This is the victory that overcomes the world, **EVEN OUR FAITH**.
QUESTION: Do infants overcome the world with their **FAITH**???
John 6:37,39,44, 65: Jesus says, "All that the Father gives Me **WILL** come to Me, and whoever comes to Me I will **NEVER** drive away!... For My Father's will is that everyone who **LOOKS TO THE SON AND BELIEVES IN HIM** shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the Last Day!... No one can come to Me **UNLESS** the Father **DRAWS** him. and I will raise him up at the Last Day!... No one can come to Me **UNLESS** the Father has **ENABLED** him!!"
QUESTION: Do infants look to the Son and believe in Him???
I Peter 1:22-25: Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the Truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply from the heart. For you have be **BORN AGAIN**, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring **WORD OF GOD**. For, all men {Including popes} are like grass, all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the **WORD OF THE LORD STANDS FOREVER**. And this is the Word that was preached to you!!
QUESTION: Are infants **BORN AGAIN** through the living and enduring **WORD OF GOD** or by some Roman Catholic Priest sprinkling water on him???
ARECWE BORN AGAIN BY INFANT BAPTISM AND GOOD WORKS??
Posted : 9 Nov, 2016 03:58 PM
WHEN WAS SATAN STOPPED FROM DECEIVING THE NATIONS SO THAT THE GOSPEL COULD BE PREACHED TO EVERY NATION IN THE WORLD AS PER MATTHEW 24:14 AND REVELATION..7:9??
FOR EXAMPLE: Let us assume that the Great Tribulation will last 1260 days from December 2nd, 2016 to May 15th, 2020. As you know Satan was successful in stopping the Gospel from spreading past 5% of the earth; or southern Europe and Northern Africa for almost 1000 years. Suddenly the Gospel was being preached throughout the pagan kingdoms of Russia, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden around AD 1016. And in the past 1000 years the Gospel has spread to all of Africa and Asia, North and South America, and all the remote islands of the earth. As you know the gospel must be preached to every nation of the earth before the end can come as per Matthew 24:14 and Revelation 7:9.
And so about 95% of the world�s nations have heard the gospel for the first time during the past 1,000 years. Rev 20:2,3: �He {The angel} seized the dragon, who is the devil or Satan and bound him for 1,000 years {FOR EXAMPLE: December 2nd, AD 1016 to December 2nd, 2016}. He threw him into the Abyss to keep him from deceiving the nations until the 1,000 years were ended {On December 2nd, 2016?}. After that he must be set free for a short time.� For Example: 1260 days from December 2nd, 2016 to May 15th, 2020 during the Great Tribulation when Satan will again deceive ALL the nations for 1260 days until the Last Day.
Rev 3:1,3: Jesus says, �To the angel of the {*CHURCH*} in Sardis write�But *IF you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.� 1 Thess 1:1, 5:4: �To the {*CHURCH*} of the Thessalonians�But you brothers {*CHURCH SAINTS*}, are not in darkness so that *THIS DAY*{Just Mentioned In I Thess 4:16,17} should surprise you like a thief. You are all sons of the light and sons of the DAY.� And so once the 1260-day Tribulation begins all of God�s {*CHURCH*} saints will know the exact day that the Tribulation will end at the Second Coming of their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on the *LAST DAY*.
And so the resurrection day of I Thess 4:16 to I Thess 5:4 will not be a surprise to the saints resurrected in I Thess 4:16,17 just as the resurrection day at the end of the 1260-day Great Tribulation will not be a surprise to *ALL* of God�s saints which proves that the resurrection day mentioned in I Thess 4:16,17 will also come on the LAST DAY of the Great Tribulation!!! Also in the context of I Thess 4:16 to I Thess 5:4 is this interesting statement in I Thess 5:2,3: �You know very well that the day of the Lord {Just mentioned in I Thess 4:16} will come like a thief in the night. {to unbelievers} While people are saying �peace and safety,� DESTRUCTION WILL COME ON THEM SUDDENLY� AND THEY WILL NOT ESCAPE!!� {See 2 Thess 1:6-10 and Matthew 25 :31-33,41-46}
After 6 of the last 7 bowl plagues of the Great Tribulation Jesus will make this statement in Rev 16:15: �Behold, I come like a thief!�{See 2 Pet 3:7,10 & Rev 3:3!!} Christ Himself says that He is coming like a thief to unbelievers at the end of the Great Tribulation just before the battle of Armageddon!! This destruction of the lost in hell will occur on the LAST DAY of the Great Tribulation as shown above in Matt 25:31-33:41-46: John 5:28,29; 12:48; Daniel 12:1,2,7b & 2 Thess 1:6-10, which firmly places the resurrection mentioned in I Thess 4:16 to I Thess 5:4 on the Last day of the 1260-day Great Tribulation and not a *CONCEALED* pre-trib rapture 1260 days or 7 years BEFORE the LAST DAY of the Great Tribulation!!
Revelation 20:7-10: When the 1,000 years are over {For example: Dec 2, 1016 to Dec 2, 2016} Satan will be released from his prison {See Rev 12:7 to Rev 13:8} and will go out to deceive the nations in the 4 corners of the earth {For 1260 days} to gather them for battle {See Rev 16:13,14}. They march across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city He loves {Jerusalem} But fire came down from heaven {For Example: May 15th, 2020} and devoured them. And the devil, who deceived them, will be thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the False Prophet had been thrown.{See Rev 19:19-20} They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever!
ARECWE BORN AGAIN BY INFANT BAPTISM AND GOOD WORKS??
Posted : 10 Nov, 2016 01:56 PM
WHAT CITY BUILT ON 7 HILLS AND GREAT SEA PORT WILL BE THE HEADQUARTERS OF 666 DURING THE 1260-DAY GREAT TRIBULATION??
NOTE: 666 is called the Beast 36 or 6X6 times in the book of Revelation!
Revelation 13:5,7 The Beast {666} will exercise his authority for 42 {30-day} months {or 1260 days}... And he will be given power to make war against the saints and conquer them. {See Dan 7:25}
Rev 17:18: The *WOMAN you saw {In Revelation17:1-18} is the great **CITY** that will rule over the kings of the earth.
Rev 17:3,5,6,8,9,12,13, 18: I saw a WOMAN sitting on a scarlet Beast {666} with 7 heads and 10 horns...The Beast, which you saw, once was {alive}, now is not {Alive in AD 96}, and will come out of the Abyss {Or Hell} and go to his destruction {See Rev 19:19,20} This title was written on her forehead �Mystery: Babylon the Great: Mother of Prostitutes and of the Abominations of the earth.� I saw that the WOMAN was drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus. The Beast {666}, which you saw, once was {alive}, now is not {Alive in AD 96}, and will come up out of the Abyss {Or Hell} and go to his destruction {See Rev 19:19,20} ...This calls for a mind with wisdom. The 7 Heads are SEVEN HILLS {ROME} on which the WOMAN sits {Or reigns}... The 10 horns you saw are 10 kings who will give their authority to the Beast {666}...The WOMAN you saw is the great *CITY that rules over the kings of the earth.
Revelation 18:17-20,24 �Every sea captain, and all who travel by ship, the sailors, and all who earn their living from the sea, will stand far off. When they see the smoke of her burning, they will exclaim, �Was there ever a city like this great city?� They will throw dust on their heads, and with weeping and mourning cry out: �Woe, Woe, O great *CITY, where all who had ships on the sea became rich through her wealth! In one hour she has been brought to ruin! Rejoice over her, O heaven! Rejoice saints and apostles and prophets! God has judged her for the way she treated you....In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been killed on the earth.�
Most Bible scholars believe that the book of First Peter was written shortly after the beginning of Nero�s Roman persecution of Christians in AD 64 because of I Peter 4:12,13 & 5:8,9. We know that Peter and his wife were living in Rome at this time.
Peter was inspired to write in I Peter 5:13: �She {Peter�s wife} who is in *BABYLON* {Nickname for *ROME*!} sends you her greetings, and so does my son Mark.� Apparently some Christians including Peter were inspired to call ROME �BABYLON� after Nero�s terrible persecution of Christians starting in AD 64. This is very interesting since the evil city of the End-Times is called �BABYLON� 6 times in Revelation 14:8; 16:19; 17:5; 18:2,10,21.
All encyclopedias agree that Babylon was completely evacuated in 275 BC and completely destroyed by 141 BC. The Wikipedia encyclopedia states, "By 141 BC, when the Parthian Empire took over the region, Babylon was in complete desolation and obscurity."
The only question that remains is: Was Babylon rebuilt so that there could be people living in Babylon around AD 65 when Peter wrote 1 Peter 5:13??? Which leads us to the promises of God in Jeremiah 50:1-3,13: This is the word the Lord spoke through Jeremiah concerning Babylon.."Babylon will be captured... A nation from the north will attack her and lay waste her land. No one will live in it; both men and animals will flee away!" Also read Jeremiah 52:52:61-64: And God ALWAYS keeps His promises. If you check out the latest Iraqi Tour Guides you will notice the following statement: "Today, BABYLON lies COMPLETELY in ruins. A large and splendidly carved stone lion is all that remains of its former glories."
I was a missionary in Jerusalem and Jerusalem was never known as the city on 7 hills. It has always been known as the city on 6 mountains {Not Hills} as stated in Wikipedia {Under the heading: Jerusalem Mountains} which are {1} Mount Herzl {2} Mount of Olives {3} Mount Zion {4} Mount Scopus {5} temple Mount {6} Har Menuchot.
�Babylon� {Nicknamed Rome by Peter} is a �GREAT SEAPORT� in Rev 18:17-19; JUST LIKE ROME and UNLIKE Babylon whose ruins are NOW 4 miles from the very shallow Euphrates River; and UNLIKE Jerusalem which is 2000 to 3000 feet above sea level and 35 miles from the Mediterranean Sea. Babylon is also completely FLAT whereas the End-Time "Babylon" will be a city built on 7 Hills JUST LIKE ROME!!
Rev 17:18: �The woman you saw {Rev 17:3--Who sits with the Beast with 7 heads} is the great *CITY* {Rome--nicknamed Babylon in I Peter 5:13--See Rev 17:5a} that will rule over the kings of the earth.� The headquarters of 666 will be destroyed about 2 weeks before the Last Day.{See Rev 16:10-16} Rev 18:19: �Woe! Woe, O great *CITY*, where all who had ships on the sea became rich through her wealth! In one hour she has been brought to ruin! Rejoice, saints and apostles and prophets! God has judged her for the way she treated you...In her was found the blood of prophets and of the saints and of all who have been killed on the earth!�
The mention of �seven hills� in conjunction with the Harlot Woman (Rev. 17:9) is often seen as an allusion to seven hills known to be associated with Rome: The Rome view is also built upon the assumption that the seven hills of Revelation 17:9 identify the topography of the ancient city of Rome. Because literature of the ancient world contains dozens of references to the seven hills of Rome, the ancient city of Rome was universally known as the city of the seven hills. Thus, such a topographical reference would immediately suggest Rome in the minds of John�s original audience. This suggestion is especially true given the fact that the seven hills were the nucleus of the city on the left bank of the Tiber River and given the fact that an unusual festival called the septimontium received its name because of this topographical feature.
Rome has always been known as the CITY built on 7 Hills by Romulus from whom Rome gets its name. The following is a quote from Wikipedia Encyclopedia: The Seven Hills of Rome (Italian: Sette colli di Roma) east of the river Tiber form the geographical heart of Rome, within the walls of the ancient city. The SEVEN HILLS are: Aventine Hill, Caelian Hill, Captoline Hill, Palantine Hill, Quirinal Hill, Esquiline Hill, and Viminal Hill.
According to Wikipedia Rome is in the Lazio region of central Italy on the Tiber river (Italian: Tevere). The original settlement developed on hills that faced onto a ford beside the Tiber Island, the only natural ford of the river in this area. Modern Rome is also crossed by another deep river, the Aniene, which flows into the Tiber north of the historic centre. Although the city centre is about 24 kilometres (15 mi) inland from the Tyrrhenian Sea, the *CITY TERRITORY EXTENDS TO THE SHORE*, where the south-western district of Ostia is located.
In addition, the notion that John�s audience would have understood the imagery of Revelation 17 as referring to the topography of Rome seems strengthened by the discovery of the Dea Roma Coin minted in A.D. 71 in Asia Minor. One side of the coin contains the portrait of the emperor. The reverse side of the coin depicts Rome, a Roman pagan goddess, sitting on seven hills seated by the waters of the Tiber River. There are obvious similarities between the Dea Roma Coin and the imagery of Revelation 17. In both cases, the goddess and the harlot are seated on seven hills and are seated either on or by the waters (Rev. 17:1).
In addition, the name of the goddess was thought by many Romans to be Amor, which is Roma spelled backwards. Amor was the goddess of love and sexuality. Thus, both the woman on the coin and the woman in Revelation 17 represent harlotry (Rev. 17:5). Furthermore, the coin equates Roma with the power of the Roman Empire, which was active in persecuting Christians of John�s day. The placement of Vespasian on one side of the coin and Roma on the other makes this connection. . . . The goddess is also pictured as holding a sword, which may depict Rome�s imperial power. This imagery parallels with the woman in Revelation 17 who is said to be drunk with the blood of the saints in Rev 17:5,9.
NOTE: the Greek word **ANGELOS** can be translated **ANGEL** or **MESSENGER**! For John the Baptist was called an **ANGELOS** in Matthew 11:10; Mark 1:2 and Luke 7:27!
Revelation 18:1-5: I saw another angel {Or Messenger}coming down from heaven, He had great authority and the earth was illuminated by **HIS SLENDOR** {Jesus? See Rev 1:16} With a **MIGHTY VOICE** {See Rev 1:10} He shouted, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become a home for demons and a haunt for every evil spirit. For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries." Then I heard another angel from heaven say, "**COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE**,{Starting in AD 96 when Revelation was written?} so that you will not share in her sins. For her sins are piled up to heaven and God has remembered her sins!"
And the evil city on 7 hills have committed millions of horrific crimes throughout the centuries both before and after AD 96 when this statement was made! In AD 64 Nero {the 6th Caesar} blamed the Christians for the burning of Rome and killed and tortured 10's of thousands of Christians and ordered the deaths of Paul and Peter in AD 66! In AD 95 and AD 96 Domitian Caesar ordered that everyone must worship statues of former Roman Caesars or be killed or put in prison and caused the Apostle John to be put in prison on the Isle of Patmos where he received the Book of Revelation {See Rev 1:9}. And 90 Popes of Rome have caused the death and torture of millions of Christians during the countless Inquisitions from AD 1100 to AD 1800!!
And so we can understand why an angel of God has commanded God's saints in AD 96 to "**COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE**"!! in Rev 18:4!!
ARECWE BORN AGAIN BY INFANT BAPTISM AND GOOD WORKS??
Posted : 10 Nov, 2016 09:21 PM
**FIX YOUR *THOUGHTS* ON JESUS**!!
Hebrews 3:1: Therefore, holy brothers who share in the heavenly calling, **FIX YOUR THOUGHTS ON JESUS**!!
Hebrews 4:12,13: The Word of God is living and active, sharper than any double edged sword... It judges the **THOUGHTS** and attitudes of the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. **EVERYTHING** is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account!
2 Corinthians 5:9,10: We make it our goal to please Him... For we must all appear before the Judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad!
2 Corinthians 10:5: We take captive **EVERY THOUGHT** and make it obedient to Christ!!
Romans 13:14: Clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and **DO NOT THINK** about how to satisfy the desires of the sinful nature!
Matthew 22:37,38: Jesus says, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with **ALL YOUR MIND**!! This is the first and **GREATEST** commandment!!"
Colossians 3:2: Set your **MINDS ON THINGS ABOVE**, not on earthly things!
Romans 12:2: Be transformed by the **RENEWING OF YOUR MIND**. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--His good, pleasing and perfect will!!
Romans 8:5,6: Those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their **MINDS** set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful man is death, but the **MIND** controlled by the Spirit is life and peace!
Philippians 4:8,9: Finally, brothers, whatever is **TRUE**, whatever is **NOBLE**, whatever is **RIGHT**, whatever is **PURE**, whatever is **LOVELY**, whatever is **ADMIRABLE**,**THINK ABOUT SUCH THINGS**... And the God of peace will be with you!!
ARECWE BORN AGAIN BY INFANT BAPTISM AND GOOD WORKS??
Posted : 11 Nov, 2016 01:36 PM
"**HE**LOVED** US AND SENT HIS SON AS AN ATONING SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS**!!"
I John 4:7-12: Dear friends, let us **LOVE** one another, for **LOVE** comes from God. Everyone who **LOVES** has been **BORN OF GOD**. Whoever does not **LOVE**, does not know God, because **GOD IS LOVE**. This is how God showed **HIS LOVE** among us. He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might **LOVE THROUGH HIM**! This is **LOVE**: not that we **LOVED ** God, but that He **LOVED** us and sent His Son as an **ATONING SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS** Dear friends, since God so **LOVED** us, we ought to **LOVE** one another. No one has ever seen God, but if we **LOVE** one another, **GOD LIVES IN US AND HIS **LOVE** IS MADE COMPLETE IN US**!!
Titus 3:3,4: At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. But when the kindness and **LOVE** of God our Savior appeared , he saved us, **NOT BECAUSE OF RIGHTEOUS THINGS WE HAD DONE**, but because of **HIS MERCY**!!
Romans 11:5,6: At the present time there is a remnant **CHOSEN BY GRACE**! And if by grace it is **NO LONGER BY WORKS**; if it were, grace would no longer be grace!!
Romans 4:5-8: To the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, **HIS FAITH** is credited as righteousness. David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness **APART FROM WORKS**: "Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will **NEVER COUNT AGAINST HIM**!!" {Psalm 32:1,2}
Ephesians 1:5-8: In **LOVE** He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will--to the praise of His **GLORIOUS GRACE**, which He has freely given us in the One He loves. In Him we have **REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD**, the **FORGIVENESS OF SINS**, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding!
Ephesians 2:4-10: Because of His great **LOVE** for us, God,, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is **BY GRACE** you have been saved! And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages He might show the incomparable riches of His grace, expressed in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is **BY GRACE** you have been saved, through faith-- and this **NOT FROM YOURSELVES**, it is the **GIFT** of God--**NOT BY WORKS**, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do!!
John 6:37,39,44,65: Jesus says, "**ALL** that the Father gives Me **WILL** come to Me, and whoever comes to Me I will **NEVER** drive away... And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall **LOSE NONE** of all that He has given Me, but raise them up at the Last Day.... No one can come to Me **UNLESS** the Father who sent Me **DRAWS HIM**, and I will raise him up at the Last Day!!... No one can come to Me **UNLESS** the Father has **ENABLED THEM**!!"
Romans 829-33,35,38,39: For those God foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of His Son...And those He **PREDESTINED**, He also called; those He **CALLED**, He also justified; those He **JUSTIFIED** He also **GLORIFIED**. What shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His Son but gave Him up for us all--how will He not also give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those **WHOM GOD HAS CHOSEN**? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns... Who shall separate us from the **LOVE** of Christ?... For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels or demons, neither the present or the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the **LOVE** of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!!
ARECWE BORN AGAIN BY INFANT BAPTISM AND GOOD WORKS??
Posted : 23 Nov, 2016 02:16 PM
According to Bible Chronology Adam was created 5970 years to 6,000 years ago. And in the 5 days before the creation of Adam God created the present heavens: sun, moon and stars; and all vegetation and all the present animals fish and birds.
**JUST BEFORE** this 6-day Creation we read in Genesis 1:1,2: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, **NOW** {Just before His 6-day Creation} the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters!!
Carbon dating in the Grand Canyon has shown that some parts of the earth are millions of years old, and dinosaurs are at least 50,000 years old and the Neanderthal men are at least 20,000 years old. This proves there were other creations on this present earth **BEFORE** God's 6-day Creation about 6,000 years ago!! Evolution theories and the Big- Bang theories are completely disproven by honest scientists. That humans evolved from monkeys is completely ridiculous and can not be proved by honest scientists!
Revelation 10:6: He created the heavens **AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM**, the earth **AND ALL THAT IS IN IT**, and the sea **AND ALL THAT IS IN IT**!!
Revelation 4:11: "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and power, for You **CREATED ALL THINGS**, and by Your will they were created and have their being!"
John 1:1-3: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him **ALL THINGS WERE MADE**, with out Him nothing was made that has been made!
Colossians 1:15-20: He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible or invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities, **ALL THINGS WERE CREATED BY HIM AND FOR HIM**! He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. And He is the **HEAD** of His body, the church, He is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything He might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace **THROUGH HIS BLOOD**, shed on the cross!
ARECWE BORN AGAIN BY INFANT BAPTISM AND GOOD WORKS??
Posted : 28 Nov, 2016 04:55 PM
**COULD THE 7TH-DAY REST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD OCCUR EXACTLY SIX LORD'S DAYS OR 6,000 YEARS AFTER THE CREATION OF ADAM**??
2 Peter 3:3,4,8,9: First of all, you must understand that in the **LAST DAYS** scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, "Where is this **COMING** He promised?".... But do not forget this on thing, dear friends. With the lord **A DAY IS LIKE 1,000 YEARS** and **A 1,000 YEARS ARE LIKE A DAY**!! The Lord is not slow in keeping **HIS PROMISE** as some understand slowness!!
Hebrews 4::8,9: For if Joshua had given them rest {In Israel}, God would not have spoken about **ANOTHER DAY**!! There remains, then, **A SABBATH-REST** {Or *ETERNAL 7TH-DAY REST AFTER SIX 1,000 YEAR LORD'S DAYS**} for the people of God!!
Hebrews 11:13-16: They {OT SAINTS-read Hebrews 11:5-12} admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were looking for a **BETTER COUNTRY**--**A HEAVENLY ONE**! Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a **CITY** {**THE HEAVENLY NEW JERUSALEM WITH ITS NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH**} for them. {See Revelation 21:1-5}
It is interesting to note that Bible Chronology from the creation of Adam to the present day is at least 5973 years. There is only one unknown gap in Bible Chronology which is the number of years Samuel was a Judge till the time he anointed Saul as King of Israel for exactly 42 years. Samuel became Judge over Israel after Eli was Judge over Israel for exactly 40 years as per I Samuel 4:18.
I Samuel 7:15: Samuel continued as Judge over Israel {No time period mentioned}... When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as Judges for Israel... But his sons did not walk in his ways. They turned aside after dishonest gain and accepted bribes and perverted justice. So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel. They said to him, "You are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways, now appoint a **KING** to lead us, And then in I Samuel 10:1 Samuel anointed Saul as King over Israel which lasted exactly 42 years.
Hebrews 4:8,9: For if Joshua had given them rest {in Israel}, God would not have spoken about **ANOTHER DAY**!! There remains, then, **A SABBATH-REST** {Or **ETENAL 7TH-DAY REST AFTER SIX 1,000 YEAR LORD'S DAYS OR 6,000 YEARS AFTER THE CREATION OF ADAM???** for the people of God!!
Could it be that the reason there is the above unknown GAP in the Bible Chronology which may end at the end of Six Lord's Days or 6,000 Years at the Second Coming of Jesus on the Last Day of the Great Tribulation when there will be **AN ETERNAL **7TH DAY REST** FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD**!! And since the time period of this 27-year GAP in Bible Chronology is **UNKNOWN** the beginning of the 1260-day Great Tribulation may be extremely close???!!!
Revelation 21:1-5: Then I saw a **NEW HEAVEN** and a **NEW EARTH**, for the first heaven and first earth had **PASSED AWAY**, and there was **NO LONGER ANY SEA**.{See 2 Peter 3:10-13] I saw the Holy City, the **NEW JERUSALEM**, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and He will live with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God. 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." {An **ETERNAL 7TH-DAY REST!} 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!"
