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Hi Sue , I personally believe that he was definately a Levite . His mum gave him to the high priest at that time to serve in the temple , also he offered sacrifices to God , only Levites were allowed to do any service in the temple and to offer sacrifices .

Do you hear what you're writing, dear "Brooke"? Do you really think we should go back with sacrifice? What Jesus Christ Did Once for All? After reading the answers you have received, I hope you have repented and been baptized.

But i completely agree with you that we should read and in His time we will explain it. Thought about this just today, when one gets a case handed over that is of faith who is from Him. It branches out to the one who hears. Then they get quite uplifted. Dear remember and read both GT and NT in KJV and follow the references. Then I'm pretty sure you get the case explained, i wich u good luck. And please come here for more input. Everyone here on this web site has only good peace thoughts for everyone who visits it, me too.

Please follow me in Luke 12:12 and read the whole chapter.

Hi Slue. According to the Hebrew, the word given for 1 Samuel 1:1, is 'Ephrathi'. So the KJV is correct is stating Ephrathite. 'Ephrathi' is the word used for a descendant of Ephraim (one of Joseph's sons), but is now an inhabitant of Ephrath. These people were called Ephrathites.

Now, Ephrath is a word sometimes connected to Bethlehem ( Micah 5:2 (prophecy of our Lord's Birthplace); Ruth 1:2; 1 Samuel 17:12), as Ephrath was a nearby city to Bethlehem. Some believe that Ephrath was an ancient Canaanite name & Bethlehem was the Jewish name.

I give thanks and pray every night before I go to bed, when I rise and during the day. When in the mountains is when I feel the closest. Boulders, grass, trees and the fast running water. I feel God made that area for us. May all be blessed by the Lord.

VSB, that verse applies only to a physical death. 1 Corinthians 11:27 onwards, speaks of why some people are disciplined by the Lord in this matter about partaking at the Lord's Table. The specific reasons are not given by the apostle, but clearly, some were partaking but were unworthy to do so. It may have involved their manner of coming, as in verses 20-22 (making that special supper an orgy of food & drink). Paul may have been thinking of some who were living lives unbecoming of a believer & yet the same ones come piously to the Lord's Table to seek 'repentance' or gain God's favor, in hypocrisy. And others, not giving due consideration to this important time of remembrance of Jesus' Sacrifice, by frivolous talking or jesting - or many other reasons, which you might even think of.

We cannot judge what's in other people's hearts, nor should we even try to, but every heart remains bare before God, for He cannot be fooled by our irreverance & sinful ways. God will judge: some are dealt with by illness of various sort, others who continue to refuse the pleading & ministry of the Spirit in their lives, will have their lives cut short "that they should not be condemned (receive the same condemnation) with the world". Better for these to have not partaken, than to partake in a manner that brings shame to the Lord Jesus & on the solemnity of this occasion of remembrance of Him.

Ben W,

Are the 800,000 Muslim's headed for hell because they don't confess Jesus as their savior? Or do they have a place?

Scripturally, you don't know where one sentence begins, or where it ends, because you consume it as one.

God's promise is an all inclusive hierarchy, not a cream of the crop race to the top.

As long as you believe in Jesus, Love and Make peace with God and man. You will also be kind to his animals. Love is the Key.

In 1st Corinthians 11:30 is it a spiritual or physical death can you help me understand this. Thank you and God bless you!

Hi S. Lynn. Yours were interesting thoughts, whether God would have forgiven Ahab's son, Ahaziah, if he also repented as his father Ahab did. As you probably read in 2 Kings 1:1-18, Ahaziah was looking through the lattice work (window) & maybe leaning heavily against it, when it broke & he fell down some distance & seriously injured himself. Instead, of seeking the Lord for healing, he sent out men to enquire from a heathen god. But Elijah, God's prophet, stepped in & assured Ahaziah that for his wickedness (& of course from God's Word to Ahab ( 1 Kings 21:29)), that Ahaziah would be the one to bear the evil done by himself & his father. So, it wasn't entirely because of the sins of Ahab, but Ahaziah himself was also very wicked to warrant his demise.

It's difficult to know how God would have dealt with Ahaziah if he too repented, but we do know, in hindsight, that all the successive kings of Israel after Ahaziah were counted as 'bad kings', with only Jehu doing some good, though he too was considered as 'bad'. So, somewhere along that kingly line, punishment would have been given out, & probably to a greater extent (with suffering) as sins against God accumulated.

The Bible is divided into a old testament (will) and the new testament (will). The new testament is God's current will. When someone makes a new will the old one is replace by, or subject to the new . Hebrews 1:1 God spoke in times past by the prophets but in these last days spoken to us by his Son. The old law came through Levi but Jacob prophesied that the lawgiver would proceed out of Judah. David prophesies Christ would be after the order of Melchisedec. In Hebrews 7 it states that the "the priesthood being changed there is made of necessity a change in the law. The law can be for a shadow of the new, but not the very image ( Hebrews 10:1) 1 Timothy 1:8 The law is good if a man use it lawfully implies that the old testament can be used if it complies with the new testament. Romans 3:31 Do we make void the law through faith? God forbid, yea, we establish the law. 2 Cor. 3 has numerous verses that the old testament was to be "done away". The new testament is referenced as the "law of liberty" and the "law of Christ" which is the true lawgiver. Christ in Mat. 7 said in several places "ye have heard that it was said by them of old time" but "I said unto you" indicating that some old testament laws were not according to the "new will".

This idiom is not found in the Bible, nor can any particular verse be found to fit its intended meaning. From a quick research, I include the following, though remaining unverified:

"This is an American idiom about retrogenesis - the theory or observation that a person is born as a child, grows to adulthood, and reverts to a childish or child-like state in old age. The idiom was first recorded in 1889 in Hosea Ballou: A Marvellous Life-story, by Oscar F."

Samuel: was a Seer, Priest, Judge, Prophet and military leader of Israel. Unquestionably a very powerful man of God.

However, there are two passages that mention Samuel the Prophet's ancestry. They are 1 Sa 1:1, and 1 Ch 6:16-29. The latter claims he was a Levite, but the first, at least in all modern translations other than the ESV (and the KJV) states that he was an Ephraimite. What is to be made of this?

I thought I was understanding the comments, but now I'm totally lost in the confusion.

Thank you

Amen, Brother S Spencer!

God Bless You!

Hi Brook.

You said grow spiritual by keeping the law? We can't.

Galatians 3:2-3.

Galatians 3:5-7.

Galatians 3:8-9.

Galatians 3:10-11.

Galatians 3:12-14.

Also read Galatians 4. and

Galatians 5.

Jesus didn't do away with the Law.

Jesus took on the penalty of the law that brought death.

Colossians 2:14-17.

In fact it's called the ministry of Death.

Here's a few passages from Paul. at one time he felt the same way you do and set out to kill anyone that followed Jesus.

2 Corinthians 3:6-11.

Romans 7:10-11. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

Romans 5:20. Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

Philippians 3:2-10. Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:

Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

Galatians 5:11-12.

God bless.

Where is once a man twice a child

Hi Roman,

It seems you made a few false assumptions, which I can cite as a specific example, but otherwise, I didn't understand what you wrote.

You: "for thinking you can dictate who is worthy of heaven"

Truth: God is the judge and chooses who goes to heaven or hell. I read what the Bible says and choose to believe God's word. Why would you assume "I" dictate who is worthy of heaven? It seems like quite a stretch to paint me as a bad guy for simply believing God's Word if that is your intent.

Maybe you feel upset that a good God has rules of right and wrong and that people who violate God's rules are "wrong" and subject to punishment. God loves people enough to give them all freewill and a fair and equal opportunity to follow Him. Those who reject Him and follow satan will not spend eternity with God. Some people reject God in the most hateful, vile, satanic way and it sounds like you think you'll be hanging out with them in heaven. That's not what the Bible says.

"I have offered you a grand vision" - that doesn't sound like your belief comes from the Bible, but some other ideology or religion which most don't believe. I don't believe it, because the Bible is clear what it says like Matthew 10:28 and it's not a joke. You aren't entitled to salvation. We all are deserving of the opposite. We aren't "good", we are sinful beings deserving death. Sin is like slapping God in the face. It's a big deal. Thanks to Jesus dying for our sins we have the opportunity to follow Him and for eternal life in heaven. God bless.

What is Salvation? "Asked by Lala."

"Answer"

Salvation is life!

Salvation is a new creation in you performed by God.

Salvation is when "GOD TRANSFORM YOU" after you truly believing and trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ. You have been transformed from dead to life. we're not perfect but we are transformed.

Here's a few old testament scripture that gives a description of salvation and how it's performed.

Deuteronomy 30:6. And the LORD thy God will CIRCUMCISE thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. "Here you see the lord cutting away filthy flesh from your heart."

vs. 8. " This is what God causes you to do after cutting away the "flesh".

"And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day."

Jeremiah 24:7.

Jeremiah 31:33-34.

Jeremiah 32:38-40.

"I like vs 40! Eternal Security found in the old testament!

( And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me)

Ezekiel 11:19.

Ezekiel 36:25. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I CLEANSE YOU.

Ezekiel 36:26-27. "Salvation is a cleansing!"

Salvation is a transformation by Gods spirit in you, and that comes by way of Jesus.

New Testament references.

John 15:1-8.

John 10:27-29.

John 6:45.

Ephesians 2:1-10.

Philippians 1:6.

Colossians 3:10.

Romans 6:17-18.

God bless.

Hi Lala.

Salvation is life!

Salvation is a new creation in you performed by God.

Salvation is when "GOD TRANSFORM YOU" after you truly believing and trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ. You have been transformed from dead to life. we're not perfect but we are transformed.

Here's a few old testament scripture that gives a description of salvation.

Deuteronomy 30:6. And the LORD thy God will CIRCUMCISE thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. "Here you see the lord cutting away filthy flesh from your heart."

vs. 8. " This is what God causes you to do after cutting away the "flesh".

"And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day."

Jeremiah 24:7.

Jeremiah 31:33-34.

Jeremiah 32:38-40.

Ezekiel 11:19.

Ezekiel 36:25. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I CLEANSE YOU.

Ezekiel 36:26-27. "Salvation is a cleansing!"

Salvation is a transformation by Gods spirit in you, and that comes by way of Jesus.

New Testament references.

John 15:1-8.

John 10:27-29.

John 6:45.

Ephesians 2:1-10.

Philippians 1:6.

Colossians 3:10.

Romans 6:17-18.

I know this is a lot,

I pray you read over them.

God bless.

Hi Roman thanks for sharing that verse, but this verse doesn't support your belief about hell not existing or no one going there. Do you have any more you feel actually supports your belief?

1 Corinthians 15:22 "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."

This says those in Christ shall be made alive. Most people aren't "in Christ" and reject Him. Why would God welcome people who reject and hate Him into heaven a place He prepared only for those who love and follow Him? Hitler for example wasn't a Christ follower and wasn't in Christ. Judas was a follower, but betrayed and rejected Christ so he wasn't in Christ either. Most people aren't, as the Bible says. Do you believe that?

The fact is most of the Bible is warnings about who we will follow: we will follow Christ or will we follow satan (the world)? Parable after parable Jesus talked about warning us repeatedly. The whole gospel is am opportunity to be saved from our sins, which most reject, but don't have to. God gave us freewill to choose.

Did you read the whole chapter of the verse you shared 1 Corinthians 15?

Look at verse 2: another "if..." conditional statement. If you "keep in memory" and have not believed in vain.

verses 12-17 talks about false teachings, how people like to make up stuff which misses the whole purpose of the gospel.

verse 19 "If in this life only we have hope in Christ."

Keyword "hope". We have hope in Him, and hope for eternal life. We haven't been judged yet. This is why Christ gives us hope. Most do not have hope and will go to hell. This should deeply concern people. Jesus warned us over and over about this. So many verses, so many parables.

verse 25- all enemies will be under his feet. If someone only cherry picks the one verse 22 and ignores this one may be tempted to draw the false conclusion that all are in Christ, but this verse only 3 verses later makes it clear that no, not 100% of everyone is "in Christ" but enemies

In Romans 10:4 to me it never means to say that when Jesus died the laws died with him. I believe we should all be abiding by the laws of Moses and Abraham. Also we need to honor the ten commandments and really study what God is telling us to do and how to live a happy spiritual life. Such as so many people have strayed away from honoring God on the true Sabbath day that the vatican doctrine has changed from saturday to sunday, and how to push pagan holidays upon people. We all need to start reading and finding out the truth!

Christ's atonement covers ALL that will accept Him... as the Bible very blatantly says so.

WOW! you just said God uses propaganda to "scare us" and that His salvation "threats" don't make sense.. You're literally calling God a liar.

Again.... damnable heresy!!

Also, I should mention I do not believe in eternal conscious torment. I believe in Conditional Immortality. The Bible teaches Conditional Immortality very thoroughly. The Bible teaches both that we are MORTAL, and that the ONLY way to live forever is by trusting in Jesus.

Plenty of verses describe Annihilationism (Conditionalism). Malachi Chapter 4 sums it up best. It says those that will die in their sins will be burnt up and "left neither root nor branch". It goes on to say they will be "ashes under the soles of your feet".

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not PERISH, but have everlasting life."

That verse sums it up best.

You're using Moses and the thief on the cross as an example that everyone will go to God's Kingdom?? The thief went to be with Jesus because He both witnessed and believed in Jesus. He literally called Jesus Lord. Moses is with the Lord because God made him His servant and he went on to be an excellent servant.

My friend, I'm sorry but Universalism is just extremely ignorant and it's not just a heresy, but a damnable heresy.

If everyone went to heaven, then Hell (Sheol) wouldn't exist. The Lake of Fire wouldn't exist. The Bible very clearly talks about people going to both Hell, and the Lake of Fire. You really need to get away from false teachers and study your Bible more.

We're at verse 9 and soon 10. "Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you" -- afflicted? I can only think of one thing and that's the poke -- even "churches" get money to encourage it. If you haven't watched Mike Lindells news channel about the poke you should. -- In short the poke is designed to kill you over time, if not immediately -- it can also cause miscarriages among other horrible things. There is an archive.

It is unrelated to the previous paragraph: The one about a week ago with the Ukrainian-born Jew was rather amazing too

My father who is in his 70s never though he'd see these days.

"For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places." -- the previous verse describes from 2001 to recent times -- "earthquakes in divers places" -- meaning earthquakes far underwater which have happened and have caused huge tsunamis. Just recently even a volcano exploded and could be seen clearly from space, including the pressure wave(the explosion which is too loud and doesn't cause sound but a boom).

Christ has clearly said all of this in order of what will happen.

Reading the book of Kings, I would like to know concerning Kings 1:21 verse 29 if Calamity was brought upon King

Ahab's son because of the sin of his father. Also, if King Ahab's son had repented as his father had would he also

and his house have been spared. I believe bc our God is so merciful his son would have been spared had he lived

a righteous life before God.

Thank you for feedback.

Actually, do you have a question or comment about my Bible?

Hi Larry

i believe you will find your answer in the book of Revelation chapter 3:15-17 in the Lord's address to the church of the Laodiceans:

"I know your works, that you ate neither cold, nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So, then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, i will vomit you out of my mouth. But because, you say, 'I am rich, having become wealthy, and have need of nothing'-- and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked-"